Honor Your Oath rally – Ed has a good summary video

Ed runs GovernmentOversite – a site that is a labor of love in bringing citizen journalism via video to the public by going to board meeting after commission meeting after public hearing.  He was at the rally and here is his compendium of the afternoon: (H/T: GovernmentOversite)

Temporarily…

Well, not actually ‘without leave’, but absent from GG…am working on two pieces – “Granite State Futures” and IRS 990 tax-exempt returns…and heading to the Merrimack County Republican Committee meeting tonight carrying a letter of “no confidence’ from my local committee.  The three are not necessarily connected.

Democrat State Rep. Janice Schmidt: “All murders aren’t the same”

Rep. Jan Schmidt (D) Nashua -Hills 27
Rep. Jan Schmidt (D) Nashua -Hills 27

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” – Orwell.

“Yes, that is correct… All murders aren’t the same”, responded Representative Janice Schmidt (D) Hillsborough 27 – Nashua to a comment asking her about the comparison of the killings in Newtown and those in the Gosnell trial. She wrote this on a comment to my last blog.  The subject of the blog noted how the media covered, or didn’t cover, the two killings.

For those that still do not know about the Gosnell trial, it’s finally breaching the news coverage with its gory and lugubrious details, so I’ll sum it up quickly:  it’s about an abortionist, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who allegedly killed women and delivered babies only to, again allegedly, impale them with scissors and snip their spinal cord.  The Grand Jury Report stated over the years there were over “hundreds of snippings”.  My blog’s point was that the lack of coverage of the Gosnell trial, especially when juxtaposed with the media gusher of the Newtown tragedy, is the product of extreme liberal media bias.

Apparently, I piqued compassionate Janice and she did what Janice does, and sounded off.

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A Message to the Ayotte “I told You So” Crowd

Many of us objected to Senator Ayotte’s vote to break a filibuster on gun control.  Now that the measure is dead in the Senate, and Senator Ayotte voted to kill it, and Obama is mad as hell, the folks who thought we were overreacting, are all “well SEE!?” To these folks I submit the following:  … Read more

“Republicans” who oppose our most basic right

…that is, the sacred and inalienable right to self-defense. There are only 3 Republicans in the U.S. Senate who voted against that right by supporting Obama’s just-defeated attempt to strip away a little more of the 2nd Amendment. I memorialize them here so we will remember…and so they can be defeated in their next reelection campaigns. Here they are, the three anti-2nd Amendment RINO’s:

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Obomba

I don’t know.  As things progress, it just seems like we might be spelling it that way moving Forward. President Barack Obomba.

State Senate Votes 13-11 to Table HB 370 – The Education Scholarship Credit Lives!!!

HB 370, the government-school monopoly, anti-education-choice-bill from the union-owned Democrat House, that would have repealed the education scholarship tax credit that passed last year, has been tabled by the New Hampshire State Senate.    Tabling a bill is not legislative death but it is not unlike locking a prisoner up in a dungeon and forgetting they are there.  Someone might wander down to take a peek, but more likely  than not no one will ever visit it again.

Snidely whiplash - NEA loses as HB370 is tabled in NH Senate

There are several reasons for doing it, but more than likely this was to give cover for folks who would rather leave things as they are.  As a way to end the repeal effort without actually having to vote pass or fail..   Or maybe we got lucky.  I don’t much care what or why, just that it’s done, at least until Fred Lynn the ACLU, and the out of state wing-nuts who are planning to file suit at the bench of left-wing Judge John “I redefined domicile in time for the November Elections” Lewis….who will be asked to block the program on the grounds that it violates the separation of church and state.

Today we are victorious.  Tomorrow is another day.

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Kelly Ayotte shoots down Manchin/Twoomey background check bill

Senator Kelly Ayotte Telling Andrea Mitchel she opposes a filibuster of the gun control bill
Senator Kelly Ayotte Telling Andrea Mitchel she opposes a filibuster of the gun control bill

Yeah, I couldn’t help but notice that it seems that Kelly, even though she did vote to kill the gun control filibuster, has now signaled that the Manchin / Twoomey “compromise” background check gets the back of her hand.  With that, the M/T bill is now in worse shape than a spent 12 gauge shotgun shell laying on the ground.  Good riddance to it, as both of those senators said that their bill would not have stopped either Aurora or Sandy Hook.

Thus, in my mind, this is the perfect example of why sometimes the best thing is to do nothing instead of the knee jerk reaction “Hey, we’re supposed to be charge – WE GOTTA DO SOMETHING!”  And then we get bills that impinge on people in a myriad of small, incremental ways – but don’t solve the actual problem.  Or worse, charge ahead to solve problems that extremely few have – or create solutions to which no problem exists.

And that is why before we give a thumbs up to Kelly on HER legislation, we need to see if it:

  • Actually keeps guns away from evil doers instead of just making it harder on law abiding folks
  • Actually starts to address the flip side – how to keep firearms out of the hands of the likes of Lanza and Holmes (Sandy Hook and Aurora, respectively) without it becoming a backdoor gun confiscation process (like declaring that returning vets have PTSD, so you loose your Constitutional Right).

And that is the main thing that most won’t bring up –

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David Hart inspired my letter to Senator Ayotte

Dear Senator Ayotte,

My letter is inspired by David B. Hart’s letter to you in Friday‘s (April 12, 2013) The Citizen of Laconia. Apparently thinking you were unaware, Hart told you that the Senate will soon consider “common sense limitations on gun violence“, which he apparently thinks would have avoided the Newtown massacre.

The Newtown killer violated dozens of laws, murder, theft, assault, breaking and entering, child endangerment, and many others. Apparently Hart believes that if there had been more laws, the Newtown killer would have thought, “Rats, now I’d be breaking 91 laws and it would be wrong to break more than 88 laws. I guess I’ll have to stay home.”

While that makes no sense to me, Hart is right that we need laws to protect us from one another. We should have laws against harming others, e.g., theft, kidnapping, rape, and murder. Why didn’t anyone think of this before?

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Grafton…..and Henniker – Nothing but small town bullies

With Grokster Tim talking STBs (“Small Town Bullies”) in Grafton, and Grokster Steve has done yeoman’s work on reporting on the very sad tale of Stephen Forster’s farm and the power hungry Henniker based STBs that refuse to let a NH RSA get in their way to have their way (here, here, here, here, and here), this request for help needs to be put up. It is hard for the Individual to fight against Government at any level – the irony is that part of Stephen’s property tax money is being used to force him to abandon the fight to run his farm the way he wishes – just as NH’s RSAs allow him to do.

But uppity is uppity, and once up to that exalted state of being, uppity hates to have a down day, so the Henniker ZBA had doubled down.  Seems to be that way with bullies no matter where they are found and what strata of society they worm into.  So, Stephen is asking for assistance (emphasis mine):

STEPHEN FORSTER
FORSTER’S CHRISTMAS TREE FARM
349 Mt. Hunger Road, Henniker, NH 03242
Tel. (603) 428-8733 Cell (603) 496-0494
Email: sforster@mcttelecom.com

Dear Friends,

Re: Forster’s Christmas Tree Farm, Henniker, NH

Since February 7th, which was the rehearing to overrule the ZBA’s decision not to recognize Henniker’s zoning regulation and the State’s RSA 21:34-a that defines “Agritoursim,” we filed our final and last appeal to the ZBA on Wednesday, March 20th. Although our brief excellently defended and explicit in addressing the lame arguments made on 2/7, it was not unexpected when the ZBA denied us a rehearing after less than an hour of discussion and reinstalled the “cease and desist” against me for all activities.

Members Dr. Trivellini and Mr. Pagano were the only two people that interpreted RSA 21:34-a as intended by the Commissioner of Agriculture, and the Task Force who crafted this legislation. Member Leon Parker stated with respect to “ancillary” terminology that it is there for subjective judgment and that “some of us would make the judgment based on the amount of monies raised…” showing his intent to regulate and control the income that can be produced by a farm engaging in “Agritoursim.” That is contradictory to what the writers of the regulation meant it to be, and what has been outlined and permitted. The RSA allows other activity on a farm so that it can generate income in order to help the farm survive, as well as preserve the rural character of that farm.

Indeed – so WHAT if it is YOUR Property (you selfish person you!)?

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Peter Hansen Says “Vagina,” Democrats ignore Their Own Narratives To Blast Him For it -Republicans Just Run Away

New Hampshire State House Rep Peter Hansen has come under fire for some remarks he made in an email thread to legislators…

From Huff Po.

State Rep. Peter Hansen (R) made the comment, first reported by New Hampshire political blogger Susan the Bruce, in an April 1 email debate with colleagues about a “stand your ground” gun bill. Hansen’s colleague, Rep. Steve Vaillancourt (R) had delivered a lengthy floor speech about the benefits of retreating instead of using deadly force, to which Hansen replied in an email:

What could possibly be missing from those factual tales of successful retreat in VT, Germany, and the bowels of Amsterdam? Why children and vagina’s of course. While the tales relate the actions of a solitary male the outcome cannot relate to similar situations where children and women and mothers are the potential victims.

State Rep. Rick Watrous (D) immediately criticized Hansen for his choice of words. “Are you really using ‘vaginas’ as a crude catch-all for women? Really?” he wrote. “Please think before you send out such offensive language on the legislative listserve [SIC].”

I don’t know about the legislative list serve Rep Watrous, I can’t speak to that, but do you pay any attention to your own party antics?

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NH GOP Executive Board Meeting – Monday, April 15th – Part II

Well, it seem that what I wrote here about last night’s NH GOP E-board meeting pretty much happened as expected – and worse.  I’ve had a number of little birdies flying overhead and dropping little packets all day long – a seed here, another one here.  Might as well read it here, ’cause I guess those seeds may run out soon…but I digress.

Long meeting – good thing I ended up with a customer as I hate wasting time twiddling thumbs – and the meeting didn’t go short.  Those that are “merely” State Committee Members had to cool their heels for quite some time as the E-Board declared that they were out of the executive privileged session.  I guess the E-Board wasn’t too Trusting of the Members;  there was a policeman in the lobby to prevent them from entering the elevator to take them up to the conference room.  Oh, and because this was in Executive Privilege – you can’t ask for any meeting minutes (can’t have the proles knowing the goings on of their own Party, eh?).

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Belknap County Conservative Republicans!

Hear ye! Hear Ye! Calling All Conservatives! Belknap County is now home to a new political group in town, the Belknap County Conservative Republicans. This political grassroots organization is dedicated to offering conservative solutions for contemporary issues. Don Walker, one of the BCCR founders, says: “We believe that progressivism, in all of its forms, has corrupted … Read more

New Hampshire Young Republicans – Joe Barton for Chair

Voting is on April 20.  Now, I can’t vote (smirk – ageism!) but I have known Joe for a number of years.  There is one thing that I admire about Joe that makes him the perfect anti-politician: you ask him a question and you will know exactly where he stands.  No shading, no equivocation, no … Read more

Too good not to share: Call to 911 by home intruder: “I just broke into someone’s house….”

Intruder to police on 911: “I’m taking a shower and the owner came home….” Homeowner to intruder (through door): “Why are you in my house taking a shower?” Intruder to police on 911: “I think they have guns…” Homeowner to intruder (through door): “I’m calling the police.” Intruder to homeowner (through door): “I already have. … Read more

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