Did Shaheen try to ‘Cell’ you on another bad deal?

 

stem-cells1The largest deal in Stem Cell research history is under way between two bio-techs who are prepared to invest 1.4 billion of their own money in the joint venture.  Genzyme and Osiris are coordinating an effort to bring the next two stem cell drugs through the end stages of their trials and on to market– Prochymal and Chondrogen.

 

 While this could be the beginning of a new wave of such partnerships, democrats might want to take note:  these are private companies, investing their billions, and they are developing these new drugs with those other stem cells.  You know, the ones that actually produce cures.  The ones that come from Jeanne Shaheen, and the other so called adults in the government, not from harvested embryos. 

(That’s right–Adult Stem cells)

 

 This would bring the number of viable cures and treatments developed from adult stem cells to at least 80, with roughly 1200 more FDA approved clinical trials currently under way.

 

 Embryonic stem cell research, by comparison, has yet to produce one single treatment or cure that I am aware of.  The distinction is critical because our newly minted Senator elect, Jeanne Shaheen, has promised she’d try to pump 12 billion into the National Science Foundation specifically for embryonic stem cell research.  Is she dumb enough to keep the promise?  She certainly is.

 

 

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The Supreme’s are back

The Supreme Court is back in session, and their first decision of the 2008-2009 US tour lifted a lower court ban on sonar use off the California coast.   This from Yahoo news.

 

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, which was joined by Justices Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

 

Six justices agreed with the outcome, although Justice John Paul Stevens did not join the majority opinion. Justice Stephen Breyer would have allowed some restrictions to remain, while Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter said the prospect of harm to the whales was sufficient to justify limits on sonar use.

 

The court did not deal with the merits of the claims put forward by the environmental groups. It said, rather, that federal courts abused their discretion by ordering the Navy to limit sonar use in some cases and to turn it off altogether in others.

 

The overall public interest tips “strongly in favor of the Navy,” Roberts wrote. He said the most serious possible injury would be harm to an unknown number of the marine mammals

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“In contrast, forcing the Navy to deploy an inadequately trained anti-submarine force jeopardizes the safety of the fleet,” the chief justice wrote.

 

Ginsberg’s dissent favors the emanations of the penumbras of the unknown quantity of marine mammals over those of the US Navy and the American Republic.  No one is or should be surprised.  Even a young liberal would be better than Justice Ginsberg.  She has clearly wanderd off the plantation.  Souter sold out to the Georgetown liberal celebrity circuit early on and has long since lost constitutional credibility.

For the record I happen to consider most of Ginsberg’s (and Souter’s) opinions to be harmful to a known quantity of land mammals living in the Constitutional Republic of the United States.

 

So maybe the Navy can point some Sonar in their direction?

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Welcome to the Resistance

Supporters of small government are officially in the minority.
And eentrenched Liberalism, to be referred to from here on out as the Empire, is going to use its ‘mandate’ for change to expand government, and then figure out how to pay for it later–with our incomes.  (At the state and federal level)
No matter what you may think that means to you today, understand that government is a beast whose own survival requires tax dollars to feed upon.  No one person in government–with only a few very rare exceptions–will elect to decrease their budget willingly.  Bureaucratsare wired to multiply like rabbits, rabbits that end up in the public sector unions who then cost as much to fire as they do to keep.  The more mouths there are to feed–that includes goofy programs–the more money they need to feed them.
All of this is paid for by you and I.  Most of it is completely useless.  And if you don’t believeme, think about this, then answer the question that follows.   In the past two years the Democrats who ran New Hampshire wiped out an 80 million dollar budget surplus and added half a million in new spending all to grow government.  Despite increased revenue every year, some form all the fees and taxes they raised, the democrats still out spent themselves and had to bond 80-90 million to balance their bloated budget.  None of that addresses the expected 200-500 million deficit we already face today for the next budget.
Here’s the question.  How much better was your life as a result of all this activity–growth of government and spending–by our democrat controlled state government?   I did not gain a single thing.
My taxes went up.  It costs me more to do stuff.  That’s the only evidence I can see in my life that the efforts of the past two years amounted to anything, and I bet a significant majority of you have the exact same answer.
Well guess what–they are about to do it again.  And don’t be fooled by promises to ‘slash-budgets.’  These are the same budgets they just bloated to no positive affect.  Now they want to cut them? 
The economy will only slow them down a tiny bit.  Are you prepared to protect your wallet–your very lifestyle–from a spending program just looking for a bigger budget; from a government that happens to have a state (New Hampshire) instead of a State that happens to have a government.
Join the Resistance. 
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Talk radio as performance art.

Speak no evil

The  ‘Fairness Doctrine would force private businesses to use their money and their time in a manner defined by the federal government.   If station owners with right leaning content did not include political content that toes the Democrat party line, they might not be allowed to broadcast any political content at all, could get fined, taken to court, or have their license pulled or denied by the FCC.

 

 So what’s the big deal?

The first amendment was written to protect exactly this kind of political speech from oppression by the government.  So have the liberals overstepped their bounds when it comes to Talk radio–which is nothing but political speech?

 

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Change?

Mr. Obama’s first step towards changing Washington was to select the corrosive and obnoxious Rahm Emmanuel as his White House Chief of Staff.  The Rahminator, another member of the fraternity of Chicago politicians mutated in the lab of the corrupt Daley political machine, brings with him some of the worst that politics has to offer.

 

If this is what we are to expect, the change Obama promises will be nothing like the sunshine and happiness he’s been cramming up everyone’s sphincter these past few years.  (Not that we on the Right ever suspected anything different). Emmanuel brings a level of offensive discourse, and intimidation that reeks of the very thing Washington needs less of, and in a leadership position such as this, it can only set the worst possible tone for an administration that—straight out of the gate—has already abandoned any pretense of giving us anything better.

 

It is not much of a stretch to surmise that “Changewecanbelievein™” has been beaten sensless with a pillow-case full of door-knobs, unceremoniuosly tossed in the trunk, and taken on a long drive out into the dessert.

 

So I suppose it’s only a matter of time before Obama fires a stafffer, and tries to convince us that he was taken out of context.

 

You know, somtimes, what you know is better than what you don’t.

 

Welcome to change.

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Obama Press Conference 11-5-2008

President Elect Barack Obama called an early morning press conference this morning to announce his plans to run for re-election in 2012.

While the campaign could “take him away from the oval office more often that he’d like,” he expects to be able to make himself available for any important matters that come up while he is out on the campaign trail.

 

*In all seriousness–congratulations to Mr. Obama, Ms. Shaheen, and both State reps Hodes, and Shea-Porter.  While I am at odds with you on many things, (most things) you have earned a shot (or another shot)at governance, and I respect the authority of the people to provide you that opportunity.  

It will continue to be my job, and that of many others, to observe your actions, comment on your antics, and to hold you accountable to the things you promised, the things you did, and the things you didn’t do–that, hopefully, will never change.

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7 AM–Polls open: Vote Early, vote often?

This tried and true maxim of the Democrat party comes alive as the polls spring to life at the opening bell.  It’s a lot easier to vote more than once when you have already sent in your absentee ballot, and can use the day off (if you have it off) to get college students to the polls to vote illegally for your candidates.  (Yes, it happens early and often–and there’s tons of proof.) Oh, and the fact that the democrats have watered down the voting rules so much that my dog could vote isn’t suspicious at all, is it?

Are you a NH resident?  “Woof.”  Here’s your ballot.

My polling place was moving along briskly, which is more than I can say for the traffic you had to wait through to get there.   And this was a 7AM when they open! 

But whatever the result it is good to see people getting involved in the process.   For years people complained about how Americans didn’t vote, and now they are complaining about how partisan and divisive everything is.  Well, this is America.  If you don’t piss a few people off, they’ll never get off their fat backsides, drop the remote, and exercise their civic duty.

OK.  Most of these marshmallows have no idea what the actual issues are, who or how they are being misled, or what the consequences of their vote could mean, and I would freely accept a mandatory civics test as a pre-requisite to demonstrating competence (probably because I know I could pass it), but they do have the right to vote, and if they never see the consequences of their action (or inaction) they’ll never learn more and do better.

In 2006 Republicans got lazy and stayed home in droves.  Look how that turned out.  This year, the Democrats have done everything they can think of to convince them to stay home again.  (becasue if they don’t Obama loses, as do others.)  I don’t think that’s going to happen, but if it does, they get what they deserve.  They lose at the state and national level.  They suffer through at least two more years of a Democrat congress, with a Democrat president, and open bar on big government spending and control. 

But no matter who wins, there will plenty to blog about.  For now, we have a long day ahead of us

My Early predictions for my neighborhood

McCain-Palin-President/VP

John Sununu-Senator

Jeb Bradley-Congress

Steve Stepanek-Executive council

Shelia Roberge-State Senate

7 of 8 Seats in the State House.

Lynch will remain Governor for no good reason.

How this translates across the state and the nation, we shall see.  Just remember, the same people who lied about voting for Obama in early polls, will do the exact same thing in exit polls.  They don’t like his policies, but they don’t want to be accused of being a racist.  The News networks will be screwing this the wrong way all day and night.  The truth–if such a thing is possible, won’t be know till late tonight.

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For your consideration-

Me- This is a great piece.  I present it without interruption.

Lorne Gunter: Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof

Posted: October 20, 2008, 10:26 AM by Kelly McParland

Lorne Gunter, Ful Comment

 

In early September, I began noticing a string of news stories about scientists rejecting the orthodoxy on global warming. Actually, it was more like a string of guest columns and long letters to the editor since it is hard for skeptical scientists to get published in the cabal of climate journals now controlled by the Great Sanhedrin of the environmental movement.

 

Still, the number of climate change skeptics is growing rapidly. Because a funny thing is happening to global temperatures — they’re going down, not up.

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Miss New Hampshire Collectibles (It’s a Sub, not a girl)

Go here to find collectibles for the USS New Hampshire.

 

The sub was officially commission on October 25th, 2008.  You can visit the official web site here

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Mike ‘Kato’ Kaelin part II

Rep Mike “Kato” Kaelin wants’ to sell himself as better than sitting state senator Sheila Roberge based almost entirely on the notion that he’ll actually do something. 

So while in part one  I reviewed what Kato wants to do (or has already done) to taxpayers with his environmental and energy policies—which is to make it more expensive and less desirable to live here while wasting our tax dollars–in part II I want to look at choice bits of his voting record to see if his opus—that is, his idea of doing something, is really what New Hampshire needs. (Hint: The answer is no)

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