Drilling won’t help or “Let them eat Grass!”

 

Let them eat grassDemocrats, including New Hampshire’s three caballeros, Hodes, Shea-Porter, and wanna-be Shaheen, are all part of that brain-dead Donkey herd in Washington when it comes to energy.  Their latest mantra is “drilling for more oil won’t lower prices.”  They amend this with the word “now,” as in drilling takes five years to add oil to the market, or they simply infer that it’s so bad for the environment anyway that we will just have to live in huts, huddled around peat fires—remember we can’t burn wood—starving to death until the utopia of bio-fuels, solar, and wind come to the rescue.

Mouth breathers!

Don’t Democrats realize…?

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Carol-Shea Porter’s performing ‘Seal’ act

NH Seal actI picked this up from Granite Grok.

Apparently the folks over at NH Insider got keel hauledby the AG for using the official NH State Seal on their web site, which Clueless Carol just happens to have floating behind her name in the header of her “please reelect me” home page.

Of course as the upstanding folks at NH Insider point out, “what makes her so special?”

It’s a very pretty arrangement–it really draws you in.  Just ignore the quotes over her left shoulder.  Oh, and don’t look at her voting record either.  They just happen to be incompatible.

Check it out, get involved. 

NH Insider

Granite Grok

Contact the NH DOJ and ask them why Shea-Porter is so special.

Or maybe the Governor.  Someone must know.  Right?  I sure as heck can’t figure it out.

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Greene Jeanne Thearpy Part II “Have you ‘herd’ this one?”

Green HypeShaheen is one of the herd on the matter of Global warming.

Jeanne Shaheen supports the goal of cutting carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050, and in the US Senate will push for a comprehensive plan to achieve that goal that includes economy-wide emissions reductions, aggressive research and development for new energy technologies, work with international partners to achieve global emissions reductions, and incentives for energy efficiency and clean alternative energy sources.

 

Isn’t it funny how global CO2 emissions have continued to go up for a decade, while the temperature is actually going down-see here, and here ?  But Green Jeanne Shaheen doesn’t care about what the other side has to say, she just wants to implement her Greene agenda. “Senator” Shaheen would ignore any details that might prohibit her from toeing the party line which at its core is nothing more than a massive government control mechanism on the energy and economic output of America and a system of cap and trade that in Europe has failed to deliver on any of its promises.  Does Jeanne care?  Nope.

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Will Lynch Flynch? [Updated]

Feed me Seymore, feed me!Massachusetts will very likely raise its tax on cigarettes by another dollar/pack.  Given that New Hampshire has a problem with its budget balancing act, will the NH Democrat majority see this as an opportunity to  pull the trigger on another increase in our state cigarette tax?

I bet they have itchy fingers.

Leaving things as they are will probably attract a significant number of patrons to the border towns even with the price of gas being what it is.  That increased revenue on the existing tax could be a windfall of it’s own, but Democrats as a rule are bad economists.  Can Gov. Lynch and the lynch mob resist the urge to up the tax just enough to try and pull in even more tax dollars?

We’ll have to keep an eye on it.

[Updated]

Recent figures are available (this courtesy of The Nashua Telegraph) on revenu from New Hampshires last tax increase on smokes…

A 24-cents per pack increase last July 1 didn’t bring in the desired revenue. The tax fell $18 million or 10 percent short of its target

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Kelly Ayott (NH AG) on Dope.

AyotteNH AG Kelly Ayotte is demonstrating a common myopia (shared by the nation as a whole) when it comes to dealing with the rising rate of prescription drug abuse.  She wants to create a database to help track stimulants, pain killers, muscle relaxants and other commonly abused prescriptions in the state in an effort to reduce the rising number of deaths associated with this form of abuse.  Some claim the database poses privacy issues, while others contend that there are complex government regulations and a full blown pissing match between physicians and Pharmacists over who should be monitoring for abuse, and who is ultimately responsible when the system fails. 

I contend that all of these things are true to some degree, but we can probably avoid most of them, and prevent the extensive costs to taxpayers of setting up and monitoring such a system, by simply looking at some obvious relationships (at least in New Hampshire) and connecting the dots.  Get the complete dope on the jump.

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Big D Dog and Pony Show in Unity NH

..And I’m at a wedding in Maine.  I wasn’t able to get up there to check it out first hand.

But based on news reports and early commentary in the blogosphere, while the presentation came off well, there was nothing new on the menu, or in the kitchen; Clintonista’s and Obamamaniacs are still at odds.

Thanks to Pejman at REDSTATE for these top two links.

From an ABC News Blog

One major Clinton donor described it this way:  “This felt like when your mom forces you to go visit your Aunt Ida and she has to pinch your cheeks and you’re sitting there in an uncomfortable suit and you can’t wait to leave.”

And over at Atlantic.com

…But a few minutes later, a few, less happy donors asked pointed questions. According to someone in the room, one Clinton donor asked Obama directly whether he was going to add her to the ticket as his vice presidential nominee. Even Sen. Clinton looked uncomfortable, gesturing to Obama to move on, which he did.

As I poke around…The NH GOP didn’t have much to say.

CONCORD – Fergus Cullen, Chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, made the following statement today:

“Characteristic of the Obama campaign, today’s event was long on symbolism and short on substance. While Barack Obama talks about working across the aisle, John McCain has an actual record of bipartisan reform. Today’s event was nothing more than a partisan love-fest that showed Obama’s real stripes.”

But  A few women from PUMA, I have read, were there to make their case for Hillary’s victory.  The PUMA party is a Democrats for McCain outfit.  PUMA is Party Unity my A**.  Always good to have people out there exercising their rights.

Over all I don’t have much to add.  I’ll try to get caught up and come back to this later.

 

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On the Second amendment

I am pleased with the SCOTUS decision on the right to bear arms, and while I have not read the whole decision I am certain that I will not find what I am actually looking for; something that supports my personal interpretation.  I wrote this a while back, but now is as good a time as any to post it.

Let me preface with this.

(IMO) The Bill of Rights does not in any way exist as a grant of government power.  It is, in fact, an enumeration of rights which are to be protected from the government. Granting that same government reflexive power within the text of the actual amendments over other aspects of them seems a bit contrary to their intended purpose.

While we could debate the finer points (and likely will) I’d rather get to mine on Am 2, and leave all that for later.

The good stuff is on the jump

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Dalrymple on government meddling

It appears to be Arm Chair political philosophy day today.
In Praise of Prejudice

Read this excerpt from In Praise of Prejudice by Theodore Dalrymple, then ask yourself if the situation described does not make a deep connection with the direction government in America is heading (or has been heading) in recent years.  In keeping with my commitment to small government conservatism, this strikes quite a few chords with me.  I highly recommend the book, or any of Dr. Dalrymple’s many works.

 

 

“A philosophy that sets out to destroy the influence of custom, tradition, authorities, and prejudice, does indeed destroy particular customs, traditions, authorities, and prejudices, but only to replace them by others.  The new, in this aspect of human existence as in all others, may be better than the old, but it may also be worse.”

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The Police-State of Welfare

The human tendency for compassion, particularly for those with whom we have no immediate connection, is one of those divine human virtues.  Something of this idea was long ago hijacked and taken to the highest levels of our government where it was stripped of its divinity and now manifests itself as an addition to a bureaucracy whose presumed purpose is to help people whom it assumes cannot help themselves; the ultimate expression of compassion via democracy to provide opportunities to those it has itself labeled as “in need.”  But the construction of these bureaucratic mechanisms tends to produce the opposite affect, manufacturing more petitioners instead of relieving us of the ones it insists we already have, while slowly devouring their liberty and converting those “in need” into slaves of the state.  And for some reason these failures do not prevent them from making matters worse.

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Hodes to Pentagon–Speak no evil

Photo credit-SandrinoPaul Hodes thinks he’s on to something, but I’m having a hard time believing him.  His concern seems to be that the White House and the Pentagon has or is recruiting Generals to talk up the success in Iraq, and that this kind of propaganda should not be allowed.  Rep Hodes is concerned that allowing this kind of behavior might mislead the people into thinking things that were not entirely accurate and has passed an amendment to make his point.

From his floor speech

 

“In a free and democratic society, our government should never use the public airwaves to propagandize our citizens,” Congressman Hodes said in a floor statement. “Congress cannot allow an Administration to manipulate the public with false propaganda on matters of war and our national security.” 

“This amendment will ensure that no money authorized in this act will be used for a propaganda program, and require a report to Congress by both the Defense Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office on whether previous restrictions on propaganda have been violated.  It’s time for the American people to finally know the truth.”

 

Mr Hodes must never listen to NPR. (ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, CNBC….”C” where I’m going here?)

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