Bud Martin is a good, kind man. He is very well liked and there is no one who can argue effectively against his years of dedication to the people of New Hampshire. Yet, as the Democratic nominee for the open District 3 State Senate race he lost, and he lost [...]
"The following appeard as a column in the Conway Daily Sun this past Saturday, April 18, 2009.
FYI - The Sun endorsed Jeb Bradley today."
The house democrats have sent their budget (HB 1) to the Senate. Included in that bill is a provision which, if passed by the upper chamber and [...]
There are dreams
there is hope
there remains indescribable beauty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnmbJzH93NU
[...]
and don't yah come back no more, no more....
During the last election cycle both Democrats and Republicans worked hard to elect members of their respective parties to seats in the New Hampshire House. Well nothing wrong with that - its the nature of this business.
After working as hard as they' [...]
...the good Lord only knows. It seems just like the other day, I was down at the legion shooting them tables and generally not worrying much about what people had to say. The cue ball of late has been rolling good and for me at this point in time there [...]
MUCH ESTEEMED CITIZENS: In sundry times men of goodwill have been compelled by certain events which necessitate actions in both words and deeds on behalf of the greater community of the stations and classes of men. These particular times of befuddlement of the pecuniary decisions of officials, holding seats of [...]
Fire for gain (ignoring global warming warnings)*
Just gasp for some fresh air and you will know that it’s gone
Neighbor stuff they make will put an end to you
I got up this morning singing loud this sad song
So [...]
According to zFacts.com the U.S. Department of Energy is pushing for $150 Billion for the development of a new generation of nuclear WEAPONS.
This much spending on an expansion of the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet is a confusing message to the rest of the world. At the [...]
The Red Jacket Mountain View Resort in Conway has demonstrated an extremely poor example to the young people of the Mount Washington Valley and beyond as it pertains to obeying the laws of our state and of our community.
On Tuesday their attorney admitted that the Red Jacket was not [...]
An open letter
To his Excellency Governor, John H. Lunch and to the members of the N.H. General Court,
I have a response to the Legislative Budget Assistant’s office who has recommended that the NH Department of Fish and Game attempt to collect fees from hikers and birdwatchers and it is this, [...]
Reports that statewide the local property taxpayers will bear the brunt of state government mismanagement is bothersome – to say the least. Here is yet another example of how poorly state government plans to do its job.
Case in point; Promised medicaid payments, that will not be realized by the ten county [...]
(A song parody in opposition to HB 503, and HB 1621 “The Bottle Bill”, with a comment that not all environmental ideas are green, but we can color these ideas as “greenback”)
Daaah, da-da-da-da-dah. Da-da-da, daaah
Da-dah, dadle-laah, dee-da
da- daaah, dadle-laah
(note to guitarist, add the wah-wah pedal)
Whow, wah, wah, wah, [...]
When considering why Hillary Clinton beat not only Barack Obama, but the so-called political pundits and their voodoo science polling, I am certain of two things;
First. Even though Bill Shaheen stepped down from his official position with the Clinton campaign, the Senator from New York would not have won - [...]
In mid-December I wrote a column I called “What happens in Iowa stays in Iowa”. In it I predicted that Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee would win the Democratic and Republican caucuses respectively. I was right. I was also right in my observation that in most cases past winners [...]
As reported in the Conway Daily Sun
'Enough is enough': Bypass frustrations have selectmen again considering litigation
Casey Conley
CONWAY—Following a grim assessment on the future of the Conway bypass from state Rep. Tom Buco, D-Conway, last month, selectmen inched closer to settling the matter in court.
"There are three [...]
That’s right - according to John Nichols writing the Online Beat for The Nation, New Hampshire’s very own radio host Arnie Arnesen is the Most Valuable Progressive for their local radio category. Here is an excerpt;
"ARNIE ARNESEN is the New Hampshire radio host all the candidates want to [...]
Thanks to some fine research on the part of frequent NH Insider commenter Trogdor readers can check out this anti-Al Gore ad that was produced by the RNC in 2000. [youtube.com]
Apparently, Mitt Romney has been reading up on the Rat Attack Tactic as one that may be [...]
In one week all the Presidential candidates and their campaigns will exit en masse from the Granite State. On Monday January 7, 2008 at the University of Oklahoma, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (who once was a Republican, then a Democrat and now an Independent) will be convening a [...]
Apparently the Sunshine State is better suited for Rudy Guliani. So much so he does not even have the common decency to let New Hampshire voters know that he cancelled an event.
Voters in the Mount Washington Valley were literally left out in the cold by Rudy's campaign. Those who made the [...]
I do my best to avoid watching the television ads of any presidential aspirants. However, Saturday night, as I watched the New England Patriots defeat the New York Giants, I was not able to avoid too many of them. Mitt Romney had the most. The word is he is spending [...]
On January 8th there are two Presidential primaries, both are in New Hampshire. One is for the Democrats the other is for the Republicans.
Those voting in the former should cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton. She has the proven experience and skills. Yet, more importantly Clinton’s positions on the [...]
New Hampshire began holding our modern day Presidential Primaries in 1952. Each of the following Presidents who eventually went to, or were returned to, the White House were first victorious in the Granite State; 1952, Ike; 1956, Ike; 1960, JFK; 1964, LBJ; 1968. Nixon; 1972, Nixon; 1976, Carter; 1980, Reagan; [...]
The Masked Pollster called me again to give me the results of his latest New Hampshire First in the Nation Presidential Primary Poll. As usual, his poll is based on spending time talking with actual voters in order to gain a sense of who will be the top three vote getters from each major [...]
The Saco River Aquifer, which passes through the Mount Washington Valley, extends to Fryeburg Maine. This past year the town of Conway and the state of New Hampshire had the opportunity to protect this important and precious source of drinking water from exploitation for generations to come. All we needed [...]
When all the experts , decision-makers and politicians, get together and try to solve our State's facade of a 10 Year Highway Plan, They should take the following into consideration.
When the GOP of NH nominated John E. Sununu over incumbent U.S. Senator Bob Smith in 2002 they threw away a [...]
This is for the life in a bifurcated state file.
Eight Governors later and still no Conway By-Pass. Broken promises, expensive delays and a bunch of "Yah buts and except fors." I will stop short (make that just short) of saying, "the state lied."
Top of the fold, front page lead [...]
(Dear Readers, This will be the only BLOG I will be positing this week. It was my column this past week-end. It was published in the Conway Daily Sun, on Saturday, November 17th. That is why the names of the women in our community may not be familiar to you. [...]
Vice-President Richard Bruce Cheney and The Middle East
“ Nature itself is fundamentally aristocratic…(the) purpose of the state is only a means to an end (to) promote the victory of the better and the stronger and to demand the submission of the weaker .”- Adolph Hitler
I admit it, other [...]
On any given day, week, month or year events happened that can be described as being good, bad or ugly. For the week ending November 10, 2007 I have selected three local, state and national offerings.
The Good - A resolution by the town of Conway in support of Veterans [...]
Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852-1925) and World War I
Comparative history often reminds us of the old saw, first spoken by poet and philosopher George Santayana, “ Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.”
Less then 100 years ago, June 28, 1914, Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria was gunned down [...]
Even though we are a part of the American nation, and in New Hampshire we hold the first in the nation Presidential Primary, all the presidential campaigning hoopla is taking a backseat to a much more pressing matter – the Boston Red Sox versus the Colorado Rockies.
As an important part [...]
(This is for the next idiot that should ever speak the words “My Government right or wrong.”)
Before you read my comments, please read this account from CNN.com.
Republicans smarten up. Your Middle Eastern policy is disgraceful.
Democrats stop being so damn pragmatic. You have become a party of broken promises. [...]
(It so happens each year when autumn leaves begin to fall in New Hampshire and as winter approaches I tend to wax philosophical. Please bear with me.)
When a person endeavors to build an argument by depending on the authority of any religious organization, institution, political party, or government, then that person [...]
Dateline: October 9, 2007, Dearborn Michigan,
Republican Presidential Debates
CHRIS MATTHEWS; “Do you think Unions are good for America?
MITT ROMNEY, “ With regards to unions overall, there are some good ones and some not so good. The good ones are those that say how can we do a better and better [...]
The Masked Pollster called me to give me the results of his latest New Hampshire First in the Nation Presidential Primary Poll. His poll is based on spending time talking with actual voters in order to gain a sense of who will be the top three vote getters from each major party. He boasts [...]
In response to my blog entitled, "Sununu – We didn’t just fall off the turnip truck" a person who identified themselves as “Prolife” stated that my logic was flawed. He/She went on to make this claim, “Any true conservative with a sense of morality could not vote for someone [...]
Sickening, aggravating, depressing. Don’t you understand what I’m trying to say?*
The American people would be fools, damn fools if we do not hold the Democrats in Congress responsible for breaking faith with America. The Democrat’s victories in the 2006 elections were the result of their running on a campaign to [...]
I was born in Conway the winter of the first modern New Hampshire Presidential Primary. Every four years throughout my life I have been witness to a parade of presidential candidates. I have involved myself in the campaigns of a few of them. The one thing that I can never [...]
No one questions the fact that John E. Sununu is an intelligent man. Hey it is part of his gene pool. As Governor of New Hampshire and as #41’s White House Chief of staff, how many times did, “Daddy” John H. Sununu, see to it that we all knew “he [...]
“Winning is not a sometime thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” - Vince Lombardi
My wife and I are blessed with four children, two [...]
(the man being President George W. Bush)
"BAGHDAD — American officials scrambled to head off a potential crisis Monday after irate Iraqi [...]
Well, he’s gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gonecrying won’t bring him back the faster Shaheen fliesthe more Sununu criesShaheen is on the right track.
(one more [...]
…to the United States Senate. When I consider the times in our nations past when our state has been called on to do our best and provide our best, we have done so.
Much is said about John Hancock, who as the President of the 2nd Continental Congress affixed his [...]
September 14, 2007, a new law protecting workers and construction-sector businesses that follow the law from those who have had unfair advantage by avoiding the law will begin. Today the provisions of HB 471, relative to workers’ compensation compliance will become part of the law of the land.
Most of us [...]
The neocons control the Republican Party and because of that we are in this mess in Iraq. Although everything about necons discuss me, the fact that most traditional Goldwater/Reagan Republicans operatives have rolled over like a bunch of whining pups discusses me even more.
The one Republican Presidential candidate who is [...]
Whether or not the New England Patriots cheated in their season opener against the New York Jets will become clearer as the days go on. Already earlier this year, Michael Vick became the bellwether that the NFL is going to the dogs.
As a writer I have sometimes found the temptation [...]
Fred Thompson.
My 84 year old mother mentioned she thought you might make a good President. I told her how you refuse to address the North American Union; the Security, Prosperity Partnership (SPP) America has with Canada and Mexico; Atlantica; the NAFTA Superhighway; and abandoning the American dollar in favor of [...]
Paul Hodes (D, CD-2, NH) hit the ground running immediately following his election and he is quickly becoming one of the best examples that the United State’s House of Representatives is indeed the chamber of the United States Congress that keeps the interest of the people in mind in its [...]
Alright, you have played this rock star candidate thing long enough. We are tired of hearing you boast on how you were always against the war in Iraq. Well guess what, so was I. That doesn’t qualify me to be President. You were opposed to it? Good. What did you [...]
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If you don't believe that the race for US Senate is going to be hotly contested, just witness the recent email exchange.
From: Carol Stansell
Hi all,
We have just learned that Senator John Sununu will be visiting The Tech Village this Thursday, August 23rd, after the Ribbon Cutting for [...]
More and more I hear people expressing sincere concerns about the possibility of the President declaring a state of Martial Law.
In order for this to happen certain conditions need to be instituted. These conditions are defined under Executive Orders made by the President.
Here is one every American citizen should review;
This fall when I return to Pblogging I will be writing considerably about some of the very real environmental threats on the planet Earth. It comes as no surprise that, like most issues, these threats are yet another example of what happens when money and consciences meet. However, this threat can be best described [...]
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It wll teak [...]
An observation from the Grassy Knoll: The myth of "Atlantis" meets the reality of "Atlantica."
While I continue to enjoy these dog days of summer away from blogging, I realize time waits for no man. With his permission, I am posting the following column that was written by Arnie Alpert who [...]
Remember Interstate -35 is the corridor of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Security, Prosperity and Partnership of North America (SPPNA) supported North American Union (NAU) concept of the proposed NAFTA Superhighway that will be the American bifurcated tri-lateral trade route reaching from Mexico, through the U.S.A, to Canada.
The star Sirius is known as the “Dog Star”. It is the brightest star in the night sky. It is also in the constellation “Canis Major” (Big Dog). Both Canis Major and Sirus are best visible in the winter night sky.
In the summer Sirius (meaning scorching) rises and sets with [...]
I have to be careful whenever a call to action reaches my ears. I have an inane tendency to involve myself in every noble cause that heads my way. Thank God, I am finding it is easier for me to say “no” when asked to participate. I am now at [...]
To all of the Republican candidates for President,
I am still waiting. (actually the American people are waiting). Other then Congressman, Ron Paul, not one of you has taken an official position on the NAFTA superhighway system; the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPPNA); the possibility of the American [...]
Next month, August 20th and 21st, the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPPNA) will hold its third tri-lateral summit meeting. This time American President George W. Bush and Mexican President, Felipe CalderĂłn will meet with Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper in Montebello, Quebec. The lack of attention the [...]
Political blogging is different then other blogging, it is a category unto itself. I am among a growing number of participants in the blogosphere who are busy doing what I call writing PBLOGs (Political weB LOG s). Here not only ideas are exchanged, but inside information as well. Through comments [...]
Hey you high paid Republican Presidential Campaign staffers. Yes you. You know who you are, start paying attention and start doing your job.
Remember the old saw, “In politics, perception is reality.” America’s voters and New Hampshire voters are becoming increasingly aware of the threat of the NAFTA generated Superhighway System [...]
PROLOGUE: The following is based on my observations. I pray that someone may present a reliable demonstrative refutation. Should that happen, my rejoicing would be boundless as hope again rises within my soul knowing my sincerest dreams for the continued and expansive freedoms of men and women have not been [...]
Ask any American in what state was Paris Hilton sent to jail and many of them will answer correctly. California.
Ask any American in what state was Sirhan Sirhan sent to prison and many of them will answer. Who? (The answer is also California)
A few years ago a study by [...]
Notice to the Citizens of the sovereign American states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and up-sate New York. As well aux citoyens des provinces Canadiennes d'Ile d'Edward de Prince, Scotia de Nova, uTerre-Neuve, Nouveaux Bruncwick et Québécois.
The corporate leaders of the United States of America, Canada and Mexico are pleased [...]
Subtitle; A 21st Century Adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”*
Certainly Nestle, the world’s largest food corporation, is not alone in the tremendously profitable bottled water business. They are not the only gargantuan corporation busy going about taking our all important public resource - water.
Although [...]
There is no doubt that the formation of the North American Union (NAU) has advanced through the planning stage and is alarmingly close to becoming a reality. Complete with the elimination of America’s borders with both Canada and Mexico, its own currency (the AMERO) that would replace the American dollar, [...]
Well the deeper I go the thicker it gets. I have heard increasingly from those who promote what some call a “conspiracy theory” that will end our way of life as Americans.
In order to find counterbalance to those who claim the sovereignty of the United States of America is on [...]
The emergence of the North American Union may be the reason for the Bush administration’s support of the NAFTA super highway.
The North American Super Corridor Coalition; the multiple efforts on the part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) ; and a very real plan [...]
Readers, this piece is NOTabout me. - Mark
The Lonely Champion
As a prolog to the poem, “The Thin Red Line.”
For years he has stood and fought for the underdog, the neglected and those wronged by certain forces so many different times, on so many different matters that he long ago [...]
I will admit to being a little slow on the uptake – but is anyone else concerned, wondering, or otherwise feel like the U.S.A. may be on the verge of loosing our status as a sovereign nation?
Even thought its is probably old news, I suspect that am not the only [...]
The following is perhaps a more direct chastisement to the New Hampshire legislature then the one offered by Dave Jarvis' in his piece untitled, Bravo Democrats
The repeal of the parental notification law, was not the New Hampshire Legislature’s finest moment of the 2007 session. Parental notification should never be [...]
Fellow NH Insider, Richard Barnes wrote an excellent piece entitled, “Happy Independence Day!” It inspired me to write the following;
On the 4th of July we celebrate the historic occasion when 56 men joined in one accord to make a single-minded declaration. A declaration history had never recorded before [...]
Currently the media attention given to the sad, tragic, unbelievable, and even frightening deaths of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) superstar Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy and their seven year old son Danny is sufficient enough that there is no need for me to throw in my two [...]
Leave aside for a moment the declaration by Dick Cheney that he is the fourth branch of our county’s government. Forget, if you can, episodes such as the shot-gun shooting of his lawyer “friend”, or the perjury conviction of his closest aide “Scotter” Libby.
Try not to think about the [...]
According to a recent study by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, New England has the highest increase in income disparity in the nation. In the last decade, household average real income declined for the lowest income families. “Income disparity increased in New England more than [...]
Reasonable people will resist the temptation to judge Republican Presidential hopeful, Rudy Giuliani guilty by association over the recent news that his campaign’s South Carolina state chairman, South Carolina State Treasurer, Thomas Ravenel (rav-uh-NEL') has been indicted on federal cocaine charges (intent to distribute).
Even though the indictment of [...]
We should not just draft Governor Jeanne Shaheen to run for the United States Senate against incumbent John E. Sununu; we should elect Jeanne Shaheen to Represent New Hampshire in the United State’s Senate. Not only will we get a good, honest Senator who processes superior integrity, we will be [...]
“Evolution, revolution, gun control, sound of soul,
Shooting rockets to the moon, kids growing up too soon.
Politicians say more taxes will solve everything.
And the band played on.”*
Do you know that certain chapters in the Old Testament Psalms are songs. They are meant to be sung. In many instances a chapter will [...]
I did not go to the Democratic Presidential Debates Sunday night. In fact I did not even attempt to. The main reason is I do not like the concept of being a prop for the candidates, CNN, WMUR or the Union Leader. Debate time in NH Presidential campaigning is “SHOW [...]
In the state of New Hampshire an employer can mandate to any person in their employ that they will attend a lecture designed to inculcate them to the “evils” of belonging to a collective bargaining unit. Some owners of businesses (not all) may feel they need to use such un-American [...]
I am told if for some strange reason should a frog finds itsef suddenly in a hot fry pan it will quickly leap out. Yet, if the frog is placed in a room temperature fry pan and the heat is slowly turnd up until it is hot, the frog will [...]
Think of it – no job in America for Americans without a federal permit.
Have the borders of our great nation become so penetrable that no acceptable modern immigration law is possible? Has employment of workers, gun ownership, privacy rights along with our sacred rights of life, liberty and the [...]
Two hundred thirty one years ago the world saw the birth of America. A nation formed to secure the blessings of liberty, a nation endowed by God with unalienable rights, and a nation whose charge is to establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense and promote the general [...]
From 1580 to 1670 a giant of a man, the Indian Chief, Passaconaway lived in the Granite State. In 1627 he established the Penacook Confederacy of Indian tribes. He was well-received by indigenous people and settlers alike. He was a man of peace. Not so his grandson Kancamaugus*, (born circa [...]
First the loser -
With 75% George W. Bush has been chosen as the "Worse President in American History " by those who responded to MHSPC #1.
The winners of the prizes.
Bill Marvel wins both first and second prize, which is a total of 3 weeks in Plains, Georgia. Read his comments [...]
With apologies to Vince McMahon and the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment)
What a tag-team match-up
Police and Firefighters vs. Teachers and State/Municipal Workers .
The New Hampshire retirement system crisis is reaching critical mass. Whatever the legislature does it will have a significant negative impact on local municipal and school budgets and [...]
“I will not move my army without onions!" – Ulysses S. Grant.
I am told the high water content that preserves a spring/summer fresh onion’s sweetness is also the reason why its’ protective layer of skin is so very thin.
It often seems as though the richness of individual liberty is akin [...]
(First posted December 6, 2006.)
It did not take long for former N.H. House Representative Howard “Crow” Dickinson (R-Conway) to get back at it. After loosing the House seat he held for 32 years Crow returned to public service this week as an appointed [...]
“..for they shall be called the children of God.” (Gospel of Matthew 5:9 KJV)
Let me see if I get this right. Bill Shaheen, who is supporting Senator Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House (which means she will most likely win the New Hampshire First-in the- Nation Presidential primary), is [...]
America’s military involvement in World War II lasted 1,346 days. December 7, 1941 (Pearl Harbor) – August 14, 1945 (V-J Day)
As of March 19, 2007, America’s military involvement in Iraq has lasted 1,464 days and counting. March 20, 2003 (coalition invasion of Iraq) to ?????????
1,464 days in Iraq
1,346 days in [...]
Forgive me if this sounds silly, but after 10 long and grueling years there is still no agreed on definition as to what constitutes an education that is adequate.
Americans have attending schools and universities since before 1776. In 1980 Congress created the Federal Department of Education. The New Hampshire [...]
The accusations of immorality from those who oppose the legalization of gay marriage and the name calling by those who support its passage is perhaps a good indication why Governor John Lynch opposes gay marriage but supports providing health care benefits to state-workers’ same-sex partners. His Excellency may sense there [...]
Although there is certainly a long ways to go before any ballots are cast in the New Hampshire Democratic Presidential Primary, make no mistake about it, after Saturday evening Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) will be a very difficult candidate for any Presidential aspirant to defeat.
Clinton was masterful as she used [...]
Based on some of the comments posted in response to my blog entitled A sad waste of time it is apparent I was not clear. So, I will try again.
First of all, I went to the General Court’s Web site and I could not find the text or the LSR/Bill [...]
NH Insider blogger, Representative Jim Splaine wrote a provocative blog on February 28th entitled, Defining “Victory” In Iraq in Our Terms . I submitted a comment with the promise to “expound” in a future blog. What follows is how I feel about Splaine’s “safe bet” Iraq Resolution that will [...]
