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Steve MacDonald Not long after that (Missouri compromise), agitation began to extend slavery even further into the vast territory still not incorporated as states. At the same time, the argument began to appear that slavery was in fact a good thing, based on the idea that some human beings had evolved to a state of superiority over … Read more
Dr. Joe D’Aleo is back (ICECAP and Weatherbell.com) to talk about current weather and climate news–including the northeast storm that will give us a wet Christmas instead of a white one, why local stations avoid political pressure to push climate narratives, what the actual drivers of climate are, and a lot more.
The New Hampshire Department of Motor vehicles has informed a local small business owner that when it comes time to renew his current vanity plates he will be denied?
(Seacoast Online) Owner of Granite State Growler Tours, (David) Adams already has the vanity plate BEERBUS on a 14-passenger bus he uses to drive customers to craft breweries between Newburyport, Mass., and York, Maine, with stops in Portsmouth.
Dr. Joe D’Aleo is back (ICECAP and Weatherbell.com) to talk about current weather and climate news–including the northeast storm that will give us a wet Christmas instead of a white one, why local stations avoid political pressure to push climate narratives, what the actual drivers of climate are, and a lot more. Listen to … Read more
Is there an ObamaCare Christmas surprise waiting in your Healthcare.gov enrollment stocking? Rep Mark Meadows is reporting on one over at the Washington Times.
It seems CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] is taking a page from Jonathan Gruber’s book; rather than allowing the “stupid” masses to make a decision on their own health plan, CMS has proposed a new rule that includes an overly reaching provision allowing CMS to re-enroll anyone who has not made the annual trek back to healthcare.gov in a cheaper plan of CMS’ choosing.
We continue the discussion on messaging, the message RINO leadership sent when they voted for less transparency, why Alan Glassman wasn’t elected as a Delegate from Barnstead, some inside baseball on committee appointments, and more discussion about why some Republicans have such a hard time just voting with their own party platform. Listen to the … Read more
We know that Millionaire Democrat congresswoman from New Hampshire Ann McLane Kuster has consistently failed to pay her property taxes on time. We also know that she is very sensitive about it. And yet she continues to have issues. What, can’t find an American willing to do the job for her? Heck, we can give … Read more
Keene is run by Democrats, you can just tell… (From Boston.com)
KEENE, N.H. (AP) — Officials in a New Hampshire city want the organizers of an annual pumpkin festival to pay $90,000 in costs incurred after violent disturbances broke out this year.
WMUR-TV (http://bit.ly/1vjQbdr ) reports that city officials say additional security and overtime for police, fire and public works drove the total cost of the event to nearly $150,000.
So, drunken Keene State college hooligans wreck Keene and the Pumpkin Festival folks are to blame?
My recommended two-pronged response–if I were in charge of the Keene Pumpkin Festival–would be as follows.
We continue the discussion on messaging, the message RINO leadership sent when they voted for less transparency, why Alan Glassman wasn’t elected as a Delegate from Barnstead, some inside baseball on committee appointments, and more discussion about why some Republicans have such a hard time just voting with their own party platform.
NH House Rep Guy Comtois reviews the events leading up to RINO Shawn Jasper colluding with Democrats to get himself elected speaker of the House, how he gave Democrats more respect than Republicans when it came to choosing their majority leader, the dynamics of the deal making, opposition to it, efforts out of the gate … Read more
Here’s a holiday relevant question for our would-be Democrat masters. If Renny Cushing’s California-like anti-Campus-sex legislation were to become law in New Hampshire would there be a Mistletoe ‘Rape’ Exclusion? An executive action of a sort that permits what used to be a harmless kiss on the cheek of a person as they pass under (or near) the Phoradendron leucarpum.
You’d have to consider some sort of exception. If a spontaneous act of Holiday cheer inspired a yule-induced smooch without the presence of a proper “flight plan” filed with the FAA (overseeing violations of personal air space) or paperwork presented in advance to Homeland (responsible for unauthorized ‘border crossings’), unsuspecting recipients (see also victims) could be inclined to charge them with sexual assault seeing as wing-nut Democrats had empowered them to think and do just that.
NH House Rep Guy Comtois reviews the events leading up to RINO Shawn Jasper colluding with Democrats to get himself elected speaker of the House, how Democrat elected speaker Jasper gave Democrats more respect than Republicans when it came to choosing their own majority leader, the dynamics of the deal making, opposition to it, efforts … Read more
Believe it or not, there are people in Portsmouth who ” feel compelled to limit the Numbers of businesses in the free market…” and Dan Innis can no longer remain silent. Let’s take a moment to consider the outcome if all businesses in Portsmouth were artificially limited by the city government. When there are fewer … Read more
Democrat House Rep Renny Cushing recently made news for proposing California-like sexual consent legislation that would place police (next to the IRS – thank you Obama-Care) in your bedroom. Fore-play would be expanded to include teams of support staff bearing documents with a commensurate number of notaries to ensure that every aspect of intimate contact has been approved in triplicate prior to the act taking place.
Because that will never actually happen the bill might be more accurately portrayed as an open invitation for lawyers to engage in the post-coital legal-community equivalent of deforestation. A sort of “his lawyer said, her lawyer said, the universities lawyers said” arrangement designed to divert time and taxpayer dollars into the pockets of the legal cartel which (coincidentally?) prefers to donate to Democrats like Cushing. So it is wealth redistribution from the parents of special-snowflake and that thing she has accused of sexual assault converting the next several years-worth of tuition payments into donations for Democrat politicians.
H/T Aaron Day – RLCNH
How would you like to take this news…
House Republicans are also likely to try to modify the state’s Medicaid expansion plan, through legislation or the budget process. The plan ends in 2016 if lawmakers don’t reauthorize it. Hassan has said she’ll veto any proposal to end the law, and Democratic House Minority Leader Steve Shurtleff said making the expansion permanent will be his caucus’s top priority.
“I can’t see someone taking away health care from people who really need it,” he said.
This week we go RINO hunting. Get a legislative update. Joe D’Aleo joins us (Weatherbell.com and ICECAP) to talk about storms, climate, and meterology. Then its the WTF of the week and more.
Live stream for Saturday December 20th from 9am to 11am EST. Watch for twitter updates with the hashtag #GrokTALK If you don’t see it here, you can always watch it at USTREAM.tv here. Live broadcast by Ustream NH House rep Guy Comtois joins us for what will become a regular weekly feature in 2015 – … Read more
Part of Skip’s John Hayward quote, posted here, caught my eye.
We’re even presumed guilty of crimes no one actually committed, most notably the horrible “anti-Muslim backlash” that never actually happens after Muslim terrorists commit atrocities.
Backlash. Anti-something backlash.
In this context the social justice left presumes that there is a darkness within us that consumes our faculties and leads us to outrageous and uncivil, even criminal behavior. There is. It is a defining flaw of human nature. The problem is not that all mankind is born with free will and the power to create and to destroy The real issue is projection.
Progressives have cornered the market on the infantile inability to control their own outrage.
“This is the America we live in now: the surgeon general of the United States is an abortion advocate who views guns as a public health issue.”