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ONE YEAR AGO TODAY, Hillary Clinton did not become President.
(H/T: Instapundit)
And if you dismiss Trump’s tweets and pronouncements as the Shiny Objects that they are intended to be for the Dems, media, and anti-Trumpers, he’s actually piling up a very good conservative “done” list; just dub him the Anti-Obama. And this is hillarious (see what I did there?; emphasis mine, reformatted):
The collapse of civilization as we know it has begun. Even from inside the bunker you can feel the edges of the fabric of reality begin to fray. I stare longingly at my HOPE poster, barely visible in the dimming light. Someone needs to clear off the snow-covered solar panels, but no one dares to … Read more
Found this today in my inbox. Thought I’d share. Kind of sums up my thinking. A man goes into a bar in NYC where there’s a robot bartender. The robot asks, “What will you have?” The guy replies “Whiskey.” The robot brings back his drink and asks “What’s your IQ?” The guy says “168.” The … Read more
Heh! Trick question! (H/T: Powerline)
Joseph Asch, writing at Dartblog, exposes the fraud of the diversity and inclusion movement in his analysis of a letter by former Dartmouth Provost (and current English Professor at same) Carolyn Dever.
A report released by the Department of Homeland Security notes that 73% of persons convicted of terrorism or on terrorism-related charges were foreign-born and entered the country “legally.”
This DHS/DOJ report, issued this month, is disturbing enough and reveals that a significant number of terrorists entered the country through immigration programs that use family ties and extended-family chain migration as a basis for entry.
What will they come up next? (H/T: Lucianne)
The House Intel panel’s passage of New York Republican Rep. Peter King’s motion to release the FISA abuse memo to fellow House members has rocked Washington, D.C.
Lawmakers from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) have called for the classified memo’s immediate release. According to Fox News contributor Sara Carter, the contents of the memo are so “explosive,” that it could end special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe once and for all.
IT CAN’T BE TRUE! AL GORE SAID THERE WOULD BE NO MORE SNOW BY NOW. THE WEATHER SUFFERS FROM FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS! Half of US soil covered in snow at the same time.
Heh!
(H/T: Instapundit)
See about Shaheen’s failed pronouncements here, here, here, and here (mostly covered by Steve!). And lest I forget, look what Jeanne Shaheen wrought:
MANCHESTER — Owners of some small New Hampshire businesses said at a forum Thursday that paperwork and expense are threatening the economic platforms on which their companies are built — to the point that the Affordable Care Act could trump nature. Greg Goddard, general manager of Gunstock Ski Resort, said requirements that health insurance be offered to employees who are on a company payroll for 120 consecutive days or longer could mean opening the slopes later and shutting them down earlier.
See if you can keep up. Here is Democrat Representative Steny Hoyer trying to have it both ways (being deceptive or just a moron). He wants to keep the government open and stay and work. On the getting a continuing resolution:
Hoyer: “I believe we ought to stay here and do our work”
Hoyer: “And I believe we ought to vote to do so. And therefore I will vote, No”
Interrupted by Speaker: “Does the gentlemen have a motion?”
Hoyer: “I have a motion… and that motion is the House do now adjourn.”
The idea that towns can set up their own ordinances willy-nilly to fight anything they want (lately here in NH, that would be the Northern Pass project) is sheer stupidity on those that accept this idea that a Rights Based Ordinance would “save them from Big Corporations sinning against our little town” and the organization peddling this, a cross between those demogoging Marxist class warfare and environmental utopia is the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund who rears its head every year this time of Town Meetings lately. My response to Alexis Eynon of Thorton’s Letter to the Daily Sun’s Editor, I hope, was short and to the point (that LtE is after the jump):
To the Editor,
This is in response to the Letter to the Editor by Alexis Eynon of 1/17/18 (http://www.laconiadailysun.com/opinion/letters/110893-alexis-eynon-1-17-330) and states:
“3) Assert local governing rights and ban the project — do not compromise by voluntarily surrendering our local authority and force the powers that be to strip these rights from us publicly.”
As has been pointed out by others, no need to have these “rights stripped from us” as you never had them before. NH is not a home-rule state so each town or city is merely a political sub-division of the State. The CELDF organization is leading you right down a primrose path with the glittering idea of “RBO” – right up until you go over their “lemmings cliff”. There will be no public stripping – you will either be told “it is not legal”…
This past Tuesday night, my hamlet had its Public Session where the Budget Committee presented both its budgets (Municipal, School District) to the townfolk to explain the numbers and to take questions or listen to concerns. Fred Butler approached the mic and decided to, once again, make a math fool of himself. He knows how our SB2 system works – for a few years he was on BudComm as the duly appointed representative of the Water District. He has participated in the the discussion, meetings – and the votes. He also, along with a relative who also served on the BudComm, tried to get the townfolk to eliminate it via petition warrant (it failed miserably every time). So when I say he was disingenuous, that is being far too kind as he decided to take on first one engineer who does math for a living, Selectboard Chair Chan Eddy, and then another (moi!). Here is the reporting from the Laconia Daily Sun (I am hoping to get the actual transcript or video as the District was recording it. DANG! It’s after 4pm – well, here’s hoping for Monday!) (emphasis mine, reformatted):
Fred Butler took the selectmen and budget committee to task for their statements about rising taxes, pointing out that Gilford’s tax rate is declining. “You need to do a little more research to break down the facts,” Butler said. Eddy explained that the tax rate is only part of the equation when it comes to taxes. The tax rate falls when the town’s assessed valuation increases, but it doesn’t mean the amount collected changes. The growth in budgets also comes into play, he said.
Yep, Chuckie Schumer and the rest of his Democrat demi-god-wannabees have decided that if they don’t want to fund the government when the money runs out tonite. It’s clear what the reason is: DACA. Now, far be it for me to lament the Feds having to close down (other than the military that protects us won’t get paid) as I have said for years that I don’t care – we’ve got 50 good governments (well, mostly?) that will still keep on going and a lot of stuff is on auto-pilot as well financially. What will happen is that people will see, once again, how much control the Feds have – and shouldn’t.
All that said, the best line of the day putting Democrats into the proper light:
More on that stuff about Google “fact checking” sites but this time on a Republican US Senator – would they do this to, say, Dick Durban (D-IL) or Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)? Hardly: Google refers to Republican senator David Perdue as ‘lying, unscrupulous politician.
Wikipedia was cited as the source. It appears that the senator’s Wikipedia page was changed to include such wording, but the description was restored to its original wording three minutes later, according to a revision history page.
You may have heard that Mr. Trump tweeted something about Pah-kee-stahn. He’s unhappy with the relationship. He’s prepared to cut off a huge sum of aid over it and everyone’s aflutter.
You are less likely to have heard, unless you read these pages, that an Aide to Congressman Debbie Washerwoman Schultz (the former DNC chair) was using their position to gain access to congressional computers. Democrat member computers. Lots of them.
And that word is “contract”. First issue is in this area – RSA 40:13:
IX. (a) “Operating budget” as used in this subdivision means “budget,” as defined in RSA 32:3, III, exclusive of “special warrant articles,” as defined in RSA 32:3, VI, and exclusive of other appropriations voted separately.
(b) “Default budget’‘ as used in this subdivision means the amount of the same appropriations as contained in the operating budget authorized for the previous year, reduced and increased, as the case may be, by debt service, contracts, and other obligations previously incurred or mandated by law, and reduced by one-time expenditures contained in the operating budget. For the purposes of this paragraph, one-time expenditures shall be appropriations not likely to recur in the succeeding budget, as determined by the governing body, unless the provisions of RSA 40:14-b are adopted, of the local political subdivision.
It seems innocuous, doesn’t it? There are a number of issues with this word, contract, and how it plays into not only the Default Budget (which, in SB2 governed towns, it is the budget that gets put into place if the PROPOSED budget is shot down in flames when the townfolk vote after the Deliberative Session. This has happened a few times in my hamlet – mostly on the School Board side of things. Well, Contracts may drag things down again.
Do you contribute to white supremacy? If you’re white, you do. Yes, you do stop it. And if you’re not white but let white people get away with “it,” you are part of the problem as well.
In New Boston, there is a longstanding issue of a so-called junkyard. The property is located on River Rd. and has been a grandfathered repair garage since at least 1970. It is documented as such in a request by the Town to provide liability insurance in 1971.
The Town took the “Duke’s Garage,” owned by the Winslow family, to Goffstown District Court in 1978 for having more unregistered cars than allowed – and the Town lost. A grandfathered repair garage is allowed under the New Boston Ordinance. The owner has an established right to continue.
Keene State College has been running deficits. Budget cuts are an annual feature as enrollment declines. But the State University System is coming to the rescue.
New Hampshire public universities are becoming more accessible with the expansion of a financial aid program.
The Granite Guarantee program started in fall 2017 at the University of New Hampshire will now be applicable to Keene State College and Plymouth State University, the University System of New Hampshire announced Tuesday.