The U.S. House is unveiling its new “minibus” spending package. It is a bill “to keep the federal government funded in the short-term”. This is the second such bill this year for that purpose. Doesn’t it kind of make you want to actually have a budget?
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Joe Biden’s Commonsense Plan to Beat COVID
So … a few highlights of Joe Biden’s commonsense plan to beat COVID. It all starts with ending the filibuster (provided the Democrats have at least 50 Senators). Joe will NOT let a heartless minority of GOP Senators block legislation that can and will end this pandemic! Once Joe has ended GOP obstructionism, it is … Read more
Who Is Really Running the New Hampshire Secretary of State’s Office?
So the New Hampshire Secretary of State’s Office has a twitter account that is pushing the COVID-hysteria that it is not safe to vote in person. Some examples: Universal (or no-excuse) absentee voting … which is what allowing anyone to vote absentee who claims they are “concerned” about COVID is … means New Hampshire is … Read more
I Think We Flattened That Curve
Looking at the CDC’s provisional weekly COVID death statistics (through July 4, 2020), what part of this graph tells you that we need to still be 1) wearing masks, 2) worried about sending kids back to school, 3) shutting down ANY part of ANY business or 4) listening to the media (ratings) and politicians (control, … Read more
Go Outside. Forget about COVID. Forget about Politics. Do Something Different.
Yesterday, I did something I hadn’t done in years – I went kayaking with my son. Actually, I used to go white-water rafting with him all the time and never actually kayaked with him so yesterday was a first. It was also the first time I had kayaked in a river that was a mix … Read more
So kids, what did we learn from Thursday’s House Session (06/11/20)?
We learned that $200,000+ in COVID/CARES funding can easily be spent on moving the NH House to the UNH Whittemore Arena for a day. The space was donated by UNH for this historic event, as the NH House has not met outside of traditional House Chambers since the Civil War. House Reps were treated to … Read more
Time for Bolduc, Mayberry, Messner and Mowers to Pick a Side.
Unless something changes drastically between now and Election Day, I plan on skipping right past the Governor’s race when I vote. If you have read my posts, you already know why … Sununu’s COVID policy. In brief, as I posted a little while ago, COVID … per the CDC, not per me … is less … Read more
How Can New Hampshire Still Be In a “State of Emergency” When … Per CDC … COVID is LESS Dangerous than the Seasonal Flu?
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
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
Andy Volinsky is Such an Annoying #Maskhole
So #VolinskyAgenda went on a twitter-tirade today because Governor Chris “Cave” Sununu … in a rare moment of backbone … didn’t cave to Tyrion’s demand that he order everyone to “mask up”: Let’s focus on the second to last tweet: So “every scientist in the country” believes that if 80 percent of the population wore … Read more
Don’t be a #Maskhole
No. I did not mean Masshole. I meant Maskhole … a virtue-signaling, white-privilege “progressive” who knows nothing about COVID, but believes he does and also believes he has some inherent right to tell everyone else how to live their lives on account of COVID. As in these people: There is no evidence that healthy people … Read more
The NH-GOP Needs to Stop the Fear-Mongering … Immediately
The New Hampshire GOP has done something so reprehensible that I find myself in agreement with two of the most unsavory characters in New Hampshire politics: Michael #BeyerTheLiar Beyer and Holly Here-Comes-The-Hate Shulman. Check out these tweets: Seriously GOP? Seriously????? Equating COVID and the New Hampshire Democrat Party -the Party of Ray Buckley? Seriously????? STOP … Read more
Team-Lockdown Still Pushing the Canard that “More Testing” is Needed Before New Hampshire’s Lockdown Can be Lifted
So there is this from earlier today: And this: And a few days ago this: As you may recall, we were told by the “experts” that we had to put the economy in lockdown because “the surge is coming,” “the peak is coming” or some variation on the foregoing … and that absent the lockdown … Read more
The Poll That Sununu Should be Paying Attention To.
George H. W. Bush’s job approval was riding high after the First Persian Gulf War. An approval rating in excess of 90 percent. But less than a year later, Bush’s job approval was under 50 percent. And by July 1992, Bush was below 30 percent job approval. He became one of a handful of incumbent … Read more
The Proper and Lawful Response to Sununu’s “Stay-at-Home 2.0” – Ignore It.
So with much fanfare, Governor Sununu announced modifications to his Stay-at-Home Order: The proper and lawful response to “Stay-at-Home 2.0” is to just ignore it. It is proper to ignore Stay-at-Home 2.0″ because it does NOTHING to keep anyone safer from Coronavirus, AND it continues to hobble the New Hampshire economy. And … MOST IMPORTANTLY … Read more
The MYTH That New Hampshire Cannot Lift the Lockdown Until We Have …. “More Testing”
This from yesterday: This is the latest excuse from Team-Lockdown to delay lifting the lockdown: “We need more testing!” “We’re flying bind without more testing!” “Until we ge more people tested, … ” BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. The truth is we know all we need to know to lift the lockdown. First, we already know that … Read more
The MYTH That New Hampshire Cannot Lift the Lockdown Because of Massachusetts
Here is his Majesty, Chris Sununu, First of His Name, Lord of NeverTrump and the RINOs, and Protector of the Realm in his fave local paper SeacoastOnline: “People in Massachusetts are crawling out of their skin, they want anything, any reason to get in their car and get out of that state because the epidemic … Read more
Massive Majority in New Hampshire Support Authoritarian Government and Willing to Believe Anything Government/Press Tell Them
This from the latest UNH poll: Nine in ten Granite Staters approve of the job Governor Chris Sununu has done handling the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. A similarly large majority support Sununu’s “stay at home” order for the state. Granite Staters say maintaining the stay at home order is more important than re-opening the NH economy … Read more
Doubling (or is it Tripling or Quadrupling) Down on Stupid – White Mountain National Forest Trailheads Closed in Order to … Wait for it … Protect Us From Coronavirus
This: The U.S. Forest Service shut down several White Mountain National Forest trailheads and recreational sites until further notice Friday in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19. Forest officials said there recently has been “unseasonably high” numbers of visitors, which could result in the increased chance for exposure to … Read more