“There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.” —E. B. White
Today’s Union Leader Editorial weighed in on House Bill 1412, referred to as the, “Massachusetts New Hampshire Warning Sign Act.” The UL likes the bill, but opines the measure does not go far enough. The folks over at the UL think we should also expand the concept to include Maine and Vermont. Perhaps in some incidences that might be arguably appropriate.
But neither Maine nor Vermont have overtly and aggressively acted against the Granite State like Massachusetts has, and, on all levels, social, cultural and legal. There are a core of Mass-holes who infect our state. The current liberal infection in our legislature has the Mass-hole disease. Like a boil on the societal buttocks. These busy-body transplants who come wagging fingers, telling us how to live, undertake their mission to transform the Granite State from “dark into the enligtenment. Sort of a Massachusetts-Light. While enough of this liberal crowd from Massachusetts are rank hypocrites. Not all are. Many do come for honest forthright reasons such as liberty, quality of life, lower taxes and less crime. And who can fault them for that? The rest, on the other hand, criticize and denigrate while buying posh real estate in the Lakes Regions where they can register exotic cars and fancy boats in order to avoid the bay state excise taxes.
But don’t simply take my word for it. Look at a few select excerpts of what rank plagiarist and fraud Mike Barnicle once wrote when he was thought to be a credible columnist at the Boston Globe, his sentiment is a larger permeation of the closed-teeth speaking elites who think we are little more than a bunch of hicks and hay-seeds.
“New Hampshire looks like Arkansas with snow….
New Hampshire gave us the lunatic publisher Loeb, the thief Sherman Adams, the preposterous Sununu and a member of the Manson gang.
New Hampshire wrote a constitutional amendment raising the IQ of its citizens by 50 points so they could communicate with their house pets.
First thing you see in New Hampshire is a toll booth where the attendant is stumped making change for a $5 bill, followed by a state liquor store.
In New Hampshire, the best looking females are those who trim their mustaches.
New Hampshire attracts illiterate ice-fishermen and motorcycle gangs.
In New Hampshire, if you become ill, old or infirm they use you for fertilizer or target practice.
Granite State natives are a mentally-challenged lot of easily confused white people who think buildings with elevators qualify as tourist attractions and spend enormous amounts of money in tattoo parlors or gun stores.
When people from Vermont take a vacation, they travel to spots like Yellowstone Park or Sanibel Island. In New Hampshire, they get in their snowmobiles or speed boats and go to motels to take pictures of indoor plumbing.
Vermont is comfortable and progressive. New Hampshire is home to oddballs in Day-Glo hast, with a deer tossed on top of their truck who pride themselves in being sour, stingy sociopaths who revel in the economic misery of others….”
And how about those liquor stores? If memory serves me correctly, Bay State Representative Michael Rodrigues (D) 8th District was caught in the fall of 2009 leaving a Portsmouth New Hampshire Liquor Store with a parcel of libations. This Same Bay State Rep who fought for, advocated for and helped pass an increase in the Bay State Liquor Tax. And lest we forget those law enforcement-types who stake out border liquor and fireworks stores, bagging people for tax evasion or illegal possession of fireworks upon crossing the state line?
How about Mayor Thomas “Mumbles” Menino popping off at New Hampshire blaming us for Boston’s excessive gun violence problem? It took U.S. Attorney Thomas Collantuono to set Mumbles straight. But did any of your Mass-holes happen to mention that our most recent cop killers proudly hailed from Roxbury? Yeah, no emphasis or home-town pride there, eh?
And another thing…How come when I go to Manchester Firing Line, an indoor shooting range, the places is absolutely packed, there is no place to park because a bunch of vehicles with Massachuetts plates are clogging up the parking lot? Can’t you people stay home? Oh! wait…scratch that….I forget…the Bay State does not have such venues where people can shoot guns without running the regulatory gun control gauntlet.
And of course, some smartass gleefully points out that so many people from New Hampshire work in Massachusetts…True! but didn’t most move here from the people’s Republic?
There is no more starker example paying tribute to what Massachusetts is than the Pheasant Lane Mall. J.C. Penney is missing a chunk of its Southeast corner in order that the building can be in New Hampshire, not in Massachusetts. Any Patron can go to that parking lot and see the physical MA-NH border cut into the pavement. But here’s the rub…the physical real estate…the geography at the MA-NH border is totally indistinguishable the same soil in MA is the same soil in NH with the only distinction being the political line drawn between the two.
When the mere establishment of a geo-political line is the razor thin difference between being considered a law-abiding citizen and a criminal, people have a right to know where that line is. So while you Mass-holes, liberals and RINO’s continue to thumb your noses at this bill, your disdain underscores the ubiquitous and never-ending push-back of rank statists and progressives everywhere. Ponder that while you sip your Courvoisier purchased in New Hampshire, while smoking your cigarettes you bought just over the border at Walmart. There is a certain irony in seeing known Mass transplants living here in New Hampshire whole-heartedly supporting this Bill. But it is those transplants who we call our friends and neighbors, too, Because they, “Get it.” They know what they fled here from.
