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The Fortnightly Rant Obama's Dilemma Barack Obama, the American President bin Laden as if he were more dangerous who was recently named the winner of the than George Orwell’s fictional Emmanuel Nobel Peace Prize, is considering whether Goldstein, said just five months after Op- to grant a request from General Stanley eration Enduring Freedom began, “I truly A. McChrystal for tens of thousands of am not that concerned about him.” If Bush additional troops to … do something in himself could so easily dismiss his former Afghanistan. nemesis, why should Obama feel obliged We say “to do something” because it is to stake his presidency on his capture? not entirely clear just what the troops al- President Obama has said that he wants ready in Afghanistan are doing now. to get the strategy right before making a The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001 decision about the number of troops re- because the hijackers who carried out the quired. The apparent difficulty of settling September 11, 2001 attack on the U.S. had on a clearly focused mission in Afghani- been allowed to train there by the Taliban, stan could be partly a function of the ter- who ruled the country then. rain. Gertrude Stein once famously said The invasion clearly established a prin- about Oakland that there is no “there” ciple that ought to be well remembered there.1 Oakland is a compact city with a by anyone who is responsible for any sort population of about 400,000 people. Af- of training facility — in the eyes of the ghanistan covers 4,500 times as much ter- U.S., you are responsible for the behavior ritory and has 70 times the population. of those who train on your territory. Saudi Yet if cohesiveness is a necessary compo- Arabia provided fifteen of the nineteen nent of “thereness,” there is less “there” in 9/11 attackers and most of the funding, Afghanistan than there is in Oakland. but we’re never so much as threatened the The central government has the power Saudis. The nation absorbing the smart to control Kabul, provided your defini- bombs and the blood has been Afghani- tion of control does not include prevent- stan. ing terror attacks. A vast array of warlords daily newspaper covering Congress, “It is repeatedly reports that McChrystal is ask- The stated goals of the invasion were and tribal leaders control segments of the a number that we were not aware of and it ing for an additional 40,000. In fact, he to capture or kill the alleged mastermind remaining territory. They generally occupy is worrisome.” has proposed three options to the White of the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden, their time fighting each other, unless the The fuel itself costs just $2.78 per gal- House. The option with the best chance of to destroy his al Qaeda terrorist train- country is occupied by a foreign power, in lon, according to The Hill’s October 15 ar- success calls for up to 80,000 more troops ing camps, and to end terrorist activity in which case they may form temporary co- ticle. The real expense lies in getting it to — which the Pentagon simply does not Afghanistan. So far, none of these things alitions to fight their occupier. where it is being used. The fuel arrives by have. have really been accomplished. No one Whatever Afghanistan may have or tanker at a port in Karachi, Pakistan. From In post-Vietnam America, military knows where bin Laden is; large swaths lack in the way of “thereness,” getting there it must be trucked overland at least commanders have attained near-mythic of the country are, in effect, terrorist train- from “here” to “there” is remarkably chal- 400 miles north to reach the Afghanistan stature,2 which their civilian superiors ing camps; and acts of terrorism are daily lenging — and astonishingly expensive. border. Within Afghanistan, the roads are disregard at great peril. McChrystal has occurrences. The sole undeniable accom- By the time a gallon of fuel gets to wher- inadequate, and often mined. To get to its personally received the full benefit of that plishment of Operation Enduring Free- ever it is used by the U.S. military in Af- destination, fuel must often be hauled by adulation despite a past full of troubling dom has been the overthrow of the Tali- ghanistan, it has cost the Pentagon $400. helicopter. details, like signing off on the deeply dis- ban government, underscoring the U.S.’s Rep. John Murtha recently told The Hill,a The CH-47 Chinook, a standard U.S. honest citation for Pat Tillman’s Silver almost fetishistic adherence to its doctrine 1 — Stein wrote, in her autobiography titled Everybody’s Army transport helicopter, consumes Star and commanding a unit known to regarding the culpability of those who al- Autobiography, “What was the use of my having come about 358 gallons of fuel per hour of have carried out interrogations anyone but low terrorist training to take place on land from Oakland it was not natural to have come from flight time, according to GlobalSecurity. a Bush-league lawyer would call torture. there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like they control. but not there, there is no there there.” According to the org. At that rate, the Pentagon is burn- President Obama is faced with an excru- Meanwhile Osama bin Laden, the scraw- anonymously-edited Wikipedia, Stein’s comment was ing $143,200 worth of fuel every hour it ciating dilemma. It would be easier to feel “not meant to disparage the city,” but was a response to ny cave-dwelling diabetic said to have set “learning as an adult that her childhood Oakland home spends flying fuel around. sympathy for him if he had not brought it the entire Afghanistan operation in mo- had been torn down,” and was intended to “express The mission may be vague and the lo- on himself by appointing McChrystal in tion, seems well on his way to becoming a sentiment similar to ‘you can’t go home again.’” gistical problems surreal, but General the first place. Regardless of Stein’s intention, the phrase has taken the answer to a Trivial Pursuit question. on a life of its own in the public mind, and that is the McChrystal insists he knows what he 2 — Bestowed on them by guilt-ridden media, cowed George W. Bush, who once had hyped meaning to which we refer. needs: more troops. The mainstream press into wrongly taking the fall for “losing” Vietnam.

News Briefs: Judd Gregg Votes to Keep Paying Rape-Enablers It begins to sink in that we Jones’s assailants, presumably print in Jones’s contract specified have just a little more than a year because the attack did not take that if she happened to suffer a left to kick Senator Judd Gregg place on U.S. territory. The gov- violent assault by her co-workers, around, so we can’t afford to let ernment of Iraq has taken no she couldn’t sue. She’d have to this next item go to waste. action because a Coalition Pro- settle for binding arbitration. Twenty year-old Jamie Leigh visional Authority order limits Senator Al Franken (D-MN) Jones hed been working for Hal- Iraq’s ability to prosecute U.S. recently introduced an amend- liburton subsidiary KBR in Iraq contractors. ment to the Defense Appropria- for all of four days when her The only action KBR is known tions Bill to prohibit the federal co-workers allegedly drugged to have taken in response to government from doing business and gang-raped her in 2005. An Jones’s rape, besides locking her with corporations that employ Army doctor confirmed the rape in that shipping container, was such clauses in their contracts. and gathered evidence with a to tell her to “get over it.” KBR The Franken amendment passed, rape kit. After Jones reported her may also have removed the pho- despite the fact that thirty Sena- assault to KBR officials, they had tographs and the Army doctor’s tors voted against it. her held in a guarded shipping notes from her rape kit, which Yes, they were all Republicans. container until her Congressman had been in its custody, but this And one of them was the Senior intervened, and she was able to has not been proven in a court of Senator from New Hampshire. Due to the disappointing results of a recent inspection, the largest thing the return home to Texas. law. Department of Transportation will permit to cross the Memorial Bridge The U.S. Department of Jus- Nothing has been proven in News Briefs without special dispensation is that species of featherless biped depicted in tice has taken no action against a court of law because the fine to page two the lower left of the photo, commonly known as the human. Page 2 - The New Hampshire Gazette - October 23, 2009

The study was conducted by The Eek!-Onomy reasearchers from the University “I don’t think this is going to of Pennsylvania. make everybody think, ‘Oh, good Bang, Bang times are here again,’” economics We’ll drop this theme, but let’s professor Lawrence White told go out with a bang or two. Bloomberg.com, “but it may ease On Tuesday, Politico.com things a bit.” published an interview with White was referring to news freshman Rep. Gregg Harper that, over the next five months, (R-MS). Harper is a member of Wall Street banksters will dole the Congressional Sportsmen’s out some $26 billion in bonuses Caucus. When asked what that to the geniuses who brought the caucus does, Harper replied, “We U.S. economy to its knees. hunt liberal, tree-hugging Dem- Shifting our focus from the ocrats, although it does seem like capitalist end of the news spec- a waste of good ammunition.” trum to the socialist end, the In even poorer taste, earlier this former chief economist for the month Robert Lowry, a Republi- International Monetary Fund, can running against incumbent Simon Johnson, told Bill Moyers Democrat Debbie Wasserman recently on PBS, “There was an Schultz for Florida’s 20th Con- opportunity the Obama admin- gressional District seat, tested istration had. President Obama the proposition that there’s no campaigned on a message of such thing as bad publicity. Dur- change.... The time for change for ing an event held at a local shoot- the financial sector was absolute- ing range and sponsored by the ly upon us, this was abundantly Broward County GOP, Lowry apparent in January of this year fired a gun at a silhouette tar- … and it was completely wasted. get marked “DWS,” the initials The administration refused to of his opponent. Speaking to a break the power of the big banks News Briefs sulting bill to “our children.” Among the mourners were local television reporter, Lowry when they had the opportunity from page one King, of course, made no effort dozens of members of the Penn- first characterized the incident as … the regulatory reforms they to correct Gregg’s revisionist his- sylvania Firearms Owners As- a joke, but quickly amended that are now pursuing ... will turn out And Furthermore … tory. It’s not the journalist’s job sociation, some of whom were to “a mistake.” to be essentially meaningless … While we’re railing against to get at the truth; it’s his job to wearing holstered handguns. Sen. Gregg, we should note his ask the powerful what the truth It’s Academic appearance on CNN’s “State of is and pass along whatever they Last month the American the Union” last Sunday. say as if it were the truth. Journal of Public Health, a peer- Things got off to a fact-free In Gregg’s defense, it is pos- reviewed scientific journal, pub- start when CNN’s John King in- sible he was comatose during the lished a study which determined troduced the Senator as “a lead- entire Bush administration — it that, with all other factors be- ing fiscal mind on Capitol Hill.” would be hard to tell. ing equal, a person is 4.46 times For his part, Gregg soon Second Amendment News more likely to be shot if he owns proved that King’s introduction Last fall Meleanie Hain be- a gun. had strayed into the realm of the came Pennsylvania’s best known “On average,” the study con- fictional when he complained soccer mom when she showed cluded, “guns did not protect that Congress was “creating these up for her five year-old daughter those who possessed them from massive debts which we’re pass- Isabella’s games with a loaded being shot in an assault. Al- ing on to our children … [but] “Baby” Glock on her hip. though successful defensive gun you can’t blame that on [former Hain’s friends gathered Tues- uses occur each year, the prob- President] George [W.] Bush.” day, October 12, in Lancaster, ability of success may be low Bush, of course, inherited a PA for her funeral. She had been for civilian gun users in urban budget surplus from his Demo- shot dead five days earlier by her areas. Such users should recon- The never-ending struggle to meet the apparently insatiable demand for cratic predecessor Bill Clinton. husband Scott, who then shot sider their possession of guns or, affordable housing for millionaires appears to have advanced somewhat Then he promptly cut taxes, himself. The Hains are survived at least, understand that regular this past fortnight as a pile driver began bashing steel beams into the bed of started a ruinously expensive, by their four orphaned children, possession necessitates careful the Piscataqua River to form the foundation for four luxury condos at the unprovoked war, and sent the re- including little Isabella. safety countermeasures.” former site of the Pier Two restaurant.

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There’s and the Alliance Defense Fund no God behind these walls.” (ADF) filed a federal lawsuit on The Hampton District Court their behalf earlier this month. dismissed the charges, accord- The ADF calls itself “a legal alli- ing to the ADF, but “as a result ance defending the right to hear of the arrest, Frost and Gardner and speak the Truth through have not exercised their consti- strategy, training, funding, and tutional right to free speech on litigation [emphases added].” public sidewalks in Hampton for According to information fear of arrest because of the ar- on the ADF website, Alli- bitrary enforcement of the state anceDefenseFund.org, Mark law,” prompting ADF to ride to Frost, Jayson Gardner, and Craig the rescue. And here we thought Gardner were “preaching to pe- conservatives opposed frivolous destrians on Ocean Boulevard lawsuits … in Hampton Beach” last August How Best to Celebrate 4th, 2008, using a rolled-up piece Veterans Day of paper for a makeshift mega- Veterans Day, just over two Well, you could always donate do-wells will begin gathering at Nate Laban, and Salt Pine Tele- phone. Told by a police officer weeks away, is the red-headed new or used-but-serviceable fur- the parking lot by the South Mill graph (formally Penhallow). The that they were violating the town stepchild of American federal niture, household appliances, pots Pond about 6:00 p.m. Promptly Red Door is at 107 State St. The noise ordinance, they moved two holidays. Other than attending and pans, or cleaning supplies to at 7:00, the mob will begin surg- cover charge will be $5 but will blocks away and began singing the parade, what can one do to the Veterans Affairs Supported ing towards downtown, snaking be waived for those who come in a Christian song, “He Set Me show appreciation? Housing (VASH) program at past gaping, horrified crowds costume. the VA Hospital in Manchester. along the city’s sidewalks. A percentage of the proceeds of The program is also equipped to Naturally any event so fraught the Flatbread Community Night accept and distribute that peren- with peril must be protected by Tuesday, October 27th will be nially-useful commodity, cash. the fearless Portsmouth Police devoted to the Parade. Also, the Tracey Noonan, the VASH Department, and the City must Parade Raffle will be held that Program Manager, will see that be held harmless by the wizards night. The Flatbread Company is these essentials are given to dis- of the insurance industry. To at 138 Congress St. abled veterans living in New defray the unavoidable costs as- Surviving participants of the Hampshire and receiving feder- sociated with those vital services, Parade, assuming there are any, ally-subsidized housing through a number of fund-raising events are invited to gather in celebra- the VASH program. For more are scheduled for the coming tion at The Coat of Arms, at 174 information call Tracey at (603) week. Fleet St. Fittingly, entertainment 657-5612. A Hateful Little Benefit will will be provided by Humpmuscle, A Frightful Event Looms … be held on Friday, October 23rd who are to be feared because they The dreaded night approaches. at the Press Room, beginning at are huge and made of metal, not On the evening of Saturday, Oc- 9:00 p.m., featuring the bands to mention back from the dead. tober 31st, the barrier separating Hateful Little Cakes and Break- The fun starts about 9:00 p.m., the living from the dread depart- fast Song, as well as Audrey Ryan. and donations will be vigorously If you have ever entertained the thought that you might like to go a-skating ed will be at its weakest and most The Press Room is at 77 Daniel solicited. on the little pond that has formed for lo these many winters at the Market vulnerable. Our only hope is to St.; the cover charge will be $5. Editor’s Note to Self Street end of Commercial Alley, we have bad news. Your procrastination confront this threat directly by A Hush Hush Sweet Har- “If they can get you asking the has crushed yet another dream — you are too late. The two gentlemen in holding the 15th Annual Ports- lot Benefit Music Night will be wrong questions, they don’t have this photo have been engaged by the city to re-engineer the drainage along mouth Halloween Parade. held on Monday, October 26th to worry about answers.” that quaint way, and they are determined to eliminate that hazard to To that end, the usual crowd at The Red Door, beginning at — Thomas Pynchon, in pedestrian navigation. of derelicts, wiseacres, and ne’er- 8:00 p.m., featuring Horchata, Gravity’s Rainbow. Page 4 - The New Hampshire Gazette - October 23, 2009

Northcountry Chronicle Political Evolution: from Divine Right to Demonic Wrong by William Marvel cept of divine right through a the United States, in the wide- rights of personhood. The larger safe from covetous corporations complicated process. First, they spread campaign to assert that of these nominal super-citizens that need only buy an acre of t took a few centuries for welded the popular new idea of the nation was the chosen child have undertaken a campaign of ground to make an entire aqui- Western civilization to begin freedom to the political process of a heavenly father. God loves consolidation that threatens to fer their own. Corporations like Iembracing the notion that royal known as democracy. The natu- us best, contended tens of mil- seize the entire planet. Nestlé descend on small rural sovereigns did not really own ral implication of that union lions of full-grown adults, like Monsanto, for instance, pro- communities and drain off their all the lands and subjects they was that more democracy meant preadolescent siblings arguing duced a genetically engineered water as fast as they can. Nestlé claimed. Through the better part more freedom. Representative their respective degrees of pa- variety of soybean that spread, is methodically depleting an un- of the second millennium, the democracy, in which only land- rental favor. “God bless Ameri- naturally, to neighboring fields. derground reservoir that supplies average European felt as strong a owners could participate, afford- ca,” yammered the final reigning Monsanto patented the variety, water to both Carroll and Ox- duty to the king as to the imag- ed only minimal freedom, while member of our last dynasty, and for now it seems possible for ford counties. Their trucks pass ined supreme being. Royal lob- an expanding franchise would most of the Republican can- corporations to patent life, and continually through Fryeburg, byists actively promoted that broaden the scope of liberty. If didates in the 2008 election to claim ownership of it. Then Brownfield, and Conway, car- philosophy, too, with a fairy tale that logic were followed to its mimicked that pandering plea, Monsanto sued those farmers to rying away what should be ours in which the king derived his au- absurd extreme, no society would meanwhile wearing their flag whose fields their special bean in order to reap profits for a few thority from the Big Guy him- be more free than one in which pins in lieu of crosses. The twen- had migrated until, now, Mon- local citizens and dividends for self. That, of course, required a everyone had a vote, from the ty-first century opened with a santo owns all but a tiny fraction corporate shareholders. The next universal belief not only in a Big crib-climber to the comatose. powerful resurgence in medieval of the lucrative American soy- target for corporate privatization Guy, but in the particular Big Next, that amalgamation of political philosophy, completely bean market. will probably be air, for sale to Guy who had given the king his liberty and democracy had to be unrecognized by the historically Mega-developers now buy the smog-bound in personal res- endless divine rights. That made further combined with the in- illiterate majority. tens of thousands of acres at a pirators. the crowned heads a little touchy dividual image of the nation— Also unrecognized, probably time. Pretending to serve the Corporations now constitute a about heresy, which they natu- which became the substitute for by most, was the rise of what interests of “the people,” they private über-government. When rally equated with treason, for the kingdom. The head of state, amounts to the replacement for pursue prompt and complete no law or license exists to suit throwing off the yoke of religion meanwhile, eventually came popular government. Operat- exploitation of the last expanses their purposes, their unlimited was the first step in liberation to resemble a king, both in the ing under the concept of private of open land in a country that resources pave the way, and they from regal tyranny. range of authority he exercised ownership, which many revere once boasted wilderness, fruited will prevail so long as the people Working around the consider- and in the deference shown to with religious fervor, massive plains, and amber waves of grain. remain asleep to the illegitimacy able problem posed by the novel him by the loyal citizen. corporations have essentially Overdevelopment has made of their power. Like the mon- theory of personal liberty, rabid Finally, the concept of divine assumed—and have effective- water so precious that the archs of old, their worst enemy is nationalists resurrected the con- right resurfaced, especially in ly been granted—all the civil groundwater of no community is an enlightened public.

More Hate Mail, &c. “Obviously, the mayor filed an absolute failure when it comes NAEP vs NECAP were some glaring facts that went from page seven Hooksett’s letter in his circular to the management of this city.” To the Editor: unreported. file since he’s got so much more I offer this information as food The NAEP [National Assess- According to NAEP, 56 per- School as a result of Bedord’s important things to do. Like for thought for voters consider- ment of Educational Progress] cent of the 4th graders scored pullout.” The Hooksett Board pitching his remarkable record of ing Guinta’s candidacy for Con- math scores were released this proficient. complained that although it sent failure to voters in the congres- gress. week and the news was good for Forty-three percent of the 8th a letter to Guinta dated Sept. 8, sional district.” Terence O’Rourke New Hampshire. New Hamp- graders scored proficient. it had not received a reply as of Another ( J. Lyman of Man- Portsmouth, NH shire finished near the top when While scores did improve Oct. 7. chester) wrote, “There is abso- Terence: compared to the rest of the coun- slightly, I’m guess I’m missing Most unsettling were readers’ lutely no way that Guinta can Verrry interesting. Thank you for try. But was it really good news? the cause for celebration when written comments in response lay any kind of campaign claim bringing this to our collective at- The New Hampshire papers roughly half of the New Hamp- to the article. One (identified as that he’s improved the schools in tention. were quick to offer accolades for shire students are testing below Bob V. from Manchester), wrote, Manchester … Guinta has been The Editor this accomplishment, but there proficiency level.

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distribute them to veterans who need them. SARAH PELLERIN Call or e-mail Tracey Noonan, VASH Program Manager, at (603) 657-5612 or [email protected] 603 659 8770 Friday, October 23, 2009 - The New Hampshire Gazette - Page 5

Moving Pictures Where the Wild Things Are by Rodman Philbrick sible. behavior is not a spanking, but a does they’re highly original, like For the post-World War II hug and a hot meal. Adaptation and Being John Malk- Screenplay: Spike Jonze and generation, born of the children The wild thing children — at ovich. Fans of the book can thank Dave Eggers, based on the book of Oz, the iconic book came in least two of them — have now their lucky stars that Sendak by Maurice Sendak; Starring: two flavors. Mild, reassuring grown up and expanded Send- didn’t choose, say, Tim Burton Max Records, Catherine Keener, vanilla like Winnie-The-Pooh ak’s Freudian (or is it Jungian, who, for all his prodigious talents, James Gandolfini, Catherine (already familiar to the Great- or both?) story into an ambi- managed to make Charlie and The O’Hara, Chris Cooper, For- est Generation) and the wild, tious feature film.Where The Wild Chocolate Factory overly bright est Whitaker, Lauren Ambrose; tippy-top sundaes of Dr. Seuss, Things Are is not, as one might and, well, downright creepy. sensitivity. On the other hand Rating: [PG] both of which inspired a number have supposed, a flashy CGI pro- When it comes to Where The Wild — or limb — he’s quite capable of animated cartoons by Disney duction. As a child, director Spike Things Are, Spike Jonze is your of tearing off his best friend’s n the last century every gen- (Pooh) and the fabulous Chuck Jonze (born Adam Spiegal) iden- only man. Except of course that arm (wing, actually) on a soon- eration got an iconic illustrat- Jones (Seuss). And then in 1963 tified so strongly with Max that Jonze had the great good sense regretted impulse. Eggers has Ied book that somehow defined a brash newcomer elbowed he understood instinctively that to bring Dave Eggers on board provided not only a natural evo- childhood, and perhaps went on his way into the canon of what Max had to be a real boy, rather as a screenwriter. The compelling lution of Sendak’s story, but the to become an iconic movie. For constitutes a childhood classic. than an animated approximation. gifts Mr. Eggers has displayed in tension necessary to carry an au- my parent’s generation, born Maurice Sendak shocked many He and screenwriter Dave Egg- his fictional memoirs are put to dience through ninety minutes of in the 1920’s and raised in the librarians and parents with his ers have had to make the charac- excellent use as the thirty-nine- not always comfortable suspense. Great Depression, The Wizard of brief but vivid tale of Max, a wild, ter a few crucial extra years older, year-old author executes a kind A tension that may be more ap- Oz had all the elements that al- egocentric six-year-old in wolf- because no six-year-old could of inspired jazz-rock riff on the propriate — and enjoyable — for lowed a child to make sense of eared pajamas who, following an ever have given them the perfor- original story, which weighed in adults than for very young chil- catastrophic mistakes made by animal-like tantrum, is banished mance supplied by Max Records, at less than four hundred words. dren. adults — the bombastic wizards to his bedroom without supper. the nine-year-old newbie who The wild things, in Sendak’s mind Never mind that in the real and witches of Wall Street and There he imagines himself trans- does such an astonishing job op- based on his Brooklyn aunts and world a third-grader who still the kindly, threadbare survivors ported to a world of monsters as posite a cast of costumed char- uncles, become, in Eggers’ nimble throws uncontrollable biting who did their best with what was wild as he is, whom he neverthe- acters who look very much like brain, variations on adults who tantrums would have been on left. The creaky, arthritic Tin Man less tames with his vibrant and the original illustrations. And if happen to share many of Max’s Ritalin for the past few years or who never gives up, a Scarecrow domineering personality. What our cool-as-cream President can fears, as well as his uncontrollable that in Sendak’s marvelous book who will sacrifice everything to seemed to some at the time like garner an impressive nomina- temper. Which makes the toothy the selfish little sociopath is king. make a hungry child smile, the a primer for apprentice psycho- tion before learning the way to monsters both fascinating and Sendak was on to something, Lion who struggles to find the paths was soon enough embraced his new office, surely young Mr. frightening. James Gandolfini back there in 1963, something courage to keep going. And at by very young children, who de- Records, who nails it, deserves a is brilliant at voicing Carol, the that has stuck in the minds of the center, a child who has the lighted in Max’s ability to make nod come Oscar season. dominant wild thing, whose in- yearning, fearful children for wisdom and kindness that some- himself king of the wild things Jonze, a much-sought-after choate longings for friendship, lo these many decades. Words- how complete the adults in her while still retaining his mother’s master of music videos and short order, love, and brutal, in-the- worth had it slightly wrong. The world and leads them back to a unconditional love. Never forget films, is very picky about helming moment excitement make him brat is father to the man, but he’s place where a better life is pos- that Max’s real reward for mis- full-length movies, but when he capable of great tenderness and our brat, and we love him.

This is also quite different than Ed.’s findings and the National between the state test and the lar situation occurred in New Ann Marie: what the Lynch Dept. of Ed. re- Assessment. Is this fuzzy math? national test, “the fabulous ‘gains’ Hampshire. No one is question- This doesn’t look so much like a ported to parents after students Or is it a case of the Lynch Dept. reported last spring, we now ing the Lynch Dept. of Ed. on case of fuzzy math to us as it does a took the NECAP [New England of Ed. misleading parents? know, were based on dumbed- the significant difference in what case of comparing apples to oranges. Common Assessment Program], New York had a similar situ- down tests and dubious scoring they reported as “proficient” and Or perhaps kiwis. Why should the the state standardized test: 73 ation where state scores showed of the tests.” what the independent national results of two separate tests match percent of the 4th grade students large percentages of proficient She goes on to say, “Heads test reported as “proficient.” exactly? tested proficient. Sixty-five per- students compared to national should roll. Someone must be Ravitch has been a crtical Pardon us, but we’re not going cent of the 8th grade students scores. This is why Diane Rav- held accountable for this trav- voice in the state of New York, to panic over an alarmist article tested proficient. Thirty-two per- itch, research professor of edu- esty against children, teachers, yet Governor Lynch rides a wave in The New York Times. For our cent of the 11th grade students cation at New York University, parents and taxpayers. What this of silence. That’s unfortunate for reasoning on that count, just Google tested proficient. wrote a scathing article in The amounts to is a fraud.” the students in New Hampshire. Dick “Dick” Cheney, Judith Miller, One can see a large discrep- New York Times. Because New The sad part is, no one in New Ann Marie Banfield and New York Times. ancy between the Lynch Dept. of York has such a large discrepancy Hampshire noticed that a simi- Bedford, NH The Editor

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our people to see the human fac- Plus Ca Change … es and feel the human suffering To the Editor: Mash Notes Hate Mail of the health care issue in such Well, that was fast. Barely elev- , , a time as this. We call all faith en months since the election, and but steadily declining since mid- Health Care Reform is communities to pray for and par- with the ink barely dry on Barack Summer; a Moral Imperative ticipate in ensuring health care Obama’s Inaugural speech, the • Numerous early polls indi- To the Editor: for all in our nation. media is filled with reports sug- cate the possibility of substan- Between 18,000 and 45,000 We call on our President and gesting a GOP resurgence in the tial GOP gains in the House American die annually for lack political leaders to address the 2010 mid-terms. and Senate next year. The GOP of health insurance. Nearly seven healthcare reform which embod- Hard on the heels of their tri- gubernatorial candidate in the U.S. babies die out of 1,000 live ies the spirit of compassion and athlon of Herculean disasters … crucial Virginia race leads his births. The high cost of health- leaves no one behind the safety 1) completely trashing the do- opponent by ten points, and Jon care is stressing American fami- net of health care. mestic — and a substantial part Corzine has his hands full in lies. As New Hampshire citizens Inter-Faith Statement We invite our fellow citizens to of the worldwide — economy; New Jersey; with a strong base in our vari- on Health Care join each other in discussing and 2) starting an unjustified if not • The latest vituperative dreck ous religious faiths, supporting To the Editor: discerning the solutions to the illegal war and alienating the rest — a.k.a. “books” — from Bill healthcare reform is a moral im- Well-being of all is the sacred health care issue with an open of the world for good measure; O’Reilly, Michelle Malkin, and perative. and authentic will of our Creator. mind and a caring spirit. 3) leaving the country more an- Glenn Beck has dominated many The Faith for Health coali- We come from different faith We Chang, Pastor gry, divided, fearful and polarized bestseller lists for months. tion — including the National traditions but share this common First United Methodist than any time since the height of The despicable anti-health care Baptist Convention, the United conviction of all faith. Health Church, Manchester, NH, and the Watergate era … the GOP reform movement best illustrates Methodist Church, the Episco- care, therefore, should not be an 21 clergypersons representing appears far from content to rest both the aim and, thus far, stun- pal Church, the Islamic Society option for some but a gift to and Episcopalians, Jews, Methodists, on their laurels. ning success of their transparent of America and the Religious right of all. We are deeply con- and Roman Catholics in Ches- Some notable highlights (low- strategy: divide the country with Action Center of Reform Juda- cerned about the current state terfield, Dover, Hampton, Keene, lights!) of our eager beavers at lies and distortions, and hope the ism as well as smaller groups — and nature of the health care de- Manchester, Marlborough, work include: voters forget the past eight years. launched a push on August 19 bate. Health care policy and its Nashua, Portsmouth, and Salem. • Bogus tea parties and town Granted, the mid-terms are to get comprehensive healthcare debate should rise above the pol- 4 hall disruptions; still more than a year hence, and reform passed. itics of ideology and fear. Health Sincerely, Andrew … • Dick Cheney’s constant one- judging from last year’s campaign In July, the National Council care for all is not a political issue Dear Editor and Citizens of note performances, in which he Obama is probably crazy like a of Churches drafted a declara- or an ideological battle ground. New Hampshire: bashes Obama’s policies, beats fox … but at this rate we might tion signed by 23 U.S. religious Health care for all is and should I am writing you to say hello the drums of war, and revises re- have to tattoo “George Bush” leaders from a wide spectrum always be a human issue that has from Goff Jr. High, in the small- cent history with the willing sup- or “Dick Cheney” on everyone’s of faith traditions in support of human faces and affects human est State in the Union, Rhode port of Fox “News;” forehead with a jackhammer to health care reform, citing it as an lives deeply and painfully. Island. Our 7th grade geography • Liz Cheney’s new neo- halt our collective amnesia. urgent priority “so that all of our Health care for all is about 46 class, is doing a semester project con organization, called “Keep Alan Grossberg neighbors, especially the people million brothers and sisters in that needs an oral, written, and America Safe,” a highly ironic Durham, NH living in poverty, children, and our nation. It is about the lives of poster project on a State. My as- name, as her father’s actions and Alan: the aged, can be assured of the those who live in our neighbor- signed State is New Hampshire. policies failed to do just that; What a wonderful overview of fullness of life that is central to hood, work along with us, wor- Could you please publish this • Sarah Palin, so impressed an astonishingly deranged season of the holy vision of a beloved and ship with us, and whose children letter so your readers could help with the reaction to her endlessly Republicanism Unchained. Please peaceable community.” go to the same school as ours. me? If your readers could send acerbic, smarmy speeches, has — write more often. “We live in a country with a Therefore, the health care issue me info, pictures or tourist info, ventured into the realm of digital The picture you paint is horrify- pitifully inadequate health in- in our beloved nation can only be it will make me happy. Thanks, dross, courtesy of Facebook. ing, or would be but for one thing: surance system that causes hor- resolved when we begin to view and good luck in the future. Sadly, but not surprisingly, as you noted at the beginning, so rors every day so tragic that they the issue with human compas- Sincerely, there is mounting evidence that far the Republican resurgence ex- could rip the heart out of a stone sion and take health care for all Andrew Baker, 7th Grade many of their tactics seem to be ists only in media reports. Granted, … The time has long since passed as the responsibility of all, both Mr. Gilmore’s Class working: we are terminal optimists — we when our leaders should have individuals and the nation. Goff Jr. High School • President Obama’s poll num- wouldn’t be able to go on otherwise done what every other advanced We believe faith communities 974 Newport Ave. bers, while fluctuating as much as — but we like to think that the me- country has somehow managed have a sacred responsibility to call Pawtucket, RI 02861 the weather, have been gradually dia magnify the madness. Obama’s to do: provide all its citizens with numbers are beginning to regain essential health care,” said Rab- Golf Balls some of their luster. At press time, bi Eric Yoffie, president of the For Sale there are signs that Congress might Union for Reform Judaism. 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And Other Correspondence be prohibited. Defense contrac- 60 percent taxpayer subsidized. tors found guilty of causing in- Despite enormous taxpayer ex- human need and a human right. a peso and your Social Security jury or death to government per- penditure, we have a health care Offering comfort to the broken, check will only buy some coffee sonnel due to gross negligence or emergency, breaking our nation’s sick and injured was foundation- beans or at best, a bowl of java. reckless disregard can be denied core moral value of protecting its al to Jesus’ ministry and is central After a long string of yearly awards or incentive payments or citizens. to our serving the least among Social Security program surplus- have them reduced. Fanfare surrounds the Obama us. Our nation deserves a health es, the program will soon start In addition, military service administration health care re- care system that is inclusive, ac- showing a deficit. Thus our gold members who have inadvertently form bill that protects the private cessible, affordable and account- hoard in Fort Knox should be been overpaid due to clerical er- insurance industry. Purchase of able.” distributed to future Social Se- rors will be allowed to pay back policies will be compulsory. Ex- Express your faith’s moral curity recipients. Congress will the money over time. Previous- pect tax increases to subsidize stand by communicating your scream out a refusal, claiming ly, the Department of Defense those who cannot afford this wait any longer. support for health care reform that it will doom Social Security. could garnish up to two-thirds of mandate. This is an immoral bill, Marcosa Santiago, MD to our Washington delegation. What really frightens them is their monthly pay. Finally, Shea- amounting to a massive govern- Rumney NH Carol Shea-Porter, Paul Hodes, that we will gain control of both Porter authorizes the Secretary ment bailout to guarantee insur- 4 and Jeanne Shaheen are aligned our Social Security program and of Defense to modify the exist- ance profits. What the Heck is with President Obama’s plan for the gold in Fort Knox. Then let ing small arms industrial base to Despite complicit opposition Mayor Guinta Up To? reform while Judd Gregg stands the politicians destroy the dollar! ensure competitive development from the media, current system To the Editor: alone in opposition. In the future when the Social and production of small arms. stakeholders, and politicians I don’t live in Manchester, but Laura Aronson Security eagle takes off on its Carol isn’t just occupying space bought by the insurance and I was surprised by what I read Londonderry, NH monthly mission, what would in Washington; she’s getting pharmaceutical industry, Single about its mayor, Frank Guinta, 4 you rather receive in your hand, things done. I am pleased to have Payer Health Care — Medicare in one of the newspapers there. While We Slept, Congress a gold coin, a worthless Federal her as my member of Congress. for All, is still alive. Single-payer Normally, Guinta’s actions Looted Our Social Security Reserve note or an IOU? The She consistently demonstrates costs less and comprehensively wouldn’t be my business, except To the Editor: choice is yours. that she really cares about our covers everyone for life. Every- that he is running for Congress High Social Security payroll Robert A. Dahlquist men and women in uniform. body in, nobody out. from my district, and will be ask- taxes have contributed to yearly Orange, CA Fran Gehling In two to three weeks, [Rep. ing for my vote. Social Security Trust Fund sur- 4 Londonderry, NH Anthony] Weiner’s [D-NY] I am told that one of Guinta’s pluses until the proclaimed sur- We’re Fortunate Fran: amendment to substitute single- goals as mayor is to improve the plus is now in excess of $2,420 To the Editor: It is really quite peculiar. Nearly payer legislation ([Rep. John] schools. So, it came as a revela- billion ($2.42 trillion). However, We are fortunate to have a every day we see letters to the editor Conyer’s HR 676) for the House tion to discover that Bedord has Congress has elected to sacrifice member of Congress who not in a daily paper claiming that Carol leadership’s bill, HR 3200, will voluntarily left the Manchester Social Security on the altar of only goes to Washington; Carol Shea-Porter is a rotten Representa- be voted on the House floor. School District and that Hook- corruption by spending the en- Shea-Porter gets something con- tive and a closet Commie. And yet, Contact and ask your represen- sett is considering doing the same. tire surplus, requiring the U.S. structive done while she’s there. every time we turn around we hear tative to vote “yes” on the Weiner According to the Union-Leader, Treasury to cover the embezzle- Recently, the House of Repre- of some new thing that she has done Amendment and the [Rep. Den- the Hooksett School Board sent ment by issuing non-negotiable sentatives passed the FY10 Na- to take better care of our men and nis] Kucinich [D-OH] amend- a letter to Guinta claiming that IOU bonds to the Trust Fund. tional Defense Authorization women in the Armed Forces or to ment: the state single-payer “Manchester used $10.6 million Such economically irresponsible Act (NDAA) which includes root out waste, fraud and/or abuse option/ERISA [Employee Re- paid by the town of Bedford to and morally reprehensible be- language from Shea-Porter re- in defense appropriations or to nail tirement Income Security Act] offset the city’s tax rate when the havior by the politicians demon- pealing the National Security down funding for some vital proj- waiver, approved by the House money was supposed to be used strates total disrespect for work- Personnel System (NSPS). ect at the Shipyard. And the people Education and Labor Commit- for schools.” ing people. According to the Portsmouth who complain about her are the tee by 27-19, with 14 Democrats The letter also criticizes Man- Congress must now determine Herald, Shea-Porter argued that ones who were shouting “Support and 13 Republicans voting yes. chester for “not using money how to legally fund the IOU “It (the NSPS) took away cri- the Troops” when Jeb Bradley was Senator [Bernie] Sanders [D- from school impact fees in the bonds when they mature. The teria to measure employees. It sending them off to a bogus war VT] will introduce two single- school budget, raises concerns choices are increase taxes, sell didn’t have objective standards to with lousy body armor and inad- payer amendments to the Senate about pay-to-play sports pro- legitimate T-bonds, or monetize measure. It became very subjec- equate supplies. Are they cynical? bill, one creating a national sin- grams, says Central High school the debt. It is doubtful China tive and certain people received Or just confused? gle-payer plan (as in S 703), the has continually not been brought will buy additional T-bonds so higher income for the same job.” The Editor other allowing individual states up to state maintenance codes, Congress will select the easy way Shea-Porter was able to insert 4 to adopt single payer. and raises concerns about a low out and ask the Federal Reserve a number of other key measures A Doctor’s Prescription Urge your senators to vote student population at West High to create money out of thin air. benefiting the military in the Dear Editor: “YES” on the two Sanders Of course, debasing the currency NDAA bill. Burn pits producing Our failed private insurance amendments. More Hate Mail, &c. means that the dollar becomes illness in military personnel will health care system is already over True health care reform can’t to page four

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Portsmouth is bounded on the caused by the moon. The other major trucks.) Bay. This spectacle can best be seen when Piscataqua earns its title for xth fastest bobbing around in the current. That buoy oil, and salt generally do so at high tide, north and east by the Piscataqua River. player is a vast sunken valley, about ten The moon’s meddling creates a roving the chart below shows the tide rising. current. A good place to observe this is weighs several tons, is nine feet wide, for maximum clearance under their keels. Depending on which tour boat captain miles upriver. Twice a day, the moon hydraulic conflict as incoming sea and A good place to watch is the little deck from Bow Street, up by St. John’s church. and it bobs and bounces in the current When they leave empty, riding high in you believe, it’s the second, the third, or drags roughly seventeen billion gallons outgoing river collide. The skirmish line near the sterns of the tugboats, off Ceres Look up the river, from one of the little like a cork! The river also has its placid the water, they tend to go at low tide, the fourth fastest-flowing navigable river of salt water from the ocean, up the moves from the mouth of the river, past Street. Twice a day, too, the moon lets parking lots between the buildings. moments, around high and low tides. for maximum clearance under Memorial in the country. river, into Great Bay. (If the moon ever New Castle, around the bend by the old all that water go. All the salt water that (Don’t try to drive or park there, that Often when the river rests, its tugboats Bridge. The Piscataqua’s remarkable current stopped moving that water for us, it Naval Prison, under Memorial Bridge, just fought its way upstream goes back won’t work.) You’ll see a red buoy, at and drawbridges work their hardest. is caused by the tide which, in turn is could be replaced with 2,125,000 tanker past the tugboats, and on towards Great to rejoin the ocean. This is when the the upstream end of Badger’s Island, Ships coming in heavily laden with coal,

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2001—Only one Senator—Russ 2003—Iraqi resistance fighters 2006—In the western Pacific, an 2007—The Red Sox take the World 2003—George W. Bush explains 2005—Pastor Kyle Lake, 33, stand- 1968—President Johnson stops the Feingold—votes against the USA nearly get Deputy Defence Secre- undetected Chinese submarine Series in four from the Rockies — that “The war on terror involves ing in water to perform a baptism bombing of North Vietnam. PATRIOT Act. tary Paul Wolfowitz with a rocket surfaces less than five miles from second time in three years. Saddam Hussein because of the before 800 people at a Waco, TX 1967—Calif. governor Ronald 1983—U.S. troops preserve the in Baghdad. the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk. 2006—George W. Bush tells a nature of Saddam Hussein, the his- Baptist church, reaches for a micro- Reagan denies a “homosexual ring” Republic by invading Grenada. 2001—George W. Bush eagerly 2004—The Rex Sox take the World CNBC reporter that he knows how tory of Saddam Hussein, and his phone and is electrocuted. is operating out of his office in Sac- 1973—As Nixon sleeps, Henry signs the USA PATRIOT Act. Series in four from the Cardinals to use “The Google.” willingness to terrorize himself.” 1995—Quebec votes not to secede, ramento. Kissinger, Alexander Haig, and 1979—South Korean President — first time since 1918. 2003—”[A]s you know,” explains 1994—Francisco Martin Duran but just barely. 1963—“I can safely say,” says Gen. five other unelected officials raise Park Chung-hee is shot by the 1972—Richard Nixon pocket George W. Bush, “these are open fires 29 rounds from an SKS rifle 1990—For the first time since the Paul Harkin, U.S. commander in America’s military readiness level head of the South Korean C.I.A. vetoes a bill to raise the veterans forums, you’re able to come and at the White House, before being Ice Age, England and the Euro- South Vietnam, “that the end of to DEF CON 3. 1972—Henry the K., lying as usual, health care budget by $85 million. listen to what I have to say.” subdued by two civilians. pean mainland are connected; this the war is in sight.” 1962—Nuclear-armed F-106s says “Peace is at hand.” 1969—Hoping to convince the 1988—In Tacoma, a jury awards 1987—Ronald Reagan nominates time by chunnel. 1964—China explodes its first A- scramble after a guard shoots a 1970—“Doonesbury” debuts. Soviets he’s dangerously unstable, $147,000 to a woman seduced by Douglas H. Ginsburg for the Su- 1990—“Amazing Joe” Burrus, an bomb. bear climbing a fence at a Duluth 1962—As planning for massive air Richard Nixon secretly orders her minister. preme Court, but his pot-smoking escape artist, fails to escape from 1941—On convoy duty on the Air Force base thinking it’s an in- strikes continues, President John F. eighteen B-52s armed with H- 1984—OPEC decides to produce past puts the kibosh on that. an acrylic coffin after it’s covered North Atlantic, the U.S.S. Reuben truder. Kennedy gets a telegram from Ni- bombs to spend the next three days less oil and make more money. 1979—1,000 are arrested on Wall with tons of wet cement. James is sunk by a U-Boat. 1960—Martin Luther King is kita Khrushchev offering to swap flying around the North Pole. 1970—Sen. William Fulbright Street for disrupting business on 1967—Martin Luther King is ar- 1939—FDR moves the date of jailed in Decatur, Ga. on old traf- Soviet missiles in Cuba for U.S. 1967—Rev. Philip Berrigan and charges the Nixon administration the 50th Anniversary of the Crash. rested in Birmingham, Ala. Thanksgiving by a week to boost fic charges. He gets four months missiles in Turkey. three friends pour duck blood on with waging illegal war in Laos. 1969—The DARPANET is turned 1961—The Soviet Union air-drops Christmas retail sales. hard labor. 1955—Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims draft records in Baltimore. 1962—Russkie Premier Nikita on—two computers communicate a 58-megaton hydrogen bomb, cre- 1938—A Utah prison doctor re- 1922—The Irish Free State adopts South Vietnam a republic and 1965—“We must never forget,” Khrushchev agrees to dismantle for the first time ever. ating the largest explosion in hu- cords John Deering’s heart rate its constitution. himself president. says Richard Nixon, “that if the the Soviet missile bases in Cuba 1958—A radioactive cloud drifts man history. with an EKG as he’s executed by a 1920—King Alexander of Greece 1917—At the Second Battle of war in Vietnam is lost … the right and remove the weapons. over Los Angeles after the explo- 1950—Puerto Ricans rebel against firing squad. dies, shortly after being bitten by Passchendaele, the Allies gain a of free speech will be extinguished 1929—For the first time, a child is sion of an A-bomb in Nevada. U.S. rule. 1926—Mussolini survives an as- his pet monkey. few hundred yards of mud, at a cost throughout the world.” born in an airplane—over Miami, 1935—Driving home in his bo- 1948—In Donora, Penn., smog sassination attempt by 15 year old 1881—Birth of Pablo Diego Jose of 12,000 casualties. 1962—As one American U-2 is of course. nus—a new Rolls—after signing a kills 20 and sickens 6,000. anarchist Anteo Zamboni. Francisco Picasso. 1881—The alleged law and the shot down over Cuba and another 1922—Benito Mussolini, “a man three-year, $1 million contract, car- 1945—The U.S. government ends 1926—After being punched in the 1854—Lord James Cardigan leads Clanton brothers shoot it out at the strays over the USSR, Robert Ken- sent by divine providence,” accord- toonist Sidney Smith (The Gumps) shoe rationing. stomach, Ehrich “Harry Houdini” a brigade of sword-brandishing O.K. Corral in Tombstone. nedy cuts a deal with Soviet Am- ing to Pope Pius XI, takes over in dies in a car wreck. 1838—A mob led by three Mis- Weiss dies. light cavalrymen across open 1806—Lord Timothy Dexter, bassador Anatoly Dobrynin. Rome. 1929—“Black Tuesday”—16 mil- souri Militia captains attacks a 1918—In a week, Spanish Flu kills ground in a doomed attack against seminal American crackpot who 1951—“There is no question,” says 1921—Argentine workers revolt lion shares sell on Wall Street, at colony of Mormons at Huan’s Mill, 21,000 Americans. Russian artillery. Astonishingly, made money selling bed warmers Gen. J. Lawton Collins, “that the under the black flag of anarchism. ever declining prices; $26 billion killing most of them. 1893—Daniel Fowle’s printing half survive. in the West Indies and author of A Communist menace in French The army kills 1500. evaporates. 1831—Rebel slave leader Nat press is last seen in public at the 1760—Britain’s King George II Penny for the Knowing Ones, dies in Indo-China has been stopped.” 1919—Congress passes the Vol- 1918—Sailors mutiny in Kiehl, Turner is arrested in Virginia. closing of the World’s Columbian dies on the loo. Newburyport. 1838—Missouri Gov. Lilburn stead Act, enabling prohibition. Germany and establish Sailors and 1501—Party guests compete for Exposition, Chicago. 1415—At Agincourt, France, King 1369—Charles V “The Wise,” Boggs signs an executive order 1918—George Herriman’s Krazy Workers Councils. prizes by competitively coupling 1765—TheNew Hampshire Gazette Henry V and his outnumbered King of France, dedicates a monu- calling for Mormons to be “treated Kat gets his own comic strip. 1835—The “Loco-Foco” Party, with 50 naked whores collecting is printed “in mourning” for lost longbowmen win a lopsided vic- ment to his personal chef for creat- as enemies,” and “exterminated or 1886—The Statue of Liberty is a Democratic splinter group, is chestnuts strewn on the palazzo liberty, in protest of the Stamp Act, tory over the French. ing a recipe for pickled fish. driven from the state.” dedicated on Bedloe’s Island. formed at Tammany Hall. apostolico of Pope Alexander VI. to take effect the following day. 5:05 5:15 6:05 6:16 7:03 7:16 7:56 8:12 8:43 9:01 9:24 9:46 10:02 10:28

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2004—Voting machines are deliv- 2004—Warren Co. (OH) officials 1986—A Lebanese magazine re- 1979—Militant Shi’ite Muslims 2004—A Franklin Co. (OH) offi- 1984—It’s mourning in America 2002—“War is not my first choice,” ered to polling places in Franklin count votes behind locked doors ports U.S. government’s been sell- take 66 Americans hostage in cial reports that Pres. Bush’s 3,893 —Reagan defeats Mondale. lies George W. Bush, “it’s my last Co., OH. More go to higher- due to an alleged “terrorist threat.” ing arms to Iran. Teheran, spelling the end of the vote total in one district is errone- 1977—A dam owned and modi- choice.” income areas than lower-income 2002—“We know he [Saddam 1970—Salvador Allende sworn in Carter administration. ous—only 638 ballots were cast. fied by the Toccoa Falls Bible In- 2000—The American people vote areas. Hussein] has chemical weapons,” as President of Chile. 1964—Lenny Bruce is found guilty 1994—File under “Non-News:” stitute in Georgia fails, and kills 39 for a president. They get George W. 2002—“[T]hat’s what you expect says George W. Bush. 1969—Richard Nixon announces of using obscenity during appear- Ronald Reagan announces he has people. Bush, instead. here in New Hampshire,” says 2000—A Portland, ME TV station “Vietnamization” of Vietnam War. ances in New York City. Alzheimer’s. 1975—The Sex Pistols perform in 1972—Richard Nixon kicks George W. Bush at Pease Trade- reports that George W. Bush got 1964—Lyndon Johnson is elected 1958—U.S. B-47 bomber carrying 1975—Dick “Dick” Cheney be- public for the first time. George McGovern’s ass. port, “somebody who tells you busted for drunk driving in 1976. as the peace candidate. nukes crashes near Abilene, TX. comes White House Chief of 1971—The Atomic Energy Com- 1962—Richard Nixon, tells the what’s on your mind.” 1983—Soviet intelligence, already 1957—A female dog named Laika, High explosives detonate. Nuclear Staff, Donald Rumsfeld becomes mission explodes a 5-megaton H- press they won’t have him to kick 1966—Lyndon Johnson, lying, convinced that the U.S. is planning aboard Sputnik 2, becomes the first materials are recovered later. Secretary of Defense, and George bomb—the largest ever exploded around any more. (He lies.) tells U.S. troops in Korea that his a pre-emptive nuclear strike under living thing to orbit Earth. 1956—Soviet troops put down Herbert [Hoover] Bush becomes in the U.S.—one mile below Am- 1940—Two days after abandoning great-great grandaddy died at the cover of a training exercise, detect 1948—The Chicago Daily Tribune Hungarian revolt. Director of the CIA. Gerry Ford is chitka Island in Alaska, about 87 the blazing tanker MV San Dem- Alamo. NATO’s Able Archer 83—just mistakenly declares Dewey the 1928—Asked who shot him, the allowed to stay on as President. miles from a Soviet naval base in etrio, her crew reboards and puts 1951—U.S. Army troops are ex- such an exercise—and conclude winner over Truman in the presi- dying gangster Arnold Rothstein 1949—Deranged WWII vet How- Siberia. out the fire. Nine days later they posed to an atomic explosion in that a nuclear strike is imminent. dential election. tells police, “My mudder did it.” ard Unruh shoots and kills 12 in 1963—Laura Welch—later Bush— reach Ireland. Nevada “for training purposes.” 1972—The Seafarer’s International 1917—Bolsheviks take power dur- 1924—Nellie Rayloe Ross becomes Camden, NJ. runs a stop sign in Midland, TX, 1940—The mile-long Tacoma 1950—Puerto Rican nationalists Union makes a $100,000 “contri- ing the Russian Revolution. first female governor of a U.S. state, 1930—Told over the phone by a with fatal results. Narrows bridge wiggles, wobbles, try to kill Harry S Truman. bution” to the Nixon reelection in 1913—The U.S introduces the In- Wyoming. Swedish newspaper reporter that 1961—A three day fire begins in and then falls down. The only casu- 1918—An inexperienced scab mo- exchange for the Justice Depart- come Tax. 1922—Howard Carter discovers he’s won the Nobel Prize, Sinclair Bel Air, CA, destroying 447 homes alty is a cocker spaniel. Washington torman causes the Malbone Tunnel ment dropping an indictment—for 1903—The Colombian province of King Tutankhamen’s tomb. Lewis, thinking it’s a hoax, imitates including those of Zsa Zsa Gabor State cannot collect on its insur- disaster in New York City; 97 die, making illegal campaign “contribu- Panama secedes with quiet back- 1918—Disgruntled German sail- the man’s accent. and Dick Nixon. ance because the agent fraudulently 255 are injured. tions.” ing from Teddy Roosevelt, whose ors take over the port at Kiel, start- 1920—Socialist Eugene V. Debs 1944—The Zionist Stern Gang as- pocketed the premiums. 1789—George Washington at- 1963—With a White House OK, Republican party recently received ing the German Revolution. gets a million votes for President sassinates Britain’s Lord Moyne in 1919—3,000 anarchists are held tends services at Portsmouth’s South Vietnamese generals over- $60,000 from the New Panama 1879—James Ritty gets a patent while in jail. Cairo. Israel honors the assassins without bail on Ellis Island as the St. John’s Church in the a.m. and throw President Ngo Dinh Diem Canal Company. for the first cash register, invented 1872—In Rochester, N.Y., Susan with a stamp in 1982. Palmer Raids begin. North Church in the p.m. and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. 1868—John W. Menard, from to outfox thieving bartenders. B. Anthony is arrested for voting. 1928—Herbert Hoover beats Al- 1913—Albert Camus is born … 1777—The Ranger, Captain John 1950—The first color television Louisiana, is first black elected to 1879—Will Rogers is born. 1857—Birth of Ida Tarbell, muck- fred E. Smith for president. but why? Paul Jones commanding, leaves broadcasts begin. Congress. 1862—Richard Gatling patents a raker. 1922—An explosion kills 77 coal 1879—Birth of Lev Davidovich Portsmouth for France. 1947—Howard Hughes takes the 1789—George Washington visits hand-cranked machine gun. 1855—Birth of Eugene V. Debs. miners in Spangler, Penn. Bronstein, aka Leon Trotsky. 1765—A mock funeral for Lib- “Spruce Goose”—the world’s larg- Madam Lear, his secretary’s moth- 1791—An Indian force of nearly 1765—Two Boston gangs, instead 1918—Shipyard workers revolt in 1876—In Springfield, IL, a gang of erty is held in Portsmouth. She’s est airplane—out for a test flight. It er, on Hunking Street, and attends 2,000 attacks about 1,500 U.S. of indulging in their usual Guy Kiel and Hamburg. counterfeiters attempt to steal the rescued “by a number of her sons,” never flies again. a ball at the Assembly. soldiers and camp followers in the Fawkes Day dust-up, join to dem- 1917—After three months of corpse of Abraham Lincoln. and the hated Stamp Act is buried 1944—Thomas Midgley, Jr., who 1755—Massachusetts establishes Battle of the Wabash, killing 832. onstrate against the Stamp Act. fighting in thick mud, the Third 1837—Maine-born Elijah P. Love- in her place. discovered chlorofluorocarbons bounties for Indian scalps, ranging 1789—In Portsmouth, George 1605—Had Guy Fawkes not been Battle of Ypres ends when Canadi- joy, an abolitionist editor whose 1512—The public first gawks at and developed lead additives for from £50 for male Penobscots over Washington makes an official visit betrayed and apprehended, Parlia- ans take Passchendaele; Allies have printing press has been thrown in Michaelangelo’s paintings on the gas, is accidentally strangled by a 12 years old, to £20 for female In- to John Sullivan and Council at the ment would have been rubble on advanced a full five miles at a cost the river twice, is murdered by a ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. contraption of his own design. dians under 12. William Pitt Tavern. this day. of 250,000 total casualties. mob in Alton, IL. 9:40 10:09 10:17 10:50 10:56 11:31 11:38 12:16 12:23 1:03 1:12 1:55 2:05

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