It is graduation time around the country, and once again, wussy school districts all over just can’t stand the idea of having to face up to ANYone complain that “Thou Shalt Not Pray to God, Thou Shalt Not Praise [the Christian] God, or mention The Bible – else, “they” will sue us.  Yes, we wet ourselves when confronted by controversy in this Publicly constructed Political Correctness Jail that we have built around ourselves.  Like this poor fellow, who simply wanted, at his gradumacation, say “Thank You” – and had his mic cut off.  And now, the Joshua Independent School District has gone all CYA (read more and watch the video at Hot Air).

And then there is the flip side – as this country seems to be sliding more and more to be Orwell’s 1984, it seems that some are more equal than other.  Aw heck – there is a “positive” discrimination towards Muslims as everyone tip-toes around Islamic Jihadi terrorism, proclaiming that Islam is the Religion of Peace.  Why?  Go ahead, draw a cartoon of Muhammad and hand deliver it to a radical fundamentalist mosque – doubtful you’ll get the Red Carpet treatment (and yes, I will resist typing the snarky comment here – just to make you think).

Back to topic – so a high school grad can’t mention God.  The ACLU and the militant Atheist groups sue to not have graduations in churches (even if they are the only venue that can handle such crowds), to remove creches at Christmas, remove the 10 Commandments, free Bibles from the Gideons in hotels…yeah, the whole 9 yards.

BUT!  Taxpayers be forced to pay for Islamic prayers at San Francisco Airport for a smallish number of Muslim cabbies; from Creeping Shariah:

San Fran airport’s garage now a mosque complete w Islamic foot bath

Praying for our demise. via Airport’s garage now Muslim house of worship (h/t: SFGate)

Here’s a sign of the changing times — Muslim cabbies now have their very own place at San Francisco International Airport to wash their hands and feet before they pray.

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My Jr US Senator, Kelly Ayotte, make the rounds of the Sunday morning talking head shows to make her announcement that she is in McCain’s sidecar when it comes to voting for the Gang of Eight’s Amnesty Immigration Plan (she also sent me a personal email – hope the NSA read it!):

It will take tough decisions to solve our nation’s immigration problems. After careful review of this bill, I will support it and plan to vote for amendments offered to strengthen it.

This legislation secures the border first, with more border agents, more fencing, and better surveillance technology.

Eyup – border first.  Right.  Really?  Um, that’s not what one of the Gang of Eight Republicans, Marco Rubio himself, said on Univision yesterday (emphasis mine):

 “Let’s be clear,” Rubio said. “Nobody is talking about preventing the legalization. The legalization is going to happen. That means the following will happen: First comes the legalization. Then come the measures to secure the border. And then comes the process of permanent residence.”

In most of his public appeals for the Gang of Eight bill, Rubio has stressed its enforcement provisions, saying that border security must come before immigrants are granted legal permanent resident status. What he has not stressed so much is the fact that the bill would legalize the 11 million almost immediately, after they have passed background checks and paid some sort of fine. That would happen before any new security measures are completed, or even begun.

Yes, Rubio is one of Schumer’s  “our Republicans”.  What say you now, Kelly, since Rubio has now has contradicted himself and said “Amnesty first – securing the border later”?  OUR border, Kelly.  How long can a country stand when it cannot control its own border?  How WORSE is it when a country REFUSES to control its own border?

Now add this factoid about border security law that has already been passed:

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“I put the costume on and said ‘It’s not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,’ so it’s all good.”   —Chris Hemsworth

I awoke this morning and schlubbed my way to the Kitchen and poured myself a cup of coffee. The television was on and the ad caught my attention. Had some uniformed third-world tin-pot dictator had taken to the air waves to deliver a message to America?  As I rubbed the sleep from my eyes, I learned the character was an unnamed police chief in another one of Bloomberg’s anti-Kelly Ayotte ads. His name was not given anywhere in the ad. A quick web search revealed however,  the chiefly tin horn dressed in all the Gaddafi-styled regalia was

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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?   —Frederic Bastiat

Around 2:45 am this past Sunday morning, a Lake Avenue resident called 911  to report individuals outside his apartment while arming himself with a handgun. Thereafter, the apartment door was kicked open, two men rushed in and charged at resident, according to Manchester Police . The resident open-fired killing one of the intruders. A second unknown intruder fled the scene and it is believed the second assailant was not shot.

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I just wanted to wish a hearty good morning to the NSA or IRS, or whomever is tasked with surveilling my “extremist rants.”

And oh, the irony of that.  I’m an “extremist” because I think freedom and liberty demand a smaller more accountable government where the money, power, and responsibility are, preferably, kept to the lowest common denominator.  I think that way because it is easier to keep an eye on it, and reign it in when it tries to get out of control.

Yet here we are saying good morning to the faceless, unaccountable, big government bureaucrats who are secretly collecting data on everyone in America; using their power to affect the right of assembly and association, affecting national elections, collecting everyone’s phone records, spying on the press, scraping the whole of the Internet for everyone’s online activity, for purposes stated as domestic security but then, who defines that moving target?

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Several variations of this are out there as to who is to be the recipient – no matter; still brings a smile to my face!

A female libertarian wrote a lot of letters to the Canadian government, complaining about the treatment of captive insurgents (terrorists) being held in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities. She demanded a response to her letter. She received back the following reply:

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National Defense Headquarters
M Gen George R. Pearkes Bldg., 15 NT
101 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa , ON K1A 0K2
Canada

Dear Concerned Citizen,

Thank you for your recent letter expressing your profound concern of treatment of the Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists captured by Canadian Forces, who were subsequently transferred to the Afghanistan Government and are currently being held by Afghan officials in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities.

Our administration takes these matters seriously and your opinions were heard loud and clear here in Ottawa . You will be pleased to learn, thanks to the concerns of citizens like yourself, we are creating a new department here at the Department of National Defense, to be called ‘Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers’ program, or L.A.R.K. for short.

In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided, on a trial basis, to divert several terrorists and place them in homes of concerned citizens such as yourself, around the country, under those citizens’ personal care. Your personal detainee has been selected and is scheduled for transportation under heavily armed guard to your residence in Toronto next Monday.

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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”  —Ambrose Bierce

Nashua Alderman at large Lori Wilshire seeks an ordinance in Nashua that would ban new establishments from selling alcohol within 500 feet of a school. Wilshire openly admitted tot he Nashua Telegraph her  intent was to block the Nashua VFW Post 483 from placing its post in the  Crown Hill Fire Station, located next to Dr. Norman W. Crisp Elementary School. Wilshire finds it, “just terrible,”  that Veterans of Foreign Wars would engage in the selling of Libations  next to a school.  Just “terrible,”  oh the scandal…So much so that Alderman at Large Wilshire thinks Nashua should ban it and has put forth a measure to do exactly that. You don’t say, Lori?

Nashua Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire is also the business manager for the Nashua Children’s home.

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