In the Texas Tribune, former Texas Governor Rick Perry took a shot at his fellow Texan, US Senator Ted Cruz, who may be vying with him in the 2016 Presidential Primary:

“It’s one of the selling points, if you will, to the American people as they decide who’s going to follow Barack Obama,” he said. “I think they’re going to make a rather radical shift, away from a young, untested United States senator whose policies have really failed.”

And then he shot himself in the foot, as far as I’m concerned, because it goes against one of his fundamental lines that had me giving him an approving eye the last time around (““My goal is to make Washington as inconsequential to your daily life as possible”):

Perry said he was “not necessarily all that fond of this open carry concept,” adding that those who carry guns ought to be “appropriately backgrounded, appropriately vetted, appropriately trained.”

“We license people to drive on our highways,” he said. “We give them that privilege. The same is true with our concealed handguns.”

So he’s not hep with the idea of open carry (and I don’t disagree with as there is the notion of “shoot me first”) but likes that Government must be asked FIRST before being able to exercise one’s Constitutional Right?  When that happens, he’s right – the ability to own and bear (either openly or carried) arms becomes a mere privilege

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On Friday (see email below), Adam Steel, Business Administrator for the Windham School District, alerted the school board that Cenergistic has withdrawn their proposal. The day before, the superintendent of Rochester Schools sent a letter alerting Cenergistic that they are withdrawing from their contract as well. Apparently the Rochester School Board pushed through the same type of contract that the Windham School Board was trying to push through – little public input; not in the budget; no research done on the company and no one on the school board reviewed the contract before they were being asked to vote on it.

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Any woman in Vermont legally allowed to carry a firearm under federal law can carry concealed without a permit.  This means that no man ever really knows if she is armed.

Does that matter?  It does to women in Vermont.

Since the year 2000 there are an average of 68% fewer rapes per 100,000 citizens in Vermont than in New Hampshire.

Democrats like the mad moms for more violence, the pro-crime out-of state funded lobbyists at Granite State Progress, NH Police chiefs, the New Castle promises more rapes folks, and NH State Senator David Pierce, are all opposed to allowing women in New Hampshire the same rights as women in Vermont.   Women who can carry concealed without a permit and are safer than women in New Hampshire.

Is such opposition a result of their devotion to their blind and ignorant ideology?  Maybe, but what if it is just about  money?

If Susan Bruce is speaking for all the NH Democrats then leaving 68% more women at risk for rape in the Granite State is a fair trade for $900,000.00.

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From the UL (reformatted, emphasis mine) comes this news from the Federal Govenrment’s Ambassador to NH Shaheen in dragooning two other Government employees into saying “ONLY GOVERNMENT CAN SAVE US ALL!”.  Translation: All hail the Sacred Government!

The showdown over Homeland Security funding could affect first responders, right down to local firefighters, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., said Thursday. Shaheen held a conference call with David Lang, president of the Professional Firefighters of New Hampshire, and Laconia Fire Chief Kenneth Erickson, to highlight what she says is at stake.
Funding for the federal Department of Homeland Security runs out by month’s end. The debate in Congress is complicated as Republicans consider amendments to nullify President Barack Obama’s executive orders on immigration reform.  Democrats accused Republicans of putting politics above security.

Could? Politics?  Methinks the second is driving the first.  Politics – in Government? I’m SHOCKED, I tell you, SHOCKED! Especially coming from one that can dole out other peoples’

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It is certainly is a topic that I’ve blogged about before – a side transformation of American life and putting a stake in the heart in the American love of that big throaty roar of a well-tuned big block V8.  Instead, we’d be transformed to go down that Electric Avenue.  Unfortunately, other than he, the anti-live-where-you-want crowds, the eco-obsessed, most of the American public have gone for the bigger vehicles: pickups and SUVs.  The idea of a “tin can and a 9 volt” just has not caught on even with massive subsidies from the Government to the car companies and to consumers (and yes, one of the “side reasons” for the failed Cash for Clunkers program).  Thus, this at CNSNews (reformatted, emphasis mine):

 In his 2011 State of the Union address, President Obama predicted that the U.S. would have “a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.”The president backed up his prediction with $2.4 billion in federal grants to companies producing lithium-ion batteries for plug-in cars.  But reality hasn’t even come close.  Despite massive federal spending on electric vehicles, which is expected to total $7.9 billion through 2019, there are currently just 286,390 plug-in vehicles on the nation’s roads today, according to the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA).

That’s 72 percent lower than the million electric vehicles the president predicted four years ago. And with gasoline prices

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…then maybe, just MAYBE, you shoulda listened to that little angel on your shoulder going “er, wanna rethink that decision”?

As the nation’s moviegoers ready for the Valentines Day release of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” sensation, actress Dakota Johnson Friday told a national TV audience that it’s so racy that she won’t let her parents watch. In an early preview of the sex-filled film for a “Today” show audience, the daughter of actor Don Johnson and actress Melanie Griffith nervously said, “I don’t want my parents to see it.” Asked who could, Johnson said, “maybe my friends, maybe my sisters.”

The cognitive dissonance hurts…

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There is an overlooked paragraph in president Obama’s 2016 budget fact sheet that might actually prove useful to real people trying to find work in the real world.

Reducing Unnecessary Occupational Licensing. The Budget seeks to reduce occupational licensing barriers that keep people from doing the jobs they have the skills to do by putting in place unnecessary training and high fees.

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