Susan, Mike and Father Christian Tudor, and Jeff Chidester continue on with Skip’s questioning (a patient lot, them!):

• Donuts!

• With all the recent “Obamacare “setbacks”, why is he still succeeding with Obamacare?  How?

• Self-reliance vs dependency?

• What is the Democratic Plantation?

• Does the MSM “report” on society, or prides itself on “shaping” or “making it better”?

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Questions!  I had lots of questions that went unanswered – most because they didn’t have the time to be asked:

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I lost all respect, years ago, for Laconia Daily Sun Reporter Michael Kitch when we had a blowout argument that my town was made up of residents and elected officials that were cheapskates.  Certainly, he knew that I truly believed that when I was on the Budget Committee in my hamlet, I tried mightily to act in the vein that “this is not my money” – and spent a lot of time trying to convince others of the same.  If anything, I tried to be more frugal with other peoples’ money, their property tax monies, than I am with my own.  After all, it IS mine – I earned it and I should be able to spend it the way I want to.

Kitch believes otherwise – he could not understand (or stand) the idea that I (and my town, and other political entities) refused to raise the taxes on our residents simply to send that money to towns and cities that were broke.  Broke not because the single industry in town just up and left (and to which I would have some empathy) but because of years and decades of Progressive / Liberal / Democrat rule – the largest example now being Detroit.  As I have written here before, we had a screaming match over the fact that I refused to send money to the leaders of those towns, who have already proved that they are incapable of wisely spending their taxpayers monies.  WHY would I want to send them more and “enable” their bad habits?  His response was that ‘we are all in this together, that there were people still hurting in those cities, that the intent to help was paramount, and it was irrelevant that the political and appointed leaders would just waste that extra money.

Right…

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If you allow a Christian moral code to drive your life it won’t be long before some secular-humanist decides that what you really want is a theocracy. Given this lack of intellectual agility we should then not be at all surprised when the same people, more often than not willful denizens of the Progressive Plantation, encourage the political Gods in DC to do their regulatin’ for them.  Put another way; if you can’t get it passed at the state level get er done from DC.

It’s the Democrat Party equivalent of divine intervention.  Thou shalt not let the state legislature stop you from having what you are certain is best for everyone else even if they don’t want it.   In this instance we refer to automated license plate readers.  The New Hampshire State Legislature tabled the bill sponsored by Democrat Deputy Dawg Stephen Shurtleff, citing privacy concerns.

So did Shurtleff or some other New Hampshire Democrat call the Democrat parties representative to New Hampshire, Carol Shea-Porter, to get done by Federal commandment what could not be done at the State level?

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At the tail end of this post, I asked these questions…

How about NH AG Joseph Foster, former NH Democrat State Senator?  He quite clearly opposes stand your ground, without which George Zimmerman might actually be dead.   It might be good to hear him (the AG) speak just as plainly on the matter of Mr. Zimmerman’s trial, the evidence, his declared innocence (by a jury of peers), if AG Foster thought Mr. Zimmerman should have just let Trayvon beat the sh*t out of him near-to or to the point of his own death, and–of course–on the matter of groups placing bounties on the heads of New Hampshire citizens just because they don’t agree with a Jury’s verdict.  We’d love to hear his thoughts on that as well.

Seeing as AG Foster has publicly re-stated his opposition on SYG in the wake of this trial, and invoked AG Holder’s most recent political anti-gun chess move as his motivation, and declared a need for the legislature to take another look at repealing it in New Hampshire, I think the people of New Hampshire deserve a second look at their Attorney Generals views on the circumstances as noted above.

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The Live Feed:

MSNBC has hired Abby Huntsman, a host/producer on HuffPost Live and daughter of former GOP candidate Jon Huntsman, as a co-host of the political panel talk show, The Cycle.

“I am excited to bring a dose of moderate, rational conservatism to The Cycle,” Huntsman said on HuffPost Live on Wednesday. “I think that’s needed today in the political discourse.”

That would be Jon Huntsman, former GOP PRESIDENTIAL candidate (yes, it does make a difference).  Who governed, when a Governor, in a fairly conservative manner but then decided that the differential for him was to run (and certainly talk) as a moderate Republican.  Which, in the end, turned out badly as far as the primary results were concerned at the end of the trail (his stop in Laconia when he first started running was a disaster – I was there; a complete nothing burger compared to “the game” that the others brought.  Didn’t help his “first impression” that his aide-de-camps couldn’t spell his name right on the literature).

Now, I know Establishment Republican.  I know grassroots Republican.  I know political operative Republican. 

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