Mike covered this a while back, (maybe he can add the link I can’t find here).  Massive solar farms kill tens of thousands of bird annually.  Workers call them ‘Steamers’ for the rapid evacuation of moisture, previously keeping the bird alive, that escapes as the critter is quick-fried in flight before the carcass drops to earth.

Recent news of this environmental “catastrophe” comes to us on an in-flight Bird Cooker in the Mojave Desert…

The facility has concerned environmentalists in the past, as its construction bladed over 3,500 acres of virgin desert. Being California, the state government required BrightSource to relocate a bunch of desert gopher tortoises to the tune of $22 million. The installation also endangers pilots flying the busy Los Angeles–Las Vegas corridor; they can be dazzled by the intense light.

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 “a u-haul trailer of cash for a presidential nominee” that caused the party to atrophy everywhere but in a few swing states.”

Like NH.  Townhall reports an interview with national GOP Chair Reince Priebus on the overall problem with the GOP electorially – I think he is dead nuts on (reformatted, emphasis mine:

“We have a midterm party that doesn’t lose,” Priebus said, “and a presidential party that doesn’t win… you have to have a national party that gets its act together when it comes to the mechanics, when it comes to the ground game, when it comes to the data… this is 99% of my world every single day.”  Priebus said he’s trying to build “a national party that’s permanent, on the ground, all the time.”

In 2005, as the head of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean launched the “50 State Strategy,” which was an effort to build the Democratic Party in every state, on every level, in every precinct. Republicans mocked the Dean strategy – isn’t it a waste of money for the DNC to be spending in deep red counties in Alabama? – but now, staring at a Democratic party that has had two resounding Presidential victories, the RNC has undergone a transformation of its own.  And here is the money line: 

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“Budget writers did not anticipate that so many people would be added to Medicaid and that is one of the problems facing the department in trying to live within its budget this fiscal year”

NH Rogue Republicans: that would be NH State Senator Chuck Morse, NH State Senator Jeb Bradley, NH State Senator Bob Odell, and NH State Senator Nancy Stiles – funny, reality never seems to match the “Smart Peoples’ Planning”, does it?  Easy-Peezy, just pass Obama’s Medicaid Expansion and all will be well, right?  After all, the Federal Government is paying for it all – IT’S FREE MONEY (as they would have you believe that the vast majority of NH Taxpayers are not also Federal Taxpayers as well). From Gary Rayno at the UL (reformatted, emphasis mine):

After two years of wrangling, about 10,500 low-income adults began receiving health care insurance Friday under the state’s expanded Medicaid program or the New Hampshire Health Protection Program.  State officials believe eventually about 50,000 will have health insurance under the program, that uses the current Medicaid managed care and Health Insurance Premium Payment programs to cover the newly eligible until next year when private insurers through the state’s health exchange will provide the coverage.

Remember, insurance is one thing – actually getting in to see a doctor is another as many are refusing to take new Medicaid patients (if not outright retiring).  What a cruel lie these Rogue Republicans have foisted upon the poor.  But to that cost:

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Budget writers did not anticipate…human nature, actually.  They never do.   The Democrat parties top-down, centrally-planned utopia completely ignores human nature, which is why Conservatives get so aggravated with Democrats and then Republicans who play along (whether they have bought in or given up).

From Skip’s post last night on unexpected budget issues relating to Medicare expansion…

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RINO Alert.  Someone named Chris Burbank is running as a Republican in Moultonborough, New Hampshire.  Carroll County,  District 4.

No need to check voter history, just take a look at his Facebook page and you know this guy is a RINO.

Centrally planned and run economies…

Very disappointed to hear the news coming out of Washington DC today. Although not a perfect law by any stretch of the imagination, the Affordable Care Act is a step in the right direction to solving our nation’s healthcare crisis. I know it stands in direct opposition to the views shared by many in my party, but access to affordable healthcare should be a opportunity given to everyone, not just those that can afford it. #NewGOP #ModerateAndProud #NotDrinkingTheTea

Self contradicting on the 1st amendment…

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Update: I am told there were no pics on the Mailer.  My Apologies.  I have made relevant corrections.

The NH Senate Republican Majority PAC didn’t just waste $5000.00 on a mailer that lied about Dave Boutin’s second amendment record.   They spent it to endorse in a Republican primary.  Note to Chuck Morse: I don’t think this PAC exists to support sitting State Senators who just happen to support your leadership.

But how nice of you to prove what detectors have been saying about establishment Republican money picking sides in primaries.  It is so Washington DC of you.

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Republican Steve Kenda is in a primary against sitting State Senator Nancy Stiles.

Guess who sent out a mailer supporting Nancy Stiles?  That’s Right….the Senate Republican Majority PAC.

“Paid for and authorized by Senate Republican Majority PAC.” (Feel free to fisk the mailer, it’s a target rich environment)

That’s two (here’s number one). PDF of the Stiles Mailer is on the jump.

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This just came in over the transom, and it is a very good question.  Where IS the “Open and Transparent” Government we were promised, Governor Maggie Hassan?  Can you explain (below: emphasis mine)?

Dear Governor Hassan,

On August 1^st, 2014 The Union Leader reported that the federal government dumped 13 unaccompanied non-citizen children in New Hampshire on January 1. Curiously, the year they were dumped was not transcribed in the article.

The following statement was attributed to you Governor Hassan by your press secretary William Hinkle;

“As a national issue, the governor believes that Congress should work together to find a bipartisan solution to America’s immigration issues and to ensure that no children are put in a dangerous situation.”

That’s it?  Your only statement published in the Union Leader on 8/11/2014;

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How does the State of Nebraska define Domicile?

Domicile, as you may recall, is the key, and only, word in the NH State Constitution that defines where a NH inhabitant votes.

Here is what the Nebraska Dept. of Revenue says about Domicile:

Domicile.

Domicile is the place an individual has his or her permanent place of abode and home. Even if the individual is absent at times, domicile is the place to which the individual intends to return. Actual residence is not necessarily domicile. An individual establishes domicile in Nebraska on the date he or she arrives in the state for other than temporary or transitory purposes. Once domicile is established, it remains the individual’s domicile until it is abandoned. Domicile in Nebraska is abandoned when an individual leaves the state with no intention of returning to the state and establishes a domicile in another state while present in the other state for other than temporary or transitory purposes.

Nebraska is the home of the lead petitioner of the non-resident voter case called Hannah Rivers v. NH that TWO Superior (and insufficiently educated) Court activist judges say magically grants the right to vote in NH to non-residents.

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