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michaeledward — Mon May 12, 2008 3:05 pm

Author: michaeledward

» lorcan wrote:

... it goes against your claim that the unborn baby is not a human life separate from the mother.

There are several statements in this sentence that are wrong, and perhaps contradictory. As long as you keep mixing arguments, you may be able to keep people confused, but you won't prove your point.

It is not an unborn baby. It is a zygote, embryo or fetus. As long as you use incorrect language, in an appeal to emotion, you are demonstrating yours.

Let us look at your other qualifications: Human, Life, Separate ...

There has been no claim that it is not 'human'.

If you 'separate' the embryo from the woman, and take no other action, does it remain alive?

Whether it is 'life' or not, is an important part of the question. And reasonable people can disagree on this point. If you are saying there is no room for disagreement, you are being unreasonable.

Try this thought experiment .... on one rail of the train track is tied a two year old boy; on the other, a petri dish with a zygote. You can save only one. Which would you choose?

How dare you taxpayers buy a TV or eat food !!

lildog — Mon May 12, 2008 3:00 pm

Author: lildog

CW, I agree with you... there are a LOT of parents who just don't care. And a number of teachers I know admit that kids from families that don't care are many times the problems in their classes. These kids are often times the ones causing problems that take time away from those who do care to learn.

And I'll even beat you to the punch that the argument against school choice is that many of the current failing inner city schools such as the one my sister spent time in would devolve into nothing more then junior prisons full of the kids left behind from families who just don't care enough about them to move them to better schools.

But what's the option? What we have in place isn't working. We're ranking near the bottom of all civilized countries when it comes to education testing.

The counter argument to the one I just made above is that it would allow teachers to focus more on the kids who most need it while not taking away from those trying. Rather then jamming all these kids into one room as we often see we'd have rooms broken out by ability and desire. We wouldn't have to hold back the kids trying as we do now.

But I'm interested in hearing your solution. How do we solve the education problem created by kids from homes that just don't care?

Who should control our schools?

rowland — Sun May 11, 2008 3:58 pm

Author: rowland

The courts? The legislature? Or the people? Participate in the poll at:

http://www.nhcitizen.org/modules/xoopspoll/pollresults.php?poll_id=4

The Broad Street Boondoggle

nemesis — Sat May 10, 2008 9:55 pm

Author: nemesis

» lorcan wrote:

» commonwealth wrote:

Again, I ask the question, how long do you think it will be before all six lanes are regularly blocked on the turnpike heading crossing the river?

I have no idea. There have not been any blocks to date, so it seems that it would be a long time before it is a chronic problem. One would have to look up the capacity of the roadway and then extrapolate the traffic growth to get an estimate.

It does seem to be a stretch to go from traffic on Rt 3 to getting a road that goes from Rt 3 to a point in Nashua...

You might ask Chamber of Commerce (also known as Chris Williams, J. Stabile, S. Tamposi, Terrance Williams - Telegraph, Alderman McCarthy, Mayor Lozeau, etc). how important the parkway is to their Income Statements, reelection funds, etc,

Capacity of the existing roads is more than adequate since NH DOT analysis shows HUGE overstatement of future traffic volumes in earlier studies made to support building the parkway.

You can verify this report with your Ward Alderman or any of the Aldermen at Large. They all have it in their files as it was presented to them in chamber a year or so ago. (except the newly elected ones, some of which wouldn't understand it anyway)

Are you feeding your pet Nutro Brand food> Please read

nemesis — Sat May 10, 2008 9:43 pm

Author: nemesis

Sign on the shelf of an area pet store:

"Shortages are a result of manufacturing problems and we expect to have new supplies by the end on March..."

It's now May and still no food. Must be one he!! of a manufacturing problem.

Polite young lady standing next to a table with a Nutro tablecloth on it told me they were having 'bagging problems' and food is forthcoming. Offered me a $1.00 coupon to save on the purchase of 4 cans of their products.

Sort of makes me wonder what 'new and improved' product their Chinese suppliers sold them at a bargain price this time. Or maybe the Canadian company they blames for last year's problems did it to them again.

A new view of The Broad Street Boondoggle

nemesis — Sat May 10, 2008 9:25 pm

Author: nemesis

» commonwealth wrote:

» nemesis wrote:

Fairly close to what I expected you to write.

Apparently everybody except you is wrong. Freud had a word for that.

Will the increased revenue be sufficient to pay the principal and interest on the $60+ Million construction cost?

Annual interest at 2.5%, a low municipal bond rate for $60,000,000.00 would equal

$1,500,000.00 every year until bonds are redeemed.

At the 2007 tax rate of $17.40 per thousand, development with assessed value of approximately

$98,000,000.00

has to be built or existing property assessments increased to pay just the interest.

http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates/

Of course this project will pay for itself, in a jiffy too.

Of course, forget traffic counts, traffic forecasts, lane markings and traffic signals, they have nothing to do with whether or not we need to build new roads (Freud had a name for that "coo-coo")

I don't ignore your 'statistics' I take them for what they are. To use your word: LIES! Lies told to support the Chamber of Commerce and their lackeys around the horseshoe and in the corner office in Nashua City Hall.

What straw man argument are you planning? Who said it would pay for itself?

No one gets anything for free.

Try dividing $60 Million by the number of property taxpayers in Nashua and see what the cost per person amounts to. Since Nashua taxpayers are the ones paying the bill, they should have a choice.

I would love to be able to predict the future, but I'd be buying lottery tickets instead of exchnging niceties with the likes of you. Who wll it bring here, how much business will it attract? Don't know.

Try looking at the regional planning web site for studies or impacts of the Parkway, (or the Circumferential highway)if you can find any, I wonder where they went? Where are the results f their traffic model and why aren't they public?

Traffic counts, projected or historical mean nothing. The fact they are not public might mean they do not support he argument that the roadway is necessary.

NRPC traffic counts indicate: (emphasis added)

» NH DOT traffic study analysis wrote:

The actual 2005 Main St Bridge counts are significantly lower than the 1985 counts and much lower than projections.

Two decades later, the actual counts on Amherst, West Hollis and Ledge Sts are lower than the 1985 counts.

Two decades later, the actual counts on Canal, Broad and Kinsley Sts are almost the same as in 1985.

By huge percentages, the 1991 projections significantly lag the actual counts more than a decade after 1991.

Except for Canal St, NRPC 2012 projections are highly inflated beyond the actual counts a few years earlier.

The statistics indicate, as was the case in the Pennichuck acquisition consultants report, figures were exaggerated because they supported the argument. History tells us they were LIARS! (again your word)

There is no free lunch but there is a huge difference between lunch at Jackie's diner and the Four Seasons in Boston.

The estimated cost of the parkway at $60,000,000.00 amounts to a $2,100.00 lunch for each and every one of the 43,000 +/- registered voters of Nashua.

I doubt many of us will vote with you on this "wasteful and impractical project or activity often involving graft" (boondoggle)

SDSU

Obama denounces Wright

dr.t — Sat May 10, 2008 2:20 pm

Author: dr.t

When is Obama going to denounce the new pastor (and the church for that matter)?
He's keeping right on with the same hate whitey/hate America retoric.
Obama sat in that church for 20 years and indoctrinated his innocent children with all that hate.
He believed what he heard. End of story.

A vote for John McCain is a vote for illegal immigration

dr.t — Sat May 10, 2008 2:16 pm

Author: dr.t

Obama's speech to La Raza: (La Raza (The Race),
Largest Hispanic organization in the U.S. Lobbies for racial preferences, bilingual education, stricter hate crimes laws, mass immigration, and amnesty for illegal aliens .
Obama said the recent Senate immigration debate "was both ugly and racist in a way we haven't see since poststhe struggle for civil rights."..
. Obama told La Raza that the mass protests lately of for immigration rights of Mexicans is equal in greatness to the civil rights protest of the past!Omama supports La Raza's, the "DREAM Act," which would mandate states to offer in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens -- thus providing them with benefits not available to U.S. citizens from other states. http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20070723/NATION/107230063/1001http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/201957.html
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95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
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75% of those on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens.
24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
29% (630,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our state and federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually.
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OBAMA: LOTS OF SYMBOLISM, BUT VERY LITTLE CHANGE

dr.t — Sat May 10, 2008 2:14 pm

Author: dr.t

Polished in a prepared speech, charismatic in his presentation, nonetheless, underneath it all lies a smoldering cauldron of marxism, bigotry, and black liberation theology that is the enemy of America and its traditional values.
Lets be more honest. A person doesn't attend a "Black Liberation" church that spews nothing but racism unless they believe in what's being taught. B. Hussein Obama is a "Closet Racist" pure and simple! If America elects this piece of work, he'll make this country look like Zimbabwe after he and his ilk finish looting and plundering the treasury and its citizens. Reparations would definitely be on the table.

Ayotte - Officer Justified In Shooting At Fleeing Van

Christopher King — Fri May 09, 2008 11:20 pm

Author: Christopher King

» Litchfield_Old_Timer wrote:

But did you graduate from any schools?

Having answered your question, yah.

And BTW I won the lawsuit and Kelly and the Town of Franonia owe Court Costs and they are both looking like ass.

http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/2008/05/kingcast-new-rsa-91-request-goes-back.html

Ha-ha you old crotchety old bastid.

Just a term of endearment =^.)

A graceful exit for Hillary

Og — Fri May 09, 2008 4:09 pm

Author: Og

I seriously doubt that she will exit before the convention.

I'm about 40% sure that she will go independent if the convention goes to Obama.

And I'm still predicting that someone, somewhere, will get a literal bloody nose at the convention.

A note for whomever did the hate crime on our mural:

Christopher King — Fri May 09, 2008 1:21 pm

Author: Christopher King

» lildog wrote:

Someone defaced that mural? When did this happen???

That is such a great painting and is one of the first things that really jumped out at me when I moved here to NH.

Personally I always have looked at baseball as the complete breakdown of racism so its shocking that someone would target that picture. In baseball it doesn't matter what color you are, what country you're from or anything like that... it comes down to your abilities.

Absolutely, same thing in tennis except that requires more money to get good. I pitched and played first base in Little League (obviously not quite like Don or Jackie, respectively!!) and it is America's Game, all the way. In defacing that mural, and what it stands for whomever did it took us light years backwards on the continuum of human progression. My hope is that it was some young kids kinda drunk and on a dare or something, and that they didn't really understand what they were doing.

But the sad truth is that some people are beyond reach.

It happened on the 7th I believe.... if you visit the blawg link I have the Telegraph story by Pat Meighan linked there.

Peace, Love, Aloha, Namaste.

Crooked-assed Sgt. Franklin fired in Dan Talbot's death.

Christopher King — Fri May 09, 2008 8:32 am

Author: Christopher King

http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/2008/05/kingcast-applauds-revere-mayor.html

09 May 2008
KingCast applauds Revere Mayor Ambrosino for firing douchebag Sgt. Ervin Franklin, who ran, hid and lied when Dan Talbot was shot.

From the Lynn Daily Item, from my buddy Columbian Cokane and here's some of the back story. I've publicly wondered about toxicology tests on all of those involved too.

» Quote:

"Sgt. Franklin not only delayed the initial police response, he withheld critical information from the initial responding officer. This egregious breach of Sgt. Franklin's professional responsibilities, by itself, warrants his discharge from the Revere Police Department," Mayor Thomas Ambrosino concluded in his 10-page decision.

Time will tell how vigorous the investigation really is, and I will definitely attend some of the trials. Toxicology reports and cell phone records for everyone!

Help me make gas and diesel prices go down.

gmcgath — Fri May 09, 2008 5:03 am

Author: gmcgath

This is a good chance to explain some fallacies in economics:

1. "The price of a barrel of oil increased more than 500 percent in the last four years. Consumption did NOT go up 500 percent so the increase was NOT due to higher demand at the pump." This isn't the way pricing works. The relationship of price to supply isn't an arithmetic inverse, but depends on what's called "elasticity" and "marginal demand." Put simply, with some products people will just stop buying if the price goes up. With others people will cut back very little when prices increase. The effect of supply on price depends on which is the case. Other factors, such as anticipated supply in the future, also have an important role.

2. "The demand was for gas and oil stock. We made it go up by buying stock and we can make it go down by selling stock." I can't even begin to figure out where this notion is coming from. Purchasing stock in a company doesn't make the price of its products go up. I can't even imagine why anyone thinks it does. An

When police chiefs throw out complaints about bad cops.

Christopher King — Thu May 08, 2008 10:08 am

Author: Christopher King

» Dave24 wrote:

You are a little overly cranky sometimes Chris, but thank you for keeping an eye on the authorities.

Thanks. Let's see how these passages rate on the crank-o-meter:

Read today's ethics complaint on town counsel to see whether his client told him about it or not.

http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/2008/05/kingcast-ethics-query-on-dan-mullen.html

» Quote:

"Giving Chief Montminy the most innocent construction possible, it still strikes this writer as false evidence and a fraud upon the Court to issue a naked statement to the court that you can�t find something without mentioning the fact that you know it existed and were concerned enough to fax it to the District Attorney.

Further, when the item pertains to a complaint from a lawyer against a Police Officer, �losing� such a document -- or series of documents -- carriers with it a whole separate series of issues best addressed in another tribunal. However at this point we clearly need to know whether Chief Montminy told Attorney Mullen of the complaint or not and then commence an analysis from that point.

Accord State v. Yates, 137 N.H. 495; 629 A.2d 807 (1993), conviction overturned on false testimony that prosecutor knew to be false, "The duty to correct false testimony is on the prosecutor, and that duty arises when the false evidence appears.""

And

» Quote:

Dear Attorney Mullen:

Attached please find a hotlinked and Word version of a Grievance going out today in tracked U.S. Mail.

http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/2008/05/kingcast-ethics-query-on-dan-mullen.html

I don't know that you did anything wrong. Perhaps your client never gave you the information or lied to you.

Either way the public has a right to know how and why neither you or your client informed the Court that you were actually aware of the Troy Watts ethics complaint against Bruce McKay.

Very truly yours,

Christopher King, J.D.

PS: You will notice a slight variance between the online version and the Word version because I put a notary signature block on the final copy and called it a "grievance" pursuant to rule, but it's really not a traditional "grievance" because I want to believe your client lied to you. Only time and integrity -- something your client seems to lack in any substantial measure -- will tell.