I’m not saying there’s no climate change, heck, day before yesterday it was freezing cold in the AM and this morning it was a bit warmer.  Something changed.

Ski resorts were testing their snow guns in mid September, that’s change.  It’s happened before.  Once,or twice.  And I am not here to bury ‘Caesar’ but to praise him, (‘Caesar’ being global warming, for those not following); that anthropogenic plague on the planet that is not making it warmer, might be doing nothing, or might be making it cooler, or maybe none or all of the above, (also known as weather to the a-political) has resulted in some spectacular and beneficial circumstances in recent years.

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So in their effort to divide us and motivate the takers to overwhelm the makers, all to the goal of a permanent socialist state, the Democrats have adopted this meme that inequality of income is huge and growing.

Leftist organizations such as Obama’s thoroughly corrupted Census Bureau and the NY Times have taken up this clamor and now they are claiming that New York City is the worst of the worse. Inequality there, they say, is so extreme that 5 percent of households earned an average of $864,394, or 88 times as much as the poorest 20 percent.  In order to reach this conclusion, they set the average income of a family in the bottom 20 percent at approximately $10,000 a year, thereby claiming the top 5% earn an astounding 88 times the average of the bottom 20%.

Makes you want to vote for the Revolution, doesn’t it?

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Remember, The Rule of Law hold that EVERYONE (no exceptions) is equal before the Law and that everyone is subject to it. Or just another example of answering the question of “public servants or Public Masters”?  From McClatchy (via Overlawyered)

FOIA findings: “Dozens of Justice Department officials, ranging from FBI special agents and prison wardens to high-level federal prosecutors, have escaped prosecution or firing in recent years despite findings of misconduct by the department’s own internal watchdog. … In at least 27 cases, the inspector general identified evidence of possible criminal wrongdoing but no one was prosecuted.” Many cases ended in oral admonishment of errant employees. While various legitimate reasons can underlie a decision not to prosecute, such as a poor prospect of securing conviction, low stakes, or unclear law, the rate at which public integrity cases have been prosecuted has dropped significantly since the previous administration.

So, while you and I must submit to warrantless searches and we’d better have

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Democrat Mary Burke has been running hard for Governor of Wisconsin on “her” jobs plan.  It has more pages than Scott Walker’s plan.   This means he’s not as deep a thinker as she is.  As the deeper thinker she makes a better candidate for governor.  Democrats will tell you- That’s a fact!

I’ve read through a lot of economic development plans in putting together this plan and none of them were four pages long. We’re talking about a state’s economy, we’re talking about our future and it deserves some serious thinking and some real detail and some real plans. So, yes and setting goals, making sure you have plans to achieve those goals, and that you have the benchmarks for knowing if you’re on track.

The fact that she did none of the thinking on her jobs plan somehow seems relevant to her own argument about her qualifications for governor, don’t you think? (As does the fact that Scott Walker’s 4 pages….actually worked.)

From Dan McLaughlin at Red State.

“…when a politician publishes a campaign website, you should not really be surprised to find material prepared by consultants who re-use the same stuff. A lot of Kaczynski’s articles in this vein are amusing but not really all that consequential. But here’s the thing:

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Jeanne Shaheen is a beneficiary of money flowing from the Sierra Club, but Sierra has recently come under scrutiny for some of its fundraising tactics, including commercial arrangements that financially benefited their leadership and also resulted in Sierra Club profits for which no taxes were ever paid.

We know how ‘concerned’ senator Shaheen is about how non-profits use their money.  Is she equally concerned about how they acquire it and when they should pay taxes?

Regarding its failure to pay taxes on unrelated business income, the Sierra Club sends its members into communities to sell the products of a selected local solar panel company in Maryland, Utah and dozens of other states in exchange for contributions to the group. In Maryland, for example, the Sierra Club makes a $750 profit from every sale and has never paid taxes on that commercial enterprise.

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At the beginning of this year, I intended to post a reminder on the Trial of the Century every quarter and it looks like I just about made it in time for this one.  Many political junkies are aware of the trial, but for the sake of clarity, I’ll clarify.

The trial of the century is the glacierly slow trial between New Hampshire’s very own “scary conservative with a hidden agenda” Mark Steyn and the First Amendment detonating jackhole Michael E. Mann of Penn State (Yes, the same Penn State where boys fear the locker room) and of the fallacious global warming Hockey Stick fame (stop laughing).

So for this installment, a little update along with an obnoxious, embarrassing pleading from me to you that I’ll get out of the way now.  Please consider helping Mark out by visiting the store at  www.steynonline.com and purchasing one of his excellent books, a mug, shirt or other items including a never expiring gift certificate.  The proceeds go to his trial expenses—expenses that seem never ending as I think we’re in the third year of this “speedy” trial.  It’s for a good cause, a cause Mark must win, not just for himself but for anyone who believes that freedom of speech is freedom of speech for everyone not just the anointed and well connected.

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Yes, the equivalency / similarities hit just as soon as I read it:

THE NRSC’S WORK PROPPING UP DODDERING NONRESIDENT PAT ROBERTS WORKING OUT AS EXPECTED: In Kansas, Incumbent Pat Roberts Down 5 Points Against “Independent” Candidate. “This all raises a bigger question as to Roberts’ viability. He’s just a horrible campaigner, and doesn’t seem comfortable in his home state. I hope Roberts wins, but someone has to shake him out of his stupor.”

Meanwhile, Roberts primary challenger Milt Wolf comments: “Remember when the GOP establishment said that they, and only they, can win in November? Good times, good times.”

The NRSC is now seen by the grassroots, nationally, as nothing but a “keep the good ole’ boys and girls in the Club” organization.  Making the quality of the Republicans in the US Senate better?  Yeah, for all the talk of “making the GOP more inclusive”, the “in” part only means something if one is already “in” the club.

Same thing here in NH, writ smaller (but no less important).  Smaller scale but the same thing with the NH Senate Republican Majority PAC being the second string stand in for the NRSC.  It threw beaucoup bucks at defeating Jane Cormier

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