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The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions." --American Statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852)


Wednesday, April 29, 2026

"ACME Voting" or the "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

 

Another scheme to circumvent the U.S. Constitution...Color me shocked....THis is pure Mob rule, especially because the democrats like the illegals on the voter rolls


   Something like that......So Each state is responsible for policing its own rolls, but during covid there were a lot of shenanigans with mail in ballots and several battleground states including mine flipped, especially in a couple of counties around our state capital of Atlanta that always seems to have issues with voter integrity and it always seems to fall in the democrats favor...funny that.  So they are pushing for this voter compact because they don't believe that its "fair" that all these hick voters derail the urbal socialist paradise that is around the corner if only the "bitter Clingers" would get with the program and accept the urban technocrats as their "betters" because because of their education, and breeding they are better to rule decide what is best in everybody's interest....The university professors told them so.

   I clipped the following post off farcebook   The preceding cartoon came from my "stash"




The Acme Rocket Aimed at the Electoral College The Democrats have found another way to lose the argument and still reach for the trophy.
By Francis Gauthier
That is the plain truth behind the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. It is not some harmless civics reform dreamed up by clean-handed patriots sitting around a schoolhouse stove. It is a political shortcut. A back door. A way to keep the Electoral College standing in the front yard like an old New England barn while quietly gutting the beams from the inside.
And if New Hampshire is foolish enough to shrug at it, we may wake up one morning and discover that presidential candidates no longer need to care what a taxpayer in Claremont, Newport, Berlin, Colebrook, Franklin, or Laconia thinks.
They will care what Los Angeles thinks.
They will care what New York City thinks.
They will care what Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Houston, Seattle, and the big political machines think.
The rest of us? We can wave from the stone wall while the campaign bus rolls by on its way to a donor breakfast and a television studio.
That is the story. Everything else is wrapping paper.
The Democrats are the Wile E. Coyotes of politics. They no longer seem interested in winning elections the old-fashioned way — by persuading enough Americans across enough states that their ideas are worth trusting. Instead, they keep going back to the Acme catalog of political contraptions.
There is always another gadget in the crate.
“Push Grandma off a cliff.”
Russian collusion.
Laptop disinformation.
Cemetery voter outreach.
Mail-in balloting.
Election season instead of Election Day.
And now comes their latest shiny contraption: the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, or NPVIC.
They call it reform.
I call it the Constitutionally Illiterate and Unbelievably Naïve Conspiracy — CIUNC.
It even sounds like something hitting the bottom of a canyon.
The Trick in the Toolbox
The compact works like this: states that join agree to give all their presidential electors to whoever wins the national popular vote, even if that candidate loses inside their own state.
Read that again, slowly.
A state could vote one way, and its electors could be handed to the other candidate because voters somewhere else outnumbered them.
That is not local self-government. That is outsourcing your state’s voice to a national crowd.
The compact does not kick in until member states control 270 electoral votes — enough to decide the presidency. So it sits there like a loaded spring under the porch steps, waiting for enough states to step on it.
Supporters say this is perfectly fair. Every vote equal, every person heard, one national total, nice clean arithmetic.
But politics is not just arithmetic. Neither is a republic.
A republic is structure. Balance. Restraint. The Founders knew something modern political consultants work very hard to forget: raw majority power can crush smaller communities flat. That is why America was built as a union of states, not one giant national blob with fifty administrative regions and a federal logo slapped on top.
New Hampshire is not California with frost heaves.
Why New Hampshire Should Care
New Hampshire has always punched above its weight.
We are a small state, but we are not a small people. We expect presidential candidates to show up, stand in a town hall, look voters in the eye, and answer questions from people who know how to spot baloney without a federal inspection sticker.
That is part of our political culture.
The First-in-the-Nation primary matters because it puts ordinary citizens near the front of the process. A candidate cannot just hide behind television ads and consultants. He has to come here. He has to shake hands with mechanics, farmers, veterans, retirees, loggers, nurses, small-business owners, parents, and taxpayers who have already heard every polished speech since the Carter administration and are not impressed by another one.
The Electoral College carries some of that same spirit into the general election.
It tells candidates: you cannot win by piling up votes in a few crowded places and ignoring the rest of the country. You have to build a coalition across states. You have to care about regions. You have to know that a voter in rural New Hampshire still counts for something.
The NPVIC changes that bargain.
It says: forget the states. Chase the national pile.
Once that happens, New Hampshire becomes campaign scenery. Nice mountains. Good diners. Fine maple syrup. Thanks for the memories.
Then the big money goes where the population is thickest. The television buys go where the biggest returns are. The national machines run the table. The rural taxpayer gets a postcard, a robocall, and maybe a candidate’s cousin pretending to have once driven through Concord.
A Back Door Around the Constitution
Here is the part that ought to bother every citizen who still owns a pocket Constitution, even if it is buried in the junk drawer under dead batteries and a 2009 tax bill.
If you want to abolish the Electoral College, there is an honest way to do it.
Pass a constitutional amendment.
That means broad national debate. Congress. The states. Public consent. Heavy lifting. The kind of lifting politicians avoid like wet firewood.
The compact does not do that.
It leaves the Electoral College standing on paper while changing how enough states use it to make it meaningless. It is not demolition with a permit. It is sneaking in at midnight with a sawzall.
That is why this scheme feels so slippery. It does not openly say, “We are abolishing the Electoral College.” It says, “No, no, the Electoral College is still there. We are simply agreeing to hand our electors to the winner of a national vote total.”
Well, that is like saying you still own your truck after someone removes the engine, tires, doors, and steering wheel.
Technically true, maybe. Useful? Not unless you need a planter.
Why the Left Really Hates the Electoral College
Let us not overcomplicate this.
The left hates the Electoral College because it sometimes stops them.
That is the root of the whole business.
When Democrats win under the rules, the rules are holy. When Republicans win under the same rules, suddenly the system is broken, racist, outdated, undemocratic, and probably causing bad weather.
They did not like 2000. They did not like 2016. So instead of asking why their message failed in enough states to matter, they blamed the scoreboard.
That is the modern left’s oldest habit: if an institution blocks the agenda, delegitimize the institution.
If the court rules against them, pack it.
If the Senate slows them down, abolish the filibuster.
If voters resist them, federalize elections.
If parents object, call them extremists.
If the Electoral College produces the “wrong” winner, gut it through an interstate compact and call it democracy.
The Acme catalog never closes.
The Old Yankee Smell Test
New Hampshire people understand the smell test.
If a fellow shows up at your door with a clipboard, a grin, and a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” you count your chickens before he leaves the driveway.
The National Popular Vote Compact does not pass that test.
It asks small states to surrender their leverage in exchange for a national promise. And anyone who has watched politics for more than fifteen minutes knows what national promises are worth once power changes hands.
Small states should never voluntarily give up constitutional protection. That is like selling your snowblower in July because the weather looks fine.
Winter comes.
Power concentrates.
The same people who tell New Hampshire, “Trust us, every vote will count,” will be the first to forget we exist when the campaign maps get redrawn around giant population centers.
The Electoral College forces presidential candidates to think about the country as a country — not just as a spreadsheet of high-density vote banks.
That matters.
It matters to the taxpayer.
It matters to the farmer.
It matters to the small-town business owner.
It matters to the parent who wants schools controlled locally, not by national political machines.
It matters to the veteran who did not serve a republic just so it could be managed by consultants with soft hands and hard drives.
The Roadrunner Keeps Running
In the cartoons, Wile E. Coyote always thinks the next gadget will work.
The rocket skates.
The giant slingshot.
The painted tunnel.
The exploding tennis ball.
The problem is never the plan, according to him. It is always bad luck, bad timing, or that smug bird.
Politics works the same way with the Democrats.
When their ideas fail to persuade enough Americans across enough states, they do not slow down and reconsider. They order another gadget. They build another scheme. They rename it “reform.” Then they act shocked when half the country sees the dynamite label on the box.
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is just another Acme rocket.
And New Hampshire should not help light the fuse.
Bottom Line
The NPVIC is not about fairness. It is about power.
It would weaken small states, flatten local political culture, and turn presidential elections into national population contests dominated by big cities and political machines.
It keeps the Electoral College in name while trying to drain it of purpose. That is not reform. That is constitutional taxidermy.
New Hampshire should reject it cold.
Because once small states hand away their voice, they will not get it back with a polite letter and a stern town meeting speech.
They will have to fight for it.
Better to keep the voice now.
Better to guard the old constitutional fence before the cattle get out.
Better to tell the Acme salesman to take his rocket skates, his painted tunnel, and his national popular vote scheme back down the road.
New Hampshire still matters.
Let us keep it that way. 🗽
Biblical tie-in: Fair rules matter because honest government depends on honest weights. “A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.” — Proverbs 11:1. A people who let politicians rig the scale should not be surprised when liberty gets shortchanged.

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

"Its Just Business"......The SPLC Story

 



I have known for a while that the SPLC was phony, they have been scaring the crap out of black people for years using the "boogeymen" of the KKK, and other right wing hate groups, I knew that the KKK was flat broke, the SPLC broke those clowns in the 1970's, flat out bankrupted them, owned all their assets, everything.  You noticed that they faded away for a while...then all of a sudden they came back....with a vengence......Especially after Obungler got elected and it got worse after "Evil Orange Man Bad" got elected.  The Ferguson riots and Trayvon Martin were a godsend for the SPLC, it let them find the "boogeymen" again....and finance them.   and the donations started rolling in.....



For me, the SPLC revelations are simultaneously damning and completely unsurprising. I’ve been researching and writing about why people persist in believing things that simply aren’t true for a long time. It’s not just the SPLC, it’s most high-profile left-wing organizations that incorporate propaganda as one of their chief outputs. I became acutely aware of increasing SPLC discoveries of “racism” and “homophobia” during the G.W. Bush administration as need for a class wedge evolved. If you or your group was conservative, Christian, or even just leaned libertarian, you made their list.
The increases in the named groups that are enemies of the Democrat Party and the corresponding increases in funding as the names on their list increased is not coincidental. It is actually a business model.
Let’s not forget that model requires two things, the cynical bastards who to create the lies (that not even they believe) and push them into the popular mind, and the willing dupes who, with religious-like fervor, will believe anything regardless of how improbable or impossible it is, simply due to who or what the lie is aimed.
If you think there is a persistent tendency in American political discourse to treat ideology as a set of ideas to be tested against reality, you don’t get to pass Go or collect $200. That assumption breaks down when what you are actually dealing with is not ideology alone, but something closer to theology, an all-encompassing belief system that orders the world not by evidence, but by moral narrative.
Much of the contemporary American left operates in precisely that space, where politics is not merely about outcomes or policies, but about affirming a worldview rooted in opposition.
Every functioning system needs critique, skepticism, and competing priorities. What we are seeing instead is something more reflexive and less tethered to results, it is opposition as identity. If a policy, institution, or outcome can be associated with the “wrong” side of the moral ledger, be it capitalism, tradition, nationalism, or meritocracy, then it must be resisted, regardless of whether it is objectively working within the boundaries within which it was designed to operate.
This is where the theology enters from stage left. This is not about God or a god, but it exists in a very similar religious framework. In a traditional framework, outcomes are often secondary to adherence. The true believer does not measure truth by immediate results, but by fidelity to doctrine and the strength of beliefs remain even when the desired outcomes are not realized.
When that approach is transposed into politics, you get a system where success itself becomes suspect or illegitimate if it emerges from the wrong premises. A functioning market is recast as exploitation (capitalist competition is racist, right?) and effective law enforcement becomes systemic oppression (the ICE actions, particularly in Minnesota are good examples). Even declining crime or rising prosperity can be reframed as evidence of hidden injustice rather than indicators of success (think about the accusations of racism as DC’s crime rate fell).
Intellectually, doesn’t make sense. If a system is achieving its stated goals by reducing poverty, increasing opportunity, or maintaining order, it should at least earn a hearing on its own merits, but that requires a willingness to evaluate outcomes dispassionately and separate emotional reaction from empirical observation—precisely what an ideo-theological framework resists.
It cannot afford to concede that something it opposes might actually work, because doing so would undermine the moral architecture of the entire belief system.
So, the evaluation shifts from logical examination to emotional reasoning. The question is no longer “Does this produce good results?” but “Does this align with our moral narrative?” If the answer to the second question is no, then the first question becomes irrelevant. In fact, positive results can intensify the opposition, because they represent a threat. They suggest that the world is more complicated than the doctrine allows, that solutions can arise from sources deemed illegitimate.
This helps explain the immediate and compulsive need to locate failure, injustice, or crisis even in environments that are objectively improving. The system must remain morally flawed, not because it is, but because the belief system cannot stand if it isn’t.
The difference between intellectual consideration and emotional evaluation is stark. The former asks whether something works and why. It is the century old basis for using logic and facts to understand and solve problems, the basis for the scientific method.
The latter begins with a conclusion and works backward, filtering reality through a predetermined lens. In a way, it is a capitalistic model that recognizes a need, then finds ways to fill it.
In that, the SPLC is not alone, it is no different from the Human Rights Campaign. The HRC was the number one left-wing ally and funding source for same sex unions. When the Supreme Court decision about gay marriage came down, the donations dried up, so the HRC switched to advocating for transgenderism and the money started flowing again.
Likewise, SPLC saw an increasing demand for racism while supply of was dwindling (and the money drying up), so they started building white supremacy factories all over America.
Opposition is no longer a means to an end; it is just the business model.

Monday, April 27, 2026

"Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah"

    I know that I have been tormenting everyone with my 70's music the past few weeks,  but I went camping this past weekend with The Boy Scouts er Scouting USA with my troop, I'm still an adult leader, and my troop assisted with a cub scout event.  Its the first time in years that I went. I stuck my toe in the water again after several years, my son has "Eagled out" back in 2021 but I kept my membership current mainly to teach the shooting sports. ,22 Rifle, Shotgun,  I make use of my NRA certifications. but I will not deal with "Wrist Rockets" Basically Slingshots, those things are a liability waiting to happen. if I am using my own that I have taken care of, that is different...but the scout ones are like rental cars...if you know where I am going with this.  Well anyway...I decided to go with "Hello Muddah...Hello Faddah"

                       This is my copy of that famous Ronco Record


             You can see some of my other records
                My Stereo that I bought back in the 80's from the PX
   My Technics Turntable, it works like a CD player, instead of a arm like most, it has a tracking like what a CD player would use,  Many years ago, I modified the top shelf where I could pick it up and slide it out and place it on an indent with an retractable sliding roller like what a filing cabinet would use so it would easy to use the player since the top opens to lay the record on top and close the cover.  All I have to do is plug in the power strip.


"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)" is a Grammy Award-winning novelty song by Allan Sherman and Lou Busch, based on letters of complaint Allan received from his son Robert while Robert attended Camp Champlain in WestportNew York. The song is a parody that complains about the fictional "Camp Granada" and is set to the tune of Amilcare Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours". The name derives from the first lines:

Hello Muddah,
Hello Fadduh.
Here I am at
Camp Granada.
Camp is very
entertaining.
And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining
.

The lyrics go on to describe unpleasant, dangerous, and tragic developments, such as fellow campers going missing or contracting deadly illnesses. He begs to be taken home, promising to behave and even let his aunt hug and kiss him. At the end, he notes that the rain has stopped and fun activities have begun, and asks his parents to "kindly disregard this letter".
After the song scored #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 list for three weeks beginning August 24, 1963, Sherman wrote a new 'back at Camp Granada' version, "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh!" for a May 27, 1964 performance on the The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Sherman wrote a third version for, and acted in, a 1965 TV commercial for a board game about Camp Granada, a "real rotten camp".
The song won a 1964 Grammy Award for comedy. The song has been played numerous times on the Dr. Demento Show and is featured on the Rhino Records compilation album, Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection. Variations of the song include translations in Swedish ("Brev från kolonien" by Cornelis Vreeswijk), Finnish ("Terve mutsi, terve fatsi, tässä teidän ihmelapsi") and Norwegian, ("Brev fra leier'n" by Birgit Strøm). The Finnish version lyrics is included in Finnish Boy Scouts' songbook.