Last Friday Skip took a few minutes to respond to James Pindell’s weekly NH Political Standing report.

Skip asks…

Isn’t it racist to think that just because someone has a Spanish derived surname that they should be able to  speak Spanish?

Being a part of the fourth branch of government might provide Mr. Pindell with a waiver on that, but does he get  waiver on this?

“If you watched Marilinda Garcia, the national Latino rising star, on CNN en Español to check out her Spanish speaking skills… well the station uses an interpreter because she speaks in English.

James refers to Marilinda as a “national rising latino star…”  Latino.  Marilinda is (I believe) half Italian, and half Hispanic.  The latter would, at best, make her a rising Latina star, which might have more weight to it if she actually spoke spanish.  Latino just seems a bit out of place.

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When the globe didn’t ‘warm’ the alarmists changed the name, and so it goes with ‘OUR State Project.’  These ideological alarmists are changing their name, probably because few to none of the handful of ‘members’ are from New Hampshire.  Or maybe it is because of all the negative attention they are getting after ideological xenophobe Cynthia Chase had her recruiting remarks scraped off Facebook, tying the group to the out of state funded progressive lobbying group Granite State Progress.

Out of state members, out of state money, a group named OUR state, trying to scare people into fearing the “uncertainty” of freedom and liberty.  Didn’t Vladimir Putin make the same case in Crimea and Ukraine?  They didn’t want liberty.  They didn’t want any semblance of autonomy from the centrally planned superstate.  They wanted serfdom at the hands of an elite ruling class directed by people from somewhere else.

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The other day I posted an article observing that the Anti-Liberty Hate Group OUR State Project (OSP) could not escape affiliation with the Progressive, out-of-state-funded GraniteState Progress (GSP).  The post was inspired by a screen grab of a tweet reported to have come from an OUR State project Twitter account.

The anti-Liberty hate Group OUR State Project does exist, or did.  Members included Democrats Cynthia Chase and Susan Bruce.  And they were using the GSP offices.  These things we know from Cynthia Chase herself.  Affiliation and coordination at that point were a given whether they tried to deny it or not.

Well, Susan Bruce felt compelled to respond to my post.

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Efforts by Democrats to point fingers over the abuses at the VA will continue but some unpleasant facts remain. Since January 2007 the Democrats have had a majority control of the Federal government, and therefore oversight of departments like the Veterans Administration. For those who were forced to use Common Core or Everyday Math, that is over seven years of majority rule oversight.

Seven years is a long time, almost as long as George Bush was the President. And there is mounting evidence that whatever problem they insist they ‘inherited,’ it has gotten much worse, in contradiction to the Obama Admin rhetoric.

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“…end wars…”. Gee, and I thought the whole idea was to WIN wars.  Anything else is just “first loser” and in a two-way battle, just loser.  Americans were known for WINing wars, not just giving up which is exactly what Obama is doing.  We beat both Japan and Germany militarily – and then stayed for decades until the “end” WAS the “end”.

“…end wars…”.  That is what President Obama said today in relationship to the Afghanistan theater of war.  Essentially, he is doing what Nixon did in 1968:  “I pledge to you that we shall have an honorable end to the war in Vietnam.”  Yeah, that worked out EVAH so well for the South Vietnamese, Cambodians,  and Laotians, eh?  Buttery smooth words, a bit of smoke and mirrors, and then we all understood what honorable meant: we retreat, we give up and two million people lost their lives.

“…end wars…”.  General Giap knew what the winning prescription was: break the will of the American people to wage war.  He knew that North Vietnam could never do that on its own (even with Russian and Chinese help) so he did it with an information / PR war.  He (along with Putin comrades) instigated the peace movement, agitated the college aged, got the protests going, influenced the media – and PRESTO! 

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Tactics vs policy – a meme that has been floating around this primary season as various politicos and talking heads try to rationalize the difference between the Establishment and the TEA Party wings of the Republican Party.  It is their attempt to try to soften or blur what is a rather sharp edge between the two.  After all, now that the primaries are over (in some states), we hear the upper echelon of the Party already trying to do the smooch up of the grass roots and play that old Beatles song “(“Come together – RIGHT NOW!“, emphasis on the last two) over and over and over again.  Exhibit one here for a NH example (with more coming).  We all have to be UNITED!  We all have to be TOGETHER!  We all have to STAND together!  United we are stronger!  We must be an ARMY!  How Collectivist is that?  I dunno if I’m in a Right side organization or a union meeting.

Ben Domenech has a newsletter (note to self: get signed up!) that talks about that it is NOT TACTICS that separates the Establishment from the base – funny, but with a sharp knife to it.   First up, the Establishment:

 “Let’s do immigration reform, we should be honest about addressing climate change, (pick your entitlement) mend it don’t end it, let’s find state level solutions to make (Obamacare’s) Medicaid (expansion) work for working families, let’s show we love the poor by giving them something (but don’t worry not your something), let’s not be so lockstep on gun violence, premium support, capital gains, let’s protect our critical Pentagon budget, let’s invest in our future with Common Core, you know TARP made sense at the time, let’s build needed infrastructure we can be proud of, compassion, even Ronald Reagan…”

Now the TEA Party: 

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After SandyHook, California added 11 new anti-gun bills into state law. California, the land of rich liberals who have a lock on power, gets an A- for Gun Control from the Brady Campaign.  Not sure how they rate on knives or BMW’s but guess what they get an F in?

It’s understandable that the grief-stricken father of one of the victims would lash out, in this case at the NRA. But the hard fact here is that California — a state that is run from top to bottom by liberal Democrats — did exactly what gun control advocates asked. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Elliot Rodger shooting illustrates exactly the point of gun law critics. It isn’t the gun, it’s the person. In fact, three of the victims were not shot — they were stabbed to death.

Elliot Rodger was mentally ill. His own family had alerted authorities that they were concerned about their son.

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California was recently given an “F” by the Treatment Advocacy Center for the abysmal state of its mental commitment laws.

Rodger did not ‘Slip under the radar.’  The disarm yourselves–the”government will protect you” system–failed again.

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Letting you brush your teeth, plant a shrub, or mow your lawn without a regulator over your shoulder. Deciding what your child should eat for lunch.  Paying a few cents less per gallon for gas. Allowing you to own chickens. Un-scrambling the Kudzu of the bureaucracy.  Letting you have and use a rain barrel.  That you might be able to buy and pay for your own health insurance.  Taking responsibility for your own children’s education!  And reminding everyone that the government is paid for by taking money from people like you and I who work very hard to earn it and that it is easier to keep an eye on how it is spent when that money stays closer to your towns and cities.  Yes, all of these ‘extremist ‘aka-Kitchen Table” ideas’ are being stuffed into the heads of every-day citizens by liberty minded people who dare to think that you can take  a step without the state spying o your every move, guiding your path and pace, and picking your pocket to pay for the privilege of having your life micr0managed by idiots elected ‘experts’ and their cadre of government officers.

This, we are told, cannot be allowed to continue, and any effort to suggest it, let alone edit the rols of government to loosen your bonds in deemed subversive by the professional left.

To them, that “Liberty menace” is real, because it stands in the way of bigger budgets and larger governmen; and the Democrats at GraniteState Progress and the ‘OUR State Project’ (or is that OUR Out of State funded) Project, are here to defend us from them.

Join Now! (Yes, another recruitment poster was in order–on the jump).

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