The New, New Hampshire State Motto!

Every state has one, in Vermont it is "Freedom and Unity", in California it is "Eureka", in Texas it is "Friendship" and in New Hampshire, until recently, it was "Live Free Or Die".

The New Hampshire State Motto was adopted in 1945 by the State Legislature and the motto itself were words spoken by General John Stark who is considered to be New Hampshire's most distinguished hero of the Revolutionary war. Now General Stark would roll over in his grave as it becomes apparent that the New Hampshire courts have changed this statement from "Live Free Or Die" to "Live Free, The Lie".

How did this come about?

Recently, in a decision by New Hampshire judge Lucinda V. Sadler in the Family Division of the Judicial Court for Belknap County in Laconia, based on the recommendation of Marital Master Michael Garner, a well adjusted 10 year old girl, who has been described as "well liked, social and interactive with her peers, academically promising and intellectually at or superior to grade level" was ordered out of homeschooling and into public schools. The reasoning behind this move lies in Mr. Garner's belief that the girl was too involved in her religion and defended her Christian faith "too vigorously" and that she should be exposed to different points of view regarding religion.

The Alliance Defense Fund, defending the girl's right to be home schooled, stated that the diversity theory was argued in 2006 and was rejected at that time.

As World Net Daily reports:

"The New Hampshire Supreme Court itself has specifically declared, 'Home education is an enduring American tradition and right,'" said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Mike Johnson. "There is clearly and without question no legitimate legal basis for the court's decision, and we trust it will reconsider its conclusions."

The Alliance Defense Fund further states:

"It is not the proper role of the court to insist that Amanda be 'exposed to different points of view' if the primary residential parent has determined that it is in Amanda's best interest not to be exposed to secular influences that would undermine Amanda's faith, schooling, social development, etc. The court is not permitted to demonstrate hostility toward religion, and particularly the faith of Amanda and Mother, by removing Amanda from the home and thrusting her into an environment that the custodial parent deems detrimental to Amanda."

I would be willing to bet that, were this girl espousing Islam as ardently as she espouses Christianity, that Judge Sadler would have rendered a much different ruling.

Judge Sadler, you now have your 15 minutes of shame in your violation of your oath to uphold the Constitution. Please do the honorable thing and resign immediately, if not sooner. You have been on the bench one decision too long.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108084

Letter To Congress From The White House????

I found this letter, slipped under my door, this morning.

While I cannot validate it's authenticity, I do find it humorous as well as accurate.

Just click it for the full sized version.

Black Panthers and SEIU Taking Over CIA Duties?

Now that our resident dilettante Attorney General, Eric Holder, has placed the CIA under investigation for alleged torture in relation to enhanced interrogation techniques, while the Black Panthers and SEIU, by virtue of their de facto immunity from prosecution, enjoy the top step of a two tiered system of justice, it would seem a logical choice for the Black Panthers and the SEIU to step in and take control of some of the more controversial CIA operations.

As has been commented on in the past, The Black Panthers¹ and the SEIU² have, apparently, been granted blanket immunity from Federal prosecutions so it would seem only logical that these two organizations would step into the picture as the official interrogators of terrorist suspects since they will never be prosecuted by Mr. Holder.

I would hate to think that Mr. Holder's investigation, at this time, is politically motivated by President Obama's sinking polling numbers as the American people discover the true meaning of the word "change". A little diversion right now , which casts the light away from the President's failure of health care, can only help Obama as he desperately seeks something else that he can blame on former president Bush.

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¹The New Racism.

²Attorney General Eric Holder And The Politics Of Race.

2010

A Typical Town Hall Meeting On Health Care!

Bernie Sanders' Town Hall Meeting.

Well, Bernie Sanders met with the people at his Town Hall Meeting On HR 3200*.

Some of the points that he discussed with the people were:

1. The alleged "Death Panels".

To which Bernie stated:

"Let me tell you a thing or two about the so-called 'death panels.' They can't take it out because it ain't in there," and "but do you really think that in the United States of America we would have a president who would say we should kill off old people?"

Well Bernie, this bill is so poorly written that the presence of Death Panels may or may not be in there, couched in confusing and contradictory language. However, one thing is clear, the Health Care Commissioner (one individual) will have actual control over the public health care together with how much and what kind of treatment we will receive. The duties of this commissioner start on Page 42, line 3 of the bill and end on Page 48, line 24. The power this individual will wield will be awesome. The language of this bill is so nebulous that the constitutional challenges will begin, almost immediately and people, who are wrongfully denied health care because of this confusing language, will be dying awaiting a court's interpretation as to what this albatross really says. This will be among the first of the waiting lists upon which, people seeking health care, will die.

As for the question asked at the end of his statement, "but do you really think that in the United States of America we would have a president who would say we should kill off old people?", in consideration of the liberal/progressive's stand firmly FOR abortion among a population that has the rest of their lives to live and become productive, I would answer this question with a resounding YES! If the humanistic liberal progressives are willing to send unborn babies to their death, without a thought, I'm SURE that they would have no problem with old folks who are in the sunset of their lives. This is a no-brainer Bernie. This is one of the pillars of the "Complete Lives System", a philosophy that is embraced by Ezekiel Emanuel, President Obama's White House Health Care policy adviser and brother of Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. Rahm is, also, an advocate of "Merit Based Health Care" in which a relative value is placed on human beings, for purposes of health care dispensation, in accordance with their ability to be productive in our society.

Here are some of Ezekiel's thoughts, expressed in the January, 2009 issue (Volume 373, Issue 9661) of The Lancet:

"Some people wrongly suggest that allocation can be based purely on scientific or clinical facts, often using the term “medical need”. There are no value-free medical criteria for allocation."

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"Consideration of the importance of complete lives also supports modifying the youngest-first principle by prioritizing adolescents and young adults over infants. Adolescents have received substantial education and parental care, investments that will be wasted without a complete life. Infants, by contrast, have not yet received these investments. Similarly, adolescence brings with it a developed personality capable of forming and valuing long-term plans whose fulfillment requires a complete life."

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"When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated."

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"Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years. Treating 65-year-olds differently because of stereotypes or falsehoods would be ageist; treating them differently because they have already had more life-years is not."

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"Accepting the complete lives system for health care as a whole would be premature. We must first reduce waste and increase spending."

The entire article may be downloaded by CLICKING HERE.

I thank the proprietor of the website http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/complete-lives-system/ for providing this non-copyrighted, information.

2. Medicare, to which Bernie stated:

"I have heard people in Vermont and around the country say, 'Get the government out of health care,'"

"How many people here think we should abolish Medicare? Medicare is a single-payer government program."

Bernie, this is more political theater. Medicare is going broke and will be collapsing under its own weight. Now, there is a proposal to take $500 Billion from medicare to, partially, fund HR 3200. There are some, misinformed, people out there that, mistakenly, believe that Medicare is safe and sequestered away from the ravages of HR 3200. THINK AGAIN, Medicare will undergo some fundamental changes under Obama Care (HR 3200). They're in the bill.

3. Bernie asserts that taxes haven't gone up.

However there is a small matter of the Federal Tobacco Tax that caused the price of tobacco to double overnight. While there are those among us that would claim that Obama gets a free pass on his promise not to raise taxes on those who earn under $250,000 because of the evils of smoking, remember, he still broke his campaign promise. His ambitious and expensive agenda will require more revenue than merely raising the taxes on the rich, and his tobacco tax has already greased the slope for more taxes to come on those who earn under $250,000.

Only the extremely gullible would believe that, between the Stimulus, Cap and Trade and HR 3200, that our Federal tax structure will remain the same.

Think people! THINK, THINK, THINK.

The used car salesmen are out in force selling you HR 3200. Don't buy a car that you haven't seen.

By the way, how do you feel about the Government being able to rummage around in your bank accounts, taking what they believe you owe them. IT'S IN THERE! Pg 59: SEC. 163. ADMINISTRATIVE SIMPLIFICATION HC Bill lines 21-24.

*http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20090816/NEWS04/908160398

Attorney General Eric Holder And The Politics Of Race.

The Federal Hate Crime laws were legislated to take politics out of the prosecution of criminals who would commit crimes against individuals whom local politics may deem it proper to turn a blind eye because of the unpopularity of the class of individuals into which the victim fit.

Oftentimes, the case for a hate crime is made if and when the assailant states certain epithets prior to the crime itself. These words are then used by the prosecution to validate the assertion that the crime is, not only, a state crime, but a hate crime as defined in Federal Hate Crime legislation, allowing it to be prosecuted in Federal court by Federal prosecutors.

In the case at hand, Kenneth Gladney, a conservative black man, was outside of a town hall meeting in St. Louis, when he was, reportedly^1&2, attacked by several Pro Obama Health Care thugs from SEIU (Service Employees International Union).

The SEIU thugs, along with the Black Panthers, have been pressed into service, apparently as the Civilian National Security Force envisioned by President Obama³.

One of the thugs who was the first to attack Mr. Gladney was, another black man who, reportedly, called Mr. Gladney a "Nigger", and at least one of Mr. Gladney's assailants were arrested at the scene. However, it remains to be seen whether our Federal Attorney General, Eric Holder, will prosecute Mr. Gladney's assailant(s) for a hate crime, even though their actions meet the criteria for such a prosecution. Mr. Holder has a very poor track record on the prosecution of Americans with African ancestry who commit Federal crimes⁴.

Stay tuned for the outcome, although the silence may be deafening.

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¹http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538799,00.html

²http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/laworder/story/0470FEB3219207458625760B001142AC?OpenDocument

³http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s

⁴http://nekviews.blogspot.com/2009/05/attorney-general-holder-gives-new-black.html

The White House Takes Up Spamming.

In, yet, another act of desperation to restart the administration's, rapidly sinking, House Health Care Bill, HR 3200, the White House is utilizing the mainstay of Nigerian Lottery and phishing scammers, unsolicited email, more commonly known as SPAM. All this to continue the hard-sell for this health care bill which the House, hastily, cobbled together in six weeks.

As a word of caution, always be careful of giving any information out to spammers. Can anybody really trust someone who would send them SPAM? You might get enrolled in some Nigerian Lottery.

Astro Turf?

In this recession, it is good to find employment.

Here is an advertisement in Craigslist for paid Pro Obama Health Care Reform supporters who can earn from $350.00 to $500.00 per week.

http://sacramento.craigslist.org/etc/1310895349.html

If this Craigslist listing expires and is no longer available from the above link, CLICK HERE.

Below seems to be some "on the job training" for these new hires:

Banned from the Rutland Herald.

For the many of the Vermonters who have logged onto this blog seeking the truth about HR 3200 (Obama Care), and who may wonder, at a point in the future why I no longer post commentary in the online Rutland Herald, to put it plainly, it appears that my commentary has been banned from this publication.

After a rousing exchange of ideas over the weekend* in which their online system worked flawlessly, it became apparent this morning (Monday) that my postings were placed on moderation status with my commentary finding its way into the cyber round file. Without expressing my opinion regarding the political nature of the management of this newspaper, the fact that my banishment occurred when the suits came back to work Monday morning speaks for itself.

Be advised that I have not abandoned you, the Herald has merely made it impossible to express my opinion on their website.

Political censorship is the new tradition among the liberal press. Perhaps that's why there's so much shouting going on at the Obama Care town meetings. If Democrats and other assorted liberals don't like what you have to say, they will do their very best to shut you out or demonize you such as the preceding article is a testimonial.

* Health care debacle coming
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090806/OPINION02/908060305/

An Attack On America.

This is a recent video which was manufactured by the Democratic National Committee for the purpose of intimidating and vilifying American citizens who express their opposition to HR 3200, the current health care bill under consideration.

In the video, the narrator referrs to the protesters as "The Right Wing Extremist Republican Base" and then makes a feeble attempt to portray their protests as sour grapes for failing to win in 2008.

The farcical statement, "They have lost the confidence of the American people" is absurd because, unlike the DNC's assertions that the protesters are Republican operatives, the protesters are, in fact, the American people engaged in their constitutional right of free speech. It is the fact that the speech opposes the Democrat's philosophies and beliefs that the Democratic National Committee doesn't like. This philosophy is well reflected in the, so-called Fairness Doctrine that the Democrats support, a doctrine which would silence conservative talk radio. This video is documented proof that the thought police are out in force.

Among some of the other fraudulent claims that this video makes, is the scene of someone, presumably a conservative Republican, hanging, then candidate Obama, in effigy. However, if you will notice, this hanging occurs in front of the office of Frank Kratovil, the Congressman for Maryland's 1st congressional district. Frank is a DEMOCRAT. So what is the DNC trying to say here, that Democrats are racists?



The Democratic National Committee's tactics are taken directly from the Janet Napalitano play book.

You remember Ms. Napalitano, the head of the administration's Department of Homeland Security? She is the one that, earlier this year, circulated the memorandum to all law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for conservatives, third party supporters and Iraqi war veterans because they are potential terrorists. When the Democrats don't like you, they attack your character.

If these tactics are disturbing to you, give the Democratic National Committee a call and tell them to "Stop the smear."

Their number is 202-863-8000, that's 202-863-8000.

The New Snake Oil.

Selling The Hype.

Today I had the pleasure of attending a Town Hall meeting in Derby, Vermont wherein my Congressional Representative, Peter Welch of Vermont, was tasked with selling the good folks of the Northeast Kingdom on HR 3200, Obama Care, however, none there were buying it.

Before I continue, I would just like to say that Peter Welch is one of the most affable people I have ever met and a natural born politician, however, as with his misguided support for Cap And Trade, he is wrong again in his support for HR 3200, Obama Care.

One of the more disturbing things that became rapidly apparent was that Representative Welch had not read the bill in it's entirety. I brought up the fact that, on pages 51 and 52, there was a clause which permitted illegal aliens to become subscribers to the Health Care plan, a fact which Representative Welch disputed. It plainly states:

"SEC. 152. PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION IN HEALTH CARE.

(a) IN GENERAL.- Except as otherwise explicitly permitted by this Act and by subsequent regulations consistent with this Act, all health care and related services (including insurance coverage and public health activities) covered by this Act shall be provided without regard to personal characteristics extraneous to the provision of high quality health care or related services."

Both citizenship and non-citizenship, are "personal characteristics extraneous to the provision of high quality health care or related services." so "health care and related services (including insurance coverage and public health activities) covered by this Act shall be provided."

Clearly Representative Welch was unfamiliar with the bill and had, probably, not read it.

Based on this exchange, I can well imagine that none in Congress or President Obama himself have read this 1,017 page bill. This was only one example of the myriad of problems inherent in this bill. For a comprehensive problem analysis, CLICK HERE.

I went on to explicate that there is a difference between the much overused word "coverage" and the actual, timely, delivery of health care. A fact which Canada and the United Kingdom have bemoaned to the world.

In an stunning statement, Representative Welch said, several times, that HR 3200 is "A work in progress". I equated Congress and the President to used car salesmen, trying to run a high-pressure sales game trying to sell cars, sight unseen. In other words, "You buy the car now and we'll let you see it at sometime in the future, after the deal's done.

I'm sorry Mr. Welch but, unlike Washington, here in middle America we want to see the car before we buy it.

Congress and Obama, go peddle your snake oil somewhere else.

The White House Urges You To Rat Out Your Fellow Citizen.

Its 1984 all over again and the Thought Police are here!

Aside from the fact that HR 3200*, the so-called Health Care Reform, is one of the more ill-conceived pieces of legislation to appear this year, running almost neck-and-neck with Cap And Trade, there is, now, a new attempt by our president to intimidate the American People out of their opposition to the bill.

The "Big Brother" White House has announced, on it's web site, an email address that citizens can report any email or website which expresses an opposing viewpoint on HR 3200. One is left to wonder just what the White House will do with this information that they are collecting on these dissidents.

The blog is here:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts-Are-Stubborn-Things/

The lying Democratic National Committee.

If Linda Douglass, the communications director for the White House's Health Reform Office, is REALLY interested in disinformation regarding HR 3200, she has to look no further than her own Democratic National Committee.

In a fraudulent video below, that was recently released by the DNC, average Americans, expressing their dissatisfaction with HR 3200, are being referred to, and portrayed as Republican plants and angry mobsters, by the DNC, for expressing their opinion regarding this Health Care bill. If you have had enough of the Democrats calling you, the American public, mobsters, Republican plants and thugs for participating in your Constitutional rights, give the Democratic National Committee a call at:

202-863-8000

It seems that the DNC is all for free speech, as long as the speech does not oppose them. When it does, the DNC becomes mean.

* For the study guide to HR 3200, CLICK HERE.

GOD Bless Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Newsmax* is reporting that the Federal Department of Homeland Security is ordering Sheriff Joe to release illegal immigrants who are properly arrested, under Federal law, for being in this country illegally.

Under the so-called and revamped 287 (g) agreements between the DHS and local law enforcement, local law enforcement may arrest illegal aliens under specific conditions which exclude arrests for merely being in the United States illegally. Sheriff Joe asserts that this is tantamount to an amnesty for illegal aliens.

The DHS has given Sheriff Joe an ultimatum, either sign the agreement or lose his authority to enforce FEDERAL immigration laws. If Sheriff Joe loses the authority to enforce Federal immigration laws by not signing the agreement, he cites a bevy of Arizona State laws which deal with illegal immigration, laws that prohibit immigrant smuggling and ban employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants. Laws which he may enforce in spite of the, new, Federal ban on enforcing simple FEDERAL immigration violations.

The Chief of DHS, Janet Napolitano, severely damaged the credibility of the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year when she sent a memorandum to all law enforcement agencies warning them to be on the lookout for conservative ideological opponents of President Obama and returning Iraqi war veterans because they are a probable source for domestic terrorism. She spent several months apologizing for that memorandum, however, the DHS is, once again, embroiled in controversy under Napolitano's guidance.

At the end of the Newsmax article, Alessandra Soler-Meetze, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona stated, "He's a rogue sheriff, and he is the clearest, most visible example of why these 287(g) ordinances are bad for local communities," she said. "Arpaio demonstrates what happens when there's absolutely no federal oversight of a program that has really led to some serious civil rights abuses."

Quite clearly, the antithesis of Ms. Soler-Meetze's statement is true. It is a direct result of politicized Federal oversight which has brought about this failure of DHS to enforce Federal immigration laws, and to ensure that no other law enforcement agency enforces them either. While there are rogues in government, I would assert that Sheriff Joe is not one of them. He is merely enforcing the will of his constituents and NOT the Federal government. Government easily forgets that the VOTERS keep electing Sheriff Joe, time and time again, NOT the Federal government. Seemingly this relationship between elected officials and electorate was lost on Alessandra Soler-Meetze, as she snored her way through law school and her bar exams.

If Ms. Soler-Meetze ever DOES crack a book, perhaps she should look in the dictionary under "Rogue Politician", wherein she may find a picture of Janet Napolitano.

* http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/arpaio_DHS_illegals/2009/07/31/242556.html

Dear Congress, 2010 will NOT be your friend.

It will be here before you know it. To those condescending and despotic Congresspeople who believe that they must take the President's teachings and wisdom to the unwashed masses to explain HR 3200 (the House Health Care Bill), a bill which neither they (Congress) NOR the President have read and know nothing about, they may wish to consider that it was NOT President Obama who elected them to office.

Between the Stimulus Plan, Cap And Trade and Obama Care, these lemmings have quite a pick of swords upon which to fall.

Speaking directly to those of our elected representatives who are taking a position directly opposed to the majority of their electorate, perhaps it is time for those of you who have caved in on these issues, to the detriment of the American people, to stand up for your constituents instead of cowering before the ultimate used car salesman, President Obama. It becomes clearer with each passing day that your constituents aren't buying your snake oil and 2010 looms, darkly, in your future. Perhaps it is time to enroll in some college courses to learn an occupation other than politician.

You DO need to hurry up and get another job after you are thrown out of office, after all, someone has to pay the high price for what you are contemplating.

OH, by the way, in your upcoming bout of unemployment, you may find time to read it and learn that which you should have known BEFORE you voted for it so, CLICK HERE and find out what it says when you get the time.

Calling All Kool-Aid Commandos . . .

Sometimes a picture IS worth 1,000 words - SO - CLICK THE PIC!

Are You Happy With Your Private Health Insurance?

You had better enjoy it while you can!

HR3200 Study Tool (House Health Care Bill).

CLICK THE PIC!

A Few Words On Cap And Trade.

Right from the horses mouth.

Removing That Offensive Bumper Sticker.

As President Obama's polling numbers continue to plunge and the reality of his "change" finally comes into focus, those of you who have Obama bumper stickers on their cars may wish to remove them now, or at some time in the near future. The problem comes in doing so in a safe manner as not to damage the paint or leave telltale artifacts on the chrome.

Here are some suggestions from various websites:

E-How recommends that you:

"Spray the sticker with a lubricant (such as WD40) and try to peel it off." [MORE]

Popular Mechanics suggests that you:

"Peel 'em off. This is easiest to do on a sunny day. Just park so the offending sticker is in the sun, wait a half-hour or so for things to get hot, and pry up a corner with a fingernail. [MORE]

For more tips on how to get rid of that offensive Obama bumper sticker, just Google "removing bumper stickers" on your search engine.