How does the State of Nebraska define Domicile?

Domicile, as you may recall, is the key, and only, word in the NH State Constitution that defines where a NH inhabitant votes.

Here is what the Nebraska Dept. of Revenue says about Domicile:

Domicile.

Domicile is the place an individual has his or her permanent place of abode and home. Even if the individual is absent at times, domicile is the place to which the individual intends to return. Actual residence is not necessarily domicile. An individual establishes domicile in Nebraska on the date he or she arrives in the state for other than temporary or transitory purposes. Once domicile is established, it remains the individual’s domicile until it is abandoned. Domicile in Nebraska is abandoned when an individual leaves the state with no intention of returning to the state and establishes a domicile in another state while present in the other state for other than temporary or transitory purposes.

Nebraska is the home of the lead petitioner of the non-resident voter case called Hannah Rivers v. NH that TWO Superior (and insufficiently educated) Court activist judges say magically grants the right to vote in NH to non-residents.

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Tom Steyer has been pouring money into New Hampshire in support of Democrat Jeanne Shaheen.  He’s the Green energy global warming billionaire buying up the US Senate for Democrats.   Steyer is one of those evil banker types who made a chunk of his fortune investing in coal,  two strikes Democrats dismissed when he promised to spend $100 million or more on Democrat Senate campaigns, including our own Jeanne Shaheen.

This point comes home to New Hampshire again with a recent revelation that while Steyer’s PAC’s have been spending money attacking Democrat opponents on their support for cheap, affordable, and abundant energy we can actually use, Steyer continued to profit from investments in coal and gas.

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Boston Herald- Pols should park Ego For Haystack App

The City Council — as well as Mayor Marty Walsh — is poised to ban the Baltimore-based app from expanding into Boston with its service allowing anyone with a parking space to sell access to that space. In other words, if you’re just about to leave a coveted spot right in front of Sonsie on Newbury Street, you can charge $15 for someone to come meet you there at the exact time of your departure and take your space. But city officials claim the app will spawn all manner of road rage, potentially taking up valuable police resources. They contend that beyond that, it’s improper if not borderline illegal to “sell” city property — i.e., city parking spaces.

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‘Grok friend John Hawkins (RightWingNews, Linkiest) has a column at Townhall in which he lists 15 things that he really hates about politics.  Here, I’ve listed a few of them that really caught my eye (emphasis mine, some items shortened) as well as some notes.  A smart guy, he’s spot on:

1) That American politicians have stopped asking the most basic questions about good governance. Does this program work at all or does it just sound good? … Would people choose to pay for this?

That latter one is VERY important; as a Budget Committee member in my town, I used to ask “If the town did not pay your dues for your professional association, would you pay for it yourself”?  The majority answered no – meaning that they saw enough benefit in it for them if someone else paid for it, it was good; if they had to pay for it personally, it was clear that it wasn’t worth it.  Yet, I could not persuade others, that even if the folks who directly benefitted saw no worth to pay for it themselves, to remove it from the budget.  Every dollar is sacred once it passes from an individual’s to Government’s hands – so who really owns the money?

3) The political obsession with trivia, when the whole country is falling apart. We can’t secure our borders, find jobs for people or get our spending under control, but the Senate has plenty of time to discuss the name of the Redskins.

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The New York Times has a cool map as to where “excess Military Equipment” has gone from the US Military to counties around the nation: Militarization of the Police

Given the images from Ferguson, MO that have gone up all over the blogosphere (yeah, I need to post up the ones I’ve bookmarked) during the rioting there, it is causing a national question to be asked: How militarized should our police forces really be”?  Have police forces gone overboard in the “it’s free so I gotta get mine – even if I’ll never use it”?  Do citizens, when seeing these images, think “this is my PEACE Officer or is this a junior version of Special Forces”?  The Youngest, upon glancing at some of the news clips, said “Heck, even *I* didn’t carry that amount of stuff while in Afghanistan”.

Do we, as a nation or even locally, need (or want) a police force or one that is transformed, permanently, into paramilitary units?  There is a difference – a big difference, not least of which is “Are the police one of us, or do they see us as an enemy to be contained, controlled, or crushed?

• Belknap County:  60 Assault Rifles, 30 pistols, 2 grenade launchers

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“If there is a new, small government versus old big government guard in today’s Republican Party, the NH gubernatorial primary may be just the place to watch them face off.”

Not my words in the title, but the words over at Brietbart’s  Dan Riehl at “The Conversation” (Brietbart now being one of the largest sites on the Right of the Blogosphere”.  “Live Free or Die” where the People should be of more importance then government vs the meme of the tired outdated “Elect us – Republicans can run Big Government more efficiently”.  One advocates for government getting out of the way so you can do what you want for “the Pursuit of Happiness” (Hemingway) while the other (Havenstein) is merely “I make government better”.  Smaller, less intrusive and less bothersome government vs merely rearranging the deck chair on a Titanic that doesn’t realize it has hit the iceberg (“but I’ll keep the lights on!!”).  Asperational Freedom for the little guy and small business, or the traditional Republican politics per usual.  The new vision or the shopworn “process”?

Doesn’t hurt, either, that one of the most respected sites (Right OR Left) RealClearPoltics was quoted as well (emphasis mine):

Is Andrew Hemingway the New Face of a GOP with a Future?

A tech savvy accomplished entrepreneur with one foot in the Tea Party and the other in the so called GOP establishment, having run Newt Gingrich’s New Hampshire campaign in 2012, Andrew Hemingway is making noise in NH’s Republican gubernatorial primary – noise that even some oldsters seem to like, according to Scott Conroy at Real Clear Politics reporting on a recent debate.

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This just came in over the transom, and it is a very good question.  Where IS the “Open and Transparent” Government we were promised, Governor Maggie Hassan?  Can you explain (below: emphasis mine)?

Dear Governor Hassan,

On August 1^st, 2014 The Union Leader reported that the federal government dumped 13 unaccompanied non-citizen children in New Hampshire on January 1. Curiously, the year they were dumped was not transcribed in the article.

The following statement was attributed to you Governor Hassan by your press secretary William Hinkle;

“As a national issue, the governor believes that Congress should work together to find a bipartisan solution to America’s immigration issues and to ensure that no children are put in a dangerous situation.”

That’s it?  Your only statement published in the Union Leader on 8/11/2014;

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Update: well, Skip is REALLY under the weather – and is barely functional.  Proven that he can’t think straight, can’t talk straight (compared to his normal ramblings), and forgot to bring, amongst all the other bags, the livestream computer.  So, besides the fact that he left late due to illness, there is no livestreaming today.  We will be recording the event and posting it later.  Apologies.

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Larry Lessig has been promoting the idea of publicly funded elections, and fighting corporate money in politics.  He is the impetus behind ‘NH Rebellion,’ a local effort to advance the progressive narrative against corporate speech.  Lessig’s overriding theme has come to a head with his latest effort to combat money in politics, Mayday PAC.

The group, the brainchild of Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig and GOP media strategist Mark McKinnon, is trying to reduce the influence of money in politics by helping to elect candidates who have pledged to reform campaign finance laws.

Lessig and McKinnon are spending millions to elect candidates to public office.

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I’ve been having an invigorating debate on Facebook with Pam Manney about some candidates running as Republicans in Goffstown.  I like Pam, but I think we’re just going to have to disagree on a few things.  She seems to think I am making claims without evidence, particularly with regard to candidate Barbara Griffin.  I guess years of checklists showing her voting Democrat in primaries and General elections is not evidence.

Like I said, we’ll have to agree to disagree.

But I do have some suggestions that might help the ‘”Republicans” she is supporting clear up any concerns.

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