tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117774872008-02-21T22:47:11.100-05:00Goffstown SoapboxM Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11777487.post-1119097738682835752005-06-18T07:26:00.000-05:002005-06-18T07:28:58.686-05:00Food for thought 3Been very busy lately but here is a nice quote to think about. "Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, M Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.com50tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11777487.post-1116677758796196222005-05-21T06:29:00.000-05:002005-05-21T07:15:58.803-05:00They are at it againHi, been a little Busy lately, and have had little time to get my thoughts out of my head. Our wondrous and magnanimous state government is at it again. They have been busy these last couple of weeks legislating away the rights of the people. The latest bill to get by the senate was a helmet law for bicycles under age sixteen, not motorcylces mind you bicycles. As if the police don't have M Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11777487.post-1115473965780116892005-05-07T08:51:00.000-05:002005-05-09T13:56:04.393-05:00The Lefts Latest Buzz Word"Dominionist", "Dominionism": Ominous words aren't they? You almost expect the bogeyman to jump out of the dark corner. That is the idea behind these words, to scare people. The strange thing about these words is that they do not exist in Noah Webster's dictionary, or any other dictionary for that matter. These words were made up by people that want to demonize someone they disagree with. I M Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11777487.post-1114947394931281222005-05-01T06:32:00.000-05:002005-05-07T16:14:43.990-05:00Social Security DisinformationThe most recent edition of the Goffstown News contained a letter titled: Bush's plan for Social Security is gambling with the future. There is so much disinformation circulating, concerning this subject. And this letter is either part of that campaign or from someone that is poorly informed as to the crisis this nation is facing. Let me begin by stating three indisputable facts. 1)Social M Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11777487.post-1114782027734765152005-04-29T07:55:00.001-05:002005-04-29T08:49:02.550-05:00EZ Pass in NHI found this article in the Union Leader this morning. Complicating E-ZPass:Make the switch already It goes on about how tokens are an obsolete technology, and how NH is behind the curve for electronic toll collection. EZ pass is a great technology. Tokens should not be done away with yet. People should realize that there are draw backs to this technology as well. First is there could be a M Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11777487.post-1114618054142755982005-04-27T09:40:00.000-05:002005-04-27T12:51:11.256-05:00Goffstown Budget InsanityHi all, I was just rereading the articles that had passed during the last town meeting. Also was reading a history of past tax increases. And have been completely amazed at the slow incremental increases to the tax rate for this town. It is high time the voters of this town stand up to this ever increasing taxation. This town needs to get back to the basics and leave the fluff alone. The town isM Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11777487.post-1114610451500561872005-04-27T08:23:00.000-05:002005-04-27T09:15:10.296-05:00Florida has done something right for onceI was reading the news this morning and found this article: Florida Governor Signs Deadly Force Law It is amazing a law like this had to be passed by the legislature there, but it is a start. Did you know the we( the citizens of New Hampshire) have always had the right to defend our property and lives from the time we ratified our state constitution? We were so obsessed with the right to defend M Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11777487.post-1114346759092899312005-04-24T07:19:00.000-05:002005-04-24T07:46:48.413-05:00More Food for ThoughtSociety in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an in tolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer! -- from Thomas Paine's Common Sense I M Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11777487.post-1114297777125971572005-04-23T17:44:00.000-05:002005-04-24T07:50:21.453-05:00Sheep"The left takes it's vision seriously--more seriously that it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds--but that requires us to be sheep." Thomas Sowell I read this once and it hit home. How much more true can this statement be? The left wants to take us down a road where no one has any responsibilities, except that the State controls our lives. Here is couple of examples:M Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11777487.post-1113835852740231042005-04-18T07:24:00.000-05:002005-05-07T16:15:57.910-05:00Legal Minds at workHi trying some new features hope the new links work properly. Well on the the Post. I read a letter to the editor, in the Goffstown News. That really began to get me riled. The letter was named Two morality plays: one shows how to die, the other how not to. I t was submitted by a couple of lawyers, whose names can be found in the link i supplied at the end of this post. The letter compared theM Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11777487.post-1113594628213525892005-04-15T14:48:00.000-05:002005-04-15T14:50:28.213-05:00Food for ThoughtHe is a quote to think about over the weekend. I will probably post more on this quote later on. Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) - "I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only are essential to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. I consider it as the chief M Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11777487.post-1113425157306908742005-04-13T14:48:00.000-05:002005-04-13T15:50:28.653-05:00Taxes againI read an interesting article today about the latest the state legislature hidden tax increase. They have decided to raise the fines on traffic violations, among other things. The odd thing about it was the fines were set in a closed-door committee meeting and then attached to the budget bill to vote on next week. What really burns me is that our illustrious rep in the legislature says we need a M Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11777487.post-1112985441859043022005-04-08T13:37:00.000-05:002005-04-08T13:37:21.860-05:00The state of the StateI can honestly say this State is going to hell in a hand basket. And Quick too. We have representatives that could care less about the state constitution and have said so. This is an affront to all freedom loving people in the State. If our representatives are not concerned with the constitutionality of the laws they are passing, then there is nothing but an overbearing and out of control M Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11777487.post-1112903975500441002005-04-07T18:00:00.000-05:002005-04-07T14:59:35.516-05:00Interesting Story about David CrockettHere is something I think you will enjoy. Its message is as fitting today as it was then. It is about the powers of congress as seen by the great David Crockett rep. TN. I was one day in the lobby of the House of Representatives when a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support, ratherM Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11777487.post-1112537158605207242005-04-04T13:32:00.000-05:002005-04-04T10:48:28.310-05:00Taxes taxes taxesI don't know if any one has noticed but Local taxes have increased again. If we keep up at this rate, an increase every year, we will end up like the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts. Where you have a mass exodus of the middle class and all that is left are the rich and the poor. I t seems to me that this town is more concerned with raising taxes than the economic development of the town(The M Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11777487.post-1112533698482544882005-04-03T07:31:00.000-05:002005-04-03T08:08:18.483-05:00Flawed LogicI have recently read a letter to the editor about the recently past town meeting vote. And was appalled by the logic exhorted by this writer. He claims that if there were just 142 more votes the new changes to the town charter would have passed. (Thankfully it did not btw) His thinking is flawed because you cannot count on the next 142 votes to be in the affirmative. Think about it this way, M Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11777487.post-1112323151843664502005-04-01T00:37:00.000-05:002005-04-08T15:22:32.056-05:00Sad DayWell it is done. Today can go down in history as a day worse than anything that has happened in this great country. You can throw 9/11/01 right out the window. Today is a day we have thrown away a life. Because someone felt it was not valuable. Because a court system could not see a problem with the procedure followed in determining ones wishes. Who ever heard of hearsay being admissable in a M Lovelesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16861877831366199352noreply@blogger.com9