Mayor Merrifield Appearance

Franklin Mayor Ken Merrifield will be on Channel 23 in Manchester tomorrow. He will be on to defend the city charter as well as the tax cap. Be sure to watch for it!

Cross posted at Franklin TEA Party

Speaking of ObamaCare,,,

Steven Crowder of PJTV has a new video up about how WONDERFUL Canada's socialized health care system is. Check it out.



(h/t Hot Air)

ObamaCare Tea Parties

This Friday, July 17, show up and tell our representatives that they are doing the wrong thing in supporting Obama socialized medicine.

Organized events (focus is on ObamaCare only) are at the following locations at noon.

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Shea Porter 33 Lowell St Manchester

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Shaheen 1589 Elm St Manchester

* Hodes 18 North Main Street, Suite 400 Concord

If you can't make it to the organized event, go to your representative's office with a sign and still let your voice be heard on ObamaCare and cap and trade (again, starting at noon). Here are their addresses:

REP SHEA PORTER

Dover Office
104 Washington Street
Dover, NH 03820

REP HODES

Keene Office
29 Center Street, Keene, NH 03431

Nashua Office
221 Main Street, Suite 201, Nashua NH

Berlin Office
151 Main Street, Suite 2
Berlin, NH 03570

SEN GREGG

Berlin
60 Pleasant Street
Berlin, NH 03570

Concord
125 North Main Street
Concord, NH 03301

Portsmouth
16 Pease Boulevard
Portsmouth, NH 03801

SEN SHAHEEN

Claremont, NH
50 Opera House Sq.Claremont, NH

Nashua, NH
60 Main StreetNashua, NH

Dover, NH
340 Central Avenue Suite 205Dover, NH

Another New Blog

Hi, folks.

I started another new blog, again so I can focus on those issues a little more in-depth than I would here: Franklin TEA Party. Since the city councilors (save for one) won't listen to us, I decided to start a separate blog to make them more accountable for what they decide to do in this city. I'll be looking at all kinds of issues within Franklin, on both the city and the school side.

Blog Gets In Trouble Over Comments that Might Have Been A Set-Up

Over the weekend, Free Republic had a "caption this picture" post featuring President Obama's daughter Malia wearing a t-shirt with a peace symbol on it. Well, a lot of the comments crossed the line when it came to racism, and the blog was forced to take the whole thread down.

I'm not saying this is what happened, but there is something rather fishy about the whole thing.

The guy who reported it for the Vancouver Sun? His name is Chris Parry, and he has blogged in the past under the name "hollywoodoz" at Daily KOS. In the past he had advocated flooding conservative blogs with hate speech so that the site administrators would get blamed.

Is he responsible for what happened at Free Republic? Don't know. Coincidence? Don't know that, either. But it does kill his credibility, doesn't it?

From DPUD:

You know, my first thought on the one comment on the post about the PA swim club here was that someone was trying to do the exact same thing to us. Why I have no freaking clue.

Posted by: alexthechick at July 13, 2009 02:00 PM (SHHaV)

New Blog

Hi, folks.

I just thought I would announce that I now have a new offshoot to the ConChrist blog called Moonwalker.

Because there is so much information that's going to be coming out about the death of Michael Jackson, I decided to put it over on to an entirely new blog to examine and dissect. If I didn't, this would turn into the Michael Jackson blog. Over there, I'm going to not only have news as it comes out, but also see if I can find some stuff that people haven't seen in awhile or might not have ever seen as well as some classic stuff as it pertains to Jackson.

Check it out.

The First Concern Should Always Be For The Kids

Regardless of how much money Michael Jackson made in his lifetime, or how weird he was or whatever, the first concern now that he's gone is what is going to happen to his three kids.

Now, since his death, Joe Jackson has given some hints about the idea of getting Jackson's three kids into show business. The Daily Sun out of the U.K. has confirmed my suspicions, and no one is happy about his plans.

MICHAEL’S father Joe is lining up the King of Pop’s children for a world tour as The Jackson Three — despite family members accusing him of trying to “exploit them like Jacko”.

Former Jackson Five manager Joe is said to have approached Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and seven-year old Prince Michael II — known as Blanket — to hit the stage next year.

But one of Jacko’s family is said to be “livid” at the scheme, which will add fuel to the bitter custody battle for the youngsters.

Jackson’s biographer Ian Halperin said yesterday: “Joe wants the children to go on a world tour in 2010. He has also already offered recording contracts to two of Michael’s kids.

“Now he is talking about getting them the world’s best backing band and taking them on tour as The Jackson Three.”

Halperin said yesterday his source for the allegations is extremely close to the family and may soon speak out publicly — out of concern for the future of the youngsters.

He told The Sun: “One of the family members is livid. He is saying Joe seems intent to do this no matter what.

“He wants to exploit the kids the same way he did Michael.”

Now, according to the story, Debbie Rowe, mother of the two oldest children, and Katherine Jackson, Michael's mother, are close to an agreement where Katherine would have physical custody and Debbie would be able to visit the kids at the Jackson home. Part of that agreement: that Joe has no say in the upbringing of the children.

Putting these kids on the road would further give in to the freak show that was Michael Jackson's life. If they want to go into show business when they get older, fine. But right now, especially if Joe is proposing to be their manager, is not the time for these kids to be in the spotlight. They've already been through enough.

What We'd All Like To Do To Prius Owners

Disclaimer: No, I don't really advocate doing this to anyone who owns a Prius.

But the commercial's pretty funny.

This is a Rare Video...

This was a film that Michael Jackson made in the late 1990s called "Ghosts." In the movie, he plays two main characters -- the Maestro, who entertains the children in the small town with scary magic tricks, and the Mayor, who wants the "freak" to leave. He's also in the credits playing a couple of the ghouls, as well, although I think they're all essentially the Maestro character. From watching the film, you can tell that it's an expression of how he was feeling about how he was being treated in the press at the time because of the first accusations of molestation.

This is actually pretty good and worth checking out. It's 40 minutes, and features 3 songs from "Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix" and "HIStory" -- "2 Bad," "Ghost," and "Is It Scary."

Michael Jackson - Ghosts
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It's Trailer Sunday!

And today's first featured trailer -- "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." Enough said. It's coming out Wednesday.



Not Safe For Work -- the Red Band trailer for the latest film penned by Diablo Cody ("Juno," "The United States of Tara") -- "Jennifer's Body."



Just because I can't believe they've made a sequel -- "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel."



And a documentary about television. Well, about a character from radio and television that you might not have heard of. Gertrude Berg is the inventor of the character driven sitcom, writing and starring in "The Goldbergs." She won a Tony, and was the first woman to win the Best Actress award at the Emmys for playing the character of Molly Goldberg. Here's the trailer for "Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg."



I might have had the first trailer on here before, but just in case I'll post both up. This is Peter Jackson's latest production credit (director is Neil Blomkamp, who usually does special effects but has some directing under his belt with more obscure stuff) -- "District 9."





And as an extra this week: "Alive in Joburg," the short film that was the inspiration for "District 9."



Got a trailer that you think should be up here? Let me know in the comments.

Meet The New Press Podcast

Here's the link to the podcast from today's Meet The New Press if you missed today's show. As of now, neither the Schlubcam (the in-studio camera) footage is up or the MP3s, but they should be up very soon.

We never got to Sarah Palin or Kelly Ayotte. But we did talk a lot about taxes and cap and trade.

Update: The Schlubcam footage is up. This includes what we talked about during the breaks, so check it out!

Update 2: Podcast audio is now up.

Reminder: Meet The New Press

Just a reminder that I'll be on Meet The New Press today with Doug Lambert and Skip Murphy from Granite Grok this morning from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Newstalk 1490 WEMJ. If you're not in the listening area, you can listen to the live stream of the show here. Topics will include cap and trade, this week's meeting with the Franklin city council regarding their decision to break the tax cap, and an interview with Andrew Hemingway, who is running for the 2nd Congressional District US House seat and is on the Bristol Budget Committee, where they managed to cut the last budget.

If there's time, we may discuss Sarah Palin's decision to leave her post and the race to succeed Judd Gregg in the Senate.

For reference on the Franklin tax cap, here are the seven representatives who voted for the budget this year, breaking the cap. The only one who voted against it was Ward 2 councilor Glen Feener (one of my councilors).

Councilor
Ted Starkweather
Ward 1

Term of Office
January 2011

Contact Number
603-934-4693
Councilor
Jerry Audet

Ward 1

Term of Office
January 2012

Contact Number

603-934-4100


Councilor
Doug Boyd
Ward 2

Term of Office
January 2011

Contact Number

934-5520


Councilor
Jay Bowers
Ward 2

Term of Office
January 2012

Contact Number

934-5433

Email:

djb39@metrocast.net


Councilor
Gerald LeBlanc
Ward 3

Term of Office
January 2011

Contact Number

934-4428


Councilor
Jeffrey Rabinowitz
Ward 3

Term of Office
January 2010

Contact Number

934-5465


Councilor
Annette Andreozzi
Ward 3

Term of Office
January 2012

Contact Number

934-8222

Is The Media Finally Doing Its Job?

Good Morning America this morning actually had a story about one of the biggest wastes of money in this recent stimulus package. Road signs promoting that the project was paid for by stimulus funds.



I had heard about this awhile ago. Out of the states they highlighted, New Hampshire's signs are one of the cheaper states -- $500 a sign. In other states, they've gone up to $2,000 a sign, money that could have been used towards other construction projects such as filling in potholes. Because of the cost, a handful of states rejected putting them up because of the cost.

Why didn't more states turn these signs down? They're a huge waste of money, and they're only advertising for the Obama administration. Why are taxpayer dollars being used to elevate the Messiah even higher?

(h/t Hot Air)

New RNC Ad

Meet The New Press

I'm going to be co-hosting Meet The New Press this week, which is hosted by Doug Lambert and Skip Murphy from Granite Grok. If you live in the listening area of New Hampshire, that will be 1490 AM WEMJ from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Eastern Time, or you can listen online at the Granite Grok website.

I know one of the topics is going to be the Franklin tax cap and this week's city council meeting. Anything else, I don't know yet. But I will post the topics once I get the list.

Update: Here is the official page. Connect to the webcast through here.