Divorce NH style...

Laser Beam (4.00 / 3)

When they talked about the laser beam they were going to use  to  focus on the budget and the economy and the creation of jobs, what they actually meant was they would be focusing in on your bedroom as they try to use government to control your life from craddle to grave.

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by: mevansnh @ Sat Feb 05, 2011 at 17:29:52 PM UTC

"Unintended consequences" (4.00 / 5)

(But you have to be willfully ignorant of history, only forty years ago history, to claim "unintended.")

The result of this sort of law is, the spouse seeking a divorce goes out and manufactures evidence of extreme cruelty or adultery.

The kids are brought into court to testify for or against a parent.

The family goes through a bitter fight that poisons things for generations.

Oh, but on the plus side: the Tea Party Tribunal gets a merit badge from the mullahs that it worships.

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by: elwood @ Sat Feb 05, 2011 at 19:50:05 PM UTC

Where's your sense of nostalgia, elwood? (0.00 / 0)

Can't you see that they are just trying to bring back the good old days?

We just don't seem to use the word "reactionary" enough anymore, I think we need to bring that back too.

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

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by: GreyMike @ Sun Feb 06, 2011 at 04:41:54 AM UTC

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OK by me (0.00 / 0)

Reactionary extremists has a nice ring to it.  

I was taught to "act, not react."  Let's move forward, and leave them way, way behind.  There has to be a way.

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Sun Feb 06, 2011 at 11:46:32 AM UTC

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And here I thought they were all about personal freedom... (4.00 / 4)

...and of course that jobs and the economy thing.

What truly infuriates me is how the very people who yell the loudest about wanting their own personal freedom, and who trumpet their "constitutionally guaranteed right" to all their own choices, are the most intent on denying almost everyone else any rights, freedoms or choice at all.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. --Marcus Aurelius, courtesy of Paul Berch

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by: Lucy Weber @ Sat Feb 05, 2011 at 20:05:29 PM UTC

Freedom for me (4.00 / 1)

but not for thee.

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Sun Feb 06, 2011 at 11:46:59 AM UTC

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hey (4.00 / 2)

lawyers need jobs, too - in the teananny state.  

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by: susanthe @ Sat Feb 05, 2011 at 20:44:39 PM UTC

teanannies! (0.00 / 0)

Susan, when you turn a phrase, you open up whole new worlds.

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by: beverlywoods @ Tue Feb 08, 2011 at 01:38:41 AM UTC

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Bedroom Nannys (4.00 / 4)

I really think we need to consider a micro-site "You voted for this?" or some such, a simple soundbite sized site to make sure folks can digest some of the crazy in bite sized chunks.

Hope >> Fear





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by: Mike Hoefer @ Sat Feb 05, 2011 at 20:47:53 PM UTC

Jobs, jobs, jobs. (4.00 / 3)

This is a jobs bill.  This will require a new police department to monitor all those couples who are waiting until their youngest child reach the age of majority before they can divorce.

If one of them leaves the marriage before then, who pays the child support that is today required in a divorce?  The NH Taxpayer will have to pick up the bill from all the absent parents, which will create more jobs in the tax department.  

These guys are really on the ball.  That laser beam is working.

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by: mevansnh @ Sat Feb 05, 2011 at 21:42:40 PM UTC

Not to mention all the small businesses this will create (0.00 / 0)

private investigators to "find" extreme cruelty, abuse, drunkenness, etc. Photographers to take pictures and videos of perps caught in flagrante, boatloads of psychotherapists to deal with children living in a hostile home, the list goes on and on.

Jobs, jobs, jobs! Problem solved!

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

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by: GreyMike @ Sun Feb 06, 2011 at 04:39:11 AM UTC

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Wow (4.00 / 2)

Those legislative sponsors need to spend a week or two in the shoes of marriage and domestic violence counselors, child therapists, and/or church ministers to get a better feel for what is going on in truly troubled marriages and what kind of devasting impact such legislation would have on children whose parents are forced to stay married because they don't meet the legislative criteria to get a divorce.

Something is amiss when they are trying to prevent homosexuals from getting married, but they believe in forcing hetersexuals to stay married.  

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by: gradysdad @ Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 19:47:49 PM UTC

This is ridiculous! (4.00 / 4)

After little more than ten years of marriage my mother and father divorced...I was ll, my sister was 6.

Within six months both married again...and their new spouses were divorced with small children as well.

Both sets of parents are nearing their 40th wedding anniversary!

Both marriages are clear examples of finding the right spouse the second time around.

When I was 18 I wrote my stepmother a letter thanking her for making my Dad such a better person and a better dad to me, my sister, my stepsister and two half sisters.

My stepfather gave my mother the stability that she had never experienced in her life before.

To have destroyed my parents' chances of finding real love is outrageous.


Have you told a stranger today about Bill O'Brien and his Tea Party agenda? The people of NH deserve to hear about O'Brien  and his majority committed to destroying New Hampshire and remaking it into a armed survivalist preserve.  

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by: Ray Buckley @ Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 19:56:44 PM UTC

Common Theme (4.00 / 2)

When Democrats change social laws, it's to make the law more inclusive.

When Republicans change social laws, it's to restrict who benefits from them, or to punish the nonconforming.


Aaron / Deering. Kuster 2012: http://www.kusterforcongress.com/

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by: nhveedub @ Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 21:35:11 PM UTC