While we are poking the Shaheen campaign with the crooked stick of corruption for implied coordination with a Super PAC, let us not forget that the message she is trying to sell as a part of that coordination is misleading in itself.

:”… When Brown was the Senator from Massachusetts he gave big oil and Wall Street billions in special breaks. They gave him millions in campaign contributions. Jeanne Shaheen voted to stop those special breaks. She’s leading the fight for a bipartisan bill to lower energy costs for consumers and create jobs. …”

You want to know what the special breaks are?  Not taxing someone more than you already are or, Lord help us all, choosing to take less of their money by force than before.

To put that in context, when the town I live in didn’t spend so much that they had to take more of my income in additional taxes than they already did, that difference to a Democrat, is my special break.

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That day where Environmentalists lament that the rest of us have either have just ignored them (at best) or decided not to let them control our lives (at worst, from their perspective).  Why should I let them – I grew up and live in a country where the foundation is personal Freedom and individual Liberty?  I did not grow up in a collectivist society – yet that is what they are trying to create.  No, not because it is supposed to make ME better (though that is one of their lame excuses: “it will be good for you!”) but they believe that they must do everything they can to protect “Mother Earth” – GAIA worship.  Or sure, the next pretense is that wailed about is “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE”!

Note to clueless: we all ARE gonna die but just not generally because of your screaming at us.  Know why?  I’ve been listening to this crap for 50 years and almost all of the predictions the Green Totalitarians have shoved at us have turned out wrong.  But, like the true inner socialists they are, facts don’t seem to matter.  Here in the US, our air is MUCH cleaner, the river water doesn’t catch fire, and the land is far better as well.  Smog doesn’t sting the eyes the way it used to, the water is safer, and we generally don’t have to worry where the kids play.  Here’s some of them that were made back in 1970, courtesy of Big Peace:

•  “Air pollution… is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
• “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”  Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
• “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.” Sen. Gaylord Nelson
• “We have about five more years at the outside to do something.” Kenneth Watt
• “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” George Wald, Harvard Biologist

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NH GOP Platform:  Strongly oppose new taxes and fees, including an income, sales or capital gains tax

NH Constitution:

[Art.] 6-a. [Use of Certain Revenues Restricted to Highways.] All revenue in excess of the necessary cost of collection and administration accruing to the state from registration fees, operators’ licenses, gasoline road tolls or any other special charges or taxes with respect to the operation of motor vehicles or the sale or consumption of motor vehicle fuels shall be appropriated and used exclusively for the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of public highways within this state, including the supervision of traffic thereon and payment of the interest and principal of obligations incurred for said purposes; and no part of such revenues shall, by transfer of funds or otherwise, be diverted to any other purpose whatsoever.

Yeah, these 17 Republican “we’re for lower taxes!” Reps folded like wet tissue on the “Strongly oppose” bit when it came to vote on the gas tax (upping the gas tax by 23% to add another 4.2 cents per gallon on a price that is already skyrocketing before the summer season starts!) and supported the 96% of the Democrats that voted for it as well.  As well as the Republican NH State Senator Raush that proposed it in the first place.

• Frank Tilton   Belknap 3
• John Cebrowski     Hillsborough 7

• David Danielson   Hillsborough 7

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(emphasis mine)

…The massive show of federal force in the Bundy case is frightening because it gives us a brief glimpse of the totalitarian regime that awaits a sleeping populace that does not take seriously its voting responsibilities, and places in public office (and returns them to office) who do not represent traditional American values.

The fact that the ranchers were well armed and willing to literally fight for their rights probably tempered the enthusiasm of the federal forces to engage in further aggression. It was clear from the body language and some of the reported verbal responses of the government forces that they were not prepared to engage in lethal combat with fellow Americans.

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“A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.” —Hugh Kingsmill (British writer and critic. 1889-1949)

Today, the headlines read,

USA Today: “Ga. governor signs ‘guns everywhere’ into law”

NBC News: “What Georgia’s ‘Extreme’ New Gun Law Allows”

MSNBC: “Georgia governor signs sweeping gun bill into law”

And finally, our own Granite State’s WMUR is reporting on this story with a flair of excited gibberish, clearly demonstrating their editorial bias when they report, “Guns Everywhere” was signed into law in Georgia.  “Guns everywhere” is a pejorative characterization coined by the anti-second Amendment contingent opposing this measure.

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Consistency builds Trust yielding Votes.  Been saying that for a while now but it seems that the Elected Republicans, members of the so called “Stupid Party”  can’t even figure out this simple truth.  So why should they be surprised when their Inconsistency to their so called Principles yields “UNtrust” – and less voters.  From a comment left on my post on Republicans being the Jr. Partners of the Democrat Party in raising the gas tax:

I personally have had it with the NH GOP. I have been calling and calling and done all the things you’re supposed to do but the NH GOP has turned a deaf ear to NH republicans. This is the last straw. I was waiting to give the Republicans a chance to save the day but they simply refuse to side with the people in this downward economic death spiral our country is in.

I will go down to my town hall today and un-enroll as a Republican and now declare myself an Independent.

And this is how it will go, until the NH GOP becomes a token party as it is in Massachusetts.

Not me saying this but from yet another voter that has decided to let the Party sail over the horizon without them.  I know who he is – a very principled fellow that no longer believes the Party’s rhetoric as its actions of its elected politicians drown out the rhetoric’s now hollow words.  I’ve been telling the Party Elite and high elected politicians this for a while – and they just won’t take to heart that they are doing this to themselves.  So, once more I will drag out that “conversation” for emphasis: 

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(Last I heard the hearing for SB120 is this afternoon at the legislative office building- 1:00- 1:30pm)

Lesson number one – Money is speech.

If money isn’t speech why do candidates need so much of it to get their ‘message’ out?  The message is political speech.  The money is the vehicle to effective political speech–speech that reaches enough ears and eyes to matter.  These two cannot be separated and any effort to do so by politicians is never anything more than a way to expand their market share.  Their domination.  Their monopoly on money used for political speech.

Bills like SB 120 impair the ability of anyone but the entrenched to optimize their message.  They take the Free out of speech and hide it in a Rube-Goldbergian maze filled with traps and pitfalls. If you are lucky enough to find your free speech, should you present an idea or do so in a manner that the new  speaking class (see also ruling class) objects, you may find yourself in front of some lawyers desk defending what used to be your birth right but is now an expensive exercise in bureaucratic buggery.

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Kimberly Morin reports that governor Hassan continues to use the debunked lie that women only earn .77 cents to every dollar a man makes because… it fits Hassan’s false narrative.

This author was in attendance and asked the Governor why she continues to use the study that claims women earn .77 to a man’s $1.00 even though the study has been proven inaccurate by the Department of Labor. Her response was less than stellar.

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