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The True Meaning Of Christmas

by Steve MacDonald

Starting in 2011, public sector workers will no longer get days off related to any religious holiday, nor will they receive any compensation for these days unless they actually work. If as the liberals and secularists suggest, that we can’t have any God in government, then no one in government should get a paid day off as a result.

Little Footprints In The Digital Snow

by Steve MacDonald

someone-wrong-on-internet.pngSome of the establishment ‘insiders’ in the New Hampshire political news firmament are clinging to their status as the connected resource for information, defending their political crack house like some kind of punditry-pusher for the news junkies in the Granite state.

One of their weapons is the exclusive.  They need them to feel relevant.

Case in point, James Pindell, who unknown to most, had posted the news of Jack Kimball’s announcement to seek the state GOP chairmanship as a WMUR/Political Scoop exclusive.  But he did it after it had been posted by GraniteGrok, on GarniteGrok.com, the Grok’s facebook page, each of the Groksters facebook pages, at NH Insider.com, at the NHRVC web page, at my Live Free or Die WordPress page, and on several email lists like those of the NHRVC and RLCNH.

After a conversation with one of the Grok’s contributors, the word "exclusive" was reportedly removed from the Political Scoop post, but the act of trying to claim exclusivity still remains, embedded in the original web address to the article as posted.

http://politicalscoop.wmur.com/exclusive-kimball-to-run-for-nhgop-chair

[Emphasis mine]

It’s just like little foot prints in the digital snow, staggering away from the scene of a crime.

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Progressive Flatulence

by Steve MacDonald

So maybe the 700,000 taxpayer dollars given to UNH to advance the study of “organic farming” was not just a left wing exercise in global warming alarmist advocacy. Maybe, just maybe, it was not meant to study cow farts.

Calendar Roulette With Janet Napolitano

by Steve MacDonald

From the "You can’t make this stuff up" file.  Janet Napolitano is fighting Terror 364 days a year.  So which day are they taking off?      

What Ancient Form Of Torture…

by Steve MacDonald

While following up on a story about the ridiculously stupid group No Labels,  which I nailed weeks before anyone else, (big pat on back) I discovered one of those polls you often find lingering near a Google ad, or between widgets in the right column.  You’ve seen them.  Do you support Health Care reform; Palin or Obama; What ancient form of execution would you least prefer?

Well isn’t that an interesting question.  What ancient form of execution would I least prefer?  It was actually harder than you think. (I found it here, right column about halfway down; and read the article while you are there, it’s worth your time.)  I assume it was created by the site (they are using pollhost.com) so kudos to them for such an original idea.

The choices are Buried alive, Crucifixion, Flayed alive, Scourged to death (I had to look that one up, it is a multi-thonged whip), Stung/bitten to death by insects, Slow disembowelment, Roasted on a grill (pass the BBQ sauce), Dragged from a Chariot, Torn apart by wild beasts, Rolled downhill inside a spiked barrel, or death by a thousand cuts.  No, listening to an I-pod full of Obama speeches was not a choice.  While torture, it is not ancient enough.

So what’s not to love. 

Remember, it’s the torture you prefer least so take another look at the buffet and ask yourself if passing on the mysterious "looks like some kind of macaroni and cheese like substance" was really all that hard now that you have to think about this one?

My initial choice was torn about by wild beasts, but after a moments consideration that might end quickly depending on the beasts and what they tear off first.  Flayed, Scourged and bitten, all look like they might take long enough to be bad, as might the barrel, the chariot, and the thousand cuts, but in the end, if I had to pick a least favorite from this list, I’d go with Roasted on a grill.

But that’s just me.  And it turns out 17% of the respondents so far agree making that choice the third least popular–which is to say most popular ‘least popular.’

So what were one and two (so far)?  The table is on the jump.  Then go vote yourself if you think you can decide what is worst, then let us know what you picked an why. 

 

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Separation From Power

by Steve MacDonald

Kathy Sullivan used her scheduled rant in the Union leader this week to warn us about the Republican controlled NH House and its anticipated legislative agenda.  The serpentine theme manufactured to tie her fear-mongering together is a sudden (and I’ll admit unexpected) adoration for the concept of "Separation of Powers."   This is the idea that by dividing authority the vessels of power would jealously guard each of their own and in the process prevent the others from advancing tyranny.

So I guess the Union Leader does publish left wing fantasy fiction in the opinion section.  It’s almost like a riddle.  "If an avid pro government socialist democrat pretends to be concerned with the abuse of government power what does it mean?" 

"It means they are not the ones in power."

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From The Harvard School Of Bud Light (Weare Campus)

by Steve MacDonald

The ongoing saga of Jon and Theonia Boyd seems to be coming to an end. The Boyd’s, both professors at Harvard, and residents of Massachusetts, were charged with facilitating an underage drinking party a a friends House in Weare when police arrived to discover the smartest people in the room had no idea there were 70 drunk minors celebrating the Bacchanalia under their slightly up turned noses.

The Illusion Of Zero Drop Outs

by Steve MacDonald

credit: ramblingrector.me

Governor Lynch is all about his success at reducing Drop Out rates in New Hampshire. That’s the number of high school age kids who leave school without graduation or achieving a recognized equivalent. He even has a goal. New Hampshire will have a zero percent drop out rate by 2012. And based on the available data, I think he will succeed, but not in reducing actual “drop outs” to zero.

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The Invertebrate Jeanne Shaheen?

by Steve MacDonald

So did Jeanne Shaheen vote for cloture on the Reid’s Frankenstein tax compromise and will she vote to pass it? I ask because it includes Billions for a one year extension of ethanol subsidies that Senator Shaheen just insisted we could not afford.

Flash Mob!

by Steve MacDonald

Sununu’s Successor “Chosen?”

by Steve MacDonald

James Pindell is reporting that Governor Sununu plans to endorse Cheshire County Republican Chair Juliana Bergeron as his replacement in what seems to be a power sharing deal that allows Governor Sununu to exercise the “You better choose the right person” clause from his formal letter to the party. (Which Skip went over here)

Good Cop – Bad Cop

by Steve MacDonald

iStock Photo ImageEveryone knows Good Cop, Bad Cop. 

You have gruff and uncompromising on one side, and then someone else shows up sweet as pie.  The goal is to get something you want that they do not want to give up. 

So is Mr. Obama’s compromise on stopping a tax increase part of the good cop bad-cop formula?

 

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Debt Commission: Humor

by Steve MacDonald

Flesh Is For Zombies

by Steve MacDonald

The Walking Dead, which just ran its initial 6 episode release, could use a few zombies with PETA shirts when season two comes out next fall. “Flesh is for Zombies” PETA shirts on an actual zombie would be funny but not nearly as funny as regular PETA shirts on Zombatized Vegan wackos, bent over to chew on some some poor bastards slimy organs.

Show me the Tax cut

by Steve MacDonald

All those years of left wing class warfare about cuts for the rich but none for the rest of us we’re liberal lies. Plain and simple. You can’t extend something that does not exist.

There Is A God

by Steve MacDonald

The first batch of US currency with Tim Geithner’s name on it has been quarantined. About $110 billion in newly printed hundred dollar bills (loaded with new anti-counterfeiting features) were so hi-tech the printing process got screwed up, leaving blank spots on some of the bills. Rather than try to sort them, which an article at Yahoo! News claims would take at least 20 years to do by hand, they will have to set them aside for a year while they work up an automated method of sorting out the bad bills.

What’s Good For The Goose..

by Steve MacDonald

Tom Fahey quotes our confused friend Harrell Kirstein, Spokesperchild of the New Hampshire democrat party in regard to Bill O’Brien’s choices for leadership positions in the NH House. (I have to call Harrell the Spokesperchild from now on. Spokesperson has the word ‘son’ in it and we know how sensitive Harrell’s spleen is.)

Bad News For Jets fans…

by Steve MacDonald

I guess sports medicine has come a long way. This guy busted his tibia. Of course it never penetrated the skin. That’s encouraging. Seeing bones sticking out of flesh is reserved for serious injuries and great television shows like The Walking Dead.

GrokTALK! – 9am -11am, Saturday December 4th, 2010

by Steve MacDonald

Yes It’s GrokTALK!  120 minutes of Live Streaming local and National News with political insight you could ONLY get from GraniteGrok.com   On this week’s Program… Free State Project Founder Jason Sorens  will be on the air with us Well look at the effect that FSP has had on New Hampshire Tim Condon, GraniteGrok contributor … Read more

Drinking At Dartmouth

by Steve MacDonald

Image Credit: Dartmouth Jim Yong Kim, the president of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, agrees that Dartmouth has a drinking problem, but that prosecuting underage drinkers is not the answer, Melanie Plenda reports in today’s Union Leader.

This comes on the heels of yet another incident where someone served alcohol to minors.  So right away we can see the error of Dartmouth college President Jim Yong Kim.  The problem (in this case) is not so much that the police are punishing underage drinkers, but that they are trying to punish people on his campus who serve alcohol to a minor, in this case a seventeen year old high school student.

  Perhaps Dartmouth would like to follow Harvard’s lead? 

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