Gay Activists Politicize White House Easter Egg Roll
Does anybody else find it ironic that gay activist groups pick the white-house egg roll to make their statement? After all the Easter egg out-dates Christianity and was a pagan symbol for fertility. Just throwing that out there.
And by the way, how come the ACLU hasn’t put an end to this tradition anyway?
John Edwards Pulls Out Of Second Fox News Debate
John Edwards has for the second time pulled out of a debate on Fox News. He has agreed however to appear on a debate hosted by CNN. CNN has no political leanings, do they? I think we know where CNN stands.
The point is Fox News is the only station that might slant to the right. All other stations slant left. Is Edwards so afraid of his views he won’t appear on a station that slants the other way? If he is afraid to appear on Fox News how can he be trusted to make tough decisions on issues that might not be popular?
Notes And News Links From Around The World
I thought I’d try a little something different here and post some links to news items I would not normally blog about. If it turns out to be relatively popular I will make this a semi-regular post here.
Man sentenced to jail for infecting woman with hiv
13 year old girl arrested for writing on her desk
Insurance company must pay for teenage boy’s breast reduction surgery
Criticism Of Nancy Pelosi’s Trip To Syria Builds
It appears that Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria and the gaffs that ensued with Israel are so egregious that even the liberal newspapers have to report it. They tried to hold out and report this trip as a step toward middle east peace. They were hoping that she would be able to embarrass the president and show that appeasement is the way to treat terrorists such as the leader of Syria.
Unfortunately Nancy Pelosi lied to Syria about peace talks with Israel, angering one of our biggest allies. And she actually committed a felony by traveling to Syria and conducting foreign policy against the will of the president.
All this has led to liberal papers having to come out and denounce Nancy Pelosi, you know it had to be hard on them.
Maybe these liberals aren’t as smart as they think they are.
Here is another voice that believes Al Gore doesn’t know what he’s talking about. While the media and politicians all agree that man made global warming exists, there are many scientists and meteorologists who don’t believe climate change is man-made. These voices are not heard in the media because it doesn’t push the true agenda of global warming, taxes.
Cindy Sheehan is ripping into the Democrats for not doing enough to end the war. She says they have betrayed her. She and the rest of the far left anti war crowd are where the Democrats have their biggest problem. A timetable for defeat isn’t good enough for them.Nothing short of immediate withdrawal is acceptable to them. Of coarse the Democrats know this would be political disaster. They know that they were not elected strictly to put an end to the war.If they were they would cut the funding and end it. Far left anti war people wanted to believe they would end the war, but they don’t have the courage. The truth is the Democrats used the culture of corruption to get themselves elected. Now that they are in there and won’t stop the war, their base, which is the anti war crowd, is growing disillusioned with them.
Read about Cindy Sheehan here.
New Hampshire, The Taxman Cometh
I have previously posted about the coming taxes to New Hampshire here, here, and here.
Below are to letters to the Rockingham News, a weekly local paper available to the Sanborn school district. This is the first time I remember seeing anything negative about Gov. John Lynch.
In the interest of full disclosure, the second letter is by a Republican state rep., but what he says is right on the money.
I hope New Hampshire remembers what is happening now and shows up at the next election to do the right thing.
Governor making N.H. Taxachusetts North
To the Editor:
So, Gov. Lynch, who has stated over and over again that he would not raise taxes and took the No Tax Pledge, has once again submitted a budget laden with all types of hidden taxes under the guise of a balanced budget.
He is once again hurting the economy of the state by raising the cigarette tax 28 cents a pack. With the gas prices once again on the rise, people are not going to drive to New Hampshire to save a few cents on cigarettes.
Raising the car registrations 20 percent is certainly not showing any consideration for the citizens of New Hampshire who have to pay the high gas prices everyday to get to their jobs, and not have to look forward to a 20 percent rise in the cost of registering a vehicle.
Gov. Lynch, who got re-elected by reaching out to the other side of the aisle, is showing his true colors by not reappointing Commissioner John Stephen as Health and Human Services commissioner.
The Human Services Budget is as lean as it can possibly be without jeopardizing the needs of the elderly and the handicapped. Our elderly need to know that they can grow old with dignity. Gov. Lynch has cut the Human Services budget, but sees no problem with appropriating $12 million to the tree-huggers at LCHIP. What is wrong with this picture!
Also mentioned was a $30 lottery ticket. I think the governor knows you cannot depend on the revenues from a lottery ticket; it is a temporary revenue stream at best.
Once again, Gov. Lynch, saying one thing, and doing quite another. Under his watch, New Hampshire is fast becoming Taxachusetts North.
Veda Paoletta
East Kingston
Higher spending, taxes under Democrats’ rule
To the Editor:
According to our state constitution, the state budget must originate in the House of Representatives. As a member of the Finance Committee, I have had the privilege of working on five previous budgets under four different governors — two from each party. Our procedures have always been the same. The Finance Committee, and later the reinstituted Ways and Means Committee, would estimate the state revenues for the coming biennium. State agencies and departments would deliver their budget requests in mid-February. The governor’s office would have already done prescreening, and the document would be called the governor’s budget.
The governor’s budget would also include revenue estimates and, in each case, the governor’s estimates would come in higher than those of the House — sometimes by hundreds of millions of dollars. In developing revenue estimates, the governor’s office would make certain assumptions that the Legislature would pass a new tax or tax increase. We did not always comply, so we were always forced to trim the budget to meet the more realistic revenue figures developed by the Ways and Means or Finance committees.
In the past three months that has all changed. Now that the Democrats control both chambers of the Legislature, as well as the governor’s office for the first time in 100 years, the House committees have been prevented from doing their due diligence. We had the governor’s budget delivered in a timely fashion, on Feb. 16, and are due to deliver it to the Senate on April 12. The Senate will also have about six weeks to work on the budget. That will be followed by a joint meeting during which time the two chambers will resolve any differences before sending it on for the governor’s signature. All this has a deadline of June 30. Since July first begins the next fiscal biennium, if we fail to pass a budget, there will be no authority to spend any state money.
We are now in our fifth week of budget work, and we still have not received revenue estimates from the committee on Ways and Means. How can we responsibly produce a balanced budget? For the past three weeks I have been informed by my committee chair that “the revenue estimates are coming next Monday.” If I were a conspiracy theorist, I could easily see a definite plan by the Democrats. Apparently they do not want to embarrass their governor by admitting that his budget is out of balance by hundreds of millions of dollars. Secondly, the Democrats will then force the House Finance Committee, which they control with 15 members, to accept a bloated budget, including inflated revenues.
The voters of this state turned the majority over to the Democrats last November based on a national issue. And now, they are beginning to see the unfortunate consequences of their actions: higher spending and even higher taxes. I hope the voters are watching closely and will help us reverse this in the 2008 election.
Rep. Kenneth Weyler
Rockingham County-District 8
Concord
Rep. Paul Hodes(D-NH) Faces Intense Heat From New Hampshire Military Families At Meeting
Rep. Paul Hodes faced a group of angry military families for his vote on the Iraq war surrender bill. I guess I have to give him credit for going to this meeting knowing he voted to undercut their family members and put them more in harm’s way. That takes guts.
It didn’t go well for Rep. Hodes though as you can read here.
In a way I can’t blame him for his vote, that’s what the people in district 2 in New Hampshire sent him there to do. I hope all you Republicans who stayed home this time around in protest are happy today. Both our new congresspeople have covered themselves in shame.
Here is another article about how Gov. Lynch won’t take a stand on a tough issue. I have written a post about this issue here ,and followed it up with this opinion piece that backs me up.
This is just another example of the governor trying to protect his precious approval rating by not taking a stand on any issue that doesn’t have a wide consensus of approval. He gives us typical Democrat feel good talking points, but with no stance on anything what good is that.
Nancy Pelosi Committed A felony By Traveling To Syria
It appears as though Nancy Pelosi may have committed a felony by heading to Syria. The Logan act makes it a felony for anyone to travel to a foreign country and conduct foreign policy without authority of the president.
I doubt very much the president would ever take action on this, and I suppose I don’t blame him, but I almost wish he would.
The fact that you won’t see this covered in the media is a clear indictment on the media.
