Quotes

Notable Quote – Gnardo Polo

…But I think that part of Trumps success is connecting with what lower class Americans want, and how they think… My wife thinks I’m a huge Trump fan.  I’m sure some of my friends do to.  But just like a lot of people, I just don’t think he’s as bad a he’s portrayed by the … Read more

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Prerequisite 2018 “Winter is Coming” Post

Winter is coming. I know, it’s been cold lately, and plenty of places have had snow already, but no real “snowstorms” to speak of until tomorrow. So, here it is, your prerequisite winter is coming post, and we get our first statewide snowfall of the season – even though it’s still autumn. There is nothing all … Read more

Alexa traffic Rank extension

Help Us Grow our Alexa Rank

We use Alexa to measure our traffic rankings and to compare them to other sites around New Hampshire. But not everyone who visits us is getting counted. We are not all using the Alexa extension in our browsers. If you’d like to help us improve our Alexa ranking a great way to do that is … Read more

CNN-News

The Fox Is Guarding The CNN Nuthouse

The question any court must answer in the Jim Acosta temper tantrum spectacle trudging towards our favorite method for dealing with non-reality, litigation, is whether Acosta meets the current standard of a “journalist.” In 2018 anyone can be a journalist and the court must admit that. We no longer have the three big TV networks. … Read more

The NH Democrat sweep on Nov. 6th – now we have an economic benchmark

And you can bet that we’ll come back to this over and over and over again during the next two years (reformatted, emphasis mine):

NH unemployment rate drops to 2.6 percent

The Granite State continues its run as having one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country with a repeat of last October’s performance. New Hampshire’s preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October was 2.6 percent, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from September and the same rate as October 2017, New Hampshire Employment Security reported Wednesday.

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The City of Laconia hasn’t learned that “Hope” is not a strategy

So once again, they go back to the Well of Hope.  This is all about an old time theatre which was very popular back in the day and then went down hill from there.  From vaudeville to a movie theater to a multiplex to being shuttered for now 18 years, the City decided that it was the one that could revive the fortunes of a downtown that they screwed up back last century with “Urban Renewal” – seldom have the storefronts been full for any kind of time.  Instead of learning the hard lessons of trying to be a developer (the stupid project call Lakes Region Business Park which STILL hasn’t sold out the lots after 25 or so years), they decided they could do it again.  Again, on Hope (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Hope springs eternal for theater revitalization

There is reason to be optimistic that a much-delayed project to restore the 104-year-old Colonial Theatre will finally get underway next year, Mayor Ed Engler said. The project, intended to breathe new life into downtown Laconia, was originally slated to begin Jan. 1, 2017.

So, already two years late. And it gets worse.

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Quick Thought on Steve’s post: One of Life’s Certainties – New Hampshire Democrats Raise Taxes

Here. It’s what Democrats do.  Let me remind you of what they did before: they created an $800 million hole in the NH State budget.  They spent everything they could – and then more.  You see, Democrats are:

  • They believe in Government directed EVERYTHING – every aspect of our lives.  That takes a lot of your money to allow them to do that
  • While they are always screaming about separation of Church and State, they absolutely conflate the ideas of Government and Charity.

Why the second? they too lazy to get off their Collective butts to do the hard work of creating charities and then canvassing the public at large to fund them. Government means Ruling and Crowding out private charity. When they talk about Public / Private partnerships, you can always know who is in charge and who is about to be embraced and then absorbed (if not de jure, then de facto).  Government IS Charity and Charity means Government because ONLY from Government can good things flow, according to their actions. And once again, while they’re out putting their sense of a Collective dystopia Utopia in place, they’ll be setting the stage, once again, for broadbased taxes. Which means that…

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Quotes

Notable Quote – Eammon Butler

Peter Berger’s The Capitalist Revolution (1986) shows how capitalism’s features – property, capital goods, free markets, automatic asset allocation and a predictable legal system – make it well suited to promote efficiency and progress. It offers a refuge from political power, unlike socialism, which has to be imposed by force – and the grander the vision, the … Read more

Blogline of the Day:

 If This Bill Passes, Possessing Pot in Texas Will Be Treated Less Harshly Than Distributing Straws in San Francisco. And this is what passes for public morality these days.  Seriously, straws are that evil? (H/T: Instapundit)

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One of Life’s Certainties – New Hampshire Democrats Raise Taxes

As Government gets bigger and more inefficient (corrupt), it needs to feed. The ‘food’ is your hard earned dollars, and the delivery method is taxation (fees, charges, etc.). Anyone who recalls the last time Democrats “ran things” around here they deliberately overestimated revenues and then spent them to grow government. When the estimates fell short, … Read more

Protecting the vote supply

The Red Cross Bloodmobile has an elegant procedure for dealing with people who shouldn’t donate blood, but who don’t want to have to admit that to their friends or employers.

You go in with everyone else, and fill out the forms, and if there is something that would disqualify you as a donor, they put a specially coded sticker on your bag, and someone else discards it later.

It eliminates the danger of embarrassment or discrimination beforehand, and it mitigates the danger of a tainted donation entering the blood supply.  It’s a great system.

I’m wondering if maybe we shouldn’t have something like that for voting.

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Meadowstone farm

Meadowstone Farm Apologizes (For Violating NH Election Law)

Earlier this week we reported, with images, a blatant violation of New Hampshire election law. Meadowstone Farm posted pictures on Instagram (which they quickly removed) depicting cut up campaign signs. The proprietor has apologized formally on their business website. I would first like to apologize to the Northern Grafton County Republicans, especially those whose signs … Read more

Quotes

Notable Quote – Thomas Sowell

Similarly, people who discuss raising the government-mandated minimum wage talk as if this would automatically mean having the lowest-paid workers’ income rise, from $10 an hour to $15 per hour, for example. In reality, for millions of inexperienced and unskilled young workers, it can mean that the wages they receive in fact fall from $10 an hour to zero, when … Read more

MAtthew Whitaker

Extra Special – Special Counsel

If President Trump wants to send a message to Democrats about who can play hardball the best, I have one humble suggestion – have Rod Rosenstein appoint Matthew Whitaker, the DOJ employee Democrats are screaming about, claiming he is an unconstitutional replacement for Jeff Sessions – as the new Special Prosecutor/Counsel. Withdraw Whitaker as acting … Read more

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Obamacare 2.0? Democrats are Poised to Compound a Problem They Created

It seems like only yesterday that Democrat lawmakers unilaterally passed the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. At the time, it was a widely unpopular law that was sold to the American people on false promises. It deprived countless individuals of their existing health insurance policies and their preferred doctors. Its oppressive regulations stifled … Read more

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