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Hour One: 

Opening Banter: Welcome and nice weather!  No sunspots - global chill starting?

Kevin Smith of Cornerstone Policy Research comes on to talk about the politics in Concord with the Marriage Bill, the Bathroom Bill, and changes to the Human Rights Commission law that could land anyone in hot water for just having a dissenting opinion.  Lots of outside money is coming in from the LGBT lobby (Human Rights Campaign and the Tim Gil Pac [think Gay Soros]) to buy these votes.  Most people are AGAINST gay marriage (30 out of 30 states where the people were allowed to vote on this issue have rejected it).  This is not about marriage equality but it is about the forced acceptance and bashing religion for 0.4% of NH's population (gays that have availed themselves of civil unions).

We talk about the Human Rights Commission and how it can be used to punish free speech. Look what is happening to Miss California, Carrie Prejean!  Disagree with the LGBT political line?  You are AUTOMATICALLY a homophobic bigoted hater in their eyes!  Part 1   Part 2

 

Fred Tausch of STEWARDofProsperity.org, ("Save The Economy Without Accumulating Record Debt") comes on as a fiscal conservative who was upset at Bush's fiscal policies and is upset now at Obama's. The debt getting racked up is going to negatively affect our children and is irresponsible.  Fred wants people to ACT!  We discuss the economic study he commissioned to see if the Stimulus is going to work and how it is doing as time goes along.  Spending - simple wealth transfers from states that manage their budgets well to states like California that refuse to.  White House claims of the Stimulus saving thousands of NH teacher jobs?  Really? They cannot be identified.  Distorting local government spending by altering the NH citizen mindset of frugality and self-responsibility?  Outsiders are bringing in LOTS of money to convince us that the Stimulus is simply great!

Discussion:  why are we rewarding company and state failures by penalizing successful, hard working citizens by taking their money and sending it the failures? The data at STEWARDofProsperity.org may help citizens to understand what is being done to them and give them a mechanism and a voice to hold politicians accountable.  Jorge Mesa-Tejada calls in - how to join forces to make this happen? Part 1  Part 2

Hour Two:  

John Hawkins (RightWingNews, the Conservative Grapevine, Townhall.com, and RightWingVideo) returns to yak with Skip And Doug about some of the posts and other topics.  For instance - bloggers earning big income??  Consensus - VERY few actually can make a living.  Perez Hilton "makes a lot of money if he is a scumbag" -but look at the fire storm he ignited; now beauty contests have to be politically correct?  Only liberals do this and punish those that do not share the same viewpoint.  And Hilton will be rewarded by increased hit counts for being a jackass.

Super-CEO Obama - government is nationalizing the capitalist system by taking over GM and the banks and forcing them to produce according to ideology instead what creates profit.  Trying to fit Americans to the European declining demographics (so WHAT that American have bigger families).  Obama is acting on multiple fronts to force us to live the way he wants than allowing us the freedom to choose for ourselves.

 Next we talk about Obama's foreign policy manta - just kowtow!  Hey, he told us that he searched out the socialists and Maxists while in college - now he is doing it at world level.  John talks about Chomsky's philosophy ("the US is at fault for everything") and how Obama is in thrall to it - nice to our enemies and poorly to our traditional allies.  This is going to be problematic as our enemies are thinking "what a sucker - let's take advantage of this!". Why would our enemies wait - and we talk about the examples that show that they are not!  Transnationalism - the US is only one nation among equals in the world.  Our success may hinge on what we can unwind after his administration.

Is Obama's administration (and uber-Lefties in Congress) words about putting the previous administration under investigation and on trial for political reasons good for the nation?  Doug and John agree - look at the model that Rome presents! We will only be destroyed only by ourselves - internally.

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Skip & Doug talk about Jeb Bradley's win over Willard "Bathroom Bud" Martin in this week's NH Senate District 3.  Good candidate, good platform, help from a re-invigorated NH GOP (and a wee bit of help from us) - and voters gave a crushing "NO!" to all of the changes that the Democrats have been foisting upon NH residents.  This was a litmus test that Jeb and traditional values past hands down!

The guys play Kevin Smith's little ditty:  NH Liberals Favorite Things!

Greg Knytch, Laconia City Councilor, called in to remind the folks that Jeb's official swearing in is at 2pm at the Senate chambers in Concord. 

Obama & the banks - hard to give back the TARP money; Obama is converting their TARP purchased preferred shares to VOTING RIGHTS common stock?  Back door nationalization??? Banana republic time for the US? With Obama ham-fisting government policy with the banks and auto companies and health industries (soon coming) and now nationalizing student loans and hog-tieing the oil companies via tax codes - should government be limiting the choices that we citizens can make?  And what is being taught in our schools to reinforce this?

And read our friend Terry Stewart's post about the Gilford's Meadow if you are local!

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