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From a Matt Mowers Chris Christie Campaign email… We want to thank former Senate President Tom Eaton for hosting the governor at his home in Keene, Fred and Denise Schneider and former Rep. Paul Simard for hosting the governor in Bristol, as well as Dan and Renee Plummer for hosting a roundtable in Portsmouth. We … Read more
Ariana licks donuts and hates American and apologizes, sort of or something, but some folks aren’t buying it.
No one is fooled by your pretend intentions. We know you weren’t thinking of the childhood obesity epidemic when you decided to lick a donut and not pay for it.
A number of deeply committed lefty central planners have longed to put an end to state issued marriage certificates because they believe it will empower the government to define all standards of social behavior and relationships.
Take note, libertarians: central planners like Fineman view state recognition of marriage as the “institutional protection” for family autonomy and privacy which, when removed, would get the government more operational inside the home.
Snarky title aside, here is yet another example where someone demands additional Government action because someone made a rather dumb decision to do something rather dangerous, thinking he would not be in line for a Darwin Award. No, the site doesn’t list Devon Staples yet (it used to be MUCH more up to date in the past but rarely much lately) but I will not be surprised if soon. This is the 22 year old Calais, Maine that decided he could use a mortar based firework as a helmet – and lit it even as his buddies were telling him with words to the effect “dude, that might not be such a great idea”. It is also my understanding that liquid libations containing ethyl alcohol added to his refusal to listen (“hey, wanna hold my beer – watch this!” is a common sentence that precedes a dismal outcome). They said “No!”, he beamed broadly, and lit it off. And died instantly.
Now, I do feel bad for his friends and family. I, however, do have to take issue with this (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Mike just emailed to say he’s live streaming Carly Fiorina. If so, here you go. Video Live Stream Live broadcast by UstreamIf you don’t see it here, you can always watch it at USTREAM.tv here.
Twelve foot high mounds of ice can still be found in Boston. These lingering reminders are the product of last winters endless beating. Snow, relocated, the once 75 foot high mounds remain, smaller, but still there, even as we head into the middle of July. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh started a contest on Social Media … Read more
More information here. (H/T: Mercatus Center)
“I’ll be free of them four days a week!!”
Yeah, that was the exclamation of one mother of young children when she heard that her two kids were going to be in school through the summer in Special Ed class. Not a word was said at that point in time about the help they “might” get – just that she now had all that time for herself. At government expense. She was ecstatic! Sigh….my wish is that all young parents would be this: whose hand should be rocking YOUR child’s cradle?
Progressives (if you have been listening to Hillary Clinton and Obama for the last few years) have been pushing for this for decades – but why? Well, in their mindset, every woman must fulfill their her destiny – and that, in their mind, can only be done in the workplace. A stay-at-home Mom? Doing what I think is the most important job in the world? Well, Progressives know EXACTLY what that is – raising children. These incremental Socialists understand that completely and THAT is the goal that they are striving for. They KNOW that whoever raises the child owns the future – for values taught young last forever in most cases. If a child is spending far more time in hands of government run and NEA staffed schools than with their parents, whose values are going to be inculcated? Already we see teachers believing that parents are an impediment and that THEY know what is best for the kids and less and less, no longer hiding it. Let’s face it, government school staffs are highly critical of conservative and religious values – vast majorities ARE in the Party of Government and are Progressives themselves. This from Hot Air:
Greece has sucked the oxygen out of the financial news at owing $270 billion for this country of 11 million people and now wants to stick it to those who became the “other peoples’ money”. PR also made news when its governor said that it could not pay back its $72 billion debt and now wants US laws changed so as to be able to go bankrupt (and also stick it to those who became the “other peoples’ money”.
And then there is China – no, not quite the debt that is the topic. It is their absolute meltdown of their stock exchanges over the last 3 weeks or so: $3.2 Trillion of value just vanished. We Groksters had a number of emails on the techie news of the day (United Air Lines, Wall St Journal, NY Stock Exchange) but also mentioned China. My 2 cents:
China has been a ticking time bomb for a while, financially. Folks for a few years, have thought that Commies have been fudging their economic numbers and their exchanges have lost $3.2 Trillion over the last month or so. Now, the Chinese govt can’t stem the flood of what Instapundit calls a “preference cascade” – investors finally got sick of putting up with the nonsense and started pulling out as some of the real data’s results starting showing up.
And add in the militant gay activists who are demanding total affirmation and celebration – or you will be destroyed. Doubt me? From taking away tax exemptions from churches that won’t give into gay demands, the destruction of businesses, reputations, and careers, we see this mob not just willing to win but have a scorched earth policy of General Sherman. And now we can add kicking anyone out of the military who violates their secular religion (and with no small amount of attitude):
“What truly troubles these cretinous sentinels of vile prejudice and hate-mongering bigotry is the fact that this ruling will go down historically as the watershed moment which may indeed shatter the spine of the religious right in the U.S. military, whose prior viselike grip over the chaplaincy has formed the key obstacle to social progress within the Armed Forces. Cry us a river!
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Rio just won the vacant seat in NH House for Seabrook and Hampton Falls in Rockingham District 20. A young 18 year old conservative is now off to Concord with a win of 772 (66.72%) over uber-Democrat Elaine Andrews-Ahearn 385 (33.28%). Congratulations! 772 (66.72%) over Dem Ahern-Andrews 385 (33.28%) And now we get to hold … Read more
“Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.” — Jack Zipes
https://youtu.be/ZAwqumoO0Ds
California wants your tourism dollars…California needs your tourism dollars…..because they are broke. So the California tourism board makes these catchy little “fairy tale” commercials to separate suckers from their cash…
The Democrat bench in New Hampshire is having a rough year. Three New Hampshire House special elections. Three humiliating defeats. The last two losses to young Republicans, both under the age of twenty, both running on smaller, less intrusive government and tax relief for business owners–the latter a key component of the Republican State budget declared irresponsible by Democrat Governor Maggie Hassan in her veto.
H/T Jeff Chidester for sharing on Facebook. (National Journal) Fergus Cullen, a former state party chairman, is perhaps the most blunt. He called Trump’s New Hampshire efforts “a Potemkin organization at best” but said he fully understands why political operatives like Lewandowski would make “a business decision” to make good money while they could. … … Read more
Fredo Arias King talks about international relations with Mexico, and the far reaching effect of a foreign policy decision made by the Bush campaign in April of 2009, (and mirrored by brother Jeb as then Gov. of Florida). *Recorded at the 603 Alliance Grassroots Summit Follow us on YouTube,USTREAM, Facebook, and Twitter …and take us … Read more
“By artificially lowering the cost of borrowing, governments are allowed to shift more debt onto their taxpayers. Eventually, the debts must be paid thus creating the transfer of property through the state to friends of the state. Public debt is just organized looting of the middle-class.”
(H/T: Liberal Logic 101)
Bill Whittle takes us down memory-hole lane to explore some of the real history of the Democrat party. H/T Susan Olsen
we’d rather see the shards of the current Establishment on the floor than continue to see the shards of the broken promises and actions that the Republican Party is actually delivering.
I do have to say that there are a lot of Republicans not liking that Donald Trump has crashed their party of “The Party”. It has been hilarious, as well as very telling, to watch and listen to the howls of indignation of the Establishment Republicans and their coterie of consultants and commentariats invoke Reagan’s 11th Commandment even as they violate it themselves (consistency?). Frankly, for a lot of them, this is beginning to become their Oz moment – the pulling away of the smoke and mirrors by a guy who just doesn’t give a crap what they think. And as I, and a lot of others are saying, they hate the idea that their nuanced and calibrated politicalese messages, angles, and strategies are going down in flames more flamboyantly than the Hindenburg.
And I believe that they hate the idea that many of the Right body politic are nodding their heads in agreement when Trump says what he does – because these other chuckleheads won’t. And when they lay in their broadsides, thinking that their screeds will shame him off the stage and put a sock in it, Trump is sidestepping and saying even more that shows the hypocriticalness. Tit, tat, BOOM!
There is also the insider-outsider aspect to this – and Trump is playing this well (almost like he had a deck of marked cards) and Conservative Review has a nice take on it (emphasis mine):
…There is an answer to the “why” however. An answer that speaks directly to both why Trump’s candidacy resonates – and the visceral nature of the opposition to him in some of these conservative quarters.
I have never watched nor do I care about the Tour de France. I’d rather watch grass grow. But a 20 bike pile-up? That’s something you don’t see every day. A number of people were seriously hurt–watch the video, how could they not be–including the race leader who had to withdraw due to severe back injuries … Read more