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With almost no time to prepare we will be taking a test flight of some new equipment at this years CNHT Annual Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic in Hillsborough. If you are there, and you should be, we’ll be (most likely) set up in the far left corner from the main entrance (by the emergency exit).
Come watch Skip wrinkle his brow as he looks over the top of his glasses and fusses with all the new stuff.
The Timberlane Regional School District (SAU55) has become the poster-child for taxpayer abuse in New Hampshire. Lead by the Earl of Metzler the towns of Sandown, Danville, Plaistow, and Atkinson have been plunged into an abusive relationship with political thugs. Donna Green explains the latest.
In an illegal non-public, the Timberlane School Board voted unanimously (8-0) to use $20,000 of Timberlane’s surplus money to dig SAU 55 out of its accounting hole of shame. A damning audit revealed the need for remedial work in the keeping-track-of-our -money department at SAU 55. The solution? Hire a consultant!
The annual CNT Taxpayer Reunion Picnic has a Straw poll and with it being a midterm election and the crowd being Republican/Libertarian/Conservative the results are a great litmus of who this group (Highly likely Republican primary voters) support for November.
Here are the winners of the CNHT Straw Poll
The legislature passes a policy that drives up the cost of a product or service to keep a favored business or industry afloat. Without this protection money, those who benefit may no longer be able to enjoy the lifestyle to which they’ve become accustomed.
This is the story of the green energy business. New Hampshire’s biggest player in this redistribution scheme is the timber industry which peddles “low grade” leftovers to biomass plants that convert it into expensive electricity the police-state forces on ratepayers.
Governor Sununu recently vetoed two bills passed by the legislature to foment this money laundering scheme and the “former” recipients of that plunder are not happy.
North Carolinians For Immigration Reform and Enforcement (NCFire) is a private group that combs through state and local crime data. They document the child sexual assaults charges/arrests of undocumented illegal aliens in their state. They do not assert that they find them all which is shocking when you look at what they uncover.
NCFire has recorded over 400 cases of child sexual assault or rape by illegals since January 2018, and over 800 last year.
First, just let me leave this here:
Lions Eat Suspected Rhino Poachers On South African Game Reserve.
Just(ice) desserts.
(H/T: Instapundit)
I have been busy lately. REAL busy, so blogging has been light from me and my thanks to Steve and Mike for picking up the load. Part of that will be see tomorrow at the CNHT Annual Picnic (consider it Old Home Day for Conservatives) – political issues, political speakers, candidates for political office, and a whole LOT of conservative activists yakking away during the event. We will be attempting to livestream the event. Oh, before I forget:
12 noon to 3pm at the Young-Richardson American Legion #59 (538 W Main St., Hillsborough, New Hampshire 03244). Tickets are $15 for adults (go here or at the door)
About that “attempt”? Part (but only part) of taking GraniteGrok to the “next level”? Yeah, this:
I just read Steve’s post North Country “Wood Welfare” and went to the NHPR article he links to and pulled this additional quote from “beleagured” logger Jay Matthews
“I’m concerned with my electrical bill like anybody, but … I think we’d probably be better off paying a little more money in our rate and then still have the logging community working, [rather than] to put ’em all out of business,” Matthews says.
Note the assumed all inclusive “…we” part – only if you are a logger. WHY should the rest of us pay more for your lifestyle/business model via enforced corporate welfare? I’m out of work (but working on a plan) so why should you demand that *I* and others like me have to pay more for you to keep your company going? Fairness? I don’t think so. As a
How much support is there for abortion in New Hampshire? Democrats want us to believe that the majority of Granite Stater’s support the practice. Gubernatorial Candidate Steve “Take another Step to the Left” Marchand is convinced of this. Elsewhere I’ve seen more nuanced responses.
Most of the folks I know are committed to protecting pre-born life with few exceptions, like to save the life of the mother. But some support abortion up to 20 weeks. Others are indifferent to the life question but don’t want tax dollars supporting the practice.
What’s your position?
A recent NBC poll reports that 62% of Americans believe the vote on Mr. Trump’s next nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court should happen before the November Election.
The vast majority of Republicans surveyed, 85 percent, said the Senate’s vote on the nominee should take place before the election. Roughly six in 10 Independents, or 61 percent, agreed. However, more than half of Democrats, 55 percent, believe the voting on a new justice should wait.
I use the word hate in my title in the context in which it would be used by Democrats were Republicans engaged in some advertised priority they had spun as doing damage to some “protected” class of persons.
In this case, the object of the Left’s abuse is The Poor™ (often referred to inaccurately as ‘working families’), who are being herded around yet another progressive false idol. The higher minimum wage or living wage is a golden calf whose worship is sold as the path to better economic outcomes when it, in fact, delivers exactly the opposite.
Not a lot of votes on this one but the overall consensus of those who took the time is that they would “support an effort to get the courts out of the educational funding morass.”
Brave souls, knowing as they do that Constitutional amendments – heck, Constitutions – are not what they once were.
To that end, there were a few comments added in the ‘other’ field which I’ve shared on the jump.
Chuck Schumer is reported to have asked President Trump to consider Obama’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, as a possible replacement for Justice Kennedy.
Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell nailed the response to that report.
New Hampshire used to be ‘owned’ by railroads, or so the story goes. These days it’s the hospital/insurance cartels. Their influence shapes policy in Concord and buys votes from elected officials and even officeholders whose eyes wander toward DC.
Money talks and the Cartel’s got a lot of it.
But Iowa and Florida just put new laws in force that creates options for doctors and patients looking to put the free market to work on health care costs, and New Hampshire should take a look.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), arbiter of “extremism,” recently had one of its targets bite back. Defamation can be expensive.
“that the area is not being operated for the benefit of the county citizens and the Gunstock Commission recognizes no responsibility to do so.”
By NH State Representative Marc Abear
[Answer is “NO”. They ought to privatize it as running a ski area is not a Proper Role of Government. Neither is monopolizing liquor sales -Skip. Lightly reformatted, emphasis mine]
To The Daily Sun,
The best government comes about when we the people are informed and involved. Gunstock is a case in point. It is important that the people of Belknap County grasp how Gunstock is being operated, for whom, and why.
St. Paul Minnesota’s liberal mayor (Melvin Carter) has decided that there is no money in the budget for fireworks on the 4th of July.
As I’ve considered the budgetary priorities we manage across our city in the first year of my administration, I’ve decided I can’t in good conscience support spending tax dollars on a fireworks display in Saint Paul this year.
[su_quote cite=”Ludwig von Mises” url=”mises.org”]Freedom, as people enjoyed it in the democratic countries of Western civilization in the years of the old liberalism’s triumph, was not a product of constitutions, bills of rights, laws, and statutes. Those documents aimed only at safeguarding liberty and freedom, firmly established by the operation of the market economy, against … Read more
Fomenting a rebellion against the most powerful country in the world at the time was no small feat or undertaking. Realizing what most likely would happen to them (after the jump, from FoundingFathers.com) or their families (war was a full faceted endeavor – scorched earth). They knew the seriousness of what they had just done and they knew the consequences. Imagine their pain, sorrow, AND outright ANGER of an American elected official choosing to celebrate a failed State’s birthday while ignoring our own? Heck, forget about their anger, what about OUR’S?
Melvin Carter should be shamed and be ashamed. And then not “permit” individuals to provide for a community celebration of the second most important birthday we’ve ever seen?
Folks, this is the insidious result of “multiculturalism” – the failed idea that every culture is morally
(H/T: LikeCool)
These guys, Dude Perfect, with their trick shots and crazy antics, always put a smile on my face. The Grandson had me play this 9 times in a row (H/T: LikeCool)