Two graphics that pretty much shows Obama’s view of religion: that is must be subservient to The State.  It certainly looks like this to me:

Why?  I think this is sufficient: 

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Much like the narrative used before, during, and after passage of the bill that bears her name, Lilly Ledbetter Lied.

Ms. Ledbetter has since repeatedly claimed that she only learned she was paid less than her male co-workers at the end of her career,⁴ and then belatedly filed an EEOC complaint. In her testimony before the United States Senate, Ledbetter stated that she “only learned about the discrepancy in [her] pay after nineteen years, and that was with someone leaving me an anonymous note.”⁵ She later made similar claims in speeches at the Democratic National Conventions in 2008⁶ and 2012″

But Ledbetter knew her pay was out of line as early as 1992…

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Update: pic of an impromptu rally just came in from Jerry – after the jump

Jerry Delemus went out to Nevada to stand with Cliven Bundy in confrontation with the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) over grazing land and rights for his cattle.  As I wrote here, he went out and got about an hour’s sleep Saturday night (but much more last nite).  He’s been “assigned” to a group of 25 to 35 others within the “unorganized militia” that is responsible for, in part, in protecting the ranch’s security and protection of the property.

He confirmed the reports that I had seen in the blogosphere of 3 – 5,000 civilians on the premises when he first arrived but that there were just a few hundred still left (still outnumbering the BLM).  His report also confirmed that the BLM agents are very heavily armed, black SUVs, and a gaggle of helicopters patrolling the area.  He said it was quite the scene to see what even a partial demonstration of “the full weight and might of the Federal Government” when they decide that lands they designate will be used ONLY for the purposes that they decide upon.  However, the civilians standing the line are not without their own gear – most folks in full camo, desert equipment, comm gear, hand and long guns.  While he is with an “unorganized militia” of folks that just showed up (“that’s ok, we had an “organization in a day” moment), more formal “irregular militias have shown up – MN, CA, TX, AZ, NV, NH and a whole lotta local folks and horse mounted cowboys. 

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Most of you heard about the rancher in Nevada, Cliven Bundy, that is in a battle with the BLM (Federal Bureau of Land Management) over land that his family has used for grazing since the 1880 and the BLM’s pushing out ranchers in Clark County to “protect the desert tortoises” that are on the protected list.

Sidenote: the BLM has admitted to euthanizing hundreds of those same “protected species” due to “budget cuts”

He believes he has the right to use that land, the BLM says no (the Federal Government actually owns most of the land in Nevada and claims to own that land as well).  Things have escalated over the last week with between 3 – 5 thousand people reportedly streaming into the area to defend the Bundy ranch as the BLM brought in over 200 heavily armed agents, helicopters and snipers.  Yesterday it was announced that an agreement was made and that the BLM left.

Er, not so much.  Folks from NH have headed west to join the other protectors at the Bundy ranch, including Jerry Delemus.  His wife Sue emailed me an update earlier today and it doesn’t seem that the Feds have pulled back:  

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From Heritage:

So, if you have a Bronze plan in a four person family, your total family deduction could be

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For decades, I have been sounding the alarm about the ever-increasing menace Islam is posing to America and our way of life. Apathy, political correctness, and massive Islamic lobbying have successfully prevented the public from truly grasping the pervasive Islamic assault.

Freedom of speech, a right greatly cherished by a free people, is an area where Islamic forces are attacking with great effectiveness.

Individuals who dare to voice the truth about Islam, its barbaric sharia laws, and its savage practices are subjected to harassment, threatened with and subjected to ruinous lawsuits. Businesses and organizations with the slightest deviation from the Islamic dictates face boycotts and the loss of media advertising sponsors.  

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Back in the day, when candidate Jeanne Shaheen was parroting the Democrat party line in Iraq and Afghanistan, we had good wars and bad wars.  We had daily body counts, anti-war protests, and something called expensive and unnecessary Defense (or military) spending.

Children, women, families, roads, schools, didn’t we all suffer as a result of those mixed up priorities.  I know I didn’t.  But there was a lot of talk about it.  A lot of talk.

In the age of Obama, the first part of which had a sidecar with a Democrat majority House and Senate, these staples of candidate and media excess vanished. There were still war dead, and we continued to spend, you just didn’t hear about that, until –Oh, I don’t know, how about right now?

How much has the Federal Government spent on National defense, and the military in particular, during the tenure of New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen?

For the purpose of this exercise the years of GWB’s warmongering, and these numbers include defense budgets and then just the military portion of that total, are calculated from 2002-2009.  Eight budgets worth.  And yes, Obama was the man in 2009 but we’ve given that first year to Bush, because Obama did kind of inherit that, but remember– it was passed by an entirely Democrat majority congress.

Shaheen gets credit for 2010 through 2014, five years worth of outlays.

So who spent more on defense and the military?

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