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The Fortnightly Rant Another Layer of Lies he Roman Republic stood for keeping civic dialogue civil. 500 years before lapsing into It was inevitable that our story- dictatorship.T The tellers of record would eventually of America, in half that time, has find themselves in an unenviable gone from George Washington’s position familiar to every Ameri- first inaugural address to Donald can President from FDR through Trump losing a battle of wits with George W. Bush: contemplating Kim Jong Un as Congress tries to Vietnam and asking, what the hell kill off constituents by depriving do I do about that? It’s not as if they them of healthcare. could ignore forever the most for- How the hell did that happen? mative event in U.S. history since Gradually and then suddenly, over WW II. Ten years ago they saw the the past seventy years—which hap- 50th anniversary coming and started pens to be the period covered by the doing the best they could. new documentary series, “The Viet- In interviews, the filmmakers nam War.” have been candid about the trepida- That half-forgotten war is our tion they felt over this volatile topic. Rosetta Stone: one can read on it In the work they produced, though, the story of our republic’s precipi- they’ve been equivocal. tous decline. “There is no simple or single truth This new series might seem at to be extracted from the Vietnam first to be a chance to gain a better War,” they wrote. “Many questions understanding of that sorry period. remain unanswerable.” In other It fails, though, to break through words, they punted. the cramped boundaries of the Of- In their version of events, the war ficial Narrative. In fact it never had was a tragic mistake made by honest a chance. people doing the best they could in Story,” narrated by Charlton Hes- a century. The expense of maintain- gon puppet government were run- Author! Authoress!! Sponsor!!! difficult circumstances. That’s one ton, America’s involvement in Viet- ing this mission civilisatrice was ning competing heroin rings while As we all know, Ken Burns and way to look at it, but it’s not very nam was a noble cause in which our defrayed by selling opium to the de- their country collapsed. Lynn Novick were long ago granted helpful and largely not true. brave soldiers won every battle, only spairing masses. Ho Chi Minh was Important, If True tenure as America’s Videographer Déjà Vu to be stabbed in the back by hippies, just one of many Vietnamese who “To see what is in front of one’s Laureates. They earned this exalted Though we have not seen them draft dodgers, the lying media, and took exception to this arrangement. nose needs a constant struggle,” position by toiling in the vineyards refer to it, Burns and Novick were gutless politicians. When an opium purchasing agent George Orwell wrote, just about the of PBS. PBS receives 12 percent of surely aware of what happened The Vietnam War, With the Bark On for the Vietnamese stiffed a tribe of time Harry S Truman started lying its funding from the Corporation to Stanley Karnow. He wrote the French missionaries began what Meo poppy growers in Laos, they about Vietnam. for Public Broadcasting [CPB]. script for “Vietnam: A Television they called a mission civilisatrice in happily helped Ho’s Viet Minh haul To that we would only add that CPB, in turn, is funded by Con- History,” the first multi-part Viet- Vietnam in the 17th century. By the artillery to the hilltops surrounding the biggest obstacle to a clear view gress. Each link in that chain pro- nam documentary, which aired on mid-19th century, a few hundred Dien Bien Phu. of how governments and the world vides some measure of distance, but PBS in 1983. His straightforward, thousand Vietnamese had convert- By the time this charming French at large work is that most people are there is still a hand at one end and a accurate, honest work was attacked ed to Catholicism. Many of the mil- enterprise went bust, Truman and decent and therefore reluctant to be- neck inside the other. The neck al- for its alleged left-wing bias, errors, lions who had not converted found Eisenhower had been propping it up lieve that things could possibly be as ways knows that a hard yank could and distortions. those who had annoying. Naturally for a decade, acting like Lillian Hell- awful as they appear. They’re proba- come at any time. The source of this critique was the French felt responsible. Rath- man, of whom Mary McCarthy fa- bly worse, but try getting anyone to Congress, of course, also funded Accuracy in Media [AIM], a tax er than withdrawing, though, they mously said, “every word she writes sponsor that story. the Vietnam War—until it didn’t: a dodge which diverts money from instead provided soldiers to protect is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.’” Political lies were not invented by reversal that still provides one of this the U.S. Treasury to Right Wing the converts, and forts to protect the Anyone assuming our skirts must American politicians in the wake of topic’s most obdurate points of con- propagandists. Thanks to like-mind- soldiers. One thing led to another, as have been cleaner than those of the WW II, but the Cold War proved tention. Other entities which paid ed executives appointed by the such things have a way of doing. French could learn a lot from read- to be a perfect hot house for their for the right to jerk on that chain, Reagan Administration, PBS, in By the end of WW II, French ing Alfred W. McCoy’s The Politics propagation. Paranoid Right Wing- including noted truth-seekers such 1985, aired a two-hour rebuttal to colonialists had, for all practical pur- of Heroin in Southeast Asia. McCoy, ers cowed Democrats into senseless as David H. Koch and the Bank of Karnow’s documentary. According poses, been treating “French” Indo- a respected academician, concludes fights that could not be won—or America, have their own reasons for to “Television’s Vietnam: The Real as a slave labor camp for nearly that the three top figures in our Sai- even ended.

The Alleged News® World Almost Ends, We Almost Miss It Nine days ago Puerto Rico was the situation any when it published a lieve in mumbo-jumbo—not of the “Depravity on Parade.” publican Caucasian, and the funds hit by its second major hurricane piece about David Meade, a self-de- Doomsday Christian variety, any- Get Smart in question would create jobs in the in less than three weeks. The is- scribed Christian numerologist who way. Out in Orange County, Calif. Shortly after our last bilious military-industrial sector while bol- land has been knocked flat. Its is now slightly famous, thanks in it’s a different story. They still believe screed began littering the fine dining stering our ability to create world 3.4 million inhabitants, all U.S. large part to the Post. Apparently in Richard Nixon, Duke Cunning- establishments of this literate, tem- peace by killing people, it would see citizens, will be without electricity Meade convinced a lot of people ham, and Jesus—in about that order. perate paradise, the Senate approved the President’s bid of $54 billion, for months. As many as 1.5 mil- that the world was ending Septem- People there were going about a $700 billion Defense Department and raise it another $26 billion. lion are said to be without potable ber 23rd. their business as usual on Septem- budget. Something about the resulting water. Apparently this information has ber 21st when their regularly-sched- President Trump—prudently $700-billion figure dislodged a syn- Two days later, the President been sitting there in the , in uled programming on HGTV was assuring that the Joint Chiefs had apse—a recurring problem around of the United States took a break plain sight, at Luke 21:25 to 26, for interrupted by the familiar tone of enough cash on hand to back up his here, we fear. from taunting Kim Jong Un to tell a couple of thousand years. Appar- an Emergency Alert, followed by a September 19th threat (from the We could not rest until we had an the owners of NFL football teams ently no one had ever noticed it be- man’s voice saying things like, “Re- podium of the United Nations, an answer—did the Pentagon ever find what to say when a player kneels to fore. Work on that comprehension, alize this: in the last days, extremely international body whose primary that missing $2.3 trillion-with-a-T protest racism during the national people. violent times will come.” function is to avert human extinc- that Donald Rumsfeld talked about anthem: “Get that son of a bitch off Fortunately we’ve been so dis- The Orange County Register re- tion by nuclear holocaust) to “totally on [a little ominous background the field right now. Out! He’s fired. tracted by the concatenation of gen- ported a few days later that what had destroy ”—had asked music, please] September 10, 2001? He’s fired!” uine catastrophes that we didn’t find sounded like an Emergency Alert for a budget increase of $54 billion. Soon enough we had dredged It’s enough to make a person out about this fake one until the day warning about the impending end The Senate, as is its wont, calm- up a reassuring answer: that money wonder, is the world coming to an after it didn’t happen. of the world was actually a broadcast ly considered that proposal and end? ThePost , of course, is read only by from Pastor Chuck Swindoll in Pla- rendered its prudent judgment: The Alleged News® didn’t help sophisticated types who don’t be- no, Texas, delivering a sermon titled, whereas the President is a male Re- to page two Page 2 — The New Hampshire Gazette, Friday, September 29, 2017

The Alleged News® ed on Sunday that airstrikes by the from page one U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS near Raqqa in Syria struck a school and wasn’t missing at all—it just couldn’t a market, killing at least 84 civilians. be accounted for. Totally different “Although ISIS fighters were also problem, and quite routine for the at these sites,” according to Human Pentagon. Nothing to worry about. Rights Watch, “the high civilian Alex Emmons, an impudent death toll raises concerns that mil- young man who writes for the on- itary forces of the US-led coalition line journal The Intercept, had the failed to take necessary precautions gall to suggest that the money might to avoid and minimize civilian casu- better be spent elsewhere. alties, a requirement under interna- “ … with $80 billion a year, you tional humanitarian law.” could make public colleges and uni- Is the Shipyard on the Chopping Block? versities in the U.S. tuition-free. In The Government Accountability fact, Sanders’s proposal was only Office issued a report a few weeks estimated to cost the federal gov- ago which said all four U.S. Naval ernment $47 billion per year. If the shipyards are obsolete money-sinks. additional military spending over “The cost of backlogged resto- the next 10 years instead went to pay ration and maintenance projects … off student debt, it could come close shipyards has grown by 41 percent to wiping it out entirely.” over five years … and will take at If our tax dollars must go to least 19 years … to clear. Similarly, a bombs rather than the education of Navy analysis shows that the average our citizens, perhaps we should at age of shipyard capital equipment least make the bombs smarter. now exceeds its expected useful life.” Human Rights Watch report- Meanwhile, back at the Senate, Arizona’s John McCain is making when the Attorney General of the surum wrote: noises about starting another round State of New Hampshire declined “First, I must thank all those who of Base Realignment and Closing. to challenge “Bill” Binnie’s blatant have been supporting this battle to No doubt Maine and New land grab. Jesurum was obviously reclaim public lands. That is in the Hampshire’s Congressional delega- quite well served by his attorney, plural because much more was at tions will take up arms against this Paul McEachern, and his associate, stake than the easement over Sand- threat to our local economy national Jacob Marvelley. ers Poynt. Because Sanders Poynt is security. In the photo below, Jesurum en- the only public land-side access to Victory at Sanders Poynt! joys the fruits of his labors. miles of publicly owned beach and After a full five years of denying wetlands. Because Sanders Poynt is Granite Staters—and, when you one of the few public places in NH think about it, the entire human accessible for the launching of small race, not to mention their canine boats. companions—their Constitution- “And thank you to the Leftist al right to stroll along the strand Marching Band which came today at Sanders Poynt in Rye, William to celebrate our victory. “Bill” Binnie, failed Senate candidate “Now, what we need is a real and proprietor of the pretentious celebration. I would like to suggest amusement park commonly known Saturday, October 21st, at 1:00 p.m. The summer motorcycling season is nearly over. Soon the interminable as Wentworth by the Sea Country as the date and time to have a beach background noise will abate, or at least become intermittent. While we Club has finally deigned to comply party at Little Harbor beach and won’t miss those faux-rebels, we will miss the more intriguing machines with the orders of the Rockingham Sanders Poynt. We would supply that show up once in a while. Last Saturday a nice collection of them came County Superior Court and restored food and drinks, hoping that they together for the annual Welcome East custom bike show, held this year at the public access facility his minions would be consumed by a crowd of the Liar’s Bench brewery. There were a couple of very nice Beemers, but an destroyed on his orders back in Oc- people. All those who treasure our original-looking 1944 Indian Chief stole our heart away. Speaking of In- tober of 2012. public lands heritage are welcome dians, the finest bit of artistry we spotted was this 1882 quarter, modified Credit for this victory, of course, Photo courtesy R. Jesurum. to the party. I hope that the Coastal “hobo nickel” style. Chris Tope, of Bellingham, Mass., used this tricked-out goes to Rye resident Robert Je- In an email sent Sunday, Septem- Conservation Association of N.H., two-bit piece as a tank medallion for a 1968 Hodaka Ace 100. He calls surum, who stood up for his own ber 17th—the Court’s deadline for which has been in court on our side, this a “Navajo build.” rights, and the rights of the people, completion of the restoration—Je- will be able to participate in this

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In fact there is such an effort. “This date is a suggestion and may On September 14th we got word be changed according to peoples’ from Don Swanson, of the Coastal availability.” Conservation Association of New The next day we received an email Hampshire [CCANH], saying an- from New Castle Town Historian other $150 had been recently donat- Jim Cerny: ed, bringing the total to $10,490.00. “Just read the note on page two of Then, on the 26th, we got an- the September 15th edition about other email from Don: “Just picked Sanders Point (the faux-historic up mail, 14 new checks totaling spelling “poynt” always grates on $1,040.00. That now brings us up me) and thought you might like to $11,830. Many notes thanking a picture of the Leftist Marching Robert, The Gazette, and some for Band celebrating there. I chanced to the CCANH.” be driving by on Sunday about 1:00 There is still a long way to go p.m. and there they were! Grabbed before all those legal expenses are my camera and snapped away.” recovered. Those wishing to help may do so online at ccanh.org/sand- ers-poynt, or mail their personal check to CCA NH, PO Box 4372, Portsmouth, N.H. 03802-4372. Checks should be payable to the “Coastal Conservation Association of New Hampshire,” with “Sander’s Poynt Legal Fund” on the memo Photo courtesy of Jim Cerny. line. All funds raised go directly to reimbursing Jesurum. In his email Cerny noted, “BTW, The legal expenses required to the person I was with said he had obtain justice in this case are ap- sent $100 to Jeserum in appreciation palling, but there is one consolation. of his attorneys, but he ginned up a 03302-0483, stating their opposi- are subsidized. As usual with my of his fight for the public—I don’t The expenses of the arrogant indi- sizeable body of work for his team of tion to the imposition of any new communications to the Selectmen, know if there has been any crowd vidual who started this fight must landscape architects. This absurd yet restrictions on parking along Rt. 1B I have been completely ignored. Do funding efforts to help with his con- have been far higher. Not only did serious court battle must have cost by NHDOT. they not have a duty to come clean siderable legal expenses.” he burn through the billable hours him at least a quarter million. Then there is the matter of the about gifts they may or may nor It’s not over yet. Jesurum says Rye’s Town of Rye’s Master Plan. Ac- have received?” The public meeting town’s attorney, Michael Donovan, cording to a letter from Jesurum, on Rye’s Master Plan will be held at “has publicly stated that the town of Samuel Winebaum alerted him 6:00 p.m. on the 12th of October at Rye would support the Wentworth back in 2011 that when beach ac- the Rye Jr. High. if it applied to NHDOT to restrict cess points were listed in the Master Robinson Helicopters Crash parking along Wentworth Road Plan, Sanders Poynt and Little Har- A pilot was injured on Wednes- near Sanders Poynt. bor Beach were pointedly omitted. day afternoon, September 20th, at “Probably, they will use public Not long after that the Selectmen the Long Beach Airport in Cali- safety as their rationale, but it is clear allowed Binnie to close off public fornia, when the Robinson R22 he- to me that the only reason they wish access. licopter he was attempting to land to restrict parking is to prevent use Jesurum writes, “The Planning flipped over on its side. The machine of Little Harbor Beach by any sig- Board is holding a special meeting “sustained substantial damage,” nificant numbers. at the Rye Junior High School at according to news reports, but did “That has been their goal from 6:00 p.m. on October 12th, to again not burst into flames. The pilot was the beginning of this dispute, and consider the master plan, and this is taken to the hospital for treatment. the town of Rye is continuing its a chance to get them to do the right Apparently he is expected to survive. pandering to WBTSCC.” thing for Sanders Poynt. I plan to Four days later and 130 miles to Nobody cares anymore about the repetitive clattering noise pollution emit- Those wishing to thwart this attend and would welcome all the the northwest, two people were in- ted by red Robinson helicopters, frequently spotted carting gawking tourists scheme could assist by writing to support I can get. jured at the Santa Barbara Airport through our skies. At least, that’s the story from the guy who’s been mak- Ms. Victoria Sheehan, Commis- “Also, in my last letter to the Se- when the Robinson R22 they were ing money from that noxious trade. Recently the Award-Winning Local sioner, New Hampshire Depart- lect Board demanded information as in lost its battle with gravity and Daily repeated that self-serving nonsense. More than two dozen people ment of Transportation, John O. to how many town officials or em- crashed, landing on its side. Once showed up for the Pease Development Authority’s latest Noise Compat- Morton Building, PO Box 483, ployees are members of WBTSCC, again, the occupants were spared a ibility Commission and told its members something completely different. 7 Hazen Drive, Concord, N.H. and if any of those memberships fiery death. Page 4 — The New Hampshire Gazette, Friday, September 29, 2017 Protection From Corporate Carelessness times over doesn’t seem to vex him!? To the Editor: America already possesses more The credit agency Equifax an- nuclear weapons than any other coun- nounced that the names, addresses, try—4,480 warheads, with a social security numbers and drivers close second. In a bipartisan 71-26 licenses of 143 million U.S. individu- vote, U.S. and Russia are set to reduce als were stolen. Someone with that in- their stockpiles early in 2018. countries. It’s reasonable to question formation could take out a credit card But wait. Trump called it a “bad whether we-the-people derive tangi- or home or car loan in your name. In deal” for America, and will probably ble benefit from pursuing perpetual order to protect yourself you need to be the spoiler, which could touch off a warfare in the Middle East at a time provided the money is honestly spent— put a lock on your credit score. If you serious new nuclear arms race. when our highway systems, airports, than wells drilled in areas where women rebirth a nation of true freedom. Then lock your credit score no one can take There’s no need for overkill regard- schools, and public transportation spend half their waking hours carrying of course the minority views of the lib- out a credit card or loan in your name. ing weaponry, nor for a plan, as pro- are crumbling. And, we might also water to their homes. On the other hand, erals will no longer be able to be forced To unlock your credit you simply enter posed, to build new delivery systems question why Congress continues to we’d be better off burning the tax dollars upon the rest of us. a pin number. costing hundreds of billion dollars. hobble America’s access to healthcare we spend blowing people up to guarantee John Dente For the last 18 months Maine’s That would ultimately make us less while passing out billions in corporate the unfettered movement of capital— Wilmington, Del. residents have been able to lock and safe. welfare to banks, drug companies, and which seems to be the true aim of the war John: unlock their credit scores for free due All former administrations have at the health-insurance industry. against terror. The liberals of your imagination seem to legislation passed by the State. New least paid lip service to nuclear con- Here in New Hampshire, we know Here’s when the oligarchs will stop to be awfully clever and powerful be- Hampshire residents have to pay for tainment and/or disarmament. Not moose are unpredictable, messy, easily spending our tax dollars that way: when ings. Despite being the minority, they are this protection. We should not have Trump. distracted, and prone to making bad we make them. If you’ll excuse us, we have somehow able to force their views upon to pay the three credit agencies for the Nuclear weapons are grotesquely decisions. Turns out our political lead- to go scrape some 2018 off the ol’ editorial the rest of us. right to lock their credit because one distinctive. A typical warhead of 300 ership isn’t any better! The only reason shoe. Clearly that’s something to which you of them allowed everyone’s personal kilotons detonated above a city would moose are dying off from winter-tick The Editor look forward. We’re left a little uncertain, information to be stolen. kill every living thing within a one infestation is because they lack the –=≈=– though, about how you actually feel about Call your Governor, State Senator mile radius. People within three miles basic instinct to groom themselves. Winter is Coming that army of dead Confederates, and and Representative and demand we wouldn’t fare much better. For many By the same token, the only reason To the Editor: their mission of dismantling of the Fed- follow Maine’s lead on this issue. Call cities this would amount to one mil- America’s infrastructure is crumbling “This sudden national concern eral Government. Are you trying to tell your U.S. Senators and Congress- lion dead and an additional two mil- is because today’s crop of pay-for-play about the chimerical beast called ‘voter us you’re un-reconstructed? woman and demand Congress make lion seriously injured. This is just from politicos lack the technical know-how fraud’ is all a piece of performance art, The Editor this a national right. Since Equifax a single warhead. and integrity to preserve and regen- political theater, a production being –=≈=– put us in jeopardy, demand it pay the Loco? Unhinged? Reasonless? erate the commons. It’s unfortunate, staged to extend a franchise much like Zombies Kill! charges by the other credit agencies to Welcome please to the blasphemy because promoting and serving the the endless succession of movies based To the Editor: lock our credit scores. known as the age of the Trump pres- interests of the public sector is their on comic book superheroes … .” For a Zombies kill people, yet they are Walter Hamilton idency. primary reason for being! brief moment I thought you were were hard to kill and keep coming back! Portsmouth N.H. Mike Kulla Now that the 2018 campaign is un- talking about Russiagate, that fictional The same can be said of the Repub- Walter: Poughkeepsie, N.Y. derway (or under foot), we’re already performance that is still going on and lican effort to undermine our health- Thanks for sending along such a rea- Mike: hearing a lot of malarkey about quick that accuses Putin of using the Jedi care system. It just keeps coming back. soned, concise summary of this latest ex- We’ll say this for the Grand Yam: he’s schemes to fix infrastructure and put mind trick that he learned from the Current estimates are that the newest ample of corporate carelessness. If we’d got us thinking about the sheer lunacy of Americans back to work. Not good aliens that were captured when their incarnation will deny healthcare to 34 taken a whack at it we would have ended our nuclear arsenal in a way we have not enough! Band-aide solutions dreamed spaceship crashed in the Tunguska million citizens! Yet this bill that af- up with a lengthy manifesto calling for for decades. up by lobbyists and lawyers offer no region of Russia, in order to change fects every American is being rushed some kind of uprising. The Editor remedy. We need to start electing the minds of those millions who really through with virtually no discussion The Editor –=≈=– technocrats who believe in science wanted to vote for Hilary Clinton. and no public input. If enacted, tens of –=≈=– God Bless Slumerica and have the requisite knowledge and You see the problem with the neu- thousands of people will die unneces- Trump Goes Nuclear To the Editor: skills to solve complex problems over roscientists is that they conduct their sarily because of lack of medical cov- To the Editor: America is getting shabbier by the the long haul. And, we need to nail any MRI examinations during the day, but erage. In other words it will kill people. The Obama Administration finally day, but once again, Congress will candidate to the wall who won’t swear the daytime is not when the fevered This bad sequel is being brought to took a major step on no-first-strike likely fail to act in a responsible way on his mother’s grave he’ll fight to amygdalas of the liberals are excited. you by the same people who fought nuclear attacks. In contrast, President to reverse its slide. Washington collects bring America’s tax dollars back home It is at night time when those liberals, against Social Security, the 40-hour Trump tweeted that America “must an enormous pile of tax revenue from to work for us! That’s not isolationism, unable to sleep, see images of Gener- work week, Medicare, and consumer greatly strengthen and expand its us annually, money meant to pay for it’s just simple common sense! al Robert E. Lee rising up to lead an protection. nuclear capacity … “, and even more running the country, but both sides of Rick Littlefield army of statues of dead Confederates, Maybe zombies can live forever but robustly that “we will outmatch oth- the aisle appear hell-bent on co-opting Barrington, N.H. and founding fathers—like the army the rest of us need a healthcare system er nations at every pass and outlast it to serve other purposes. Rick: of the dead in “Game of Thrones”—to that is not built on myths and lies and them.” That we have the nukes to ex- To that end, it’s fair to ask if we real- We have always felt that, dollar for march on Washington to dismantle that will drain the key benefits from terminate every person on 100 ly need a military presence in over 100 dollar, few things bring a better return— the Federal Government in order to the current system.

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during their junior year. While taking Once again, has the class three years ago, my daughter clearly demonstrated that he com- had been assigned to a group whose pletely lacks the character, tempera- task it was to address the policy mak- ment, wisdom, and humanity expected ers and their fossil fuel industry corpo- of a person in his position and is unfit rate donors who deny climate change. to lead our nation. In an angry, racial- power to the law clerks, instead of [to] Her group received accolades from ly divisive and vulgar speech, before the Justices. It may also open the door the NEU faculty for a short video and an almost exclusively white audience for third parties to unfairly influence associated petition they incorporated in the deep south, Mr. Trump at- for their honeymoon. This would have a case using the clerks as conspirators. in their presentation which called for tacked mostly black National Football Disclaimer: I have never actually cost the taxpayers $25,000 an hour. That is not how the Supreme Court the World Meteorological Organi- League [NFL] players for peacefully seen a zombie movie, but I have seen His request was denied. was designed to operate. Justice Gor- zation to name extreme storms after and lawfully exercising their Constitu- lots of efforts from the Republicans to Secretary Mnuchin is Trump’s pick such should be applauded for broad- some of the most notorious climate tional, First Amendment right of free take from the middle class and give to to craft his “tax reform” bill. Anyone so casting this unlawful action and saying. change deniers. speech. In so doing, Mr. Trump also the wealthy. rich who thinks robbing the tax tax- It is not okay to pass off judgments to I’m happy and proud to say that demonstrated his total lack of under- Fight this awful bill! payers is a right is not going to alter the discretion of legal clerks. both my adult children share my standing of our Constitution and vio- Michael Frandzel taxes to benefit the middle class. Do Rep. Dick Marple Merrimack #24 fighting spirit and sense of justice and lated his oath of office to protect and Portsmouth, N.H. not trust this swamp creature. Trump Hooksett, N.H. I found the idea of my daughter’s team defend the Constitution. Michael: claims his tax cuts will create mil- Dick: to be an excellent one as I’ve always In his hateful speech, Mr. Trump It is perhaps no coincidence that the lions of new jobs. That is the same What on earth is is happening to us? thought it extremely unfair to stigma- was much more aggressive and harsh deeper one’s faith, the more likely one is to lie George Bush and the GOP used Once again, as with jury nullification, we tize people, many who are friends and in his criticism of these NFL athletes be a Republican. (That spiffy new factoid when they cut taxes on the rich and find ourselves agreeing with you. You’re family members, by naming destruc- for exercising their Constitutional was custom-made to fit this reply; noth- corporations. How did that work out? right about the harm that can be done by tive and deadly hurricanes after them. rights than he was toward the violent ing’s too good for readers of this rag.) Walter Hamilton unelected—and unappointed—clerks at The idea is to, instead of naming White Nationalists in Charlottesville, Despite rapidly mounting evidence Portsmouth N.H. work in the bowels of the Supreme Court. extreme storms after innocents such or toward Vladimir Putin for his at- that the universe is utterly indifferent Walter: It was one of those miserable #%$#@$ as Andrew, Katrina, Ivan, Irene, San- tack on and interference in our recent to man’s fate, some believe with all their It now appears unlikely that the Re- who first bestowed personhood on corpo- dy, Harvey or Irma, name them after election. His public use of profanity heart that it was created by an omnip- publicans will succeed in their effort to rations! But Justice Gorsuch as some kind those who refuse to acknowledge that demeans the office of the Presidency otent, anthropomorphic, benevolent convert Obamacare into the Federalist of hero? Not hardly! climate change is real and who are not and is a disgrace to our country. God—who will one day smite all the ideal: 50 separate Death Panels, one for Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc- willing to take on the fossil fuel indus- By his words and actions, Mr. non-believers that He created in His own each state. That means they’ll have more Connell revealed himself as a partisan try and transform our energy system Trump damages the image, credibili- image. time and energy to devote to tax reform. stooge of the oligarcy—and a racist thug away from fossil fuel and into ener- ty and standing of the United States These are the folks who believe that one We’re a bit shocked that you don’t have to boot—when he deprived President gy efficiency and sustainable energy. across the globe. While we have men of these days, Congress will outlaw abor- more faith in Mr. Mnuchin. To set your of his Constitutional Some of the names suggested for ex- and women fighting to protect our tion. With faith like that, the Republican mind at ease, perhaps you should watch right to appoint a Justice to the Supreme treme storms in the video were Mar- Constitution, and spread democracy drive to kill Obamacare may outlive us more . It seems to have done Court. Where was Justice Gorsuch last co Rubio, Rick Perry, James Inhofe, to other nations, Mr, Trump sends a all. wonders for a lot of people. week? Down in , campaign- David Vitter and Paul Ryan. I’d rec- message that directly conflicts with our The Editor The Editor ing for McConnell—and making clear ommend updating the list by adding most cherished values and traditions, –=≈=– –=≈=– his utter contempt for the people and the the names of Donald J. Trump, Scott values and traditions that thousands Who is in Charge of Tax Reform? Hail Gorsuch! Constitution. Pruitt, Ted Cruz, Rick Scott, Rush have died to defend. The hypocrisy To the Editor: To the Editor: Any good Gorsuch does will be by acci- Limbaugh, Fox News and the Koch of Mr. Trump’s message does not go Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin During the short period of time that dent. His presence on the court is in itself Brothers. unnoticed by our enemies, who will is a near billionaire. After becoming Justice Neil Gorsuch has been on the an insult to the Constitution. Imagine the impact that would be use Mr. Trump’s words to their own Secretary he married a Scottish actress Supreme Court he has been ignored The Editor had if all we heard for a solid week advantage. whose family is rich enough to have a by mainstream media. Recently he ig- –=≈=– leading up to a Category 5 hurricane If Mr. Trump cannot understand castle as a vacation home. She tweeted nited the fire of liberty and broke 40 Change Hurricane Naming Systems was, “Florida Governor Rick Scott is that when he now speaks, he speaks about how expensive her clothes, shoes years of precedent when he refused to To the Editor: expected to move up the Eastern Sea- for the entire nation, regardless of their and accessories were while getting off join the SCOTUS “cert pool,” which Since we are still talking about stat- board and destroy everything in his color, ethnicity, political party, gender a government plane they had used to was established in 1973 during the ues, monuments and storms, I thought path.” or sexual orientation, he should return see the eclipse. Burger Court, purportedly to review this would be the perfect opportunity Wayne H. Merritt to private life where he can speak only Maybe Mr. Mnuchin or his wife the near 8,000 petitions received each to propose a change to how we name Dover, N.H. for himself. thought it was below them to sit with term. In current practice, the petitions our most destructive storms. Wayne: During the 2016 presidential cam- the riff raff in first class cabins of -com are apportioned among the Court’s Northeastern University in Boston Sorry, can’t type. Laughing too hard. paign, Mr, Trump asked an audience mercial airplanes. In any case he asked law clerks, who then determine if the requires all International Business The Editor of African Americans to vote for him. the Defense Department to supply court should docket the case or deny it. majors to take a class on Global Cli- –=≈=– him with a jet and crew to fly him The obvious problem here is that mate Change (which is very heavy on He Should Speak Only For Himself Hate Mail, &c. and his bride to and around Europe [this] process gives unconstitutional the science related to climate change) To the Editor: to page six

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The Northcountry Chronicle Hypocrisy Incorporated by William Marvel like me, and even toward more bel- Nouveau Puritans depend on the tion, came the demand to rename slaughtered thousands of unarmed ligerent doubters, at least comports commerce clause of the Constitution streets, and now army posts. Next we Filipinos, including women and just returned from a lon- with their preaching. Compare that to force Christian business owners can expect vilification and effective children. ger-than-usual visit to my wife’s to the subtly oppressive political and to violate their own religious beliefs, proscription of political arguments Those monuments are not target- Ihome town in Kansas. Sojourns in social atmosphere flourishing here but dismiss the First Amendment contrary to the radical agenda. ed, nor are Frank Baum’s Oz books that pervasively Christian climate just now. Authoritarians-in-liber- in order to silence groups they find As though anxious to illustrate the proposed for the bonfire, thus be- usually provoke me to lament that al-clothing prevail in the Puritan offensive. They passionately despise absurd extremes toward which such traying the cynical, partisan duplici- so many people of apparent good diaspora, pretending to revere di- “haters,” who include just about any- hysterical purges inevitably tend, ty behind this carefully orchestrated sense believe so literally in a myth, versity but demanding uniformity one resisting their pseudo-religious ESPN recently reassigned Robert outrage. American Indians and Fil- but not this time. Recent events in political opinion: everyone is radical doctrine. They excoriate cli- Lee, an announcer of Chinese her- ipinos do not constitute a voting left me reflecting instead on the welcome regardless of geographic or mate deniers for rejecting the per- itage, to a less conspicuous role. It bloc populous enough to attract the relative ideological tolerance even ethnic origins, but woe to whomever suasive evidence of human agency was really his own fault, because he interest of Democratic Party re- among the most fundamentalist should voice disagreement with the in global warming, yet stubbornly should already have appealed to the cruiters. Neither are they numerous of those prairie believers, at least dogma. Hell hath no fury like that of refuse to concede facts that disturb People’s Revolutionary Committee enough to arouse the avarice of mor- when judged against the ostensibly a liberal scorned, as letters to my lo- their own prejudices—denying that on Acceptable Nomenclature for a alizing corporate managers who, in liberal, inclusive society in which cal newspaper confirm in the reflex- counter-demonstrators at Char- new name. their zealous appeal to the lucrative I live. ive and sometimes virulent rebuke of lottesville and elsewhere included Were their clamor a sincere Millennial market, now openly fire No visit to Jesusland passes with- dissent. armed agitators looking to incite vi- expression of moral outrage, an- employees for holding unorthodox out some of my disdain In this parody of intellectu- olence; denying that left-wing mobs ti-Confederate crusaders would political opinions. for the metaphysical fantasy under- al freedom, reactions to Supreme threaten a reign of terror on any who simultaneously assail still-worse The hypocrisy of our headlong lying daily life there, and this trip Court rulings provide a conspicuous disagree; denying that, in showing episodes of racial domination and descent into fanatical liberalism was no exception. Still, I’ve never weathervane for progressive incon- off their alleged virtue by attacking genocide in our past. Statues of might be comic were it not so dead- been made to feel unwelcome. In sistency. When the court decreed conservative demonstrators, such many Union generals and most ly a betrayal of the genuine liberal fact I seem to be regarded with re- 5-4 that corporations are essentially mobs are weakening free expression frontier soldiers memorialize war- principles that served as a beacon ciprocal amusement and heartfelt people, leftists condemned its hide- for all of us. riors in what became a concerted of reason in our country’s darkest concern for my impending dam- bound conservatism, insisting that Overshadowed but unimpeded by effort to exterminate North Amer- hours. On the streets or online, no nation. “We’ll get you to heaven the question should be decided by recent hurricanes, the Taliban-like ica’s native tribes; as a newspaper faction has any right to call itself tol- somehow, Bill,” a Liberty University popular vote. Soon afterward the campaign to destroy offensive stat- editor, even the author of The Wiz- erant that imposes its will on others alumnus once assured me, dropping same court effectively legalized gay uary proceeds stealthily from the ard of Oz, called for outright geno- by mob violence, economic intim- a hand on my shoulder as though se- marriage 5-4, and rejoicing liberals eradication of Confederate memory cide. Most Spanish-American War idation, or social ostracism. Such cretly convinced of the hopelessness praised the enlightened sagacity of to the demonization of all conserva- monuments also commemorate the self-righteousness does not simply of my case. the justices—whose decision also tive thought. The Confederate flag brutal suppression of the popular re- aggravate the perilous polarization Those pious plainsmen’s solicitous subverted any decision by popular was just the first target, followed by volt against our colonial rule in the of our society; it lies at the very root attitude toward open disbelievers vote. the statues. Then, in Stalinist imita- Philippines, in which U.S. soldiers of it.

More Mash Notes, Hate Mail, and Other Correspondence, from Page Five The Wizard of Flaws rhetorically asking, “what do you and expendable income to tearing very good at distraction, and the po- It’s the U.S. congress and the bag have to lose.” Now they know what To the Editor: down America’s public sector. They litical train wrecks he’s created thus men who fill their coffers who most they have to lose; their Constitu- Any time Donald Trump spots a do it to kill regulation, reduce tax li- far have proven so spectacular that deserve our attention as the 2018 tional right of free speech. crack in America’s social unity, count ability, and pilfer as much wealth as we-the-people—and the media— elections pull into view, not Trump. Rich DiPentima on him to jam in a chisel and start possible from the public commons. can’t seem to avert our eyes. As a If you’ve got a pitchfork in the shed, Portsmouth, N.H. pounding. It happened in Alabama, These are the “millionaires and bil- result, we fail to stay on top of things now might be a good time to get it! Rich: and will continue throughout his lionaires” who drive Bernie Sanders percolating in the political swamps Rick Littlefield It’s not just African Americans reign because it’s what he does. Like nuts—and the one-per-centers who of Washington that really matter. Barrington, N.H. whom Trump would deprive of their a rampaging honey badger, his mis- generously fund PBS while never Things like the Republican push Rick: right to free speech. His attempt to en- sion is to agitate and promote polit- missing an opportunity to sponsor to cancel the Consumer Finance Excellent advice—we should take it force universal adherence to ritual “pa- ical mayhem. downward mobility on Main Street. Protection Bureau’s prohibition on ourselves! triotic” conduct is pure fascism. Under Mayhem among the masses, it It’s crucial to remember that forced arbitration—a rule change Wait a minute—what’s that? fascism, no one has rights. turns out, is prized greatly in the Donald Trump is a theatrical figure that will allow giants like Equifax Squirrel! The Editor world of high finance where wealthy with a rich legacy as a New York and Wells Fargo to rip off customers The Editor –=≈=– folks devote large amounts of time City huckster and con-artist. He’s with impunity. –=≈=–

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A True Spat-Upon Veteran Story By Bill Ehrhart own experiences. I returned to the prominent veteran claiming to have for the next year and a half until I Indeed, I could not even legally U.S. from Asia twice in full mili- been assaulted by antiwar demon- turned 21, which was the age of ma- buy a beer in my own hometown. ince September 17th, when the tary uniform, March 1968 and June strators at an airport while a former jority then in Pennsylvania. You want to talk spat-upon? I series began, a lot of Amer- 1969, both times passing through antiwar demonstrator tearfully apol- The day after that, I went to sure as hell was spit on when I came Sicans have been watching the San Francisco airport—the heart of ogizes for having verbally abused McKeever Insurance, in my home home, but it wasn’t the antiwar peo- long-awaited The Vietnam War hippiedom—on my way home to returning veterans. Evidence that town of Perkasie, Pa., to get insur- ple who did the spitting. documentary by Ken Burns and Philadelphia. No one ever accosted it happened? None. We’re just sup- ance for my car. But Mrs. McKeever I begged Lynn Novick of Floren- Lynn Novick. me. posed to take their word for it. told me I couldn’t get a policy in my tine Films to get this story on film I knew the 18-hour program After May 1970 and the killings I, however, do have a true name. I would have to be carried on and into their documentary, but you would have a lot of material that at Kent State, I joined the antiwar “spat-upon veteran story.” One that my parents’ policy as a dependent will not see this true story among would not please me. movement, but I did not spit on I can prove with documentary evi- child. the many stories in the documen- After all, Bank of America and myself or call myself “baby killer.” dence. It goes like this: Understand what I’m saying here: tary. Instead, you will see and hear David Koch are not going to un- Moreover, I never saw anyone else The day after I came home from I had just spent 13 months fighting the same old tired—and completely derwrite an exposé of U.S. imperi- around me abusing soldiers or vet- Vietnam in early March 1968, I in Vietnam. I was a combat-wound- undocumented and unfounded— alism. But I had hoped they would erans. took the money I’d saved in those 13 ed Marine Corps sergeant, but the claptrap we’ve been hearing since at least avoid perpetuating some of Vietnam War veteran Jerry Lem- months and went to West German state of Pennsylvania recognized Ronald Reagan proclaimed that the the more egregiously false popular bcke confirms my anecdotal evi- Motors in Ft. Washington, PA, and me only as a child dependent on my American War in Vietnam “was, in myths about that war. dence in his book The Spitting Image: bought a brand new Volkswagen. parents. truth, a noble cause.” One of the most pervasive is the Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of VW Beetle. Red with black interior. Let me say that again: I had just [Bill Ehrhart, a Marine Corps vet- myth that returning soldiers were Vietnam (NYU Press, 2000), which Only I didn’t buy it. I had to give spent 13 months fighting in Viet- eran of the American War in Vietnam, accosted by antiwar demonstrators, thoroughly debunks this mythology the money to my father, and he nam. I was a combat-wounded Ma- is author of numerous books, including spit on, called “baby killer,” and oth- of abuse. bought it because I was not legally rine Corps sergeant, but the state of Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Ma- erwise abused. Yet you will see and hear in the old enough to buy a car. The owner’s Pennsylvania recognized me only as rine Memoir. He appears in the new That does not accord with my Burns/Novick documentary a card remained in my father’s name a dependent child. Burns/Novick documentary.] Can’t America do better than today’s ripoff health care system? by Jim Hightower exorbitant profits. they can’t use the policy they’re pay- than a corporate profit center. family, people wouldn’t avoid going While the guiding ethic of phy- ing for; one out of five adults can’t And doing this doesn’t require a to the doctor because they can’t af- ather than a health care sys- sicians, nurses, and other caregivers afford prescription drugs they need; whole new complex system. Con- ford it, prescription drugs would be tem, our country’s leaders is: “First, do no harm,” the corpo- our people are less healthy than oth- gress can just extend America’s affordable, and workers wouldn’t be Rhave kept us shackled to a “cor- rate owners of the system impose a er advanced nations (for example, successful Medicare program to stuck in bad jobs just to get basic porate care” system, allowing in- contrary ethic: “First, maximize our the U.S. ranks 42nd in life expectan- every man, woman, and child in our health coverage. surance giants, drug company profits.” Thus, despite Americans cy); and CEOs and top shareholders country. This egalitarian “Medicare To learn more about Medicare- gougers, hospital chains, and other spending some $3.2 trillion a year of the system are hauling off multi- for All” idea would deliver compre- for-All, go to www.BernieSanders. profiteers to ration our care based on health care, more than any other ple-millions of dollars each. hensive care, be much easier for pa- com/MedicareForAll. on whether a family can pay what- country in the world: 28 million of Can’t we do better than that? Of tients to navigate, and be far cheaper Copyright 2017 by Jim Hightower ever outrageous price the corpora- our people have no health coverage; course we can—if we start treating than today’s ripoff system. At last, a & Associates. Contact laura@jimhigh- tions demands to maintain their tens of millions are so underinsured health care as a human right, rather hospital stay would not bankrupt a tower.com for more information.

Offshore Wind: Powering our Past, and Future er sources, these technologies once nately, the Northeast, and the Gulf The Portsmouth City Council approached for town meeting votes. installed will harness practically free of Maine in particular, turn out to has a resolution before it that would A Council vote on the resolution is To the Editor: energy for a resilient, reliable and be among the best regions in all of send a message to Governor Sununu expected on Monday, October 2nd There is a revolution taking place safe power grid throughout our en- North America for offshore wind that we want to see this kind of de- at 7 p.m., so Portsmouth residents just off the Northeast U.S. coast, ergy-starved region. development. The U.S. Department velopment off our shores, and that and others concerned with climate a key part of a necessary transi- In the 21st century, a growing of Energy calculates that there is a he should act quickly to request action and/or sustainable energy are tion away from the fossil fuels that recognition of the need to get off total potential wind power resource formation of an intergovernmental encouraged to come to the meeting threaten our future climate. The our fossil fuel addiction as well as in the Gulf of Maine—from Cape task force by Federal authorities, as and support this first step toward re- siting and installation of huge off- rely more on cleaner, highly effi- Cod to Eastport, Maine—of more almost every other eastern coastal newing and updating our maritime shore wind turbines and other ocean cient electrical energy throughout than 200,000 megawatts. That’s state has already done. Dover and legacy for a sustainable 21st century. technologies promise to provide the our economy has led to growing more than six times the existing Durham councils have already ap- Doug Bogen, for the Seacoast bulk of our power needs in future demand—and lower costs—for re- power capacity of all the New En- proved similar resolutions, and oth- Anti-Pollution League decades. As with all renewable pow- newable power development. Fortu- gland states. er Seacoast communities are being –=≈=–

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Portsmouth, arguably the first whom you choose to believe. drags about seventeen billion moves from the mouth of the Twice a day, too, the lets all Badger’s Island, bobbing around in and bridges work their hardest. town in this country not founded The Piscataqua’s ferocious current gallons of seawater — enough to river, up past New Castle, around that water go. All the seawater that the current. It weighs several tons, Ships coming in laden with coal, by religious extremists, is bounded is caused by the tide, which, in fill 2,125,000 tanker trucks — up the bend by the old Naval Prison, just fought its way upstream goes and it bobs and bounces in the oil, and salt do so at high tide, for on the north and east by the turn, is caused by the moon. The the river and into Great Bay. This under Memorial Bridge, past the back home to the ocean. This is current like a cork. more clearance under their keels. Piscataqua River, the second, third, other player is a vast sunken valley creates a roving hydraulic conflict, tugboats, and on into Great Bay. when the Piscataqua earns its title The river also has its placid mo- They leave empty, riding high in or fourth fastest-flowing navigable — Great Bay — about ten miles as incoming sea and the outgoing This can best be seen when the tide for xth fastest current. Look for the ments, around high and low tides. the water, at low tide, to squeeze river in the country, depending on upriver. Twice a day, the moon river collide. The skirmish line is rising. red buoy, at the upstream end of When the river rests, its tugboats under Memorial Bridge. Sunday, October 1 Monday, October 2 Tuesday, October 3 Wednesday, October 4 Thursday, October 5 Friday, October 6 Saturday, October 7

2013—In the name of fiscal discipline, 2003—Survey chief David Kay re- 2009—Combat Outpost Keating, in 2010—Germany is finally free of its 2003—Timothy Treadwell and girl- 2004—The top U.S. arms inspector in 2016—The Washington Post releases Republicans shut down the govern- ports that his three-month, $300 Nuristan, badly-sited and scheduled WW I reparations debt. friend Amie Huguenard discover the Iraq says there is no evidence Saddam a videotape on which the GOP Pres- ment. Cost to the economy: $24 billion. million search for Saddam Hussein’s for abandonment, is mostly overrun by 2004—SpaceShipOne, Burt Rutan’s hard way that the grizzly bears they’ve Hussein had tried to manufacture any idential candidate brags about grab- 2011—The main rotor falls off a Rob- WMD has turned up squat. Taliban fighters who capture weapons tourist rocket, wins the Ansari X Prize been associating with in Alaska are WMDs after 1991. bing women by their genitals. Hours inson R66 helicopter near Philip, S.D. 2002—George W.[MD] Bush calls and ammunition, leaving eight Amer- by making a second trip above the at- not vegetarians. 1989—RIP Bette Davis. Years earlier, later hacked emails of his opponent’s The pilot dies in the inevitable crash. Iraq “a threat of unique urgency,” be- icans dead and 27 wounded. mosphere in five days. 2002—George W.[MD] Bush tells told she was rumored to have died, she campaign chairman are released. 2003—With Governor Benson’s bless- cause of its WMDs. 2006—Republicans in Congress try 2002—Knight-Ridder reports that N.H. Guardsmen that Saddam could said, “During a newspaper strike? I 2011—On her 62nd birthday, Wal- ing, Free Staters choose New Hamp- 1990—Three Texans in a Cessna to “roll over” $20 million set aside for a “The White House and the Pentagon inflict “massive and sudden horror” on wouldn’t dream of it.” Mart heir Alice Walton gets her 2nd shire as their libertarian paradise. come within 30 feet of clearing Mt. celebration of victory in Iraq. … are pressuring intelligence analysts the U.S. It’s not true. 1982—A Robinson R22 helicopter DWI; but, no charges were filed. The 2002—The U.S. Northern Com- Washington. Their bodies are brought 2003—The National Enquirer reports to highlight information that supports 2001—Robert Stevens, photo editor sheds parts over Santa Ana, Calif., second wealthiest woman on Earth, mand is established to “Defend Amer- down on the Cog Railway. that Rush Limbaugh is being investi- Bush’s Iraq policy.” Only one paper of the supermarket tabloid The Sun, then crashes, killing the pilot. she killed a woman in a 1989 car ica’s Homeland”—posse comitatus be 1980—Senior members of the Rea- gated for illegally procuring prescrip- prints the story. dies of anthrax. The terrorist who in- 1976—Cubana Flight 455 is bombed wreck, but no charges were filed. damned. gan campaign team meet in D.C. with tion opioids. 1992—An El Al crash dumps deplet- fected him remains at large. over Barbados, killing 73. Miami resi- 2007—Bangor, Maine celebrates the 2002—George W.[MD] Bush claims a representative of the Ayatollah, who 1993—Berlin, N.H. native Michael ed uranium and sarin gas precursors in 1995—Rush Limbaugh says, “if dent Luis Posada Carriles is wanted in death of Al Brady, Public Enemy No. he hasn’t “made up his mind we’re go- offers to release U.S. hostages. Durant’s helicopter is one of two shot Amsterdam, killing 47. people are violating the law by doing Cuba and Venezuela for the crime, but 1, in a 1937 shootout downtown. ing to war with Iraq.” 1980—Michael Myers (D-Pa.) be- down in the First Battle of Mogadi- 1986—Dan Rather is attacked on the drugs, they … ought to be sent up.” the U.S. won’t extradite him. 2001—U.S. forces invade Afghani- 1993—Caving under pressure, the comes the first Rep. expelled in 120 shu. He’s played by Ron Eldard in streets of New York by two men yell- After his own arrest in 2003 his posi- 1973— and Syria attack stan. George W.[MD] Bush writes his IRS grants tax-free status to the years, for bribe-taking and conspiracy. Black Hawk Down. ing, “What’s the frequency, Ken?” tion becomes more nuanced. on Yom Kippur. This backfires. Poppy, “I feel no sense of the so-called “Church” of Scientology. Why only him? Who knows. 1986—A fire breaks out aboard the 1971—Pres. Nguyen Van Thieu, un- 1988—In a Vice-Presidential debate, 1961—President Kennedy recom- heavy burden of the office.” 1973—Despite many failures to meet 1978—With the Yankees and Red Soviet missile sub K-219. The Reds opposed, is reelected. He says it’s “an Lloyd Bbentsen informs Dan Quayle mends that, in case of nuclear war, 1996—Fox News begins broadcasting service requirements, George W.[MD] Sox tied for the season, a playoff game blame an alleged collision with the achievement for democracy” in ’Nam. he’s “no Jack Kennedy.” American families get ready to live for mass quantities of insidious swill. Bush is discharged honorably from the is held; it’s decided by a three-run ho- U.S.S. Augusta. The Pentagon blames 1958—At 12:45 a.m., Thomas “Fitz” 1986—Nicaraguans shoot down a a while in holes in the ground. 1985—Attorney General Ed “Meese Texas Air National Guard. mer hit by New York’s Bucky F. Dent. sloppy Commy work habits. Fitzpatrick wins a bar bet by landing U.S. plane illegally supplying Contras 1917—“In time of war,” says Sen. is a Pig” Meese explains that “Mi- 1964—Campus cops at U.C. Berke- 1967—Thurgood Marshall becomes 1980—Moral Majority co-founder a “borrowed” Cessna on Amsterdam with arms bought with the proceeds of Robert LaFollette, “the citizen must randa only helps guilty defendants,” ley arrest Jack Weinberg; big mistake. the first black Supreme Court Justice. and U.S. Rep. Bob Bauman (R-Md.) Ave. and 187th St in Manhattan, just illegal U.S. arms sales to Iran. be more alert to his right to control his because “if a person is innocent of a The Free Speech Movement ensues. 1965—In Natchez, Miss., 500 people is charged with making sexual solici- as he had done two years earlier. 1969—Undetected by U.S. radar, a government.” crime, then he is not a suspect.” 1952—The first issue of Mad is un- are sent without trial to the Parchman tations to an under-aged boy. 1957—Two bombs wound 13 GIs in Cuban defector lands his MiG-17 at 1886—After spotting a 75-foot sea 1980—Rep. John Jenrette, Jr. [D-S.C.] leashed on an unsuspecting world. Penitentiary for protesting the denial 1973—Donald Segretti testifies be- Saigon—the first announced U.S. ca- Homestead AFB, where Air Force One serpent near the mouth of the Pisca- is convicted of conspiracy and bribery. 1917—Arabs led by T.E. Lawrence of their right to register to vote. fore the Senate about dirty tricks he sualties in Vietnam. is waiting to take Richard Nixon back taqua, its head four feet above the sur- 1955—Allen Ginsberg reads “Howl” capture Damascus. 1941—On Malta, Major-General used to get Nixon re-elected. 1946—On President Truman’s or- to Washington. face, two Kittery men “[ply] their oars at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. 1903—Fred Van Wormer’s autopsy is Clifford Thomason Beckett of the 1968—Gen. Curtis LeMay, former ders, the Navy seizes American oil 1966—The Fermi nuke plant 30 miles lustily for the shore.” 1917—Relief forces reach the Lost halted because he’s breathing. Taken Royal Artillery tells Major H.S. Fowle Strategic Air Command chief and refineries to break a 20-state strike. from Detroit partially melts down. 1856—Portsmouth celebrates the Battalion in the Argonne Forest. back to Sing Sing’s electric chair, he is he is “not fit to command anything.” American Independent Party Vice 1918—The world’s largest munitions 1960—Radar alerts NORAD of a centennial of the founding of The New 1756—Daniel Fowle and enslaved found to have died. He is electrocuted 1919—Woodrow Wilson has a stroke; Presidential Candidate, advocates use factory explodes in South Amboy, N.J. massive Soviet ICBM launch heading Hampshire Gazette; the railroad lays on pressman Primus X begin printing again anyway, just for good measure. the U.S. gets a woman president. of nuclear weapons in Vietnam. About 80 die immediately, and thou- for the U.S. It’s wrong. extra trains to accommodate the crush The New Hampshire Gazette in Ports- 1860—San Francisco’s Emperor 1918—In the Argonne, the Lost 1955—CIA HQ gets a cable from the sands are displaced. Among them, 1871—Balloonist Samuel King takes of visitors from around New England. mouth. It achieves national seniority Norton, by decree, bans Congress Battalion gets cut off behind German Caracas Station: a former SS trooper 300 more die from the flu, caused by several passengers on the first aerial 1536—William Tyndale is burned for in 1839 when the Maryland Gazette from meeting in Washington, D.C. lines; in a week, ⅔ are KIA or WIA. says Hitler is alive in Argentina. exposure. traverse of the White Mountains. printing a Bible people could read. folds. 8:46 8:59 9:32 9:46 10:14 10:29 10:53 11:11 11:32 11:53 12:12 12:36 12:54

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2006—A Robinson R66 helicopter 2005—Four die as the Cold River 2002—In an unusually craven dis- 2012—Three die in Blanco, Texas in a 2004—Computers are stolen from 2004—Andrea Mackris sues her for- 2012—Felix Baumgartner uses gravi- makes weird noises, spins, then plum- floods Alstead, N.H. play, the U.S. Senate votes 77-23 to let Robinson R44 helicopter crash. Democratic HQ in Toledo, Ohio. mer boss, Bill O’Reilly, for making ty to break the sound barrier. mets into Lake Tapps, Wash. A lucky 2001—Two Democratic Senators re- George W.[MD] Bush have his way 2003—Red Sox pitcher Pedro Marti- 1972—A race riot aboard the U.S.S. lewd phones calls. Two weeks later 2001—Delta Flight 458 (Atlan- passenger survives with injuries. ceive letters carrying anthrax spores. with Saddam Hussein. nez gives Yankee coach Don Zimmer Kitty Hawk injures 47. O’Reilly pays her to shut up. ta-Newark) is diverted to Charlotte 2004—American warplanes miss 1998—In “a mockery of the regula- 1991—Seven of New Hampshire’s a shove, knocking the 72-year old 1970—Lieut. William Calley is 2004—George W.[MD] Bush claims after two praying Orthodox Jews are Abu Musab al Zarqawi but kill 13 tory process” that “brazenly violates largest banks, holding 25% of all Zimmer to the ground. court-martialled for 102 murders. during a televised debate, “Gosh, I mistaken for terrorists. people at a wedding instead. existing law,” Citicorp and Travelers deposits and 60% of all commercial 1991—Anita Hill testifies before 1969—Navy nurse Susan Schnell don’t think I ever said I’m not worried 2000—A Robinson R22 emitting “a 1991—Speaker of the House Tom Group merge into Citigroup, enrich- loans, are closed by regulators. Congress that her former boss, Su- drops anti-war leaflets from a plane about Osama bin Laden. That’s kind loud popping noise” crashes in resi- Foley [D-Wash.] announces that the ing Sandy Weill and Jamie Dimon but 1973—Vice President Spiro “Ted” preme Court Justice-to-be Clarence onto a California military base. of one of those exaggerations,” direct- dential area of Pembroke Pines, Fla., House’s sergeant-at-arms will no lon- costing taxpayers billions. Agnew resigns in disgrace, pleading Thomas sexually harassed her. 1964—JFK’s very close friend Mary ly contradicting his own statement killing the pilot and a passenger on her ger fix traffic tickets for Members. 1992—Hearing a loud bang, Michelle nolo to charges he dodged taxes on 1988—As Pope John Paul II ad- Pinchot Meyer is murdered under the of March 3, 2002 that he’s “not that first helicopter flight. 1974—The Franklin National Bank Knapp of Peekskill, N.Y. goes outside bribes and kickbacks. dresses the European Parliament in murkiest of circumstances. much concerned about him.” 1982—Ronald Reagan “declares war” collapses, undermined by Mafioso and finds a hole punched through the 1969—Richard Nixon, putting his Strasbourg, Rev. Ian Paisley shouts, “I 1961—The FBI launches a “Socialist 1991—A lie detector test suggests on certain substances. Michele Sindona, a close buddy of trunk of her 1980 Chevy Malibu and “madman theory” into practice, orders renounce you as the Antichrist!” Worker Disruption Program.” Anita Hill is telling the truth about 1978—Jimmie Carter legalizes home President Nixon’s Treasury Secretary a warm 26-pound meteorite lying on a gratuitous global nuclear alert for all 1973—Henry Kissinger tells Brent 1960—Otoya Yamaguchi, 17, a Clarence Thomas. brewing of beer. David Kennedy. the pavement beneath it. U.S. military. Scowcroft that President Nixon can’t right-winger, runs a sword through 1988—Experts call the Shroud of Tu- 1968—The Pentagon orders 24,000 1969—A three-day riot branded 1985—“We should declare war on 1957—A fire in a British nuclear facil- take a call from the British Prime Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Social- rin a 13th century fake. troops back to Vietnam for an invol- “Days of Rage” begins in Chicago. North Vietnam,” says Ronald Reagan. ity causes a radiation leak contaminat- Minister because he’s too “loaded.” ists, during a televised debate. 1972—Seventy-five years after the untary second tour. 1968—Washington, D.C. riots after “We could pave the whole country and ing milk over a 200 mile radius. The 1960—Nikita Khrushchev employs 1945—Corporal Desmond Doss, land for it was allocated, the Burns 1968—At the Presidio stockade, 27 police shoot a black man. put parking strips on it, and still be contaminated milk is dumped in the footwear to make his point at the po- a medic and conscientious objector, Paiute Indian reservation in Oregon soldiers are arrested for mutiny. 1967—Ernesto “Che” Guevara is home by Christmas.” Irish Sea. dium of the UN. becomes the first non-combatant to is created. 1962—A U-2 flying over Cuba photo- captured by Bolivian troops led by the 1974—Rep. Wilbur Mills [D-Ark.] is 1933—A Boeing 247 airliner is de- 1954—The Viet Minh take over receive the Medal of Honor. 1972—A plane carrying a Uruguayan graphs medium-range ballistic missile CIA’s Felix Rodriguez. stopped at 2 a.m. for speeding with his stroyed by a bomb over Indiana. Seven North Vietnam. 1943—Combat medic Willi Graf is rugby team crashes high in the Andes, sites being built. 1955—“The nations of the world will headlights off. His passenger, Fanne passengers and three crew die in the 1945—Mao’s Red Army goes to war guillotined by the Wehrmacht for un- leading to culinary experimentation. 1947—Broken ribs be damned: Chuck have to unite” warns Gen. D. MacAr- [sic] Foxe, aka “The Argentine Fire- first such act in history. against Chiang Kai-Shek’s kleptocracy. dermining the war effort. 1967—Two Marines die and 21 are Yeager breaks the sound barrier. thur, “for the next war will be an inter- cracker,” hops into the Tidal Basin. 1911—Jasper “Jack” Daniel, distill- 1937—Physicians warn the AMA 1929—Black Diamond, a nine-ton wounded when a Marine pilot acci- 1943—Prisoners of Sobibor revolt, planetary war.” 1967—Dr. Ernesto “Che” Guevara er, dies of blood poisoning from an that Massengil’s new miracle drug elephant in the Al G. Barnes Circus, dentally bombs them at Con Thien. killing officers and guards. Half the 1942—Shot down on a mission for taunts a hesitant executioner, saying infected toe injured by kicking a safe “Elixir Sulfanilamide” is causing their breaks from a parade in Corsicana, 1925—Birth of Lenny Bruce. 600 prisoners escape under fire. which he volunteered, Capt. Harl “Just shoot, you coward. You are only whose combination he’d forgotten. patients to die in agony. Texas and kills Eva Speed Donohoo. 1812—U.S. Gen. Van Rensselaer 1915—Rudolfo Fierro, Pancho Villa’s Pease, of Plymouth, N.H., is behead- killing a man.” 1888—Two trains leaving an ab- 1906—The City of San Francisco de- 1923—Thousands of Ku Klux Klans- sends his regulars across the Canadi- executioner, is thrown from his horse ed by his Japanese captors. 1966—Lt. JG William T. Patton, stinence rally collide in Pa.; 66 die. crees that Japanese children must go to men hold a rally in Portland, Maine. an border. Those who aren’t shot are into quicksand. His men let him sink. 1918—In the Argonne, ex-pacifist flying a prop-driven Douglas A1 Newspaper accounts suggest many segregated schools. 1917—Passchendaele begins: 13,000 forced to surrender. A troop of U.S. 1912—William Schranck shoots Cpl. Alvin C. York kills 25 German Skyraider, downs a MiG-17 jet fighter survivors abandoned their pledges. 1868—Thomas Edison gets his first Allied casualties, no advance. militia then refuses orders to invade. Teddy Roosevelt in the chest, later soldiers and captures 132. over Vietnam. 1871—Octavius Valentine Catto, 32, patent, for an electric voting machine. 1902—Mine owners in Pana, Ill. im- 1660—Major General Thomas Har- saying “any man looking for a third 1871—According to myth, a cow 1963—In Italy, a landslide sends 13 a teacher at Philadelphia’s Institute for 1809—At Grinder’s Stand, a tavern, port strike-breakers. Violence ensues. rison goes to his hanging, drawing, term ought to be shot.” TR, though starts a fire that burns Chicago and billion gallons of water over an 860 Colored Youth, is shot dead by Frank Meriwether Lewis cuts his wrists and Fourteen die and 25 are wounded. and quartering “looking as cheerful as bleeding, delivers his speech. kills 200. Meanwhile, Peshtigo, Wisc. foot-tall dam. An 820-foot wave eras- Kelly for having the temerity to vote shoots himself twice—according to 1492—A lost European begins op- any man could do in that condition,” 1864—The New Orleans Tribune, burns completely and 600 die. es five villages and kills 2,000. while black. Kelly is acquitted. the official version of events. pressing native Americans. according to diarist Samuel Pepys. America’s first black daily, begins. 1:21 1:38 2:09 2:25 3:00 3:16 3:56 4:14 4:57 5:16 6:04 6:25 7:12 7:33

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