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Escape from California?

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They’re not only talking about getting out of California (see below)…they’re talking escape from America. An interesting read.

As goes California, says the old maxim…

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…”so goes America.” Well. I want to say much about the recent election—and the Republican Party, not to mention the New Hampshire GOP—but first…let’s take a look at California! where the Democrats have just won overwhelming political control in the form of super-majorities in the state legislature. As Reason magazine’s Matt Welch says, “let us gaze upon … Read more

As the people of California destroy their state…

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…could there be a place for their escaping businesses in New Hampshire? Read an interesting book review of “Crazifornia: Tales from the Tarnished State — How California is Destroying itself, and Why it Matters.” (As is often the case, the commentary following the article is even more enlightening than the review itself.) (h/t to Instapundit.)

On Not being California…

by Steve MacDonald

Tax Money down the toiletNew Hampshire is not California.  We are not California because with the exception of 2007-2010, we try to avoid letting Democrats run the entire state government.  (We’re also not Massachusetts for that same reason.)  And this is good, because while Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has now implemented “cost controls” for Healthcare providers in his state, guaranteeing(long term) less access, longer waits and poorer service, California is a bloody disaster.

The tax and spend, unsustainable pension and benefits, land of environmental extortion, saw sales tax revenue drop 33.5% last month.  While but one small part of the problem that is “California” all the problems can be linked directly to things that New Hampshire Democrats want you to experience right here in the Granite State.

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Which Utopian Democrat Dream-Scam Is Failing Faster?

by Steve MacDonald

Facepalm - Which Progressive Utopia will fail firstWhich Utopian dystopian Democrat dream-Scam is failing faster?

In Cah-Lee-Four-Knee-Ah the Workers paradise is collapsing at an ever increasing rate as the anchor of unsustainable public union contracts and pensions drag otherwise average, every-day, incompetently run, but barely sustainable left wing bureaucrapalities (bureaucratically strangled municipalities run by an endless string of administrators and political descendents of the Democrat bloodline) into bankruptcy.

In Obamaville, the chronically unemployed can look up from the gutters of Hopey-changey Way to watch the lights dim on an unending string of Solar Panel/Green Energy company failures as the DoE’s wasted-billions to prop up the Renewable Energy Utopia ding-bats like Jeanne Shaheen have oversight on, produce nothing but failure and rising debt service payments.

The missing link between these two is happily not missing.  And you cant blame George Bush.  These failures are both of products of Progressives, mostly Democrats, attempting to micromanage labor, its type, direction, output, and value.

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Shaheen On Wildfires…You Can Smell The Hypocrisy (From Day 1)

by Steve MacDonald

Jeanne Shaheen had some harsh words for the White House regarding the Wildfires…

I Can Almost Blame George Bush From Here!

“These wildfires are a direct result of this administration’s failure to do something about global warming,” Shaheen said with passion and to applause as the microphone cut out on her.

…back in October of 2007.  Back in 2007 she was talking about California Wildfires and then President George W. Bush.

Whether you believe in Global warming or not, and regardless of whether you think it could or would have any affect on wildfires as Jeanne Shaheen believes–at least for the sake of campaign rhetoric–what bearing do these remarks have on the current situation in Colorado today?

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Son of Greece?

by Skip

I guess that would make Illinois a close kissing cousin? (H/T: NetRightDaily)

California – land of fun, sun, & beaches….and $16 Billion deficits, onerous biz regulations, and Democrat control

by Skip

Especially with Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown now saying that only with higher taxes can California get out of their bind. Umm, Jerry?  Your taxes are already among the highest in the nation…that’s not enough? (H/T: John D)

Adoption “Advocates” Have No Sense of Humor?

by Steve MacDonald

In the new Avengers movie, Thor is defending his brother Loki–the arch villain in the film–when he is reminded by Black Widow that Loki has killed 80 people in two days.  Thor replies, “he’s adopted.” I laughed.  The theater laughed.  It was funny. But not to Mara Parker from Trinidad, California.  She was offended and … Read more

Yet another example of politicians ignoring THEIR responsibility to lecture us on ours

by Skip

“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”
– President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09

Too bad, he didn’t have “and treat our citizens like adults.  California – the land of sun, fun, and more stupid politicians that can’t balance their budgets or restrain the public unions, but boy, they can nitpick their voters for not doing the right thing, eh?  This time, it is all about harranging drivers that change their oil too often.  Yeah, the State is now concerning itself, due to the self-importance of the enviro-wackos, and telling its drivers “Yo, slow down on your car chugging the oil – break that habit, dude!”

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Going After Boxer

by Steve MacDonald

30 second can of whoop-ass! ,/p> (H/T The Blaze.com)

Going After Boxer

by Steve MacDonald

Here is a recent Carly Fiorina Ad putting boxer in the proper ruling class context–that she has used government to make herself into a millionaire while her own constituents are made to suffer from her failure to lead. And that is really what it comes down to. Since early 2009 the left has tried to … Read more

Where Do We Draw The Line?

by Steve MacDonald

No, It's not marraige.All you folks (regardless of your sexual disorientation) who’ve gone and gotten yourselves hitched by a JP or someone else who performs a legitimate civil union just got hosed by one federal judge in Northern California.  According to him, you’re not married.  That’s right, civil unions are not marriages. (That is to say, they are not contractually equivalent.)

It will get appealed for good reason, and it has no affect anywhere else, but you know how the left likes to think of every little thing some elitist radical judge does as a sign of whatever it is they want that no one else wants.  It’s the beginning of a transformation of the culture.  Actually it’s not.

 

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Does Palin Still Owe McCain?

by Steve MacDonald

I have to wonder if Mrs. Palin Still feels an obligation to John McCain, and if it’s going to be a problem for her conservative supporters in the future.  NRO’s "The Corner" grabbed a message of Sarah’s facebook page in which she endorses Carly Fiorina for the California Republican Primary to challenge Senator Barbara Boxer.  Carly has … Read more

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