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The New Hampshire State Senate has made it’s position clear. Everything goes better with Gambling. That pesky Lyme disease thing–probably get that passed with gambling. And they would be more than willing to overturn any lingering Blue Laws if people could gamble on Sunday. Want to make sure money is a form of free …
Yeah – the height of Prudence? As a careful steward of taxpayer money and sensibility? No, something more akin to a teenager with a forged drivers license and Dad’s filched credit card having just about to walk into a bar (e.g., about to become a drunken sailor, without the sailor title). From the Nashua Telegraph: …
My NH State Senator, Kathy Sgambati, STILL spending money the State doesn’t have. Read More »
(H/T: Washington Examiner)
Guest post by Mary Grabar: Disparagement of knowledge was evident at the National Council for the Social Studies conference I attended last November in Atlanta. There, 3,200 teachers were continuing their studies in pedagogy, and gaining continuing and graduate credit to bump them into higher salaries. Most worked for public schools, so taxpayers footed the …
I wrote here that I had already talked several times with Youngest since his arrival in Afghanistan. One of the things that immediately impressed me was the quality of the phone call. I use a VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol – think Skype or a phone from your cable company) all day long – the …
About that background noise when I talked with the Youngest? Read More »
I received an email from my co-worker, Karen, yesterday morning pointing me to this video: The Warrior Song. I played it, and sure enough, I had already posted it up on the ‘Grok this past Veterans Day (Nov. 11, 2009). At the time, I wrote the following: The ‘Grok loves our vets and those that …
And now, the Youngest is amongst them and is one. Read More »
Yeah, I did. I think we should all vote like that [turning out the incumbent party after two or three terms]. Otherwise we’re just the slaves of any political party. We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party. – Michael Caine, Academy Award winning actor (H/T: …
Andy Sanborn, candidate for NH Senate District 7, vents his ire concerning Commander-in-Chief Obama’s decision to go to Chicago instead of laying the traditional wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC.
An observation by Charles Krauthammer Here’s my question: Why are we drilling in 5,000 feet of water in the first place? Many reasons, but this one goes unmentioned: Environmental chic has driven us out there. As production from the shallower Gulf of Mexico wells declines, we go deep (1,000 feet and more) and ultra deep …
I believe in Unintended Consequences: this is one Read More »
The Ray and Kathy Show has this gag they do all the time, where they complain about outside money, or special interests on the right affecting local elections. It’s a serious gas because everyone knows it’s actually a projection of their own involvement with deep pocketed outside interests with which they exert pressure upon the local …
