As Democrats in the US Senate, including NH’s Jeanne Shaheen,  work to deny states the right to decide things about abortion it occurs to me to take a slightly different tack on the issue.

Life, if environmentalists (who are overwhelmingly Democrat) are to be believed, is what flourishes through natural mechanisms in the absence of outside interference.   You know, Life, “The capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.”  The planet grows and expands to fill all the spaces it can and people are no different.  You and I are only here because from our very beginning until now nothing has come between us and being alive, everything preceding death.  Nothing has ended our lives.

But where did we begin?  If we stick to the “necessary equipment” without getting philosophical you need a man and a woman and a womb.   If you are missing any of the three, there is no human life.  You are not here.  It naturally follows then that what is created when these things do come together, is life.

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At every turn, I keep hearing from the community organizer and unionista types that working at Wally World – how can those folks let Walmart DO those evil things like pay them poorly and unable to support themselves without Government assistance?  Never knowing their hours, moved around like cattle, no room for advancement (scratching head here – where DO all those supervisors, department manager, store managers, district managers all come from ??) – a veritable sweatshop selling nothing but low priced goods to “Walmart People”.   The indignity of it all!  After all, Liberal establishments ALL pay much better (oh wait, about that Leftist mag called Mother Jones….).

But somebody (lots of bodies, in fact) didn’t catch the message:

Occupy Wall Street has joined union thugs and other socialist anti-capitalists to protest Walmart providing jobs for millions of Americans recently. The economically challenged troglodytes don’t seem to understand, or care, that imposing an artificial minimum wage on a free market will only hurt employees and consumers.

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My stance used to be that anyone should be able to give as much as they want to any political group or candidate.  They earned the money – and the First Amendment means ESPECIALLY that political speech should be free from government inteference.   Yet, we have seen politicians, both at the national level and here in NH on BOTH sides of the political aisle, do all they can to obfuscate, “convolate”, and otherwise make it harder for ordinary people to have their say.  BOTH Parties have create minefields of regulations that make it all but impossible for an ordinary schlub to get together with some buddies and make a political stand with some money.  It all can be called “Incumbent Protections Acts”.  So I used to think “hey, just use the ‘Net and list who the donors are if you really have to know.

And then CA’s Prop 8, to roll back homosexual marriage, happened.  Donors were publicly listed and the militant gays went after most of them (see here from Heritage).  We’ve seen the Obama campaign go after donors to Republican donors and use the force of Government to harass and otherwise use the “Progressive Chicago WAY” of politics to silence them.  Thus, I openly advocate that NO donors should ever be forced to be revealed for instead of achieving the goal of more open and transparency in election, Progressives have used opposition donor list as retributive “hit’em hard” lists.  And now US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D, Progressive-MA) is showing that full on again:

I’m generally for more disclosure in campaign finance, but the best argument against requiring full disclosure by groups engaged in political speech is that politicians sometimes retaliate against their critics. Sen. Elizabeth Warren inadvertently made that very argument this week.  

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Charitable monies, that is.  You know, the line item on the 1040 where you get to put down how much you gave to charities?  The one that Obama and Pack of Progressive Socialists want to get rid of; after all, to them, TRUE charity can only be given by Government policies and bureaucrats.  Add another one to the Progressive Pile in leading us to the Nirvana of Progressive Giving by her example (er, but not giving at all!):

…In 2011, she earned $235,428, but gave a paltry $515 to charity. That’s less than one percent of her income, in fact, it barely scratches one-fifth of one percent.

…2012 wasn’t much better, even though her income jumped to $284,183. That year, she gave just $950 in contributions to charity, This works out to a very generous three-tenths of one percent!

That would be Wendy Davis of Texas.  You know, this Paragon of Philanthropy whose claim to fame is to take other peoples’s money

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From Roll Call, on an impending deal between Republicans and Democrats on the Federal Budget:

Budget negotiators are nearing a deal that could ease the way for leaders to avert another government shutdown before the 2014 elections, but only if rank and file — particularly in the House — buy into the agreement.

Senate Budget Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., and House Budget Chairman Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., are expected to announce a framework in the coming days that would set a top-line number for appropriators higher than the current sequester levels but lower than what Democrats have previously demanded.

According to sources, the increased spending would be offset by less controversial pay-fors, including spectrum sales and some mandatory health care cuts. The two lawmakers have been meeting regularly, including a session Wednesday. Murray attended despite the Senate’s recess.

Oh yeah, I made it easy for you.  There are a LOT of Establishment Republicans that are upset with that phrase “Junior

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Because these kinds of things NEVER end up getting extended, do they?  I’m already not all that much liking that the Federal DOT wants a Black Box (a la a commercial jet) in my car they can access without my consent in the car that *I* have bought.  Now, they want me (likely) to buy another GPS device so they can track me where I go?  When will Government go back to leaving us all alone?

[Rep. Earl] Blumenauer’s [(D-Ore.)] bill, H.R. 3638, would set up a Road Usage Fee Pilot Program, which he said would study mileage-based fee systems. He cast his bill as a long-term solution for funding highway programs, and proposed it along with a shorter-term plan to nearly double the gas tax, from 18.4 cents to 33.4 cents per gallon.

“As we extend the gas tax, we must also think about how to replace it with something more sustainable,” Blumenauer said Tuesday. “The best candidate would be the vehicle mile traveled fee being explored by pilot projects in Oregon and implemented there on a voluntary basis next year.”

He said the bill would help answer questions about “how best to implement a vehicle miles traveled [VMT] system,” and said it “looks to the future and helps provide a more stable funding base for the next one hundred years.”

And we all know what happens to voluntary programs when it comes to Government revenues, right? 

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Right off the bat, all five stages of Democrat political ‘grief’ are denial.  Just wanted to clear that up. They deny their very nature, deny they raise taxes on the poor and middle class, deny they are responsible for the side-effects of their policies, deny they are the party of slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, the KKK, eugenics,(that welfare is a trap), food stamps, unemployment and economic misery.

They deny that they said you could keep your plan, that they lied about the YouTube Movie and Benghazi, that Bill Clinton abused women–lots of women or was a serial liar and cheat, and they deny that they are socialists and Marxists, which is funny because if you put the agenda of a Marxist next to the agenda of modern Democrats the only difference is….well, there isn’t one.

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Here’s something you’ll do next to nothing with.  The top four names for girl-dogs, for the eighth straight year in a row (no crooked years were included) are Bella, Daisy, Lucy, and Molly.    I have included the list for both most popular boy and girl dog names, top 50 for each, for 2013.  The list was compiled from a database of 925,000 names from vetstreet.com.

I didn’t name either of my dogs, they do have names–I just did not choose them, but it has long been my opinion that a Dickensian approach is not unwarranted.  If I had my druthers with regard to naming conventions for pooches my top 3 would be Kirby, Dyson, and Hoover.  For the girls, there is always Bissell, Eureka and Elecrtrolux.  Rainbow or Oreck might also serve in a pinch the former for a girl, the latter a boy.  Or not.

The graphic with the list of top 50 names for either gender of doggie is on the jump.

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