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The Wayward Episcopalian: Veteran's Day

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:55:00 -0500

Wow, I did not realize it had been a full eight days since I last posted here!

Here's a video, a day late for Veteran's Day, that I cannot get through without massively tearing up in the first thirty seconds. It's soldiers, sailors, and Marines surprising their children at [...]

Blue Hampshire: NH-St. Sen: Gatsas Gone

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:42:44 -0500

State Senate District 16, comprising "Bow, Candia, Dunbarton, Hooksett and Wards 1, 2 and 12 in the city of Manchester" is now up for grabs:Manchester Mayor elect Ted Gatsas has resigned his State Senate seat, which will set up a special election to replace him this winter.

...It now [...]

Blue Hampshire: NH-Gov: Retread Follies

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:24:02 -0500

Bass, Bradley, H. Sununu, and now Stephen. Is it any wonder Gregg was so desperate to fill his seat with a non retread?Former state Health and Human Services Commissioner John Stephen met with the Republican Governor's Association at their Washington office this Tuesday, an encouraging sign for some Republicans [...]

Blue Hampshire: Tempest in the Teapot

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:37:10 -0500

Ben Smith over at Politico, spins the latest drama in tea party-land as a sign of "growing pains."

The gist:

Amy Kremer, who had been a founder and top staffer for the Tea Party Patriots -- one of the central, newly-created groups organizing the early protests -- emailed the group's' [...]

Blue Hampshire: Hodes: Helping Veterans Find Jobs

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:29:08 -0500

On the day after Veterans Day, it might be easy to skip over another blog about saying "Thank You" to those that have served. I'll admit, my eyes glaze over at times. Knowing that much is sincere, it is difficult to figure out when sometimes folks are just saying what' [...]

Richard Barnes: Christmas Time Is Nearly Here

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:17:24 -0500

I was listening today about stories already surfacing about schools seeking to ban any mention of the word Christmas. One school plans to open a special gift store where students can buy gifts for people in the month of December but they are forbidden from having any Christmas items in [...]

Politizine: Uh-oh ... NY-23 not settled ...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:10:00 -0500

Via Political Wire.
It looks like final counts are not actually final in NY-23 where the Conservative candidate apparently lost to the Democrat. Eh, well, maybe not so fast: ["Recanvassing shows NY-23 race tightens even as Rep. Bill Owens is sworn into House seat"].
Three thousand votes with more [...]

Democracy for New Hampshire: Dobbs quits CNN

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:49:46 -0500

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Democracy for New Hampshire: Coburn the Deprivator

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:02:21 -0500

SOURCE:DailyKos

There's really no other way to explain why Senator Coburn has put a hold on S. 1963, the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2009.

José Pequeño's name is ironic. In Spanish, "pequeño" means "small", but there is nothing small about this man, his family or the community [...]

Steven Connolly: Halifax Precis.

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:41:12 -0500

When transportation secretary Ray LaHood was in New Hampshire he didn’t say anything specific about economic development and jobs sans his broad statement to the media that the administration had created or will create 3.5 million jobs. This statement was closely followed by New Hampshire officials selling the advantages of [...]

Free State Blogs: Party of No Common Sense

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:30:18 -0500

Our friends at GraniteGrok.com did a nice piece on the joint press conference held Monday by Senator Jeb Bradley, Mayor Frank Guinta, and Commissioner John Stephen.

Listen to this Democrat Party spokesperson NOT answer the questions. And he accuses the Republican Party of 'stale talking points'? Read more...

In case you ever [...]

Free State Blogs: Carol Shea-Porter: A Congressman that has to go

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:30:06 -0500

New Hampshire's 1st District Congressman Carol Shea-Porter, a Democrat, was "certainly" sure that the Obama stimulus package was working when she spoke on the Charlie Sherman show on WGIR Radio back in July, but then she was "certainly" not very sure that the stimulus had created jobs when WMUR-NH 9 [...]

Politizine: Democrats failing the people; Republicans acting worst than third-graders

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:26:00 -0500

Guest perspective by Ralph Nader
The House of Representatives debate on the health insurance “reform” is over with the Democrats failing the people and the Republicans disgracing themselves as having left their minds back in the third grade (with apologies to third graders).

House Democrats were determined to pass [...]

Steve Mac Donald Blog: Poznanski Recruiting Seminars Remain Popular

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:05:09 -0500

Looks like the democrat caucus had another recruiting seminargoing on in Merrimack while General Court member Brain Poznanaski was breaking the law in front of at least 23other law breakers in Bedford. Corey Frugal was fatally stabbed at a house party on Bedford road in Merrimack where police arrested approximately 21 more underage drinkers. [...]

Little Green Blog: Bored @ Gridley

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0500

In addition to the calzones at Cuttings Northside Cafe, Matt Ritger's anti-frat manifesto, and Jim Kim being a total beast, one of the time-honored memes on the frat-tastic Bored@Baker is Linda Gridley, Dartmouth alumna and CEO [...]

Democracy for New Hampshire: Dobbs quits CNN

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:15:24 -0500

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Steve Mac Donald Blog: Thursday Morning Musings 11-12-09

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:38:44 -0500

Unfinished blog posts abound but I can give you a few hints at what's coming. Hooksett has issues. They have a police chief who is hard to get along with. He’s been at the center of a handful of controversies, and officers keep leaving. If that’s not bad enough home break-ins are [...]

GraniteGrok: Little Time Bombs

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:14:49 -0500

Listening to the radio yesterday, I heard a statistic noting that, of the world’s one billion Muslims, an estimated two hundred million of them subscribe to the radical Islamic strain. That’s no small number whether looked at in total, or as a percentage. The reason it’s [...]

Politizine: Hilarious political ad

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:55:00 -0500

This is funny and so true: ["Pass Medicare for All or Pass Nothing"]. [...]

Granite State Pundit: James Pethokoukis believes, based on work ...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:51:00 -0500

James Pethokoukis believes, based on work done by some notable economists, that unemployment may well reach 12 or 13 percent. If it does, the Democrats can kiss their majorities in Congress goodbye.

Of course, if an asteroid hits us, as one almost did on Friday, it may [...]

OurConcord.com: Recount ...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:04:00 -0500

The recount for the District 11 seat will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday. Republican Lynne Blankenbeker beat former state Rep., former Republican-turned-Democrat and former Concord Mayor Jim MacKay by 20 votes. There are 42 ballots that weren't counted on Election night and are presumed to be blanks or' [...]

Blue Hampshire: Open Thread: That Thing Takes All the Room

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:41:24 -0500

The Poet: "Where is your village? Very far from here?"
"There is no village--only scattered farms.
We were but sixty voters last election.
We can't in nature grow to many more:
That thing takes all the room!" He moved his' [...]

Joe's Dartblog: More on Wright's Binge Spending

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:08:14 -0500

President Kim is behind the eight ball in trying to sort out the financial mess that he has inherited from Jim Wright. He is looking at many ways to cut spending, but at the recent faculty meeting, several faculty members implored him to spare the "vulnerable" from the upcoming [...]

Little Green Blog: Introducing Dartmouth FML

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500

Dartmouth now has its very own version of FMyLife.com: DartmouthFML.com. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, FML is a collection of anecdotal stories illustrating the general hopelessness of the human condition through schadenfreude stories that could theoretically happen to anyone. Basically, any encounter [...]

Free State Blogs: Death by Government: Cuban Energy Policy

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:05:00 -0500

Centralized planning claims another victim: Cuba's energy grid.
Cuba has ordered all state enterprises to adopt "extreme measures" to cut energy usage through the end of the year in hopes of avoiding the dreaded blackouts that plagued the country following the 1991 collapse of its then-top ally, the Soviet [...]

robboyce.com: More USMC Gunrunner video - an explanation about how the bad guys learned not to shoot at skinny helicopters

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:31:12 -0500

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robboyce.com: A little Youtube about death and destruction USMC helicopter style

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:52:38 -0500

My son passed along this clip of what marine pilots like him can deliver to the enemy - a fitting watch on Veterans Day and the day after the USMC birthday

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Update - HMLA 269 featured in this video are nicknamed The Gunrunners and they are a great bunch of [...]

GraniteGrok: NH Democrat Party can't read either.

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:30:17 -0500

I sent this to Jim Pindell (proprietor of NHPoliticalReport when he alerted me to this "We know what is best for you - shut up and like us" presser from the Hodes campaign about Kelly Ayotte's simple statements of "why increase the cost of insurance?" :

OH, THIS IS [...]