Lynch angry that lawyers got what he couldn’t….pulls hissy fit

Gov. Lynch is still peeved that he couldn’t get his sticky fingers on $110 million the Joint Underwritering Association ("JUA") that he decided was his from sheer dint that he couldn’t balance his budget.  Now that the Judiciary has smacked his knuckles with their ruling, as the actual owners of the fund decided to, you know, defend their private property, he still can’t let go:

CONCORD — Attorney General Michael Delaney is urging lawmakers to block a proposed settlement that will pay lawyers $27.5 million out of a $110 million malpractice insurance fund.

…Attorney Scott O’Connell of the Nixon Peabody law firm in Manchester said Delaney’s arguments are off the mark. Since the JUA is not part of state government, he argued, there is nothing in state law that requires the Legislature to bless the deal.

Still, Lynch and his mouthpiece (hey, remember, another member of the media that went to work for a liberal Democrat – how often does that happen??) still believe the money really belongs to them:

Lynch spokesman Colin Manning said the proposed settlement is a bad one for taxpayers.

“The people of New Hampshire will be outraged when they learn that a private law firm is being paid $27 million at a time when there have been severe budget cuts to human services. Those are services that could have been supported by these funds,” he said. “It is our hope that the Legislature will use its legal authority to reject this proposed settlement.”

Right – well, is Gov. Lynch now going to work for tort reform that would "fix" this problem?  My take is that there is no problem for Government to fix, other than Lynch got

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Out of State Influence Gets ‘Republican’ Kevin Janvrin Elected.

Sitting atop their mountains of out of state money thNH Democrats are forever demagoging the issue (of outside influence). So I am waiting patiently for them to denounce the newly elected Republican House Rep from Rockingham county, Kevin Janvrin, who has finance reports just screaming extremist, outside influence.

DEAR REPUBLICANS…

“There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.” ~Alexis de Tocqueville The Senate has now voted to override the Governor’s veto of Senate Bill 88. The Bill next will come to the full house for concurrence, allowing “Stand your Ground” to become … Read more

What Would Democrats Do If Abortion Was Bad For Womens Health?

New Hampshire used to have a significant number of female state Senators, including 11 Democrat women, all on the take from the abortion PAC’s abortion PAC, Emily’s list.   Most of the rest of New Hampshire’s Democrat women suffer from a similar ailment, including Jeanne Shaheen, Carol Shea Porter, Anne McKluster and so on.  So they all defend abortion from conception to birth because, they are told to say, it essential to a woman’s health.  It is sometimes a woman’s reproductive health, but they have since changed it to just "women’s health". They also added ‘Freedom’ to "Reproductive," giving us the phrase reproductive freedom, which has nothing to do with reproducing and everything to do with not producing anything, something the observant among us will note is identical to their jobs programs and most, if not all, of the Democrats economic policies.

If you are a Democrat, destroying production is where it’s at.

This might explain these same un-aborted lumps of womb tissue toeing the Democrat party line on the environment.  (And of course environmental rights means they take something away from people.)  Each of these Democrat women, and damn near the entire Democrat partyAbortion hurts womensupport things like RGGI, cap and trade, and have no problem telling people who assume they live in a relatively free society what energy to use, what light bulbs to buy, what car to drive, how far to drive it, what fuel is best, that their breath is poison, and so on.  And they will insist that they are doing this for our own good, based on the slim chance that human activity might warm the earth a fraction, and on the even flimsier assumption that this small increase might not in fact be beneficial.

Recent revelations demonstrating wide spread fraud among un-aborted members of the pro-anthropogenic climate science community have not deterred the lefts "experts" and line-toers alike, from continuing to insist we waste billions of other peoples dollars to prevent something that is not happening.   This may well have something to do with being on the receiving end of the "billions we are wasting" yet not a one of them thinks that a conflict of interest.  (See also "public sector unions support democrats" for a similar unresolved conflict.)

Proof that the IPCC report on which the bulk of this fraud is substantiated is nothing more than a collection of biased assumptions and wild guesses, collated by un-aborted, Eurotrash-socialist politicians, to advance a specific, destructive, high-tax-grow-government agenda, have not deterred them from emulating this policy path. 

And despite the mounting (actual) scientific evidence, that warming is natural and driven by factors other than un-aborted human activity, these same left-wing Democrats insist we should continue to take millions of dollars from hard working taxpayers every year so that they, their taxpayer-funded experts, and hordes of un-aborted-unaccountable bureaucrats, can finance policy to examine and correct the non-problem indefinitely.

Why?  Because they claim to be convinced that there is some slim risk, despite many unknowns and contradictory research, that this might cause harm to someone, somewhere, someday.  

But would they feel just as much of a commitment to save lives, specifically women’s lives, if we had more proof that abortions are detrimental to a woman’s health, and quite a bit more so than global warming?  This abortion thing is all about women’s health after all and we are talking about women protecting women’s health, and if that is true then health should come before abortion, yes? 

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Obama’s “Bride Of Stimulus” Speech

I wasn’t going to bother, but when you have a title like “Bride of Stimulus” you have to run with it. And that is exactly what that speech was. To quote every democrat’s greasy palm card from 2007/2008, what we have here is…”the same old failed polices of the past.” Or what I referred to on twitter as “same old whore new dress.”

SUPPORTING ABORTION THROUGH ARBITRARY USE OF FEDERAL POWER

“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” ~Margaret Sanger, founder, Planned Parenthood How corrupt is a private organization that will literally stop at nothing to get its own way? Such is the case with Planned Parenthood of New England. When PPNNE failed to prevail on … Read more

New Hampshire Exceptional, Yet Again.

Stopping the spending and the out of control growth was and is exactly what you need and want from your US congress, but cannot yet achieve with a Democrat Senate and a Democrat President. And you will never get it as long as the left controls any those parts of your Federal government.

Left Wing Hyporcisy Must Die!

Closer to home we could have the New Hampshire Democrat Party Must Die. (I know for a fact they’ll never seriously object to the current game and as such the entire state party must be responsible for failing to do so until they all denounce it–their rules.) Terie Norelli, Sylvia Larsen, John Lynch, and Kathy Sullivan, all gore covered, relentless, brain eating, mindless …actually wait.

VETO OVERRIDDEN: SENATE BILL 88 NOW GOES TO THE HOUSE!

“Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn’t make it” ~Douglas William Jerrold

Despite the efforts of Governor Lynch, his Attorney General and a hand full of unelected Police Chiefs around the state, The New Hampshire Senate voted this afternoon to self%20defense%20femaile.jpg
override the Governor’s veto on a vote of 17 to 7. The Bill now goes to the House where it will become law upon concurrence with the Senate Veto override.

During his walking parade through some of the meaner streets of Manchester, several demagoguery cards were used falsely implying SB 88’s becoming law would empower gang members…Which I find rather bizarre since Local Law Enforcement here will tell you we don’t have a significant gang problem.

During his many rants, Governor Lynch challenged the need for this law, claiming supporters of the SB88, “have not been able to identify a single case in New Hampshire where someone has been wrongly prosecuted for using deadly force to protect themselves or others. In fact, current law puts the burden on the state to disprove beyond reasonable doubt claims of self-defense.”

Well Thanks to Attorney Penny Dean of Concord, who provided reference and source materials, the challenge is accepted….

STATE V. JOSEPH BROWN
Superior Court, Carroll County No. 05-S-358

Joseph Gleason, an over six-foot tall and 200-pound burley fellow with a criminal record for violence, pursued Brown off of a highway, characterized as a fit of “road rage.” The five-foot, four-inch 140-pound Brown (with no prior criminal record) now found himself trapped at a traffic light behind other vehicles, with no route of escape from Gleason, as the 280-pound Gleason exited his vehicle and began screaming, yelling, swearing and pounding on Brown’s vehicle punching on the windows of Brown’s Buick.

With no way to escape, and fearing for his safety, Joseph Brown produced a handgun, merely showing it, but never pointing it at Gleason. Brown was subsequently arrested, charged and forced to stand trial. After considerable legal expense the case was noll prosequied.

During Joseph Brown’s arrest, N.H. State Trooper Beth Keyes asserted, “Your right to self defense is your right to call 911…”.

STATE V. PHILLIP TUFANO
Superior Court, Merrimack County 2008

Tufano of Londonderry was charged with threatening Paul DeFilippo with a handgun in August of 2008 following a road rage incident on Route 93. Tufano charged after he held up his “still-holstered” gun in an effort to diffuse the situation when DeFilippo ran him off the roadway, causing him to fear for his life.

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How About We Name It After Justice Souter?

Justice David Souter secured his place in history when he voted to allow New London Connecticut to take private property and give to a private entity. This fundamental abuse of property rights, as offensive as it was, could only be compounded when the seized property was never even developed. People were forcibly removed from their homes, kicked off their land, and for what? How about The Justice David Souter Memorial….Dump.

Who Is Working America and Why Are They In My Mailbox?

Don’t throw away that mailer just yet. They spent a lot of money sending you that postage paid return envelope, and they probably spent a lot of money on the postage. And it would be a shame to waste that per-paid envelope. Maybe you should return those cards like they asked? Maybe let them know what you think?

GrokTV Event: TEA Party Express Manchester – Potpourri

This was a real full weekend – Gov. Rick Perry at Senator Gordon Humphrey’s, TEA Party Express in Concord, TEA Party Express in Manchester, with a trip to the gun show in Concord (nothing), back to the Belmont range (three new Second Amendment tools and a range renewal, and then a return trip on Monday just to play a bit).  So, getting the videos processed and posted is, well, not exactly time friendly. 

So, consider this a Grab Bag of videos from a number of events.  Let’s start with the last one: TEA Party Express at Manchester.  This is of the introductory ceremonies including the National Anthem.  The image that will always stick with me is the newly minted Marine standing stiffly at attention in his dress blues (honor Marine at boot camp?) with a crisp hand salute.  Then when Sarah Palin spoke, she pointed over to him to acknowledge his presence when she spoke about our military.

Introductory ceremonies

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You got what you wanted, NH GOP – a “W”, but at what price?

Shame on we at the ‘Grok for not doing more for Brendan Kelly, the Libertarian who supports more of the Republican platform and issues that "the union" Republican that won, Kevin Janvrin, in District 14 today.

Upon logging into FB tonite after trying to do some catch up posts, I saw the news from Seth Cohn:

Janvrin’s true colors, minutes after winning: @JamesPindell tweets: GOP Janvrin tells me his victory "sent the message that the Tea Party needs to get out of NH" #nhpolitics #whoa #nhhouse #Rock14

Yay!  More unity in the Party!  Over at Pindell‘s:

GOP, Dems: Tea Party Loser Of Special Election

Both the Republican winner of the special election in Rockingham County and the Democratic loser said that the Tea Party was really the big loser of the election tonight.

Oh, there’s a difference between the two of these clowns ideologically?  Frankly, from the Lefty unionists, either of them winning was a win for the union agenda – which is antithetical to the Republican Platform.

In an interview Janvrin, a union firefighter, said that the victory meant that voters wanted a common sense Republican.

“This sent the message that the Tea Party needs to get out of New Hampshire,” said Janvrin.

Really? I’m betting that a number of the current House members will have far different thoughts concerning this line of thought.  While his first order of business is to try to railroad the Right To Work veto override, I’m quite sure that at the end of the session, his vote scores aren’t going to beat some of the Democrats.  By that statement, we now know that:

  • he will vote against bills that would foster a smaller government
  • he will vote against devolving State power to foster more individual freedom
  • he will vote against bills that reduce spending

Further snippets of thought:

Democrat Mahoney echoed the same sentiment. “Kevin (Janvrin) has a lot of great relationships in his hometown of Seabrook, and his win there sealed the deal,” Mahoney said. “He is part of that small moderate group of Republicans that are a thorn in the side of Speaker O’Brien.”

Given his part in the ouster of Jack Kimball, I’m not too thrilled with Speaker O’Brien right about now.  In fact, being human, I read "thorn in side" and smiled (a bit, but only a bit).  But here, we see a collusion of Democrats (and not a Republican and Democrat) – interchangeable collectivists who both are clearly for a continued Statist policy.  There are a lot of Liberty and Freedom folks in the House that are now seeing this and gritting their teeth.  Why?

This was the first special election victory for Republicans this year. It came just days after newly minted state Republican Chair Wayne MacDonald took over the party. He took over on Thursday night, and by Friday he was already addressing the special election. By Saturday, he was campaigning side by side with Janvrin.

Today was also MacDonald’s 57th birthday.

“All I wanted for my birthday was a win,” MacDonald said. “The credit should be given to Kevin and his wife Missy who worked hard. The party helped out in the best way we knew how.”

Right! Let’s all watch the Republican Party go back to the good old mindset that a win is a win – with no repercussion of what that person winning does after the election.  Let’s go back to the mindset that any old R in the seat is a plus is the message.  Does it make any difference that this plant will not support the Platform?  That he will sneer at the notion of "self governance" and happily work for more centralized governance?  That his ideology has already set him against most of the Party?

Didn’t you hear the words of Jimmy Hoffa over the weekend?  Or Maxine Waters?

MacDonald said that one thing that helped his candidate is time away from press coverage of the controversial legislative session.

“The voters were more removed from the tough decisions that the legislature had to take,” MacDonald said, compared to the two previous special elections when Republicans were blown out.

That’s about as silly and lame a statement as I’ve heard lately – a couple of weeks removed from the last special election REALLY is going to make that much of a difference? One of the knocks on Jack was that he was not "communicating well".  While I appreciate the years he has given to the Party, at least one could say "Hey, Jack was a novice" – certainly MacDonald has heard far better for far longer to use as examples.  I’m hoping that the NH GOP Chair can muster far better going forward.  Heck, even if I’m not the Second Coming of Ryan Williams, it wouldn’t take much to step over that low bar.

In an interview Janvrin, a union firefighter, said that the victory meant that voters wanted a common sense Republican.

“This sent the message that the Tea Party needs to get out of New Hampshire,” said Janvrin.

Democrat Mahoney echoed the same sentiment.

So, is this a "lipstick on a pig" moment?  Or is this the "new new" Republican that the Establishment Republicans are waiting for?  Does it now adequately and correctly describe the view of the new NH GOP leadership?  Well, Obama didn’t disavow Jimmy Hoffa’s "take these sons of bitches out" remark concerning the TEA Party up at the Labor Day union rally in Detroit.  Certainly, MacDonald would have said something in the way of trying to keep the Establishment / TEA Party / Liberty and Freedom coalition together within the Party, right?  Even the smallest admonition for the sake of unity?

Er, do YOU see one here?

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IGNORING THE U.S CONSTITUTION

 “Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.” ~Charley Reese

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 BillofRightsVOid.jpgFriday, August 19, The Federal Election Commission released two draft advisory opinions indicating that it might allow a naturalized, Guyana-born American citizen to file papers and raise funds for run a Presidential run in 2012.

New York City lawyer Abdul Hassan, under this ruling, could conceivably be permitted to go through the initial steps to run for president. Hassan was born in the South American country of Guyana in 1974, and asked the FEC in July whether he could legally raise funds for his presidential candidacy.

Faced with the possibility of deciding a substantial question of a constitutional nature, one would think the FEC would simply tell him to, “get lost” and petition the judicial branch for such a substantial pivotal answer. Do you think they did that? No. . The hacks at FEC readily and willingly stepped up and responded, “although the Commission can respond to the questions asked in [his] advisory opinion, the Commission cannot make any determination as to whether [Hassan] can, as a naturalized citizen, serve as President.”

FEC told Hassan in a July 18 e-mail response that he could be a candidate, may solicit funds and would be required to file disclosure reports. But opinions differ on whether he may receive federal matching funds.  In the FEC’s first draft opinion, they advise Hassan that he would not be able to receive matching funds citing the constitutional provision. Yet, in the second draft opinion, they dodge the question entirely, characterizing it as a, “hypothetical question.”

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A Tale of Two Cities: Detroit and Houston

GOOD READ below, from from National Review. You can subscribe to National Review HERE (I do; well worth it).

Houston, We Have a Solution 
A tale of two cities 
BY MARIO LOYOLA 

On a warm Saturday evening in June 1943, crowds were relaxing on Belle Isle, a retreat slightly larger than New York’s Central Park nestled in the Detroit River, which separates Canada and the United States. Belle Isle’s landscapes and structures were a showcase of great American architecture: Frederick Law Olmsted, Albert Kahn, and Cass Gilbert all were represented. Its botanical garden, yacht club, memorial fountain, golf course, and opulent marble lighthouse offered a serene testament to the grandeur of Detroit. 

Exactly what started the riots that night, we’ll never know for sure. There seems to have been a confrontation between a white sailor’s girlfriend and a black man, which led to a brawl. As contradictory rumors raced through the city, the conflagration spread. By the time federal forces intervened to impose law and order three days later, dozens of people had been killed, mostly blacks, and millions of dollars of property destroyed, mostly in the poor, black, inner-city neighborhood of Paradise Valley. 

Detroit’s fall can be traced to the race riots of 1943, though many decades of prosperity and achievement still lay ahead. The rise and fall of Detroit is history on an epic scale: Favored by fortune at first, then plowed under its wheel, the city has had a lot of bad luck. But as Oscar Wilde lamented as he languished in Reading Gaol near the end of his life: “I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. . . . Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.” 

Houston had suffered race riots, too, during World War I, but fortune would smile on it for most of the 20th century….

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How much unemployment today: Folks, we’re in a DEPRESSION RIGHT NOW.

These are some comments from The PJ Tattler online, at Pajamas Media: "How Bad Will the Job Picture Get?" How BAD? In the future? As the comments below from the article show, We are in a depression right now.

  1. 1. nohype

    Since 1948, the oldest data BLS has, there have been 46 months in which the unemployment rate has been 9% or higher. Twenty six of them have occurred during the 31 months of the Obama administration.

    Instead of running on the theme of Hope and Change, Obama can run on the theme of More in 2012: More unemployment, More government, More debt, and More guns for the Mexican drug cartels.

    September 2, 2011 – 6:42 am   Link to this Comment | Reply
  2. 2. Buzzsawmonkey

    The unemployment figure of “9.1%” is the media-agreed-upon figure from the Procrustes Economics Institute™. Procrustes, you will recall, is the ogre-innkeeper in the story of Theseus who had a remarkable bed that fit everyone—because if any of his guest hung over the edge of the bed, he lopped it off.

    The “9.1%” figure has remained reasonably constant because, like Procrustes, those reporting on unemployment constantly lop off from the unemployment figures those who have totally dropped out of the work force, and those who are no longer unemployed because they are underemployed, i.e., cannot find jobs comparable to the ones they lost and so have taken lower-level jobs simply to have some vestige of income.

    The “9.1%” is bad enough so that the media look as if they are reporting something with a nexus to reality—they are admitting the economy is bad—but nevertheless conceals the true magnitude of the disaster….

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GrokTV Event: TEA Party Express – Corey Lewandowski, Stacy McCain

Well, even though returned from yet another TEA Party Express event today (where Sarah Palin was the headline speaker), I have still a few more videos to put up. Although the TEA Party Express (and the PAC behind it) is the main sponsor of their tour that took them to Concord last night and Manchester … Read more

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