Doggone right with Mark Brighton http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/ en Copyright 2008 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:24:11 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Artificial Turf and Kitty Litter The City Council work session on the 28th concerning the Capital Improvement Plan was quite enlightening. City Manager Bohenko and the various department heads should be commended for their Herculean effort. The CIP is an essential tool in bringing order to a part of the budget that invariably gets short changed (pun intended.)

]]> http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2008/02/artificialtruf_and_kitty_litte.html http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2008/02/artificialtruf_and_kitty_litte.html City Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:24:11 -0500 Am I Naive? My wife and I just got the quote from Anthem Blue Cross for our medical insurance renewal. It was an otherworldly, Land of Oz experience. Our combined medical costs for the coming year will be at least 1/3 of our income. It was a breath taking read, and it brought sharply into focus two recent items in the opinion pages of this newspaper.

]]> http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2008/01/am_i_naive.html http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2008/01/am_i_naive.html Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:43:27 -0500 Martha Clark and Carbon Credits
According to today’s paper NH’s far left are at it again. In the name of the religion of environmentalism Martha1.GIFthey are screwing up the marketplace. Portsmouth’s own State Senator Martha Clark is co-sponsoring a piece of legislation that “would force Public Service of New Hampshire and the big power plants in Newington and Londonderry to reduce their carbon emissions and pay for the harm they do to the climate.” It makes you feel all warm and fuzzy – until you get to the bottom line.


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]]> http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2008/01/martha_clark_and_carbon_credit_1.html http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2008/01/martha_clark_and_carbon_credit_1.html Environment Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:49:11 -0500 Fire in the Belly Here I sit two days before the primary with a fire in my belly. It was a busy holiday season that kept me from my favorite hobby – commenting on things large and small. Real life can interfere with fun. Working two jobs, one of which was on the west coast inspecting flooded homes. On Christmas day when you are walking up someone’s drive and you can see the flood line is half way up their living room window and a mudslide in the rear has crushed one wall you know that “Merry Christmas” is something you won’t be saying to these folks, but you muddle through.

]]> http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2008/01/fire_in_the_belly.html http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2008/01/fire_in_the_belly.html Election 08 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:39:52 -0500 Al Gore - Eco terrorist We were recently treated to a letter on the editorial page of the Herald proclaiming Christopher Columbus a terrorist. In the interests of open mindedness I would like to make a counter claim. I believe Al Gore to be an eco-terrorist.

]]> http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/10/al_gore_eco_terrorist.html http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/10/al_gore_eco_terrorist.html Environment Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:10:11 -0500 Edwards - Carbon Credits I would like to thank the Herald for hosting the candidates’ forums. Any candidate who doesn’t take advantage of these would be a fool. Here’s a word to the Thompson campaign: call the Herald immediately. I don’t believe they are charging anything and we would certainly like to here from Fred – something… anything! At least let New Hampshire know you haven’t dropped off the face of the earth.

]]> http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/10/edwards_carbon_credits_1.html http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/10/edwards_carbon_credits_1.html Election 08 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:08:38 -0500 NASCAR a four letter word NASCAR is a four letter word in Portsmouth. Right on the front page was a picture of one of Portsmouth’s finest pulling over a NASCAR demo vehicle. Not to get an autograph, but rather to issue a warning. It seems that the driver had let all 550 horses roar up to 55mph on the Spaulding Pike, an area not noted for high density residential.

http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070915/NEWS/709150323

]]> http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/09/nascar_a_four_letter_word.html http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/09/nascar_a_four_letter_word.html General Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:58:33 -0500 Separated at Birth I found the latest Osama bin Laden tape just plain shocking. In this tape he blames global warming, crushing mortgage debt (who knew you could mortgage a cave in Afghanistan), and the poverty and hunger in Africa on corporations, particularly American corporations. He Separated1.GIFeven blames the Democrats for doing nothing after having been elected with a mandate to end the war.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296065,00.html



]]> http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/09/separated_at_birth_2.html http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/09/separated_at_birth_2.html Shea-Porter Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:33:58 -0500 Say it Ain't So The only startling tidbit that I was able to glean from Hill and Bill’s rally on The Square was that Shania Twain must be a Democrat. It broke my heart.

]]> http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/09/say_it_aint_so.html http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/09/say_it_aint_so.html Hillary Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:41:12 -0500 Federal Grants and Dog Poop According to a headline in today’s Herald, “Town gets federal funds to help scoop the poop.” Apparently the town of Greenland got federal monies to teach homeowners to pick up their dog’s calling card. I am all in favor of owners doing this, and I carry a baggie whenever I walk my dog. But a federal grant?

http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070830/NEWS/708300421/-1/ARCHIVE

]]> http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/09/federal_grants_and_dog_poop_1.html http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/09/federal_grants_and_dog_poop_1.html Environment Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:17:14 -0500 Moonbats and a Tet offensive The NY Times of July 30th had some extremely bad news for Carol Shea-Porter in the form of an op-ed piece written by Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack. Both of these gentlemen are from the Brookings Institute, which one could never accuse of harboring a conservative bias.

]]> http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/08/moonbats_and_a_tet_offensive.html http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/08/moonbats_and_a_tet_offensive.html Iraq Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:27:58 -0500 Hillary comes to town Hillary came to town, and I was invited. My friends in talk radio had me prepared to witness a fire breathing she-devil. Well, she wasn’t. That is as close to a compliment Hillary is ever likely to get from this quarter, however.

]]> http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/08/hillary_comes_to_town.html http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/08/hillary_comes_to_town.html Hillary Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:11:18 -0500 Bovine Flatulence and Treason Live Earth cannot go unchallenged, especially the part where Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., accused me of treason. Well, he didn’t actually name me personally. He did accuse Exxon, John Stossel, Glen Beck – in fact, all corporate toadies past, present and future - of this high crime and said that they should be treated as traitors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Heku9oTLysg

]]> http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/07/bovine_flatulence_and_treason.html http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/07/bovine_flatulence_and_treason.html Environment Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:09:02 -0500 Judd Gregg vs Burt Cohen On June 28th the Senate did the right thing and saved the country from S1639, euphemistically called The Amnesty Bill for Illegal Aliens, a bill which 80% of the country recognized as a recipe for disaster. It wasn’t because of anything Judd Gregg did.

]]> http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/07/judd_gregg_vs_burt_cohen_1.html http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/07/judd_gregg_vs_burt_cohen_1.html Entries Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:16:05 -0500 Martian Warming While perusing the Internet last night, I came across an interesting article in the London Times of 4/29/2007. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1720024.ece

It appears that the Martian climate is changing so rapidly that it may lose its southern ice cap. This information came originally from NASA’s Mars Global Explorer. Oddly enough it is being reported that the change is similar to that which appears to be occurring on earth - +0.5oC.

]]> http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/06/martian_warming.html http://www.blogthecoast.com/doggone/2007/06/martian_warming.html Environment Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:06:43 -0500