In times past, I’ve been glued to the screen watching the Olympics – this time, not so much.  TMEW has been and with the DVR, has saved off some of the events that she knows I’d like to watch a bit – short course speed skating, bobsled, bi-athalon, some of the other skiing, and snowboard.  I’m not dissing the other sports – to get to the Olympics in ANYTHING is far beyond what I could do athletically.  But those, to me, are exciting, fast moving – and the slope style and half pipe snowboard events proves two points (emphasis mine):

In a preview of the U.S. military’s planned integration of females into combat positions, female skiers and snowboarders have been wiping out at disproportionate numbers at the Extreme Park in Sochi. Unlike traditional ski runs, which vary in difficulty according to whether they are designed for males or females, the course for highflying snowboarders and freestyle skiers is largely unisex: Females are expected to navigate the same jumps as the males. The result has been an avalanche of female falls and injuries: Of the 22 accidents that either forced athletes out of the competition or required medical attention on the final run, 16 involved female skiers, reports the New York Times, even though far fewer females than males actually essay the course.

I did NOT know that the gals were getting hurt far more than the dudes.  It can’t just be the motivation to succeed and push the envelope – this is the freaking Olympics, after all!  If there is a time to put it on the line, and slam it even further forward, it’s now.  I can’t accept that the gals are trying harder – they all are.  Before finding that post at The Corner, I had repeatedly said to TMEW “Look at the difference in the height and the difficulty of the stunts and tricks”  

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Joe Kenney is running a grassroots campaign in his election against Michael Cryans in the District 1 Executive Council seat. In yesterday’s Laconia Daily Sun, there was an article regarding Cryans receiving a “2 to 1 advantage in funds raised”. For those who have been watching the political left’s ability to ‘raise funds’, it is not surprising that Cryans is 2- 1 ahead.

In NH, however, the candidate with the most money is NOT a “lock” for winning elections. In NH, the person with ideas, integrity, and a history of service can easily win with less money. In fact, the Laconia Daily Sun had a similar article on January 4, 2014 saying, “Republican Christopher Boothby of Meredith (Kenney’s primary opponent) has raised more than twice as much money…” By the way, Chris Boothby lost that race. 

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The current effort in the New Hampshire legislature to ban cell phone use in your car apparently turns on some rather unimpressive statistics.  Apparently, less than 3 in 10 fatal accidents in our state might somehow be connected to distracted driving.  They can’t be certain that distraction was the cause, but it may have been.  Of the probably, maybe, we don’t knows,  they admit that they cannot tell you what the distraction, if it was a distraction,  might have been.  And this is why we need to prevent every driver, every day, 365 days a year, in the entire state, forever, from using their cell phone in their car unless it is hands free.

Brilliant!

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“Those arrested include operators of home care agencies, operators of nurse staffing agencies, office workers and personal care assistants. One woman is accused of bilking taxpayers out of $75 million.”

Fraud is a major factor in Medicaid.  Expanding Medicaid will only expand the fraud.   The irony in this is that Medicaid expansion is part of ObamaCare and ObamaCare has produced an up-swell in the sorts of local clinics and home health care concerns that are most likely to engage in Medicaid Fraud.

25 charged in largest health care fraud bust in D.C. history, feds say

“This investigation has revealed that Medicaid fraud in the District of Columbia is at epidemic levels,” said U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen. “This fraud diverts precious taxpayer dollars, drives up the cost of health care, and jeopardizes the strength of a program that serves the most vulnerable members of our society.”

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While our NH State Senate is erecting various barriers to speech, while using speech to articulate creative excuses for accepting ObamaCare bribes and future tax hikes, the Missouri State Senate just passed SB613.

This act declares as invalid all federal laws that infringe on the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article I, Section 23 of the Missouri Constitution. Some laws declared invalid under this act include certain taxes, certain registration and tracking laws, certain prohibitions on the possession, ownership, use, or transfer of a specific type of firearm, and confiscation orders.

Wait.  It gets better.

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant. —Henry Ward Beecher

Diane Feinstein attempted to resurrect the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban along with the so-called high-capacity magazine ban.

Congress attempted to pass a comprehensive universal background check bill which served as a pretext to a national gun registry.

Bay State Democrat John Tierney filed a bill that would require firearms to work exclusively with their owners.

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Here is a short film about voter fraud starring former UNH professor Julian Smith. He is the creepy old guy who looks like he smells funny.  Smith is also a Durham Town Councilor. He is the one working the crowd of same day registering students.

Durham is a town of about 15,000 people with 12,000 students attending The University of New Hampshire on top of that.

Half of the student body is paying out-of-state tuition.

Durham registered over 3,000 new voters on November 6, 2012.

What Smith is doing would be called “voter intimidation” if it was done by anyone attempting to prove non-resident voting, an action now referred to as “caging” voters. He can be herd on the video suggesting people are in Durham to “vote right.”

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