Another Brookline, NH Democrat Talking Point Busted…  “Guns don’t kill people, Democrat Gun Free Zones kill People.”

The only place in town where a mass shooter might possibly have some expectation of success in Kennesaw, Georgia, (where every adult is required by law to own a firearm) is the FedEx facility in town which FedEx has designated as a gun free zone.

So the shooter chose the place where they knew no one would be armed.

Brookline Democrats might have thought to look into that before tweeting this…

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Why should I apologize for my Faith?  Why are my Family Values wrong?  And what is so dang wrong with having our NH Government govern within the bounds of the NH Constitution?  And why do our national politicians ignore the rather clear values enumerated in the US Constitution when they come up with laws that the rest of us have to obey?  If I reject my Faith, I lose my salvation.  If I ignore my Family, I will lost it.

Do you wonder why we are losing our State and Country?

Values matter – they are what drive us.  Yet, we who are traditionalists are told, over and over, that they no longer matter.  That they are outdated and are of no value and that we must adopt Progressive values that will lead us “forward”.  My question is “to what does that forward lead to?” – and there never is an answer. 

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This is timely, because I am polishing up a post titled “The Battle of Competing Resentments” that plays well with the real world example of Carl DeMaio.  DeMaio is running for congress.  He’s started and sold two businesses.  He has been elected to his city council.  He has the kind of pull-yourself up life-story most Democrats have only pretended to have, and he is homosexual.  He is also a California Republican, running for office in California who has tried to focus on fiscal issues and things that matter to all americans but the “tolerant” left can’t tolerate his being a Republican so they’ve made the race about his being gay.

One false attack drew the attention of the San Diego Ethics Commission. An anonymous left-wing group funded a SuperPac and sent mailers of DeMaio Photoshopped next to a drag queen to neighborhoods with a majority of elderly and African-American voters, knowing that such a photo would depress support for DeMaio.

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And so did my company just a bit ago! Yeah California – you moved a company that US-based itself in California since it came here from Japan in the 1950’s.  I guess the mounting taxes and regulations made it easy to hear the siren sound of Gov. Rick Perry’s call for a more business friendly environment in Texas.  At some point, that IS going to make a difference.  So, Texas / Rick Perry 1 – California / Jerry Brown 0.  From the LA Times (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to move large numbers of jobs from its sales and marketing headquarters in Torrance to suburban Dallas, according to a person familiar with the automaker’s plans.  The move, creating a new North American headquarters, would put management of Toyota’s U.S. business close to where it builds most cars for this market. North American Chief Executive Jim Lentz is expected to brief employees Monday, said the person, who was not authorized to speak publicly. Toyota declined to detail its plans. About 5,300 people work at Toyota’s Torrance complex. It is unclear how many workers will be asked to move to Texas. The move is expected to take several years. 

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A national organization that examines public school drop out rates has just graded New Hampshire.  We got an 86% (UL-Secret hand shake required).  That might sound good until you recall that Governor Maggie Hassan’s predecessor claimed the rate had dropped below 1%.  This means that under Maggie Hassan, Drop out rates have skyrocketed. (Why aren’t they reporting that?)

How?  Why? What happened?

One of the problems with Democrats plying language to create perception is that if you do not let everyone in on the scam, or someone from outside comes along and does not have the sense to propogate your deception further , the perception you worked so hard to foster can get away from you.  Put another way, the Lynch administration lied and now Democrat Maggie Hassan looks like a stooge.

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The, let me correct myself, OUR children in middle school in Bedford were assigned a survey to complete. Of course Bedford being a liberal, enlightened public school the survey asked about minors and their ideas about sex. You knew it would, right?

One question about this “survey” would be this. Who was it really for?

Want to guess it was for a data mining company or some non-profit paid to survey OUR children. (“OUR children” is how public monopoly school children are perceived by those who are part of the system, not the children of the parents forced to send them to the monopoly school. This is why there are surveys like this.)

As a way to counter the never-ending attempt to survey minors or any monopoly school children about sex or private family matters – I offer this:The Bedford School District Teacher, Superintendent, Teachers Aid Questionnaire.

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I don’t think so, given that environmentalists want that “pristine, noble savage environment for us all – nothing nowhere for nobody”:

The Energy Department released a report Tuesday identifying streams ripe for hydropower development in hopes of meeting an Obama administration goal of doubling electricity from that source by 2030.  The Oak Ridge National Laboratory analysis concluded that currently undeveloped streams could support roughly 65 gigawatts of new hydropower. Streams on lands currently under federal protection could host an additional 19 gigawatts, the report said.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, speaking at a Washington conference hosted by the National Hydropower Association, said that amounted to more than double current production levels.  It’s time to “pull the cover off this hidden renewable right in front of our eyes,” Moniz said.

Sure, the want us all to disavow all fossil fuel usage but after accomplishing that, streams and rivers will be next.  It will always be a racheting downward on energy supply and usage – regardless of the demand demanded by the rest of us sane folks.  Remember, that bait fish that the Greenies so love in California has decimated the most productive growing area in the US.  Water for fish, no water for the food that feeds the world.

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This adds onto my post here on Capitalism in talking about Entrepreneurship:

The ultimate source of our prosperity is a set of institutions and cultural attitudes (along with what Deirdre McCloskey calls “habits of the lip” that give dignity to the bourgeoisie) that encourage innovative commercial and industrial activities. The bicycle was improved not by “technological progress,” but by relatively free and innovative entrepreneurial markets that created much of the capacity for technological progress and that directed and prompted countless innovators and entrepreneurs along the way to do their thing and to share the fruits of their productive activities with consumers.

Go to the link and read the vignette of how the bicycle went from beyond the reach of the common man to a child’s toy.  The description above is the key – and what Obama and Elizabeth “You didn’t build that” Warren get wrong.  Innovation comes from the mind of the inventors themselves and not from “what Government does”.  They see those “institutions” as being completely Government based and take far too much credit for anything that anyone else does.  It is the attitude of “we are all collectivists” run amok.  Then they believe that

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I do watch the Sunday morning talking head show and this week, Fox News Sunday had a head to head between Jennifer Gratz who was the impetus the case decided by the US Supreme Court concerning race preferences (affirmative action) in admission policies at the University of Michigan) and Shanta Driver who argued FOR racial discrimination to be continued to combat racial discrimination (even as the people of Michigan passed a referendum to stop such activities).

I fall into the latter category – I grew up in a bad time for race relations in America and watch, real close up, the school busing problems in Boston.  As long as it is kept up as an issue, it will continue to be an issue.  And as we have seen with Reverands Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, those that can profit from it, will and at which point, becomes self-perpetuating.  Thus, watching this particular clip completely shows both sides in contrast.  The “good stuff” starts at 5:28:

5:28 – Gratz outlines why she sued –

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