Recycling Concerns

I feel terrible about not knowing what to do with cans and bottles while we have the temporary transfer station. I burn some of my newspapers in our wood stove, but I want to know what to do with the other stuff. I feel so environmentally guilty putting them in the Bethlehem bags and just tossing them. Does anyone have any suggestions? Any word of a DOT permit?

Plundering Productivity

About U.S. Debt:

• Here's the current bill: USDebtClock.org lists it over $13T
  

About Politicans Spin on the U.S. Debt:

• Obama Plans to Cut Deficit in Half
• That's the same thing Bush said! Do politicians think we don't know the difference between deficit and debt. So the deficit will be cut in half by 2012. Congratulations! The debt will have doubled!
  

About the Recession, Revenue and Taxes:

• IRS Tax Revenue Falls Along With Taxpayers' Income
• Once Considered Unthinkable, U.S. Sales Tax (VAT) Gets Fresh Look
• In our opinion, a national sales tax is inevitable due three things: (1) European style social programs lead to European style taxation; (2) Half the population no longer pays income taxes and the government always goes where the money is, the middle class; and (3) Internet commerce is able to exclude a state sales tax when shipped across state lines and the business doesn't have a business presence in the destination state. The only way to re-capture that tax revenue is with a national sales tax.
  
• Electrical Consumption Sees First Outage Since WWII
• The Biggest Tax Increase In World History

Speaking of the Impact of the Internet:

• Internet Start-ups Will Bankrupt The US Government
• First, we disagree that the US Government will go bankrupt in the sense that a business goes bankrupt. So long as the Federal Gov't can monetize its debt, then it will never go "bankrupt". It can always pay its debts with printed money. That is, so long as the Federal Reserve can inflate, without consequence from the People, then the charade continues.
• However, we agree that the days of the Federal Government, in its current form, are numbered. The Federal Government won't go bankrupt because it runs out of "money". It will go bankrupt because it loses legitimacy in the eyes of the People and the States. The current manifestation of the Federal Government is based on industrial age concepts of centralized management. Concepts being pushed to new levels by the current Congress and Administration. If fact, its easy to argue that the Federal Government is the last dinosaur standing with a power structure cast in the die of industrial-age thinking.
• The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society is Coming Online
• The author is comparing apples and oranges. There's a major difference between forced collaboration and voluntary collaboration.

Speaking of Inflation & Stimulus:

• Inflation 'Cure' Exposed When In-Laws Move In
• Dollar Is Dirt, Treasuries Are Toast, AAA Is Gone
  

Speaking of the Perks of the Federal Government:

• The Medicare Ponzi Scheme
• Stossel: Elderly Rob Younger Generation

Speaking of Medicare:

• Senator Gregg Writes About Health Care Solutions
  

How About This:

• Netherlands To Close Prisons For Lack of Criminals
  
• Crisis Spurs Spike in 'Suburban Survivalists'

Is This True?

• Is Obama Closing GOP-Leaning Car Dealers?

More Articles:

• How to Talk to a Liberal If You Really Want to Change His Mind
• The Protest of a Patriot
• How To Deprogram a Liberal in One Year or Less
• Climate Conference Gets Busy
• The Worst Thing About Gay Marriage
• Despite Bad Economy, No Big Shift in Values
• Kids with ADHD Need to Fidget
  
• A Quest For Fusion Energy

H.R. 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009

HR 2454 is now 930 pages long. It is one of the most stiffling taxs since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. Has the author of the bill even read his own bill?




About Those Chysler Bond "Speculators"




President Obama on C-SPAN

Forward to about 11 minutes, and listen through about 16 (especially 13:34). Ask yourself, does the government need to nationalize healthcare because:

1. The uninsured need to be insured?
2. The government needs to be rescued from its own folly?

The Effect of Soaking The Rich




Obama's Tax Plans




Ron Paul on Sonia Sotomayor Nomination



Good-bye interventionism. Hello socialism.

WREN Launches 15th Anniversary Member Drive

WREN Launches 15th Anniversary Member Drive
May 22, 2009
http://nhbr.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090522/NEWS06/905219960

More information can be found at the WREN website

Casella Takes Concord Monitor on Recycling Facility Tour

The Monitor reports on their tour of a single-stream recycling facility in Auburn, Mass., owned by Casella Waste Systems.

How Single-Stream Recycling Works
May 22, 2009
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090522/FRONTPAGE/905220307

In Case You Missed It

Recent Posts Of Interest:

• Five Potential Bone Marrow Donors Found
  
• CR: Fallout Prevails In Bethlehem
  
• CR: Transfer Station Plan Upsetting

On NH Politics:

• NH House Rejects Same-Sex Marriage Bill
• Defeated 188-186. Is that your final vote?
• House Vote Imperils Same-Sex Marriage Bill
  

Speaking of Which:

• Massachusetts Same-Sex Marriage: Five Years Later
• The Shift Towards Single Motherhood
• The Battle Over Benefits for Same-Sex Marriage
  

Is A Downgrade for US Debt In The Works?

• Moody's Japan Downgrade Puts Triple-A's In Spotlight
• U.K. May Lose AAA Rating at S&P as Government Debt Approaches 100% of GDP

In the "Holy Cow" Column:

• US May Strip SEC of Powers in Regulatory Overhaul
  • Talk about the wolf being given the keys to the hen house!
  
  

In the "Favorites" Column:

• I Wish I Were A Liberal
• The Climate-Industrial Complex
  

Following H.R. 1207:

• The "Federal Reserve Transparency Act" is up to 175 co-sponsors.
• 175 co-sponsors! Do you think they'll let it out of committee yet?
  
• It's time to say enough is enough. The reckless expansion of the money supply and credit, as overseen by the Federal Reserve Banking System, has led the US down the road of ruin.
  
• Neither of the NH House Representatives are listed as co-sponsors, but one rep from Maine and three from NY are. Why not the NH reps? There's support for it from Democrat Alan Grayson in a memo to his colleagues. (Although, we can't say we agree with everything Rep Grayson proposes)
  

Following the Chrysler Bankrupt:

• Pension Funds Object to Chrysler 363 Bankruptcy Sale
• Remember how President Obama declared that he "did not stand with greedy bondholders"? Easy assertion when you think the bondholders are unpopular hedge funds. What happens when the bondholders are retirement funds for police, teachers and other civil servants? It's now the UAW vs. the Indiana State Teachers Retirement Fund, Indiana State Police Pension Trust and Indiana Major Move Construction.

On The Municipal Bond Bailout:

• Cities Ask Treasury for $5 Billion to Fund Public Bond Insurer
  

On U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:

• Conditions Ripe For a Coup
• Pelosi's Burden of Truth
  
• Republicans to Pelosi: Prove Your Case or Apologize to CIA
• Democrats Back Pelosi

On Taxing The Rich Socialism Bailout:

• The 81% Tax Increase
• Obama's Tax Plans
• The Democrats' Budget Mess is Not 'Inherited'
• 22 Reasons Obama Will Raise Your Taxes ... Soon!

On Carbon Regulation & Taxes Socialism Bailout:

• Indiana Says 'No Thanks' to Cap & Trade
• Global Warming Bill is Another Porkfest
  
• Waxman Labors For Cap & Trade Votes (Still in Committee)

On the Financial Recovery Socialism Bailout:

• Secretary Loophole
• Mark Patterson: It's A Sham. The Banks Are Insolvent
• "The Worst Is Yet to Come": If You're Not Petrified, You're Not Paying Attention
  
• Obama's Dangerous Debt
• Holding GM Debt? Gubbermint Is Robbing You!
  
• FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years
  
• How Democrats Failed to Learn From FDR's New Deal
  

On Health Care:

• An Alternative to Obamacare
• We agree with Senator's Coburn and Burr. The problem isn't affordable healthcare, the problem is that the tax code orients affordable healthcare around being employed to a large employer. In the 1930's, FDR was going to take over healthcare, but businesses convinced him that they could handle it. This was good ... for the industrial era. However, we're no longer in the industrial era. We need a healthcare tax code policy that fits today's economy. That means orienting things at the individual level. Orienting things at the Federal Government level will be worse than today's problem. It is an industrial age style proposal!

On the Federal Enabler of Socialism:

• Is It Time To Stress-Test the Federal Reserve?
• We're all for corralling the Federal Reserve. However, if at the end of the day, it means that the now answer to Barney Frank, then that would disaster for everyone. The answer is not to put Barney Frank in charge. The answer is to liberate interest rates from manipulation by the Federal Government politicians, both Democrat and Republican.
• Is The Federal Reserve Overreaching?
• Yes

On Liberals "Bummed Out":

• Obama Breaks Major Campaign Promise as Military Commissions Resume
• Obama Reverses on Releasing Detainee Photos
  
• Obama Changes Course on Anti-Terrorism
  

On Happiness:

• The Happiest Places on Earth Are Heavily Taxed
• Another study showing why we should just hand it all over to the government.
• Stop Giving Us AID So You Can Feel Good, say Africans

On Green Cars:

• Jeremy Clarkson Reviews the Honda Insight 1.3 IMA SE Hybrid
• WSJ: Car Crazy

More "Zero Cost/Impact" Legislation:

• Same-Sex Marriage On Center State In N.H.
  
• "It will not affect them anymore than the passage of civil unions did," State Sen. Bette Lasky said.
  
• It’s No Time to Stop This Train
  
• Are the lessons of 1936 telling us that the solution to our problems are unhindered politicians, and unlimited borrowing and spending? Give us a break!

Prudent To Bailout The Not-So-Prudent:

• Overhaul Likely for Credit Cards
  
• Just more of the same folks.

On Justified Reckless Spending:

• Budget Scolds Shouldn't Drown Out the Chorus Calling for Health Reforms
• It's the old, "the cause is worthy, so step aside"

Interlude:

• Is it just me, or has the political class decided that our standard of living is high enough and we must legislate that it be lowered? Is it not ironic that on the eve of the country facing the greatest demographic challenge any nation has ever faced (i.e. baby boomers retiring), that the politicians are doing their collective best to ensure we are in the most unprepared position possible?

On Public Opinion:

• More Are 'Pro-Life' Than 'Pro-Choice' for First Time
  
• Still the Biggest Missing Story in Politics
  
• Understanding America's Shift on Abortion
• Favorable Opinion of Cheney Rises
  

On Controversy

• Obama Skipped Thorny Abortion Details
  
• Obama Avoids Test on Homosexuals in Military
  
• Why Obama Is Punting on Homosexual Issues
  

On Gun Control

• Democrats and Guns
• "By 67-29, the Senate passed Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn's amendment to let law-abiding visitors carry legal firearms into national parks." It hasn't passed the House yet. However, have the liberals lost the gun control debate with the Democrat Party?
  
• Gun Control Lives: HR 2401
• Those who find themselves on the no-fly list will also be on the no-buy list if Representative Carolyn McCarthy's HR 2401 becomes law.
  

On the Religious Debate

• Obama and 'Real' Catholics
  

So Much For Separation of Church and State:

• Prosecute Sins of Bush-Cheney Era

Even More Articles:

• Charlie Munger's Words of Wisdom
• Economists Stuck in 1930s
• Killing A Story, How It's Done
  
• Chicago Straight
• Isn't is supposed to take at least two terms for the scandals to come out?
• What's Elevated, Health-Care Provider?
• Don't Blame Deregulation For The Housing Mess
  
• Happiness Is ... Being Old, Male and Republican
• The Yin Yang of Value Creation and Value Capture
  
• Standing-Room-Only for Ron Paul at Home Schooling Graduation
• Obama's Court Jesters
• "As Wanda Sykes showed, comedians aren't funny when they try to flatter the President"
• Annals of Law: No More Mr. Nice Guy
• The Future Health of the US Economy
• Why Gov't Can't Run a Business
  
• Faith Based Economics
• Adios, New York
• College Grad: 'I wish I'd gone to prison instead'
• Virtual Currencies Power Social Networks, Online Games
  
• Gov't Money Is a Toxic Asset
• Why Keynes Was Wrong
  

"The idea that Congress can revamp one-sixth of the U.S. economy before the August recess is either folly or hubris. Either way, it’s frightening." Caroline Baum

Who Leads The Republican Party?

Daniel Hannan on Government Stimulus

Daniel Hannan, a MP in the UK, on the idiocy of government stimulus in 60 seconds.



Yes, that includes the stimulus promoted by both President Bush and President Obama. Although Bush's stimulus pales in comparison to the spending binge fest recklessly promoted by President Obama. It's time for taxpayers to denounce Keynesian Economics, and rip it out of the government and universities.

Third In Line To President: Nancy Pelosi

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in the hot seat about her knowledge of torture practices, and has a picked a fight with the CIA. Good luck!

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

In Case You Missed It

Recent Posts Of Interest:

• CR: Fallout Prevails In Bethlehem
  
• CR: Transfer Station Plan Upsetting
• NCES v. DES
• Open Thread for Solutions to the Landfill, Transfer Station and General Waste Disposal
  
• Five Potential Bone Marrow Donors Found
  

On NH Politics:

• NH Gov. Says He'll Sign Gay Marriage Bill -- But Not This One
• Lynch wants a bill with amended language
  
• Gov 'Flinch' Lets Down New Hampshire
• Has Lynch decided that politics wins over principle?
  
• Manchester Mayor to Run For Shea Porters Seat
  
• Our take: Is it better to have reps that cave to the impulse to vindictively tax politically-vulnerable citizens so we all feel better about ourselves or a rep who cares about inconvenient concepts in the Constitution, such as the Bill of Attainder?
• Bow Voters Kill "Pay As You Throw"
  
• Marijuana Debate Sharpens
• St. Michael Parish abandons Fort Rock Farm Site
• St. Michael Parish has spent the last three years and $1.9 million of parishioner-generated contributions attempting to obtain the local approvals necessary to build a new church on land in Exeter and fight court appeals.
  
• Coos Wind Power Plant Passes A Key Test
  

In the "Favorites" Column:

• Ominous Parallels: Is Obama the Next Bush?
• Instead of bouncing back and forth between the lesser of two evils, suppose we all picked up and read a copy of the Constitution?
• The Declaration of Interdependence
• "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." -- Thomas Jefferson
• 'Thought Crimes' Bill Advances
• James Madison: "We have in this country extinguished forever ... making laws for the human mind." Obviously, James Madison hadn't figured on Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama.
  

Chicago Politics in D.C.:

• Vanity Fair: The Czar's Rules Apply at Chrysler
• If VF recognizes that "the latest casualty of the economic crisis is the rule of law", then it should become obvious to everyone. Say goodbye to secured lending, capitalism as we know it, and any hope of a quick recovery. The author concludes, "the consequences of upending the rule of law, even if it was done with the best of intentions, may prove far more serious than whatever befalls Chrysler in the Rustbelt." Amen.
• Actions, and intentions, have consequences.
• Obama, Chrysler and the Contracts Clause of the US Constitution
  
• "The rule of law, not of men -- an ideal tracing back to the ancient Greeks and well-known to our Founding Fathers -- is the animating principle of the American experiment. While the rest of the world in 1787 was governed by the whims of kings and dukes, the U.S. Constitution was established to circumscribe arbitrary government power. It would do so by establishing clear rules, equally applied to the powerful and the weak."
• Change has come to D.C., indeed!

Quick Fix Today, Crisis Tomorrow in Obama's White House

Sunbeams From Cucumbers

• How is Obama's industrial adventurism any different than Bush's foreign adventurism?

War on Investors: The Chrysler Arm Twist

What We Have Is Capitalism In Crisis

Property Rights Trumped by UAW in First Episode of Gangster Gov't

About the Chrysler Bankruptcy

• Bankruptcy Could Last Two Years, Secured Lenders Could Get Zip
• Any wonder GM's stock is dropping like a stone and insiders are selling? What will new bond sales be priced at? 100%?