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  • Northern Winters

    Steve Mac Donald Blog

     

    The AP is reporting that Eurostar, the company that runs passenger rail through the Chunnel from England to France has suspended service pending resolution of technical problems that have stranded thousands underground (in the Chunnel) for as much as 15 hours at a time.

    Eurostar believes the problem, according to AP, [...]

    Posted: December 21, 2009, 6:13am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Who Owns Paul Hodes?

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    The potential depth of Paul Hodes connections to the Big Banker/Lawyer complex must give us pause given his short tenure in Government.  Not just because he is already beholden to them, but because his legislative history demonstrates a willingness to use the power the people have given him to enrich [...]

    Posted: December 19, 2009, 8:06am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Who Owns Paul Hodes?

    Free State Blogs

      

      

    The potential depth of Paul Hodes connections to the Big Banker/Lawyer complex must give us pause given his short tenure in Government.  Not just because he is already beholden to them, but because his legislative history demonstrates a willingness to use the power the people have given him to enrich [...]

    Posted: December 19, 2009, 8:06am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Saab Story

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    Government Motors (GM) has announced the end of Saab.  After several weeks of talks, the top down socialist super state of Sweden was unable to come to terms with GM to save the brand.  Proof that it is hard to be born from jets when you are stuck flying with turkeys.

     

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    Posted: December 19, 2009, 7:50am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Saab Story

    Free State Blogs

     

    Government Motors (GM) has announced the end of Saab.  After several weeks of talks, the top down socialist super state of Sweden was unable to come to terms with GM to save the brand.  Proof that it is hard to be born from jets when you are stuck flying with turkeys.

     

    [...]
    Posted: December 19, 2009, 7:50am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • H.O.D.E.S

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    Mr. Hodes is mad at Joe Lieberman, claiming Joe is helping keep the insurance companies in charge of health care.  But I think he doth protest too much.   Paul currently get’s bucket-loads of campaign cash from insurance and investment, with Lawyers somewhere in between.  He’s received $23,000 from the evil insurance [...]

    Posted: December 18, 2009, 8:41am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • A Right Is A Right Is A....

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    Women, according to a majority of liberals, many moderates, and most blue dog republicans, have a right to an abortion.  They also (if we are to believe the broader context of liberals in the health care debate) have the right to pay for it with your money.  Liberals demand that the federal government [...]

    Posted: December 16, 2009, 7:21pm EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • A Right Is A Right Is A....

    Free State Blogs

     

    Women, according to a majority of liberals, many moderates, and most blue dog republicans, have a right to an abortion.  They also (if we are to believe the broader context of liberals in the health care debate) have the right to pay for it with your money.  Liberals demand that the federal government [...]

    Posted: December 16, 2009, 7:21pm EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • No Big Tent

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    It's fun to watch hypocrisy in action.  All week we've been seeing party purists railing against party members who dare to object to party extremists. And that's from the Liberals.

    Yes, the left wants to take this broken left wing and fly, but some democrats and democrats forced to portray themselves as' [...]

    Posted: December 16, 2009, 7:04am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • No Big Tent

    Free State Blogs

     

    It's fun to watch hypocrisy in action.  All week we've been seeing party purists railing against party members who dare to object to party extremists. And that's from the Liberals.

    Yes, the left wants to take this broken left wing and fly, but some democrats and democrats forced to portray themselves as' [...]

    Posted: December 16, 2009, 7:04am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • L-L-C, See You Real Soon

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    I guess the DRA—that’s the same DRA that is rumored (in violation of state statute) to have let towns go for years without setting their property tax rate (Windsor?)—could be authorized to do ‘reasonable’ compensation audits to determine if New Hampshire LLC’s are receiving whatever the DRA decides is “excessive [...]

    Posted: December 14, 2009, 1:04pm EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • L-L-C, See You Real Soon

    Free State Blogs

     

    I guess the DRA—that’s the same DRA that is rumored (in violation of state statute) to have let towns go for years without setting their property tax rate (Windsor?)—could be authorized to do ‘reasonable’ compensation audits to determine if New Hampshire LLC’s are receiving whatever the DRA decides is “excessive [...]

    Posted: December 14, 2009, 1:04pm EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Random Thoughts

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    Has anyone in India tried to market a console game called Sitar Hero?

     

    Did Ireland ever consider a spin off the popular kids network?  The could call it Mcelodeon.

     

    Someone could make a documentary about how the current NHDP chair spins news and call it "Bend it like Buckley." (That actually has some [...]

    Posted: December 13, 2009, 9:58am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Random Thoughts

    Free State Blogs

     

    Has anyone in India tried to market a console game called Sitar Hero?

     

    Did Ireland ever consider a spin off the popular kids network?  The could call it Mcelodeon.

     

    Someone could make a documentary about how the current NHDP chair spins news and call it "Bend it like Buckley." (That actually has some [...]

    Posted: December 13, 2009, 9:58am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • A Job By Any Other Name

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    Number of comments: 5

      

    Take money and create a debit.  Every government employee is a debit on the income of taxpayers.  They are a net loss on the income of others.  And what does the government employee create for the cost of that debit?  Hopefully some necessary service, but they never create new wealth.  [...]

    Posted: December 12, 2009, 5:36pm EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • One More Time For The Cheap Seats

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    It’s time to address the lies about our economic troubles.  The democrats are to blame.  They had dominant control over the House from 2006 on.  The House is in charge of the countries fiscal business.  They are responsible for oversight.  They are the Alpha and Omega of economic legislation, budgets, [...]

    Posted: December 12, 2009, 5:33pm EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • No Is The New Yes

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    Obstruction is not a bad trait for a congressman.  In fact it should be their only trait.  The states send representatives to congress to look out for them.  That would be to look after the states, not the congressman.  They are meant to protect personal liberty and state sovereignty, not [...]

    Posted: December 11, 2009, 8:57pm EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • No Is The New Yes

    Free State Blogs

     

    Obstruction is not a bad trait for a congressman.  In fact it should be their only trait.  The states send representatives to congress to look out for them.  That would be to look after the states, not the congressman.  They are meant to protect personal liberty and state sovereignty, not [...]

    Posted: December 11, 2009, 8:57pm EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • At What Cost?

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    Sometimes the simplest terms make the largest impression.  Back in January of 2007 when Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter started their careers in the House of Representatives, unemployment was 4.6% and the most recent budget came in with a 260 Billion dollar deficit.  Four years of their expert economic and [...]

    Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:52am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • At What Cost?

    Free State Blogs

     

    Sometimes the simplest terms make the largest impression.  Back in January of 2007 when Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter started their careers in the House of Representatives, unemployment was 4.6% and the most recent budget came in with a 260 Billion dollar deficit.  Four years of their expert economic and [...]

    Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:52am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • One Trick Donkey

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    The Emergency More Government Technicians (EMGT’s) running Washington DC, (and unfortunately New Hampshire as well) want you to believe that their opponents are trying to stop them from fixing everything.  They are roadblocks to a better tomorrow.  But have you considered what it is they are trying to stop?  They [...]

    Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:40am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Thursday Morning Musings 12-10-2009

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    One of Paul Hodes most significant campaign contributors in the 2010 cycle is Goldman Sachs.  Given their big money insider connections to the Obama Administration an its staff, their connections to bail out central, and the billions(if not more) they stand to make from a carbon trading scheme, taking all [...]

    Posted: December 10, 2009, 8:34am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Anthropogenic Lunar Warming

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    Exaggeration is a gross constant in the Al Gore climate model.  This fat assed, globe-trotting, hypocritical, serial lying alarmist toady has yet to be right about anything.  His computer model is less reliable than a Microsoft operating system, yet everyone feels obligated to use it anyway.  It’s almost ubiquitous. They [...]

    Posted: December 09, 2009, 8:41pm EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Dispatched

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    Ken Wyler dispatched a disinterested opponent in the GOP Rockingham 8 primary winning 91% of the vote.  Rumor has it that George Melvin, the supposed GOP challenger, didn't even bother to go out and vote for himself.

    That's kind of sad.

    So this is the second consecutive special House election primary where a' [...]

    Posted: December 08, 2009, 10:14pm EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • New World Order

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    Number of comments: 5

    Obama says he’ll go to Hopenchangehan.

     

    EPA calls CO2 a pollutant and invokes its power to regulate it everywhere it occurs, or more to the point, everyhwere it is advantageous to EPA and Obama.

     

    Press leak in UK Guardian today points to secret agreement at the Climate sunmmit to punish third world [...]

    Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:01pm EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • New World Order

    Free State Blogs

    Obama says he’ll go to Hopenchangehan.

     

    EPA calls CO2 a pollutant and invokes its power to regulate it everywhere it occurs, or more to the point, everyhwere it is advantageous to EPA and Obama.

     

    Press leak in UK Guardian today points to secret agreement at the Climate sunmmit to punish third world [...]

    Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:01pm EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • New World Order

    Free State Blogs

    Obama says he’ll go to Hopenchangehan.

     

    EPA calls CO2 a pollutant and invokes its power to regulate it everywhere it occurs, or more to the point, everyhwere it is advantageous to EPA and Obama.

     

    Press leak in UK Guardian today points to secret agreement at the Climate sunmmit to punish third world [...]

    Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:01pm EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Premeditation

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    Prior to September 25th 2009 Nashua Rep Brian Poznanski (D-Budweiser) filed an  LSR (2010-H-2523-R) that would have allowed underage drinkers to seek medical help without fear of prosecution for breaking the State laws on alcohol.  So what exactly does "allowing underage drinkers to seek medical help without fear of prosecution" really mean?  [...]

    Posted: December 06, 2009, 2:03pm EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Stop This Crazy Thing

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    The democrats have made their "next move" in the fiscal water boarding of New Hampshire.  LLC profits used as compensation will now be taxed like dividends.  On the face of it we are asked to see it as a fair and equitable change to place all businesses on the same playing field [...]

    Posted: December 06, 2009, 9:10am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Stop This Crazy Thing

    Free State Blogs

     

    The democrats have made their "next move" in the fiscal water boarding of New Hampshire.  LLC profits used as compensation will now be taxed like dividends.  On the face of it we are asked to see it as a fair and equitable change to place all businesses on the same playing field [...]

    Posted: December 06, 2009, 9:10am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Stop This Crazy Thing

    Free State Blogs

     

    The democrats have made their "next move" in the fiscal water boarding of New Hampshire.  LLC profits used as compensation will now be taxed like dividends.  On the face of it we are asked to see it as a fair and equitable change to place all businesses on the same playing field [...]

    Posted: December 06, 2009, 9:10am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Piltdown Warming

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    Back in 1908  Charles Dawson and a few others, claimed to have found the missing link.  A skull that would solve an anthropological problem.  And for the better part of forty years, this "discovery" (in one way or another) drove our cultural and scientific understanding of the evolution of mankind. 

    There were skeptics, [...]

    Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:39am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Piltdown Warming

    Free State Blogs

     

    Back in 1908  Charles Dawson and a few others, claimed to have found the missing link.  A skull that would solve an anthropological problem.  And for the better part of forty years, this "discovery" (in one way or another) drove our cultural and scientific understanding of the evolution of mankind. 

    There were skeptics, [...]

    Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:39am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Thursday Morning Musings 12-3-09

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    Impeached perjurer and serial sex offender William Jefferson Clinton was in town yesterday.  Democrats of every sexual orientation smiled, and applauded, and glowed, hanging on his every word.  I think that says a lot about the Democrat party in New Hampshire.

      

    Warming is still cooling, despite new evidence that hiding [...]

    Posted: December 03, 2009, 8:24am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Role Model

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    Not one but two Poznanaski NHDP recruitment seminars were broken up this weekend.  A few dozen minors were caught drinking in Bedford, and close to another dozen in Raymond over the weekend.  Seems that the House leadership letting an underage  State legislator off the hook for violating state law in [...]

    Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:06am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Role Model

    Free State Blogs

     

    Not one but two Poznanaski NHDP recruitment seminars were broken up this weekend.  A few dozen minors were caught drinking in Bedford, and close to another dozen in Raymond over the weekend.  Seems that the House leadership letting an underage  State legislator off the hook for violating state law in [...]

    Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:06am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • S "CHIP Shot"

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    I’ve been laying off Fred Morse for the better part of year mostly because he makes it too easy.  Fred is Merrimack’s token socialist wordsmith.  Fred writes letters to the editor (of every paper on God’s still-barely--green earth--evil oil, EVIL!) as often as the editors will let him.  While I [...]

    Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:53pm EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • S "CHIP Shot"

    Free State Blogs

     

    I’ve been laying off Fred Morse for the better part of year mostly because he makes it too easy.  Fred is Merrimack’s token socialist wordsmith.  Fred writes letters to the editor (of every paper on God’s still-barely--green earth--evil oil, EVIL!) as often as the editors will let him.  While I [...]

    Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:53pm EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • F - Again- Istan

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    Hints of a 'War Tax' and comical rumors of attention deficit disorder, (that's where people hear Obama say they are going to focus on deficit reduction but no one pays any attention) tell us exactly what the plan is for Afghanistan.  Cutting troop levels to save American lives (lives lost [...]

    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:15am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • F - Again- Istan

    Free State Blogs

     

    Hints of a 'War Tax' and comical rumors of attention deficit disorder, (that's where people hear Obama say they are going to focus on deficit reduction but no one pays any attention) tell us exactly what the plan is for Afghanistan.  Cutting troop levels to save American lives (lives lost [...]

    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:15am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Putting The 'Ho' In Hodes

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    Mo Baxley made a sound bite stab last week at connecting every Republican in the state and chastising anyone who didn't stand up to her expectations of them.   I wonder if she feels the same way about liberal progressives?

    Take the SEIU for example.  They are all about Obama's vision for America because it's [...]

    Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:19pm EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Another Growth Killer in the NH House

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    The New Hampshire Women’s lobby wants’ your government to mandate sick pay.  State rep John Knowles of Hudson agrees, according to this morning’s UL, claiming that “sometimes government does things for the benefit of all people…”  Nikki Murphy from the New Hampshire Women’s lobby says studies show that employers save [...]

    Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:29am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Overlooked?

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    The Fox news flap is lingering in my memory.   I''m trying to reconcile how the White House, which continues to insist it is interested in ideas and opinions "from all sides" can justify calling a news channel an extension of the Republican party--as if this is a bad thing--and still [...]

    Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:58am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Overlooked?

    Free State Blogs

     

    The Fox news flap is lingering in my memory.   I''m trying to reconcile how the White House, which continues to insist it is interested in ideas and opinions "from all sides" can justify calling a news channel an extension of the Republican party--as if this is a bad thing--and still [...]

    Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:58am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Paying For NH Power

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    At the end of July 2009 PSNH instituted a rate increase of roughly 10.3%.  It was the first major increase since the beginning of the year and reflects (according to PSNH) 2008 Ice storm recovery costs and other costs of doing business.  What is more important is that PSNH has [...]

    Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:15am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald
  • Driving Reign

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    Some “lifestyle” choices are superior to others and your government is more than willing to tell you which ones it plans to advance by writ of law.  Case in point, congressman James Oberstar D-MN, has offered up the Surface Transportation Authorization act (STAA).  STAA is a wet spot on the [...]

    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:59am EST
    by Steve Mac Donald

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