a dog-eared town

There is a small press release on the PolitickerNH website that someone pointed out on an email list. It’s one of those press releases you see every day but it makes me wonder.

The political group known as “New Hampshire Advantage Coalition” has apparently violated NH election law and may have violated nonprofit tax law by failing to file its required financial disclosures, failing to put disclaimers on its election materials, and by using its nonprofit status to promote the candidacy of its two leaders, Mike Biundo and Tammy Simmons, according to a complaint filed with the New Hampshire Attorney General by former NH Democratic Party Chair Kathy Sullivan.

Does Ms Sullivan have so little to do that she’s tracking small time anti-tax groups, or are the democrats so worried that they’ll do just about anything to stop them?

The Union Leader has a small story about what the State Attorney General will do.

But Ayotte yesterday wrote Sullivan that she has assigned the complaint to the Elections Unit of her office and, promises, “It will be given appropriate priority given the upcoming state primary and general elections.”

Sounds to me like nothing will be done about the issue but it makes me wonder whether or not this anti-tax group is that effective or the democrats are so unsure of themselves that they will stop at nothing to keep their election advantage.

Definitely a story to keep an eye on for the future.

I know things have been slow up here at the DMV, but really, they trying exceptionally hard to be the most customer unfriendly and taxpayer unfriendly DMV in the country. So the “new and improved” temporary licenses have been nothing but a pain in the ass to the folks of New Hampshire.

Problems are continuing for some people who want a New Hampshire driver’s license, with reports of temporary licenses wearing out and some not getting their permanent licenses.

Roger Cloutier, of Manchester, N.H., said that he’s unrecognizable on his temporary paper driver’s license.

“I looked at it, and you could barely make out my face,” Cloutier said.

Nice going.

Cloutier is getting another temporary license because his permanent one hasn’t arrived and the current temporary one expires on Friday. He said that he, like many others, is also having a hard time getting anyone at stores to think the card is real.

“By law, they have a right to deny it because it looked like it was a copy from a copy machine,” he said.

It’s nice to see the state put the taxpayers money to go use. I’d hate to think of them as bumbling and incompetent.

All snark aside, this is a serious issue because businesses are not accepting a government issued identification card. Mind you, the way the laws get written, today you really can’t do anything without your papers and to add insult to injury by making the papers useless really should raise a red flag.

Of course the way the state house is run now I’m sure the only call will be for more money to fix the problem that exists, which is why this state is turning into Massachusetts. More money to fix a government problem that wasn’t broken to begin with which in turn calls for yet more taxpayer money.

Nice, eh?

An elderly man walks into a confessional.

The following conversation ensues: Man:
“I am 92 years old, have a wonderful wife of 70 years,many children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

Yesterday, I picked up two college girls, hitchhiking.

We went to a motel, where I had sex with each of them three times.”

Priest: “Are you sorry for your sins?”

Man: “What sins? ”

Priest: “What kind of a Catholic are you?”

Man: “I’m Jewish.”

Priest: “Why are you telling me all this?”

Man: “I’m 92 years old … I’m telling everybody”.

Here’s a great quote from Her Highness Nancy Pelosi.

“I’m trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet,” she says impatiently when questioned. “I will not have this debate trivialized by their excuse for their failed policy.”

Wow.

I guess someone believes their own press.

And how did this quote come up anyway?

And after promising fairness and open debate, Pelosi has resorted to hard-nosed parliamentary devices that effectively bar any chance for Republicans to offer policy alternatives.

So she defends having no debate on issues and running the house like her own kingdom because she’s trying to save the planet.

I don’t think you have to say anything else as her quote really stands on it’s own two legs.

Don’t get me wrong. Every house speaker has the right to set the agenda. I just think it’s very worrisome that this house speaker has a raging case of megalomania and a grand case of delusions of grandeur. Should be interesting if His Highness Obama gets elected, no?

Drudge is blaring that China is going to censor the internet during the Olympics.

China will censor the Internet used by foreign media during the Olympics, an organising committee official confirmed Wednesday, reversing a pledge to offer complete media freedom at the games.

Well duh.

It IS China, we’re talking about. They’re a communist dictatorship that violently supreses their own people from doing the little things in life like pray and think for themselves.

Did they think because the Olympics were in town the leopard would be able to change its spots?

Come on people. Get a clue. They’re a communist country. They do not want free speech or free thought. Anyone that thought differently should go back to kindergarten.

Yet again, a republican has decided that the government knows best and MUST step as something must be done.

The high price of gasoline may mean that Congress will now tell you to slow down. Republican Senator John Warner of Virgina has asked Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to calculate what speed would provide optimum gasoline efficiency under current technology.

In a letter to Bodman, Warner cited studies that show the 55-mile per hour national speed limit saved 167-thousand barrels of oil a day — after it was imposed by Congress in 1974 because of the Arab oil embargo. That speed limit was repealed in 1995.

The letter read “one could assume that the amount of fuel that could be conserved today is far greater.”

I love how the first response of a “republican” is to involve the government in “fixing” a problem. Listen up John, we do not need your help. If congress did less, the country would be better off in the long run.

I also love how this guy’s first impulse is to restrict what people can do. And here I thought republicans were for smaller and less intrusive government. Instead we have an “influential” republican publicly stating that the government should not only do something, but do something that would restrict what people in this country can do.

Hey, if people want to drive 55 now, nothing is stopping them. They can go right ahead and do that now. People don’t need a politician to tell them what they can or can’t do. If they want to save money, they will slow down and get better gas mileage.

And from the trucks that keep passing me doing 75, I’m guessing a lot of people don’t mind paying the higher prices for gasoline. I guess if Mr Warner actually got out and met with people he’d know that. But I’m sure it must be so tough getting out of the office doing such important work for the people in this country.

So we finished the move. And boy, what a move.

One of the people that was helping us ended up getting injured. Fortunately it wasn’t a bad injury to them, though they’re still recovering.

We then found out that neither the couch nor the box spring for our mattress would fit up the 3rd floor. Heck, the mattress itself took some body english to get it up to the 3rd floor. I was more sad about the box spring not getting up the stairs but that’s the problem with old houses.

It’s taking a bit to get used to the many things that are different where we are today compared to our last place. It has been fantastically quiet. The little woman and I am amazed to think that it’s actually more quiet in a city that is 3 times larger than the last town. That really shouldn’t happen.

The other wonderful thing is that it is dark where we live. Not that we’re out in the woods, but with the placement of the street lights and the judicious use of blackout drapes, it’s really dark. And I love it. The last place we had we were unable to get any drapes up and every time we went to bed you would see the orange glow from the light in the parking lot. Now, as we’re not in a large apartment complex, there is no large parking lot.

All in all, despite the problems with the move, things are going well. It’s quieter and we’ve been able to sleep better in a larger city. Of course if you were a selectman of the town of Milford, I’d want to know why someone is able to have a better quality of life by moving away from Milford, but really, fixing that doesn’t matter to us any more.