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Th e Fortnightly Rant An Inconvenient Catastrope It is probably safe to say that, to obscure the truth: “Knowing after hearing innumerable tales what we know now, would you of chaos and bloodshed com- have invaded Iraq?” Th e question ing without interruption, for a falsely implies that “faulty intelli- quarter-century now, from the gence” had been the problem. alleged cradle of civilization, that A better question might be, the average American heartily “Knowing what we know now, wishes that Iraq and the whole would you have leaned on our Middle East would just go away. national intelligence services Th e average American, though, to cherry pick dubious factoids has never felt Ramadi’s heat, or from unreliable sources who had smelled its streets, or tasted its axes to grind, then fed that false dust. It would be a lot to ask information to complicit media of the atypical Americans, the stooges so they would write sto- members of the other one per- ries that would unduly alarm the cent, who have conducted Amer- public and convince Congress to ican foreign policy while wearing go along with your plans for an combat gear, to just write off illegal invasion of a sovereign na- and forget the place where their tion, then send a highly respect- brothers and sisters died. ed offi cial to lie to the United Tension has been building for Nations in order to provide cover years between these divergent for your criminal enterprise?” feelings, each embedded deeply If that question is too com- in our body politic. Like electri- plicated for today’s short atten- student, of all things. Déjà Vu All Over Again, Again Why do we put up with this? cal charges in storm clouds, they tion spans, here’s a simpler one: Speaking in Reno on May 13th, So, after marching for twelve Because Pakistan’s got Th e Bomb. yearn to be discharged. Fate, that “Knowing what we know now, Bush spoke as if the tragic fall of years towards the center of Hell, How did that come about? old trickster, allowed this situ- would you have ignored the myr- Ramadi could be laid at Presi- what have we gotten for our “[Richard Nixon’s 1971] de- ation to fester until our Presi- iad voices, in and out of govern- dent Obama’s doorstep — as if troubles? More than four thou- cision to send a nuclear aircraft dential campaign got properly ment, who said there was no le- history had begun on January, sand Americans dead, tens of carrier task-force to the Bay of underway. gitimate case for war, and warned 20, 2009. thousands more wounded, Iraqi Bengal led to an acceleration of Now Ramadi has fallen. Ac- that an invasion would do more Ivy Ziedrich, exempt from the casualties beyond number, and the Indian nuclear programme,” cording to civics textbooks (as- harm than good?” strictures of modern journalis- trillions of dollars sent ablaze wrote an advisor to Indian Prime suming that those quaint items Bush, Whacked tic etiquette, pointed out that it up the fl ue. Oh, yes — and one Minister Indira Gandhi, quoted still exist) such a crisis should Predictably and justifi ably, the had been the previous Admin- murderous Caliphate, slouching in Mark Feldstein’s Poisoning the serve as an opportunity for mul- candidate being grilled most istration which had fi red the towards Baghdad to be born. Press. Nixon’s decision was based tiple, competing demonstra- closely on Ramadi and the larger Iraqi Army, and sent its offi cer People used to credit their on intelligence from Morarji tions of vision, leadership, and issue of Iraq has been Jeb Bush. corps home with their weapons muses, now we just quote the Desai, a Indian Right Winger statemanship. In what may have been a mis- to nurse their grievances. In case meme: “Th anks, Obama.” believed by no one except Nixon Provided, of course, that our guided attempt to display ver- he didn’t get the point, she then It’s enough to make a person and Henry Kissinger. corporate media will allow that. satility and imagination, he has said, “Your brother created ISIS.” wish that catastrophes could be “Pakistan inevitably followed,” Th e odds don’t look good. given, at one time or another, just It was refreshing to see the tracked by DNA. Like Pakistan, Feldstein writes, “by developing Asking the Wrong Question about every conceivable answer truth pop up in the nation’s news for instance. Pakistan is our ally, its own atomic arsenal and then What the blathering heads to the now-standard question. feed. Too bad we don’t get more except when it backs the Taliban supplied nuclear weapons tech- have done for us instead is gin To be fair, Bush may have been of that. Maybe we need more in- in Afghanistan or hides Osama nology to Iran, Libya, and North up a classic, standardized, off - rattled early on in the process — nocent 19 year-olds in the press bin Laden just down the road Korea, rogue nations with ties to the-shelf wrong question certain by a 19 year-old student college corps. from their own West Point. anti-American terrorists.”

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Bad-Banking Frank’s Ranking Tanks Lifting editorials in their entire- state of terminal mendacity. A ty from other papers is generally majority of newspapers in the considered verboten. Th e Union district, including many that Leader published one exactly two once endorsed him, are now call- weeks ago, though, that was too ing on him to resign. good to pass up: “Frank Guinta Individual state Republicans, is a damned liar.” from Senator Ayotte on down, Th at succinct condemnation are also calling for his resigna- came three days after WMUR tion. A curious exception is the reported that Guinta had signed state’s Republican Executive a conciliation agreement with Committee. the Federal Elections Commis- A week after running its six- sion [FEC]. word editorial blast, the Union Th e language of the agreement Leader published the results of a fl atly contradicts a series of state- poll of First District voters. Sev- ments that Guinta has made over enty-four percent of District vot- the past fi ve years, regarding the ers said he should go. source of $355,000 he lent to his An attorney specializing in 2010 campaign. federal election law said, during Since WMUR fi rst aired that a May 14th conference call ar- report, Guinta has stated that ranged by the New Hampshire the FEC statement does not say Democratic Party, that we won’t what it says. know if Guinta might be at risk Th is pattern of blatantly con- of criminal charges until the full tradicting the undeniable has FEC fi le is released within the Primus and the African Burying Ground now allowed Guinta to attain a next few weeks. Th ree centuries after its haphaz- Primus was, of course, just his imals. As a sea captain, he may or ard creation, two centuries after slave name. What his mother and may not have transported slaves, its desecration, and a dozen years father might have called him, we whom he may or may not have after its revelation, the African will never know. He was born in owned. Burying Ground in Portsmouth Africa about the year 1700 — Primus may have worked on has, at last, been set right — to the beginning of the busiest cen- Langdon’s farm, or merely been a the extent that any unpardonable tury of the Atlantic slave trade. marketable commodity. Whatev- act or uncorrectible transgression By January of 1730, Prim- er his status, by the end of 1730 can ever be set right. us was the property of John he had been sold. In bracing air, under a brilliant Langdon, Sr., of Portsmouth. His new owner was Hugh sky, with all the care, honor, and A wealthy and respected man, Hall, of Boston. Hall traded ex- dignity that was denied to them Langdon was a merchant, a sea tensively in slaves, but he appears in life, the mortal remains of captain, and a farmer. He is best to have held onto Primus. When thirteen people were reverently remembered today for having his daughter, Lydia, married the returned to their community in fathered John Langdon, Jr., who printer Daniel Fowle in 1751, the earth. served in the Continental Con- Primus became part of their For each of the newly re-bur- gress, was a delegate to the Con- household. Fowle put Primus ied, another dozen or more re- stitutional Convention, and was to work in his print shop, and main undisturbed and under this state’s second Governor. occasionally lent him out to his the ground. Reburied or undis- As a merchant, Langdon, Sr., brother Zechariah, who was also turbed, somewhere in that Bury- bought and sold slaves, among a printer. Once again, as they have for generations past, all of the relevant parties ing Ground are the remains of other things. As a farmer, he One such job of Zechariah’s worked in unison on Monday to assure that in the City of Portsmouth, the Primus. used slaves to raise crops and an- was the printing of a satirical rituals associated with Memorial Day were properly observed. Don’t just give a gift. Give a unique newspaper — every other Friday for a year. Gift subscriptions - page 5.

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Th en Fowle was put in Bos- Mrs. Fowle, Prime should have ton’s stone jail for about fi ve days, gone on the left of his master, in a cell next to a condemned but he went on the right, instead. murderer. “His master whispered, ‘Go Incensed by this trampling the other side.’ Prime did not of his rights as a free-born En- move,” Brewster wrote. “His glishman, Fowle wrote a pam- master touched him and whis- phlet bitterly denouncing the pered again, ‘Go the other side.’ proceedings, titled A Total Eclipse Th is was too much. Th e old pep- of Liberty. Th e labor of actually pery negro sputtered out, as loud printing this work likely fell to as he could, ‘Go t’udder side ye his slave, Primus. He is briefl y sef, ye mean jade.’” mentioned, as “my negro,” in its Daniel died childless in 1787. text. He left his estate — property, Th e Monster aff air prompted press, newspaper, slave, and all Daniel to move to Portsmouth in — to John Melcher, who had 1756. Here, he established New been his apprentice and, lat- an angle of about forty-fi ve de- Plagued again they were, Ground is now complete — or Hampshire’s fi rst print shop — er, his partner. When training grees.” In his later years, no lon- though, as the city was allowed nearly so. More than $1 mil- and this newspaper. Th roughout his own apprentices, in years to ger working, he lived in Melcher’s to grow over them — as if their lion has been raised, but some the fi rst thirty years of its pub- come, Melcher would scorn slop- household on Paved Street, now lives had not visited upon them $60,000 still is needed. It’s not lication, Primus pulled the great py work, saying to them, “I have Market Street. Legend has it that enough indignities already. too late to make a donation, and lever that supplied the force re- seen a negro do better work.” boys would off er Primus a penny It seems to have been easy, it’s easily done online at http:// quired to print this paper, four Brewster wrote that, “through if he would stand up straight for with the passage of enough time, www.africanburyinggroundnh. pulls for every copy. long service in bending over them. “He would always make to act as if the burying ground org/donations.html. Primus again appears in the the press, [Primus] was bent to the trial, with many grimaces,” had never existed at all. Th e real remaining challenge Tobias Ham Miller wrote, “but So it is, too, with the fruits will be applying what the Bury- of course he could not succeed.” of their labor. Recent scholarly ing Ground has taught us to the When Primus Fowle died he works on slavery have shown the way we perceive the world. achieved a unique distinction for tremendous extent to which our One small part of this one an enslaved African man of those national economy, and our in- small city now stands for some- times: the May 19, 1791 edition ternational trade, were built on a thing far larger, something too of the New Hampshire Gazette foundation of slave labor. large, really, for us to fully com- published a notice of his death. Slavery was an example of a prehend. A week later, it published a po- rising tide that lifted all boats — A dozen million lifetimes were etic epitaph. all but those of the slaves. taken — and that was just the Th e fi rst and last stanzas are Some of the fruits of Primus’ start. Th ose lives were then made excerpted here: labor, back issues of this news- to disappear; hidden from sight paper, are now carefully stored, by conversion into cotton, or Under these clods, old Primus lies in paper form, at the Athenæum buildings, or boats. At rest and free from noise, here in Portsmouth. Th eyy As long as the Burying Ground No longer seen by mortal eyes are treated with more rev- is here — until Gabriel blows his Or griev’d by roguish boys … erence now than Primus horn, that is — Portsmouth and ever received in life. Th ose the world will have a palpable Th e vault of the African Burying Ground was closed a little after 5:00 … now he’s dead, we sure may say thirty and more years of unpaid reminder, representing what we p.m. on Saturday, May 23rd, after a jazz-infl ected rendition of “Taps.” Th e Of him, as of all men, toil are still the foundation of our have not yet learned to see: all cover is decorated with a sankofa, a West African symbol meaning “return Th at while in silent graves they lay meagre eff orts today. the structures and the sinews and get it – learn from the past.” Th ey’ll not be plagued again. Portsmouth’s African Burying that this nation takes for granted. Page 4 — The New Hampshire Gazette, Friday, May 29, 2015 Too bad it’s so relevant, and its War of Our Time: Th e CIA’s Fight Hate Mail answer so potentially revealing; Against Terrorism, which off ers a Mash Notes, if it weren’t, someone in authority scathing indictment of the Bush might give you an answer. Administration’s use of intelli- bid contracts to its cronies. country into economic collapse, I Your query inspired us to fi re up gence leading up to the al-Qaida Wayne H. Merritt naturally wondered how anyone the Google. It brought us back to attacks of September 11, 2001, Dover, NH other than the wealthiest one the good old days — the summer Dick Cheney’s dismissal of Mo- ≈≈≈ percent of the population, whom of 2001. An obscure Executive rell’s repeated warnings about an Frank Guinta’s Big Lie the Republicans represent so Department functionary named actual threat, and the invasion To the Editor: well, could vote Republican. Alberto Gonzales was engaged in of Iraq in March of 2003. One Congressman Frank Guin- How can people vote against prolonged correspondence with U.S. can be assured that the CIA con- ta claims the 10 checks for their own interests when it Archivist John W. Carlin. Charles ducted a thorough review of Mr. $381,000 his parents wrote to comes to Social Security, unem- Homan wrote about it in the Morell’s book before authorizing his 2010 campaign were actual- ployment benefi ts, and the rest Washington Monthly in 2008. its publication! Th e Larger Issue ly loans he made to himself. Th e of the social safety net? Answer: Carlin was attempting to get the I recently listened to NPR’s To the Editor: money came from an account In must be that Republicans new Bush Administration — same Rachel Martin talk to Morell Th ere has been a big demand with only his parents listed, yet have somehow mastered the Jedi as the old Bush Administration, but about his book, starting with the for Hillary Clinton’s emails he claims it was also his account Mind trick that permits them to worse — to comply with the Pres- subject of “fl awed CIA intelli- while she was Secretary of State. because he gave them money put thoughts and suggestions of idential Records Act. Th e Act had gence on Iraq.” Morell admitted Why? Have any other Secre- over the last 40 years. His parents actions into the consciousness been passed in 1974 to prevent fu- that there were “small details, tary of State’s emails or corre- did not feel the same way. If they of the weak-minded. And, of ture Presidents from repeating the sentences in reports about the spondence been made public? did he would be on the account, course, they have the help of the shenanigans of Richard M. Nixon. Iraq threat being presented to What about Vice President Dick and his signature would be on message amplifi ers: Fox News, It was time to turn Ronald Rea- the public by the Bush Adminis- Cheney or Secretary of Defense the checks. Rush Limbaugh and that gang gan’s records over to the Archives, tration that he thought were not Donald Rumsfeld’s emails and Th e most likely explanation is of nitwits, Hollywood, and the but Gonzales asked for a delay un- right, but he wasn’t going to say correspondences? Why haven’t that Frank told his parents he media, both electronic and print. til June. In June Gonzales asked anything.” Morell furthermore they been released? Where are would pay them back if he was And how else would they be for another delay, until August. discussed an apology he made, in George Bush’s emails? elected. He didn’t. By the end of able to convince the middle Carlin granted that extension, the book, to former Secretary of Th e Presidential Recordings the 2010 campaign, Frank listed class that the poor, the wretch- and then another, until Novem- State Colin Powell, who reluc- and Materials Preservation Acts the “loan” as $355,000. His 2012 edly poor, and the immigrants, ber. Th en George W. Bush issued an tantly made the case for war on of 1974 and 1978 mandated the campaign took in $1.86 million are responsible for the declining Executive Order. It decreed that the fl oor of the United Nations release of documents 12 years yet the “loan” was still $313,000. standard of living of almost ev- “eff ective immediately, the release of based on that “not right” infor- after the end of the President’s It is bad enough when you won’t eryone, while in reality it is the presidential records would require mation. term. Th is applies to the entire pay back your own parents with upper one percent, the so called the approval of both the sitting Th e transcript of a recent Chris Administration, not just the your money. It is worse when you job creators, who, through the president and the president whose Matthews “Hardball” interview President. President Obama has won’t even pay them back from actions of the Federal Reserve, records were in question….” with Morell shows him confess- not left offi ce yet Republicans are the millions in campaign dona- are the benefi ciaries of money Th e Editor ing that he knew “it wasn’t true,” demanding Secretary Clinton’s tions you received after their loan printing and artifi cially low in- ≈≈≈ and that he “said nothing” when emails. Let’s not discriminate. got you elected. terest rates? With this largess Th e Fault Was Not Intelligence Cheney, in 2003, stated, “We Let’s release Bush, Rumsfeld and Frank Guinta should be ex- they — instead of creating jobs, To the Editor: know Saddam Hussein has been Cheney’s documents as well. Let’s pelled from the House of Repre- expanding infrastructure, and Th e Central Intelligence absolutely devoted to trying to fi nd out the truth about the Iraq sentatives. He lied to get elected producing goods — create fi nan- Agency is normally extremely acquire nuclear weapons. And we War. Th e House has held eight and has not stopped lying since. cial products to gamble with, buy tight-lipped about its activities. believe he has, in fact, reconsti- investigations into the attack in He won’t resign. Kick him out back stocks to increase their val- We almost never hear anything tuted nuclear weapons.” Benghazi which killed four U.S. today. ue, and transfer them, in the form about the agency’s successes and Th e former deputy director of citizens. It has held none on the Walter Hamilton of deferred compensation, to the it often serves as a whipping post the CIA just substantiated what Iraq war which killed 4,400 of Portsmouth, NH CEO’s and other executives, and for politicians and the media I’ve believed since day one: Th e our troops and thousands of our ≈≈≈ fund leveraged buyouts that strip when a foreign policy disaster Bush Administration cooked in- civilians. Shouldn’t we know the At Least Th ere Will Be companies of assets, eventually occurs. telligence and told hundreds of truth about Iraq before the Re- One Meaningful Primary bankrupting them and letting Even the CIA appears to have lies about Iraq’s WMD capabil- publicans take us into war with To the Editor: their entire workforce go. its limits on how much abuse it is ity and intentions as a pretext for Iran or massively back into Iraq? After gaining control of the To imagine Hillary Clinton as willing to endure. Michael Mo- war — to cover up the actual pre- Walter Hamilton Congress in spite of initiating the person to make things right is rell, former CIA deputy director texts, which were: regime change, Portsmouth, NH and continuing to support ille- to believe Bill will enter a mon- during the Bush/Cheney years, reshaping the Middle East, grab- Walter: gal, immoral, and losing wars in astery and take vows of chastity. has put out a book, Th e Great bing Iraq’s oil, and awarding no- You ask an excellent question. the Middle East, and leading the Hillary challenging Wall Street,

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It’s Offi cial! smeared Congresswoman Carol And Other Correspondence It’s now offi cial! New Hamp- Shea-Porter to continue his cov- shire voters elected a bald-faced er-up and win. In the WMUR the Banks, destructive trade choice or a fact-based action. liar: Congressman Frank Guinta. debate, he claimed the FEC had agreements, and foreign inter- Th e GOP’s knee-jerk reactions Despite his numerous and “exonerated” him, when he knew ventions? Let’s get serious. are oversimplifi cations of com- constant protestations to the it had not. He ran a false attack Th e announcement of Bernie plex problems and do not require contrary, the Federal Election ad against Shea-Porter (remem- Sanders’ challenge has creat- much brain power to formulate, Commission found that Frank ber his “100 percent cleared by ed hope again. But, we’ve been sadly an excellent demonstration Guinta violated campaign fi - House Ethics” campaign ad?), down that road with Barack of wasted grey cells. Somehow nance laws, and lied when he calling her a liar, when he knew Obama, who, even though he did these Reps and Senators are able gave all the various explanations he himself was the liar. (House make progress on health reform, to get to Concord and fi nd their he has given these past fi ve years Ethics can only investigate sit- is negotiating with Iran, and seats. Th eir thinking stops there as to where he got the $355,000 ting Congressmen, not candi- most signifi cantly defeated Mc- so they never get to activate the he lent his campaign in 2010. He dates.) Cain, who would have brought more subtle brain capabilities has told nothing but lies since Our Congressman broke the Pope Francis, a very humble us into WW III, is a disap- of compassion, empathy, factual the issue was fi rst brought for- law and lied to win, possibly man, has revolutionized the Pa- pointment for not doing more analysis, predicting future con- ward by some of his Republican throwing three elections his way, pacy by courageously giving a — closing Guantanamo, elimi- sequences, or cause and eff ect primary opponents and the New smeared Shea-Porter when she voice to the voiceless by speaking nating domestic spying, bringing reasoning. Hampshire Democratic Party. told the truth, and engaged in a out on a host of social issues and the troops home from Iraq and Th e majority of us, along with He continues to lie, even after fi ve-year cover-up to hide his il- against the scourges of poverty, Afganistan, refraining from at- law-enforcement profession- the FEC investigation has told legal activity. (I can see President income inequality, trickle-down tacking the Middle Eastern na- als, understand that background us what the truth actually is. Nixon shaking his head and say- economics, and Global Climate tions, and pressuring the Israelis checks for gun purchases and I don’t know about you, but I ing, “Son, denials and cover-ups Change. to stop the settlements and their concealed carry permits makes sure don’t want a certifi ed and don’t [expletive deleted] work.) He continued to amaze me last abuses of the Palestinians. In fact, good sense — but not the Re- compulsive liar representing me Frank Guinta’s betrayal of week with his response to a ques- it is doubtful that Sanders will be publicans. in Congress. the public trust is disgraceful. tion he received regarding the much diff erent in the domain of Just about everyone knows Do the only decent thing you He must apologize to his con- reasons for war from one of the foreign policy, where it appears that aff ordable healthcare cov- can do in this situation Con- stituents and Congresswoman 7,000 children attending a Peace that the so called presidential erage for themselves and the gressman Guinta. Resign! Shea-Porter by resigning. Factory Organization Confer- race is really a contest as to who less fortunate among us not only Herb Moyer Susan Mayer ence. Leaving religious ratio- will be the Israeli Viceroy for the improves the quality of life, but Exeter, NH Lee, NH nale out of the discussion, the United States. also the state’s productivity. Th is ≈≈≈ ≈≈≈ Pope unapologetically answered, But, we have to take what we concept is supported by health- Guinta: Serial Liar and Crook Industry of Death “Many powerful people don’t can get in the hope of turning care professionals and renowned To the Editor: To the Editor: want peace because they live off things around, and Bernie Sand- economists — but not the Re- So Congressman Frank Guin- It stands to reason that I war.” Francis continued, “Some ers is the only one who is speak- publicans. ta is a serial liar and crook. He’s should reside in the second most powerful people make their liv- ing to and for the average Amer- Smart business people know been lying to us all along, for fi ve secular state in the country since ing with the production of arms. ican when it comes to domestic the importance of an educated long years, starting from before I’ve never really embraced or- It’s the industry of death!” policy. workforce for New Hampshire’s his 2010 election. I last heard ganized religion. Th is is not to Th e Pope’s argument was vali- John Dente future and that a more aff ord- him lie at his Dover town hall suggest that my life is devoid of dated that same day by Jeb Bush, Wilmington, DE able in-state education will keep in March. Th e FEC actually was spirituality, as I do spend a lot of who emphatically replied, “Yes, I ≈≈≈ young talent in the state — but investigating him (as he well my waking hours paying homage would have,” to Fox News’ Me- Some Minds Are Terrible Th ings not the Republicans. knew every time he lied) and has to and feeling the inspiration of gan Kelly’s softball question, To the Editor: Our citizenry takes a reason- found him guilty of an illegal Mother Nature when running in “Knowing what we now know, A mind is a terrible thing to able, informed and practical po- $355,000 campaign contribu- the woods, hiking in the moun- would you have authorized the waste. Our Republican state leg- sition on these major issues — tion. His parents gave him the tains, cycling alongside the ocean invasion of Iraq?” Of course, Iraq islators don’t seem to be engag- but not the Republicans. money, as many had suspected or farmlands and kayaking or was only an unmitigated disas- ing their critical thinking skills When the next election comes and he always adamantly denied. swimming in lakes. Furthermore, ter if one weren’t a war profi teer, or considering the thoughtful along, remember how the GOP Th e FEC has required him to my nonparticipation in orga- like former Vice President Dick positions of the majority of New is behaving and do not cast a bal- repay his parents in full within a nized religion does not prevent Cheney’s Halliburton. Hampshire citizens. lot for them again. year, slapped him with a $15,000 me from holding Pope Francis One can easily identify from Usually the admonition “use A vote is a terrible thing to fi ne, and admonished his parents in the same high regard that I do his initial four-word reply that your brain” encourages one to waste. for enabling his illegal campaign for fi gures like Mahatma Gand- come up with a creative or prac- Dave Potter contribution. hi, Martin Luther King Jr., or Hate Mail, &c. tical solution, a commonsense North Hampton, NH In 2014, candidate Guinta Nelson Mandela. to page six

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Th e Northcountry Chronicle Hello, Central? by William Marvel that they left an operator only the change. If everyone who be- sidered this restriction justifi able a carload of other adolescents. one hand to maneuver the car. lieves that excuse would send me because it protects me from a For some drivers, this column n March 5, 2014, New Drivers have conversations with a dollar, I might be able to buy a real danger posed by other idiots, may constitute the fi rst (and per- OHampshire’s legislature their passengers all the time bagel with cream cheese. Th e leg- instead of protecting me from haps the only) notice that June fi nally passed a cell-phone re- without being distracted, he ar- islators’ real purpose was to delay myself. 30 will be the last day they can striction for motorists. Plenty of gued. Well, most cars these days implementation of the law until Tom Buco also voted to kill legally put their phones to their drivers are still winging around have automatic transmissions, after the November elections, in the idea, which I found a little ears. Of course that will mean the roads with phones plastered and unfortunately many people hopes that no one would notice amusing because Tom once near- nothing unless police enforce the to their ears, but that’s because still operate them with one hand it and hold it against those who ly clipped my wife’s car in Con- law, and the 2009 statute against our representatives voted with anyway, which rather disarms the voted for it — or against it. way traffi c while he was engaged texting while driving does not the timidity common to poli- hand-held limitation to any ban. Th e proof of that cynical in- in a phone call. He had dropped bode well for enforcement of ticians facing bills of uncertain Meanwhile, passengers face the terpretation lies in the absence back in a line of endless cars one the cell-phone ban. In the fi ve popularity. same danger from a collision as of any provision for such “educa- Friday, and she — knowing him years since the texting prohibi- First, the bill applied only to the driver, and usually everyone tion” in the bill, and the lack of for his kind and courteous nature tion became eff ective I have not hand-held devices, complete- stops talking whenever a diffi cult any special publicity about the — thought he was going to let caught sight of a single texting ly ignoring the main problem or threatening situation devel- new law during the remaining her into the line. Apparently he violation in Conway court news, of conversational distraction ops. Th at isn’t so likely to happen ten months of 2014. Only re- was only distracted by the con- although it’s diffi cult to stop at a by people engaged in an activi- with a salesman desperately try- cently did I read a single news versation, however, and when he busy intersection without seeing ty that is far more delicate and ing to make a sale to a custom- story on the cell-phone ban, and realized that traffi c had moved another driver pecking away at a dangerous to others than they er in racing rush-hour traffi c, or it did not exceed 250 words. I he bounded ahead, probably keypad. are willing to admit. I think that with people involved in long-dis- understand advertisements are oblivious to the near-miss. Of course, our cops are busy. defect exists in the laws of every tance domestic arguments that fi nally running on highway mes- Syndi White was the third to Since (and perhaps because) state that has thus far enacted have already unconsciously in- sage boards and television, but I oppose the law, but her record in New England legislatures have any bans on highway phone use, creased their highway speed. don’t watch television. offi ce has demonstrated a partic- begun raising interstate speed and that will probably continue Th en, in a second example of Only two of our fi ve local rep- ular disdain for highway safety. limits, speeding has become such until highway death tolls pro- craven political caution, the leg- resentatives supported the bill. Looking at her votes in 2014, a widespread highway threat that voke still more analysis. islators decided not to make the I was not surprised that Gene it’s clear that she has no prob- this month the state police in all A recently retired Conway law eff ective until 16 months Chandler voted against it, for he lem with a teenager screaming six states announced a joint cam- policeman once expressed to later, on July 1, 2015, ostensibly takes a rather libertarian view of one-handed down the road at 70 paign to crack down on it. Good me the opinion that the main to allow abundant time for “ed- life and law that is usually con- miles an hour, gossiping with a luck, with a majority of our legis- problem with cell phones was ucating” the driving public about sistent with my own, but I con- classmate over the phone despite lators working against them.

More Mash Notes, Hate Mail, and Other Correspondence, from Page Five Jeb Bush, a Roman Catholic, is Now we know that Represen- epitome of arrogance and igno- Tradeport. Reading Saturday’s pital is worried about its view by already being infl uenced by the tative Guinta is neither Frank or rance. Portsmouth Herald made me expanding the Pease treatment same warmongering Neoconser- Earnest. When thinking of him, Guinta needs to admit his de- quite concerned. plant? Did I read that right? Can vatives who advised his brother words like “forthright,” “hon- ceptions, apologize to his con- Please have our city staff work these businesses at Pease and on Iraq, and the 47 Republican est,” “candid,” or “sincere” do not stituents and resign. Only then to negotiate a discount with the elsewhere dictate that they do Senators who signed that letter come to mind. will Representative Guinta be contractors, or fi nd another bid- not want the plant enlarged, but to Iran. Also abundantly clear is Recent revelations simply add able to rightfully call himself der that does quality work, that to enlarge our plant on Peirce Is- that Jeb’s run for President will to his past behavior and reveal Frank or Earnest. will give us a better deal at ex- land instead? be fully funded by the same pow- him to be the quintessential Dave Potter panding the Pease treatment fa- Th is is a priority. Peirce Island erful donors who funded Bush/ ambitious and conceited poli- North Hampton, NH cility. Let’s have the Air Force, is our city’s recreation area! It has Cheney, and for whom peace is tician. For fi ve years he boldly ≈≈≈ which contaminated the wells historic Ft. Washington, it has not profi table. lied about accepting illegal cam- Put Expanded Plant at Pease at Pease, help support our need the boat launch, the pool, trails. Wayne H. Merritt paign contributions. Guinta as- To the Editor: for expansion. Let’s ask the busi- It is not a dumping ground to ex- Dover, NH sumed that he was too smart and I believe in and want what is nesses which use more of treat- pand continuously every 40 years ≈≈≈ too important to be caught and best for our Portsmouth. Th at ment plant’s services to chip in until there is nothing left but a Guinta — punished. He thought if he just would be for any and all future more. treatment plant. Neither Frank or Earnest! repeated his lies people would wastewater treatment plant ex- Is the Herald accurately re- We spent the last 15 years To the Editor: fi nally believe him. Th is is the pansions to go to the Pease porting that Portsmouth Hos- cleaning it up because it deserved

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2016 Presidential Candidates Address Inequality (Sort Of ) by Jim Hightower tial contenders as Jeb Bush, Ted rich, do away with environmental for workers, but for low-wage ple. Jeb Bush shows how vacuous Cruz, Rand Paul, and Marco and labor protections, and cut or employers. Why should taxpay- their fl im-fl ammery is by saying t last, America’s political Rubio. Th ey are publicly lament- privatize government programs ers subsidize the poverty pay of that, to address the ever-widen- Aleaders indicate that they ing the wealth gap and — by gol- — from Head Start to Social profi table giants like McDon- ing wealth and income gap, he’ll now feel the pain of the poor and lies — proposing solutions. Alas, Security — that ordinary peo- ald’s, rather than making them “celebrate success and … cherish of the millions of working fam- though, the “solution” proposed ple count on. For example, Sen. pay living wages and cover their free enterprise.” Gosh, what a ilies slipping out of the middle by each of them is not to pro- Rubio proposes to kill the food own labor costs? comfort that’ll be to America’s class. vide help for those who’ve been stamp program (even though the I guess we should count it as hard-hit majority. Congress had previously paid knocked down, but to off er aid to need for it is greater than ever) progress that candidates are at ≈≈≈ no attention to the ever-wid- the same corporate elites who’ve and redirect that money into least having to admit that in- Copyright 2014 by Jim High- ening chasm between the rich been knocking down the middle what he calls a subsidy for low- equality is a problem, but come tower & Associates. Contact Lau- and the rest of us, but it has re- class and holding down the poor. wage workers. Does he think we on — off ering the same old ra Ehrlich (laura@jimhightower. cently emerged as a central issue Specifi cally, their solution is to have sucker-wrappers around failed, anti-government snake oil com). for such Republican presiden- cut taxes on corporations and the our heads? Th at’s not a subsidy is an insult to the American peo- ≈≈≈ it and we needed it; the wildlife, cannot put a price tag on health, Judge. She was a slave of George to abolish slavery. A third, John “It takes many good deeds to the plants, and the trees. Mayor peace of mind, and relaxation! Washington’s who in 1796 es- Jack, married a woman named build a good reputation, and only Eileen Foley had this vision, and In reality protecting the island caped to Portsmouth. Phyllis. In 1792 she purchased land one bad one to lose it.” so did our then-City Council makes Portsmouth a better place She lived, married, and had in Greenland NH, and in 1796, “He that is good at making and staff : to make the island a more desirable, a better place. children in Portsmouth and died, at their new home there, John excuses is seldom good for any- safe and beautiful place. It is overdue, to balance off all at the age of 72, in Newington. and Phyllis harbored Ona Judge thing else.” Th e City went to bat! Volun- the construction and new build- Hers is a wonderful story involc- Staines, a fugitive woman who had “Honesty is the best policy.” teers came and made the island ings. And please pay attention to ing the protection she received escaped enslavement in the Phila- Jane Hoff man a better place. Organizations like citizens not corporate or visitors from city offi cials, from Wash- delphia household of George and Dallas, TX our Portsmouth Rotary Club, as the priority. ington’s agents that were sent to Martha Washington.” Jane: and Blue Ocean do annual clean Th is is Portsmouth’s best place. fi nd her. Th e Editor It is always a delight to hear ups. Businesses like Timberland Watching the Piscataqua from Her story makes Portsmouth ≈≈≈ from a faithful former member of enhanced our trails. the island is a beautiful sight. You look really good. Franklin Had Guinta’s Number our Subscription Fulfi llment team. How can you replace the space may see a fl ying eagle, a moose Bill Stelzer To the Editor: How is life down there in the and proximity of the island and swimming across the river, seals, Portsmouth, NH Th e recent situation with Rep- Congressional District of Pete what it off ers? our fi shing fl eet, or ships navigat- Bill: resentative Frank Guinta re- “Obamacare is going to cost $5 mil- What about our citizens’ well ing the river. Let’s protect this, Unless we’re mistaken, the minded me of three of Benjamin lion per person” Sessions? being? Healthy walks, downtown expand this, and not decrease it Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail’s Franklin’s sayings: Th e Editor trees and nature, open space? and its potential. plaque on the Macphaedris / War- Quality of life and our health is Th is is Portsmouth, New ner House, at the corner of Daniel much more valuable to our City Hampshire! I speak for myself. and Chapel Streets, has this cov- and citizens. We have little open I am selfi sh. I love Peirce Is- ered. space in proximity to downtown. land and don’t want to loose it. I “Among the white colonial occu- We are so fortunate to have have served on Th e Peirce Island pants of this 1716 brick house, it Peirce Island. Great Communi- Committee since it was formed, says, “were its builder Archibald ties plan to preserve and protect and as co-chairman for several Macphaedris, royal governor Ben- things like open space. Th at’s years. It is an honor and privilege. ning Wentworth and merchant what makes them great. Richard Smith Jonathan Warner. But it was also Are we going to make the same Portsmouth, NH home to at least eight slaves. Mac- Vas ist los? Anarchy in the U.S.A.? On Memorial Day, 2015, a member mistake we made in the 1970’s at ≈≈≈ phaedris enslaved a girl and three of the Volunteer Flying Squad of the Polizei del Flag-Rante submitted the Peirce Island? Remembering Ona Judge men, Prince, Nero and Quamino. above piece of evidence. Apparently it’s time for Epping’s American Legion Th e staff of our city should do To the Editor: Jonathan Warner’s slaves were said Post #51 to review Title 4 of the U.S. Code, Chapter 1, Sec. 7. Position better, be hired based on ability I suggest that someone with to have lived in a small wooden and manner of display, paragraph (i); to wit: When displayed either hor- of planning a healthy safe pros- some experience at such things, house which stood behind the brick izontally or vertically against a wall, the union should be uppermost and perous environment for our long organize an eff ort to create and house. Two, Cato and Peter, were to the fl ag’s own right, that is, to the observer’s left. When displayed in a term, and not base it on business- install in downtown Portsmouth, among 20 African men who signed window, the fl ag should be displayed in the same way, with the union or es wishes or cost as a priority. 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Portsmouth, arguably the fi rst whom you choose to believe. drags about seventeen billion moves from the mouth of the Twice a day, too, the moon lets all Badger’s Island, bobbing around in and bridges work their hardest. town in this country not founded Th e 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 fi ll 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. Th e the river and into Great Bay. Th is under Memorial Bridge, past the back home to the ocean. Th is 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 confl ict, tugboats, and on into Great Bay. when the Piscataqua earns its title Th e river also has its placid mo- Th ey leave empty, riding high in or fourth fastest-fl owing navigable — Great Bay — about ten miles as incoming sea and the outgoing Th is 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. Th e skirmish line is rising. red buoy, at the upstream end of When the river rests, its tugboats under Memorial Bridge. Sunday, May 31 Monday, June 1 Tuesday, June 2 Wednesday, June 3 Thursday, June 4 Friday, June 5 Saturday, June 6

2007—Gov. John Lynch signs New 2005—Having proven his incom- 2003—Th e FCC further eases the 2002—Hosni Mubarak announces 2006—A Ukranian man enters the 2003—Two top New York Times 2002—Donald Rumsfeld tells the Hampshire’s “civil unions for gay petence at the Pentagon, Paul Wol- rules against media monopoly, just that Egypt warned the U.S., on or lion cage at the Kiev zoo, saying editors resign in disgrace. Oddly, unknowing that unknown un- couples” bill. fowitz takes over the World Bank. to be fair to huge corporations. about 9/4/01, that al-Qaeda was “God will save me, if he exists.” Ap- many more do not. knowns are “things we do not know 2005—Ex-FBI offi cial Mark Felt 2003—Th e Bush administration 2002—Th e CIA admits to Con- about to strike the U.S. parently he does not. 1989—A lone Chinese man tem- we don’t know.” He should know. admits he is “Deep Th roat.” announces that it’s canning its gress—in a classifi ed document, to 1980—A failed 46-cent computer 2004—In Granby, CO, Marvin porarily stops a line of tanks in Ti- 1989—Th e manufacture of nucle- 1971—For the fi rst time, the U.S. plans for a large Iraqi assembly in avoid undue alarm—it had tracked chip convinces the Pentagon that a Heemeyer destroys the Town Hall, ananmen Square. ar weapon components at Rocky celebrates Memorial Day on a day favor of a smaller, easier to manipu- one 9/11 hijacker months earlier Soviet attack on the U.S. is about the mayor’s home, and 11 other 1976—In Idaho, the federal Teton Flats, CO ends when FBI and EPA other than May 30. late advisory council. than it had previously admitted. to begin. buildings with his home-made ar- Dam fails, killing 11 and costing agents raid the joint. 1958—Number of U.S. military 2002—George W. Bush announc- 1999—Th e Virginian-Pilot reports 1974—Brown & Williamson To- mored bulldozer because “God … nearly $1B. 1989—Greenpeace reports there and economic advisors on duty in es at West Point that we’ll attack that evangelist Pat Robertson has bacco tests a cigarette blended to asked [him] to do it.” 1969—Taken three weeks earlier, at are 50 nuclear weapons and nine Vietnam rises to 1,347. pre-emptively if we get nervous. had “extensive dealings” with Li- smell like pot. 2003—To prove they’re not soft on a cost of 72 American lives and 372 reactors on the ocean fl oor. 1957—Th e French quit training 2001—Eight members of the Nep- berian war criminal Charles Taylor. 1969—In the South China Sea, a corporate crime, federal prosecutors Purple Hearts, Ap Bia Mountain, 1989—California citizens vote to Vietnamese troops. Th e U.S. as- alese Royal Family are massacred 1989—Stones guitarist Bill Wy- navigational mistake takes the de- pick on Martha Stewart. aka Hamburger Hill, is abandoned. shut down the Rancho Seco nucle- sumes complete advisory role. in their Katmandu palace. Prince man, 52, marries Mandy Smith, 19. stroyer U.S.S. Evans under the bow 1989— Th e Chinese Army kills 1968—Robert Kennedy is fatally ar power plant. 1943—In downtown L.A., white Dipendra, the suspected perpe- 1983—As a result of a toilet fi re of the carrier HMAS Melbourne. thousands at Tiananmen Square. shot in Los Angeles. An LAPD 1988—At a food irradiation plant sailors and young Latinos fi ght: the trator, is proclaimed King but dies aboard an Air Canada DC-9, 23 Th e forward quarter of the Evans 1974—Cleveland forfeits a home investigation convinces the gullible in Georgia, “unbreakable” cesium Zoot Suit Riots begin. three days later. people die in Cincinnati, including sinks along with 73 of her crew. game to the Rangers when ten-cent that Sirhan Sirhan did it. capsules break, nuking ten workers. 1942—Th e Luftwaff e bombs Cov- 1981—In Seattle, two longshore- singer Stan Rogers. 1968—Radical lesbian Valerie So- beer night goes awry. 1967—Israel attacks Egypt and 1980—Nuke-armed B-52s go on entry, England. men are assassinated on orders of 1964—Th e Rolling Stones begin lanas plugs Andy Warhol. 1966—James Meredith takes a bul- Syria, starting the Six Day War. alert for the 2nd time in three days 1927—Th e last Model T rolls off the Marcos regime. their fi rst U.S. tour with a gig in 1964—Longtime correspondents let for voter registration. 1965—Th e State Department ad- after a computer glitch signals a So- the Ford assembly line. 1980—CNN debuts. Lynn, MA. On the same bill: Bob- Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot fi nal- 1963—Allen Ginsberg visits Sai- mits that U.S. troops are engaged in viet attack on the U.S. 1921—A massive “race war” begins 1967—Vietnam Veterans Against by Goldsboro & Bobby Vee. ly meet for dinner. gon to assess the political situation. combat in Vietnam. 1975—Governor Mel Th omson in Tulsa, OK. the War is founded. 1943—Th e U.S. Navy determines 1961—Henry R. Marshall, an Ag- 1962—Th e fi rst U.S. attempt to test 1963—Britain’s Sec. of War John calls for the NH National Guard 1921—Th e mistrial of Sacco and 1954—Th e AEC pulls the securi- that John Lewis “Jack” Kerouac, 21, riculture Department offi cial, is a nuke at high altitude fails when Profumo resigns after it’s revealed to be armed with nuclear weapons. Vanzetti begins. ty clearance of Manhattan Project is too “schizoid” to serve. found dead with fi ve slugs in him a Th or rocket malfunctions and is he and a Soviet naval offi cer had, at 1970—Generals gathered at 1917—Th e Battle of Jutland be- boss J. Robert Oppenheimer. 1919—Anarchists set off bombs from a bolt-action rifl e. Th e death blown up minutes after liftoff over diff erent times, shared the favors of Charleston Air Force Base to ob- gins: history’s only major engage- 1926—Norma Jeane Mortenson, in eight cities. In Washington, is listed as a suicide. the South Pacifi c. the same prostitute. serve the fi rst operational C-5A ment of two fl eets of battleships. aka Marilyn Monroe, is born in a D.C., the home of Attorney Gen- 1943—Fifty sailors sneak weapons 1944—For the fi rst time a sub- 1917—Draft registration begins in landing see a wheel fall off after a Results are inconclusive, except for Los Angeles charity ward. eral Mitchell Palmer is nearly de- out of the L.A. armory, escalating marine—U505—is captured and the U.S. tire blows out. the 8,645 dead. 1921—A Tulsa “race war” ends with stroyed; parts of the bomber’s body the “Zoot Suit Riots.” boarded on the high seas. 1885—Th e Know-Nothing Party 1944—GIs experience an unusually 1889—A shoddy dam belonging to 250 blacks and 50 whites dead. land across the street on FDR’s 1942—Battle of Midway starts. 1940—Th e last of 338,000 Al- holds its fi rst convention. long day in Normandy. Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, 1918—Advised to turn back by a stoop. 1851—Th e New York Knicker- lied troops are evacuated from the 1862—Following the principal that 1933—Th e fi rst drive-in movie and friends at the South Fork Fish- retreating French offi cer at Bel- 1886—Bachelor President Grover bockers introduce the fi rst baseball beaches of Dunkirk. might is right, France gains sover- theatre opens, in Camden, NJ. ing and Hunting Club collapses leau Woods, U.S.M.C. Capt. Lloyd Cleveland, 47, marries Frances Fol- uniforms: white shirts, long blue 1939—Th e St. Louis, carrying 915 eignty over three Vietnamese prov- 1930—William Beebe and Otis upstream of Johnstown, PA. Th e Williams replies, “Retreat? Hell, we som, 21, at the White House. trousers, and straw hats. Jewish refugees, is turned away inces under the Treaty of Saigon. Barton go 803 feet below the resulting fl ood kills 2,200, but the just got here.” 1863—Black Union soldiers guid- 1793—Charles Pierce establishes from Florida. Approximately 254 1878— José Doroteo Arango Arám- ocean’s surface in a bathysphere. owners are never successfully pros- 193—Emperor Didius Julianus is ed by Harriet Tubman raid Com- the Oracle of the Day, later the Ports- of them later die in Hitler’s concen- bula, better known as “Pancho Vil- 1918—Marines suff er their bloodi- ecuted. murdered after a nine-week reign. bahee Ferry, SC and free 750 slaves. mouth Journal. tration camps. la,” is born in Durango. est day in history at Belleau Woods. 10:39 10:47 11:19 11:25 11:59 12:04 12:39 12:44 1:20 1:27 2:05 2:13 2:52

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1997—Activists are arrested for 2003— Condi Rice admits G.W. 1989—James Watt, Ronald Rea- 1990—British Airways Capt. Tim 1995— In Claremont, NH, Bill 2010—In his fi rst Major League 2003—“His [ Joe Wilson’s] wife is passing out the Bill of Rights out- Bush’s State of the Union claim gan’s Secretary of the Interior, ad- Lancaster is sucked half-way out of Clinton and Newt Gingrich shake at-bat, Daniel Nava hits a grand in the [CIA] and is a WMD ana- side the pro-nuclear Bradbury Sci- that Saddam tried to buy uranium mits to a House investigating com- Flight 5390 when his windshield hands and pledge to reform lobby- slam home run for the Red Sox. lyst,” Dep. Sec. of State Richard Ar- ence Museum in Los Alamos. from Niger was “wrong.” mittee that he was paid $400,000 blows out over Oxfordshire. Th e ing and campaign fi nancing. 2003—George W. Bush fi nds a mitage tells Bob Woodward. “How 1969—In Vietnam, Marine PFC 1998—General Sani Abacha, de for making a few phone calls on a plane lands safely. Lancaster recov- 1991—Mount Pinatubo erupts, way to fall off a Segway. about that s__t?” Dan Bullock, 15, becomes the facto President of Nigeria, dies in topic he knew nothing about. ers and later resumes fl ying. becoming the fi rst act of nature to 2000—Th e Energy Department 1989—President George Herbert youngest American soldier to die in the company of two prostitutes, of a 1978—Th e Mormon Church drops 1988—A bicycle messenger is de- close a U.S. military base. admits that two hard drives holding [Hoover] Walker Bush vetoes a combat since the First World War. heart attack allegedly caused by an its policy of excluding black men nied entrance to the Justice Depart- 1984—Th e Supreme Court says il- top-secret data on disarming and raise in the minimum wage. 1960—An A-bomb is incinerated overdose of Viagra. from the priesthood. ment because he’s wearing a T-shirt legally obtained evidence is OK if dismantling nuclear weapons have 1985—Th omas L. Slade and son in an anti-aircraft missile fi re 20 1971—Being interviewed on tape 1958—British writer Auberon that says, “Experts agree: Meese is prosecutors can prove that it would been missing for over a month. William are among passengers hi- miles from Trenton, NJ. for “Th e Dick Cavett Show,” health Waugh, aboard an armored car in a pig.” have been discovered legally. 1999—George W. Bush announces. jacked on a fl ight from Beirut, their 1924—George Mallory disappears expert J.I. Rodale says “I never felt Cyprus, shakes the barrel of a mal- 1975—Rockefeller Commission 1981—Major League Baseball™ 1972—Radical labor organizer Saul second such experience in three near the summit of Mt. Eve rest. better in my life!” Minutes later he’s functioning machine gun, acciden- says the CIA’s Operation CHAOS players go on strike. Alinsky dies in California. days. 1917—Ten thousand Germans and dead of a heart attack. tally shooting himself in the chest spied on 300,000 Americans and 1981—Issei Sagawa, a Japanese 1970—Pittsburgh Pirate Dock El- 1983—Pioneer 10 leaves the solar the town of Messines are destroyed 1967—Israeli aircraft and boats several times. infi ltrated political movements. student at the Sorbonne, kills fellow lis, tripping, pitches a no-hitter. system. as British engineers detonate 19 attack the unarmed spy ship U.S.S. 1958—Jerry Lee Lewis takes out a 1964—Th e U.S. Senate votes student Renée Hartevelt and eats 1967—Interracial marriage be- 1971—Pentagon Papers published. huge mines whose explosion can be Liberty with rockets, machine guns, full page ad in Billboard to explain to end the fi libuster of the Civil parts of her body. Found too insane comes legal in the U.S., thanks to 1968—In a misunderstanding, a heard in Dublin. and napalm, killing 34 sailors and his 2nd divorce and 3rd marriage, to Rights Act of 1964. for trial by French authorities, he is the Supreme Court. U.S. helicopter crew blasts a Viet- 1915—Alfred Muhler falls 8,000 wounding 171. his 14 year-old-cousin Myra. 1958—A House subcommittee deported to Japan for institutional- 1963—Medgar Evers is shot and namese command post, killing Sai- feet from a damaged Zeppelin, 1966—At NYU, 270 walk out on 1954—Joseph Welch asks Joseph hears that Boston industrialist ization. Fifteen months later he is killed in Mississippi; his murderer gon’s Police Chief. crashes through the roof of a Bel- Robert Strange McNamara’s com- McCarthy, “Have you no sense of Bernard Goldfi ne gave Ike’s Chief allowed to go free. is convicted 31 years later. 1966—Th e Supreme Court issues gian convent, and lives. mencement speech. decency, sir?” of Staff (and ex-NH Governor) 1971—Th e nineteen-month Native 1961—U.S. Army Major Gen. Ed- its Miranda decision. 1899—A future Prime Minister of 1959—John Penton leaves New 1953—In Worcester, MA, a torna- Sherman Adams a vicuña coat in American occupation of Alcatraz win Walker is disciplined for indoc- 1960—As SDS meets in Port Hu- England writes Cornish, NH nov- York City for Los Angeles on a do kills 94 and injures 1,306. exchange for favors from the SEC. Island ends. trinating his troops with John Birch ron and the civil rights movement elist Winston Churchill that he’ll BMW R69S motorcycle. He ar- 1946—Ted Williams hits a ball 1944—Pitching in the ninth for the 1963—Th ich Quang Duc immo- Society propaganda. heats up, Newsweek reports that sign future books with the middle rives there 52 hours later. that lands in the 37th row of Fen- Cincinnati Reds, Joe Nuxhall gives lates himself in front of the U.S. 1957—“We have exactly 342 men,” students are “apathetic.” initial S. to avoid confusion. 1956—Technical Sergeant Richard way’s bleachers, over 500 feet away. up fi ve runs. He’s 15. Embassy in Saigon. says General Samuel T. Williams, 1944—News reports say Rep. Fran- 1862—Disabled Mexican War vet B. Fitzgibbon, Jr. becomes the fi rst 1946—Mel Ott becomes the fi rst 1940—Black nationalist Marcus 1963—George Wallace stands in head of the U.S. MAAG, Vietnam, cis E. Walter (D-PA) gave FDR a William B. Mumford is hanged in American serviceman to die in the baseball manager to be ejected from Garvey dies of a stroke after read- the schoolhouse door to prevent “the number allowed by the Geneva letter-opener made from the arm New Orleans for treason, to wit: Vietnam War. He’s murdered by a both games of a double header. ing a mistaken obituary of himself desegregation in Alabama. Armistice Conference. It would be bone of a dead Japanese soldier. desecration of the U.S. fl ag, under fellow American airman. 1909—Alice Huyler Ramsay de- in the Chicago Defender. 1962—Frank Morris, John Anglin, a breeze if we had more.” 1944—German V-1 “buzz-bomb” orders from Deerfi eld, NH-born 1952—“I would never send troops parts New York for San Francisco 1871—U.S. Marines avenge the and John’s brother Clarence escape 1920—Serge Voronoff performs attacks on England start. Gen. Benjamin “Th e Beast” Butler. [to Vietnam],” says Pres. Dwight D. in a Maxwell automobile. loss of the U.S.S. General Sherman from Alcatraz but are presumed the fi rst transplant of simian testic- 1942—Th e German sub U-202 1692—Port Royal, Jamaica—“the Eisenhower. 1893—As Edwin Booth, John fi ve years earlier by taking three drowned. ular tissue into a human. lands eight Nazi saboteurs at Ama- wickedest city in the world”—is 1944—FDR signs the GI Bill. Th e Wilkes’ brother, is being buried in Korean forts. Th ree months later 1854—Th e First San Francisco 1920—Kirke Simpson of the Asso- gansett on Long Island. destroyed by an earthquake and president of the U. of Chicago, Boston, the fl oors collapse at Ford’s they withdraw. Vigilance Committee tries, con- ciated Press becomes the fi rst to use 1920—Th e U.S. Post Offi ce rules subsequent tsunami. Th ousands of warns that “colleges would become Th eatre in Washington, D.C., kill- 1772—Rhode Islanders burn the victs, and hangs John Jenks; elapsed the phrase “smoke-fi lled room” in a children may no longer be shipped whores and pirates perish. educational hobo jungles.” ing 22 people. British revenue cutter Gaspé. time, four hours. news story about politics. by Parcel Post. 3:02 3:43 3:56 4:38 4:55 5:36 5:57 6:36 7:01 7:36 8:06 8:34 9:08 9:30

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