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“I know some in Washington would like us to start leaving Iraq now. To begin withdrawing before our commanders tell us we are ready would be dangerous for Iraq, for the region, and for the United States. It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to al Qaeda. It would mean that we’d be … Read more
And did you know her real first name isn’t even Jeanne? It’s Cynthia. (Sin-thee-ah). Cynthia Shaheen the debt machine works too.
I am a bit disappointing in the lack of interest this story attracted* given all the jokes at our disposal. I’m referring to the news of Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s off-shore investment in the fourth largest oil company in the world, S.A. Total ( Chevron, Inpex–a Japanese firm–and Weather-ford International.) After the initial burst of news and press releases I’ve seen nothing. How do you not keep bring this up over and over again all the way to November?
It is a story that writes its own press releases almost endlessly, complete with the mounds of hypocrisy that should go with it.
1) S.A. Total and Chevron are two of the largest oil companies on the planet. Talk about big oil!
2) Shaheen is no stranger to bashing ties to big oil and yet she is invested in Big oil.
3) Tom Steyer and his green machine are spending a fortune on ads (internet, TV, etc) talking about Big Oil and Scott Brown while his opponent is, well you get the idea.
4) Offshoring investment capital is another left-wing, anti-capitalist axe to grind but when one-percenter Jeanne Shaheen invests in Big Oil, she invests offshore, Hello!
Can anyone confirm this news.…? Susan, did the Earl of Sweeney ever get back to you? CONCORD, N.H. – New Hampshire’s Department of Public Safety has scrapped a revised concealed gun license application following complaints from gun rights groups. The state made changes to the application form in August. Three questions were added asking whether … Read more
Liberal Media Response To Gun Use… I would add that the liberal media and the Democrat machine are also OK with giving guns to Muslims to defend themselves from their government, something they oppose with all their energy here at home. H/T Warner Todd Huston c/o Google+ Listen to our GrokTALK! interview with Warner … Read more
Want to know a secret? The word ‘Change’ in Climate Change means they can change the meaning every time nature proves them wrong…which is often.
More snow, colder winters, growing ice-caps, cool rainy summers in the central plains, fewer wildfires, expensive liberal-owned beach-front property still above water, everything that contradicts all their modeling and scare-mongering is now supposed to prove they were still right when they were wrong. So I’ll just help NH Democrat Tim Horrigan out and write his comment for him now. “Actually Global Warming Theory now predicts fewer and less sever hurricanes.” …or something.
Dr. Roy Spencer.com — 3,264 Days Without a Major Hurricane Strike
Who would have predicted it? As of today (October 1) it’s been nearly 9 years since a major hurricane (Cat 3 or greater) has struck the U.S., the last being Wilma in October, 2005.
This is supposed to make the Republican base more apt to vote for Brown? Or are they throwing in the towel on the 50% of NH Republicans that DIDN’T vote for him in the primary in their rush for the mush middle that even the Dems aren’t working for? From a campaign ad starring Mitt … Read more
ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) – Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) make up 2 percent of the U.S. population but are the group most definitively affected by HIV, with 63 percent of those newly infected by HIV representing this group. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly “Morbidity and Mortality” report … Read more
I think this title is useful in these circumstances because if requires the left to come to terms with their entire worldview.
White House Obama exempts Syria airstrikes from tight standards on civilian deaths.
The White House has acknowledged for the first time that strict standards President Obama imposed last year to prevent civilian deaths from U.S. drone strikes will not apply to U.S. military operations in Syria and Iraq.
More and more, I am seeing posts at the national level on a topic that I have been writing and talking about for months now: Trust. The lack thereof. From the grassroots to the Republican Establishment there is little Trust (or as I told someone tonite (so many calls tonite, very little blogging!) that having zero Trust would be a large step up right now). Each of these posts by others is now echoing that sentiment even as the Establishment (nationally and certainly here in NH!) is tearing their collective hair out – “WHY aren’t they falling into line like they always have??? Why are we being told “nope, no interested in voting“? And that is their large problem – but we have told them why (certainly *I* have and I know that I am not alone).
They simply are not listening. But their words are heard and their action speak even louder – it’s deafening. They have made themselves clear – and they don’t get that WE have been listening closely and watching even more intently. They have brought us upon themselves. Anyways, I have a few of these bookmarked and will share them over the next few days. This is from IBD Editorials (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Republicans, in an orgy of expectations, believe the key to taking the Senate was getting “electable” candidates nominated. And get them nominated they did. The Establishment got their candidates. Now they’re looking at a potentially disastrous election where their chosen ones dramatically underperform all reasonable expectations, the result of attacking their own party’s base to cement primary victories.
Once in a while (a rare while, I will post up a complete post from elsewhere – this time, from Bill Quick at Daily Pundit (via Instapundit) (emphasis mine):
Stinking Chickens Coming Home to Roost for Gentry GOP
Republicans See Money Drying Up in Final Weeks – NationalJournal.com
The disparity has led to mounting frustration among political operatives running Republican campaigns. And they are issuing a blunt warning: In a year with a half-dozen tight Senate contests, the party could easily squander most of them.
“I am worried about it for the first time in a long time,” said Rob Jesmer, who ran the National Republican Senatorial Committee in 2012 and 2010 and continues to work on behalf of Senate campaigns now. “I think in some of these places, it could be the determining factor.”
The party, Jesmer says, still has a good chance of taking the Senate from Democrats. “But if we don’t, the story is going to be that outside money saved these guys.”
Yeah, that will be your story, JIsmer. Of course you won’t mention the scorched earth war, and the oceans of money, you and your organization spent to “crush” the Tea Party, whose donors are taking their wallets and going home.
Just like the base here in NH that watched the NH Senate Republican Majority PAC drop oodles of money into
Out of State Money, fundraisers, and influence. It’s OK when Democrats do it. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will headline a fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) later this week in New York City, a Democratic Party source confirmed. Clinton was to have starred at a fundraiser Sept. 30 in Washington, D.C., for … Read more
These types of headlines?? ISLAMIC STATE EXECUTES FEMALE HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER BY FIRING SQUAD AFTER FACEBOOK POST SOMALI MILITANTS STONE WOMAN TO DEATH Not really all that much, so it seems. One would think that this would take preference over the small things: “bike gap“, “pot gap“. Let’s get this right – I’ve heard not … Read more
Stupid. Well, first, Boring and then Stupid. The question that challenges me most, however is where to begin? Our Esteemed Grok Chief, Skip Murphy brought you all, in a “WTF Moment,” the plight, or should I say, “historically challenged plight” of fledgling journalist, blogger, ergo Kool-Aid Slurper Kasie Strickland who wrote, No one is coming for your guns…Yet Skip covered the particulars quite well so there is no need for me to relitigate the boredom and the stupidity.
This is funny! Hysterical even! Doesn’t Arturo Carmona know where Jeanne Shaheen lives?? Yeah, New Hampshire. Which means:
So why am I chuckling? This (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Senate Election 2014: New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen Criticized for ‘Appearing Anti-Immigrant,‘ Missing Senate Hearings
…”In siding with Senator Cruz, Senator Shaheen has relayed the message that she is willing to throw Latinos and other immigrant communities under the bus for votes,” said Presente Action Executive Director Arturo Carmona, in a statement to Latin Post. According to Carmona, Shaheen re-election bid has made her evaluate political efforts to “appear more socially conservative and anti-immigrant.”
“We have voting power and we’re going to use it in the upcoming elections to
This from Instapundit on the topic of someone in the act of carry at work:
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Oklahoma City beheading: Will jihad-style attack boost ‘bring gun to work’ laws? “Moore Police Sgt. Jeremy Lewis told the Associated Press that Vaughan’s decision to carry a weapon to work made a big difference in the outcome of the attack. The situation ‘could have gotten a lot worse’ if Vaughan didn’t have this gun, said Sgt. Lewis. ‘This was not going to stop if [Vaughan] didn’t stop it.’”
Plus, some no-nonsense thoughts from Tam: “While a gun in the parking lot might be a few minutes closer than the gun in the holster of a responding cop, the fastest response is the gun you have on your person right then.”
The Natural Right of Self-Defense. I do dryly notice that Moms Demand Action’s FB page has NOTHING about the Oklahoma beheading where a good guy with a gun on the premises stopped a second Mom from losing her head. Nein, nadda, nothing, zippo.
“We can’t let divisions between conservatives cause us to forfeit elections to big government.”
In the midterms “everything is at stake,” he [Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)] added, and “arguments within the family” should be laid to rest to get the party past the finish line. “The appropriate time for it has passed, at least until after the general election,” the senator said, noting that once the GOP gets the majority the party can then have “robust discussion about what our priorities should be.”
Seriously?? You don’t know what you’re gonna do until you win?? Even just to say that before the election? And then they wonder we in the base keep having WTF thoughts? This is supposed to engender Trust? You want us to vote for you and you don’t know what you are going to do?? Is it only me that thinks this makes sense??
Winning is merely a precursor – it is what you do afterwards that is most important.
So according to Cornyn, we in the base are just supposed to
Ron Fournier, apparently a former Associated Press bureau chief, tweeted out a ‘transcript’ of the recent interview President Obama did on the newsertainment program 60 Minutes. I didn’t see the interview, but this sounds about right… I, me, my. It's their fault. I, me, my. It's their fault. I, me, my. It's their fault. I, … Read more
The Obama Administration seems to have changed a few more definitions when it comes to talking about the success of Airstrikes against ISIS The fighters in Mahmoodin village told us that the US-led air strikes against ISIS in Syria have so far had very little impact on the ground. Like many people, in this part … Read more
You can claim almost anything to cast a vote in New Hampshire, a vote that could result in the expense of millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars annually. One vote could be all it takes.
All you need to exercise that fiscal power in the Granite State is to show up on election day, and claim that you intend to “live” in New Hampshire, at least until you’ve voted. After that you are under no obligation to pay the price of that vote. You can depart the state immediately leaving actual residents to pay the price of your actual intent; to steal a vote.
But if you want to transfer the title of a motor-vehicle in the town of Henniker, New Hampshire, you are required to provide actual proof of residency. And a drivers license is not sufficient. The clerk made it clear to our reader that the transaction could not possibly be sanctioned with just a drivers license as proof or identity and residence.