Berlin, New Hampshire has approved the filing of a grant application for $277,534 ish dollars of someone else’s money.  The plunder is for a Bearcat armored assault vehicle.

They have not approved the purchase yet but oh yeah, the ‘boys’ want their own Batmobile.

But what will the tourists think?

Remember when we had to take down the “arms” on the toll booths that wouldn’t go up until you paid the toll?  Those were unfriendly, sent the wrong message.  Now everyone (in one of the safest states in the nation) wants an armored assault vehicle.  I guess the new definition of a quaint New England town will be that of a snow-covered Common with kids playing, dogs barking, a steepled white church,  and a cheerily-lit festive holiday tree…next to the town tank.

When do we start filming the sequel to Red Dawn?

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Letter to the Editors of the Union Leader, Concord Monitor, and SeacoastOnline.

“To the Editor:

This past week while watching public testimony on a variety of gun bill before the House Criminal Justice Committee something struck me. We had paid State employees there during public testimony advocating on behalf of the Department of Safety to kill or support certain bills.  Now, whether you support or oppose these bills is not the point here.  What we have are unelected bureaucrats weighing in on pending legislation, at our expense.  When questioned, the State Police told me that they had to go to advocate on behalf of the Department of Safety and also because they are “experts”.  That brings up more questions.

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The Town of Alton must be reading memos and emails from the Timberlane, Gilford, and Windham School districts.

The board of selectman, during public comment, had a taxpayer arrested on the grounds that he had violated their recently enacted policy–enacted to shut people up.  In this case the taxpayer was arrested for disorderly conduct (no personal attacks), which translates to “publicly expressing his displeasure with their service.”

According to resident Jeffrey Clay of Alton, this is just the last in a series of actions to shut people up, himself in particular.

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Despite the hysteria, our nation’s security is not at risk if a Homeland Security funding bill is not passed and Homeland Security “shutsdown”.   The services essential to our national security NEVER stop even if their funding runs out; they didn’t stop during previous government shutdowns and they won’t stop during future shutdowns.

Every single job essential to our nation’s security (e.g., Border Control, Coast Guard, FEMA, Secret Service, Domestic Nuclear Detection office), continues without interruption even if the funding hasn’t been passed.

On a bipartisan basis the House of Representatives passed a bill funding every part of Homeland Security except President Obama’s illegal actions granting amnesty to illegal aliens.

The hysteria over the Homeland Security funding bill has been created to blackmail the American people into accepting President Obama’s amnesty for illegal aliens.  Amnesty for illegal aliens makes a mockery of our laws, encourages more illegal immigration, is unjust to people trying to immigrate legally, and hurts American workers, taxpayers, the truly needy, and crime victims.

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To what lengths will four selectman in Salem, New Hampshire go to get what they want?

What they want is to take $23,000,000.00 ($23  million dollars) and turn it into the Salem Taj Mahal and safety complex.  There is one dissenting selectman who is concerned about the process, the cost, the lack of enough open debate, and the refusal to seriously consider cheaper alternatives….

As has become the habit of local boards of late debate becomes a one-sided affair and the rules are changed to protect the people from dissenting voices.  But! have the  Salem Mahalists, the Taj-a-goo goo’s if you like, done something in their zeal in violation of the law?

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This caught my eye over at The Corner last night – a riff on Rudy Giuiliani’s saying that he doesn’t believe Obama loves America (emphasis mine):

Obama Loves America, in His Fashion

I think Obama does love America; he just has a funny way of showing it. Some people see love as a partnership: “I love you, so I want to support you and reassure you and help you achieve all your goals.”

But there’s also the type of person who sees love as a project: “You’re a total mess, but because I love you, I’m going to make you lose 20 pounds and get rid of those awful clothes and find you some new friends to hang out with and tell you what to read and improve your taste in wine and get that squeaky sound in your car fixed and maybe get you off your butt a little bit on weekends, darling.”

Obama’s love for America is of the second type.

That latter part?  I don’t call that “love” at all in any fashion –

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Read this carefully – Commissioner Virginia Barry (Ph.D. dontcha know) has just made it very clear – NH State Government has just stripped your “ownership” and responsibility of your own children from you.  And I thought my comparison was a bit over the top last night – this makes it clear that our NH Government has decided it has precedence over your children.  Are you going to let this stand – in a nation that calls itself “a free country”?  In part:

…All public school students in the designated grades SHALL participate in the assessment…

There is no “opting out” option for students in the law.  SAU, district and /or school personnel do not have the authority to develop or sign any form allowing a student to not take the assessment….

…Therefore, parents have no legal right to opt their children out…

The districts’ legal obligations are clear, and districts must not allow ANY citizen to prevent their district from fulfilling its mandate to administer the assessment to all public school students in the designated grades.

And that reference to “citizen” means you, parents.  And then it goes on in words that fulfill exactly what I said at the .223 rally this afternoon: Progressivism – where the citizen serves the State.  Here, the State is saying that your children must serve the needs of the State, no quibbling about it.  Here is the full notice:

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