…not that I ever truly expected one.

Good day Rep Schlachman,

An LSR of yours has stirred up some interest and I was looking to get some details; your thoughts on the purpose of this proposed legislation.

Would you care to elaborate on what “enabling municipalities to dispose of certain firearms” would entail?

Best Regards

>Steve Mac Donald

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email: steve@granitegrok.com
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Something tells me this, “Blogger/Editor- GraniteGrok.com,” caused her hand to mouse over the delete key and erase it.

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Rhode Island Liberty-xenophobe (and New Hampshire House Democrat) Cynthia Chase has submitted a Legislative Service Request (LSR) “relative to accountability requirements for HOME EDUCATION programs.”

2014 – LSR 2591-R .

I can see where she’d be concerned.  Home Schooled kids are not typically the kind of progressive drones a liberty-fearing Trotsky-ite like Chase has much tolerance for.  They ask questions and challenge assumptions made by the lefty-media and government institutions, including ones Chase would use  “…to make the environment here so unwelcoming that some (Free Staters) will choose not to come, and some may actually leave.”

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Latha Mangipudi isn’t just a Nashua Democrat running for the New Hampshire House (in a special election on November 5th, 2013), she also aids and abets vote fraud by letting an out of state campaign worker claim residence in her home at 20 Salmon Brook Drive in  Nashua, New Hampshire.

The out of state campaigner is Alysha Marie Tierney (pronounced like “tyranny”).  Alysha lives at 5 N Arthur St Ludlow, MA 01056-1849.  She is currently a Staff Assistant at Harvard Kennedy School of Government (according to her LinkedIn page) but before that she was a college student at the University of Virginia.

Massachusetts, Virginia, Massachusetts….

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I’ve written before about how Obama’s puerile self-impressed and vain nature precludes him from persuading anyone, but it also manifests itself in other more repugnant demonstrations by himself and his acolytes.

Whether it’s accidental or intentional, acquiring the 800 numbers to spell 1-800-****-YO is consistent with the class level and sense of respect and propriety that this community organizer and his wretched minions have. You can take the Organizer out of the community, but you can’t take the bedraggled crime riddled community out of the heathen Organizer. I have no doubt, if it were up to him, there would be graffiti and filth all over the White House.

Funny, just a few weeks ago I read about the infestation of rat and cockroaches scurrying the floorboards in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Whether the Organizer brought them or not he probably feels right at home just like in his provincial estate in the murder capital of the country. It’s like being back on the blood soaked streets shadowed by rats fattened by the blood, filth and flesh, and roaches so grotesquely engorged they appear more as walking shot-glasses than insects.

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And the newly crowned owner of this dubious award (or, at least, the owner of  the byline to which it is attached) is John DiStaso of the Union Leader.  I’ve gone back and looked at it several times over the day, still scratching my head over it:

NH still operating despite federal shutdown

Was this a sigh of relief?  Or a total jaw dropping reaction of surprise?  Or (especially if one is totally convinced that only Biggest Govt is able to care for us little people) a jaw dropping disappointment that perhaps the High Church of the Alter of Almighty Gubmint didn’t really matter much?  That things

think about – er, maybe we can get along without it?

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If you’re upset that a service or function that you depend on is not available because of the shutdown, then do the right thing: work to privatize it, or move it local and free yourself from the whims of temporary, remote politicians.

Why on earth would you subject the delivery of an essential need to political winds? Have you seen the way these people operate?

They’re the same people that oversee and repeatedly exacerbate Leviathan’s follies. Like the employment of 96% of nonessential personnel to run a Federal Department? Who does that? How does that make sense?

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I watched the Obama Administration issue the “Washington Monument Act” strategy (e.g., shut down citizen-popular stuff to extract the most amount of pain and frustration) by fiat that all National Parks be closed – even those areas that normally not manned like the War Memoriasl on the National Mall that are ordinarily “open air”.  He and his minions smiled – once again, pulling the Community Organizer tool box out in agitating the crowds towards the outcome they wanted.  The Imperious President thundering forth “I don’t have to offer ANYTHING” – as he targets the House Republicans just as he used to do the Chicago elites.  Well worn, well played, and successful.

Cakewalk, they thought.  We can cower anyone.  Except a monkey wrench showed up.  A few hundred, actually

A bunch of old, enfeebled WW II Vets, from whose ranks thousands are  dying every day,came to DC.  Some walking, some behind walkers, many being wheeled to THEIR memorial earned those decades ago as THEIR gift to the nation. And many paid that ultimate gift for the rest of us.  The survivors simply made the journey (by gifts by others to them for this) to see what a grateful nation gifted back to them.  THEIR MEMORIAL earned by their blood, their wounds, and their dead buddies.

In front of them, in their way, stood Obama.

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From the Union Leader (emphasis mine, reformatted)

Conservative radio talk show host Jeff Chidester said Tuesday he has been approached by “numerous people inside the state and outside the state” about the possibility of running for the 1st District U.S. House seat. Chidester, a Republican, said he is considering it but feels in no rush to decide.

Republican Former U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta has announced his candidacy for the seat now held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, while another Republican, former University of New Hampshire business school dean Dan Innis, is also strongly considering it.

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By now you have heard about the petty technocrats in the Obama Administration creating obstacles to open air monuments as a public political display about the government shutdown.  Keep in mind, it would actually cost the government more of your money to send Park Police to set up barricades around an open-air monument that are otherwise never there in the first place.   Thus the term “open-air” monument.  Put another way, when it comes to adding a blockade where one did not previously exist, the Obama Administration can say that the government… ‘Built That.”

Could the optics of that get any worse for Democrats?  Lets Hope so.

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The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of a National Park but it appears that this park is still open and operating (Too big to put barricades around, perhaps?) despite the Democrat’s “create-ways-to-make-it-hurt” fever for the flavor of a shutdown. (Tastes bitter, doesn’t it?)

News Nicht (I mean Nine)

There are few signs of the federal government shutdown, but some locations where visitors could get help are closed.

“Largely it’s the federal employees that work for the White Mountains National Forest who will be seeing the effect, and they are being laid off and furloughed for the time being,” said Cheryl Reardon of the White Mountains Visitor Association.

I have a simple conservative solution to this so-called “problem.”

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Efficient Gun Control that makes sense: (Note–on 1-20-14 I am editing some incorrect details copied from the original quote and adding a few of my own–Steve)

In 1863 (April 15) 1865 a Democrat shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.

In (July 2) 1881 a left wing radical Democrat shot James Garfield, President of the United States, who later died from the wound.

In (Nov 22) 1963 a radical left wing socialist shot and killed John F. Kennedy, President of the United States.

In (Sept 5 -Fromme) (Sept 22–Moore) 1975 (two different)  left wing radicals fired shots at Gerald Ford, President of the United States.

In 1983 a registered Democrat shot and wounded Ronald Reagan, President of the United States.

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The last two weeks are a mighty powerful argument for giving politicians as little control over our lives as we possibly can.

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) October 2, 2013

• US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid denying a little child ill with cancer the help she needs
• President Obama’s shutting down “open air” memorials that honor our Veterans.
• NH CongressCritters Kuster, Shea-Porter, and Shaheen voting against money for WIC and TANF that helps “the most vulnerable amongst us”.

In fact, Democrats are pretty much voting against anything that would release the shutdown chokehold.  Now, don’t get me wrong – some departments should be kept shutdown in a large way – the States can handle these functions (e.g., EPA – we have an NH DES, DoEd – we have our own NH Dept of Education) and should.  Others as well.  In most of these cases, the money reality is that the above money is “power grabbed” from the States to begin with, and then “extorted” back (to use a Democrat word du jour) to us – with strings / cables attached.  But I digress.

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Saw this first over at The Blaze:

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) on Tuesday became one of the latest lawmakers to say he would be forgoing his congressional salary during the government shutdown, telling The Salt Lake Tribune he’s asking “that they hold my check until this is resolved.”

Members of Congress’ pay is ensured even during a shutdown because of the 27th Amendment, which bars Congress from changing its own salary. Still, lawmakers from both parties have announced they will either have their pay held or donated to charity.

and it linked over to the Washington Post.  Right at the top was this and she was joinged by our Sr. Senator.  And Porter and Kuster?

Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.): A senior aide said that “Any days that federal workers do not get paid, Sen. Ayotte will donate her salary to a New Hampshire charity.”

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Greg Moore : Medicaid expansion would hurt families across New Hampshire

Is it ideological to question a plan that could cause more than 20,000 New Hampshire residents to lose their doctor, make all of us wait longer to get health care and put New Hampshire closer to having an income tax? If you said no, then you’re on your first step to opposing the Medicaid expansion plan under Obamacare that’s currently before the Legislature.

 Medicaid expansion would hurt families across New Hampshire

Obamacare supporters have said that the reason why many level-headed elected leaders have resisted adding more than 50,000 new people to the government-run health care program called Medicaid is because of a zealous opposition to the President and his policies. They’ve said that the federal government will always keep its promises, and that every day that passes after the expansion goes into effect nationally, our state will lose out on “free” money from the federal government.

Consider re-reading that last paragraph and ask yourself who has been drinking the ideological Kool-Aid.

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