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At this point most people know that Trump was all for an ‘Assault Weapons Ban’ and waiting periods for firearms back in a book he “wrote” in 2000 – The America We Deserve. Since he has been running for President, Trump has suddenly become pro-2nd Amendment (although no one seems to have any photos of him actually shooting a firearm).
https://www.facebook.com/UncleSamsChildren/videos/488589041337100/ Alexis Bloomer has some thoughts about what is wrong with her generation. See if you agree.
Weddings are back on at Stephen Forster’s Christmas tree farm on Mount Hunger Road after the Henniker planning board voted, 6-1, to approve his site plan.
The board decided Forster’s plan was within the zoning regulations, including the town’s definition of agritourism, approved by voters in March.
“It meant something or we wouldn’t have done it,” said planning board member Rick Patenaude of the decision by voters to redefine agritourism to include weddings and other functions.
Bonita Kitson of Concord collected social security benefits from 2008-2010. When she married in 2010 neither her or her husband–who was also collecting government goodies, reported the marriage. In 2014, when Kitson tried to collect a lump sum Social Security death benefit after that husband died, the geniuses in the government said, “husband?”
NH’s own Mark Steyn should be deemed to be a national treasure. Here are a couple of clips from an interview he did with The New Criterion on climate change and the whole biz surrounding the proponents of Bigger Government that should be enabled to “save us”.
I like his style – this first clip is akin to asking the question: Which is worst, climate agitators for total control or Islamic Jihadis (for total control)? Hey, it’s the same end goal from different directions – just differing views of HOW to do that control.
(H/T: Cafe Hayek)
The politician dispenses wealth which other men have produced, and we say he is “compassionate,” while the businessman who produces the wealth is dismissed as “greedy” and “materialistic.” -R.W. Grant (The Incredible Bread Machine) I have said this for a long time – if you deem a “capitalist” as being greedy and don’t like it, the … Read more
I keep seeing my electric bill going up and up and up – and I generally use less electricity than the year before (yes, I do look at that chart that Eversource provides giving a year’s lookback at actual KW used). So can I blame the environmentalists that just don’t want to see conservation but want NOTHING new?
New England should be benefiting a lot more from the U.S. shale boom than it currently is. The Marcellus shale is one of the most productive formations in the country, and fracking has unleashed massive new quantities of natural gas from the basin, situated in Pennsylvania and southern New York. Despite its proximity to this new gusher of gas, New England electricity is expensive, in large part the result of a dearth of necessary pipeline infrastructure.
One company especially keen on constructing a new pipeline spur through Massachusetts and New Hampshire just scrapped the $3 billion project this week, bowing to stiff Not-In-My-Back-Yard (NIMBY) and environmental opposition…
[The pipeline], driven by Governor Charlie Baker’s administration and top officials in other states, is aimed at curbing New England’s relatively high electricity rates by bringing in cheaper natural gas to fuel power plants. Their theory: The cost of pipeline construction would be more than offset by savings in electric rates because more cheap gas could flow from Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale. Roughly half of New England’s electricity comes from natural gas power plants.
University of New Hampshire Media Relations Director Erica Mantz told the New Hampshire Union Leader that the $17,570.00 table purchased for the Holloway Commons, “…was a mistake, and it won’t happen again.”
You think?
“We believe the concept of what they wanted to do with the table was great, but we believe that it could have been done a lot less expensively,” Mantz said.
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Big night was expected for Trump. Result: Yuge night for Trump; he swept up all bug 5 delegates (5 for Kasich in Maryland). Cruz got shut out. Connecticut – 90% in Donald Trump 57.8% Winner John Kasich 28.5% Ted Cruz 11.7% Delaware – 99% in Donald Trump 60.8% Winner John Kasich 20.4% Ted Cruz 15.9% … Read more
Doug Sachtleben from Club for Growth returns to the program to discuss Republican politics, the upcoming convention, and the search for unity after a contentious primary–as well as some thoughts about the division on the Democrat side.
This is an interesting story given the recent events at PhilliSEXeter Academy. USA Today dug deep into the issue of how well states perform background checks on teachers to look for disciplinary issues, including sexual misconduct. They gave New Hampshire an ‘F.’
H/T WUWT NASA CO2/Greening
Tony Heller at Real Climate Science has a great post about the nearly century-old tradition of declaring that the Arctic will be ice-free by some arbitrary point in time after today.
Sources confirm to myself & @jdistaso that @tedcruz intends to name @CarlyFiorina as VP pick if #GOP picks him. #nhpolitics #fitn — Jo (@JoelEleven) April 27, 2016 Wouldn’t surprise me. H/T AoSHQ More here.
I have asked my distributor NOT to book my film in any theater in North Carolina due 2 their bigoted law against LGBTQ ppl. They have agreed — Michael Moore (@MMFlint) April 12, 2016
Concord Monitor had this bit about the new rest stops on I-93 here in NH just south of the Hooksett tolls. Rusty McLear is lamenting that no one is using the electric car chargers put in by Tesla for free (and therefore, not buying his food or trinkets where his profits come from) AND that no other electric car charger company will put theirs in, that would operate almost universally with other EV cars, meaning many MORE people buying his food and trinkets, for free. Here’s the part that caught my eye (full article after the post, reformatted, emphasis mine):
Why aren’t the Tesla chargers at the Hooksett tolls used more? And why are they alone?
If you want a hint about the obstacles facing the transition to electric vehicles, stop texting the next time you drive through the Hooksett tolls and glance over at the Tesla Superchargers. All 12 are empty, I bet. This is not a very risky bet: According to the vague numbers provided by Tesla, bumped up by some generous assumptions, each charger in the new hospitality centers on Interstate 93 is used an average of just one hour per day. (Details on that calculation in a moment.)
This isn’t due to lack of trying, said Rusty McLear, co-owner of Granite State Hospitality, which operates the Hooksett rest stops. “We have been trying to arrange with a more universal charger company to come in and basically do the same kind of thing as Tesla,” said McLear, who makes his profit when drivers are strolling through the center, buying food or gifts. “I’d rather see 20 Leafs than one Tesla parked out there.”
Well, of COURSE he would! His main deal is boots through the stores – not being in the electricity industry.
It is a strange election cycle when Republicans go to war with each other with a ferocity rarely manifest when they are confronting Democrats and their progressive agendas.
It is especially puzzling because a general consensus has formed on the right that the Democratic Party is moving so far left that its agendas threaten the very foundations of America’s social contract. These include a frontal assault on the system of individual rights that the Founders set in place. The left envisions a fundamentally transformed America where individual rights are secondary to the collective rights of races, ethnicities, genders and classes. That is why the particular circumstances of individual acts, such as the ones that led to the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, for example, don’t matter to progressive mobs. It’s the races of the actors that do.
