New Hampshire’s School Funding Proposal is Unconstitutional

  An interesting editorial appeared in the New Hampshire Union Leader today, here it is reprinted in it’s entirety:

THE CLASSIC Popeye cartoon character named Wimpy had a taste for hamburgers that exceeded his budget. Always short on cash, he would go into a restaurant and utter his famous catch-phrase, “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”

On Thursday the Legislature passed an education funding plan on the Wimpy payment system. Legislators decided that whoever gets elected to the General Court this fall will gladly pay next year for the school funding plan passed yesterday.

The state currently spends $897 million for education. Legislators on Thursday raised that to $940 million in the 2009-10 school year and $975 million a year in the future. They did so knowing full well that there is no source of additional funding to raise school spending even a dime higher than the amount contained in the existing budget. Current estimates predict a roughly $250 million shortfall in this two-year state budget. So even funding the current level of state education spending will be a challenge, never mind finding an additional $43 million to $78 million.

Where will that extra money come from? That’s for the next Legislature to decide after the next election.

The plan also violates the state constitution as interpreted by the state Supreme Court. It determines how much money the state must give each community to fund an adequate education, then doesn’t fully fund that amount for some communities during a two-year transition period.

The point of the two-year transition is to prevent sudden, enormous fluctuations in local school budgets. Politically, it makes sense. But technically, it violates the Supreme Court’s mandate that the state provide 100 percent of adequate education funding for every community.

It is yet another example of how the Claremont jurisprudence makes reasonable political compromises on school funding virtually impossible.

This whole mess of an education funding plan is the direct result of trying in vain to obey court decisions that make no real-world sense. Education funding is a political exercise. The court has tried to take politics out of it and make it an issue of rights, which creates an untenable situation.

Next year, legislators will find themselves engaged in the political task of finding additional money to fund this politically crafted school spending plan. They will do that under the pretense of ignoring politics and looking only to secure each student’s right to an adequate education.

That is dishonest and absurd.

  There are two things that I find interesting, if not disturbing, about this latest school funding proposal, the first of which is the fact that it violates the state constitution. There is already state supreme court precedence in regards to passing spending legislation without actually finding the means to fund the legislation, which is what this does. The New Hampshire supreme court has already found this to be unconstitutional. Evidently this doesn’t mean too much to the far left moonbats that have taken over control of the state. They don’t care how much something costs, or even how to pay for it. It is for someone else to worry about, as far as they are concerned.

 The second aspect that I find interesting is the fact that they purposely postponed funding this bill until after the election. There is no way in hell the legislators would ever vote to fund this bill before the election. Governor Lynch and the rest of his tax and spend buddies are going to have to institute either a sales or income tax to pay for this. It’s either that or further raise all of the other taxes that Governor Lynch enjoys raising. Either way it would be political suicide to proceed with actually funding this irresponsible legislation, so they will just postpone the spending aspect of the bill until after the election (illegally, mind you.)

 People of New Hampshire, YOU NEED TO WAKE UP, AND WAKE UP RIGHT NOW. Can’t you see what is going on here? The wool is being pulled over your eyes and you are either not paying attention, don’t care, or we have simply become Massachusetts north.

 It is probably all of the above, and it sucks!

New Hampshire to Debate yet Another Impeachment Resolution

 How many fucking times to we have to go through this bullshit? COME ON NEW HAMPSHIRE, SOLVE THE BUDGET DEFICIT GOVERNOR LYNCH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR AND STOP WASTING YOUR FUCKING TIME WITH THIS! If anybody should be impeached it is Governor Lynch for his reckless and idiotic tax and spend legislation that is about to bankrupt this once great and fiscally responsible state. We have turned into nothing but a bunch of government dependent, nanny state followers, and it is Governor Lynch’s fault. I DEMAND HIS IMPEACHMENT RIGHT NOW, DAMN IT!

 If you can’t tell, I am so tired of New Hampshire wasting time on bullshit legislation such as the impeachment of the president by this senile 300 year old useless representative Betty Hall I could just scream. We have so many other problems to worry about here in New Hampshire, impeaching the president is not one of them. President Bush will be gone in less than one year, LET IT GO! The state legislature just broke the state constitution by passing spending legislation without a means to fund it and we are worried about impeachment? I AM MORE WORRIED ABOUT GOVERNOR LYNCH AND STATE DEMOCRATS SHITTING ON THE STATE CONSTITUTION.

 Betty Hall still regrets that she voted against impeaching Richard Nixon and that is what is driving her to proceed on this resolution. I am not making that up:

“My failure to vote for the New Hampshire House resolution for the Nixon impeachment is absolutely the biggest regret of my legislative career. That is why I am so dedicated to doing this now,” she said.

 This is how far that New Hampshire has turned left? I find it hard to believe, but it appears to be the case.

 

House Democrats Have a Chance to end the War, Rufuse to do so

 Democrats have long held the public stance that they will end the war if only we send a larger majority of Democrats to the house and senate, as well as a Democrat to the White House of course. Privately I believe they hold a totally different stance. It would be very easy for Democrats to end the war, they could begin the ending tomorrow if they wanted to, hell they could end it today if their really were so inclined. All that they have to do is vote to defund the war. It would be over and troops would almost immediately start to come home.

 Democrats know deep down inside the dangers of ending the war before it is over and they don’t have the balls to vote for defunding it. Democrats don’t want their names tied to the wrong side of a vote on national security if something happens after they defunded the war, so they refuse to vote for defunding the war.

 However, they had a chance to defund the war and bring it to an end without voting on it, and they refused to do so. All that the Democrat house leader had to do was not allow the latest Iraq war funding bill to come up for a vote. This would have effectively ended the war. This would have delivered to their constituency on the promise that they have been making to them for four years, ending the war. Here is what the Democrat majority leader in the house had to say about the possibility of ending the war in this manner:

“I don’t personally believe it’s a practical alternative not to put a bill on the floor and not to let the House of Representatives work its will on what it wants to do on this issue,”

 I thought we knew what their will was. Weren’t we told that Democrats were elected in 2006 to end the unpopular war? Shouldn’t their will be to end the war then? This would have been an easy, ball-less way to end the war and they are even too scared to make good on their biggest campaign promise of ‘06.

 What a bunch of frauds.

Barack Obama’s Church Bulletins Contain Controversial Content

 By now everybody has heard the infamous “sermons” from Barack Obama’s spiritual mentor and pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Barack Obama stood by his pastor when the video clips first hit the airwaves, but as the controversy grew and Reverend Wright became a serious detriment to the Obama campaign Obama was forced to denounce his former reverend.

 Obama has maintained that he had never, ever heard Wright make such statements in the TWENTY YEARS he attended Wright’s church. Apparently we are to believe that the only time Reverend Wright made controversial statements was coincidentally times where Barack Obama just happened to miss church. It wasn’t until Reverend Wright decided that he liked his new found fifteen minutes of fame and decided to turn it into an hour that Obama found it politically exponential to denounce Wright’s statements as divisive and destructive. He claims that the man he heard utter those words during his magical mystery media tour was not the same man that he had grown to know over the years.

 However, we are now beginning to hear about church bulletins from Obama’s church that also preach the same type of hate as late as last year. I suppose we are to believe Obama just happened to not read these bulletins either.

Articles published in the Trinity United Church of Christ bulletin in 2007 carried controversial comments written by people other than Jeremiah Wright. Those comments included the claim that Israel worked with South Africa to build an “ethnic bomb” that would kill blacks and Arabs, that the Pentagon was training Latin Americans to be terrorists, and that the TV networks are run by right-wing racists.

 This is the type of hate that Barack Obama and his wife took his young girls to listen to on a weekly basis. How is that for judgement from the man who is running on his judgement because he claims he would not have voted for war with Iraq? This shows a lack of judgement to me.

 When interviewed about his denouncement of Reverend Wright, Obama claimed that he wasn’t committing to Wright by joining the church, rather the church itself.

“I think that the American people understand that when I joined Trinity United Church of Christ, I was committing not to Pastor Wright. I was committing to a church and I was committing to Christ. And it is a wonderful church.”

 Now it appears as if the church itself harbors the same hateful and anti-American ideology as Reverend Wright. It will be interesting to see now Barack Obama tries to distance himself from this, if he does at all, however Obama’s campaign refused to comment on these new revelations (pardon the pun.)

 You can read more in this article.

Another Possible Republican Cadidate for New Hampshire Governor

 New Hampshire may now have a second Republican candidate for governor. His name is James Adams and he seems to have party insiders excited. For whatever reason party insiders aren’t real excited about their other candidate, Joe Kenney. Several Republicans have considered taking on the popular, liberal governor of New Hampshire, John Lynch, including the mayor of Manchester, but they have all decided against it.

 Now Republicans may have a couple of options in the election. Here is what New Hampshire GOP chairman, Fergus Cullen had to say about Adams, who would be running for his first elective office:

“Jim’s initial strengths are management experience with a large organization with large budgets and a less tangible set of political skills that comes from rising to the top in a large political, bureaucratic organization and staying there,” he said.

 I don’t know anything about this man, but here is a little about where he stands on taxing and spending:

“I was concerned with the state of the economy and with the 17.5 percent spending increase in the state budget,” he said. “Where I came from, that sort of budget would have meant the individual in charge would no longer be there.”

Adams called Democratic Gov. John Lynch “a good man and a very popular governor,” but he believes the budget and government can be cut.

He took the anti-broad based tax pledge in an interview

 He is on the right side of this issue, that is for sure. If Adams decides to run it will be interesting to hear both of these candidates on the issues. I may not know much about these men right now, but I will learn all that I can about them during the primary season. It looks to be interesting.

 I will leave you with a good quote from Joe Kenney on liberal John Lynch’s plan to tax Texas Hold’em card games that raise money for charities that would effectively leave 10% less money to go to the charities the games are supposed to benefit.

Kenney has been calling Lynch’s new plan for a higher cigarette tax and a tax on Texas Hold ‘Em charity games “tax and hold ‘em,” Crane said.

 It looks to be interesting in New Hampshire this election year. I am still holding out a faint hope that Republicans in New Hampshire can gain control and stop the bleeding that liberal Democrats have started in regard to taxes.

 Read more here.

President Bush to Stop Linking Al Qaeda to Muslims

 What a bunch of bullshit this is. President Bush and other government officials are going to stop calling  al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations Islamic or Muslims. On top of that they are also going to stop using the terms  jihad and mujahedeen.

“There’ s a growing consensus [in the Bush administration] that we need to move away from that language,” said a former senior administration official who was involved until recently in policy debates on the issue.

 The theory is that we are legitimizing them by calling them by name. The MUSLIM and ISLAMIST TERRORISTS don’t need us to call them what they are to feel legitimised. They feel legitimized by their interpretation of the Koran. What is so hard to understand about this?

“You have a large percentage of the world’ s population that subscribes to this religion,” the former official said. “Unintentionally alienating them is not a judicious move.”

 How many times must it be said? We are not talking about everybody who subscribes to this religion as terrorists, we are talking about a small minority of this religion who are terrorists. So what are acceptable terms for these terrorists who shall remain nameless?

Instead, in two documents circulated last month by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), the multiagency center charged with strategic coordination of the U.S. war on terror, officials are urged to use terms such as violent extremists, totalitarian and death cult to characterize al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.

 Can you imagine if during WWII we stopped calling Nazis by their name so we wouldn’t legitimise them? Can you imagine not being able to use the word Komakazi because it would somehow legitimize them?

 This is very dissapointing from President Bush. Caving in to this type of political correctness is unnesseccary and stupid. It will accomplsh nothing. Not calling them by their name will not make them go away. If we can’t even call the terrorists what they are than they have already won. They have beaten us from within. And if that is so then it is time to just end the war, come home, and wait. Wait for the end, because political correctness is going to bring an end to this country as we know it.

Note to Hillary Clinton: It’s Over

 Hillary, it is over. You can’t overtake Barack Obama in pledged delegates, and you can’t catch him in the popular vote either. You can no longer make a claim to the super delegates that you are the candidate to beat John McCain in November. Even if you succeed in seating the Michigan and Florida delegates, thereby be rewarded for breaking your promise not to campaign in these states that broke you party’s rules you can’t catch up. Barack Obama followed the rules and kept his promise not to campaign in either state, yet you said one thing and did the opposite and now you want a reward for it?

 Hillary, you never had a realistic chance at catching Barack, just the hopes of a backroom deal to steal the nomination away from him. You can no longer even steal it from him. You had a 20% lead in the polls in Indiana and only won by 2%, thereby ending any realistic chance at gathering enough super deleagtes to steal the nomination.

 As I write this I am thinking of that scene in Pulp Fiction where Marcellus Wallace is bribing Butch to throw the fight. I think it sums up your chaces Hillary, and your situation. Here is the quote:

The thing is, Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it may be, ability don’t last. And your days are just about over. Now that’s a hard motherfuckin’ fact of life, but that’s a fact of life your ass is gonna have to get realistic about. See, this business is filled to the brim with unrealistic motherfuckers. Motherfuckers who thought their ass would age like wine. If you mean it turns to vinegar, it does. If you mean it gets better with age, it don’t. Besides, Butch, how many fights do you think you got in you anyhow? Two? Boxers don’t have an Old Timers Place. You came close but you never made it. And if you were gonna make it, you would have made it before now.

 So Hillary you gave it a hell of a try, you came close but you never made it just like Marcellus said. It is time to step aside, it is time to give Obama his due, it is time to end your campagn.

 Hillary Clinton, it is over.

 

California Super Delegate Wants $20 Million for His Vote

 The Democrat’s life theory is catching up with them. They believe in the idea that there are no winners and losers, as in children’s sporting events where there is no score kept because if a child loses he will be scarred for life. Instead of teaching a child that sometimes things don’t go your way the child is sheltered from any adversity and when as an adult adversity hits they have no idea how to handle it. This mindset has crept into more aspects of everyday life. In some schools teachers aren’t allowed to grade in red because red is a very traumatising color, they are using the less daunting purple pen to grade children.

 So you may be asking why I said that their life theory is catching up with them and I will now explain. It is this very theory of there can be no losers that has lead to the loser of a primary state still getting delegates. Sure a candidate was second winner, not a loser, so he/she deserves some delegate right? That is a perfect example of what this liberal mindset has produced.

 But there is another aspect, a dark aspect, that the Democrats nomination process has created the possibility of. This problem lies in the super delegates. Party insiders who are going to decide the Democrat nominee. It can never be good when party hacks can decide who should be their candidate and this shows us why. It opens up the door for corruption, backroom deals, and big money to be thrown around.

 Steven Ybarra, a Democrat super delegate from California, has not endorsed either candidate yet. And he isn’t going to either, until someone gives him $20 million for his endorsement. How is that for morals? This man doesn’t care about either candidates stance on any issues, he will sell his vote to whoever promises him $20 million first. He has promised that he can deliver over one million new Mexican-American voters for that $20 million bribe. All a candidate has to do is show the Mexicans how much he/she “cares” about them by delivering the bribe.

 Money has corrupted politics, and the Democrat primary system is not helping the problem. It is making it worse. How can a candidate promise to bring change to Washington if they are willing to bribe a super delegate for a vote? How can a candidate promise a more open and honest administration if they are willing to bribe a super delegate for a vote? How can a candidate be trusted to be fiscally responsible if they are willing to bribe a supre delegate for a vote?

 If a person is willing to do this for one vote, what will the same person do for many votes?

25% of Republicans Voted Against McCain in Indiana and North Carolina Primaries

  I know it has flown under the radar, and for good reason, but the Republicans also held primaries in Indiana and North Carolina today. You would think that because John McCain is the Republican nominee he would gather at least 90% of all Republicans who bothered to vote in an already decided primary. That is not the case however.

Republican primary results from Indiana:

McCain	289,189	77%
Huckabee	37,898	10%
Paul	28,125	8%
Romney	17,794	5 %

 Republican primary results from North Carolina:

McCain	318,600	74%
Huckabee	52,831	12%
Paul	31,460	7%
No Preference	16,684	4%
Keyes	11,169	3%

  As you can see John McCain only averaged about 75% of the Republican vote in these two states. So what does this mean? Probably not much, it seems to me that Republicans are sending a message to the turncoat that they have their eyes on him. Leary Republicans just want John McCain to know that they are dissatisfied with him as the nominee and he better watch his step.

 I would guess that most of these people will turn around and vote for McCain in the general election, other than the Ron Paul supporters who I would bet will vote for Ron Paul in the general even if they have to write him in. As of right now I have to admit I am considering writing in Ron Paul myself.

 Conservatives are sending a message to John McCain but will he listen? I doubt it, after all where will these voters go if they don’t vote for McCain? He knows that they have to vote for him if they want to avoid a Clinton or Obama presidency so he will continue to shun conservatives as he tries to win moderates and independents.

 John McCain has been shitting on conservatives for eight years, what’s another six months?

 

Al Gore Claims Global Warming is to Blame for Myanmar Cyclone

 It was only a matter of time before we heard this from Al Gore. Al Gore is now claiming that global warming is responsible for the cyclone in Myanmar. Al Gore should be ashamed of himself for trying to politicize a tragedy like this cyclone for his own personal benefit. At least people are starting to realize Al Gore for who and what he is, as can be seen in the first paragraph of the above linked article.

Using tragedy to advance an agenda has been a strategy for many global warming activists, and it was just a matter of time before someone found a way to tie the recent Myanmar cyclone to global warming.

 Former Vice President Al Gore in an interview on NPR’s May 6 “Fresh Air” broadcast did just that.

 That is precisely what Al Gore is doing here, using a tragedy to push his agenda. An agenda that puts millions of dollars in his pocket by the way. Here is how he tried to spin a natural tragedy into a human caused event:

And as we’re talking today, Terry, the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated,” Gore said. “And last year a catastrophic storm from last fall hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China – and we’re seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.

 Gore claimed global warming is forcing ocean temperatures to rise, which is causing storms, including cyclones and hurricanes, to intensify.

 But ih his next breath he seemed to try to cover his tracks.

It’s also important to note that the emerging consensus among the climate scientists is although any individual storm can’t be linked singularly to global warming – we’ve always had hurricanes,” Gore said. “Nevertheless, the trend toward more Category 5 storms – the larger ones and trend toward stronger and more destructive storms appears to be linked to global warming and specifically to the impact of global warming on higher ocean temperatures in the top couple of hundred feet of the ocean, which drives convection energy and moisture into these storms and makes them more powerful.”

 He is hedging his bets there. While he claims that this storm is linked to global warming, he is admitting that individual storms can’t be directly linked to global warming. He is sitting on both sides of the fence. You can’t have it both ways Al. He seems to be starting to back off because of more and more scientists who are voicing their global warming scepticism even as he is blaming global warming for the storm.

 Cyclones are an act of nature, they are not a political issue. But Al Gore and other global warming alarmists are trying to turn this into a political issue for their own gain. It is time to wake up and stop this scam before we are  taxed to the gills on this bogus hoax.