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I’m thinking that I may just have to vote Democrat in the upcoming election.
There are many reasons why.
Here are some of them….
1. I may vote Democrat because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene…
Domicile, Domicile, where for art thou Domicile? Or perhaps, ” A transient Domicile by any other name would be as….whatever.” If you are an out of state college student where you live doesn’t matter, so where you vote does not matter either, and when I say doesn’t matter, I mean it doesn’t matter where in New Hampshire.
Case in point. The ACLU and League of Women Voters petition, the one that Judge John Lewis more or less just signed off on in the blink of an eye, lists the first petitioner as Hannah Rivers. On the petition she lists her ‘residence’ as Durham New Hampshire. But she hails from Raymond Nebraska, has a drivers license issued by the state of Nebraska and, presumably, wants to vote in Durham in November.
Question: So can out of state students just pick and choose which towns or cities they can vote in, based–presumably–on wherever the Democrat party or their liberal professors, need a ballot box stuffed?
[Update: Edited to affect the relevance of my source information and my source.]
[Update: Yes, Virgina, Democrat donor Cindy Lewis, IS Judge Lewis’ wife. I wonder what other left wing connections we will find if we keep looking?]
Judge John ‘The Fixer” Lewis threw the State constitution under the bus when he announced Monday that, ‘Hell yeah out of state students with no plans to remain in New Hampshire can and should vote here…even on amendments to the New Hampshire State Constitution.
Nothing quite like a judge who is probably sworn to protect it, doing their part to make sure anyone from anywhere gets to vote on what goes in it.
In the interest of public disclosure, seeing as this particular judge from Durham, very promptly decided the matter in the favor of left leaning advocacy groups representing a traditionally Democrat voting block, wishing to exert outside influence on local elections, I went looking for some campaign donation history on the Lewis family.
If Cindy Lewis of Durham NH is Judge Lewis’ wife, well we’ve got something to talk about.
Grokster Steve reports about NH Dems and a fascination with baseball bats. We all know about how much NH Dems wish to redistribute other peoples’ private property (rich, middle-class, no matter as it all belongs to us Progressive anyways) to feel that they have forced others to participate in their Utopian ideas of a perfect … Read more
We remember back to the Declaration of Independence: “pursuit of happiness”, which the meaning of the Founders for the word “happiness” was Private Property. The founding philosophy was that Government was to be a neutral player; it set the table in a flat, even handed fashion in creating the rules and then backed out of the way and let citizens go about creating their wealth in a manner they saw fit, with the intensity of effort and innovation that fit them and their goals.
Winners and Losers picked by Government as a matter of course? Nope!
Obama seemingly has never had that as a grounding philosophy – raised by a mother who had a philosophy, by all accounts I’ve read, of an anti-Americanism, fathers / husbands that left she and Barry after some period of time, spending formative years in Hawaii at the “Red Church”, and mentored by outright Socialists, Marxists, and Communists. By his own hand:
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structured feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpets or set our stereos so loud the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society’s stifling conventions…
And in my opinion, never truly learned what American Exceptionalism is all about; instead, he was taught to despise it. And he became the President without really understanding in his soul what America was all about – only a black Marxist nightmare doppelganger of it. I will say one thing – he hid it well until it was too late for us. Now, in yet another piece of vetting (that the MSM should have done before the LAST election), it comes out that ““When you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody” in 2007 was being formulated well before that in 1998:
What that means then is that as we try to resuscitate this notion that we’re all in this thing together, leave nobody behind, we do have to be innovative and thinking what are the delivery systems that are actually effective and meet people where they live. And my suggestion, I guess would be that the trick, and this is one of the few areas where I think there are technical issues that have to be dealt with as opposed to just political issues. I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level to make sure everybody’s got a shot.
Heh! Mike is out at a tradeshow where there is a cartoonist, Doug Shannon, hard at work – and Mike got cartoonized: Not bad, Mike, not bad at all….I think his smile is MUCH broader in real life. But I do think the cartoonist caught his mischeviousness, though….
“Let me get this straight. We’re supposed to show tolerance and respect for a religion that doesn’t know the meaning of either word and goes out of its way to prove it every day?”
“All week we’ve heard Muslims telling us that we in the West need to understand how important the prophet is to them. We do understand, and we don’t care… we don’t give a damn about your feelings. Our feelings are more important, and our feelings tell us that we’re sick to the back teeth of hearing about your religion, so stick a sock in it.”
Respect is earned in the West – not demanded. It is also a two way street – when Muslims think it is one way only and that our Rights are something to be sacrificed on your Alter of an Honor-Society. Of COURSE there are Dhimmis in the West that will bow so low that you Islamists might think they are showing respect. Or, at least the Dhimmis think they are showing something akin to “respect”. You Islamists know better – their Neville Chamberlin show-alikeis merely a mask of something more dangerous to us: fear. You smell weakness in our elected American leaders, Barry and Hillary – you’re smiling as half of your work is already accomplished. That commercial that the State Department ran in Pakistan of President Obama and Sec. of State Hillary prostrating themselves over an American exercising their First Amendment Right was not just a waste of $70K of taxpayers monies, they merely showed us how partisan they are – and not on the side of the traditional American way of life. Free Speech means being able to say what we want, when we want, where we want, and about what we want – and whether it offends you or not.
And they are embarrassed about it. And that is the saddest thing of all.
With the now “down the Memory Hole” Obama Flag (as observed by Grokster Tim), there has to be words for that Flag, right? OK, a 15 second off-the-top-of-my-head one-off (and I really don’t want to think about it any longer than that – the whole idea is just plain cultish-creepy) along with this campaign’s Pledgers to Obama:
I pledge allegiance to the “O”
of the United cult of Obama,
and to the useful idiot collectivism for which it stands
One Kingdom under the Organizer,
Divider,
with redistribution and socialism for the rest of us
And if after that, you can’t remember the real thing (given that some schools and teachers no longer believe in filling young skulls full of mush such nonsense), go after the jump. In the meantime, here are a bunch of those cultists (otherwise known as “entertainers”) who actually did pledge allegiance to Obama back in 2008:
I guess he’s sitting in a heavily Conservative district or in one with a WHOLE BUNCH of Obummed voters (who will not be stating the same pledge as last time). (H/T: Maggie’s Farm)
Being programmed by the state has finally hit kids where they live–in the stomach. And there is an important lesson to be learned if the kids and their stomachs are listening. That lesson is this: Federal mandates apply force, limit choices, and result in waste, and that is exactly what has happened thanks to Michelle Obama and her meddling bureaucrats at the USDA etc.
The Government was given broad power to enforce menu standards, limiting calories, and forcing food onto menus that kids simply will not eat. The result is waste on both sides of the serving line; costs to purchase the mandated foods that cafeteria managers know kids will not eat, the forced increase in the cost of lunches to meet some arbitrary Federal guideline, and then the waste as food that is being forced on students that is thrown away.
This is the alpha and omega of the centrally planned government that Democrats dream of. And how are the kids responding….
As a very close observer—not to mention participant—in New Hampshire state politics, I can say without reservation that the effect of the Free State Project migration on our state has been positive. Crucially so in the context of state-level politics. First of all, the state Republican Party would not have been graced by the incredibly positive leadership of Speaker of the House Bill O’Brien and the responsible Republicans around him without the backing of supporters who came out of the Free State Project (it was a very close Speaker’s election, remember).
Strafford County New Hampshire Superior Court Judge John M. Lewis has struck down a requirement that out of state students declare domicile in New Hampshire if they want to vote here and in the process has undercut the purpose of voter ID–to ensure that people who vote on local issues and who elect representatives who … Read more
S.3307 (2010) is the legislation that empowered the Feds to regulate local school lunches. It is the regulation that is driving up the cost of school lunches by law because the law demands parity of price regardless of cost. It is the law that limits the number of calories and other nutritional elements to a national standard, regardless of a student’s size or activity level. It is the law that limits menu choices to those defined by the central government, choices kids are rejecting in large numbers, resulting in food being wasted. (Food that costs more because of the law.)
Kids are hungry. High School Athletes are under-nourished. They don’t like or want the food being forced on them. Black markets are forming to fill the need. And food is being wasted.
Let’s face it, Hungry kids do not make good students. This law is a turd sandwich.
So who among the New Hampshire Delegation voted for this crappy central planning nightmare? How about all of them.
Note: the time limit for Obama to keep blaming Bush has expired. The time limit has been reached and expired in which Obama can keep blaming what he inherited – he campaigned for the job. Note: this is a result of his Administration, his ideology, his grasp of systematic economics, and his skill as a … Read more
Not quite, sport: Obama has lowered your premium by -$5,500 (for those of you in Rio Linda, that means instead of saving you $2,500 a year, it is now costing you $3,000 MORE a year (a difference of $5,500 that is no longer in your pocket or your employer that helps to pay your premium) … Read more
I’m having an Irony and hypocrisy overload. Where to start? Did you hear the one about Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren…?
Warren represented not just Travelers, but numerous other companies starting in the late 1990s working out of and using her Harvard Law School office in Cambridge, which she listed as her office of record on briefs filed with various courts. Warren, however, never has been licensed to practice law in Massachusetts.
Sounds bad and may she burn in that special hell reserved for such scoundrels, but that’s not even where I’m going with this. (See the picture for a hint…)
Claims that President Obama’s foreign policy is successful can only be explained by pure partisanship or by criteria putting the interests of others ahead of those of our country and our citizens.
We credit President Obama for killing Osama and other al Qaeda leaders. Obama outlawed enhanced interrogations that led to Osama. The attack was delayed almost a year after Osama’s location was known. Obama prepared to blame someone else if the raid failed. Obama’s quick crowing about Osama’s death destroyed the value of the intelligence that the raid gathered. But, Osama is dead. Congratulations.
The now infamous Obama Flag print with the Anal ‘O’ and five bloody stripes has apparently found the flat edge of the internet world and been consumed by the ethereal monsters that swell the memory abyss. One of the duck-and-cover guards at Big ‘O’ is claiming it sold out, but BuzzFeed observed that other items … Read more
What a great way to start your Monday Morning…Andrew Breitbart at CPAC 2012. Enjoy