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"There's no vote fraud!"

Again, BULLSHIT. How can you tell if there's vote fraud if you don't ID the voter? You can't.

Republicans know there is voter fraud. In the first person. https://www.denverpost.com/201...

http://occupydemocrats.com/201...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=946...

http://nhpr.org/post/mancheste...

https://www.arktimes.com/arkan...

http://archive.jsonline.com/ne...

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/...

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/0...

Yesiree, Republicans know full well that there is voter fraud, and that is because so much Votter Fraud is performed by Republicans - highly ranked ones even - And your wet dream of a voter ID is going to do nothing, not one thing but eliminate a trite old chestnut of a talking point.

Personally, I'm in favor of voter ID - but given that Republicans bring it up every election cycle like it is the cure blessed by God himself for them thar godless commiecrats and their letting them chocolate people - who always commit fraud, amirite? - is just Bullshit - to use your term.

Phase it in, make it free ( hey, maybe we can get that Russian Oligarch who funnels money to Republicans through the NRA to chip in ) and start long before elections.

But how is that going to actually stop Republican election fraud? Or is that Okay because the Republican party has shown it has a lock on the moral high ground?

No, he's listening to the news. You are listening to propaganda from government turnip Kris Kobach. Which is pretty funny because you seem like the type to go full-rabid on accusing everyone else of being a sucker for librul propaganda.

Not that any of these will change your mind, you can't reason a man out of a position they never reasoned themselves into. But in case anyone else reading along is wondering just WTF are you talking about:

Sen. Shaheen: There's No Evidence of Illegal Voting in New Hampshire
Is there evidence of voter fraud in New Hampshire, as Kris Kobach said? Not really
Kobach’s Bogus ‘Proof’ of Voter Fraud

Meanwhile, there are actual cases of voter fraud. Steve Bannon. for example. The reason turnips are all so worked up about voter fraud? They are the ones doing it. So they imagine everybody else is just as guilty as themselves because in turnip world there is no right and wrong, there is just your tribe and their tribe.

Thing is, I agree with you. But people (your "victims") actually seek this shit out. People actually watch these horrible news programs because they want their own beliefs echoed back to them. You get far more neutral journalism from Al Jazeera then from any major American news network, and that's just sad - but they know how to pander to the "victim".

I mean, it's no accident that the very funny Jon Stewart gets all this free material handed to him every single day. It's a byproduct of the different groups the major networks pander to... it's a never-ending stream of bullshit, and we reward them.

I just listened to this podcast about the "Free State" movement, and I was a bit surprised to hear that the two Free State legislators ran not on Libertarian tickets, but Democrat and Republican tickets. They said they did this because that way they get an "automatic" 30% of the vote. Amazing.

We've really created a hostile environment for anyone wanting to study science as a kid.

Can't give your kid a chemistry set, those don't exist. Can't buy chemicals, you might be making a bomb.

For several years (after 9/11) you couldn't buy a model rocket engine, 'cause of course you could use it for terrorism somehow.

Until recently you couldn't build a UAV. Well, you could build it, but flying it was illegal.

Students are arrested if they bring electronics projects to school (Can't find the link, remember reading about this).

Having canning jars and a bag of fertilizer in your car can get you arrested for having bomb-making materials.

Taking apart a smoke detector (and using it to demonstrate alpha radiation) is a "grievous offense" (actual NRC term) and can get you raided and have *all* your lab equipment taken away.

Your hackerspace will be shut down instead of "given 30 days for compliance" as would be the case for a company.

Really... what's left? Mathematics? I'm surprised that we have *any* young people interested in science ATM. We make it nigh impossible and come down hard on them when they do.

I'm fairly young, but I thought that the state-wide property tax was only enacted after the Claremont Decision. This seems to be confirmed by the fourth all-caps paragraph of this story:

http://www.nhpr.org/node/4290

Is this incorrect? I thought that the NH tax system before the Claremont Decision involved only direct taxation at the town level.

These folks seem to agree with you.

Tim Griffin, Michael Elston, Paul McNulty, Monica Goodling
Sara Taylor, Bradley Schlozman, Steve Biskupic, Alberto Gonzalez, David Safavian, Lurita Doan, Ken Tomlinson
Tom Delay, Bob Ney, Conrad Burns, Ted Stevens, Kyle Foggo, Duke Cunningham, Brent Wilkes, Mitchell Wade, Curt Weldon, Donald Rumsfeld, Jim Tobin
Scooter Libby, Manuel Miranda, Darleen Dryun, Thomas Scully, Chuck Mcgee, Pete Domenici
Porter Goss, Brant Bassett, Virgil Goode, Katherine Harris, Jerry Lewis, Ed Buckham, Steven Griles, Mark Foley, Paul Wolfowitz, Ken Lay, Conrad Black, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, Roger Stilwell, Tony Rudy, Jack Abramoff, Michael Scanlon, William Heaton, Adam Kidan, Neil Volz,

"The department of transportation would be most directly affected by the proposed legislation. And the department estimates frivolous lawsuits will cost the state more than $900,000 dollars over the next two years."

It doesn't mention drunk driving, but surely someone has sued the DOT after getting hit by a drunk driver. (Disclaimer: I only skimmed the article. It is one of many I found after doing a google search on Department Transportation lawsuits, inspired by your statement.)

Note: I'm not saying one should sue the DOT after getting hit by a drunk driver. Nor am I agreeing with your implication that these are similar, since Yahoo didn't just host the pictures - they did not take down the pictures when asked to do so. A closer analogy (but still flawed) would be suing the bartender who continued to serve the drunk driver even after he was noticeable drunk.

Your message implies "who to sue". How about sue no one?! How about the personal responsibility of knowing 911 works this way when you buy the device... I own Vonage, no secret to me that 911 worked different. Pretty clear when I installed the device. Of course, everyone who visit the house know this? No... but damn, we DID NOT go through this bullshit when Cell Phones were new.

I called 911 via a cell phone in 1988... and had to provide precise directions to where I was. I called in Dec 2004, and they knew exactly where I was. As late as two years ago, our local 911 had significant problems, because there were large areas of the county who were actually served by cells on the other side of the Sound... Leading to massive confusion as to which 911 response area the caller was actually in.

In fact, we are still working though issues related to 911 and cell phones. Try this incident in Miami (FL) in 2001. Or this editorial from New Hampshire in 2002. Or this newsbite from New York City in 2003.

The interface between cell phones on the 911 system is far from completely worked out.

That reminds me of my favorite quote from General Wesley Clark, which is rather politicized, but ultimately true I believe:

What I learned in the armed forces is this: To be, to be really cold about it, the Republicans are mostly interested in weapons systems. The Democrats are interested in people. And the more senior I became in the armed forces, the more clear it became to me that it's the people that matter the most, not the weapons systems. -- Wesley Clark, Nov 5 2003

I agree that the time of the classic ideal of the citizen legislator has pretty much passed, at least as far as the state level is concerned. I think it would be appropriate to cut down the number of legislators by about 3/4ths, pay them a low but livable wage ($30K?), and call it full-time employment -- especially those who serve on lots of committees or who have positions that end up requiring all of their time in other ways.

Living in Nebraska you probably haven't heard that our Speaker of the House has recently been exposed to be taking gifts for personal use -- for simple things like car payments and such, amounting to about $13K a year. (See the NHPR report for details.) I have to say that I think this situation, the temptation to solicit and accept this kind of gift, is contributed to by the low salary. It's got to be hard to hold a regular job while going up to Concord every Thursday (and possibly other days for committee meetings.)
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Tom Barringer
Candidate for State Representative for Derry, NH
www.ThatTallGuy.net

The FTC lawsuit is against Seismic Productions, which used to be registered to Walt Rines, Wallace's old spamming partner. Rines currently distributes a Trojan horse program called Kazanon that (falsely) claims to make users of the Kazaa file-sharing program invisible to the authorities. When asked about the legality of Kazanon, Rines said "If there's a grey area, I'm all for taking the opportunity, from a marketing standpoint."

Speaking as a Milford, NH resident, babbage is right. Both the Segway and Mt. Washington have their local appeal. Dean lives a couple of towns northeast of me in Bedford. "* climbed Mt. Washington" signs and bumper stickers are common. New Hampshire Public Radio covered this a few days back. You'll need the Real Player or Windows Media Player to listen to their coverage. Otherwise you can at least read the transcript of their report.

The law doesn't protect war driving. NHPR has a better version of the story which states:

If an operator doesn't take steps to lock down a wireless system, he or she could find it difficult to prosecute anyone who either deliberately or inadvertently gets access to the network.

Come on people, stop reading so much into things.

M@

The last time (and every time prior) an airplane came down the mfg was sued. It's SOP. Boeing was even sued after the 1999 Egypt Airline "Insh'Allah" crash into the Atlantic Ocean.

Every single time a plane crashes the mfg is sued. Every single time -- and wait for one to come this year against Boeing for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the basis that the planes are designed unsafely and are too easy to commandere. There's already a suit against Delta.

Sigh.