The New Hampshire Business and Industrial Association, see also BIA, see also the same BIA that had no objection to the NH Democrat majority cramming a late-night-last-minute-LLC tax on small businesses a few years back—right up until they were convinced to be against it, has come out in favor of Common Core.

Common Core is a disaster.  Teachers hate it.  Administrators hate it.  People who blindly supported it are being pilloried by parents and educators alike.  Anyone who takes the time to get to know it on the first date, changes their phone number and refuses to answer the door when it comes to call.  So why should we be surprised that the BIA supports it?

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Stay with me….(From the Union Leader)

The House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee on Tuesday recommended killing a bill that would have allowed the state to discuss running its own health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act.

House Bill 544 would have removed a prohibition in a 2012 law forbidding the state from running its own exchange and prohibiting state agencies from direct involvement with the federal exchange…The committee vote came a day after Gov. Maggie Hassan said through a spokesman that the 2012 state law, passed by what was then a Republican-controlled Legislature, was “extremely misguided” and “should be reconsidered.”

Why is it that Democrats want this for New Hampshire?  Why would they consider the prohibition ‘extremely misguided?’  Why should it be reconsidered?

Your Democrat Governor and the New Hampshire Democrat Party have their orders.

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Looking at this Florida voter fraud conviction from across the border here in “voter fraud free” New Hampshire , one has to wonder.

Shouldn’t any state that prosecutes voter fraud be entitled to the Presidential Primary instead of one that refuses to prosecute the simplest cases of election law violations?

In the Fla. case above, a team effort to win elections through cheating was uncovered, investigated, and prosecuted.
All the convicted person, Jeffrey Garcia, did was acquire a couple hundred absentee ballots with the intent to use them to help his boss, Fla. Democrat Rep. Joe Garcia.

When you read down to the end of the story it looks like the Democrat Congressman also was involved in a scheme to illegally fund a rival Republican’s primary opponent. That issue is still pending.

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One of the best questions you can ask a low or no-information voter who has bought into the progressive anti-gun mantra, after you point this fact out is, “who protects you if the police have no duty to do so?”

That will get you a look and a half, mouth agape.  What subterfuge is this?

Oh, you didn’t know?  Time and time again the courts have declared that ‘” government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen.”

Law enforcement can’t be everywhere.  Law enforcement cannot protect you nor has it any obligation to do so.  It can only record, report, and then pursue criminals after a crime has been committed, if they deem it worth their time and resources.

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Progressivism is nothing more than a euphemism for “Slow Communism” or, if you like, “incremental Socialism”.  Communism is the result of a quick “BANG!” while incremental Socialism is the proverbial hand torquing up the water temperature under the frog.  All it takes is an uninvolved electorate and people that think like this:

• NH State Rep Kris Roberts (D): “Government has to protect us from our own stupidity.”
• NH State Rep Leigh Webb (D): “The role of government is to legislate behavior“

And there is no opting out with these people either; it’s “one for all” whether you want to play along or not.  Progressivism knows no “aisle” – there are some Republicans that believe in this same vein as the chuckleheads above.  Some permanently and some wig-wag back and forth.  To that latter group, we can now add NH State Rep Steve Vaillancourt (R) – the self-professed Libertarian (e.g., “Let people choose for themselves”) in joining the Progressive totalitarian spectrum (“Iss verboten!”; emphasis mine and reformatted):

CONCORD — Legislative efforts to ban smoking used to draw huge crowds to lengthy public hearings where heavy hitters testified for or against prohibition.  Eventually, smoking bans were approved at restaurants, bars, public buildings such as the State House and some private buildings.  Social, fraternal or religious organizations have continued to welcome smokers because (1) they have restricted memberships and (2) some key lawmakers — including former state Sen. Jack Barnes, R-Raymond — did not want to restrict World War II veterans’ activities after they had served and sacrificed for their country.  Two bills will be introduced in the 2014 session that may change things, however. A House bill will be sponsored by Rep. Steve Vaillancourt, R-Manchester, and a Senate bill will be sponsored by Sen. Lou D’Allesandro. “I’ve always felt that if secondhand smoke will kill you in a restaurant, it will kill you in a social club,” Vaillancourt said, noting the exemption has been debated before.

Right – so social clubs can make their own decisions as – in essence, the Freedom to decide if they were to allow smoking or not. 

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Oh, Sidenote first (because it IS just that kind of day): OK, Landrigan, you and DiStaso are a pair today.  He can’t tell a TEA Partier from shinola and you can’t even get the names straight: “Bragdon goes on offense in offering defense”.  Even as we are castigated as mere bloggers, all I keep hearing is layers upon layers of factcheckers and editors.  Really – can’t even fact check your own headline?  And you two are supposed to be the “experts”?

Finally, a high level Republican actually knows the meaning of the word that one hardly NEVER sees in Politics: Loyalty.  From the Telegraph, we see Bill O’Brien showing the loyalty to subordinate.  He didn’t have to – he just did the right thing.  He gains nothing politically by doing this (more later on this line of thinking).   He put someone else before his own well-being.  He’s trying to not leave anyone behind that is under attack and calls out those that should be the cavalry coming over the hill, pennants waving and guns blazing to protect their own: the NH GOP.

Once again, though, the Chair lowers its behavior well under my extremely low expectations – giving into that just WONDERFUL Democrat trap called Political Correctness.  It is like the Chair is OBSESSED with using that tool of Marxist Culturalists everywhere.  Only problem is that it IS gonna bite her, too:

“The first is that Democrats have turned their tried and true Alinskyite demonization campaign on Pete. No surprise there. But, the second thing? In likewise tried and true fashion, the Republican state party is threatening to withdraw support from Pete. They want him to validate the Dems’ libelous narrative by running from his beliefs and, it seems to me, apologize for having offended the liberals.”

Once again, we see the Party willing to put additional sacrificial lambs on the altar of Political Correctness – seeking some small measure of approval from….umm, 

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I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on – unless you are a very committed Socialist that wants America to collapse entirely (to give you a chance of rebuilding it in a Socialist society), this ought to be having you say “Oh Crap!”:

Yet when a conservative hesitates before raising the debt ceiling, he’s portrayed as a madman. When Paul Ryan offers a thoughtful plan to reduce the debt over decades, he’s pushing grannies into the Grand Canyon and pantsing park rangers on the way out.

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I don’t watch any TV news but someone shared this and I checked it out.  It is classic.  The Town Council of Bar Harbor, Maine (prounced Bahh Hhaaabahh) voted to remove lights from a long-standing evergreen “memorial” put up in honor of veterans who fought and or died during the Christmas Eve World War II Battle of the Buldge.

Why?  It was confusing.  People might not get it.   They probably haven’t gotten it for decades.  Wait.  It looks like a Christmas Tree.

Ruth Eveland , the Bar Harbor Town Council Chair says, “It’s a complicated symbol that most people do not understand completely.”  Oh, like Barack Obama?  Or how about, like ObamaCare?  That’s a complicated symbol that most people do not understand completely.  We should get rid of that.

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 EVERY PARENT AND GRANDPARENT

NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT

the

COMMON CORE CURRICULUM

CONTROVERSY IN EDUCATION

The Seacoast Republican Women

Hosts a MUST-HEAR program for anyone concerned

about the education of our children!

Monday, October 21, 2013

6:30 p.m.

At the Portsmouth Public Library

Levenson Room

175 Parrot Avenue, Portsmouth

Panelists:

His story on Kelly Ayotte had this line in it:

Ayotte had been successfully straddling the line between Tea Party favorite and establishment Republican — until the shutdown occurred.

This is pretty much the same level of “journalism” we see from a lot of these ink-stained (he’s old enough for that phrase) “reporters” lately when they try to report on Second Amendment issues and plunge into talking about calibers, cartridges, rounds, ammo, automatics, semi-automatics, muzzle loaders….and of course, assault weapons vs assault rifles.  Concealed carry, open carry, law abiding, criminals, gun show loophole vs private sales – often they are a disaster because they don’t know what they’re talking about.

DiStaso, being one of the “Political Reporters” in the state, should know far better.  He knows that the TEA Party supported Ovide Lamontagne – to the hilt and given 2, maybe three more weeks in the primary, might have eliminated that 1600 vote advantage she ended up with.  But let’s be clear (sorry for the Obama-ism) here – Kelly was NEVER a “Tea Party favorite” – not then and certainly not now.  Yeah, we voted for her, but given her opponent, who wouldn’t have? She was “EStablishment” from the get-go; she knew it, they knew it, and we certainly knew.

But it shows that DiStaso is showing the rest of us one of two things: 

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