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The Fortnightly Rant Keeping Up With the Loonies e do our best to keep up. In it altogether.” theory, that’s most of the job: That sounds bad on the face of it. tryW to keep up, and write about the Why do it? “The agency says shift- stuff that really matters. These days ing from air to surface modes of that boils down to tracking dan- transport would improve net income gerous outbreaks of authoritarian by $175 million a year and avoid lunacy. This can be unnerving—es- dependence on air carriers, which pecially in the context of a former- can sometimes be unpredictable in ly-natural environment whose ex- meeting USPS time frames.” piration date seems to be getting a But, a reasonable person might fortnight closer every dang week. sputter, the Postal Service has no In a perfect world we’d be main- choice but to use planes, if it’s going taining a sophisticated database to meet current service standards of for this purpose. Cross-tabulation three-day delivery to the contiguous analysis would no doubt be useful in 48 states…. sorting out the misleaders from the Yes, that’s true. So, to solve that misled, the grifters from the true be- little problem, “the Postal Service lievers, and the charlatans from the has proposed downgrading service congenitally bewildered. standards. Instead of two or three Having a handle on the character days, the new standard will be two- of the actors involved could be of to-five days. The Postal Service says great help when trying to determine that it will be able to meet these lower ProPublica reported last week that In the absence of our hypothetical warming process.” if some bizarre event is evidence of standards more consistently, so mail those leftists were right all along: “a database, we’ve selected these exam- This drought is sure to make this a criminal conspiracy, the serendip- delivery, while slower, will be more vast cache of IRS information show- ples of terrible public policy almost year’s fire season worse. We reached itous confluence of separate strains ‘reliable’ and ‘predictable.’” ing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, at random. Worse things are going out to an expert for insight, but our of stupid behavior which could Ah, we see: this plan was cribbed Elon Musk and Warren Buffett on, we have no doubt. phone line to Hell had melted. nontheless lead to an accidental but from the old “The Beatings Will pay little in income tax compared to It is easier, in a way, to report on From fire, to ice: the Pine Island complete societal breakdown, or Continue Until Morale Improves” their massive wealth—sometimes, catastrophic climate change than a Glacier—the stopper keeping half merely another Fortean example of handbook. even nothing.” criminally dysfunctional govern- a million cubic miles of Antarctic the universe being kinky.* The nation’s favorite agency, Warren Buffet was being coy ment. Nature may have her secrets, ice from melting in the Amundsen The staggering volume of such in- which boasts a 91 percent approval when he said he paid a lower tax rate but she rarely dissembles. Sea—could be gone in a decade, gla- cidents means, though, that merely rating, is being driven into the ditch than his secretary. ProPublica calcu- As we go to press, a massive and ciologist Bethan Davies said last Fri- entering the data would consume far by a Postmaster General who just lated his tax rate at one-tenth of one intense heat dome is squatting over day. An optimistic, though, she said more labor than we currently expend happens to have owned a competing percent. the Southwest, reaching as far north “the future is still open to change.” on this whole operation. Further- business in the private sector. Jeff Bezos—the richest man as Montana. It is expected to stay in Fortunately, some legislators are more, in a perfect world such a thing Also on June 3rd, the Washington on the planet, who is burning up place for a week. Health officials in also open to change. Rep. Louie would be superfluous. Post reported that said Postmaster, billions so he can go joyriding in Phoenix are warning that contact Gohmert [R-Texas] recently asked Rewinding to June 3rd, for exam- Louis DeJoy, is now under investi- space—also pays taxes at a rate less with asphalt pavement—which can if, to mitigate climate change, there ple, we find SaveThePostOffice.com gation for possible violation of cam- than one percent. reach 180° F at mid-day—may re- might be “anything that the Nation- reporting that the “Postal Service is paign finance laws. Naturally, the IRS and the Justice sult in third-degree burns. al Forest Service or BLM (Bureau now proposing to cut air transpor- First he gave away money to Department got on this case right Researchers said in April that of Land Management) can do to tation for the continental U.S. to politicians—maybe legally, maybe away. Unfortunately, their investi- “the period from 2000 to 2018 was change the course of the moon’s or- about 12 percent of First Class vol- not—and then he was given a job gators did not go directly to GOP the driest 19-year span [in that re- bit or the Earth’s orbit around the umes, and perhaps eventually to end that probably pays less that what he’s HQ and demand reparations for gion] since the late 1500s and the sun?” * Charles Fort (1874 – 1932) was an Amer- used to getting. Now he’s going to the overtaxed multitudes who have second driest since 800.” What’s Any such plan, though, would ican researcher and author who compiled improve the agency by making the had to make up the shortfall over all more, it could continue for decades. have to get past Senate Majority four volumes of anomalous phenomena such as frogs and fish falling from the sky, service worse. these years. And, says the lead author of the Leader Mitch McConnell, who ball lightning, and spontaneous human No, there’s nothing suspicious in No, they set out to find and pun- study, “We know that this drought seems to think Joe Biden is only combustion. any of that. ish whoever let the truth out. has been encouraged by the global 3/5ths of a President.

The Alleged News® Want Socialism? Try the U.S. Military. embraces a more exalted layer of the (A small but telling note: the let- al William Boykin and convicted Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Some of our top brass social spectrum, a group on which ter employs the phrase “Democrat Iran-Contra criminal Vice Admiral Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of denounce socialism, but the maintenance of our democra- Congress,” a grammatical barbarism John Poindexter, one just might in- the American Military, which claims they run the most socialist cy—deeply flawed as it is—may that has done duty as a rhetorical fer a degree of psychological projec- that Marxist ideologies have infil- hinge. device for Republican operatives for tion on the part of the signers. trated the military. organization on earth. This May, 124 retired generals at least 40 years, demonstrating that The letter garnered condemna- It is noteworthy that he was only and admirals published an open the signatories are rabid political tion from other retired officers and cashiered after the podcast, whereas by Mike Lofgren letter claiming that President Joe partisans rather than constitutional military analysts, but also a surpris- the book already was in print. Previ- Biden stole the election. Tradition- scholars). ing complacency from former Joint ously, it would have been inconceiv- merica’s love affair with lunacy ally, this letter would have been un- The screed goes on, asserting that Chiefs of Staff chairman Admiral able that a military officer could even continues undimmed. Along thinkable, but a sizable contingent of “we are in a fight for our survival as Mike Mullen, who noted that no receive permission to write an ideo- withA flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, and former flag officers—people whose a Constitutional Republic like no retired four-stars signed it and only a logical screed like that. Ordinarily, fans of perpetual motion, according decisions once held lives in the bal- other time since our founding in handful of three-stars: “It’s not very they are allowed to write freely on to a May 21 Ipsos poll, 53 percent of ance—has gone full QAnon, writ- 1776,” a claim that makes us won- senior… In our world it’s not very military or technical topics, but po- Republicans now assert that Don- ing: “Under a Democrat Congress der how the signers ever graduated significant in terms of people.” litical diatribes are strictly off-limits. ald Trump is the current President and the Current Administration from their service academies, since It may be cold comfort that there Someone in the command structure of the United States. our Country has taken a hard left a little incident called the American are “only” retired three-stars on the was very lax. There is a tendency in the re- turn toward Socialism and a Marx- Civil War is an important part of the letter, but what about those officers Nevertheless, it was predictable ality-based community to regard ist form of tyrannical government academies’ military history curricula. who are still serving? that the Right would see him as a these folks as obscure lunatics who which must be countered now by They also question “the men- It turns out that the same month persecuted member of the military yell at their TVs in trailer parks electing congressional and presi- tal and physical condition of the the letter appeared, a lieutenant who fell afoul of political correct- when they’re not ruining a relative’s dential candidates who will always Commander in Chief.” Given the colonel was removed from his Thanksgiving dinner. Unfortunate- act to defend our Constitutional endorsement of the letter by a rav- command after appearing on a con- The Alleged News® ly, this epidemic of delusional belief Republic.” ing lunatic like Lieutenant Gener- servative podcast touting his book to page two Page 2 — The New Hampshire Gazette, Friday, June 18, 2021

The Alleged News® golf courses, and the list goes on. from page one With the demise of the Soviet Union and the capitalist transfor- ness. And sure enough, Matt Gaetz mation of nominally “Red” China, came through. socialism as a hegemonic political There is considerable irony in system is confined to backwaters like the fact that both the letter and the North Korea. The U.S. military is colonel’s rant denounce “socialism,” now the biggest socialist enterprise the premier bugaboo of right-wing- remaining on earth. ers everywhere. At one level, it is of For officers, particularly those course the usual childish nonsense with experience in weapons acqui- that has been disseminated for de- sition, the gravy train doesn’t end cades by the kind of mentality that with retirement. Aside from their once denounced fluoridation as a retirement pay and other continuing Bolshevik plot. Yet in a sense that benefits, they can snag a job with a is quite the opposite of what they defense contractor to peddle influ- intend, these people might have a ence with their former colleagues. point about socialism infiltrating Far from being private enterprise, the military. defense firms like Lockheed Martin All these self-styled guardians of or Northrop Grumman are hot- the Republic, whether retired flag house plants, sustained only by the officers luxuriating in their beach- contracts the military steers to them; front homes in San Diego, or ac- they would wither and die if subject- tive-duty military vandalizing the ed to the cold winds of actual market Capitol building, are beneficiaries of competition. socialism. Their profession has a 20- Proof of this is the F-35 fighter. year retirement, free lifetime health The most expensive weapons pro- care for retirees, housing allowances, gram in history, the plane has been food allowances, privileges at heavi- a snake-bitten fiasco from its incep- ly-subsidized commissaries and PXs tion, and it demonstrates that noth- viet reversal of the flow of rivers into for the rich, crumbs for the working This work is licensed under Cre- (which, fittingly, somewhat resemble ing succeeds like failure—as long as the Aral Sea. stiff. Each succeeding year of mili- ative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND the special stores the old Soviet no- it’s too big to fail. As an engineering No one can seriously argue that tary pay raises will only increase the 3.0). Feel free to republish and share menklatura had), free fitness centers, disaster, the F-35 ranks with the So- those who bear the brunt of battle disparity. widely. should not be adequately com- The rationale for across-the- Mike Lofgren is a former congressio- pensated and granted all necessary board pay raises is as an incentive to nal staff member who served on both benefits. The problem is that the hold onto those with valuable skills. the House and Senate budget com- vast majority of combat casualties While this makes sense to keep a jet mittees. His books include: The Deep are enlisted personnel, and only a engine mechanic for whose talents a State: The Fall of the Constitution small percentage of these will serve commercial airline will pay a premi- and the Rise of a Shadow Govern- long enough to receive retirement um, I am unaware that we have any ment, (2016) and The Party is Over: pay, whereas colonels and generals difficulty retaining generals. In the How Republicans Went Crazy, by definition have enough service to case of my hypothetical lieutenant Democrats Became Useless, and the receive retired pay as well as all the general, he also will likely be pro- Middle Class Got Shafted, (2013). other benefits. vided with a representational house, –=≈=– It doesn’t end there. Congress usu- complete with an enlisted cook and House Majority Leader Finally ally appropriates an annual military driver, in order to ease the strain of Gets [A Little] Scrutiny pay raise. The brass, of course, insist command. “From taxes to gun rights, to school that these be across-the-board. Let’s We can be rather safe in assum- choice, religious liberty, abortion or say the pay raise is 3 percent. That ing that those 124 retired flag offi- election law,” tweeted NHPR on means a buck private at $21,420 cers who wrote the letter decrying Monday, “Jason Osborne has helped Unidentified pedestrians strolling on Vaughan Mall, paying no attention per year base pay gets a modest in- socialism knew whereof they spoke steer a historic conservative push in to an ancient granite post set in a slab of old concrete. A bronze plaque set crease—$643—while a lieutenant from their own deep personal expe- the New Hampshire House.” Some- in the concrete reads as follows: “HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH STONE general, at $199,296 base pay, re- rience: at the commissaries where one named Jason Knights replied, This stone quarried in Portsmouth in 1803, stood at the corner of Vaughan ceives almost $6,000. It amounts to they shop, and from the free health “So he’s responsible for turning us and Congress streets and marked the departure point of the stage coach to socialism for the better-off, and it care they receive to the cut-price gin into Arkansas on the Atlantic.” Boston. It also served as the central point from which milestones were set is curiously just like all the tax cuts fizzes they drink at the local officers’ NHPR’s story on the House Ma- along [the] Concord - Portsmouth stage route.” of the last four decades: a windfall club. jority Leader has something in com-

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Probably not Yes, better by far to have libertar- according to Rogers. “Osborne said intentionally, though. ians from all over the country come the pandemic posed challenges for Osborne is an Ohio native who to New Hampshire and run amok. his business, as some debt collections moved to New Hampshire “more And why limit the chaos to the were put on pause over the past year. than a decade ago from Defiance, Granite State? He said he’s had to shed more than Ohio,” Rogers reports. “[H]is in- “Last year,” Rogers writes, Os- two-thirds of his firm’s jobs. (His volvement in New Hampshire pol- borne “gave $50,000 to Make business also received a $4 million itics dates back to the Free State Liberty Win, a PAC dedicated to loan through the federal PPP pro- Project, a movement that aimed to electing libertarian-leaning law- gram last April.)” recruit 20,000 libertarians to move makers nationwide. That figure is an CAI’s biggest customer had been to New Hampshire to expand free- eye-popping sum by New Hamp- the Department of Education. dom and shrink government.” shire House standards.” –=≈=– Mile Marker Re-Set…Again Tony’s Television and Video Service and Repair recently—and expert- ly—handled a small technical prob- lem for us. On the counter we saw a carefully preserved 1990s-era news clipping from the Portsmouth Herald. On Returning to Newsprint so great, why did it abide American Lars Trodson wrote the story of how, On several occasions while the apartheid? Why did it send the poor during the 1960s, the mile marker in plague was at its worst—we hope of the next generation into a point- the photo at left nearly ended up in we’ve seen its worst; with so many less slaughter, while letting the priv- the dump. Ralph Morang provided reactionary troglodytes in positions ileged cavort at college? a photo. of power, we could be speaking too Every generation—every mo- “About 30 years ago, resident soon—we have used the paltry digi- ment—is made up of greatness and William Carlton was working on tal equivalent of this tidy little space meanness, inextricably mixed and Islington Street when he noticed to wax nostalgic and pine for news- mingled. That’s what makes life in- the milestone in a heap of junk. print. teresting. ‘They were taking the trash to the In our paper of June 4th—in our Every moment is fraught with Jones dump,’ said Carlton, and I said what of June 4th?—in our paper of potential catastrophe, too. ‘that’s not right.’ June 4th, we went so far as to posit Which is why, as we revel in our “It didn’t get much farther than the possibility that some calamity flexible, foldable, First Class-mail- that. ‘I put it in my back yard and might still derail our attempt to re- able state, we find ourselves oddly kept it there,’ he said. His daughter, sume our natural fibrous state. empathetic towards any mutt who now fully grown, used to climb on it. Yes, failure was an option. Of finds his fangs sunk into a car tire. “About two years ago Carlton called course it was. This is not NASA. The When we were merely flinging [Bruce’s father, Louis] Vinciguerra editor is no Gene Krantz, nor is he strings of 1s and 0s into the aether, and asked him if he wanted it.… Ed Harris playing Gene Krantz in the only way to gauge success or fail- “Vinciguerra was interested in Apollo 13. ure was to steer our browser to Goo- retrieving the milestone. He called More to the point, we are not Al gle Analytics and try to decipher a City Hall to get permission to put it Reinart and Bill Broyles, the screen- mess of marketing gobbledygook. back. Red tape being what it is, the writers of that movie, who saddled Ho. Hum. Frankly we have no idea process took about two years, but our alleged culture with yet anoth- how we did. It was there. People read now it’s finished. er bogus brainworm—as if John it or they didn’t. “City Engineer Dave Allen and Wayne had not already filled the The good news is that subscrip- Bruce Vinciguerra standing next to an old granite post, recently re-set by his crew of city workers assisted in nation’s need for empty, posturing tion renewals are coming in strongly. city workers as part of the Islington Street Corridor Project. The stone, helping restore this small piece of heroics. Meanwhile, out on the street, people located at the corner of Islington Street and Frenchmans Lane, marks the city history and Vinciguerra planted That trope is right up there with are snapping up the paper. one-mile point from the Portsmouth Stone, seen in the photo on the oppo- a small bed of marigolds at the base Tom Brokaw’s so-called “Greatest The what, you say? site page. If stones were conscious, this one would be having déjà vu. of the post.” Generation.” If that generation was The paper, we say.

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Does systemic racism exist in New Hampshire? By Dan and Sindiso Mnisi Weeks

ccording to Republican leaders centuries-long history of African en- in Concord, systemic racism does slavement and legal subjugation. As a tion is the promise that every New notA exist in New Hampshire and talk result of my isolation from people of Hampshire child will receive an “ad- of it should be banned in our schools, color, the very idea of systemic racism equate” education. Although much state agencies, and private entities that in N.H. never crossed my mind—un- progress has been made since the end Hampshire, over-policing and prose- contract with the state. Even Gover- til our two paths crossed and I invited of legal enslavement in N.H. in 1857, cution of people of color, especially for Nonetheless, a growing body of med- nor Chris Sununu, who has pledged my future wife Sindiso, a human rights the promise of educational adequa- petty offenses, are not. Data from the ical research into the social determi- to veto the so-called “divisive concepts” law professor from South Africa, to cy remains tenuous for children of N.H. Department of Safety show that nants of health finds that racism (the language now in the state budget, re- visit the Granite State. color today. According to the State, African Americans are nearly three progenitor of “race”) shortens the lives cently denounced the term “systemic When the topic of racism is raised spending per pupil in Manchester, times as likely to be arrested as people and harms the health of millions of racism” as having “a lot of implicit bias- in “polite society” there is a natural where the majority of African Amer- of European descent and more than Americans of color, in New Hamp- es in itself.” He added that he does not human tendency to focus disapprov- ican students reside, is just 74 cents five times as to spend time behind shire and around the nation. For de- want to see it taught to N.H. students ingly on overt acts of bigotry by “back- for every dollar of per pupil spending bars, where they lose their right to cades, scientists have demonstrated because “some of those ideas can get ward” individuals, while clinging to a statewide—a pattern seen in other vote and opportunities for future em- that experiencing racial discrimination very controversial, very divisive within colorblind ideal. Yes, there are those communities with large numbers of ployment. Numerous academic studies produces a raft of negative health ef- the schools themselves.” “elements of racism” in N.H. to which students of color, and nationwide. This from other New England states and fects such as elevated blood pressure, We agree that talking about system- the governor recently referred, as we lack of funding is compounded by beyond reinforce the N.H. findings hypertension, and early aging through ic racism can get “divisive” fast. We’ve were reminded just last week when the fact that students of color are far that African Americans are far more a process known as weathering. In been trying to do just that for years in Neo-Nazis painted racist graffiti near more likely to experience toxic stress likely to be stopped and searched by fact, the effect of racism on driving N.H. out of a sense of obligation to our home in downtown Nashua and linked to adverse childhood experi- police even though people of Europe- hypertension is on par with common our kids. It is rarely fun or easy. threatened a Latino state representa- ences, which derails healthy develop- an descent, when searched, are more “lifestyle” culprits like smoking, lack of But we respectfully disagree with tive. Like many other people of color ment and the ability to learn. Fully often found to possess illegal contra- exercise, and eating a high-fat diet. all who claim systemic racism does in N.H., I (Sindiso) have experienced 58 percent of students in Manchester band. The studies add a level of nuance In N.H., African American in- not exist. In fact, it is the omnipresent my share of outright hate since arriv- are eligible for free or reduced lunch- not available in the N.H. data: racial fants are 43 percent more likely than reality of systems of racial inequity, as ing here in 2008, such as being called es and over 900 students experience disparities in traffic stops are most those of European descent to have low experienced by members of our fam- the N-word and told to “go back to homelessness, both around twice the evident during the day, when police birthweight and 33 percent more like- ily and community every day, that where you come from” by angry men statewide rate. officers can better observe a potential ly to die as children, including from is the true source of division in our in public. Such inequities in school funding offender’s skin tone. preventable diseases linked to envi- state. Sweeping it under the carpet by But instances such as these are sim- are reflected in student achievement Among juvenile offenders in N.H., ronmental racism like asthma (which government edict will not make it go ply not the point when it comes to scores, with just 22 percent and 32 the racial disparity is even wider than are highest in communities of color away. systemic racism in N.H. Worse, they percent of African American students adults and ranks 10% higher than the and Coos County). These disparities If that sounds like a stretch, we often distract us from the point. In- in N.H. scoring “proficient” in Math national disparity. According to N.H.’s are even more apparent when it comes understand. One of us, like the over- stead of a few “bad apples” spouting and English, respectively, compared Child Advocate, African American to hospitalization and death from whelming majority of Republicans racist hate, what concerns us most to 49 percent and 57 percent of stu- teens are fully six times as likely as Covid-19, with African Americans in Concord, is considered “white.” are the myriad and interlocking sys- dents of European descent. What’s the general population their age to be 1.5 times more likely than people of Growing up in a small N.H. town tems of racial injustice that continue more, students of color are two to five punished with delinquency findings European descent to contract the vi- without any ethnic diversity to speak in our state on account of “policies times as likely as their classmates of and probation, while teen offenders of rus and 2.3 times more likely to die as of, I (Dan) did not get to know a single and practices that exist throughout a European descent to be suspended or European descent are far more likely a result when adjusting for age, often one of the tens of thousands of people whole society [resulting in] unfair or expelled from school. Multiple studies to be granted access to diversion pro- because they are essential “frontline” of color with whom I shared this state harmful treatment” based on race, to find that, while rates of student mis- grams and maintain a “clean” record. workers. It doesn’t help that African from the 1980s until 2001, when I left take the dictionary definition. Crucial- behavior are consistent across racial All this in spite of the fact that peo- Americans are more than twice as to serve in AmeriCorps. I did not even ly, systemic racism does not mean that groups, “black students are punished ple of African and European descent likely as people of European descent know they called N.H. home. individual people are racist; it simply more harshly and more often for sub- are equally likely to use and sell illegal to lack health insurance in N.H., mak- Instead, every peer I befriended and means our systems still produce ra- jective minor offenses.” Many who are drugs, the leading cause of arrest and ing them far less likely to receive basic adult I admired—from teachers and cially disparate outcomes, regardless suspended from school will have diffi- incarceration, and are genetically the care and more likely to be faced with coaches to principals and police— of the intentions of those operating culty finding work and go on to spend same. preventable hospitable stays and costly shared and cemented my “white” within them. time behind bars, in a well-worn path Health procedures, the leading cause of bank- identity. My public school education But how do we know systemic rac- known as the “school to prison pipe- Contrary to centuries worth of ruptcy. tacitly, if inadvertently, reinforced the ism exists in New Hampshire today? line.” pseudo-science concerning human Economic opportunity idea that “white is right” by what it Let’s take four simple examples. Policing and prisons origins, which millions of Americans Although we have treated the fore- taught and failed to teach, including Education Although officer-involved shoot- were taught in school, there is no such going factors of policing and prisons, the gaping omission of N.H.’s own Enshrined in our State Constitu- ings are mercifully rare in New thing as race biologically speaking. education and health individually, they

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“Good day Sir, how be ye this fine his own party was unwilling to raise day? a dime in taxes to pay for roads and “I have come on your Flag Day, to bridges. That has not changed. The thank ye for wisely speaking out to GOP senators have offered to spend give assurance to the People of New $500 billion to $1.2 trillion on infra- Hampshire. I hear tell that some in structure, but have flat out refused to School for Global Inclusion and Social your State are spreading untruths support any tax increases to pay for Development at UMass Boston. They live about the integrity of New Hamp- it. In short, these Senators, including in Nashua with their three kids. shire elections. I thank ye for proudly Susan Collins, are pro deficits and 28 to 38 percent between 1990 and –=≈=– standing up to tell the People of New anti-balanced budgets. The time has are, in fact, intertwined as manifesta- 2017. People of color are also less than [Note: On the question of systemic Hampshire that their elections are fair come to stop calling Republicans fiscal tions of the complex phenomenon half as likely as those of European de- racism in this state, we can—we must— and secure, and that New Hampshire conservatives. They are not. called systemic racism. Nowhere is scent own a business in N.H., another attest to this: throughout the first thirty is as ye yourself said, “the gold standard Walter Hamilton their combined presence and com- common means of building inter-gen- years it was able to enjoyed the manifold for fair elections.” How very right and Portsmouth, N.H. pounding impact more keenly felt erational wealth. benefits of having a newspaper—this wise ye are, but, I must give ye warning. –=≈=– than in the economic domain, where Why is it so difficult for state lead- newspaper—New Hampshire was rely- “Ye will soon be asked to give ap- Do Billionaires Deserve Big Tax Breaks? the lack of good health or a high-qual- ers to see and accept these truths? ing upon the enslaved labor of an African proval to voting bills that will be Dear Editor, ity education, or the presence of a Perhaps it is because just 15 people man. He was called Primus by his en- troublin’ to the good people of New It’s outrageous that 25 rich billion- criminal record, conspire to set people of color, out of a population of near- slavers, and by the community which ex- Hampshire; bills which will require aires paid far less tax, as a percentage of color back from one generation to ly 150,000, hold positions of power ploited him. Whatever name his mother them to engage in all sorts of govern- of their income, than most taxpayers. the next. in Concord and most are in the mi- gave him, we will never know.–The Ed.] mental red tape in order to vote. For Some paid zero, zip, nada. The latest According to the latest available nority. Indeed, Granite Staters of color –=≈=– many of your eligible-to-vote constit- analysis of plutocrats’ tax returns shows Census data, New Hampshire has the comprise more than 10 percent of our Betsy Ross to Gov. Sununu uents, it will be a true inconvenience big-time tax avoidance benefitting third highest racial pay gap of all fifty state’s population yet hold just 3.75 and for others a true burden to their those whose earnings exceed $2 mil- states, with the median worker of Af- percent of seats in the State House of ability to vote. I tell ye this day that the lion. It’s legal, according to current tax rican descent earning just $24,500 or Representatives and zero seats in the people will not be happy with these laws, but it just ain’t right. 61 percent below the median worker State Senate, Executive Council, and bills, ’specially after already they heard Warren Buffet, for example, paid of European descent. They also experi- Supreme Court, not to mention the you say that New Hampshire is the just $23.7 million in taxes from 2014 ence poverty three times the statewide governor and his team. They are also gold standard for fair elections. to 2018, when his wealth rose by $24.3 rate and generally pay a far higher rate less than half as likely as people of Eu- “Now mind ye, I do understand that billion. That’s less than 0.1 percent of of state state and local taxes—9.1 per- ropean descent to hold full-time state there is much brabbling about with his earnings. What percent of your cent for people in the bottom income jobs. animosity in your time, people makin’ a earnings went to taxes? quintile compared to 3.0 percent for Nevertheless, we believe a brighter big fuss and squabbling over trifles, but It’s perfectly legal that losses on the wealthiest one percent. Although future is possible for everyone in the ye are the Gov’na! Ye must rise above speculative investments, like the stock employment discrimination has not Granite State. Even as Republican all that and make New Hampshire market, offset winning bets in future been studied in N.H., national data lawmakers are pushing through their government work for all the People. I years. But, those untaxed earnings clearly show that workers of color “divisive concepts” ban, hundreds of beg of ye to remember your colonial require higher taxes on the rest of us. earn less than their colleagues of Eu- businesses, nonprofits, and schools ancestors who fought and died giving Why should we cover oligarchs’ losses ropean descent with the same job and have declared their opposition to HB birth to Democracy. Now it is up to while we don’t share their gains? Why qualifications and are less likely to be 544 and are doing the slow, hard work ye as Gov’na to protect the people’s are capital gains taxed as half the rate promoted. In fact, simply having an of uprooting systemic racism, the true CONCORD—In her rocking chair, Democratic Republic here in New of wages? African American-sounding name source of division in our state. They do and sewing stars on the makings of Hampshire. These unfair tax laws should be on your resume has been shown to cut so not out of guilt but pragmatism, new nation’s flag, Betsy Ross worked “I beseech ye Gov’na to protect the changed. your likelihood of being called back for knowing that the harms described and greeting visitors on Flag Day out- right of all New Hampshire citizens Bruce Joffe a job in half. above visited on people of color actu- side the New Hampshire State House. to vote without unnecessary obstacles. Piedmont, Calif. Unequal pay naturally translates into ally degrade us all, at a cost of billions “Betsy,” portrayed by Derry resident That is the New Hampshire Way! I –=≈=– unequal wealth, with African Ameri- of dollars and countless lives across Corinne Dodge, spoke with tourists, thank ye for allowing me to speak my Where Have All the Bees Gone? cans in N.H. 71 percent less likely to racial groups every year. What’s more, chatted with legislators, and posed mind.” To the Editor: own a home than people of Europe- they see that a “solidarity dividend” for pictures, but the person she came [Note: Our thanks to Open Democracy As my husband and I sat dining an descent, a legacy of 20th-century awaits our whole society when we en- to see, Governor Sununu, never came for having sent us the above dispatch.– and enjoying the gorgeous azaleas federal housing discrimination and trench our shared humanity in policy down for a visit. She had intended to The Ed.] blooming on either side of our deck de facto residential segregation that and practice. It’s time our Republican thank him for his comments about –=≈=– a few weeks ago, the usual humming continues to this day through restric- leaders followed suit. New Hampshire being the “gold stan- Permanent Infrastructure Week of the bees was missing. This year, we tive zoning. According to the Federal Dan Weeks is a director at ReVision dard” for state elections, and for not To the Editor, have observed far fewer bees on each Reserve Bank of Boston, the rate of Energy and author of Poor in Democ- supporting those who are spreading Donald Trump held more than residential segregation in the Man- racy: A View From Below. Dr. Sindiso misinformation to justify more restric- a dozen “Infrastructure Weeks” yet Mash Notes, Hate Mail, &c. chester-Nashua metro area rose from Mnisi Weeks is Assistant Professor in the tive voting laws. delivered on none of them because to page six

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“The People vs Agent Orange,” the PBS Documentary by Paul Nichols Orange will be broadcast on June 28 The unofficial program mascot was were exposed by the Agent Orange inorganic arsenic used to attack the at 10 PM. Since learning of this film, a parody of Smokey the Bear with spray program. country’s food supply killing life sus- ormidable advances in technolo- I have been haunted by the deaths the motto, “Only you can prevent a Principal suppliers of these agents taining crops. gy have generated various long- of my many Nam Vet brothers who forest”. The first aerial spraying took were Dow Chemical and Monsan- The tragic legacy of these mon- Fterm health problems for US ser- have died from Agent Orange-re- place in early 1962 using specially to, but there were others. Chemical strous chemicals continues to this vicemen and women. And likewise, lated cancer and other grievous rigged Air Force C-123’s and end- company boardroom discussions, day, horribly affecting a multitude to opposing forces and the general diseases. Several deceased vets I’d ed in 1971. Throughout the war, all secret pentagon reports and polit- of US veterans and their kids and public who reside in the war-torn known for years from nearby NH branches of our military applied the ical warmongers were aware of the thousands of Southeast Asian fam- countries, including the unborn. towns. It is as if these vets, years after herbicides, which were also sprayed calamitous peril caused by the Rain- ilies. Prolonged studies have prov- History provides too many ex- returning from the war, were killed by helicopters, riverboats, trucks, and bow Agents. In 1988, Dr. James en that miscarriages, spina bifida amples: Ionized radiation exposure in Vietnam and didn’t know it! individual backpacks. Clary, an Air Force researcher asso- and other truly horrific physical during nuclear testing in the 1950’s Americans are rightfully angered US bases, such as the stateside ciated with Operation Ranch Hand, offspring deformities have a direct in Nevada and South Pacific Islands and revulsed at other countries use Eglin Air Force Base, served as early wrote to Senator Tom Daschle, correlation to dioxin exposure. Dis- caused numerous cancer deaths of chemical weapons during war- test sites. Infantry outfits training on “When we initiated the herbicide eases from Agent Orange poisoning among witnesses too close to ground time. Sadly, the widespread spray- the base and spray handlers were ex- program in the 1960s, we were aware have been proven to sometimes skip zero. Gulf War Syndrome from Op- ing of dioxin, one of the deadliest posed to dioxin poisoning. Storage of the potential for damage due to a generation, striking grandchildren eration Desert Storm in 1991 and compounds known even in minute areas also became contaminated. dioxin contamination in the herbi- of war survivors. later wars in Iraq and Afghanistan quantities, was a key component of No protective gear was issued or cide. However, because the material The Veterans Administration has spawned significant human-made Agent Orange and other infamous worn when spraying. Neither vil- was to be used on the enemy, none of long maintained a registry of mili- health maladies from factors such as “Rainbow Agents”. This vegetative lagers nor American and Vietnam- us were overly concerned. We never tary vets who served in defoliated toxic exposure to smoke and fumes defoliation program was a form of ese military personnel were told of considered a scenario in which our areas based on service records. Since from burn pits and contamination chemical warfare. the dangers of the herbicide spray- own personnel would become con- at least the mid-80’s, I’ve periodical- from depleted uranium in US weap- ing. In fact, they were told that the taminated with the herbicide.” More ly received the VA’s Agent Orange onry. materials were safe! Men, women, recently declassified documents in- newsletter providing relative up- It’s typical for political influences, and children in contaminated areas dicate that health consequences re- dates. endless scientific investigations, and drank the poison, ate it, inhaled it, ceived little or no regard. I feel that it is of utmost impor- economic concerns, which are often and wore it. Military applications of Generally referred to as Agent tance that tragedies such as the use linked, to carry on for decades. By the herbicides were at rates much Orange, the “rainbow” included of Agent Orange be featured in the time accurate medical determi- stronger than recommended by Agents Pink, Purple, Green, White, history textbooks and discussed in nations are made, countless affected manufacturers. During spraying and Blue. Striped colors painted on high schools, colleges, and other victims are terminally sick or have operations little concern was given barrels of the stuff identified the public forums so that such offens- died. to mist drift from windy conditions, contents. Approximately 20 million es can be prevented in the future. As a Vietnam veteran my focus is so unintended areas were also poi- gallons of these poisonous concoc- The PBS documentary, The People on Agent Orange and various other soned. tions were sprayed, of which more vs Agent Orange offers one way to “agents” sprayed on jungles, forests, In the rivers of Vietnam, than half was Agent Orange. All understand a dark side of US histo- cropland and waterways in Vietnam brown-water military personnel except Agent Blue were sprayed to ry rather than it being swept under and parts of neighboring countries Originally labeled Operation Ha- became subject to dioxin contami- kill vegetation on the Ho Chi Minh the rug as could happen if legislation with disregard for long-lasting des, the US Air Force program’s code nation and its associated misery. The Trail, along rivers and across much such as HB 544 becomes NH law. consequences. A new PBS docu- name soon changed to the more VA now recognizes specific blue wa- of the countryside. Agent Blue –=≈=– mentary titled The People vs Agent palatable Operation Ranch Hand. ter navy locations where personnel contained high levels of perilous Paul Nichols lives in Loudon, N.H.

Mash Notes, Hate Mail, &c. “heavy lifting” when it comes to the succumb to extreme heat. can avoid a complete collapse of bee –=≈=– from page five work of pollination. I consider my observation a wake- populations. “Semiotics is in principle the discipline While many factors like pesti- up call, one which demands a sense Judith Saum studying everything which can be used bush, and sometimes when I looked, cide abuse, habitat loss, and severe of urgency and action on my part. I UNH Extension in order to lie. If something cannot be I couldn’t find any! drought are blamed, recent studies resolve to continue to landscape my Natural Resources Steward used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be This disturbing observation was a point to rising temperatures from yard with pollinator-friendly plants Rumney, N.H. used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be stark contrast to what we witnessed climate change as a key problem that support a variety of bees while –=≈=– used ‘to tell’ at all.” last year; we would usually see at impacting bee health. A 2019 study doing all that I can, both personal- “I’m completely in favor of the separa- – Umberto Eco least a dozen bees of all types feed- on wild bees in New Hampshire ly and collectively, to reduce carbon tion of Church and State. My idea is –=≈=– ing on each azalea. showed that while some species emissions to curb increasing tem- that these two institutions screw us up “If a person who indulges in gluttony is Not just bumblebees and hon- migrate to cooler climes and thrive, peratures due to climate change. I enough on their own, so both of them a glutton, and a person who commits a eybees were few, but also the small, many cannot survive causing an invite others to join me in similar together is certain death.” felony is a felon, then God is an iron.” wild bees which do much of the overall decline. Bumblebees also endeavors—perhaps together we – George Carlin – Spider Robinson

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It’s Time to Dump the Filibuster by W.D. Ehrhart who says there is already “no short- history. age of robust investigations” into Meanwhile, President Biden’s et’s take a look at the Republi- January 6th. sweeping recovery bills, announced can Party this spring of 2021. We have Senator Tommy Tuber- with such fanfare and to over- LWe have Senator Josh Hawley of ville of Alabama who is opposed whelming public support months Missouri, who pumps a raised fist to an investigation into January ago, are still stalled in the Senate. on January 6th in support of the 6th “until they make it bipartisan,” His Infrastructure Jobs Plan, which MAGA insurrectionists. though the panel would consist of would rebuild roads and bridges, We have Representative An- an equal number of Democratic and boost broadband access, and make drew Clyde of Georgia, who likens Republican appointees. other improvements; and his Fam- smashing windows and beating po- And as long as I’m mentioning ilies Plan, which would expand pre- lice with American flags and hockey notable Republicans, I just can’t school and college opportunities, sticks to a “normal tourist visit,” and overlook Representative Marjo- create a national family and medical insists that the supporters of for- rie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who leave program, distribute child care mer President Donald Trump who equates proof of vaccination to gain subsidies, and make other similar in- A still from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. It wasn’t a documentary. stormed the Capitol behaved “in an access to the floor of the House vestments, are both awaiting just ten orderly fashion.” with the Yellow Stars German Jews Republican votes in the Senate to After the experience of the past Don’t get me wrong. I have no We have Representative Paul Go- had to wear in Nazi Germany, and get beyond the filibuster threshold 25 years—since at least that vile particular fondness for the Demo- sar of Arizona, who says the Justice Representative Lauren Boebert of of 60 votes, as is the George Floyd “Contract with America” Newt crats, who, at least since the Clinton Department is “harassing peaceful Colorado, who demands the right Justice in Policing Act. Gingrich foisted on the nation— years, have behaved like Republican patriots” who came to DC on Janu- to carry her Glock automatic pistol I fear Uncle Joe and his Dem- how any Democrat with a function- Lite, and bear a great deal of respon- ary 6th to exercise their 1st Amend- onto the floor of the House. ocratic colleagues are going to be ing memory can imagine bipartisan sibility for delivering the country ment rights. Speaking of Republicans, the Re- waiting until Hell freezes over—a government is utterly beyond me. into the hands of #45. We have Senator Lindsey Gra- publican-controlled Arizona Senate terrible cliché, but sadly true—for ( Joe Manchin, are you really this But if I’ve learned anything ham of South Carolina, who says has hired Cyber Ninjas, a company those needed Republican votes. stupid or do you just like to be the since November 2016, I’ve learned of Trump, “Enough’s enough,” that has never audited any previous Already the Republicans have re- center of attention?) that while the Democratic Party is then travels to Mar-a-Lago to kiss election, and whose founder and sponded with badly watered down Yes, we run the risk of the Re- hardly worthy of champagne and Trump’s ass. CEO, Doug Logan, is a commit- counterproposals to the Jobs and publicans steamrolling their own tickertape parades, the Republican We have House Minority Lead- ted supporter of Trump, to audit the Families Plans. As if they’re actually agenda through the legislature in Party has simply ceased to bear even er Kevin McCarthy of California, 2020 presidential election results in willing to sign off on anything even the future if we get rid of the filibus- a passing resemblance to a collection who says Trump “bears responsibil- that state. resembling what’s required. As if ter, but that’s a risk we ought to be of sane and decent human beings. ity” for the violent insurrection by At the same time, 361 voter sup- Moscow Mitch and his cronies have willing to take, considering that the And as long as the filibuster a mob of MAGA supporters, then pression bills have been introduced any intention of agreeing to biparti- Republicans have misused that same remains, Democratic control of flies to Mar-A-Lago to apologize to in 47 states, almost exclusively by san anything. filibuster to stymie virtually every as- Congress and the White House Trump. Republicans. Georgia, Iowa, Utah Meanwhile, support for Biden’s pect of the Democratic agenda since are largely meaningless, nothing of We have Senator Roy Blunt, also & Arkansas have already passed proposals will end up dying quietly the beginning of the Obama admin- significance will get accomplished of Missouri, who believes it’s “too such bills with Florida and Texas in of inertia as the Democrats fritter istration. in Washington, and by the next early” to create a commission, while hot pursuit. All of this to make our away their election goodwill and And if the present Democrat- election cycle millions of Americans Senate Minority Whip John Thune elections “fair and honest” in spite once again turn their backs on work- ic White House and Democratic will once again be willing to listen of South Dakota is worried about of the fact that voter fraud in US ing Americans while ordinary peo- Congress don’t make significant to rogues, charlatans, fascists, and the commission “dragging on indef- elections at every level is statistically ple return in disgusted resignation to progress in alleviating the distress of demagogues. initely.” negligible, and every election official a sorry acceptance of the way things ordinary working Americans, visibly It’s time to put an end to an un- We have Senate Minority Lead- across the country insists that this are and have been since at least the and soon, they may never get anoth- democratic and anachronistic legis- er Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, 2020 election was the fairest in US early Clinton years. er chance to get anything done. lative ritual. Will Jeff Bezos Return to Earth a Better Human? by Jim Hightower there than that visionary of instant by $75 billion last year alone. Bear will take a short suborbital joy ride make him a new man: “It changes gratification, Jeff Bezos? “Ever since in mind that he didn’t have to work about 50 miles up in a fully pres- your relationship…with humanity,” hile Rev. Martin Luther I was five years old,” says the me- harder or smarter to “earn” this surized cabin, then unbuckle and he says of space travel. King Jr. proclaimed, “I have ga-billionaire boss man of Amazon, bonanza. Indeed, he’s retiring as experience weightlessness for about Good, for his relationship here- aW dream,” it was full of lofty ethical “I’ve dreamed of traveling to space.” Amazon CEO, but his haul keeps three minutes before scooting back tofore has been one of worker stuff like “justice for all” and…well, Now that’s intriguing, because Jeff growing as the corporate stock price to terra firma. exploitation, tax cheating, and mo- it was so 1963. regularly acts like he is from outer keeps bloating. Imagine how impressed MLK Jr. nopoly profiteering. So go forth, But in today’s Facebook-Insta- space—so, is this homeward bound? 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Portsmouth, arguably the first whom you choose to believe. drags about seventeen billion moves from the mouth of the Twice a day, too, the moon lets all Badger’s Island, bobbing around in and bridges work their hardest. town in this country not founded The Piscataqua’s ferocious current gallons of seawater — enough to river, up past New Castle, around that water go. All the seawater that the current. It weighs several tons, Ships coming in laden with coal, by religious extremists, is bounded is caused by the tide, which, in fill 2,125,000 tanker trucks — up the bend by the old Naval Prison, just fought its way upstream goes and it bobs and bounces in the oil, and salt do so at high tide, for on the north and east by the turn, is caused by the moon. The the river and into Great Bay. This under Memorial Bridge, past the back home to the ocean. This is current like a cork. more clearance under their keels. Piscataqua River, the second, third, other player is a vast sunken valley creates a roving hydraulic conflict, tugboats, and on into Great Bay. when the Piscataqua earns its title The river also has its placid mo- They leave empty, riding high in or fourth fastest-flowing navigable — Great Bay — about ten miles as incoming sea and the outgoing This can best be seen when the tide for xth fastest current. Look for the ments, around high and low tides. the water, at low tide, to squeeze river in the country, depending on upriver. Twice a day, the moon river collide. The skirmish line is rising. red buoy, at the upstream end of When the river rests, its tugboats under Memorial Bridge. Sunday, June 20 Monday, June 21 Tuesday, June 22 Wednesday, June 23 Thursday, June 24 Friday, June 25 Saturday, June 26

2005—Veep Dick “Dick” Cheney 2006—Fox News, citing Sen. Rick 2009—A spokesperson explains the 2016—Memorializing W.Va.’s worst 1994—U.S.A.F Lt. Col. Arthur Hol- 2013—The Supreme Court rips the 2015—The Supreme Court puts an explains to Larry King that the insur- Santorum (R-Pa.), reports that conspicuous absence of South Caroli- flooding in 100 years, a burning house land, hot-dogging during air-show guts out of the Voting Rights Act. end to marriage discrimination. gency in Iraq is “in the last throes.” WMD have been found in Iraq. na’s GOP Governor: Mark Sanford is is filmed as it floats down a creek. practice maneuvers, crashes a B-52 at 2005—“I could kill someone with 2013—Byron Low Tax Looper [his 1970—Off Kamchatka, the Soviet 2005—Edgar Ray Killen, 80, is found “hiking the Appalachian Trail.” 2008—James Hansen warns Con- Fairchild AFB in Washington State. this,” says Vladimir Putin putting Bob legal name], imprisoned for murder- sub K-108 loses a screw to the pursing guilty of manslaughter in the case of 2005—Undeterred by futility, the gress about global warming—again. 1982—All engines fail on a British Kraft’s Super Bowl ring in his pocket. ing his political opponent, dies at 48 of U.S.S. Tautog, the sail of which picks Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney. Republican-led House passes a Flag 2005—Roller coaster safety expert Airways 747 en route to Australia af- 1998—The Fed OKs the Travelers/ a heart attack, hours after assaulting a up a permanent 2-degree bend. 2004—SpaceShipOne reaches an alti- Protection Amendment.® Richard H. Brown, 64, dies of injuries ter flying through a cloud of volcanic Citicorp merger: the fuse is lit. pregnant prison guard. 1965—Navy Lts. Clinton B. John- tude of 100 kilometers; Mike Melvill 2004—On the floor of the Senate, received in a fall in his own driveway. ash; 14 minutes later, pilots re-start 1996—Al-Qaeda kills 19 U.S. ser- 2006—As Rush Limbaugh returns son and Charles Hartman, flying becomes the first civilian astronaut. Veep Dick “Dick” Cheney tells Sen. 2001—“Dark Winter”—a war game the engines and land successfully. vicemen in Saudi Arabia and wounds from the Dominican Republic—a prop-driven Douglas A-1 Skyraiders, 1989—The U.S. Supreme Court rules Pat Leahy, “Go fuck yourself.” simulation of a smallpox outbreak in 1971—Nixon’s Special Counsel 372. Saudis and the CIA blame Iran. tourist sex-mecca—customs officers down a MiG jet fighter over Vietnam. that it’s legal to burn the U.S. flag. 2004—Yet another cash-laden C-130 the U.S.—shows lack of preparation Charles Colson circulates the first 1973—Ex-White House Counsel confiscate his illicit stash of Viagra. 1963—The White House-Kremlin 1964—Michael Schwerner, Andrew lands in Iraq; this one carries the big- for pandemic would result in chaos. White House “Enemies List.” John Dean, on live TV, blows the big 2002—A Federal court edits “under “Hot Line” is installed. Goodman, and James Chaney are gest load of them all: $2,401,600,000. 1988—NASA’s James Hansen warns 1970—Staging fails on the Kittery whistle on his crooked former boss. God” out of the Pledge of Allegiance. 1953—Lt. Gen. John W. “Iron Mike” murdered in Mississippi by the KKK. 2002—Enron execs admit they hid Congress of the seriousness of the side of the Piscataqua River Bridge 1971—ITT lobbyist Dita M. Beard 1995—EPA workers dismantle David O’Daniel arrives in Saigon to confer 1942—A Japanese sub shells Fort Ste- $1.5 billion in illegal profits gouged threat of global warming. project. Four men fall 75 feet to their writes a memo noting that Pres. Hahn’s homemade backyard nuclear with French General Henri Navarre vens, Ore., damaging a phone cable. from California ratepayers. 1976—Edwin Walker, former Army deaths, seven others are injured. Richard “Dick” Nixon knew ITT reactor. The Michigander is 17. on how to bring peace to Vietnam. 1935—The top cop busts a cap at a 1977—Nixon’s ex-AG John Mitchell General and Lee Harvey Oswald 1968—Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, was giving the Republican National 1976—Gov. Kit Bond rescinds a 1947—Standing up for labor, Presi- Eureka, Calif. sawmill; chaos ensues begins a 19-month prison sentence. target, is arrested for fondling an un- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, tells a Committee a $400,000 bribe to get a predecessor’s “Extermination Order” dent Harry S Truman vetoes the an- but a jammed machine gun keeps the 1972—UPI’s Helen Thomas gets a dercover cop in a Dallas men’s room. Long Island audience, “The enemy has favorable Justice Dept. decision. banning Mormons from Missouri. ti-union Taft-Hartley Act. death toll down to three strikers. call from Martha Mitchell: “I’m a 1972—Nixon is hoist’ on his own tape lost whatever chance he had of taking 1969—Defense Secretary Mel Laird 1954—Bao Dai, the feckless puppet 1943—A three-day race riot begins in 1919—Germans scuttle their captive captive…”; the phone goes dead. On recorder, ordering the CIA to block South Vietnam by military force.” gives National Security Advisor Hen- Emperor of South Vietnam, appoints Detroit; 34 die, 25 of them Black, 17 fleet at Scapa Flow. British sailors the scene, Nixon’s lawyer orders that the FBI’s Watergate investigation. 1968—Cops and the Guard shut ry Kissinger a menu of options Rich- Ngo Dinh Diem as premier. of whom are killed by white cops. shoot nine Germans in lifeboats. the AG’s wife be sedated by injection. 1959—As a film adaptation of his down “Resurrection City U.S.A.” in ard Nixon might use in dealing with 1947—Boston Mayor James Curley 1942—Four prisoners in stolen Nazi 1877—Ten Molly Maguires, min- 1970—The 24th Amendment gives book “I Will Spit on Your Graves” is D.C. with dogs and smoke grenades. North Korea; included: 47 nukes. goes to federal prison for five months. uniforms drive out Auschwitz’s main ers arrested by private detectives and 18-year-olds the right to vote. screened in Paris, author Boris Vian 1954—Guatemala asks the U.N. to 1962—God is expelled from U.S. 1943—While loading rocks on horse- gate in the commandant’s car. prosecuted by private attorneys for the 1969—Ohio’s Cuyahoga River ig- stands, yells “These guys are supposed look into the U.S.-backed coup in that schools by the Supreme Court. drawn wagons in Caribou, Maine, 1941—The sub U.S.S. 0-9 sinks east coal companies, are hanged by Penn- nites, inspiring Randy Newman. to be American? My ass!,” and dies. country; the U.S. vetoes the proposal. 1938—FDR signs a minimum wage four adults and a boy are killed by a of the Isles of Shoals with 33 aboard. sylvania officials, private executioners 1964—The fun-loving U.S. Supreme 1955—Bill Loeb writes in the Union 1924—The Democratic National Con- and a 44-hour week into law, and puts crashing B-26 “Widowmaker.” 1940—Elbert Williams is lynched for apparently being unavailable. Pardons Court overturns the Post Office’s ban Leader that Ike has “done more to de- vention begins. It ends 17 days later, an end to child labor. 1940—At the Waldorf in NYC, Ger- organizing the NAACP in Browns- for two arrive minutes too late. of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. stroy the respect, honor and power of having voted down an anti-Klan plank. 1914—A factory full of volatile chem- hard Westrick hosts a gala celebration ville, Tenn.; cops can find no evidence. 1798—British troops and Hessian 1950—Retired FBI agents help a the U.S. than any President in its his- 1902—Deadline looming, Joseph icals explodes in Salem, Mass. The en- of the Fall of France to Nazi Germany. 1790—T. Jefferson, J. Madison, and mercenaries drive the United Irish- paranoid fabric importer publish Red tory.” He ain’t seen nothing yet. Conrad upsets an oil lamp and acci- suing fire burns 1,376 buildings and His former law partner, future Secre- A. Hamilton make a deal: a Potomac men from Vinegar Hill in County Channels, a pamphlet claiming radio 1947—The U.S. Senate puts the dentally burns the second installment leaves 18,000 homeless or jobless. tary of State John Foster Dulles, de- Capitol, assuming states’ debts. Wexford. Then they rape some wom- and TV are full of Commies. screws to labor by overriding Tru- of The End of the Tether. 1876—Five companies of the 7th fends Westrick from critics. 1631—Pirates led by Murad—a en and burn some of the wounded. 1942—Congress adopts the Flag man’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. 1524—Countess Helena von Lupfen Cavalry, including Gen. Custer and 1919—Dist. Atty. and future Con- Dutchman “gone Turk”—sack Balti- 1788—New Hampshire ratifies the Code,® thus replacing the embar- 1914—Debate heats up among West- orders Stühlingen peasants to collect two of his brothers, and an AP re- gressman T. Webber Wilson cheers more, in County Cork; its inhabitants U.S. Constitution. You’re welcome. rassingly Nazi-like “Flag Salute” with ern Federation members in Butte: the snail shells for her maids, triggering porter, are killed by Native Americans on a crowd of 10,000 at the lynching end up enslaved in North Africa. 1631—RIP John Smith. FDR’s hand-on-heart gesture. miners’ union hall is dynamited. the German Peasants War. near the Little Big Horn River. of John Hartfield in Ellisville, Miss. 7:36 8:05 8:37 9:00 9:37 9:54 10:34 10:47 11:30 11:40 12:23 12:33 1:16

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2018—Donald Trump’s banker’s fa- 2018—A Trump supporter with a 2016—The 477-foot tanker Chem 2014—The Supreme Court rules in 2020—“I think we are going to be 2003—George W.[MD] Bush says, 1994—The Mayor of Boulder, Colo. ther announces he’s creating a vacancy grudge and a shotgun kills five in the Venus runs aground off Goat Island, Hobby Lobby that people who are cor- very good with the coronavirus,” says “There are some who feel that the con- declares this “Allen Ginsberg Day.” on the Supreme Court by retiring. Capital Gazette newsroom. damaging itself and three boats at the porations have religious rights, too. the oaf in the Oval, “at some point, ditions are such that they can attack us 1993—In just leather jacket, dog col- 2015—Ten days after the Charlston 2009—Stephen Hawking throws a Kittery Point Yacht Club. 2003—The Army Times reports that that’s going to sort of just disappear.” [in Iraq]. My answer is, bring ’em on.” lar, and jockstrap, punk rocker G.G. Massacre, Bree Newsom scales a pole party for time travelers. No one shows. 2006—“It was not always certain,” the Bush administration wants to cut 1981—Irish Cardinal Tomás Ó Fi- 1982—Vietnam veteran “Lawn Chair Allin is laid to rest at St. Rose Ceme- at the South Carolina State House and 2005—Operation Red Wings goes says President George W.[MD] Bush, combat and family-separation pay for aich descends in a helicopter for a mass Larry” Walters, 33, ascends to 16,000 tery in his hometown, Littleton, N.H. removes the Confederate battle flag. sideways: 19 U.S. special operators “that the U.S. and America would troops in combat zones. on London’s Clapham Common, feet in a lawn chair buoyed by 45 heli- 1988—The U.S.S. Vincennes, in Ira- 2006—Pinkos in the Senate block a die in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, have a close relationship.” 1984—GOP Chairman Frank Fah- bearing the head of Oliver Plunkett. um-filled weather balloons. nian waters, shoots down an Iranian Flag Protection Amendment.® including Daniel R. Healy of Exeter, 1989—The Washington Times reports renkopf proposes adding Ronald Rea- 1973—The U.S. military draft ends. 1980—The Supreme Court rules that airliner ascending within a commer- 2003—The “Do Not Call” list signs N.H. It’s the greatest single loss for that high officials in the Reagan & gan’s face to Mt. Rushmore. Henceforth, the ranks will be replen- OSHA must consider corporate prof- cial air corridor; 290 civilians die. up 735,000 people on Day One. U.S. special ops since WW II. Bush I administrations are under 1980—The Supreme Court rules that ished by economic coercion. its when protecting employees’ health. 1979—President Carter OKs covert 2000—“Until I’m the President,” says 1994—The Department of Energy investigation for involvement in a ho- a woman’s right to a federally-funded 1968—A DC-8 carrying 214 U.S. 1976—The Supreme Court rules it’s aid to the mujahideen, despite Z. George W.[MD] Bush, “it’s going to admits hundreds of U.S. citizens were mosexual prostitution ring. Quickly abortion is nullified by other peoples’ soldiers to Vietnam strays into Soviet neither cruel nor unusual for the gov- Brzezinski’s warning it will spur a be hard for me to verify that I think I’ll used as unwitting guinea pigs in radia- and conveniently, the story evaporates. religious beliefs. airspace and lands in the USSR. ernment to kill certain people. Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. be more effective.” tion experiments during the Cold War. 1987—“We don’t care,” declares At- 1973—Dwight E. Stone, a Black, 24 1956—On TV, Elvis sings “Hound 1967—On their worst day in Viet- 1978—The Supreme Court rules that 1995—Days after Rep. John Boeh- 1975—Rod Serling enters another torney General Ed “Meese is a Pig” year-old plumber’s assistant from Sac- Dog” to a basset hound in formal wear. nam, U.S. Marines suffer 84 KIA, seven words are too dirty to broad- ner [R-Ohio] hands out checks from dimension…. Meese, “about the political or ideolog- ramento, under indictment for failure 1942—Not knowing Aussie POWs 190 WIA, and nine MIA in Opera- cast—using those words in its ruling. tobacco lobbyists on the floor of the 1972—Nixon says no new draftees ical allegiances of a prospective judge.” to appear in 1969, is the last man draft- are aboard, Sturgeon sinks the Monte- tion Buffalo near Con Thien. 1971—R. Nixon tells B. Haldeman, House, a key committee votes to con- will be sent to Vietnam, further erod- His audience bursts out laughing. ed into the U.S. Army. video Maru. More than 1,000 perish. 1964—L.B.J. signs the Civil Rights “Jews are all through the govern- tinue tobacco price supports. ing an anti-war movement already 1966—U.S. planes begin bombing 1971—The Supreme Court rules that 1917—In Boston, 8,000 Socialists Act, telling Bill Moyers, “I think we ment…you can’t trust the bastards.” 1986—Losing Nicaragua vs. U.S., the weakened by the lottery. Hanoi and Haiphong harbor. the White House cannot prevent pub- march to protest the Great War; just delivered the South to the Repub- 1894—Pres. Cleveland sends Feder- U.S. tells the International Court of 1971—Muhammad Ali’s conviction 1956—The U.S. Federal Highway lication of the Pentagon Papers. 12,000 upright citizens respond by lican Party for a long time to come.” al troops to Chicago to break up the Justice, “You’re not the boss of me.” for draft evasion is overturned. Act OK’s 42,500 miles of new high- 1956—Two airliners collide over the rioting and wrecking their HQ. Order 1917—After a carload of white males Pullman Strike. 1973—While reading Nixon’s “Ene- 1969—Gays and lesbians battle cops way so the Pentagon can move stuff Grand Canyon, killing 128 and lead- is restored with a bayonet charge. conducts a drive-by shooting in Black 1883—Happy B’day F. Kafka. mies List” live on CBS News, Daniel at the Stonewall Inn in N.Y.C. around if the Cold War turns hot. ing to the creation of the FAA. 1916—On the first day of the Battle East St. Louis, Ill., the worst U.S. race 1863—Portsmouth-born Benjamin Schorr discovers that he’s on it. 1957—At 295 Broome St., New York 1940—The Smith Act is enacted: all 1928—Alabama ends a half-century of the Somme, 19,240 British soldiers riot of the 20th century begins. F. Falls captures a flag at Gettysburg. 1954—CIA-sponsored rebels over- City’s last known opium den is busted. aliens resident in the U.S. must regis- of leasing out convicts as coal-miners. die and 35,493 go missing. On the plus 1894—Ex-railroad director & U.S. He subsequently receives the Medal of throw Guatemala’s democratically 1943—The Sub-chaser PC-815 fires ter with the government. 1908—A meteor explodes above Tun- side, the Brits take three square miles. Attorney General Richard Olney en- Honor in recognition of his valor. elected government, napalming a target rounds at the Coronado Is- 1897—The Chicago Cubs score 36 guska, Siberia, leaving a flattened area 1898—Buffalo Soldiers take San Juan joins Pullman workers from striking. 1850—Australian newspaper pub- British cargo ship in the process. lands, off San Diego; Mexican Coast runs in one game against Louisville. in the forest 30 miles in diameter. Hill, while T.R. takes the credit. 1881—“Stalwart” Republican Charles lisher James Harrison shows off a 1950—President Syngman Rhee, Guardsmen there object. The ship’s 1620—Tobacco growing is banned in 1882—Charles Guiteau goes to the 1884—Allan Pinkerton, founder of Guiteau shoots Pres. James Garfield, a refrigeration plant, dooming New our ally, orders South Korean MPs to captain, Lt. L. Ron Hubbard [yes, England, conveniently giving the Vir- gallows for assassinating President the strike-breaking, union-busting “Half-Breed” Republican, in the back. Hampshire’s ice-export industry. eliminate leftists. Thousands are mas- him] is relieved of duty. ginia Company a lucrative monopoly. Garfield, chanting “I am going to the detective agency, dies of gangrene at 1822—Charged with plotting in- 1847—To celebrate the Fourth of sacred; Rhee blames commies. 1689—Retaliating for a massacre he 1613—A performance of Shake- Lordy, I am so glad.” 64 after biting his tongue in a fall. surrection, Denmark Vesey, formerly July, Portsmouth hooligans in Market 1905—Russian sailors aboard the bat- conducted 13 years earlier, Abenakis speare’s “Henry VIII” is interrupted; 1864—N.H.-born Treasury Sec. 1681—Irish Archbishop Oliver Plun- enslaved co-founder of Charleston, Square set a stagecoach on fire. tleship Potemkin, ordered to eat mag- kill Maj. Richard Waldron of Dover sparks from a theatrical cannon set the Salmon P. Chase resigns, charging kett, found guilty of treason after a S.C.’s Emanuel African Methodist 1835—In Paterson, N.J., 2,000 mill goty borscht made from rotten beef or with his own sword; 22 other Anglos Globe Theater alight, burning it to the speculators are plotting to prolong the rigged trial on bogus charges, is drawn Episcopal Church, is hanged after a girls strike for a shorter work week. die, choose to mutiny instead. die, too, and 29 are sold into slavery. ground. Civil War for monetary gain. and quartered in London. secret trial. Two months later they win. 1:25 2:09 2:17 3:01 3:11 3:55 4:07 4:50 5:05 5:45 6:05 6:41 7:06 7:36

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