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How Can New Hampshire Still Be In a “State of Emergency” When … Per CDC … COVID is LESS Dangerous than the Seasonal Flu?

May 28, 2020 Ed Mosca

Check out this chart: The death rate of the seasonal flu … per Fauci and the WHO …. is .1%. I could not find the death rate broken down by same age categories, but I did locate this: Which allows us to say that UNLESS YOU ARE at least 85 YEARS OLD, YOU HAVE A … Read more

Masking Outside of Healthcare Facilities is Useless

May 28, 2020 Ed Mosca

Dated May 21, 2020 in the New England Journal of Medicine: We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least … Read more

American Federalism Put to the Test

May 28, 2020

We are about to find out whether American federalism is being put to the test or put to the sword. Illinois Democrats passed a state budget over the weekend. It kind of makes you wonder why New Hampshire’s legislature is still flubbing around.

So, What Does “Safe” Mean, Anyway?

June 10, 2020May 28, 2020 Burt Janz

We’ve heard a lot of talk about masks, social separation, constant washing of hands, etc. We’ve been told that these extra “protective measures” are needed “until it’s safe.”

Kuster’s Kronies: How New Hampshire is leveraged.

May 28, 2020 Op-Ed

To Leverage – transitive verb. 1: to provide (something, such as power) or supplement (something, such as money); to enhance as if by supplying with financial leverage.

Democrats Don’t Care About Conflicts of Interest

May 28, 2020

Democrats in New Hampshire do not care about conflict of interest. They don’t care about it in DC. They don’t care unless they can use it to smear the opposition. Want an example?

DISQUS Doodlings – Part 2: the TreeHugger Eco-Socialist may not have a firm grasp on Price

May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 Skip

Well, Part 1 was about eco-Socialists not really understanding choice, Supply and Demand, and the importance of Price in describing value to either a Seller or a Consumer and how it is EXTREMELY important in managing markets between 10, 100s, 1000s or Billions of people by acting as a “Black Box” indicator (e.g., you don’t … Read more

More NH Stay at home 2.0 or let my people go

Poll Question: Should Gov Sununu Extend the NH State of Emergency Another 21-Days?

May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Should Governor Sununu extend his State of Emergency for NH another 21 days? We don’t think so, but that’s just us. Not even all of us. A few Groksters think the Gov is doing us right. They are welcome to that opinion. You may agree or not, and we’re here to have that conversation.

Jan Schmidt, Benevolent Dictator

May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 Beth Scaer

I have been following Nashua Alderman, and NH State Rep, Jan Schmidt on social media and I’ve observed that she likes to portray herself as a benevolent dictator showing her love and concern for her subjects.

Fair and Balanced Taxation

May 27, 2020

Don’t we all dream of a system of fair and balanced taxation? But what the heck does that mean? Let’s see if we can work through the question to a solution.

Nepotism in the City of Nashua

May 27, 2020 Laurie Ortolano

The City of Nashua has a little known and unenforced anti-nepotism policy. It exists, presumably, to keep spouses and relatives out of the same departments and to prevent family members from managing family members. A policy to prevent or eliminate favoritism, and essential to ensure fair employment practices.

Yes, Mr. President … Bring Them Home.

May 27, 2020 Ed Mosca

This: Nineteen years … nearly two decades. With nothing to show for it … and many American lives lost and many Americans wounded. What the hell are we waiting for? Get our military the hell out of there now. Not only is withdrawal from Afghanistan the right policy, Americans are sorely in need of some … Read more

New Hampshire’s Budget Deficit – Will it be $700 Million?

May 27, 2020

If you are watching the state budget you understand there is a lot of red ink. Revenues for March were off in the neighborhood of 15%. In April revenues were off more than 35%, actually closer to 40%. In May revenues will be off by about 20%.

Pew Research Unintentionally Proves Democrat Districts Have Higher COVID-19 Body Counts

May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Ed Morrissey makes what should appear to any sane or sensible person to be the actual point of this graph released by PEW (pew-pew) Research. They claim that their data and this awesome graph they have proves something. It does, just not what they think.

‘Remote’ doesn’t mean ‘online’

May 27, 2020 Ian Underwood

Why do so many people assume that ‘remote learning’ is ‘online learning’, and that it has to involve lots of screen time? What ever happened to learning from reading, writing, conversation, activities (like building or fixing things, or practicing an instrument or a sport or an art), and so on? Remote learning just means doing … Read more

Sununu: If there are businesses that are kind of thwarting the guidance, we usually hear about It.

May 27, 2020 Steve MacDonald

According to this headline, “As More N.H. Businesses Violate Emergency Orders, Sununu Cautions Against ‘Snitching.‘ “It’s a good headline. I clicked on it. Then I read it. And it’s accurate as far as it goes, but it never goes very far.

Stopping Petty Tyrannies Is How We Beat the Serious Ones

May 27, 2020May 27, 2020

My dentist called today with a reminder for an upcoming scheduled appointment. We confirmed the date and time. Then the office worker said the practice requires patients to wear face masks. It made me pause for a moment.

Are Public School Teachers Giving Up on a Normal School Year for 2020-2021 (And is that Bad?)

May 27, 2020 Steve MacDonald

File this under people send me stuff. A teacher who shall remain anonymous (no relation to me in case you are curious) shared some observations from several teachers’ groups with which they are a member. Summary: people are ALREADY giving up on a typical school year next year.

Really, Union Leader, the House GOP “revolts”???

May 27, 2020 Skip

I would say that Republicans stuck to their guns (in some cases, literally) and said in effect “Decisions have consequences.” Steve Shurtleff, the Democrat Speaker of the NH House, YOU shut the House down and we don’t have to go along with rewriting YOUR rules to make it work.”

If this Map Is Accurate Most of America Should Have Reopened by Now

May 27, 2020May 26, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Map Porn on Reddit has a county map of the entire country. It is divided into thirds by color. It shows where one-third of the COVID deaths occurred (among 4% of the population). The Second third represents 11% of the US Population. And the third – third, well, that would be the rest.