As reported earlier today, the Windham School Board pushed through an over $500,000 proposal with a company called Cenergistic. This company was formerly Energy Education Incorporated and changed their name within the past couple of years. According to Cenergistic’s own website, they have 3 other school districts as clients in New Hampshire: Claremont, Londonderry and Nashua. Unfortunately there’s a slight problem. Cenergistic is not registered to do business in New Hampshire.

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Top 1%ers if your income is $32,000 or more.  Period.  Yet, the Occupy Wall Street remnants and the Elizabeth Warrens are so blinkered on this, thinking it is only the Haves and Have-Nots battle here in the US that matters.  Out of sight, out of mind is the fact that many of our Poor are often much better off than even Europe’s Middle Class in most economic metrics.

Why is the 1 percent suffering from this peculiar mass delusion? Well, actually, it’s not that hard to understand. Because if you’re reading this article, chances are that you are in the top 1 percent of global income. And chances are also that you really don’t feel like a tycoon.

The cutoff for the global 1 percent starts quite a bit lower than the parochial American version preferred by pundits. I’m on it. So is David Sirota. And if your personal income is higher than $32,500, so are you. The global elite to which you and I belong enjoys fantastic wealth compared to the rest of the world: We have more food, clothes, comfortable housing, electronic gadgets, health care, travel and leisure than almost every other living person, not to mention virtually every human being who has ever lived. We are also mostly privileged to live in societies that offer quite a lot in the way of public amenities, from well-policed streets and clean water, to museums and libraries, to public officials who do their jobs without requiring a hefty bribe. And I haven’t even mentioned the social safety nets our governments provide.

So why don’t we feel like Scrooge McDuck, rolling around in all of our glorious riches? Why do we feel kinda, y’know, middle class?

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First meeting for the newly elected Committee members and they had two jobs to do:

• Elect new NH GOP Officers – Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer, Secretary and the 5 Area Vice Chairs
• Vote on the mostly Establishment sponsored Amendments – 6 of them

I posted about Amendment #1 (and left the others alone, below, at the time) and the absolute vagueness of what “good cause” would mean, given that it is open for interpretation, it was open for “political abuse” as well:

County and City Committees may prescribe in their bylaws the conditions under which a member of such committee may be removed for failure to attend meetings or other good cause…

After all, this IS politics we’re talking about there!  But there were five more:

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We don’t fight against “extremists” or “terrorists” – that in itself is an indication of weakness. Terror is a tactic, used by an enemy to change political wills, but not the enemy itself. We do fight against a political ideology as authoritarian that in Shar’ia Law, wishes to control every aspect of your life in the tiniest detail.   From George Packer of the New Yorker (via Betsy’s Page) is this well written snippet describing the enemy of the West – yet most of the Western Leaders, especially Obama (and his minions like AG Eric Holder)  refuse to correctly name that enemy.  And yes, I blame Bush II for calling this war a “War on Terror”.  Emphasis mine:

The murders today in Paris are not a result of France’s failure to assimilate two generations of Muslim immigrants from its former colonies. They’re not about French military action against the Islamic State in the Middle East, or the American invasion of Iraq before that. They’re not part of some general wave of nihilistic violence in the economically depressed, socially atomized, morally hollow West—the Paris version of Newtown or Oslo. Least of all should they be “understood” as reactions to disrespect for religion on the part of irresponsible cartoonists.

They are only the latest blows delivered by an ideology that has sought to achieve power through terror for decades.

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Certainly, the innocent babies have no choice – this is a clear evidence of fact.  Their well being, their life, is in the hands of their mother.  I ran across both of these pretty much at the same time – a juxtaposition of fighting FOR Life and a celebration OF Death.  This amongst an anecdotal study that college students are becoming more open to “post-birth” abortions and Belgium’s willingness to “euthanize” a serial killer (rather than have the courage to say “death penalty”).

A society that embraces Life or is turning to an ethos of Death?  Truth, or hiding behind the manipulation of language?  On the Death side, we see that NARAL, the most pro-baby killer organization outside of Planned Parenthhod, absolutely giddy with celebration of the Supreme Court decision that allowed Gosnell in Philly not only kill the unborn but the partial born and a couple of their mothers:

NARAL Pro-Choice New Hampshire with Colin Van Ostern

The incredible power and influence of the abortion lobby in federal and state politics is nothing short of astounding. Hundreds of millions of dollars flow to support the abortion cause which masquerades as “women’s health care” in our cities and states. New Hampshire is no exception to the rule.

Here is an example for you. Planned Parenthood of New England in 2012 launched a $500,000 “Action Fund” to provide support for Maggie Hassan’s gubernatorial campaign. In 2014, Planned Parenthood supported Hassan to the tune of over $400,000 to ensure her re-election. It is also interesting to note, Gov. Hassan’s 2012 budget TRIPLED the funding for Planned Parenthood in NH. Hmmm…

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Yes, I caught this right at the beginning of the show – you just can’t make this stuff up and just another anecdote that shows we’ve been pulling out too many bricks out of “the Civil Society wall”, leading to its tottering.  What would you expect when the Secularists and the Left had changed the culture from a solid moral absolutist code (er, wrong is WRONG!) to one of moral relativism?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: “As many as 64 Dartmouth College students — including some athletes — could face suspension or other disciplinary measures for cheating in an ethics class this past fall.” I love that it was an ethics class. . . .

Yet, these are the same folks that believe when THEY say “No is NO” it will be obeyed by over-hormone college kids even as they spent the last 50 years redefining sexual conduct from that contained within marriage to the Hookup Generation?  Redefine roles, redefine morals – the outcome is predictable.  The juicy bit of the story:

…Dartmouth officials said students implicated in the cheating scandal misrepresented their attendance and participation in the undergraduate course, “Sports, Ethics & Religion.”

The class used electronic hand-held “clickers,” registered to individual students, to answer in-class questions. Officials at the Hanover, N.H., college said the students charged with cheating either gave their clickers to classmates instead of attending class themselves, or helped others cheat by using the clickers to answer questions on their behalf.

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The operative word with regard to the recent ‘publicly funded community college’ (pre-State of the Union Speech) trial balloon floated by the Obama White House is ‘Funding.’

The official narrative is a 75% reimbursement from the feds for students who meet certain criteria while attending community colleges that meet certain criteria, up to a certain amount, all backed by the good faith of the liars in Washington and that New! “What Debt ceiling” smell.

Sure.  An institution with 18 trillion in debt and a twinkle in its eye wants to create a mandate for publicly funded community college.  Not to worry states.  We’re going to pass a law that only requires you to pay for 25% (wink-wink) of that annual tuition per student, and no–we have no idea who is really going to pay for the rest but as long as we say it’s free, we can call Republicans names when they try to explain why its a bad idea.

I wonder what the small print could look like on this deal?

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So, a fellow Republican, from your home town, attacks you on social media. He accuses you of being “a total Conservative fraud”, “working for Organizing for America”, being a “Conservative In Name Only”, and negatively equates you with “Obama’s second term”.

These attacks were not only baseless; they were foolish and immature.

These attacks were presumably made by the Chairman of my local Republican Committee on the morning of December 13, 2014.  This was the day our County Republican organization held its convention and elected its new State Committee Members.  Being a publicly elected Party delegate, I planned to attend the meeting and participate in this vote.  I also chose to add my name to the ballot, wanting to become a State Committee member myself.

However, this very-last-minute, half-baked attempt at casting me as a traitor to the party – with the intent of thwarting my quest to become a State Committee member – backfired, because I won my election that day.  I attribute my win to the personal and collegial relationships I have developed with many of the fine delegates who showed up that day and decided to put a check next my name.

But there’s more!

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For immediate release.

Just a few hours after touting a bipartisan leadership style in her inaugural address, Governor Maggie Hassan, at today’s Governor and Council meeting, refused to allow or even discuss a motion from Councilor Wheeler to restore elected oversight of state contracts under $25,000.

Counselor Wheeler noted that “the previous Democrat controlled Council, knowing they would soon lose power, raised the oversight level to include only contracts and spending items over $25,000.” He contrasted this to the process just a few years ago where all contracts over $5,000 received Council oversight.

“This is a five fold increase in value of contracts not overseen by the council in the last few years,” Wheeler added. “This new secretive approach must go. The public has a right to know exactly how their money is being spent and who is receiving it. The more that is done in public, the less there is opportunity for corruption and graft.”

New Hampshire’s Executive Council was established to be a check on the unrestrained powers of both the executive and legislative branch. 

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Okay, competitions over. No need holding our breath for the next 12 months to find out the winner of the “Dumbest Thing Said in 2015” competition. This guy’s a sure thing. Speaking to Andrea Mitchell (who’s placed in the competition in years past), Eugene Robinson, provided his thoughts on the Islamic Terror attacks in Paris and said:

“Just to keep it into perspective, I don’t think we should imagine that the conditions and the threat are exactly the same in the United States as they are in France. They are different. In fact, one thing that is different here is weapons are universally available and so it is actually a very good thing that, that the tensions are not exactly the same because we would expect to have a lot more carnage,”

His implication: Think if there terror attacks occurred here, my God, they’d have guns! Think of the carnage.

I’m sure that’s what the supine police officer in France was thinking as the terrorist scum raced towards him with an AK-47 raised in his direction, “Thank God I can’t defend myself!”

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