Wednesday, February 11, 2015

OOPSY IN EXETER!!!


 

People lie because they are liars; they make mistakes because they make decisions.  This is not a difficult concept to understand.

At the last deliberative session and after about a two hour discussion on the Epping Rd. TIF Warrant Article 14 came up on the election (names placed on the budget recommendations committee).  Nelson Lourenco stood up to make a motion and that was for him to step down and appoint Frank Ferraro in his place.  A single vote on that motion passed and a second vote was taken to place that warrant on the March ballot.

I was out of the room when that happened, probably just as well.

After I found out what happened alarm bells were going off that this may have been an illegal vote.  I might be wrong; but, I did check with some parliamentarians who agreed with my assessment that it was illegal.

In our opinion the right way to do this was to take a vote to accept Lourenco’s resignation and then vote on putting Ferraro on the budget committee; so what we did was two issues with one vote and that was the vote on the motion.

If I am right I do not blame any of the town officials or the voters.  After the TIF discussion I think everyone’s eyes were glazed over.  I do blame Lourenco and Ferraro for the underhanded tactics to get Ferraro on the budget committee when he probably would not be voted into or appointed to that position.  A short time before this Ferraro was at the mike professing to support “the process” and they conspired with a small group to violate “the process” and hoodwink the Exeter Voters.

There is a way to correct this and that is at Town Meeting in March is simply to vote NO on article 14, which votes on the names of people going on the budget committee and if article 14 fails, then the selectman would have to appoint the members of the budget committee.  The budget committee members and the voters should not be subjected to this type of FREE STATE MANUVERING NONSENSE; this is the kind of actions that the Free State group does to win an issue they can’t win any other way.

I have the greatest respect for the Town Moderator, the Town Clerk, and all the people that work hard to make democracy work in Exeter including the voters; but, the blatant actions by these people who’s strategy is to take advantage of them and the voters is inexcusable.

I will be voting no on article 14.

Monday, January 19, 2015

QUANDT'S OPINION!!!

I have been watching what is going on in the world and I am totally amazed at the stupidity, not only in the US, but by our allies.  Quite frankly there is just too much to write about or comment on. 

First, I believe the US is going to get hit and hit hard by a terrorist attack. We are so politically correct it is going to get us killed.  There should be travel restrictions to certain countries, including the US and if there is a hint of terrorist activities the passport should be revoked and the person not allowed back into this country again.  If Muslims that come into our country do not swear and agree to follow US laws and our Constitution they should not be allowed in; laws in our country are governed by the constitution, the courts, and legislative bodies; not the Koran.   No matter how much Obama tries to cover these atrocities and be the pr front man for the koraniacs, the American people are starting to see through it.

We cannot continue to see the atrocities that are being perpetuated by the rightful or wrongful interpretation of the Koran.  These need to be shown to the American public so they can make up their minds as to whether this is a peaceful religion or people who don’t know the difference between right or wrong.

I got a horrific email showing a young beautiful Christian Syrian girl who was tied to a bed by white clothe strips, gang raped by 20 Muslims, she was so bloodied I couldn’t tell if they had cut out her eyes but it looked like it, I couldn’t tell if she had her heart cut out (too bloody to see an incision) but a cross with Jesus was rammed down her throat. I guess the Koran isn’t very tolerant.  If this is the real war on women where are the Femi Nazis defending women’s rights or is that all about abortion and not religious rights?

I just saw another video where ISIS took two homosexuals to a very tall building throw them off one at a time and they went “splat” to the cheers of a very large crowd.  Where are the gay rights activists that pushed so had for gay rights and gay marriage?

I know how to be politically correct; but, I just can’t do it anymore we need to speak about the third world war that we are involved in.  We are not at war with Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc, etc.  We are at war with the Muslim religion.  We don’t want to admit it and Obama hides from it; but, I believe it is now recognized as fact.

Let the people who follow Sharia Law who want to kill their teen age daughters because they want to wear makeup or listen to our strange American music do their thing; but, not in our country.

I think you have heard in the news how ISIS terror cells want to stage more attacks in the US, I would suspect they will attack areas that have strict gun control laws like California, NY, CT and DC.  I doubt if they would attack a cafĂ© in TX because they might not make it through the door and then get buried on a pig farm; I don’t know if Texans are politically correct towards people who try to kill their families.

We will see if the American people will reject liberalism and political correctness and start thinking of a common sense approach to defending our country and ourselves.

Monday, December 15, 2014

HANDS UP DON'T SHOOT!!!


HANDS UP DON’T SHOOT!!!

It is very troubling when people when confronted with the facts refuse to believe them like in Ferguson, MO.  The situation was tragic, as is whenever anyone loses their life; but, there are personal situations where you can almost determine, early on, who will not make it through life.  I think this was one of those situations.

When looking at police training you must look at the force continuum which has 8-9 steps officers are trained in on the different levels of force, it goes all the way from officer presence up the ladder or around the circle depending on which model you are trained in, to lethal force.  I don’t have the time to do a police course on the issue; but, the Officer in Fergusson went by the book.  He saw two men walking in the road and told them to get on the side walk, what was the response, “I don’t give a F--- what you say”.  The Officer is notified of a robbery at a store with a description of the two subjects matching who he was already in contact with.  The Officer was over 6’ but the main subject was 6’6” and around 300 pounds, which under most normal circumstances would have allowed for an escalation of force based on the subject’s aggressiveness.  What I don’t know is did the Officer call for backup knowing he would have a hard time making an arrest, did he have pepper spray or a taser and could he get to them?

We know the rest; but was interesting was there was no credible testimony that the subject had his hands up and trying to surrender; but, was attacking the police officer and trying to steal his gun, that is lethal force justification.  The old statistics were that 25% of police officers that are killed are killed with their own gun, you put yourself in the Officers position and you make the call.

People are saying the officer should have been indicted and you can indict a ham sandwich.  You probably can indict a ham sandwich; but, you better have substantial evidence that will lead to a conviction or as a prosecutor you’re in trouble.

In short the facts do not support the angry black rhetoric that is being put out by Al Sharpton and some of the others, the old saying of “don’t confuse me with the facts, I know the truth”, has come into play.

 

NY I CAN’T BREATHE!!!

We have another individual who was around 300 pounds and well over 6’ selling individual cigarettes on a street corner that is not the issue to die over.  Supposedly was arrested numerous times for similar problems.  A passive handcuffing technique might have worked, that is “ sir I am placing you under arrest, please turn around and put your hands behind your back, if you think the cuffs are too tight tell me and I will adjust them”, that type of technique.  If the officers had prior knowledge that he was aggressive and a fighter then that technique is out the window.  Police are trained in the technique that the safest position to handcuff that is non cooperative is by placing the subject in the prone position (on their belly).  The problem with this is when you fighting a guy this big, with a big belly, you have to be concerned with positional asphyxia, that is when you have a big belly and when you’re forced down on your stomach all that weight pushes up against your diaphragm and you can’t breathe; couple that with a number of Officers trying to control him and hold him down and he suffocated.

Another sad case and loss of life, yes, criminal no, civil suit big time and it is a training issue, did any officer do anything criminal, not that I could testify to.

This is a very short rendition of what I saw in the news; but what is scary is race relations in the US have been set back about 50 yrs.  What I am afraid will happen is the KKK and white groups will grow in strength and all hell can break lose.  Race relations under Obama have gone bad and we still have two more years to survive his presidency and who knows about his legacy.

Thursday, December 4, 2014

TWO BACK STABBERS WHICH ONE DO I VOTE FOR???


 

That was the recent quandary facing the NH Legislature on organization day when they had to vote for a speaker.  In fact that was the biggest complaint heard from the State Reps that they did not have a real choice.  O’Brien cooked his own goose when one of the Billy bots made a motion for a rules change to make the vote for speaker public and not secret.  That told those Reps sitting on the fence that the kinder O’Brien was all BS and they voted against him.

The Democrats had plenty of scores to settle with O’Brien, about as many as the Republicans, because of the way he treated them; he treated them as some kind of enemy with a total lack of respect, the same way he treated Republicans that disagreed with him. 

Well everyone looking for pay back got it on organization day.

What people seemed to forget is Jasper is no better.  He was one of the very few State Reps that Matt and I were not dumb enough to trust.  In my opinion Jasper was jealous of Matt who was in leadership, yes, O’Brien’s leadership, and Matt was liked and trusted.  I think his sense of humor and honesty was something people respected in the group and he was very easy to talk to.  Jasper always had to be the only puppy in the litter which caused frequent disagreements and dissention in fact Jasper was not well liked and was eventually removed from leadership.  Jasper made serious and false accusations against Matt, which was proven false, after Matt quit the O’Brien team and refused to go along with Right to Work.  The accusation caused serious ripple effects through the house and other than being O’Brien’s lap dog Jasper was persona non grata with many Republicans and most Democrats who couldn’t believe he was such a lying back stabber, this was before he was removed.  Well now he is speaker and my suggestion is to hold on to your hat, the ride is just beginning.  Although many State Reps were right and there were no alternatives, the house just got sunk to a new low.

The rumors going around are that the Republican establishment was behind O’Brien’s derailment.  I heard they were afraid of the damage O’Brien would do and cause them to lose the 2016 elections for their chosen candidates, such as Kelly Ayotte, who poll wise is running neck and neck with Hassan for the US Senate race.  The establishment seems to be scared to death about this.  Well to the establishment, you just drove another nail into your political agenda; you have a whole new level of enemies out here you didn’t need to have.

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

IT IS NOT GOOD TO LIE TO THE VOTERS!!!


IT IS NOT GOOD TO LIE TO THE VOTERS!!!            

For a little local discussion a friend of mine sent me a local news article that was touting how the oysters were taking Viagra and making a big comeback in Great Bay as well as the Eel Grass is having a fantastic year.

This is quite surprising since the Exeter Dam is still up with all of the nitrogen problems killing all the fish, etc, etc, etc.  This is what we were told when the big push was being made to tear down the dam at a cost of over a million dollars.

As you may have heard old houses, not maintained by the landlord, are going to be torn down so new development can go in.  I heard there was going to be cottages with porches, a private club all overlooking the river; but, there is not going to be a river we’ve nicknamed Clement Creek for the person who lead the charge to tear down the dam when he was chairman of the Board of Selectman.  A creek is what it is going to be.  So I guess the little red riding hood cottages won’t really have a river to sit and overlook.  I hope that will keep their tax bill down; but, I understand that cottage porches were a selling point to the planning board.

What will the voters do when they realize they were lied to?  That will be another story.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING AND PLEASE SAY A PRAYER FOR OUR MILITARY WHO ARE DEFENDING US!!!