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SETI Gets Its Game On

September 26, 2018December 8, 2011 Steve MacDonald

The Search For Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) had to shut down its Allen Telescope Array back in April. Not enough money. According to Mashable.com the Allen Telescope Array…

…consists of 42 20-feet-wide telescopes located some 300 miles north of San Francisco. Originally funded largely by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who donated $25 million to the project, the ATA had to go into hibernation after state budget cuts affected the project’s funding.

New funding has resurrected the project. The funding comes from private donors as well as the US Air force. That would be “the 1%” and the Federal government. Private donors, as we all know, sit atop their hordes like mythical dragons consuming members of the lower classes with dead-end, low wage jobs, and on occassion…let a few dollars slip out the cavern door to bribe politicians, bankers, and look for Alien life on other planets.

The Air Force just wants to test the Array for “Space Situational Awareness,” according to the article. Isn’t that just ripe with possibilities.

EMail Doodlings – “How the can this movement support this insider?!?!?!?!?!” (Part 2)

September 26, 2018December 7, 2011 Skip

Adding on to my previous post – a reposte to a response (lightly edited):

Obama is a dictator, not a traditional political President

Obama is the epitome of the Progressive end-game: The High Administrator of the Administrative State that should decide for us all what is best for us instead of the Founders’ vision that we are the sovereigns and not the State; in that, you are absolutely correct.

Yes, Obama will have to participate in at least two debates, if not three. Simple Alinskyism – use his strength against him, which was his PREVIOUS speechifying and he didn’t do too badly in the Democrat debates. But you also have to admit that McCain was AWFUL in the debates and in the campaigning in between them, he refused to put on the gloves and beat Obama to a pulp (indeed, methinks McCain took a dive). If he REFUSES to debate, that will only exacerbate the meme HE has created that he is worthless without TOTUS.

Another Challange To Carol SEIU-Porter in CD-1 Primary

September 26, 2018December 7, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Matt Hancock just abother cookie cutter Progressive — Donkey Cookie Cutter

Portsmouth Democrat Matthew Hancock announced this week that he has added his name to the list of primary pimping Progressives wishing to mount a challenge to the GOP held first congressional district seat in New Hampshire. But after reading Matt’s press release I’m not quite sure what he brings to the table that is any different than the left wing clone-troopers already running?

Town of Durham Seeks to Inspect Rentals

September 26, 2018December 7, 2011 Rick Olson

“College is a refuge from hasty judgment.” —Robert Frost

Owning rental property is a daunting endeavor. With ownership comes financial challenges, legal exposure, and responsibilities not traditionally endured with single family home ownership. Add to that facet renting to college students and the task becomes a head-snapping endeavor.

Years ago, I found myself dealing with twelve units of off-campus student housing in Durham New Hampshire. In my experience, I found the cards were stacked against me. The town of Durham has never taken the steps necessary to effectively deal with their rental housing market specifically how it interfaces between the college and the town. Much of what is in place is the knee-jerk reaction of the vocal few.

College students going off to college means this is their first time away from home. They are on their own and not under the wing or the rules of Mommy and Daddy. Living off campus means having, “ones’ own place” and celebrating that first breath of new-found independence. The problem is that independence can manifest it in ways that are not positive.

Word Cloud – GraniteGrok 2007 (Jan – June)

September 26, 2018December 7, 2011 Skip

Like I said here, in moving to our new platform, I had to export the whole database of the old ‘Grok. Text clouds were not in vogue when we first started, so I’ve been spending some time chopping up the exports to be able to feed it into wordle.net to see what pops up as … Read more

EMail Doodlings – “How the can this movement support this insider?!?!?!?!?!” (Part 1)

September 26, 2018December 6, 2011 Skip

There is one very upset and confused guy on one of the email lists I’m on; a Libertarian TEA Party kind of guy, he JUST cannot for the life of him, understand why Newt Gingrich is surging so with Movement Conservatives. And why TEA Partiers are flocking to Newt just is beyond his comprehension. So, the above question uttered from his fingertips. Never wishing to leave a challenge undone, I answered: “A tool“. Now, in many groups, that would be fightin’ words – in this case, merely “a tool with which to achieve an end”. And I wish, at the time, that I had thought of that two word answer. Silly me, had to go and use a whole bunch more instead (H/T: Gallup for the chart) (lightly edited):

I will agree with you that beating Obama is not a done deal. We all, as uber-political junkies know that because we know that a lot of effort is going to be done by the vast Left Wing / Union conspiracy in their GOTV (Get Out The Vote) efforts. We all, from our lofty positions (heh!) known that many people are not really all that knowledgeable about ALL the issues and all of the nuances thereof, and will therefore , may well vote for Obama. Again.

Being here in NH, I can tell you the overriding issue to Movement Conservatives and TEA Partiers is not to beat Obama right now but to beat Romney. That is the near term issue that is forefront on every TEA Party / 9-12 / Conservative’s mind. Five weeks to go.

The Libertarian part of the Republican Party has already…

Hurting New Hampshire Families?

September 26, 2018December 6, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Here's Johnny - Frozen from lack of LIHEAP funding Still waiting on the New Hampshire State Democrat Party Apparatus to unleash its year long media campaign against President Obama and the matter of Heating aid. Obama, who has time to sell guns to drug lords and loan billions of your dollars to failing solar energy companies run by his campaign bundlers–two things we are also waiting on Suckley and the NHDP to denounce–cut LIHEAP funding in half back in February. LIHEAP is federal heating aid assistance. His reasoning was simple.

The HILL.com: “Energy prices have now gone down but the cost of the program has stayed the same,” Obama said during a press conference Tuesday. “Let’s go back to a more sustainable level.”

And it almost makes sense, particularity after giving foreign banks 7 trillion, Billions to unions, or dropping your class-warfare rhetoric to allow your friends in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to get millions in bonuses. Cutting off $2.5 billion in heating aid to needy families is couch cushion money. And yet he still cut it.

#OccupyKepler22-b

September 26, 2018December 6, 2011 Steve MacDonald

The big news in science is the discovery of a ‘Goldilocks’ planet orbiting an Earth-like sun at a distance referred to as the ‘habitable zone.’ This is great news. The party of ‘Science’ should build a ship and occupy it as soon as possible. No need to wait for conclusive evidence of habitability. I mean, … Read more

Romney Disagrees With Gingrich on Child Labor…Surprised?

September 26, 2018December 6, 2011 Rick Olson

“A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.” — Hugh Kingsmill

Willard "Mitt" Romney: The Matthew Lesko of American Politics

Last month, while speaking at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, presidential candidate New Gingrich drew the hue and cry of liberals everywhere when he suggested that children can learn the value of a paycheck by maintaining their own buildings.

On the face of it, I was perplexed why people were so up-in-arms about Gingrich’s suggestion. But then as I read on, I understood what the real issue was. Newt also said,

“Most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor, and pay local students to take care of the school,”

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Governor Jon Huntsman Snubs Windham NH [Updated]

September 26, 2018December 6, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Southern New Hampshire 9.12 announced today that the forum for a Lincoln-Douglass style debate between Governor Jon Huntsman and former Speaker Newt Gingrich has had its venue changed without their knowledge or permission. The debate was scheduled for December 12th, at 7 pm, at Windham High School.

From what I can tell it appears as if the Huntsman campaign arranged the event at St. Anselms College without including the Windham organizers in the process. Speaker Gingrich has said he will attend that debate but is still planning to appear in Winhdam where hundreds of people have already reserved seats for the event, far more than the facility in Manchester.

In their official Press release Representative David bates and Ken Eyring, the debate organizers and two of the founders of Southern NH 9.12 said…

Stem Cell Research Company Walks Away From Embryos

September 26, 2018December 6, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Stem cells. You heard of them? Democrats love stem cells. But just the Embryonic variety. Progressives love them so much they put embryonic stem cell research on the pedestal right next to renewable energy as evidence of their commitment to “science.” We heard all about it back in 2008.

President Obama rode the Stem cell nag all the way to March of 2009 when Dear Leader signed an order sending big bags of taxpayer funding, in the name of science, to support the next generation of cures for things like diabetes, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and Spinal cord injuries.

Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat Senator from New Hampshire, stood beside Mr. Obama, diabetic granddaughter/prop at her side, crooning in a press release after the executive order announcing that “Today, President Obama took a major step in restoring America’s role as a leader in science and medicine by lifting the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.”

It was the damn Renaissance, brought to you by Jeanne “I need a Blue Ribbon Panel to tell me how to tie my own shoes” Shaheen and a guy who had visited all 57 States. What could go wrong?

Word Cloud – GraniteGrok 2006

September 26, 2018December 5, 2011 Skip

In the process of getting to ‘Grok 2.0 was extracting all of the old posts from the old site. In the process, we learned that WP could only accept a maximized file size of 8MB for importing. So, being that the file was a 47MB text file (just text and links – no images, no … Read more

Professional Licensure: To Eliminate Or Expand?

September 26, 2018December 5, 2011 Rick Olson

“None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.” —John Milton

The Union Leaders‘ opposite editorial page give Erica Bickford, a licensed massage therapist from Wolfeboro, ink today not only arguing against House Bill 446, but actually advocating for its’ defeat.

To advocate for licensure on the basis of public health interest is a separate matter from seeking governmental force in protecting an exclusive business interest. Bickford queries, “Would you allow your children to cut your hair?” Actually, there are many people out there cutting hair in kitchens with scissors and clippers purchased at Walmart or Target none of whom have ever enrolled in a 1,500-hour cosmetology or barbering program. And that has always been the case. Erica then asks, Would you allow an untrained person help you recover from an athletic injury? There are people out there telling others to rest, apply ice, compression and elevation who have never taken a sports medicine class or sat for a licensing exam. Unlicensed mediators currently exist largely as clergy and lay ministers who rarely extract a fee to counsel their parishioners.