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UPDATE: Eventbrite event is now up and running here. Looking forward to seeing you all! Well, we had a couple of GrokMeetups earlier and then stopped for the holidays. New year, new calendar – time to get revved up again so here we go! We are headed back to Kirk’s Area 23 Pub for our third … Read more
We hear things. They are not always nice things. Especially when it comes to elections. This time it relates to the race for New Hampshire GOP Chair. Keith Hanson and Steve Stepanek are vying for that position. Pam Tucker and Kate Day are each running for NH GOP Vice-Chair. Funny, that vice chair race? I’ve heard … Read more
At the Northwood Community Center, Ian Underwood gave a presentation on educational funding that basically told the audience that we were thinking about the wrong thing. Much of the debate in NH (and elsewhere) always has money at the forefront – instead, we ought to be mindful of student achievement first and then what is … Read more
At the 603 Alliance “Thank YOU!” event this past Saturday afternoon in Manchester, I was asked to go around and do a few quick interviews of both 603 Board members, those that assisted during their candidate events, and some candidates as well. So who did I spy but our own Steve Mac Donald! Always appearing … Read more
Steve was on top of the rather condescending ad by Gillette by admonishing men that we’re nothing but dirt. Great way to enthuse your customer base – unless they’re trying to appeal to the Beta males created by Third Wave feminists. Heh! So here’s a parody of that ad (image/message ad only – not a … Read more
At the 603 Alliance “Thank YOU!” event last night in Manchester, I was asked to go around and do a few quick interviews of both 603 Board members, those that assisted during their candidate events, and some candidates as well. My first interview was with Don Ewing, 603 Alliance Board member, leader of the Lakes … Read more
The 603 Alliance held an event last night at the Nackey Loeb School of Communications in Manchester to thank both the Liberty and Constitutionally minded candidates that ran for the NH House as well as all of the folks that helped all those candidates. As you will see later on, everyone admitted that it was … Read more
It’s as if they believe that by simply persuading one more voter to vote for them instead of the other guy, they have the right to tell people how to use their money or run their businesses. In this case, the Fight for $15, the socialist union known as SEIU’s attempt to “raise the living … Read more
Lackluster 2020 Dems: From 7 Dwarfs to 20 Smurfs. (H/T: Instapundit)
This is a long post so IF you don’t have the time, scroll down to “SECOND START” and read from there. You’ll get a good analysis of how Andru Volinsky’s march towards a complete State of NH takeover of educational funding will affect you. First, a short snippet about the LA teachers strike to set … Read more
Yesterday, today, and I’m betting tomorrow as well, WMURis boasting that that for SIX HOURS straight they are going to cover the weather story that “snow is falling”. From 6am to noon, nothing but snow. Snow, snow, snow. Like as if we hadn’t already been told that a big storm was coming for several days? … Read more
Well, with the update from yesterday, it seem like HOPE is all that Lipman and co. may have for this boondoogle of HOPE Squared (HOPE they can get the funding and HOPE again that, well, it’ll work as designed in “revitalizing the downtown area” – the same area that the same HOPE destroyed when it … Read more
(H/T: Powerline) AOC – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the illiterate economics / foreign relations alumnus from my alma mater and monster Democrat Socialista
So says the Chair, Robert Renny Cushing (D) as a whole slate of anti-Article 2-A (Second Amendment, for those that don’t read the NH Constitution) diminishing Rights bills are going to be coming through that committee. John Burt has long recorded his committee’s actions – just like I record my Budget Committee hearings. After all, I’m … Read more
It may easily be foreseen that almost all the able and ambitious members of a democratic community will labor without ceasing to extend the powers of government, because they all hope at some time or other to wield those powers. … Centralization will be the natural government.” -Alexis De Tocquivelle (“Democracy in America”) And here … Read more
As I wrote here: “who serves whom? Do the townfolk serve their employees?” Let that set the table for this. It’s not quite a Tale from the BudComm but it has financial ramifications. If it passes. There will be a petition warrant on my hamlet’s ballot which would move the Second Session (the actual voting) … Read more
As I said in the past, Ian makes my head ache. How? By making me think from and in different directions. Now, normally people hate having headaches but this is of a different kind – and trust me, it is good for you to think outside one’s normal patters. And that’s again, what Ian started … Read more
“We can legally do it – but is a simple majority vote to give your property tax monies to a charity that you otherwise would not actually moral?” Every year since I’ve been politically active and paying attention, “outside agencies” keep coming to my hamlet to get the townfolk to give them money. No, not … Read more
“Taxpayers should be funding public benefits and not private enrichment. At the Northwood Community Center, Ian Underwood gave a presentation on educational funding that basically told the audience that we were thinking about the wrong thing. Much of the debate in NH (and elsewhere) always has money at the forefront – instead, we ought to … Read more
