Recent comments in /f/newhampshire

Dull_Broccoli1637 t1_je757ds wrote

In no way will Sununnu win the New Primary. He's riding the covid popularity wave. He is also trying his best with culture war issues. He's not that good at it though.

I don't like Trump one bit, but how can a republican candidate win a primary election without uttering even Trump's name? Also the policy talks by Trump are better. Try persuading cutting social security and Medicare to older republican voters and see how far that gets you.

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Craptastick68 t1_je74lwm wrote

Try LaFina in Andover. Only a 35 min drive from Nashua, classy, nice menu, and a groovy lounge called Prive' is linked to it next door. You can see pics and menu online.

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diggnstuff t1_je71z2y wrote

Someone already mentioned but… The Common Man in Windham is amazing. The ambiance, the staff and the food are all first rate. Also, the whole chain is run by really wonderful people that do a ton for charity. A great example of NH kindness.

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VeveBeso t1_je6z0ae wrote

Diverge in Dover is absolutely amazing! My boyfriend went there last summer and we had dinner there almost every night for a week there. The Nook in Dover is great for a breakfast date as well. I’m a New Yorker and I thought the food was better over there than NYC.

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AMC4x4 t1_je6xnlc wrote

Only tangentially related, but my 80yo dad recently flew out of Manchester NH and bought parking online. One guess for which Manchester he bought parking? He said he drove around for 30 minutes looking for the parking garage only to have the lot attendant point out on his printed info he was going to have to drive a lot farther.

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[deleted] t1_je6xaya wrote

I mostly agree with you. Life without parole is a cruel and unusual form of capital punishment, and I suspect I’ll see the day the courts abolish it. I really loathe how much we try to dress up the death penalty and make it look civilized. Every time we’ve done this, we’ve only made it worse. The electric chair was worse than hanging or the firing squad. Lethal injection is worse than the chair. Solitary confinement for 23.5 hours a day at ADX is perhaps the most sadistic capital punishment that humans have ever invented. Even the Spanish Inquisition would think we’re monsters for that. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition to torture them for more than a day before they expired…

If it were up to me, the only death sentence would be a public hanging shortly after sentencing, that the prosecutor, judge, and all jurors must attend. They better be damn sure that the condemned did the crime, without even a reasonable doubt, and the punishment better fit the crime. If they can’t stomach the sentence they dished out, fine the hell out of them and/or disbar them, and that person’s sentence is now 25 to life.

Capital punishment is an ugly thing. If we’re gonna do it, stop hiding the ugliness of it. The State is killing a person. No amount of procedural nonsense can wash the blood off our hands.

But if we abolish life without parole on these constitutional grounds, it would be a severe miscarriage of justice to summarily execute them. Especially when you hear the stories of black people who received that sentence in Florida for a robbery because of some terrible analogy to baseball… They would either need a new trial to be condemned to death, or be made eligible for parole. And just because they’re eligible for parole doesn’t mean they’ll get it.

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