The Wall Street Journal Delivers the Bad News.  We’re not getting screwed by Big Bankers, who at least pretend to make their money in the open market, we are getting screwed by government regulators who get paid with tax dollars.

It is true that the very top bank executives make more in a year than most of us make in a lifetime, but compensation of this magnitude is rare. Most banks in this country are small businesses and pay employees modest salaries. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average annual salary of a bank employee was $49,540 in 2012, not much higher than the average annual across all occupations, $45,790.

Yet one group in banking stands out as highly paid—federal bank regulators. Before theDodd-FrankAct, the average employee of a federal bank regulatory agency received 2.3 times the average compensation of a private banker. By 2013 this ratio increased to more than 2.7—and in some cases considerably more.

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In the UL today, ramifications of Walt Havenstein’s abortion equivocation on CloseUP were discussed with NH Rep Kathleen Souza saying “he’s toast” due to his pro-choice stance even as he claims he is pro-life personally; the “I was for it before I was against it” argument is not going to fly for those of us who believe that the Right To  Life IS a fundamental Principle that should trump any political win.  But then we come to Doug Scammon with whom I have had a row on this issue before and it looks like it isn’t stopping any time soon.

But a prominent New Hampshire Republican said the party lost the White House and U.S. Senate two years ago because of abortion.

“The far-right Republicans don’t understand that winning is the most important part of an election,” said Doug Scamman, a former New Hampshire House speaker who called himself a pro-choice Republican. “If Republicans are going to win in the future, they’ve got to put that behind them.”

That first line is nonsense – abortion was only one of many issues that were at play and the deciding issue was not that but was the superb Democrate get out the vote ground game and his Establishment Republicans sucked at it.  They got more people out to vote and 5 million Republican voters sat on their hands.

Sidenote: and I do wonder if it was because of folks like Scammam telling other Republicans “shut up and vote for the Party regardless” that caused it?

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Want us to join you in your quest for a better Earth?  This ain’t the way to do it.  But it is rather amusing to watch this overblown self-righteous Prius driver take on a farmer and his family for that sin of sins – driving a truck!  Yessiryee bob – even if you need such a tool to help with chores, this nitwit can’t see beyond her own enviro-religious outlook that some things that use diesel power (and lots of it) can and should be used.  Lady, how big of a trailer do you think your rinky-dink Prius can pull full-loaded (I’m sure he pulls his horses around at times)?  Or how well would a plow work fer ya (the visualization of the back wheels off the ground immediately comes to mind).

Yes, as noted this has been around since 2011 but it still illustrates a message.  No, not all of the enviros are this obnoxious – but their desire to control how the rest of us are to live is the same.

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Cornography…

A $500,000 study paid for by the federal government and released Sunday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change concludes that biofuels made with corn residue release 7 percent more greenhouse gases in the early years compared with conventional gasoline.

While biofuels are better in the long run, the study says they won’t meet a standard set in a 2007 energy law to qualify as renewable fuel.

Proponents of the fuel (who have or stand to make a fortune off the stuff) are calling the study bunk, that its data and assumptions are absurd.  Hmmm.  Are these people Cellulosic residue emissions deniers?

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Time for another clip from our interview with NH activist Jerry DeLemus at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada.

In this clip Jerry tells us a bit about the Bundy family and then describes the intimidation factor; how the Bundy’s couldn’t let their kids outside to play for fear they might get shot by the Federal Government’s snipers.  Welcome to Obama’s America.

Audio Clip – Jerry DeLemus – Snipers Outside Your Home  (2m 50s)

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When someone tells you a pair of rich brothers are trying to buy up the government do you think of Tom and Jim Steyer?  You should.  They are looking to buy up the US Senate for Liberal Democrats, and Tom has admitted as much.  They want to impose a radical green agenda on the nation–from which they will (coincidentally?) profit at taxpayer expense.

NH Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who attended an exclusive fundraiser at the Steyer compound outside San Francisco, where she feasted on salmon and grass-fed beef from the Steyer ranch, is in line to benefit from their largesse.

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So who protects us from Government?

It is the Progressive way – no one must be allowed to stop “progress” for the greater good (whatever they mean by that).  That would include elderly widows (emphasis mine, reformatted):

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.(WHNT)-More than a dozen widows who were married to retired Madison County employees saw their health insurance coverage dropped earlier this year, and one county commissioner now says it’s time to give it back.  The change was sparked by the new federal health care law, but whether or not coverage can actually be restored remains unclear. 

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