According to reporting in the Washington Times, Out of the 340,276 pregnant clients 332,278 received an abortion. So when a pregnant woman goes to planned parenthood for “family planning” services, 97.6% of the time the plan ends with the death of an unborn child.
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On Missing Chris Matthews
You should read the entire post by Greg Opelka here (Breitbart’s Big Journalism.com), because it is about the left wings tunnel vision on the racism narrative, but before you do that I wanted to share a snipped from that post that borders on brilliant. It is the kind of writing I aspire to (missing miserably and often) so when I find it I have to share it.
Reverend Jackboot!?
The left always considers any comment by clergy, in the secular affairs of state, an affront to imagined Constitutional separations unless the remarks support their positions. Such is the case with the Reverend Gary M. Schulte of the United Church of Christ (UCC). With a fusion of left wing talking points and liturgical flair, he leapt the imagined Jeffersonian separation of State and Church, to express his objection to the budget passed by the New Hampshire House.
If taxpayers do not pony up to the government, in the form of a larger state budget, people will suffer. The old, the weak, the children….But we’ve no idea just how much of your money Reverend Gary will need you to give to the Government to end the suffering, nor can we ever. Distress always expands to meet the supply of publicly funded services available to reduce it. We just need more even though no amount is ever enough; just look at the failed states of California, Michigan and New York whose pursuit of social justice with taxpayer dollars has made them so bankrupt that they no longer have the money to care for much of anything at all.
But the UCC does not seem interested in that risk. They are just another myopic Christian/Marxist fusion church that seems willing to advocate state power to achieve warm and fuzzy ends. It is Social Justice, which is essentially communism. And communism, being a godless secular faith all its own, has no issue with polluting and then subjugating institutions like the UCC to achieve its ends, even converting or subverting their purposes to advance the growth of statism. They started with the language, which UCC has embraced, then moved on to policy, which they now advocate. And now we have Reverend Gary, who is probably a great guy who means well, rent seeking for the left wing agenda, with the full power and faith of the UCC behind him, asking politicians to spend more money on government, as if government is the answer.
But if you saw the UCC web site, you’d not be at all surprised.
Meet Pete Kucmas – Candidate for Hills 4 Special Election (updated)
It’s Special Elections season again, and first up is Hillsborough 4 where Republican Peter Kucmas is running to fill the open seat. John Burt takes a few minutes to talk to Peter about his positions on the issues.
What Education Is About
Thanks to Ann Marie Banfield, Grok contributor at large, for posting this link on Facebook. It is a letter to the editor, in the Hollis -Brookline Journal, that needs no further exposition on my part:
Shea-Porter Want’s It Back
Nancy Pelosi’s mad hand puppet, the Socialist-progressive democrat Carol Seiu Porter, has just formally announced the obvious. No, not that she is a Pelosi marionette; she announced that she is going to run for congress in 2012. This is not surprising, not breaking, not even interesting, except to those who like easy blog material of which Shea porter is a redolent horn of plenty. Porter is blogging gold. Better than Biden, who is a total ass-hat but who at least has thoughts he can call his own, such as they are.
The announcement, we were talking about that right, is anti-climactic. It was inevitable given that Carol Che-Porter has not yet, to the best of my knowledge, called Congressman Guinta to congratulate him on his win 162 days ago.
That means, in my mind, (aside from being a sore loser of historical magnitude) that she has yet to mentally concede the seat she lost back in November. (D-Denial) (She is even now, likely casting meaningless votes with her party in some secret Pelosi shrine in the back of her bedroom closet.) But to win back her “birth-right” Kandidate Karol Kannot hide in her progressive bivouac and hope to attract more than the devoted leftists. She needs to engage the independents to get enough voters to actually win, and will have to face hard questions in abundance about her record and its consequences on the country.
So the Q and A with the people she called ‘tea-baggers’ may not go well. But her feeling of entitlement remains, the arrogance is not gone from that sour puss, and she never stopped thinking she was still the congressman from CD-1. So she is compelled to run–if for no other reason than that she can’t get the lifetime, taxpayer funded pension and benefits unless she gets back into office for one more term.
Municipal Outsourcing Works…
There is a city in Georgia that outsourced just about everything. The result? Better services, low taxes, no pension bombs, and money to spare.
What If You Held An Election And Nobody Came?
I’d like to report to you the complete results from Merrimack’s Town Election yesterday, but I’m having one of those “If a tree falls in the forest…” moments. Neither the Union Leader nor the Nashua Telegraph had any mention of the event. It is as if it never happened.
Merrimack Election Results. (No!)
As an obligatory followup to this, here are the results from Merrimack’s Town Elections yesterday. New fire station- no Restore 3 public safety positions, no. Upgrade wastewater facility, no. Town budget, no.(default is 2 million less, more or less) Reinstate 2 firefighters, no. School budget, yes (it was less than last years). Teachers collectivist bargaining … Read more
Meet Terie “Billion Dollar Deficit” Vu.
NH Journal is reporting more fear-mongering from the left, and from the usual suspects. Teri “Billion Dollar Deficit” Norelli (D- scaring women and children), is promising us that the Republican Budget will ‘put peoples lives at risk.
The Right To Your Money: Nothing ‘Fair’ About It.
The Granite State Fair Tax Coalition, discovering that it’s "percentage of income model" argument against property taxes really applies to all things, and that lower income people pay a higher percentage of their income on everything, (a problem resolved through hard work and perseverance to which we apparently do not have a right) has announced that it is looking for a way to make "Rich BastardsTM" pay more for everything.
One example?
How about Marriage. Now that we’ve determined that Marriage is a civil right, (unless you are too young, too closely related, are already married, to uncivil to be or stay married, or want to remain single) why does a decent wedding (or any wedding) have to cost low income workers as much as 100% of their annual income while "Rich BastardsTM" only have to pay 25% to as little as 2% of theirs? The answer is of course a Statewide wedding tax on higher income wage earners to subsidize the constitutionally protected right of marriage–because you can’t help who you fall in love with.
The plan could create a State Bureau of Weddings and Funerals, staffed by at least a dozen bureaucrats, (with taxpayer supported wages, benefits, pensions, office space, paid vacations, supplies, and protest signs that actually come with sick notes attached; for days when they need to go the State House and make demands of the taxpayers elected-officials on matters of workers rights etc,). These fine individuals would be charged with handling questions and processing the paperwork and fees related to the weddings and funerals tax placed upon job creators, and the Rich Bastard population in general, (“Rich” to be defined by the collectors of the tax based on their perception of revenue needed) for the distribution of said revenues to those less fortunate seeking lavish weddings that have nothing to do with love, everything to do with impressing people whom you never see, and who are really just there for the free meal, and with any luck, an open bar.
One potential issue to the new Bureau’s mandate, however, is the rights of single people who would not benefit from the tax, or maybe this is just a rhetorical device on my part to segue into my next sarcastic rant.
Political Incivility is Not the New Hampshire Way
“Political Incivility is Not the New Hampshire Way” is the title of Jeanne Shaheen’s Op-Ed in the Morning Sunday News. I can only assume she is not familiar with her own State Democrat Party leadership, some of the people who have helped her get elected like Kathy Sullivan, and others; people who are on the record saying any number of uncivil things.
Save HB 540 – Biannual Auto Inspections [updated]
It’s not unsafe. It will not turn into a short film titled ‘Death on The Highway II,’ but it will save everyone a few hours and a few bucks. It’s HB 540, the bill to move New Hampshire from annual auto inspections to every other year.
Opponents have come up with all kinds of reasons why we shouldn’t do this but my favorite was this; that an inspector might have to let something go that was not yet in violation but that could become a violation before the next inspection. So we’re all unsafe, irresponsible dopes? No sense of self preservation apparently either. We just drive along until the next inspection….I don’t think so but nice try. The other classes of opponents are bureaucrats and rent seeking mechanics who enjoy state mandated visits to their repair shops. I’ve no time for them either.
Then there is this. It is testimony from Rep Steve Vaillancourt, a fellow Blogger at NH Insider, and a guy who can post more content than me on a good day. He’s also someone with whom I disagree on most social issues, but we see eye to eye on taxes and spending (as far as I can tell), and on HB 540.
Here is Steve’s testimony before the Senate Committee, courtesy of BikerBill (on the jump). It’s only three plus minutes so check it out. Then check out Steve’s Blog at NHI and Bill’s Youtube Channel, both worthy excursions across the New Hampshire Political Landscape.
And don’t forget to contact the committee to tell them you support HB 540. And remember to be polite.
james.rausch@leg.state.nh.us
dboutin1465@comcast.net
james.forsythe@leg.state.nh.us
molly.kelly@leg.state.nh.us
nancy.stiles@leg.state.nh.us
Phone
Senator Jim Rausch (R-Derry) (Senate District 19) 271-8630.
Senator David Boutin (R-Hooksett) (Senate District 16) 271-2709
Senator James Forsythe (R-Strafford) (Senate District 4) 271-3096
Senator Molly Kelly (D-Keene) (Senate District 10) 271-2166
Senator Nancy Stiles (R-Hampton) (Senate District 24) 271-6933
Update: Removed Senator Jim Luthur who is not on this committee; added the correct email for Senator Jim Rausch who is. Thanks to our commenters below for the correction.
Republican Change In New Hampshire
H/T to Patricia Wulfson for sending me this first.
“The New Hampshire House of Representatives received a mandate from the voters of this state to cut state spending; reduce taxes and fees; return fiscal sanity to the state; promote economic development and create jobs; mend a state retirement system that was nearing insolvency; provide our children with an education based on excellence; protect the personal rights and freedoms of its citizens; and maintain transparency in state government. Listed here is a compilation of legislation passed by the 2011 New Hampshire House of Representatives in response to that message that they received in November from the voters.
Trans-formative Change:
• Passed a constitutional amendment to require a super-majority in the House and Senate to raise taxes or borrowing. (CACR 6)
• For the first time in NH history, that included more that 50 attempts in the legislature, the House passed a constitutional amendment to expand local control of education funding by returning authority to elected officials, not unelected judges. (CACR 12) Setting an example for our citizens by “living within our means:”
• Passed a fiscally responsible budget that, (1) was balanced by using realistic revenue figures; (2) did not increase taxes or fees; (3) does not downshift onto local property taxpayers; and (4) does not increase borrowing, setting New Hampshire on a financially sustainable path will allow our economy to grow and create more jobs. (HB 1 & 2)
• Passed an education funding formula that maintains existing levels of aid to communities and allows additional targeted aid to needy cities and towns. (HB 337)
• Passed a bill to allow local communities to enact tax and spending caps. (HB 341) Moving our economy forward, creating more jobs and putting out the “Open for Business sign” in New Hampshire once again.
• Passed a small business tax cut to protect reasonable compensation from the business profits tax. (HB 557)
(more on the jump…)
A Silber In The Minds Eye
So in the face of this economic catastrophe, which the democrats happily sold as a disaster not unlike a Biblical plague, what did NH Democrats do? They decided that despite that we were going to take in 23% more revenue than we did when times were “good” and went on a grow government spending spree. You could call that a revenue problem, but I think it is really more of a democrats are selfish, ideological, tax and spend A-holes problem.
Promises made , Promises Kept
NH House Republican Press conference on the Budget and their legislative accomplishments this year.