Remembering Democrat Rule In New Hampshire – Part 1

New Hampshire Democrats treated your money like toilet paperIn the 2006 Elections Democrats took control of the New Hampshire House for the first time in 95 years (giving them complete control of State government for what would end up being four years).  What happened after that must not be forgotten, for it is the doom of men that they forget.

They forget that the House Democrats first move was to turn budget policy on its head.  Instead of estimating realistic revenues so that the governor could have a guideline for his budget, they would let the governor request a 14% expansion of state government in February of 2007, to which they would pad or add their spending spree agenda items before figuring out how to tax New Hampshire citizens to pay for their wish list.

In the now infamous shout heard round the State House, Democrat House leader Dan Eaton would later condense the entire four year budget strategy of the New Hampshire left into one sentence.

 ‘It makes sense to know how much you’re spending before you decide how much money to raise.’

Now that might just make sense for a school trip or new band uniforms but this wasn’t a fundraiser.  Eaton was talking about using the force of law and the power of the state to extract juice from the fruits of other peoples labors based on the whimsy of big government legislators with little or no regard for its affect on the state, our economy, or the people who would be paying, and that was exactly how the Democrats would govern.

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BE BREITBART: DoIT Right To Know Request : Outbound Internet traffic summarizations

We are a persistent bunch here at the ‘Grok:

Good morning,

We, as taxpayers in the State of NH, are requesting certain electronic records concerning the outbound Internet traffic emanating from the State of NH’s computer network.

Please review the following RSA 91-A request; we stand ready to work with you concerning this issue.  Please find a copy of the request below as well as two attachments (the same request, in Microsoft WORD and OpenOffice formats)

Kindest Regards,

-Skip

David “Skip” Murphy for myself, Steve Mac Donald, and Ed Naile (citizens of the State of New Hampshire)

**********

Right to Know Request
as per
RSA 91-A
April 20, 2012

To:     Stanley “Bill” Rodgers, Commissioner and CIO, Department of Information Technology, State of NH
Thomas S. Burack, C, Department of Environmental Services, State of NH

In light of the final response of April 19th concerning our first Right To Know request (re: political postings by State Employee Richard de Seve during regularly scheduled work hours contra to the policies of both the Department of Environmental Services (“DES”) and the Department of Information Technology (“DoIT”) filed on March 11, 2012), we are making the following RSA 91-A request.

As noted in that final response:

When a user enters a URL or IP address for a particular web page, the outbound request passes through the state’s internal network until it reaches the internal firewall. There, the request is routed through DOIT’s web filtering software. That software categorizes web sites based on historical content. Agencies establish filter policies that determine which categories are accessible or blocked. Based on a user’s login information, the software is able to associate a user with his or her IP address and based on the policy assigned to that user, determines whether the requested page is allowed or blocked. If allowed, the software permits the requested web page to be sent from the requested server to the user for viewing. The date, time, and destination of the outgoing request, as well as all IP information sent to the user from the destination web page, are recorded by the web filtering software. The actual content of what was either sent or received is not recorded.

We hereby request,

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Atheists to USMC: Take Down Crosses Or We’ll Sue

“Some people will spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don’t have that problem.”  —Ronald Reagan, President of the United States; 1985

Every Veteran ought to be disgusted. An atheist group is saber-rattling, threatening legal action over crosses erected on Camp Pendleton Hill, demanding the removal of the crosses. This group, calling themselves the, Military Association of Atheists and Free Thinkers, criticizes the United States Marine Corps Command at Camp Pendleton for not muting this heartfelt expression of honor by  individual Marines: A hallowed expression for those fallen in combat actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despicable! 

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BE BREITBART: Update 10: DES Right To Know Update : DOIT and DES – a “gentle” (eh?) response

Well, my first reaction to the “final response” was this quick note fired off to the RTK Dude:

Sidebar: slightly edited here as it turned out the copy outbound had a few less words than here – brain saying the words and the fingers went partially deaf.

Mr. Demas,

I am in receipt of your alleged  final response – I can assure you it will not be a final communication.  I find the logic contained herein to be  very convoluted and tortured to conflate computer communication data packets with a personnel policy. While such a policy depends entirely on having such data records available, it is not a fact that those records are, in whole, subservient to that single purpose. Indeed, while the personnel policy is entirely dependent on those records, there are many other functions that those records could service as well and thus should not be considered exempt from our Right To Know request.

In fact, I thought of a half dozen in the space of 2 seconds – and I wasn’t trying hard.

In fact, we have already proven that the stated written policies of both DES and DoIT have not been followed either in respect to their letter of such nor their spirit. In fact, it is clear that your personnel policy does not even require using those records to take action in this case; I find with no small amount of irony that it is our records (where Mr. de Seve admitted his guilt to GraniteGrok and not to the State) that are serving as the bulwark of any actions that DES takes in dealing with Mr. de Seve. If it were not for GraniteGrok, he still would be breaking both DES and DoIT’s policies with impunity.

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“The Power of Profit” by my favorite economics professor

Dr. Walter E. Williams is one of my favorite people to read and listen to – able to take complicated issues, strip them down to their essence, and tell the story in a way that brings out the important stuff that others don’t even think of.  This video is a great example – an explains … Read more

Weaseling out

“In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls” —Lenny Bruce Elizabeth “Kim” McDonald, mother of deceased shrew, Kristin McDonald Ruggiero pleaded guilty to criminal liability  for the conduct of another yesterday in Rockingham County Superior Court before judge Delker. The plea came on the heels of a plea agreement. She had negotiated … Read more

Buffett Tax Distraction from Real Problems

Hopefully the irrelevant Buffett tax discussion is over.  The Buffett tax neither solved nor helped solve any major problem.  Despite the hype, the Buffett Tax only annually raised about one day’s worth of borrowing, if it raised 10 times more it would still be irrelevant.

The whole Buffett tax “theater” was intended to divert that public’s attention from the lack of any meaningful Obama administration solutions for our country’s problems:  not for creating private sector jobs, deficit reduction, high energy prices, high food prices, the impending Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid funding shortfalls and benefit cut-backs, Iran or North Korea, the rise of radical Islam in the Middle East including their persecution of non-Muslims, our foreign energy dependence, our illegal alien problems, our credit problems, or for desperate families who just want a decent job, etc.  Sadly, President Obama’s policies have aggravated these problems, not reduced them.   

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Obama, Birth of Hope (Ack!)

I was in the midst of a two year run with New Hampshire Taxpayer Radio when Obama and the Democrats were elected so I have file folders full of weekly show notes (not unlike Rush Limbaugh’s daily ‘stack of stuff’).  There is a good deal of material there and I don’t venture into the printed pile often, but I had to find something (which I did) but not before stumbling across this glorious discovery (on the jump).

It is from an October 2010 edition of The Weekly Standard’s parody page, only this was not a parody.  It was an example of just how badly a majority of American’s had been fooled by the Great Deceiver–Barack Obama–and how obnoxious the cult of personality had become; a sin they would punish his party for (at least a little bit), a few weeks after this issue was printed, in the November 2010 blow out.

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Its An Obama Eat Dog World Out There

Its a ‘Eat dog’ world out there! Pass the sauce, Barry…” —Rick Olson, Granite Grok, just making stuff up for lack of a salient Quote.

So the brouhaha all started over some years ago when Mittens strapped his dog Seamus’ kennel to the top of the family people transporter for a 12-hour drive. Okay…on the face of it, it seems not only bizarre, but a little tough to take. But being a hunter who makes uses of hunting dogs, I fail to see where this gets political feet. Yeah the animal rights crybabies are having a tough time with it….after all, talking animal movies, dogs with sunglasses and other such stupid nonsense has relegated us to a culture where animals are personified. How many of those idiotic paintings have we seen of dogs playing poker?  But seriously? How is this different from the traditional Hunting dog boxes?

Typical Dog Box Hunting Dog Kennel

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See – I WAS right about taxes!

Finished them last night – between prepping for the NH GOP Annual Meeting and these despicable taxes, you now know why I’ve been AWOL here.  TMEW schlepped them off to Post Office this morning.  Done, mission accomplished, and fini.  Really – fini!  That’s it, I’m done. Really done.

Done doing them.  No mas!

For years, I have done my own taxes.  Did it before TMEW and I had our daycare center (just a wage earner), did it when we had the daycare center – afterward too.  And still do.  Rather simple: “regular” taxes with no dependents, a home office, and the ‘Grok (we do take in money, and we do spend money on stuff).  But for the last few years, I’ve  kept thinking “why am I doing this to myself”?  It just seems that each year, it just gets harder with more pages to read to figure out how to fill in the same number of pages and the same number of forms.  I have two scientific degrees – I may not be the brightest bulb in the box, but I’m not the dimmest one either.  Yet, I kept finding myself asking “what the heck does THAT mean?”.  In fact, I complained to some friends:

I did notice the “more cumbersome” – I have ALWAYS done our taxes, and the last few years the instruction manuals for the forms have kept getting longer and longer – this year, more pages and in a lot more places, far more technical.

I’m out of my league in doing this.  Laws should be few, short, and easily understood by all for intent if not for obscure outlier conditions (we all know – do not kill except in self-defense IF needed).  Taxes?  The opposite

And I had started it off with this:

This is the last year I do my own taxes – After getting about 1/4 of the way of processing through the AMT sheet to see if I had to file that way, I swore that our Legislators ought to have to do this for 5 small biz people a year just to put them through the pain of trying to figure out “er, what does THIS mean???”  And the way that the forms go “circular” (can’t finish this part until you do this other form, but that form almost needs you to finish the first form), I can understand why the IRS support folks can’t get it right either.   PLEASE!

  • Give us a straight consumption tax.  Failing that:
  • No more automatic deductions – every week, ya gotta send in a check for the Fed income tax and FICA
  • Move election day to the day after Fed income tax is due.

As was pointed out on TV yesterday on one of the talking head shows, isn’t there something wrong with this crap when the 2 page 1040-EZ instruction manual is 88 pages long?

Do those two things, manual-send-in-money and move the election date – you’d see smaller government pretty darn quick!  Then I saw this – and knew I was right:

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Juliana Bergeron – More words of “responsible” and “compromise”

I relayed the post that Steve put up on what Juliana Bergeron had said to my co-worker out in San Diego (and helps to run the Women V.I.Ps that her Mom started decades ago – a Conservative  oriented issues and candidate supporting group):

The New Revised Unabridged 2012 Dictionary:

Reasonable – > Liberal, large controlling government, anti-American, Socialistic, Communistic.

Divisive  – > Constitutional, pro-American values, small government, liberty and freedom (opposite of “reasonable”)

Heh! And this from a friend that was at last week’s Belknap County Republican Committee meeting:

At the Belknap County Republican meeting last Wednesday, Bergeron talked about the need for compromise.  I told her compromise was often fine, but not of our principles. Too often the Democrats want to deficit spend by a trillion dollars while we want a balanced budget.  If compromise means we settle on $500 billion in deficit spending, then I am totally against compromise.  My comment got some applause…but as I recall no useful response from Bergeron.

The entire piece from the Keene Sentinel after the jump – along with her email that she sent out to the NH GOP State Committee:

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BE BREITBART: Update 9: DES Right To Know Update : DOIT and DES – convoluted hiding

OK – still catching up here.  Late on Friday, I received the latest update from the DES RTK dude – and to be honest, my reaction was two-fold:

  • turning on all the burners and the ovens of a commercial kitchen range had nothing on me.
  • And as Steve posted: Game On

                                                                                                                              April 13, 2012

David “Skip” Murphy

9 Gilford Glen Road

Gilford, NH 03249

RE: Request for Records Pursuant to RSA 91-A – Final Response

 Dear Mr. Murphy

I am writing to provide you additional information in order to conclude DES’s and DOIT’s response to your request for records pursuant to RSA 91-A. The first and second preliminary responses issued by DES and DOIT on March 27, 2012 and April 5, 2012, respectively, addressed all of your specific requests except Request 7.c., relative to web traffic data. That request is the subject of this letter.

You requested “[a]ny and all electronic records that show outbound traffic to any and all non-State related websites from the IT department[‘]s proxy servers, outbound routers / designated Internet gateways emanating from the use of Mr. de Seve’s computer usage” and packet level records what will contain…[t]he [destination] IP address of such traffic generated by Mr. de Seve.” As previously discussed, DOIT’s system do not log capture, or otherwise retain packet level details or content of inbound or outbound internet traffic. However, DOIT systems do capture information about internet traffic initiated by users of state computers systems.

Your request for production of that internet traffic information is one of first impression. Therefore, DES and DOIT carefully examined how that information is generated, recorded, and used in order to determine 1) whether the requested information meets the definition of any governmental record under RSA 91-A:1-a, III, and 2) whether such information is subject to any exemptions set forth in RSA 91-A:5.

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Is the Liberty-&-Freedom wing of the NH GOP a paper tiger?

PamTucker head image
Pam Tucker: Smart, feisty, tough. Doesn't like socialists, either.

Not really…but they sure as hell were AWOL at the New Hampshire GOP State Committee meeting on April 14, 2012.

As the meeting opened, there were 366 members reported present.

The big election battle was for National Committeewoman between Rep. Pam Tucker and Juliana Bergeron. Pam Tucker was the Liberty-&-Freedom (aka Tea Party) candidate, while Ms. Bergeron was the “establishment” nominee (for want of a better term).

The election was held late in the meeting. When the smoke cleared…

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Win The Future (WTF)

Worst recession in history.  Had three years to work on it, two of them with a Democrat majority congress, no budget from the Senate since 2009,  the economy still sucks, we have an election coming up, and what are Democrats running on? – Contraception. – A billionaires Secretary – Dogs Seriously?

What could go wrong? LA Set to Ban Paper and Plastic

paper-or-plastic-or something moreDemocrats don’t think things through.  (Progressive Republicans are no different, to be fair.)  They enact policies in response to the echo chamber of voices in their ideologically isolationist heads, all the things Edmund Burke warned us against centuries ago.  The result is almost always bureaucratic nonsense, another small loss of freedom, massive expense with little or no gain, followed by a parade of newer and more expensive (and intrusive) policies to “correct” the first.

The progressive Darth Vader might say of such people, “The urge to meddle is strong with this one.”

So what could go wrong if the Los Angeles City Council decided to ban all paper and plastic bags from Supermarket checkouts?

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The ‘Lamb On The Dole’ Enters The District 2 Senate Race

“Even though I’m a leftist. I think the left eats its own.” —Ted Rall

“Liberal” Democrat Robert C. Lamb Jr. of Holderness has declared his candidacy for the Senate District 2 seat  now held by Jeannie Forester.

Lamb skylined himself back in February when he argued in favor of keeping Holderness in District 2 with Ashland and Plymouth, as opposed to moving it to district 3 with Moultonborough and Wolfeboro. Ashland and Plymouth? Democrat leaning…Moultonborough and Wolfeboro? not so much.

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More GSA Hackarama

“Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”   —Thomas Jefferson

The most Corrupt Jeffrey Neely before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee

On April 3rd I detailed the happenings of the GSA and their corrupt spending practices in, GSA, Clowns, Mindreaders and Sushi. So, this morning at 5:50 AM I am watching Fox News and the narrative detailing a report on Jeffrey Neely, the western regional commissioner for GSA.

Representative Elijah Cummings, (D) Maryland made references to internal documents indicating that Jeff Neely was gleefully spending taxpayer funds like crowned royals. Neely and his wife  were enjoying living large off of the taxpayers and were giddy about it.

Check out the Fox News Video, HERE.

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