Several months ago I posted a poem written in tribute to the American fighters in Benghazi who disobeyed orders to get into the fight and to save American lives (and by all accounts former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty did save many lives). You can read my first posting HERE. But it appears I may have misattributed the author of the poem. I’ve recently received an email from John Roberts, a former SEAL himself, who says this:
So Every New Hampshire Democrat Will Be Running on Background Checks in 2014?
The New Hampshire Democrat party is all-in on their background-check thing. They’ve got out of state money, out of state influence, out of state victims as props… So I guess this is pretty important to New Hampshire Democrats then? And to hear them talk, it is mighty important to New Hampshire citizens as well. Or is that just talk?
Can we expect every Democrat in the state at every level run for reelection on this issue? Will every New Hampshire Democrat running for office in 2014 put background checks at the top of every palm cards, flyer, mailer, and campaign web-site?
If New Hampshire citizens are behind this idea to the degree that New Hampshire Democrats claim, (just ask them, ‘everyone is talking about it’), then you’ll be running strongly on this issue, in all 400 house races, and all 24 state Senate races, the Governors race, plus the US Senate and Congressional races?
Notable Quote – Common Core
Common Core is just the secular-humanist-educational equivalent of Shari’a Law, implemented by controlling, secular-humanist, anti-religious socialist, personal-choice-bigots who insist we spend billions more every year because every child learns differently but then can’t seem to see the hypocrisy of wanting every state, county, and School district across the fruited plain to follow a one-size-fits-all nation-wide curriculum, implemented by statist fatwa, advanced through an organized campaign based on guilt and intimidation, … Read more
White House Changes To Benghazi Talking Points Revealed
Compiled from emails exchanged between the White House, State, and other Federal entities, The Weekly Standard reports on details compiled and released that show what the White House knew, when they knew it, and what they ended up saying. (Image of talking points before and after on the jump).
Synopsis?
The first, at 4:05 p.m. (all times are Eastern Standard Time), indicated that the compound was under attack; the second, at 6:08 p.m., indicated that Ansar al Sharia, an al Qaeda-linked terrorist group operating in Libya, had claimed credit for the attack. According to the House report, these alerts were circulated widely inside the government, including at the highest levels. The fighting in Benghazi continued for another several hours, so top Obama administration officials were told even as the fighting was taking place that U.S. diplomats and intelligence operatives were likely being attacked by al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists. A cable sent the following day, September 12, by the CIA station chief in Libya, reported that eyewitnesses confirmed the participation of Islamic militants and made clear that U.S. facilities in Benghazi had come under terrorist attack. It was this fact, along with several others, that top Obama officials would work so hard to obscure.
The Obama Admin went with the random riot and then YouTube video lies for what, a week or more–despite evidence it was an al Qaeda affiliated terror attack.
Democrats and Communists…
… usually begets the hyperbole induced eye-roll from many, but stick with me.
Breitbart headline: “Dick Durbin at May Day Immigration Rally: Communists? What Communists?”
Together again, deluded communist rubes and a Democrat, what a surprise.
Senator Dick Durbin attended a May Day march in Chicago the other day. It turns out that it was decorated with what you’d expect: Che Guevara’s shaded visage, hammer and sickle flags, painted anarchist A’s on placards etc. The usual bouquet of symbols representing the wilted leftist ideas that resulted in blood soaked suffering over the past few centuries. Gripping the bouquets were rubes too long on idle, too short on history, or (maybe and) just too dumb to care.
Christian? It’s a private thing. Gay? Tell the whole world! What’s that say about our culture?
Is the culture, led by the MSM and other cultural “elites”, anti-Christian? Seems to be, when one reviews how denigrated Tebow has become these last couple of years – simply for being a man of faith, giving credit to a higher power than himself, professing a traditional sense of faith, and sticking to set of morals that, at best, is considered “prudish”. With all that, we have seen how intolerant the tolerant Left truly has become to traditional mores. Expressing them publicly gets you knocked down – by those, perhaps, that realize that they do not measure up (either can’t or decide to go “the low road”)? No, I don’t mean to be “holier than thou” – I do wish to point out that those holding to values other than what is in the current popular culture are always in for a hard time. Winning two national championships and the Heisman should a concentration on what he has accomplished in his field. Instead, he has been skewered for his faith.
Data Point – Failure to Launch for entrepreneurs? Or just throwing in the towel?
America has always been known as the land of opportunity – you have an idea, you have the drive, you start your own and go for that brass ring. Unlike most, starting a new biz is not out of the ordinary and in fact, has been well accepted. I have worked for several startups – … Read more
Where Treehugger doesn’t add the 1 + 1
(H/T: Treehugger) As most readers know, I used to go over Treehugger a lot and bring back “stuff” as a Doodling – rather easy when they have a big slant for Progressivism, Urbanism, and UberEnvironmentalism all wrapped up into a single package. However, since they’ve been purging of the likes of ‘Grok commenters Cris P Bacon and C. Dog, it’s been rather barren over there (and they got sold, so there’s a “bit” of a different focus there). However, I did venture over and saw the graph – they’re all going ga-ga over this as they all seemingly hate any kind of energy source, it seems, that has anything to do with it coming from beneath dirt or water levels. “Soon!” they believe, “we’ll be free of hurting Mommy GAIA with our noxious need of hydrocarbons”.
They’re believing that all of this taxpayer funding of solar and alternative energy start-ups has been the primary driver of the lessening cost to PV panels. Well, in a way they are correct, but from my layman’s eyes, probably not the way they think. I’ve seen this play before, and I think this has more to do with it than not:
Liberal Logic: It’s only goodness if it comes from people we like
Judgementalism is only one way, dontcha know…. (H/T: The Looking Spoon)
Yet another Teacher makes it known that kids don’t belong to their parents.
The US Left now believes that children belong to the community and not to their parents (the latest really public outburst was by Progressive Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC that I posted here). A while ago now, I was up in Moultonborough during a School Board meeting and there I saw a first hand account … Read more
The Whores of UNH
UNH held a conference on women in the sex industry in which it used donations and student organization funds to bring in prostitutes from across the nation. No one knew that was where the money came from until AFP-NH filed a right to know request with the university asking how the travel and expenses of the prostitutes were paid for. They wanted to make sure that taxpayer dollars were not used for this purpose.
The same university that has engaged repeatedly in politicking itself, and the promotion of the left wing agenda, not to mention paying professors charged with sex crimes to do nothing while on probation, got a bit snippy in its reply.
Maybe UNH Could Spend Some Tax Dollars to Solve this ‘Problem’
Some days posts just fall into each other like drunken wedding guests doing the chicken dance. Today, those ‘guests’ are prostitutes, possibly having attended a conference on the sex industry at UNH, though they also may have been driven into the sex trade by Global Warming. Wait for it…
A gaggle of Congressional Democrats, led by Representative Barbra Lee, has submitted HCR 36, a House Continuing Resolution that asks the House to recognize that Global Warming has a disproportionate (negative) impact on women who could be forced to turn to “transactional sex” to survive.
So much for bringing home the bacon and frying it up in the pan. Global Warming just wrecked that.
That’s right. Non-existent global warming could be responsible for an increase in prostitution. (I bet even UNH didn’t see that coming.)
National Parks Service Still Acquiring New Land Post Sequester
Ask your congress critter why the National Parks Service and Department of the Interior are crying in their sequester boo-hoo towel while simultaneously spending even more money to expand the system and the costs required to maintain it. Sen. Tom Coburn says there’s “no shortage of potential savings,” pointing out that the department is nevertheless spending millions on … Read more
Could I “Bee” More Surprised?
A recent report released by the US department of agriculture and the EPA not only did not blame Global Warming for the colony collapse problem with the Honey bee population in the US. Imagine my surprise. A collection of ‘experts’ gathered by the government, may have produced a set of conclusions with no immediate political … Read more
House Bill 135 Is All But Dead
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. —Plato
Senator Sharon Carson (R) Dist. 14, Chair, Senate Judiciary (Londonderry), sent me a message yesterday afternoon that the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 4-1 on HB 135 to recommend, “Inexpedient to Legislate…” legislative speak meaning the committee recommends the subject bill be killed and not pass on in the process.
Say Hello to the Happy Train
Rick reported the news yesterday of the likely demise of HB 135 (2013)– Deputy Dawg Stephen Shurtleff’s repeal of stand your ground for me but not for he. Most of us had an inkling of this last week, and I’m not about to go on about that or the bill’s demise because Rick has more to add (or just … Read more
Che Guevara: A Progressive favorite…
Viva la revolution, eh? This from a Cuban-American about the Regressive psychopath: Too bad there was no photo from when he murdered my great uncle and his 12 year old son in front of his wife and daughters in the front yard of their home in Cuba. His crime? Refusing to turn over the keys … Read more
Never mind.
The Union leader has just updated an earlier story about an 18 year old in Cocnord, New Hampshire who had been arrested and charged with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon after a student reported that they had pulled a gun on them in the High School.
The evening incident resulted in an evacuation of the facility. The report suggests that about 50 people had to leave the school, students involved in activities and adult education participants were all evacuated so a police tac team could search the building. The student was found, off school grounds, where he was detained, arrested, and charged.
Tac team. Evacuation. Student charged with criminal threatening.
Wait. Turns out the girl who reported it lied.
Did NH Democrats Encourage Erica Lafferty to Crash Kelly Ayotte’s NH Town Hall?
Who in the New Hampshire Democrat party reached out to Erica Lafferty–the daughter of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung–to encourage her to leave her own state, which has all kinds of background checks for gun purchases that did no good at all, to come to New Hampshire and lean on our State Senator?
Talk about out of state influence.
With all due respect and deepest condolences to Ms. Lafferty for her loss, you are being played. All you did was reduce your very real tragedy to a tragic comedy by coming to my state to intimidate my Senator for not voting to pass a bill that would not have done one damn thing to prevent what happened to your mother. Or didn’t the Democrats, or the magazine editors, or the folks on the Today show, or whomever they’ve had you with or in front of tell you that yet?