I recently embarked on a fact finding mission to Vermont. I wanted to learn for myself if the state is as liberal as the rest of the country feels it is. I spoke with a cross section of citizens. Subjects, ranged from the Burlington judge who suspended a child molester’s sentence, to the town of Killington’s attempt to succeed from the state. Also, I couldn’t resist asking about my favorite Vermonter, “screaming” Howard Dean.
A retired school teacher's view on Judge Cashman; “He said he no longer believes in “punishment”, but feels instead “rehabilitation” should be the road traveled... Since a lot of people in the state seem to disagree, and since Judges are elected and re-appointed by the Legislature every few years, Cashman will simply no be re-affirmed and fade into retirement.”
A Killington shop owner's view on the town's attempt to succeed and become part of New Hampshire; “This is an attempt to bring Killington’s perceived tax problems to the attention of the Legislature.” “That’s all and nothing more.” “It will never happen.”
A Rutland waitress on Howard Dean; “ He was a little more moderate when he was Governor.” “I don’t understand why, but he seems to have moved further to the left since his run for the presidency.”
I realize these are not very enlightening statements, however, Vermonters are reluctant to speak about politics to outsiders by nature. Given the fact that it had been raining all week shutting down the ski slopes didn’t help my cause. Everyone was in a bad mood.
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There is a New York Times story posted on Drudge that says with the mid term elections coming up Democrats are worried that they are “failing to exploit GOP troubles.” Both far left Senators “Bluto and Otter” (Kennedy and Kerry) along with former Vice President AlGore, Senators Reid and Boxer, all feel that the time is ripe to find their collective voices and take back the House and Senate this year.
The problem, In My Humble Opinion, is that the Democrats have not only no message, no solutions, no credible leaders, but are also so far to the left of any semblance of mainstream America that they will probably loose a few more seats in November.
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While writing this my T.V. is on and I’m watching a bunch of radical Muslims riot because of a cartoon. People are being killed. I hope there isn’t anyone left in the world who feels we should just standby and allow Iran, or any other Muslim controlled nation, to become a nuclear power.
2.12.2006
2.07.2006
Charlatan Gets Spanked In A Two Hundred Year Old Tradition
-- by Ed Naile
Logan Darrow Clements, purveyor of “FreeLoaderMedia,” just finished leading his lemming march over the cliffs of Weare, NH in a failed from the beginning effort to send a message to US Supreme Court Justice David Souter for his anti-property rights vote in the US Supreme Court Kelo Decision. The message was and REMAINS: Live by the laws you create.
Another message is: Don't send an ego-maniacal media hog to do what a couple vigorous high school seniors could have done with a voter checklist and some cell phones.
When Logan Darrow Clements isn't engaged in other personal fantasies like running for Governor of California, he claims to run a media consulting business. In this case, he ran it like he was hell-bent on losing. Logan Darrow Clements set the anti-eminent domain issue back as far as he possibly could. And the NH press are grateful. You can see it in their “the voters have spoken” editorials the Monday after the debacle.
Logan Darrow Clements should be on David Souter's Christmas list from now on because without Logan Darrow Clements running around threatening lawsuits for which he has no money to pay, or “rallying the troops” of people who cannot vote in Weare, or getting hate mail directed at local officials as though they were to blame for Souter, a legitimate petition to take Souter's house could have passed. It only lost by less than 40 votes. Here is what really happened. At a Senate Bill 2 deliberative session (RSA 40:13) activists and special interests are predominantly who shows up. That was the case in Weare. Logan Darrow Clements had some of his out of town “helpers” show up for good measure to help sink the vote as well, just in case Weare voters didn't get the “message” that this was a non-resident generated event.
At any deliberative session the supporters of or opponents to any warrant article try to gut the wording of the warrant article they oppose so that when it appears before all the voters at the annual meeting on a paper ballot in the secrecy of the polling booth the issue is for all intents and purposes, “pre-defeated.”
The Souter supporters know that if a warrant article to take Souter's house winds up on a town meeting ballot it will be passed overwhelmingly because the general voting public shows up on that day en mass. That is what happened to the “Lost Liberty Hotel” hodge-podge Clements was selling. It was doomed from the start because Clements was only interested in one thing; publicity for himself.
As long as Souter is on the bench and eminent domain is an issue, a warrant article to take his house should be on every ballot.
This was a fiasco from the start. Next year if 40 more voters show up and and a properly worded, petitioned warrant article is on the ballot it could be quite interesting.
Logan Darrow Clements, purveyor of “FreeLoaderMedia,” just finished leading his lemming march over the cliffs of Weare, NH in a failed from the beginning effort to send a message to US Supreme Court Justice David Souter for his anti-property rights vote in the US Supreme Court Kelo Decision. The message was and REMAINS: Live by the laws you create.
Another message is: Don't send an ego-maniacal media hog to do what a couple vigorous high school seniors could have done with a voter checklist and some cell phones.
When Logan Darrow Clements isn't engaged in other personal fantasies like running for Governor of California, he claims to run a media consulting business. In this case, he ran it like he was hell-bent on losing. Logan Darrow Clements set the anti-eminent domain issue back as far as he possibly could. And the NH press are grateful. You can see it in their “the voters have spoken” editorials the Monday after the debacle.
Logan Darrow Clements should be on David Souter's Christmas list from now on because without Logan Darrow Clements running around threatening lawsuits for which he has no money to pay, or “rallying the troops” of people who cannot vote in Weare, or getting hate mail directed at local officials as though they were to blame for Souter, a legitimate petition to take Souter's house could have passed. It only lost by less than 40 votes. Here is what really happened. At a Senate Bill 2 deliberative session (RSA 40:13) activists and special interests are predominantly who shows up. That was the case in Weare. Logan Darrow Clements had some of his out of town “helpers” show up for good measure to help sink the vote as well, just in case Weare voters didn't get the “message” that this was a non-resident generated event.
At any deliberative session the supporters of or opponents to any warrant article try to gut the wording of the warrant article they oppose so that when it appears before all the voters at the annual meeting on a paper ballot in the secrecy of the polling booth the issue is for all intents and purposes, “pre-defeated.”
The Souter supporters know that if a warrant article to take Souter's house winds up on a town meeting ballot it will be passed overwhelmingly because the general voting public shows up on that day en mass. That is what happened to the “Lost Liberty Hotel” hodge-podge Clements was selling. It was doomed from the start because Clements was only interested in one thing; publicity for himself.
As long as Souter is on the bench and eminent domain is an issue, a warrant article to take his house should be on every ballot.
This was a fiasco from the start. Next year if 40 more voters show up and and a properly worded, petitioned warrant article is on the ballot it could be quite interesting.
2.02.2006
Ruminations
---By Ron Dupuis
In My Humble Opinion here is what’s going to happen in Palestine. Hamas will disassociate itself with terrorism and form a new government. The terrorist army it was born of will lay down its weapons, briefly. When U.S. foreign aid to the tune of 250 million continues to flow into their coffers, a new organization called SHAMAS, or FAMAS, or JAMAS, will suddenly emerge claiming to be an independent group. Their sole purpose will be the total destruction of Israel. Kind of like the I.R.A. with Keffiyeh’s on their heads. Has anyone seen Gerry Adams lately?
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Reports are being generated from our southern border that Mexican military are assisting illegals AND drug smuggler by crossing into Texas and Arizona. This has happen once before in our history. It was resolved by President Wilson who abandoned his program of “watchful waiting” and sent Gen. “Black Jack” Pershing and our own military force to protect our citizens. I'm sure we can find another "Black" Jack Pershing among our General staff, the problem is finding another Commander in Chief with the courage of Wilson.
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NAACP Chairman and civil rights activist “Judas” Bond, er.. I mean Julian Bond, in a speech at Fayetteville State University, referred to the Republican Party as Nazi’s. Mr. Bond is an intelligent, well educated man and I’m sure he is aware that is was a Republican, Lincoln, who pushed and signed the Emancipation Proclamation, it was a Republican, Sen. Everett Dirkson who is credited with getting the civil rights act through Congress and signed into Law, and most importantly, it was a registered Republican, Martin Luther King, who was the driving force behind the civil rights movement of the sixties.
In fact, the more I read of Bonds hateful, virulent anti Republican speech, the more I am reminded of another lying, manipulative orator; Joseph Goebbels.
Who’s the Nazi now?
In My Humble Opinion here is what’s going to happen in Palestine. Hamas will disassociate itself with terrorism and form a new government. The terrorist army it was born of will lay down its weapons, briefly. When U.S. foreign aid to the tune of 250 million continues to flow into their coffers, a new organization called SHAMAS, or FAMAS, or JAMAS, will suddenly emerge claiming to be an independent group. Their sole purpose will be the total destruction of Israel. Kind of like the I.R.A. with Keffiyeh’s on their heads. Has anyone seen Gerry Adams lately?
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Reports are being generated from our southern border that Mexican military are assisting illegals AND drug smuggler by crossing into Texas and Arizona. This has happen once before in our history. It was resolved by President Wilson who abandoned his program of “watchful waiting” and sent Gen. “Black Jack” Pershing and our own military force to protect our citizens. I'm sure we can find another "Black" Jack Pershing among our General staff, the problem is finding another Commander in Chief with the courage of Wilson.
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NAACP Chairman and civil rights activist “Judas” Bond, er.. I mean Julian Bond, in a speech at Fayetteville State University, referred to the Republican Party as Nazi’s. Mr. Bond is an intelligent, well educated man and I’m sure he is aware that is was a Republican, Lincoln, who pushed and signed the Emancipation Proclamation, it was a Republican, Sen. Everett Dirkson who is credited with getting the civil rights act through Congress and signed into Law, and most importantly, it was a registered Republican, Martin Luther King, who was the driving force behind the civil rights movement of the sixties.
In fact, the more I read of Bonds hateful, virulent anti Republican speech, the more I am reminded of another lying, manipulative orator; Joseph Goebbels.
Who’s the Nazi now?
The Telegram, R.I.P.
---by Micheal
The "email" of the 1800s is finally gone. Western Union -- a name which means telegram to folks over 40 -- announced that it has discontinued its telegraph service. No more telegrams. A part of me feels a twinge of nostalgia at the passing. The telegram had been a part of our cultural heritage. It was, in the days before cell phones and Blackberries, how important information was delivered.
Telegrams were fast. Letters could take many weeks. The Pony Express was faster than regular mail, but it was just snail mail with turbochargers. The mystique of speed led one riverboat owner in 1853 to name his Ohio River side-wheeler "Telegraph". The very image of modern high-tech speed, for its day.
After speed, came the mystique of importance. A message too important and time-sensitive to wait for snail mail went as a telegram. Phone calls were too ephemeral and casual.
Families, during the war, dreaded the sight of a telegram delivery man. The government used telegrams to deliver the sad news of a fallen soldier. Self-important business men in the 1920s and 30s enjoyed having a courier interrupt their social flufferies. They were obviously very important men to be interrupted with such important news. (yeah, whatever)
All of that history and usage built up a cache of glamor and importance for the telegram, even though all it was really doing was delivering some word content faster than other available means. I think it's the cache we'll miss. Email has built up a little cache in our modern culture, as evidenced in the Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan movie "You've Got Mail" (1998). Blackberries (if they survive the legal ax) and cellphones have already taken over as the badge of (self)importance for business types.
But, let's not get too misty eyed over the departure of the telegram. Aside from its cache and mystique, it was at its heart, a medium for delivering a message. I'm sure some folks lamented the last run of the Pony Express, or the last clipper ship of mail bound to 'round the horn' for the opposite coast. We still get messages -- tons of them. They have just found new and faster carriers.
Some time in the future, messages may get delivered in marvelous, almost miraculous ways -- perhaps directly from the head of the "sender" to the mind of the "recipient". Voices in our heads. Text will seem as awkward as we view Morse Code. Our grandchildren's children will look back at the rustic early 21st century and smile. "How quaint that great grandpa used to have to go look at words on a screen."
In the nursing homes of the mid 2000s, old folks will rock in their chairs and reminisce over the thrill of receiving an important email or "instant message" during a formal dinner, etc. etc. blah blah blah. Their adult children will smile at how simple and romantic life was "back in the old days."
The "email" of the 1800s is finally gone. Western Union -- a name which means telegram to folks over 40 -- announced that it has discontinued its telegraph service. No more telegrams. A part of me feels a twinge of nostalgia at the passing. The telegram had been a part of our cultural heritage. It was, in the days before cell phones and Blackberries, how important information was delivered.
Telegrams were fast. Letters could take many weeks. The Pony Express was faster than regular mail, but it was just snail mail with turbochargers. The mystique of speed led one riverboat owner in 1853 to name his Ohio River side-wheeler "Telegraph". The very image of modern high-tech speed, for its day.
After speed, came the mystique of importance. A message too important and time-sensitive to wait for snail mail went as a telegram. Phone calls were too ephemeral and casual.
Families, during the war, dreaded the sight of a telegram delivery man. The government used telegrams to deliver the sad news of a fallen soldier. Self-important business men in the 1920s and 30s enjoyed having a courier interrupt their social flufferies. They were obviously very important men to be interrupted with such important news. (yeah, whatever)
All of that history and usage built up a cache of glamor and importance for the telegram, even though all it was really doing was delivering some word content faster than other available means. I think it's the cache we'll miss. Email has built up a little cache in our modern culture, as evidenced in the Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan movie "You've Got Mail" (1998). Blackberries (if they survive the legal ax) and cellphones have already taken over as the badge of (self)importance for business types.
But, let's not get too misty eyed over the departure of the telegram. Aside from its cache and mystique, it was at its heart, a medium for delivering a message. I'm sure some folks lamented the last run of the Pony Express, or the last clipper ship of mail bound to 'round the horn' for the opposite coast. We still get messages -- tons of them. They have just found new and faster carriers.
Some time in the future, messages may get delivered in marvelous, almost miraculous ways -- perhaps directly from the head of the "sender" to the mind of the "recipient". Voices in our heads. Text will seem as awkward as we view Morse Code. Our grandchildren's children will look back at the rustic early 21st century and smile. "How quaint that great grandpa used to have to go look at words on a screen."
In the nursing homes of the mid 2000s, old folks will rock in their chairs and reminisce over the thrill of receiving an important email or "instant message" during a formal dinner, etc. etc. blah blah blah. Their adult children will smile at how simple and romantic life was "back in the old days."
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