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Open Thread: Happy Birthday BH

by: Dean Barker

Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 05:56:16 AM EST

Four years ago we turned the lights on here. Some stats as of this morning:

5,118 Registered Users
11,484 - Diaries

101,970 - Comments

1,190,255 - Site Visits

4,436,497 - Page Views

2 - Characters in our Twitter handle

0 - Paywalls

$0.00 - Cost to join

$0.00 - Subsidies from Eagle Publishing, Inc.

Adding: I got my start blogging in the height of Republican control of everything, when the excellence of George Bush and his great and glorious War in Iraq were not to be questioned. Unchecked radical right-wingerism sure has a way of getting folks' attention. It's going to be an interesting two years in Concord.

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My goodness, I'm tired so early in the morning. You've become a necessary way to generate dialogue and critical thinking among those who care about their state and their nation. Good job, and Happy Birthday.

And thank you.

by: Rep. Jim Splaine @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 11:39:31 AM UTC

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Thank you, Jim! (0.00 / 0)

You always make this place interesting and make us think!

birch paper; on Twitter @deanbarker

by: Dean Barker @ Thu Nov 18, 2010 at 00:25:43 AM UTC

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Thank goodness (4.00 / 3)

for Blue Hampshire. Without you all I would have to furnish my hole in the ground and pull it in after me.

by: Lucy Edwards @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 11:52:26 AM UTC

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Thanks for coming, and contributing! (0.00 / 0)

birch paper; on Twitter @deanbarker

by: Dean Barker @ Thu Nov 18, 2010 at 00:26:22 AM UTC

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Thank you Dean, (4.00 / 6)

Laura and Mike C. I am proud to be associated with this blog, and hope to help carry it and its mission into the future.

We have a lot to do.

by: Jennifer Daler @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 12:52:24 PM UTC

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Thank you - we couldn't do it w/o you and Mike and Susan and elwood, too! (4.00 / 1)

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by: Dean Barker @ Thu Nov 18, 2010 at 00:27:05 AM UTC

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_:iii:_ (4.00 / 3)

"Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors." - John Dryden

by: Jack Mitchell @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 12:53:33 PM UTC

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need one more candle Jack n/t (4.00 / 1)

note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other

by: JonnyBBad @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 14:33:26 PM UTC

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i (4.00 / 1)

Please stick it.

I'm in Boston today and can't reach.

"Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors." - John Dryden

by: Jack Mitchell @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 15:23:14 PM UTC

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Congrats! (4.00 / 3)

you keep me sane.

by: pberch @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 13:29:00 PM UTC

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Congrats!!! (4.00 / 4)

you keep me crazy

note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other

by: JonnyBBad @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 14:32:53 PM UTC

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Me too. (4.00 / 4)

--
Hope > Anarch-tea
Twitter: @DougLindner

by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 15:24:58 PM UTC

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Me three (4.00 / 4)

Still, after all these years. Congratulations.

by: JimC @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 15:33:27 PM UTC

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Really quite a stunning milestone! (4.00 / 3)

Here's a little trip through the archives:

Diary 1 Welcome
Diary 10 Andrew Peterson's school funding plan
Diary 100 Blue Hampshire Prediction Market: Weekly Summary
Diary 1000 Dodd Statement on the Future of Iraq Debate
Diary 10000 Your Weekend Granny D (and 10,000th Diary!)

Hope >> Fear

Create a free Blue Hampshire account and join the conversation.

by: Mike Hoefer @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 14:44:45 PM UTC

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Happy Birthday! (4.00 / 4)

And special cheer for those who have kept the lights on these four long years, and provided illuminating conversation for all to join.

little camera girl

Zandra Rice Hawkins (Granite State Progress)

by: Zandra Rice Hawkins @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 15:44:37 PM UTC

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Congratulations (4.00 / 3)

Congratulations for four years of service to the people of New Hampshire. You have created a unique community of individuals who can feel free to share their opinions and to discuss issues in an open environment.

Thank you

by: ProfessorMike @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 16:34:18 PM UTC

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Happy birthday 2 U (4.00 / 5)

And thank you for providing a forum that can be enjoyable, supportive, infuriating, funny as all get out - and always, always, a great place to visit, and which welcomes particpation by everyone, even if from the party "establishment" or Massachusetts;)

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." Franklin D. Roosevelt

by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 16:43:13 PM UTC

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I think what I most value about your contributions here (4.00 / 3)

is that your diaries are typically so detailed and well done and pertinent to the issues covered on BH that reading through it almost becomes secondary to knowing I've got to get them on the front page ASAP.

(If folks think it's your name that gets you up there, they are wrong.)

So, right back at you - thanks for that!

birch paper; on Twitter @deanbarker

by: Dean Barker @ Thu Nov 18, 2010 at 00:32:16 AM UTC

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Thanks! n/t (0.00 / 0)

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." Franklin D. Roosevelt

by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Thu Nov 18, 2010 at 01:30:28 AM UTC

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Thank you one and all (4.00 / 3)

for creating a virtual home for people who are interested in making New Hampshire and the USA a better place for EVERYONE, not just themselves.

They. Don't. Care.
We do.
Rinse, repeat.

by: GreyMike @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 18:20:14 PM UTC

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Happy Birthday BH! (4.00 / 1)

n/t

Politics is a dirty game but if you don't play the bad guys win - Morgan Magnus Grey

by: Blue Granite @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 20:51:29 PM UTC

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Happy Birthday! (4.00 / 1)

by: calvin @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 22:33:21 PM UTC

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Thanks everyone! (4.00 / 1)

I ran out of stamina trying to thank you all individually - you are what make this place great.

birch paper; on Twitter @deanbarker

by: Dean Barker @ Thu Nov 18, 2010 at 00:29:02 AM UTC

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Happy Birthday BH (4.00 / 1)

How to go.

Please keep it going. This is a little niche of sanity for me.

by: Chaz Proulx @ Thu Nov 18, 2010 at 02:14:05 AM UTC

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The timing of the birthday (4.00 / 1)

Always reminds me how exhausted we all were from the 2006 election, and we still decided to do this, less than two weeks later.

A lot of time stamina is worth far more than brilliance or strategy. The site has now lasted longer than Bush I's presidency, here's to another four years....

by: Mike Caulfield @ Thu Nov 18, 2010 at 02:17:00 AM UTC

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