At 2 1/2, he’s learning quick – he knows his way around TMEW’s iPad like nobody’s business.  It’s Sesame Street all the time – he’s in love (like many his age) with Elmo.  Elmo brushing teeth. He gets his own toothbrush out and brushes in time to the music.  And at one point, each and every time he watches it, Michelle Obama comes in view.  As I write this, he’s doing what TMEW noticed a bit ago…

…yes, he turns her it off.  Absolutely NO prodding by either me or TMEW to do so – Bwahahahahahaha!

Speaking of the Grandson – tomorrow is going to be a great day…

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The combined online readership of the Berlin and Conway Daily Sun.com have (only briefly, we hope) knocked us out of fifth place in our list of Alexa Rankings in this March update. But not by much. And not for long.

We’ve experienced another month of exponential growth in unique visitors and page views. Some percentage of those will be using the Alexa add-on in their browsers (hint-hint) which helps out ranking with this globally recognized metric.

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FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is getting all sorts of love from the left after Jeff Sessions fired him Saturday, a day before he could earn a full pension. And he’s got things to say to the media, which is great because McCabe is so dirty the more he talks the longer the rope with which he’ll hang himself.

But before we get back to any of that we need to get to this.

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A little more perspective on the political “wisdom” of yutes.

…[E]ven if students really were disproportionately likely to be victims of gun violence, that would not be a good reason to give special credence to their policy views. Personally experiencing a horrific event or being at disproportionate risk of suffering one, doesn’t necessarily give you special insight into how to prevent such tragedies from occurring.

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I guess somebody has to say it: What a low life, dirtball thing to do while getting paid $50,000.00 Timberlane tax dollars a year!

Not much explaining to do on this one. Just look at the gloatweet Timberlane Cooperative School District’s Coach Metzler’s lovely employee/wife/double-dipping/dingbat wrote to a losing candidate for school board.

Pretty low class, eh class?

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If you are looking for some great conservative incite into policy, I highly recommend The Conservative Conscience with Daniele Horowitz. He does a great job of tearing into policy issues. This episode gets into the weeds on Trump’s messaging versus Congress, with a focus on the Omnibus bill.

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First Amendment:  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

 I like how the Cornell Law School interprets the First in current phrasing:  “It guarantees freedom of expression by prohibiting Congress from restricting the press or the rights of individuals to speak freely. ”

NH Constitution [Free Speech; Liberty of the Press.] Free speech and liberty of the press are essential to the security of freedom in a state: They ought, therefore, to be inviolably preserved.

So, as Steve alluded to, who were the sponsors of SB466 that was a brazen attempt at silencing politicians to whom they disagreed and weaponized their own political positions to do so (reformatted)? 

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Back in 1991, I was the Clerk of the Works for a new fire station in the Town of Deering. This means I was at every Selectman’s meeting giving them updates. We put up a two-story, two-bay fire station in seven weekends, with a well and septic, including land purchase, for $30,000.00.

At the same time, a contractor was hired by the Deering Selectmen to build a glue-laminated bridge in town, just down the road for $48,000.00.

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The Miami Herald makes this teen suicide sound like a walk in the park.

The story of a disturbed teenager never comes to the surface, only what a wonderful well-adjusted life he had as a girl in a boy’s body. Every whim, wish and want this kid ever had was granted or purchased for him.

He committed suicide and his mother celebrates his life with a half-page ad/obit in the MH. Nice way to divert responsibility – “mommy.”

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The International Monetary Fund guru says no one wins a trade war!

But that leaves out the other part of international trade, a part I hoped the self-important monetary heard might have an answer for.

Who wins the “Dumping War” we have been losing for so long?

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A bill to repeal New Hampshire’s Interest and Dividend tax has met with an uncertain fate.

A motion that would’ve killed the bill entirely failed, 11-12, but a subsequent motion to table consideration was approved, 12-11, with Sen. John Reagan, R-Deerfield, the only member to vote with the majority in both instances. Sen. Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, did not vote citing a conflict of interest.

If a Senator does not move to reconsider the bill before the end of the session, which means another vote like the last, it will die until another day. That being a day when Republicans still have a majority and one with a bit more backbone.

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Did you know that bee colonies are at a 20-year high? Do-tell, you say? Well, I don’t have too. Someone else already did.

This video is short and will get you up to speed on the bee situation, which is important because the media isn’t going to do any sensationalist reporting on the end of their beepocalypse.

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As introduced House Bill 628 attempts to solve a problem that doesn’t exist to create a problem that didn’t exist. It framed a scheme for taxing income to backstop a medical family leave program so state government can create a new office to manage the tax. New Hampshire doesn’t have what most people think of as an income tax. But as originally designed HB628 would put into place the people and power necessary to add one which I believe is its real purpose.

A small army of activists has been working uphill against an establishment that seems hellbent on getting this passed despite any no-tax pledges and Republican registrations. So, far that effort has amounted to very little but the bill was recently amended.

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The New Hampshire House recently passed a bill that would prohibit employers from having use-it-or-lose-it vacation policies. Employers that provide vacation time can expect their employees to use it up within a certain time, after which they lose it. HB1201 would require employers to give employees more time to use the vacation after which they would be required to pay the employee for that time.

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