Listen Harrell – for we are listing to you, too (even when you aren’t speaking up – you too, Zandra Rice-Hawkins, as the two of you are serial Republican accusers on very little to go on)!  Yeah, I almost made a mistake by mis-identifying the Party affiliation of the Mayor of San Diego, Bob Filner (DEMOCRAT).  His problem?  Well, even more serious than Obama refusing to pay his female staffers – Sexual Harrassement. So, you Harrell (and you too, Zandra) MUST have professional Press Release all ready  Oh, you say that nothing has gone to court or been adjudicated yet, Harrell?  What about that shopworn Democrat attack phrase “It’s the seriousness of the charge” in which the meaning is – “the Republican can actually be innocent but we have to haul his (or her) butt into court – not to find the truth but for the humiliation and bankrupting him”.  So how unbalanced is the New Hampshire Democrat Party in speaking about this elected official abusing women under his responsibility?  C’mon, Harrel – here’s some details.

The week began with news that Mayor Bob Filner’s fiancee ended their engagement and, by Friday, San Diego’s first Democratic leader in 20 years was desperately trying to stay in office amid sexual harassment allegations made public by some of his closest supporters. He apologized, promised to change and begged voters to let him keep his job.

The rapid-fire developments put heavy scrutiny on the personal foibles of Filner, a feisty liberal who was elected in November after 10 terms in Congress marked perhaps most famously by a 2007 run-in with a United Airlines baggage handler at Dulles International Airport that resulted in him pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of trespassing. Filner has long had a reputation for berating employees and been dogged by rumors of making sexual advances on women, but nothing stuck like a former city councilwoman’s comments this week that she had firsthand accounts from more than one woman who was sexually harassed by the mayor.

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One of the best things about ignoring all the hype and just using common sense is when you are proven right.  The only thing better than that is when the Kool-aid® drinkers start to realize that you were right as well.  What the heck am I talking about?  Electric cars.

For close to five years, as long as I’ve been blogging,  I’ve been saying that there is no way electric cars could be better for the environment–and not just because they’d have to run on electricity generated by carbon based fuels.  Batteries are nasty.

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Almost anyone can fly a plane off a runway – the skill set for a small General Aviation plane like a Cessna 152 is rather small.  Believe it or not, ANY one can land a plane – gravity and physics stand ready to help the plane meet the ground.  It is far harder, however, to land it in such a fashion that 1) you can walk away unaided and 2) the plane can fly again.

Back in May, the US Navy launched its first UAV / UCAS drone off the flight deck of an aircraft carrier – a robot plane under both human operator and autonomous operation.  Now the Navy has closed that loop in having an XB-47 drone successfully land on that same deck.

From Military.com:

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As a follow up to this post, did you know, Harrell,  that when the now infamous (Democrat) Kevin ‘Wicked Cool’ Hodges said Democrat’s could Beat Republicans with a Bat, and with their hands and with their feet, that he had casually listed three methods (Blunt objects, and personal weapons–hands, fists, feet) that account for almost four times as many murders in the US annually as those “scary rifles” you Democrats are demanding an additional layer of background checks on?

How ironic.  The FBI crime database lists murders for scary rifles at 323 (2011) while murders for blunt objects and angry Democrat’s hands, fists, and feet in the same year tallied up to 1,222.  OK.  They might not have all been Democrats, but there was a room full of New Hampshire Democrats in Goffstown, including then candidate and now current Democrat Governor of the Granite State Marget ‘Good Wood’ Hassan who were very amused at the idea of engaging in a similar form of blunt force attack upon their political opponents.

If I’m not mistaken the State party dismissed objections as an overreaction by political opponents…

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I wanted to remind everyone that they need to ask every New Hampshire Democrat, in office or running for elected office, if they will be insisting on state legislation that adds another layer of background checks for legal gun purchases in the Granite State?  This should be a key element of their policy agendas.  And all those Democrat reps that were reading names in Concord next to the Bloomberg bus, they had better have their LSR’s ready for this fall and be proudly trumpeting their intention to recommend bills that will force another layer of background checks on the people of New Hampshire, on top of the ones we already have.

You heard the State Democrat Party and their media flunkies.  Over 90% of New Hampshire citizens “polled” want it.  90%.  It’s a free throw, a gimmie, a bird in the hand and two in the bush.

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A kid gets suspended from school when shaping a Pop Tart, bite by bite, into a sweet simulacrum of a pastry pistol; an eighth-grader gets arrested and suspended from school for donning a T-Shirt stamped with a NRA logo; a kindergartner gets suspended for 10 days with the additional bonus of urine soaked pants because school “officials” scolded him to the point he wet himself in fear, all because the little chap brought a menacing looking orange-tipped toy gun to school. These are the anti-gun, zero tolerance, common sense scuttling times in which we live. You best not breach that 0.001 tolerance threshold or else you’ll find yourself in a cell, out of school, and your pants reeking of urine.

No exceptions.

Just kidding, of course there are exceptions. But in order to qualify for them, you need to be a member of the elite governing class or at least contribute to it in some way (ahem… cough… financially), or so it would seem.

Take a recent escapade by an aide to the staunch pro-gun control Democrat

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The Manchester paper is reporting that the NH AG needs a few more weeks to complete their investigation of (now) former New London Police Chief David Seastrand,  Seastrand was alleged to have offered to drop charges against a Colby Saywer College student if she agreed to pose nude for him.   She refused and called the AG.  Smart girl.  But to what end?  As I observed back on April 4th…

Seastrand has 27 years in.  What are the odds this is the first time he’s used his position of power for his personal advantage or pleasure?  And now he gets to retire at what, maybe 50 years of age?  So the AG just lets him walk away, no in depth investigation, and very likely with his full pension.    Not exactly a punishment is it?  You get caught using your police powers to bully a woman and they make you quit without charging you and (assuming he’s keeping his pension) give you a big bag of money every year until you die.

Exit question:  Does anyone else come forward, Tiger Woods style, to start piling up accusations of improper conduct or does Seastrand retire in modest comfort and melt into the landscape?

We got the answer to both those questions.

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Much has been written lately about how “the base”, the conservative / libertarian / constitutional / TEA Party wing of the party – the grassroots, are starting to really turn the Evil Eye upon the other part of the Party.  That would be those that write the talk, talk the talk, and then act and vote opposite way.  Often times, with disdain for the base and with their eyes on the political advantage instead of doing what they should be: standing up for and protecting the Values for which we sent them there.  Promise to cut the budget?  You’d better do that.  Promise to do something else?

Yeah, it’s called Keeping Your Word.  Build our Trust with you – don’t break it in being “pragmatic” or so that you can reach being a Ranking Member or Chair one day.  Or Leadership.  After all, it isn’t about the Win to Get The Power – it is what you do with it once WE help you win.  And yes, we Watch.  And last night I watched a PERFECT example of how the Republican Party continues to play small ball and excuse their way out of doing the right thing.  Sure, they’ve had 37 votes in the House to repeal Obamacare – meaningless votes except for the rubes who believe they actually accomplished anything.

Those of us who actually KNOW, have been waiting for them to do The Right Thing – which of course, they have refused to do and yakked their excuses all around it.  PERFECT Example?  I listened to the Hannity show last nite with Eric Cantor, part of the Leadership in the US House of Representatives.  Sean had THE question that most of us in the grassroots want answered: “Would you use the option to defund Obamacare ’cause that is in your authority?”

Disappointed was my reaction:

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