Steve MacDonald

What’s the difference between the Steve Scalise Story and The Terry Bean Story?

NH Democrat state party Chair Ray Buckley knows accused pederast Terry Bean.  They both serve on the Democrat National Committee.  They have been in the same room with each other more than once, had dinner with the president, and they may even have each others contact information.  Bean is accused of raping a 15 yer old boy.

Steve Scalise is not from New Hampshire but 12 years ago he spoke to a group in the same hotel, on the same day, where White Supremacists would later gather.   At least some of the latter were there to hear the speech and report on it back in 2002.

The Scalise story from 2002 broke Dec 29th 2014, and hit the NH Press Dec 30th.  Terry Bean, accused of sexually assaulting a minor on November 20th 2014,  has not yet been mentioned in the NH press.

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One of the important debates in the shadow of Democrat elected Speaker Shawn Jasper’s (R-Hudson) ascension to the gavel is what degree of tolerance should conservatives have for Republicans disinclined to let the party platform temper their legislative passions.  Everyone had valid observations (in the email thread) up to a point but after reading a few days’ worth of back-and-forth I felt the need to distill the problem.

No citizen should think it a sound argument to allow a politician or a government to only defend 51% of the State or Federal Constitution.  This has to apply equally to a platform that pretends to defend that Constitution; a platform that is far easier to change; which (brings us) to the root of the problem.

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I got a scratch ticket for Christmas.  I get at least one, sometimes several,  every year.  Many of us get those, or give them.  They fit nicely in cards, in Christmas stockings or as a bonus-gift under the ribbon on the front of a cheery looking present, or attached with electrical tape to a carton of cigarettes or even on a one-pound Hershey’s bar wrapped in the front page of the December 24th edition of the Concord Monitor. (It’s not just for wrapping fish or lining bird cages anymore.)

You can give a bunch for a few bucks and feel as if you’ve been thoughtful (you did spend a few bucks), even if the recipient ends up with a few useless squares of thin cardboard and a low-impact workout from having to first scratch off and then brush away all the latex ink-shavings that stick to everything the way dog-hair sticks to black slacks.  (The scratching and brushing ritual is a topic for another time.)

And if they win big you get to smile and pretend you are happy for them when–at least briefly–you had second thoughts about giving them as gifts and almost kept them for yourself.

If you are not one of the one-in-four people guaranteed to win something you can try again at NHLotteryReplay.com.  But before you can replay anything you need to register, part of which includes some voluntary surveys, one of which asks some very curious questions.

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It is time once again to countdown the years most commented posts.  As a reminder this list is based entirely on comments.  It is  not so much the top 20 best posts for content, reporting, influence, or style (decisions we would never assume to make for you)  just those that inspired the most on-line debate.

2012 Top 20  –  2013 Top 20

The GraniteGrokTOP Twenty for 2014

#20 TEA Party member asks for apology for Walt Havenstein’s teabagger remark, Havenstein refuses  I think this eventually cost him the election.  NH Gubernatorial candidate Walt Havenstein, probably at the suggestion of campaign operatives, refuses to apologize to the base that later turns out for Republicans in November just not for him (or Scott Brown).

#19 How Hamas Runs A Town – (What Israel Is Fighting)  On Israel, Hamas, tunnels, caches of weapons, humanitarian aide and the lefts reaction to all of it.

#18  Because Principle Matters to The Base – We Bring You The NH Senate Race Poison Poll  We took a Poll back in April to see which Republican candidate for US Senate in New Hampshire would keep the base home on election night. …

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“Former Police Chief David Seastrand has cost the town of New London, New Hampshire a $70,000.00 dollar settlement of a civil suit, after he tried to get a Colby-Sawyer College coed to let him take nude pictures of her in exchange for dropping criminal charges he probably made up in the first place.

The Democrat NH AG’s office says (Union Leader) “that the only law applicable to the case was the abuse of power statute, under which a public official is guilty of a misdemeanor if her or she knowingly commits an unauthorized act ‘which purports to be an act of his or her office‘ or ‘knowingly refrains from performing a duty imposed on him by law or clearly inherent in the nature of the office.’ ”  (Seastrand was not charged by the NH AG.)

Two Questions. First, are there laws if someone who is not a police officer does this? Second, where were the feminazi’s and war-on-women campus-rape rhetoric junkies from the professional left?

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Eugene Volokh recently remarked on the Twitter musings of progressive narrative mule Neil deGrasse Tyson.  Tyson wondered if a 12-fingered people would have proposed twelve amendments instead of ten.  Volokh countered that the ten-fingered peoples in the first congress did propose twelve, something Neil, the elite luminary expert, clearly did not know.

“there actually were 12 amendments originally proposed by the First Congress; it’s just that the first two weren’t ratified right away (one never was, and the other was ratified only 200 years later, and became the Twenty-Seventh Amendment)”

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Wednesday I had some fun with the NH DMV over their giving advance notice to Portsmouth business owner David Adams about his BEERBUS vanity plate.  The DMV told him it would not be renewed because it promotes intoxicants, but NH has giant signs all over the state promoting state liquor stores.

Well it looks like the policy will be reviewed in January…

(Seacoast online) When the JLCAR meets in January, Adams said, it is expected to consider changing the language in the rules governing vanity plates to instead ban all references to “illegal intoxicants.” In the meantime, he’s been told, he still can’t get new license plates that say anything about beer and the BEERBUS plate he already has would be denied for renewal.

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Ed Comeau has his eye on the Country delegation in Carroll County, and its commissioners.  Skip recently explored Ed’s Right To Know suit and the refusal of two Carroll County Commissioners to be seated if they are not protected from Right to Know Lawsuits.

Democrat Denny Miller, and Republican David Babson, are seeking a taxpayer backed financial safety net should they be sued as county commissioners for failing or refusing to provide public documents required under New Hampshire’s 91-A.

So this statement David Babson made back in 2012 about holding elected officials to a higher standard with regards to public information  had a shelf life?

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One year ago today, David ‘Duck-Slayer’ Campbell had a few drinks at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nashua, ran over some resident water fowl in his BMW, and then parked his car and fled the scene on foot to his law office across the way.  There he sought assistance from then Nashua Police Commissioner Thomas Pappas, who picked him up and instead of bringing him to the police to be interviewed (at the scene just a few hundred feet away), stowed him away just long enough for him to most certainly be sober when he finally surfaced to speak with police about the incident.

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