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Wilderness Walmart Fight Rages On

by: wuwm

Wed Sep 30, 2009 at 14:59:13 PM EDT

Here's an idea: Let's build a shopping mall on the National Mal in Washington, or even better, how about a McDonalds on Half Dome in Yosemite Park? Don't these sound like good ideas? Well if you're saying NO, then you probably agree that they make about as much sense as the proposal to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter on the grounds of the Wilderness Civil War Battlefield.  Robert Duvall agrees also and spoke out earlier this year:

Just last week, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Friends of Wilderness Battlefield, and six nearby residents filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Orange County. The suit challenges the August 2009 approval of Walmart's proposal to plant a massive super center unacceptably close to the historic battlefield.

Video is via the Civil War Preservation Trust, and there is more after the fold:  

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GOP Chairman Sununu is saying some awfully weird things these days

by: Michael Marsh

Sat Jun 27, 2009 at 09:29:00 AM EDT

(If by "awfully weird" you mean "laughably untrue"... - promoted by Dean Barker)

An interview with GOP Chairman Sununu was front-page "news" in the Portsmouth Herald on Friday. It was a trip to fantasy-ville, with the ex-Governor using the word "radical" 4 times when referring to the legislature. That's right: no income tax, no sales tax, no cap gains tax, no estate tax. But they're still a bunch of radicals.

The interview was further evidence, also, that its recent purchase by Rupert Murdoch has not been a great thing  for the Herald.

Here are a few of Sununu's bigger whoppers:

The state budget passed by the Legislature this week is a deliberate step by Democrats toward a state income tax.

Why? Cuz he said so, that's why! By way of "proof" he cites one member of the House "Appropriations and Ways and Means" committee who is pro-income tax. His staff needs to tell him that the committee dropped "Appropriations" from its name many years ago.

Passage of a same-sex marriage law is a kickback to "radical left groups" from out of state that funded Democrats' campaigns in 2006 and 2008....It was quid pro quo, said the GOP chairman, that the out-of-state, agenda-laden money went to the N.H. State Democratic Committee then to local Democratic candidates with the implicit expectation that a gay-marriage bill would be passed.

Got that, legislators? Your vote was purchased wholesale by out-of-staters, and you never knew! You thought you were voting in the great tradition of personal freedom we cherish here, and to end an obvious example of discrimination. I guess the joke's on you!

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S.O.S.---Save Our Parks---Protest in Peterborough---tomorrow-Tuesday!

by: TaxiManSteve

Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 18:24:28 PM EDT

( - promoted by Dean Barker)

S.O.S. ---Save Our Sanity!

Stop!  Demonstration tomorrow outside the Peterborough Townhouse.  3:00 PM.  Bring banners with "Pisgah: Forever Wild" and "Save Our Parks."

Like the public is doing in California.

---SWL

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Dwindling GOP Marooned in Political Wilderness

by: VABBY

Wed May 06, 2009 at 12:09:15 PM EDT

"Being a Republican moderate sometimes feels like being a cast member of "Survivor" - you are presented with multiple challenges, and you often get the distinct feeling that you're no longer welcome in the tribe," Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)

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