Notable Quote – Sir Winston Churchill

“All men are created equal,” says the American Declaration of Independence. “All man shall be kept equal,” say the British Socialist Party. – Sir Winston Churchill, Lord of the Admiralty, Prime Minister of Britain during WW II It seems that the American electorate has forgotten history, and has chosen to align itself with the British … Read more

Notable Quote – Theodore Roosevelt

“The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had already long ceased to be in any real sense a republic at all,” he said. “When the sturdy Roman plebian, who lived by his own labor, who voted without reward according to his own convictions, and who with … Read more

Notable Quote

Democrats talk a lot about kindness, compassion, and fairness. They say Republicans like me lack those things. One thing to say, in rebuttal, is: There is nothing kind, compassionate, or fair about financial collapse. Absolutely nothing. You think entitlement reform is cruel? Wait’ll you see collapse. Been to Greece lately? Seen the formerly well-off people … Read more

What About Bob?

“The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.”   —Mark Shields

Robert M. Tarr, Gubernatorial Candidate?

Robert M. Tarr. Were it not for bad luck, he would have no luck at all.  As the Union Leader’s Mark Hayward pointed out in his Union Leader hatchet job on Bob Tarr,  he and his wife Pauline came to the Queen City in the late 1990’s, taking up residence at the New Horizons Shelter where they married thereafter.

He worked at a dollar store as a clerk, but was laid off when he was arrested on child molestation charges. Thereafter, his wife passed away and his children were placed in foster care. His only means of income now is a Social Security Disability.

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Notable Quote – Dr. Arthur Brooks

In America, the road to serfdom doesn’t come from a knock in the night and a jackbooted thug. It comes from making one little compromise to the free market system after another. Each sounds sort of appealing. No single one is enough to bring down the system. But add them all up and here we … Read more

BE BREITBART: DoIT Right To Know Request : Outbound Internet traffic summarizations – Update 1

Last week, we sent in our second RSA 91-A Right To Know request concerning the Government records that summarized the websites that State of NH employees had gone to:

We hereby request,  in electronic digital form (in order to minimize time and cost on behalf of DES and DoIT), those records bolded in the above paragraph and to which the State has now admitted to possessing. Further, we also request the file / record layout description of the resulting file (fixed or variable field lengths, data types, et al). As computer consultants, our expertise will allow us to examine the data once received (we have several projects in mind for that data).

This request is asking for those records from January 1, 2005 to the present time (i.e., April 20, 2012), inclusive.

Well, 5 Business days have passed – the exact number of days in which we expected to have the State of NH send us the records.  After all, they already have admitted that have the records.  And as far as being “exempt” from RSA 91-A, well, we did not ask in terms of any personnel policies – all we want to see is URLs.  Well, in that time, we received nada for results; not even a <cough>.  Far different than our first RTK concerning Richard de Seve.

So, I emailed Gretchen Hamel, Administrator of the DES Legal Unit:

Subject:     Re: Your RSA 91-A request dated April 20, 2012
Date:          Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:39:19 -0400
From:        Skip Murphy <Skip@GraniteGrok.com>
Reply-To:     Skip@GraniteGrok.com
To:             Hamel, Gretchen <Gretchen.Hamel@des.nh.gov>
CC:             Grokcrew

Good morning, Ms. Hamel

Will we be receiving our requested information before the close of normal business hours as provided by RSA 91-A (5 business days, and verified by your PDF Letter)?

It seems that we have to ask because,  unlike your predecessor, we have not had any interim communication from you during this time period with respect to any updated status of our request.  Do you have the FTP site and credentials available for us to download that outbound traffic summarization information?

Kindest regards,

-Skip

(Skip Murphy for himself, Steve Mac Donald, and Ed Naile)

And then the wait began…and were unsurprised at the answer (emphasis mine).

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Notable Quote – Dr. Thomas Sowell

As many have warned in the past, freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly.  It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals. – Dr. Thomas Sowell, Economics Professor, syndicated columnist, author (H/T: Cafe Hayek)

Notable Quote – unknown

Via email, just in time for the Supreme Court oral arguments starting next week. “Fathom the Hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… but not everyone must prove they are a citizen.”   (H/T: Jordon)  

Do Nothing Democrats

In celebration of this historic occasion, having gone 1000 days without our Democrat majority Government passing a budget, we give you, The Heritage Foundation’s “1000 Days.”  

Notable Quote – Thomas Babington Macaulay

“He conceives that the business of the magistrate is not merely to see that the persons and property of the people are secure from attack, but that he ought to be a jack-of-all-trades, architect, engineer, schoolmaster, merchant, theologian, a Lady Bountiful in every parish, a Paul Pry in every house, spying, eavesdropping, relieving, admonishing, spending … Read more

RINO OF THE WEEK REPORT

This Week's RINO of the Week

“A government big enough to give you everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have….”—Sen. Barry Goldwater

Representative Marshall E. “Lee” Quandt, Rockingham District 13 is this week’s RINO OF THE WEEK.  Representative Quandt tends to be “Clintonista” with his navigation of the New Hampshire political Fabric and based on his New Hampshire House Republican Alliance Scorecard, he enjoys some modicum of success doing that.

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RINO OF THE WEEK REPORT


“Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.” —Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Representative Frank V. Sapareto (R) Rockingham District 5 – Derry  is this week’s RINO of the Week.  But let us be clear about Representative Sapareto. He is not a run-of-the-mill RINO. In fact, as a State Representative, (notwithstanding this one bill he filed), He is one of the more solid Republicans up in the Legislature. In fact, the House Republican Alliance scores him at 86% which isn’t bad at all.

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RINO OF THE WEEK REPORT

“Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.” —Barry Goldwater 

The 2012 Legislative Session brings new opportunities for analysis of the Granite State Legislature. The RINO Report began in July of 2010 and featured those Republicans who were “clear cut” Republicans in Name Only. For them the label aptly fit the first slew of Choices were found to vote with the Republican Agenda only 30-45% of the time.  As we moved up the list, the choices became less clearer, however we often turned to the New Hampshire House Republican Alliance Scorecards and looked at the vote content carefully.  Albeit, some who probably made the list could have made it after some who were originally featured. There were some who did not make the RINO Report that really should have. I will promise to make it up to them.

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The Liberal Darkness

Nothing they say today will matter tomorrow. And this applies to their policies as well. We see this in the bald faced contradictions of their own words and ideas; their disregard for anything that slows their accumulation of power. And they will do and say anything to hold power because they are spiritually empty, disconnected–hoping power will somehow complete them.

Notable Quote – Jonah Goldberg

Jim Hightower: "George H.W. Bush was born on third base and thought he hit a triple." "Obama wasn’t born on third base, but he does seem to think that he should get to run the bases after every strikeout." – Jonah Goldberg, syndicated columnist, National Review editor-at-large

Notable Quote – Victor Davis Hanson

I saw videos of youths burning things in Oakland, but was told that it “was a small minority” and atypical of the protest. Not long ago I saw no clips of anyone spitting at black congresspeople wading into the Tea-Party demonstration, but was told they did and that it was typical of tens of thousands … Read more

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