Are You Sure You Are Not Just a “Drug Mule” for the RPC’s Agenda?

Supports of SB11, and perhaps even the folks who are lining up to claim the bill will probably do no harm, should understand that the coincidences between what SB 11 says it wants to allow (and what it cannot clearly prohibit) and that which the Regional Planning Boards seek to implement after or through appropriate legislative action…are … Read more

Come At Me, Bro

“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.”   — Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

ronald-mcdonald_Come_At_Me_Bro_smallThe Union Leader on line this morning featured the headline, “Man gunned down on Manchester street was talented graffiti artist.” Now I am curious. A “Graffiti Artist.”  As for Graffiti, the Queen city is not lacking in it. According to the Manchester Police Website,

Graffiti is a crime. Graffiti is vandalism! Graffiti is a crime in Manchester! The term graffiti is used if it appears on property without permission. The term originated in the late 1960’s although unsolicited markings have been around forever. Each year, millions of dollars are spent

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GrokTALK! On AC Nation at a New Time!

GrokTALK! is still re-broadcast on AC Nation Radio but it is moving from Tuesday’s 7-9pm to Tuesday from 8-10pm. So check out this weeks program, or check it out again, tonight on AC NAtion.com Also available on iTunes, just search for AC Nation radio on iTunes and look for GrokTALK!  

Pro-SB11 PR Campaign Underway…

Supporters of SB 11, the bill that would allow a new layer of bureaucracy for the purpose of taxing and managing intermunicipal water districts, are waging a public relations campaign on the premise that the opponents of the bill are seeing things that are not there.  Unfortunately for them, the real problem is that there is nothing in the bill to prevent any of the things we see.

Call us cynical but we do not trust rules-makers and bureaucrats to imagine limitations on their authority that are not spelled out clearly.  In fact, as proper cynics, we do not even give them much credit for constraining themselves when the language seems clear.  The language in SB11 fails on all counts.

So I have begun my own counter-campaign on that premise, and emailed the entire New Hampshire House Republican email list with the email below.  Feel free to use this premise or one similar as you reach out to your own representatives.

And a reminder.  Water, water rights, property rights, and fair taxation are not partisan issues.   It is your well, your water, your rain and run-off , and your money that could be taxed; no matter what we’d like the words in SB11 to mean, there is no specific language in it that seeks first and foremost to protect the people of New Hampshire.  Until such language does exist this effort must be opposed.

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Belknap County Conservative Republicans’ Family Fun Day – interview with Greg Moore

The last interview from the Belknap County Conservative Republicans’ Family Fun Day was with Greg Moore, the Executive Director of the New Hampshire chapter of Americans for Prosperity.  His mission as Exec. Dir., as always, is to reach out to all kinds of groups, current and new (as the BCCR group is) and let them know what AFP is all about and see if there is common ground on which the groups might be able to collaborate.

This is a three part interview (split for time, and at the end, for technical issues (er, bad cable yielding lots of static – and again, apologies to Colette Worseman and Susan Olsen for the time they spent with me graciously doing interviews which will never be heard).

Parts 2 &  3 after the jump:

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HB 135 Up For Vote – Thursday, May 23, 10:00 am

HB 135, to repeal NH’s “Stand Your Ground” , is scheduled for a vote by the full Senate this Thursday, May 23.  The session begins at 10.  Call your Senator and tell him or her to support the Committee’s report to vote ITL – Inexpedient To Legislate!    

Oh please……..

“Growing up, I made quite a few myself,” Obama said. “Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. I had a tendency to make excuses for me not doing the right thing.”

Paging Mary Stuart Bile!

Even the Chicago Teachers’ Union gets it…. Via Weasel Zippers

Majority Report on SB152 The Casino Gambling Bill

Will Republians roll the dice on Gambling in New Hampshire

I don’t typically post reports from the House Journal because I am not flush with the time necessary to read them on any sort of regular basis. But the committee vote on SB152, the most recent effort to plop a Casino somewhere on the New Hampshire landscape, was close–and just happened to go my way.  What better incentive than that to report the results of that report…?

…to see what the bipartisan committee saw that inspired them to suggest, not so much that any Casino would be bad for New Hampshire–which is my position–but that SB152 was just a lousy effort at getting one even if you were in favor of it.

So here is the where and why of how the bill fails and should, by Rep Mary Jane Wallner.

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Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking gun?

I’m sure this is just another coinceidence, right? From The American Spectator Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking gun? The stunning questions are raised by the following set of new facts. March 31, 2010. According to the White House Visitors Log, provided here in searchable form by U.S. News and World Report, the … Read more

Tyranny Waters Not Cold Enough For You Yet?

The IRS scandal is just the tip of a very large and intimidating iceberg.  Watch, and feel the chill. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wrxI878HjKc Here’s an NRO story about this as well. And then this by Mark Steyn. Meanwhile, who regulates the regulators? The president’s senior communications adviser dismisses media queries as “offensive“; the attorney general sneers at attempted … Read more

Obama Aide on IRS Scandal: “The Law Is Irrelevant”

Turns out that the Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer shed some light on the Administration’s perspective on the IRS scandal.  This morning on “This Week”,  Mr. Pfeiffer cavalierly averred that the law is irrelevant with regards to the IRS scandal. Oh, well that clears things up.  What difference at this point does it make anyway, that … Read more

Mary Stuart Bile, er Guile, er Gile Schooled…

…by none other than Kate Baker, the extraordinary young woman who is the Executive Director of the Network for Education Opportunity. I swear, for the life of me I do not understand why Dems and Progressives are always ready to throw poor and disadvantaged children under the government school bus.

Belknap County Conservative Republicans’ Family Fun Day – interview with Don Walker

After doing GrokTALK! first thing in the morning in Concord, I headed up to Laconia to Funspot where the Belknap County Conservative Republicans were having their Family Fun Day – under the tent, free food, and opening up their arms to the public at large to talk about the Republican Party Platform, Constitutional values, and conservative values.  One example of their literature contained information on their mission, who they are, where they stand, and an answer to those that disagree that their group should even exist (full info after the jump).  While I was there, I took the opportunity to get a couple of interviews.  This first one with is long time conservative activist and co-founder of the group, Don Walker:

  

Technical note: normally I just use a shotgun mic on the camera but the ambient noise level was just too high for that configuration.  Instead, we were wearing headsets due to the noise level and then trying to pipe that into the camera via a soundboard – something I have seldomly done in the past.  Post-processing, it became clear that one of the cables used to do this went bad – I apologize to Susan Olsen and Colette Worseman as their interviews were too static-y to use, and I had to edit Greg Moore’s near the end as well.

You know, I can’t remember the last time that the “official” Belknap County Republican Committee had such an event – estimates were that between 125 – 175 people came over at some point during the day.

Our Mission:

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