Billoney

Apparently, there's some confusion about what the law is for. (0.00 / 0)

Our conservative friends seems to think it's to tell people what to do. That's actually correct to the extent that the law does tell agents of government what to do.  As to the rest of us, the law says what we should not do, if we don't want to risk being punished--AFTER we do it.  The law is not preventive, in any case.
The only way to prevent crime is to lock people up, but then locking people up for nothing is itself a crime.

So, long story short, crime prevention is a crock.

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by: hannah @ Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 09:27:46 AM UTC

Couldn't make it up. (4.00 / 2)

Remember when four years of D control led to exactly one "crazy" bill, the "bathroom bill," except NHGOP had to lie about it and get the press to buy the lie just to carry tht one across the finish line?

But here in the short space of a year, enough madness to fill a book.

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by: Dean Barker @ Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 10:17:45 AM UTC

Please, please, refrain (4.00 / 4)

from identifying that bill as "crazy" and the "bathroom bill" even in quotes.  Some here may not remember the circus created by a number of Republicans who opposed the bill.

What I want people to remember was that the bill simply added sexual orientation to the bases on which businesses may not discriminate.  I learned about the difficulties transgendered persons face on a daily basis, ranging from job loss to the issue of which bathroom to use (most refrain from use of ANY public facilities) because of the various dangers involved.)   It was an important and much-needed initiative which went down in flames due to a deliberate excess of mean-spiritedness.

Here is a fact that should help you to fight a little longer.
Things that don't actually kill you outright make you stronger.

Piet Hein, Grooks

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by: Lucy Weber @ Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 11:40:06 AM UTC

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I will also concede that we did have our share (0.00 / 0)

of, shall we say, eccentric bills.  What distinguishes ours from the current crop is that ours were filed with kindness, and occasionally a hint of whimsy, as with the proposal that we have a State House cat, literally a cat living at the State House, to greet visitors and perhaps to allow a frazzled legislator to dissipate a bit of stress by stroking the cat and listening to the resultant purr.

(I note that bill was withdrawn due to number of difficulties ranging from the issue of allergies to the question of who would care for the cat when the legislature is in recess.)

Here is a fact that should help you to fight a little longer.
Things that don't actually kill you outright make you stronger.

Piet Hein, Grooks

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by: Lucy Weber @ Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 11:49:29 AM UTC

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Maybe Dean can help - (4.00 / 1)

What is the specific Magna Carta Latin mandate on vegetarianism? And are we clear on whether it speaks of an ovo-lacto-vegetarian or vegan diet?

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by: elwood @ Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 11:24:27 AM UTC

call any vegetable (4.00 / 1)

and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you

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by: JonnyBBad @ Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 12:50:42 PM UTC

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Alas, I heard it was ITLed today. (4.00 / 2)

So goes my brief venture into 12th century Latin bill-writing.

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by: Dean Barker @ Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 23:35:23 PM UTC

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The committee voted ITL. (4.00 / 1)

But the bill can still be brought to the floor and debated in order to overturn the committee report, as happened with HB228.

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by: Jennifer Daler @ Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 23:45:43 PM UTC

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HOPE LIVES ON. (4.00 / 1)

Dum spiro, spero!

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by: Dean Barker @ Wed Jan 25, 2012 at 01:00:16 AM UTC

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Jobs ? no not nationally either (4.00 / 2)

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by: JonnyBBad @ Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 12:57:14 PM UTC

Numbers (4.00 / 2)

We need a graphic like this with NH specifics.

I was also thinking about a series of Burma Shave-type signs listing an idiot bill on each one, but that may be too much of a roadside distraction for drivers.

November 2012
Hope for a return to sanity.

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by: GreyMike @ Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 13:30:56 PM UTC

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Harrell?? n/t (4.00 / 2)

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by: JonnyBBad @ Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 13:53:53 PM UTC

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From AU Email (4.00 / 1)

Americans United for Separation of Church and State today criticized the House of Representatives for approving two bills promoting the use of religious symbols and prayers at governmental monuments and war memorials.

The House voted to approve H.R. 290, the "War Memorial Protection Act" and H.R. 2070, the "World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2011." Both bills are designed to add religious language to monuments or allow sectarian symbols to be used to honor the nation's war dead.

"These bills dishonor the memory of our country's brave veterans by drafting them as fodder in yet another divisive 'culture war,'" said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United executive director. "The House ought to be ashamed of itself. At a time when the nation faces serious economic and public policy problems, I am appalled that House members would waste time on this kind of distraction."

This is just so wrong.  Where are the JOBS?

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by: mevansnh @ Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 23:58:47 PM UTC

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Billoney (0.00 / 0)

Okay - so what do WE do, those of us out here who are starting to resent the f**k out of our "representatives"- to express our profound disapproval of this kind of nonsense?

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by: sherryfrost @ Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 15:29:12 PM UTC

Suggestions (4.00 / 5)

1. call/e-mail/write your reps and complain
2. If you have fringe reps, run for the legislature, if you can't run, recruit
3. Letters to the local paper
4. Tell your friends, family and colleagues about the fringe takeover
 



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

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 16:59:02 PM UTC

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on phone today recruiting for Bow (4.00 / 2)

Hoell and Keane gotta go...

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by: JonnyBBad @ Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 17:35:04 PM UTC

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and insist (4.00 / 1)

Insist in the strongest way possible that your local newspaper cover what your representatives are REALLY doing.  

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by: susanthe @ Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 18:17:21 PM UTC

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FWIW (0.00 / 0)

Sent a letter to the Editor of the C/M this afternoon.  Thanks for encouraging that kind of action.

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by: mevansnh @ Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 23:56:55 PM UTC

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The 26th Amendment (0.00 / 0)

State House Republicans are not asking for my generation's votes. I do not understand the strategy.

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Wed Jan 25, 2012 at 00:57:40 AM UTC