“Irony is wasted on the stupid” – Oscar Wilde

I came across this Tumblr post on Mike’s Corner. “Beelavender” writes….

“In line to get coffee, Manhattan. There are definitely some thing I miss about England, like, oh never wondering if my morning caffeine run will end in a gun battle.

Side note for those who care: I could have disarmed this dude and fired all rounds without much effort. And I’m only partially weapons trained – there are plenty of people with strength/skills wandering around.

America, you have a problem.

Studying the photo carefully, I laugh. and,

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You read that right. The Affordable Care Act’s “cost-curve” and regulatory rules have made insuring teachers and staff so “affordable” that the school can no longer afford to operate.

In an AP report, Clay County Director of Schools Jerry Strong said the school board made its decision to cancel classes because of budget issues that are related to government mandates that the district can’t afford.

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On Tuesday night the first Presidential primary debate for Democrats was held in Las Vegas. On the stage was Bernie Sanders, Lincoln Chaffee, Hillary Clinton, Martin O’Malley and Jim Webb. Each has held public office before while Sanders is a current sitting Senator from Vermont. The youngest candidate is Chafee at 52 while the oldest is Sanders at 72. Every candidate is white.

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I’m not sure why you’d ever eat at a Waffle House but here’s one more reason to stay away.

“…Rivers works security with his brother at “an area nightclub” and that Rivers was sitting in his car talking to his brother on the phone when he saw Davis running out of the (Waffle House) restaurant with the cash register drawer.

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Peter Lemiska | Editorial

In one of the most shocking developments ever seen in New Hampshire, quiet little communities are being shattered with scores of untimely, needless deaths. They weren’t caused by mass murderers, gun violence, or some plague – at least not a plague in the medical sense.

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Maggie Hassan has always been out of touch in New Hampshire but apparently she’s out of touch with national politics as well.

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Co-researchers from the University of York and the University of California released the news today that they were able to use a technique to temporarily shut down parts of the brain and subsequently alter the beliefs of their subjects, all by using a coiled magnet and waving it around the subjects’ brains.  The following is an illustration of the technique, called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation:

According to the study, the researchers were able to significantly reduce their subjects’ beliefs in God (“religiosity”) and reduce their fear of immigrants (“ethnocentrism”)! Thirty eight self-described hard core conservatives allowed researchers to use a magnet coil positioned over their brains to simply wave away their beliefs.  Amazing.

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…then when given the FREEDOM TO CHOOSE, why are even more government union members deciding to leave?  And it couldn’t happen to a better union:

Government employees in Seattle do not exactly fit the profile of the average Republican voter. But As the Washington Examiner’s Sean Higgins reported this week, they aren’t suckers either.

Thanks to a recent Supreme Court decision on public sector union membership, many members of Local 925 of the Service Employees International Union — those who had not explicitly signed up to join the union — suddenly found that dues were no longer being taken directly out of their paycheck. As a result, 38 percent of the local’s membership was gone overnight.

It is always about the power to control and unions are no different. 

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From last nite’s tweetfest:

#DemDebate #nhpolitics #Grok how not to be 3rd Obama term, Chafee? Not being coherent is a great start-situation normal for Linc

— GraniteGrok (@GraniteGrok) October 14, 2015

And Lincoln Chafee, pretty much, was incoherent.  Now add this:

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USGS has pulled the plug on the “1000 year” rainfall/flooding meme pitched by the media which is fine by them. The damage is already done. They milked that Climate cow and sent it off to pasture. They simply wont report the scientific clarification by an acknowledged “expert” and people will go on thinking that cheap, affordable energy caused epic warming-induced liquid misery for millions.

Not true.

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According to the Observer, State Senator Liz Krueger of Manhattan is so concerned about promoting her gun control agenda that she has proposed a novel idea—pack the NRA with a pro-gun-control “covert cell” to undermine the power of the NRA and change its policies from the inside. Only problem is, she announced her dazzlingly original plan at a public forum and press event, for all the world to see.

Pure genius.

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15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

Yup, I think they can pretty much take that off the bucket list – mission accomplished in toto for one (they’re still working on the Stupid Party, however).  Free…you name it; paid leave, more SS benefits, tuition paid, more Obamacare – it never ends.  Mitt Romney was pilloried in the last cycle for his 47% remark yet here are these Socialists masquerading under the Democrat banner trying to shove each other aside in their rush to promise that 47% even more in their hopes to get an even higher percentage.  “Money for nothing” as the song goes.  Problem is, these same mind set Socialists and Progressives have been pretty much successful in breeding and educating out the social stigma that one was supposed to support you and yours instead of hammocking it around while demanding others support you – transformation indeed.

It is rather doubtful that any of these Democrat Wannabees

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DEMOCRAT DEBATE: BEHOLD THE GLORY OF THE CHURCH OF THE STATE

And the Italian tagline certainly applies to last night’s debate:

All within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State – Benito Mussolini

And the modern rendition:

Government’s the only thing we all belong to – Democrat National Committee

This is what they want, lust after, and certainly implement if they gain the Oval Throne.  Er, no – the government (small g) belongs to us and not this upside-down / inside-out distortion that the Democrats would have us believe in hoodwinking many into their collectivism.  The Founders believed that government was

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Ayup, the example that proves the point and David Zebuhr ran full tilt into it.  Spending time out in San Diego last week, it was clear to see this ‘tude up close and personal – moral superiority weaponized.  There can be no discussion, there can be no debate – Zebuhr makes the Progressive end point clear:

From: “David Zebuhr” <dzebuhr@yahoo.com>
Date: Oct 7, 2015 4:25 PM
Subject: Road Usage Fee
To: {all the NH State Senators}

I am calling for the resignation of Rep. Norman Major, R-Plaistow on the basis of his clear and strong demonstration of his dementia.  There is nothing even remotely rational or moral about his “Road usage fee”  that is a steep tax specifically and exclusively against those who have the temerity to register vehicles that fail to guzzle large quantities of gasoline. 

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