MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry – If you thought getting my rifle out of my cold, dead hands was hard enough…

“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had a private notion of children; your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion of these are our children…We Have to Break Through This Idea ‘That Kids Belong to Their Parents‘“

If my kids were still young, Dr. Harris-Perry, you’d get a blast of “cold, dead hands” from me!  Wait until you come to my house still thinking MY kids are YOUR kids.  With antics like this, I no longer have to wonder where the Village Idiot went.  Problem is, there are lots of folks, especially those in Education and the rest of Government do believe exactly what she is saying – these other Village Idiots believe children belong to us all rather than to the Parents that gave birth to them.  Sure, we who have kids want to do everything possible for them – that called ‘being responsible’.  If you make the decision to have them (or, made the decision to engage in an action that would result in a child, intended or not), that is the natural outcome – you put their best interests well in front of your own.  To me, this is the essence of traditional marriage – yes, I and my wife loved each when we said “I Do’s” but we also realized that when the time to have children came, our needs were a far, far second compared to theirs.  NEVER did I believe that ANYONE else was responsible for them.

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Honoring your Oath? Others seem to believe your oath to the Constitution is not mere words. Here’s another one: Accountability

Accountability – a most hated word in politics.  Oh sure, whoever the Political Class doesn’t like will be held to such (after all, they wield the power).  But they never like it when the masses play the “turnabout fair play” game (or journalists, from what I seem, but I repeat myself as many in journalism are now card carrying members of the Political Class).  Oh to be sure, we hear the high minded platitudes about “elections are when voters hold us accountable”  – but some don’t like it when we do.  However, what to do during the “in-between” times when recalls are not an option and you think that someone has violated their promise to voters?  Hmm, this seems to be novel (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Verified Complaint of Breach of Oath of Office and Conspiracy against Rights

Emergency Verified Complaint

Against

1) Stephen Shurtleff – (see Exhibit “A” – HB135)
2) 12 members of the New Hampshire House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee
3) 189 members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives (see Exhibit “B” – March 27th, 2013 Yea Votes)

For

Breach of Oath of Office

and
Violation of 18 USC § 241 – Conspiracy against Rights

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves: and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.” Thomas Jefferson 1820

I, ________________________ one of the People of New Hampshire, come forward to complain against Stephen Shurtleff and 188 other members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives for Breaching their Oaths of Office and Conspiring against My Rights. I hereby present facts known and unknown to you in support of this complaint.

1. Stephen Shurtleff, a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, for the purpose of “accepting the trust” according to Article 84 of the New Hampshire Constitution, has sworn or affirmed the following Oaths.

More of the document after the jump.  So, why SHOULDN’T we hold our elected and appointed officials accountable for the words they utter as the first action of their terms, and to use those solemn words against which to measure their future actions?  Shouldn’t they ALWAYS be mindful of what they have promised?

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NH GOP Executive Board Meeting – Monday, April 15th (appropriate day?) – but not at the regular place

The Executive Board meeting meets on a regular basis and it is my understanding that it is open to all State Committee Members (at the very least).  Well, I’ve never gone to one but have been told that it has enough for the E-Board member and about 10 or so more.  Thus, when Jack Kimball was ousted (resigned), it was held in one of the Holiday Inn conference rooms (and it was pretty well packed).  With all of the brouhaha happening concerning the NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn / NH GOP Treasurer Robert Scott (tax liens vs Signatory authority on bank accounts), I think they gotta get a bigger room for that 6/6:30pm meeting)

Sidenote: I’ve heard from a lot of people concerning the Coos County vote of no confidence in NH GOP Jennifer Horn, most agree with it but a number have complained that it was not “properly noticed” – including from the Area 1 Vice Chair Vicki Schwaegler.  Well, I dryly note that on the NH GOP Calender, at the time of this post, the E-Board (on which she is a member) meeting has not been “properly noticed“.

I have heard that they HAVE now moved the meeting – from an email from a loyal reader who wanted to let me know that there may be legal ramifications:

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Re: Take it back or burn it down

“Fire upon it, my dear Marquis, and never spare a particle of my property so long as it affords a comfort or a shelter to the enemies of my country. – Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson, when asked by Marquis de Lafayette, who was commanding the artillery barrage of Yorktown in the American War of Independence, … Read more

Let’s Take Kelly Ayotte On A Trip In the Way-Back Machine

Susan DeLemus shared this.  It is a link to a pdf file;  Kelly Ayotte’s complete 2010 New Hampshire Firearms Coalition Survey (NHFC). In it she identifies herself as pro-gun.  Very much so.  It looks like she answered all the questions ‘right.’ So I expect, having gone back in time to this 2010 survey, that moving … Read more

No, I am not one of those people!

Hate’em, hate’m, hate’m!  Yes, I’m done and brought them to the Post Office to send them to the IRS (certified / registered). Look, as a Conservative, I do believe that Government is necessary:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

 That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

As our Declaration declares (yeah, I know), the main purpose of Government is NOT to rule over us but to protect pre-existing Rights that come, not as a gift or as a decree from Government, but simply as an attribute of being a human.  Thus, I have no problem in paying for a Limited Government that does exactly that, at the Federal level, and leaves me the heck alone the rest of the time. A government that protects me against the clutches of others – including Government.  Nowhere in the Declaration or the Constitution does it say that Government is the scientist that gets to use us for social experimentation or that it is supposed to shove ‘guide’ us to some dystopian idea of their version of Utopia.  So I pay, grudgingly.  Like a skinflint.  And I hope the people that spend it have the same outlook (like I tried to have when on my local Budget Committee).  Sad to say, I doubt it (when often, on that same BudComm, I saw some act no different than a teenager with a “nothing on it” credit card that has their name on it).  Like these folks:

A Third of Americans Say They Like Doing Their Income Taxes

…However, about a third (34%) say they either like (29%) or love (5%) doing their taxes.

No, I am not one of those people – IMHO, these people literally must have nothing better to do!

Pew: On Paying Taxes

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Tyranny? Proper Role of Govt for a Senator demanding Fox Sports to not to air NASCAR race because of NRA sponsorship?

“Nice network and race series you have there – shame if something happened to it (if the Feds were to start looking at them)”

NRA 500I wanted to start this post off with “Have guns become the new pornography that must be silenced?” but that would miss the nuance of the Progressive mind that ALL things that run counter to the Progressive making “progress” IS considered pornography – and thus, be discredited, maligned and eventually eliminated.  Constitutionally protected?  Makes no difference – FORWARD!  Free speech / First Amendment?  Makes no difference – FORWARD!

That you have a sitting US Senator (Democrat) trying to lean forward in silence the opposition to achieve a Progressive Political Milestone?  Forward to Tyranny worthy of a Banana Republic:

The National Rifle Association-sponsored NASCAR race slated for this weekend is “inappropriate in the immediate wake of the Newtown massacre,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, wrote to the race’s broadcaster on Thursday.

No, we are no longer in the “immediate wake” of using dead children for political children – Senator, when will the Left stop using dead children as politicial pawns?

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Look Who Called Looking for Me…

  Not as menacing as it looks…I believe this is the Big Brother Big Sister Foundation of Greater Boston.  But I thought it was funny how it came up on ID so I figured I’d share it. (Click to enhance)

Millionaire Elizabeth Warren’s Brother Barely Gets By On Social Security

I get emails with transcripts to the Rush Limbaugh show which I rarely look at but this caught my eye.  Obama’s budget, the White House Budget, is using something called chained CPI, and Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren is upset about that.  She is upset because it could result in her brother getting less in Social Security from the government, which he relies on to live.

Senator Warren has a net worth of over 14 million dollars and she’s upset because Obama’s budget gimmick might cut into the $13,200.00 per year her brother has to get by on.  Compassionate Democrat Millionaire Senator, brother lives on $13,200 from taxpayers.

Here’s what Rush had to say.

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“Elite Panic and Kermit Gosnell”

Beyond comprehension

I admit to being a terrible slacker of recent days.  Very little news is good; a lot is simply depressing; but some is so horrifying that it’s difficult to even contemplate.  Case in point is the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell – unabashed abortionist, alleged butcherer of newborn babies.  Precious little has been written about Gosnell or the trial anywhere – none in the “mainstream” media.  Of that precious little, I have only been able to read the teensiest bits of testimony and will never be able to bring myself to look at the photographic evidence that has been presented.  Two posts (combined in one) told me – and will tell you – most everything we need to know about Gosnell and the media protecting him.    I can’t link to it directly so forgive me for posting the whole thing below:

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A List of 54 Anti Common Core Facebook Pages – By State

Laura Rambeau Lee from Right Reason.com has done us all a great service.  She has compiled a list of all the anti-common core facebook pages by state. There are 54 links (so far), three in New Hampshire, so feel free to check a few of them out.  And by all means, like these groups and … Read more

Sidecar buddies

How do you become a US Senator, then subsequently alienate the entire base of true conservatives in your home state? You do this… Disappointment at every turn.

Mayor Gatsas Goes after The “Benfit Plan One-Percenters” in Manchester

oil rig - theres another 'resource' we have to tap
There’s A Public Sector “Resource” That We Need to Tap…

Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas is singing a tune we like to hear and one that I have advocated for myself.  What is it?  Hidden in the Cadillac plans of public sector employees is a revenue resource that must be tapped.

Gatsas is standing up for taxpayers, and defending the spending cap, in his negotiations with the Teachers union with regard to Manchester’s School budget.

He said teachers still enjoy plans with zero deductibles, $5 co-pays and $50 charges for emergency room visits, while the police union, among others, recently made concessions to avoid layoffs, shifting to a plan with higher co-pays, deductibles and $150 per emergency room visit.

“With the $3 million in savings, we hired more police officers,” Gatsas said.

So why can’t the teachers do the same thing?  It’s a great question.

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NH GOP hierarchy – damage control: Oh no, that wasn’t REALLY a vote (er, was it?)

Last night I put up this post – a Presser by the Coos County Republican Committee sent out by Eric Catman, the Coos County Chair:

Expressing no confidence in New Hampshire Republican State Committee Chairman Jennifer Horn

Be it resolved that we the members of the Coos County Republican Committee do hereby issue this resolution due to recent actions of Chairman Jennifer Horn in her handling of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee.

Whereas the recent attack on longtime New Hampshire Republican State Committee Treasurer Robert Scott by Chairman Horn has distracted the party from its objectives…

Well, THAT didn’t take long – the Area 1 Vice Chair Vicki Schwaegler seemingly  immediately ran to the media in full out damage control (some reformmating, emphasis mine):

A no-confidence vote taken by members of the Coos County Republican Committee against New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Jennifer Horn Wednesday night via conference call was not an official act, according to the party’s vice chairman, Vicki Schwaegler.

Please note that she is not THE Vice Chair – that would be JP Marzullo; Vicki is only 1 of 5 AVPs;  in fact, this next part of the article is absolutely wrong:

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Mule Trading

Dead Mule

Curtis & Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily in Starkville , MS. and bought a mule for $100.

The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day.

The next morning the farmer drove up and said,”Sorry, fellows, I have some bad news, the mule died last night.”

Curtis & Leroy replied,”Well, then just give us our money back.”

The farmer said,”Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.”

They said, “OK then, just bring us the dead mule.”

The farmer asked, “What in the world ya’ll gonna do with a dead mule?”

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