On Obama’s hellbent intentions of using “his” military (“Now, I have not made a final decision about various actions that might be taken to help enforce that norm,” Obama said. “But as I’ve already said, I have had my military and our team look at a wide range of options.” – since when was a decision made to make it HIS military versus the country’s?  ):

“So we’re bombing Syria because Syria is bombing Syria? And I’m the idiot?“

Obama right now, is whiffing.  His vaunted “redlines” have been shown to have been drawn in chalk – and it is raining.  So with today’s pronouncement that Obama IS going to wait for Congress to authorize military action (if there is to be any to “punish” Assad), he knows he’s going to get yet another free Political Pass of Voting Present – lots of sturm und drang, a flurry of fiery finesse, and in the end – a do nothing.

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From Dennis Kucinich, sure.  A lot of the Left (and formerly active anti-war folks) aren’t too happy with their LightBringer.  But PRAVDA??

American President Barack Obama received a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people.”

The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexei Pushkov suggested U.S. President Barack Obama should be deprived of the Nobel Peace Prize in the event the Americans strike a military blow on Syria, he wrote on Twitter on Friday, August 30.   “If the United States strike Syria without a sanction from the UN, the world community must demand the Nobel committee should deprive Obama of the Peace Prize,” he wrote.

It is worthy of note that U.S. leader Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people.”   Previously, the draft resolution providing for the use of force against Syria had not been approved at the UN Security Council: Russia and China did not support the document.

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Yeah, just a random thought.

Oh, I’m quite sure that this iteration of Burning Man got planned – you don’t have 68,000 people in one area, even in the desert, and have it look this orderly.  One also has to keep in mind that these folks, um, don’t always follow the same drummers the rest of us do: artsy types of folks, anarchists, folks that just like to DO things that others, well, would be scared to do.  Counter-culture is a decent catch-all phrase but never having been there myself, I bet it doesn’t capture the gestalt of it.

But it shows that perhaps the over, over emphasis by the Smart People thinking that they must control everything and plan everything because we ordinary schlubs just can’t get it right.  We need their beneficence in living our lives (hmm, see a pattern from me lately?  Maybe I’d fit in there…).  Perhaps some zoning could be useful, but all I see from my vantage point in NH is that these folks never seem to ask themselves a most important question: “When is enough, enough?  Why do you think that you folks are the Smart People that should be practicing, not zoning and basic code regulation, but actively doing social engineering for the rest of us?”

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You might not be at all surprised to learn that Daniel Barluschke was registered and voted (as a Democrat) from New Hampshire Democrat Mille Knudson’s home on 93 Noons Quarry Road in Milford, NH in the 2008 general election.  [Knudson (D-Milford) was actually running for the NH House while Daniel was voting from her home.

Daniel hails from Berlin Germany but went to college at McGill University in Canada and spends most of his time on foreign soil, though he did spend his time in New Hampshire working for Obama For America (and voting from Milli’s home).   He left in 2008 and came back in 2012, still with OFA, but he didn’t necessarily come alone.

Melissa Shohet may or may not know Daniel Barluschke but she also went to McGill University in Canada.

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AP:

Vice President Joe Biden, Obama’s point-man on gun control after the Newtown tragedy thrust guns into the national spotlight, unveiled the new actions Thursday at the White House.

“It’s simple, it’s straightforward, it’s common sense,” Biden said in the Roosevelt Room.

One new policy will end a government practice that lets military weapons, sold or donated by the U.S. to allies, be reimported into the U.S. by private entities, where some may end up on the streets. The White House said the U.S. has approved 250,000 of those guns to be reimported since 2005; under the new policy, only museums and a few other entities like the government will be eligible to reimport military-grade firearms.

These are the same fools that wrote the orders that walked “military-grade firearms” into Mexico that resulted in hundreds of deaths.  This is why I have to laugh every time some Democrat or OFA-hole starts going on about stopping the gun violence.   Rubes.

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I’m no party hack, that is certain.  But as the left ponders the idea of a full out assault on NH-GOP Chair Jennifer Horn, after the NH-AG voter fraud division “cleared” Martha Fuller Clark’s home–in the historic vote-fraud district of Portsmouth–of any “wrongdoing,” one very simple fact remains.  While we’d like to say we helped out, if we’re just talking political parties, Jen Horn may have done more to get bad names off of voter checklists in the past month than the New Hampshire AG’s office has done in the past decade.

I think Jennifer Horn should turn up the heat, I know we intend to.

I think Horn needs to ignore the Democrats, ignore the NH-AG, and speak to the people; the residents and taxpayers of New Hampshire.  Ask them this question..every week, if necessary.

“Why is it OK for an Obama Campaigner, who happens to be an attorney from Arkansas, to vote absentee from Martha Fuller Clark’s house in the historical vote-fraud district in Portsmouth instead of from his own home in Arkansas?”

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And here comes the inevitable story from the old NH media (SeacoastOnline).  Now that liberal Democrat Martha Fuller Clark, who harbored out of state Obama campaign voters who have since asked to be taken off our NH checklist – as some were registered in several states, her “exoneration” by the NH AG is trotted out.  This is soooo NH AG – misunderstanding important words and phrases needed to do their official job. This tradition goes back several decades or more.

The NH Attorney Exonerator “exonerated” the bus load of Deerfield voters who voted from a nonexistent address on a nonexistent road – by ignoring it. They exonerated Supervisor of the Checklist, Ann Lorber, of Deering who sat at the tables of the town and school votes, in her official position, and told people not to vote for me when I was running for selectman. The only evidence they had was three affidavits from voters and reports from two moderators.

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Pretty much, this from Glen Reynolds sums it up:

Nor Mia Love, Dr. Walter Williams, Dr. Ben Carson, Dr. Thomas Sowell or SCOTUS’s Clarence Thomas  nor David Webb.  In fact, if you peruse the list of speakers, I didn’t see one black speaker that could be considered to be a conservative.  Or a white person.  Or even a person of color whose political beliefs vary from that list of speakers.

I’ve been reading the blogosphere with an eye to the recreation of the March on Washington – and pretty much got the idea of what was to happen.  And it did.  Most of us remember the sterling words of “they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” and have thought ever since that the first March’s purpose to look beyond a person’s covering and into their heart and mind.    Sadly, in reading the various reports about the event (no, I did not watch it), it seems that to further the efforts of Dr. King, the Civil Rights movement’s leaders have adopted every single Liberal / Progressive nostrum known to earth.  Not only that, the ONLY explanations that were given in response to the push-back to these Progressive goals is that Conservatives like me can only be rationalized by racism.  Pure and simple – and no other explanation will ever be listened to.  Nice to see that a broad swath of America is viewed in such a manner (and the Progressives say that only we act based on  stereotypes?).

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For those  people who keep thinking “we live in a Free country”, here is yet another sign from the Progressives now running our Federal Government that they believe that the Constitution (ok, just by their Official Position in Government) allows them the notion that they should tell us what is good or bad behavior.  No, not what is criminal behavioral or not, but the “good and righteous moral behavior” they have blessed.  From CNSNews.com:

The “new energy future” will require the federal government to encourage “the right kinds of behavior,” Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told a clean energy summit in Nevada on Tuesday.   “When you are getting into a new energy future, you really benefit from having the support of states — and the federal government encouraging the right kinds of behavior and encouraging those incentives (for solar panel installation), she said.

Right – so if you don’t go right out and get solar’d up, if you don’t use renewable energy, you are a bad person (among all the other things that the Politically correct things that Smart People have decided are “right for the times” (without a note that, hmm, we change our minds about these things too). And as far as “getting into a new energy future”, this has all been decided for us – as in jamming it down our throats on the front end and making sure that we must “make the right decisions” by taking away energy resources on the back side (e.g., coal and nuke, for nothing says Freedom like limiting real choice, eh?).  “Right kinds of behavior”?  We’re back to the end goal of Progressives – the Administrative State whose technocrats will make all important choices for us.

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Today is the day where various unions (chief amongst them, the SEIU) are trying to have fast food workers conduct a strike across a number of large cities against the likes of McDonalds, Kentucky fried, Wendy’s, Subway et al.  CNN, the liberal new site, portrays this in Occupy (e.g., socialist / communist) language (thanks to the opinion writer):

Fast food and some retail workers in 50 cities around the country are striking today, and have mounted dozens of strikes over the past few months. Their demands are simple: a pay raise to $15 per hour — roughly double the federal minimum wage — and union recognition.  The “Fast Food Forward” movement began in New York City last fall and quickly spread to other cities. In some places it grew to include workers in other low-wage jobs besides fast food. Like the earlier Occupy Wall Street protests, this new movement has captured the imagination of millions of Americans angry about the ever-widening gap between haves and have-nots.

…They are struggling to support their families on jobs that pay at or close to the legal minimum, with few benefits. Adding insult to injury, full-time work is hard to find in the fast food and retail world. But many workers have no other options, since the Great Recession permanently wiped out millions of better-paying jobs.

From another CNN  post:

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