The VA is the template of government run medicine.  Vets have been mistreated, untreated, sat on waiting lists, and have died.  The government bureaucrats have hidden the incompetence and malfeasance and continue to receive rewards.  This is how big government at a distance works.

Change ‘VA’ with ‘ObamaCare’ if you want to see your families future.

“The problems at the VA are worse than anyone imagined,” Coburn said.

“Over the past decade, more than 1,000 veterans may have died as a result of VA malfeasance,” the senator added. “Poor management is costing the department billions of dollars more and compromising veterans’ access to medical care.”

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One of the greatest sins of climatism will be the body count.  Winters are getting colder.  The long range predictions by people not on the taxpayer funded Climate

chaos payroll suggests decades of colder winters.  Team Climate Chaos is working hard to stamp out cheap, abundant energy, which will make longer and colder winters more difficult to weather.

Humans can easily survive a few degrees of warming.  Cold, however, shuts affected areas down, shortens growing seasons, damages crops, stresses infrastructure and public safety and maintenance resources, makes it twice as hard to get fuel to the people who need it, and claims more life as a result.

Making energy cost more, or insisting on a government managed green energy agenda that is ill-suited to real-world need, exacerbate this problem. Granny isn’t going off any cliff, she’ more likely to freeze to death.

Democrats, to be honest, just don’t give a sh*t.   They are in it for the politics.

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If you add all the Obama budgets and the deficit you get some huge number with ‘Trillions’ after it.   Democrats took the taxpayers on a spending binge that doubled the deficit, burdened them with a massive new entitlement, encouraged middling to declining growth, the worst labor participation rate in decades, record Welfare, food stamp, and dependency, so what do they do?  They let millions of illegal immigrants in, complete with no skills, no grasp of our language, and any number of illnesses–not to mention real criminals.

So this news can’t possibly be that bad.

The Commerce Department revised its estimates of first-quarter gross domestic product Wednesday to show that the economy contracted at a 2.9 percent annual rate. A combination of shrinking business inventories, terrible winter weather and a surprise contraction in health care spending drove the first-quarter decline, which is the worst since the first quarter of 2009, when the economy shrank at a 5.4 percent rate.

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Today we are celebrating the achievements of graduating students.  We applaud them and wish that they achieve their dreams.

While we are happy for those who are prepared for their next endeavor, we need to recognize that many of our schools are just not good enough for students or for our country’s needs.  Too many graduates are not prepared for the next level of education or for a decent job.  And, far too many students drop out of bad, dangerous and uncaring schools and end up poor and/or incarcerated.

Changing the names of top-down driven programs, e.g., now Common Core, previously No Child Left Behind, continues to fail and neglects the real problems anyway.

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“Their next higher category from Snow Emergency is Nuclear Attack.”

Long… but reposted here in its entirety:

“Metropolis

Remus lived in a big east coast city for a while, not near it, in it. He saw many amazing things but none more amazing than the mindless panic over a bit-o’-snow. His first experience left him bewildered. Picture a snowfall barely thicker than the soles of your shoes, gone by noon-thirty or near enough. The news outlets made the story last well into the next day. They looked exhausted.

Reporters outfitted for an arctic caribou drive interviewed city service reps with breathless urgency, interspersed with video of people using maxed-out snow blowers to clear driveways barely longer than their 4WD SUVs, you know, the Hummer-type vehicles they steer around twigs in the road. Urgent updates rivaled 9/11 for grim-faced gravity and, after warning people to stay home and do their own appendectomies, came frantic appeals to stay calm. Priceless. Weather reporters, normally a perky lot, put on their apocalypse face and warned of, yes, worse to come. It didn’t. It couldn’t. Their next higher category from Snow Emergency is Nuclear Attack.

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There is some rumbling under the surface with regard to the original source of the “unity” letter NH-GOP Chair Jennifer Horn publicly delivered to Senator Bob Smith.  (My thoughts on what might constitute actual Republican unity can be found here.)

I am told that the Smith campaign sent a private letter to the chairperson to clear up any doubt about the source of (what I have been calling) the unity letter.

Four days have passed without a response so the Smith campaign is now making their request for clarification public.  Here it is.

June 24, 2014

Jennifer Horn, Chairperson

NH Republican State Committee
10 Water Street
Concord, NH 03301

Dear Jennifer,

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That would not be the Elite troops that all want us to be Gene Chandler type Republicans (“Anyone with an R after their name is a good Republican”), just us “regular” troops.  Rather, this is yet another email that has come across my transom that shows that her message is rather “revolting” (name redacted to protect the revolutionary who believes that Principles matter):

There is no way that I will be willing to vote for Scott Brown. Simply because the man puts a R in front of his name, does not change what he has said and done (and remember the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, statements and actions). I will write in the candidate of my choice if Brown wins the primary (and many people have told me they will do the same, the Republican parties clear fawning over, and essentially pre choosing Scott Brown is disgusting). If Shaheen wins, as horrible as her voting record is, I am not certain that Scott Brown would vote any better/differently. Look at the percentage which Brown voted with Obama.

I agree.  When I was elected to my hamlet’s Budget Committee, I was not shy about speaking out (er, no surprise) and used any and all media to opine on its goings on.  This, as you can imagine, did not go over well and various schemes were tried by various dolts to strip away First Amendment Right to Free Speech.  Here, even though not a Government entity, the NH GOP is attempting to do the same thing in a slightly different manner: you will conform.

‘Fraid not, deary. 

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The Republican state party sure knows how to pick em.  Take Jerry Little, Gerald H. Little, the NHGOP establishment’s banker/cash mule for the State Senate seat in District 8.  If you wanted to make another case for a candidate who contradicts a commitment to Republican principles (for state office), Jerry Little the NH GOP establishments Senate Candidate, might be your poster boy.

This is a guy who has been spending his money on the NH State senate for more than a decade.  On Democrats.

In 2000 he donated to Lou D’Allesandro, Rick Trombly, Bev Hollingworth, all Democrats.  (He donated to Bev in 1998)

In 2002 Jerry Little supported, Sylvia Larsen and Bev Hollingworth.  (Little supported Larsen in 1998 as well.)

There’s a hole where he may have been donating below the threshold for tracking purposes but come 2008 he is still donating to Democrats,

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Last night I posted a list of donations by Democrat Donor Jerry Little, the NHGOP’s hand picked “republican” candidate for NH State senate district 8. (I’d prefer JP Marzullo in District 8.)

This morning, thanks to some additional work by other activists and the modern day convenience of email, I can update that list.

We now know that Jerry Little’s donations to Democrats (so far) span a period from 1996 to 2012.

1996 Sylvia Larsen, Elizabeth Corey

1998 Burt Cohen, Sylvia Larsen, Bev Hollingworth

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The Union Leader has a front page story titled CDC Survey finds Texting a NH Hazard.   The article is about risky teen behavior with an emphasis on texting.  They quote experts, which is amusing when you look at the big picture.  Trust me.

Cigarette smoking makes an appearance in the article, which is only important because when I read it I said, no frikkin way.  I actually said that out loud.  It was what drove me to dig into the actual report, where I found all kinds of news we could have used to put what was reported in a proper context.

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Last week I posted a blog about Governor Hassan treating innocent Granite Staters like drug abusers.  It’s only fair to call out those GOP Senators who sponsored this ridiculous invasion of privacy as well.  So here goes:  Boutin, Stiles, Obamacare Odell (luckily he’s retiring but remember he’s pushing Democrat Donor Jerry ‘knows’ Little in District 8), Bradley,  Carson, Larsen, D’Allesandro and ‘gas taxer’ Rausch (also thankfully retiring but backing Foley) along with Senator John Reagan (who sponsored the overreaching government hackery as a State Rep in 2012).  All of these people should be ashamed of themselves.

This bill will do nothing to stop drug dealers or drug addicts who already break the law but has the potential to hurt innocent people.  The fact that people’s personal health information is in a state database is egregious enough but they are assuming they all have the potential to be drug abusers or dealers.

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