We’ve already given you plenty to chew on when it comes to the wild abandon with which New Hampshire’s progressives are clamoring for billions in Federal buy-offs.

The Republican Senate is happily negotiating out surrender to DC with some spin, but at the end of the day Billions come with strings, which become webs that entangle us.  Local control and responsibility appear to be sacrifices they are willing to offer up to the DC Gods in exchange for not having to explain why taking it is still the wrong thing to do.

The Democrats are to DC cash like sharks to blood in the water.  They don’t care if in the long run we (and by we I mean taxpayers) lose hundreds of millions in the deal, they just want to sink their socialist canines into Federal money; they like the strings, webs, and entanglements that inevitably choke and constrain us.  Any chance to give up local control and they are there.

Then there is this:

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“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”   —Winston Churchill

I find it relatively easy to remember those veterans, especially family members and loved ones who have taken up arms in defense of this nation. Often times, the conditions can be tough, families are separated and financial challenges abound, not to mention when we lose that person on the battlefields.

It is veterans day today that I share the story of one Private Edward W, Allord. 393rd Regiment, 1st Battalion, 99th Infantry Division, C Company.  Private Allord was a family man. He had a wife and three very young daughters, named Priscilla, Katherine and Dorothy. When the call came the 29-year-old Private Allord left his job as a carpenter in December of 1944…Left his wife Priscilla May…and his three young girls, Prisclla, Katherine and Dorothy, off to fight the Nazis in Germany.

On March 17, 1945 near Ramagen, while engaged in heavy fighting with the ArmeeKorps LIII, under the command of Capt. Willi Bratge, Private Allord was killed in action, leaving behind his wife and three very young children. His last letter home was written March 11, 1945 from Germany.

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If belief in God were nothing more than a notion produced by human beings, an electrochemical fabrication of the human mind expressed to explain, comfort, or persuade others, what makes the idea of atheism any different?

You can’t articulate the absence of belief based on your biochemically manufactured worldview without making the act of expressing atheism (to explain, comfort, or persuade) an electrochemical manifestation of the human mind competing with other similar “projections” for public space

The moment you seek redress or pursue legal action to promote the absence of religious expression, censuring all others, you are seeking statutory domination of public thought (or the electromechanical expression of a worldview) by force.

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For the Democrats in any state clamoring for more revenue and crying out to “help those in need™”; to those Democrats who insist we send it to DC before your representatives-to-the-state-from-the-federal government horse-trade (our horses) to get it back; to those Democrats who still think spending over $70 billion a year on the Federal Department of education is actually good for local schools, students, teachers, and parents and refuses to let one dime of that money stay in the states it comes from–how about this then?

In fiscal year 2013 (just 2013) your blessed Federal Government (Peace be upon it) spent $22,195,000,000.00 (That’s 22.194 Billion dollars) on “global warming.”

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The federal government shutdown may have distorted the US employment report for October — but not the US economy.

Blowing away expectations, the Labor Department reported a surprisingly large 204,000 gain in October non-farm payrolls vs. a 125,000 consensus. Add in a combined a 60,000 upward revision to job gains in August and September and the three-month average is 202,000 vs. 154,000 in the August-October period in 2012. Capital Economics:

Apparently, the near three-week Federal government shutdown had little, if any, impact on payrolls. Manufacturing increased by a healthy 19,000, construction increased by 11,000 and retail increased by 44,000. … the US economy appears to be overcoming a summer swoon.

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OK, I get distracted from time to time.  Sometimes, I get distracted a LOT!  I did say a while back:

…As my talk to the MCRC said (another part to go up tonite), their is an irreconcilable void between the two types of Republicans and the two types of philosophies…

And then I never did (Parts I and II here and here).  So, time to get back to work.  And post the video (again, I have to start practicing public speaking more).

 WHY IS THE GOP / NH GOP IN TROUBLE?

Let’s get to the Nitty Gritty of this “discussion”:  There is a tremendous split in the Republican Party – and especially in the NH GOP.  And for three extremely binary reasons – each this or that and never the twain they’ll meet.

1. Don’t Talk About it

And we never ever discuss it when we all get together in these groups or understand why it is there.  Oh, I do – very well.  After all, I have been thinking about this for a long time and writing about it for a long time.

It’s  like “Hey, we found this important tin can we’ve been looking for – but only keep scratching the surface – but thinking we’re done.  The can never gets opened to see the void inside, that dark place where few are fearless in treading.  Instead of trying to figure out “what is this chasm”, the can scratch seems to be enough and then victory is always declared and “We must unite because we’re Republicans!”

Ditto for the rest of the Groksters…but a lot of times, we are seen as the agitators…

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That would be the GOP going after the TEA Party – how DARE you try to remove us from our Jr. Party seats?    The Washington Examiner has the take from a 42 year Senator that has no problem in being honest as to what he will be doing upon seeing “barbarians at his gate”.  Forty-two years – certainly long enough to have helped overseen the tremendous growth of the Welfare state.  Well, certainly long enough to have a hand on the lever of power that most TEA Partiers do not have: lots and lots of millions of dollars.  And to keep themselves in power, they are not afraid of using it (emphasis mine, reformatted):

The Republican Party of Iowa was blindsided by the Tea Party movement in the last presidential election, but party officials are already working hard to diminish the conservative movement’s influence by the time the next presidential primary rolls around in 2016, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa said.

“I think the Tea Party people in Iowa caught them off guard,” Grassley said of the state party in an interview on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers.”  Grassley said many Iowa Republicans “have been dissatisfied with the direction of the Republican Party in Iowa and are prepared to get more involved this time to counter the Tea Party influence.”

All Republicans, Mr. Grassley – or just YOUR wing of the party that are, well, feeling rather insecure?  Nice to see that “countering” the wing that has brought the energy and motivation to the Party is of more importance than “countering”, umm, those that are drifting us to a Socialist hellhole. 

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If you think the folks squawking about Granite State Future and the goals and agenda of the Regional Planners in New Hampshire is nothing but fearmongering, conspircay theory, or just tin-foil-hat-nuttery, if you ust want to sign up and take the money without any regard to the strings attached, why not listen to what a respectable guy likeWestchester County New York Commissionar Rob Astorino has to say about the program himself?

Trust me, you are going to want to hear this.

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