I wrote back in 2009 about the Lifeline (aka Obamaphones):

Once again, we see that the line at what Big Government defines as the “needs” of those needing “welfare” always seems to go ever upward over time (in addition to what the definition of what “poor” is). I saw an ad on TV the other day (in fact, I JUST saw it again) that if you are on food stamps or receive other type government aid, there is a program just for you.  The actress proudly proclaimed “I can now call my family any time I want!” – she has a free cell phone!

Don’t know about you but I consider a cell phone a luxury – a “want” vs a “need”. Handy?  Absolutely, but I am not one that is tied to one.  As such, it comes from my discretionary income (such as it is).  If things were to get tough, it would be banished from the budget.

Indeed – want vs need.  Now apply that to Obamacare.

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That would be “Martha Fuller-Clark of Martha’s Motel – hits somebody with a car and….what happens? Police response is seemingly….mere deference?” – a riff off the news that the NH State Senator “blacked out” and mowed down a walker.  Turns out it was a 67 year old Mom wearing a reflective vest while legally walking on the sidewalk with her daughter.  My main beef was “doesn’t matter who the Who was, why did the police do nothing“? In today’s SeacoastOnline, an update (emphasis mine, reformatted):

PORTSMOUTH — State Sen. Martha Fuller Clark hasn’t gotten behind the wheel of a car since driving into a pedestrian Friday night and doesn’t plan to do so until she’s medically cleared, said her lawyer, Wilfred “Jack” Sanders.  Fuller Clark, D-Portsmouth, gave police two different explanations for two crashes she was involved in during the past two months, police said on Monday.

The 71-year-old Portsmouth resident told police she “blacked out” before driving over a curb Friday night and hitting Carla Dow, of Maine, who was walking on a sidewalk, said Capt. Frank Warchol. On Sept. 8, Fuller-Clark told police she drove onto a Route 33 median strip and knocked over a street sign because the area was “not well lit,” Warchol said.

“Not well lit,” – were those “intent”ionally vote stealing OFA operatives living with her also “not well lit” to the point of her not seeing what they were doing as well?  Why WOULDN’T the police go for this dodge?  Certainly, the NH Attorney General’s office seems to be a few lite bulbs short, too, to not see the VoterFraud (and certainly since some of their own officemates were doing the same thing!). 

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I’d bet money that the AG’ office discovers nothing in their investigation.  That the reason they discover nothing is because this was a stunt perpetrated by New Hampshire Democrats, right before an election, to put bad press into the Nashua paper about the Republican opponent.

While a spokesman for the attorney general provided few details, New Hampshire Democrats said they filed the complaint Monday after witnessing what they believe was distribution of an “illegal campaign flier” benefitting Republican candidate Peter Silva.

It’s a great smear tactic executed by the smear masters themselves.  Speaking of which…

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Using back of the envelope calculations, comparing the turnout in November 2012 to the results from Tuesday’s Ward 8 NH House race, it is is difficult to suggest anything other than this.  Ward 8 is currently owned by Democrats and that’s the end of the story.

Silva would have had to turn out 50% of those who voted for Republican NH House candidates in November 2012 to beat the 36% of Democrat votes from November 2012 that Latha Mangipudi managed yesterday.

I’m not sure but I don’t think anyone has ever attracted 50% of general election during a special election so that’s a hill too high to climb.   That doesn’t mean that you give them the seat.  Silva managed 30%, which is actually impressive, but 30% of 500 fewer voters is nowhere near enough to overcome the demographic advantage Democrats currently enjoy in Nashua Ward 8 and let’s be honest–with a few exceptions they do a better job of getting the voters they have to ballot box on election day.

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Jr Hoell
LSR 14-2065.1:

A RESOLUTION urging Congress to investigate the Benghazi incident.

Whereas, every American citizen serving in the defense of his or her country has the right and the expectation to not be left behind on foreign or domestic soil; and

Whereas, the Secretary of State was sent 5 dispatches from Embassy Tripoli dated March 28, 2012, July 9, 2012, Aug 2, 2012, Aug 20, 2012, and Sept 11, 2012, all requesting more security agents or complaining about the integrity of the local security people; and

Whereas, there were over 125 Marines stationed in Sigonella, Italy, part of the Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force 12, who were tasked with training African militaries fighting Africa-based terror groups, which were never called in to help; and

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Tweeted a link to the post beneath this.  Got this in response.

http://twitter.com/SolidGraniteNH/status/397759915772485632

It sure sounds like a crime!

Stealing votes by asking people who clearly have no intention of ever living here to vote here is an irresponsible, unethical, and immoral act, whether you can get someone to claim it is illegal or not.

And Domicile has a legal meaning in almost every state but New Hampshire so are the progressive Democrats (or other advocates) in the Granite State, who pack checklists with out-of-state voters, complicit in punishable crimes in other jurisdictions that result from engaging in dual registration and/or voting in another state that you really do not live in?

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“White House policy advisors who objected to the breadth of Mr. Obama’s ‘keep your plan’ promise…were overruled by political aides.”

So they are not just liars, they are determined liars intent on deception.

From Marc Theissen – WSJ

It’s not easy to get a lie into a presidential speech. Every draft address is circulated to the White House senior staff and key Cabinet officials in something called the “staffing process.” Every line is reviewed by dozens of senior officials, who offer comments and factual corrections. During this process, it turns out, some of Obama’s policy advisers objected to the “you can keep your plan” pledge, pointing out that it was untrue. But it stayed in the speech. That does not happen by accident. It requires a willful intent to deceive.

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I have it around here someplace, but one post I have reviewed had guestimated that US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH-D) and US CongressCritter Carol Shea-Porter, with their votes for Obamacare, will be directly responsible for over 20,000 New Hampshire residents having been kicked to the curb – these two have decided to social engineer these 20,000 folks and their families:

“How DARE you have insurance policies that YOU like but that we DON’T!  We have told your insurance companies that they must cancel what you voluntarily paid for”

And sometimes for years.  IT DOESN’T MATTER TO THEM the hard times you may now have to face.  IT DOESN’T MATTER TO THEM the financial hardships you will endure (just remember, YOUR taxes are paying, not just their $174,000 / year salary, but THEIR healthcare costs as well – a very FINE package as well!).  IT DOESN’T MATTER TO THEM how you will have to struggle to find new doctors.  IT DOESN’T MATTER TO THEM how far you may have to travel to get to a hospital.  IT DOESN’T MATTER TO THEM that you might end up with a plan that will cost YOU up to $12,700 in deductibles BEFORE you still get to pay 30% or more of costs out of pocket.  And IT DOESN’T MATTER TO THEM that if you don’t get their oft-talked about “subsidies”, you are paying for others to receive care that is now out of your financial reach.

IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER –

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On October 29, legislators and guests were invited to a Common Core rally, “Perspectives on Education Reform ” at the Legislative Office Building in Concord.  The keynote speaker was Dr. Marc Tucker, from the National Institute for Education and the Economy (Economy?).  Dr. Tucker has a colorful past and I have to say, he is a slick progressive bureaucrat who knows how to stack the deck in his favor.  But, after sitting through his hour long presentation, I was amazed at what Dr. Tucker COULDN’T tell us.  When I asked Dr. Tucker about FERPA (Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act) and the Dec. 2011 regulatory amendments which replaced parental consent with that of “authorized representatives” to include non- governmental agencies, trade unions, and companies who develop educational products and services, his response was “…well, I would not be in support of that…but I don’t know anything about it…”.  Really?  I find that most difficult to believe.

When I asked Dr. Tucker about specific information regarding the so-called “testing” and “benchmarks” of the Common Core Standards, he again said he “didn’t know which countries were included in the testing”.  I may believe this because I do not believe the Common Core standards were EVER benchmarked.  It doesn’t matter how many times the “Powers That Be” say these standards have been “tested”.  We cannot find any verification of such (and neither could Mr. Smarty Pants), so they are empty words for me.

But, perhaps the most egregious moments of Dr. Tucker’s presentation may rest with his obvious distain for anyone who questions the power of the government in education.  

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Andrew Breitbart – a fighter for Freedom in today’s oppressive Progressivism where the Left believes that it’s role IS to advance soft despotism policies simply because “it good for us and we all don’t realize it”.  He is missed.  Junk Science has a post that includes a lot of his points in fighting what often seems to be an ever encroaching army of locusts, each one tasked with taking just one more sliver of Freedom away – I am reproducing some of them here as we ALL need a bit of bucking up now and then! Emphasis mine:

Joe Bast sent me today a thoughtful slight revision of Breitbart’s 10 rules of war, unpacked to 19 points for strategy. The Bast/Breitbart list is essential for any advocate, regardless of viewpoint, to consider. I wish i knew them by heart and could effectively execute on them.  From Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! (Grand Central Publishing, 2011). Breitbart enumerates only ten rules, Joe Bast unpacked them into 19 points. What follows is a mix of Breitbart and Bast.

“Our opponents have spent so many years on the offensive with people lying prone at their feet that they’ve forgotten what it’s like to be on the defensive. If we come after them, they won’t know how to respond.” (p. 147)

1. Don’t be afraid to go into enemy territory. Our most articulate voices, likable faces, and best idea-makers need to go into hostile territory and plant the seeds of doubt in our ideological enemy and the apolitical masses who simply go where the media flows. Don’t just preach to the choir. Invade their space, get their attention, make them report what you say.

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Rule #1, Rule #2, Rule #7, Rule #12, Rule #15.  Except I’m still banned – I tried to leave a comment, saw it was waiting for moderation, and just saw that it was delete.  Oh well, this is why I have the ‘Grok!  Emphasis mine with some reformatting:

Quote of the day: Jack Diamond on the true cost of sprawl

Toronto architect Jack Diamond writes in the Globe and Mail about the real costs of sprawl, noting the economic burden for the homeowner, the community and the whole country. He notes that it just costs too much to support low density sprawl, but that doesn’t mean we all have to live in high-rises.

Economic burden for the homeowner?  Really?  I keep seeing this “argument” over and over – “those poor saps in the ‘burbs!  We have to save them from spending their own money from living in places we don’t think they should be.  This is one reason we created the Sustainable Communities Initiative – WE know where you should be – and we’ll save you money, too!”

Clearly low-density suburbs are unaffordable. Alternative housing types that meet child-rearing requirements and private ownership, but at densities that make supporting infrastructure affordable and public transit viable, are entirely possible and practical – and critically necessary.

Translation: not matter how you got there, you can’t afford it! 

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She has stage 4 cancer; she can’t keep her plan and now she can’t keep her doctor either…

My grievance is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective Dec. 31.

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