Ah yes, back to TreeHugger.  They really are all about downshifting one’s standard of living to ensure that “Gaia” won’t be hurt from global warming global cooling climate change Mankind activities that would make us like Venus (or was that Neptune?) in temperature.  They also are all about Socialism (“we’re all in this together and we won’t let you out”) and the totalitarianism that you will live your life by their sacred proscriptions.  I call it “the cave and firepit lifestyle”.

Well, owning a big car?  Very much a mortal sin.  Electric car?  Well, maybe – as long as you use PV panel to recharge it. While they are all about cramming everyone into high density “walkable neighborhoods” (like the self-righteous do-gooders from the Federal Government EPA / HUD / DOT), they will allow that riding bicycles are OK and rate just a tick under forcing you to walk everywhere. And certainly, if those bikes are “communally owned” so much the better.  Thus, this bad news gave them a rather latte day (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Citi Bike is underwater and de Blasio refuses bailout

One of the most unique features of New York City’s bike share program is that it’s privately funded. In most cities, bike-share programs, like other forms of public transportation, are subsidized with taxpayer money.  But according to The Wall Street Journal, Citi Bike is in debt. Alta Bicycle Share, which operates Citi Bike as a subsidiary, needs to raise tens of millions of dollars to keep the program going according to WSJ’s off-the-record sources. 

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From Pindell on Friday:

Maggie Hassan: It took more than a year, but the freshman Democratic governor finally has her first solid legislative victory on Medicaid expansion.

And a big Progressive step Leftward (and remember, Progressives are merely incremental Socialists in disguise) – in furthering the instrusion of Obamacare here in NH.  Like I said here, this Democrat Progressive could not have done it, nor set the financial / cultural stage for a broadbased tax, without Republicans in the State Senate.  Leaders, even: NH State Senator Chuck Morse, NH State Senator Jeb Bradley, NH State Senator Bob Odell, or NH State Senator Nancy Stiles.

Isn’t it nice to see the Democrat ball advanced down the field even as this Plank in the NH GOP Platform has now been shattered: from within.

Oppose the implementation of Obamacare in New Hampshire 

“Having one’s back” – the trust that one places in another that no matter the situation, no matter the circumstances, the other guy will be steadfast, present, and loyal.  It’s that last term that seems to be such a nuthingburger in politics where if political speed of movement could be measured when the mud starts flying around someone, politicians AND political operatives would be Olympic world class sprinters.

Heh!  once again another set of bon mots from Political Scoop this Friday:

Scott Brown: His odd, “whatever,” comment to the Associated Press this week became late night comedy fodder, but he is continuing to win over conservatives and now Ayotte is on the record having his back.

Hmm, maybe that phrase “on the record having his back” does not mean what I think it does because 

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Back in June, I posted about Elizabeth Daly who was pursued by a pack of nitwits from the Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control agents  – over water bottles:

More and more, Government workers are making us believe by their actions that we Citizens (and Parents) are the problem to be taken care of and solved.  Now, this real story I had seen before, but who can pass up and putting in a line like this from NH’s own Mark Steyn to introduce it?…

…When a half-dozen men and a woman in street clothes closed in on University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly, 20, she and two roommates panicked.  That led to Daly spending a night and an afternoon in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. Her initial offense? Walking to her car with bottled water, cookie dough and ice cream just purchased from the Harris Teeter in the Barracks Road Shopping Center for a sorority benefit fundraiser.  A group of state Alcoholic Beverage Control agents clad in plainclothes approached her, suspecting the blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water to be a 12-pack of beer. Police say one of the agents jumped on the hood of her car. She says one drew a gun. Unsure of who they were, Daly tried to flee the darkened parking lot.

Well, it looks like these power hungry para-military folks may be serving up a big pay day for the college co-eds that so dastardly thought that those comestibles were EVIL.  The HORROR of it – SUGAR TERRORISTS!  Obesity Mongers!  From the Daily Mail (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Student, 20, sues for $40MILLION after being hauled from her car at gunpoint and arrested for buying beer underage when she only bought WATER

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Just as anticipated, the Nashua paper’s ace political reporter is doing a second story about a possible Republican candidate for governor. The last story the ace political reporter from Nashua did on this same candidate and issue was March 23.

Today’s revelation is that the potential Republican candidate HAD A DRIVER’S LICENSE IN MARYLAND within the mandatory seven-year NH residence requirement!

Now, last week when I wrote about how the ace reporter from Nashua was just producing stories from Democrat sources – here comes another. Stay tuned for more.

Let’s be sensible. The Nashua paper didn’t have the newest fact about a Maryland driver’s license several days ago after the exhaustive research the Democrat Party has done on their potential adversary?

How about I supply some new info for the Nashua paper.

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We should get used to hearing about Bruce Braley, the Democrat pretender to Tom Harkin’s Iowa Senate Throne.

If you recall, New Hampshire/Missouri double voter Caitlin Ann Legacki worked as Braley’s congressional communications director while also being paid as his campaign communications director.  This violates House ethics rules.  Braley also violated state and federal tax law in the process.   but much the way Democrats dismiss vote fraud Braley was indifferent to the issues.  Clearly he holds with the party maxim (one shared by Muslim extremists who are permitted to violate the Koran while on jihad), rules that get in the way of electing Democrats (or advancing their agenda) can be ignored.

And we should have known.  As early as 2007 Braley set the table for his approach to ethics.

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This morning, I saw this photograph on the Concord Monitor front page – Governor Maggie Hassan ALL smiles as she signs the legislation that implements Obama’s Medicaid Expansion:

Democrat, Democrat, Democrat, Democrat – ringed by all Democrats.  But nary a pixel of any of the real folks that made it happen: NH State Senator Chuck Morse, NH State Senator Jeb Bradley, NH State Senator Bob Odell, or NH State Senator Nancy Stiles.  If it weren’t for these Rogue Republicans, this Democrat Happy Day would not be here.  But it probably will be here again.  Why? 

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From the Laconia Citizen:

County admins work to pay health costs

LACONIA — The Belknap County administration and department heads presented a working budget plan to commissioners on Thursday that, in many departments, takes money from wages to pay health care costs…

Now, the rest of it is behind a paywall, so I’m not going to bother trying to get the rest of it.  Actually, don’t need to as they left the most important part up front (and bolded above).  Welcome to the private sector, boys & gals!  Every outfit that has a payroll knows that while you might pay a wage, the managers think “total compensation”  where wages are only one component.  Sure, every cost for an employee is divided up into separate General Ledger accounts but when someone is hired, it is the totality of the cost of that employee that is factored: wages, vacation, holiday, healthcare, other insurance, taxes, and other ancillary costs make up the whole cost.  One reason why wages have stagnated has been the rapid rise of healthcare – it’s like the carnival whack a mole game – when one comes up, another has to go down.  In a lot of cases, especially for smaller businesses, they can’t raise both wages & insurance costs.  So one takes from one part of the pie to pay for the other.  If healthcare costs are zooming, and the decision is made not to cut them, you end up with the same wage.  So the above bolded line is not surprising to those of us who have signed both the back and front of payroll checks.  Total compensation MAY indeed be going up – higher taxes paid, higher healthcare paid – just not wages.  Reality, dude. 

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More evidence that the Orange One needs to be removed. From TheDC   (all emphasis mine).

Some conservatives were up in arms over a hurried Thursday vote on the so-called “doc fix” for Medicare, which some felt leadership tried to slip by them, after it passed in a thirty-second voice vote with very few members on the House floor.

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By its own definition the Southern Poverty Law Center has always been a hate group. One it excluded from its own list of so-called hate groups.  A list that was nothing more than a ledger to which the Haters at the SPLC added whomever they ideologically disagreed–or with whom their benefactors disagreed.

Whether the list was ever meant to be anything other than a dark corner to segregate ideological enemies in is open to debate but that is what is has become.

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