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The Fortnightly Rant Counting On a Stable Genius y now, most Americans are at Anyone bothering to watch this least somewhat inured to seeing mundane event could easily have Bthe business of state conducted with thought, “this is how our govern- all the dignity of a child’s sidewalk ment is supposed to function.” At lemonade stand. Given the trap- best they’d be half-right. Nearly a pings available to the world’s most thousand days into the Trump Era, powerful office, of course, the spe- a yearning for tedium is a sign of cific elements are a little bit grander good mental health. Just beneath the than the usual card table and hand- seamless decorum of the September scrawled signage. For example, the 20th press conference, though, is a Potentate of the Potomac routinely conglomerated mess of tangled in- addresses broadcast journalists from terests as convoluted and malign as the lawn of the White House, with one of His Excellency’s off-the-cuff Marine One idling in the back- word salads. ground. The big Sikorsky serves sev- Soon hundreds of those troops, eral purposes. The sight of it conveys whom we all profess to love so dear- an image of might and authority, ly, will be packing their duffel bags impressing authoritarian rubes; it for . At first glance converts fossil fuel into air pollution it seems an unlikely ally: 830,000 to ramp up climate chaos; and the square miles of sand, run as an ab- noise of its engines makes it harder solute monarchy since 1932 when for the public to hear his incoherent, Abdulaziz ibn Abdul Rahman Al rambling lies. Meanwhile, his Press Saud consolidated the territory Secretary sits in her office, polishing he’d conquered during thirty years her résumé while knocking down of desert warfare. His decisive vic- $180,000 a year. tory had come on March 19, 1929 In marked contrast, a press con- when the camel-mounted cavalry According to the Times, but Saudi Arabia is…special. within South Vietnam, particularly ference held one week ago today of Ikhwan rebels fell to his machine the BND memo “said that Saudi ri- The Saudis are special because of in the populated areas.” was curiously reminiscent of how guns at Sabilla. Back in the days of valry with for supremacy in the their oil, of course, though that’s less In 1950—long before General the government used to operate. It the military draft, at least, it would Middle East, as well as Saudi depen- important to us than it once was. Vo Nguyen Giap sparked West- took place indoors, in a quiet Pen- have been seen as a hard duty sta- dency on the United States, were the They’re still the biggest customers moreland’s shocked indignation— tagon briefing room, where two tion. The hot, dry climate cries out main drivers of Saudi foreign policy.” for our most important industrial Harry Truman had sent a group of deeply serious men stood behind for cold beer; but consumption of The very next day, the German sector: weapons and other assorted American advisors to Vietnam to a podium: Marine General Joseph alcohol is punished with the lash. government rebuked the BND for military equipment. The oil refinery supervise the use of $10 million in Dunford, the Chairman of the Joint A second glance is no more reas- having been so undiplomatical- at Abqaiq, for example, was protect- U.S. military equipment. It took 14 Chiefs of Staff, his drab green and suring. King Salman bin Abdulaziz ly blunt. That it was, but time has ed by Patriot missiles. years of gradual escalation before a khaki service uniform sporting a Saud was already suffering from shown it was accurate and prescient, Well, the missiles were on-site, in couple of destroyers in the Gulf of total of sixteen silver stars sparkling Alzheimers-related dementia when too. Since he took over, MBS has a protective capacity, and, presum- Tonkin accidentally triggered a war on his shoulders and collar, a gen- he ascended to the throne nearly five made it clear he’s ready to fight Iran ably, in operational condition. No that killed three million Vietnamese erous helping of fruit salad across years ago. His son, Crown Prince to the death—of the last starving doubt the Secretary of Defense, as and 58,000 Americans. his chest; and his boss, Secretary of Mohammad bin Salman, known as child in Yemen. the manufacturer’s former lobbyist, Things move faster these days, Defense Mark Esper, sharply-suit- MBS, actually runs the Kingdom; MBS doesn’t just deal out death can provide a plausible explanation and Donald Trump is no Lyndon ed, as befits a former top lobbyist for but that’s cold comfort indeed. wholesale; he’s ready for retail, too. of how a swarm of armed drones Johnson anguishing over the dis- Raytheon. They announced that, in In late 2015 ’s One year ago next Wednesday Jamal was able to sneak past them and traction from his Great Society. response to a request from the Saudi Bundesnachrichtendienst [BND], Kashoggi, a columnist for the Wash- halve Saudi oil production. Trump is more likely looking for a government, “the president has ap- its foreign intelligence service, is- ington Post, walked into the Saudi For inspiration, he might turn to distraction from his own impending proved the deployment of U.S. forc- sued a brief memo warning that the embassy in Istanbul. Seeking doc- General William Westmoreland’s impeachment. Any normal mind es” to the desert kingdom, adding then-current “cautious diplomat- uments for his impending wedding, statement of February 1, 1968: “The would recoil from the thought of the that their mission would be “defen- ic stance of senior members of the he was murdered and dismembered enemy very deceitfully has taken U.S. getting involved in a shooting sive in nature and primarily focused Saudi royal family will be replaced on orders from MBS. Nations often advantage of the Tet truce in order war with Iran. One can only hope on air and missile defense.” by an impulsive intervention policy.” must deal with unsavory characters, to create maximum consternation that his does, too.

The Alleged News® Clown-to-Clown Diplomacy his paragraph may seem a bit A New, Somewhat Unseemly Ground Rule bigger than to produce it.” ature of every time and place. Confession First; tedious, but we feel it’s our job Since the impeachment process is According to Wikipedia, this “The problem is that they will also Impeachment Afterwards toT get certain essential facts into the likely to make the 980 days since concept “became especially popu- produce a cataclysmic, frightening, Nancy Pelosi, the Blue Queen, hath record: The fourth impeachment the inauguration seem tranquil in lar after a picture of a presentation leviathanic, galactic Shit Mountain. spoken the magic word—finally. It of a U.S. President began when the retrospect, we need to shed an inhi- by Brandolini at XP2014 on May “The proportion between the two, turns out that all the House Speaker President of Ukraine—a former bition—we’re not walking into this 30, 2014, was posted on Twitter. catastrophically in favor of shit, is ever needed to begin an impeach- comedian who, by playing a school- gun fight armed with a plastic spork. Brandolini was inspired by reading such that normally typewriters are ment inquiry of the President [Such teacher who became the President Certain parties involved in our Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast given to people who are supposed to As He Is] was a televised confession of Ukraine in a TV sitcom, actually government are relying heavily on a and Slow right before watching an write something good. from the suspect himself, corrobo- became the President of Ukraine— form of political malpractice which, Italian political talk show with jour- “The reason is very simple: even if rated by similar footage featuring his answered his telephone on July to be accurately reported upon, re- nalist Marco Travaglio and former our monkeys wrote the great work own lawyer. 25th and spoke for half an hour quires the use of its proper name: Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of every time and place, the time There was a time when such an with a serially-bankrupt deadbeat asymmetrical bullshit. attacking each other. A similar con- needed to discard all the other works acknowledgement of guilt would draft-dodger who, despite having Under normal circumstances we cept, the ‘mountain of shit theory,’ would be infamous. have made impeachment a mere lost most or all of some $413 million would shun the use of such inelegant was formulated by the Italian blog- “This is the basis of what I call formality: that was before Frank he inherited without paying the tax- language. Is anything even remotely ger Uriel Fanelli in 2010….” ‘The Shit Mountain Theory.’ It says, Luntz taught Newt Gingrich how es due, was hired to play a successful normal these days? We rest our case. Intrigued, we looked up Fanelli. essentially, that an idiot can produce to pervert language so as to demon- businessman on TV until a termi- The principle of bullshit asymme- He wrote [as translated by Google]: more shit than you can shovel.” ize opponents and bamboozle the nally-amoral political party was un- try was first formulated by Alberto “…a hundred million monkeys Fanelli’s original essay on the rubes; before Nixon-enabler Rog- able to prevent him from becoming Brandolini, an Italian programmer, who hit keys at random on a hun- topic can be found, in Italian, at er Ailes built for Rupert Murdoch its nominee for the Presidency of in January, 2013, as follows, “The dred million typewriters for a hun- https://nientestronzate.wordpress. the United States—a job which he amount of energy needed to refute dred million years will probably com/2010/03/26/la-teoria-del- The Alleged News® never really wanted in the first place. bullshit is an order of magnitude write the magnum opus of the liter- la-montagna-di-merda/. to page two Page 2 — The New Hampshire Gazette, Friday, September 27, 2019

The Alleged News® random contributions to the GOP’s from page one official canon of lies. These two streams of falsehoods a Doomsday Machine called Fox inevitably crossed, creating the dis- News. That was before the GOP of- cordant score of the horror movie— ficially adopted a systematized false call it “The Mountain of Shit”—in consciousness—before asymmetri- which we live. It sounds like a horde cal bullshit. of deaf, would-be jazz musicians, As those who remember the im- turned loose in a scrapyard with a peachment of President Clinton for sackful of hammers. lying about a blowjob can attest, that Call it the downside of the First state of affairs was toxic enough on Amendment: the nation no longer its own, thank you very much. The runs according to the Constitu- rank odor of such a liberal applica- tion, but by the psychotic and ev- tion of bullshit, though, attracted an er-changing rules of what might be army of freelancing grifters to whom called fanfic* politics. it smelled like opportunity. The resultant societal brain rot is Over time, empowered by be- now so so extensive that, even if the nevolent billionaire overlords like brazen goon in our highest office Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and * Fanfic: short for fan fiction, “stories in- Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, this legion of volving popular fictional characters that are self-appointed, freelance right-wing written by fans and often posted on the In- loonies has been making its own ternet.” – Merriam-Webster.

were given a character transplant, sky to do him a favor: dug up dirt “It’s strange,” Risen wrote developed a conscience, and admit- against Joe Biden, his likely oppo- Wednesday in The Intercept, “to see ted under oath that his motives had nent in the 2020 election. my journalism twisted, perverted, been as selfish as his conduct was Trump had committed the politi- and turned into lies and poison- anti-American, the momentum of cal equivalent of a mistake common ous propaganda by Donald Trump, the massive apparatus which car- among reckless drug dealers: he was Rudy Giuliani, and their enablers. ried him into office would continue getting high on his own supply of But that’s what has happened….” spreading havoc like a tsunami. [drumroll, please] asymmetrical Meanwhile, over at the New All of his hard-core supporters are bullshit. York Review of Books, investigative now deeply addicted to the halluci- In 2015, James Risen wrote a reporter Murray Waas writes that, nogenic speedball of official GOP piece for the New York Times about according to previously undisclosed The first generation of humans to grow up knowing that their elders are lies laced with the home-cooked Vice President Biden’s efforts to records, “[t]he effort by President selling their future out from under them went on strike last Friday. Their stuff. If they ever go cold turkey, clean up corruption in Ukraine. Trump to pressure the government signs spoke for them: “Dinosaurs Thought They Had Time, Too;” “Dump their detoxification process will be Among other things, Biden of Ukraine to investigate former Emperor Trump;” “Every Disaster Movie Starts With The Government agonizing—for all of us. pressed for the firing of the prosecu- Vice President Joe Biden and his Ignoring A Scientist;” “Policy Change Not Climate Change;” “On Strike Risen Repents tor who was investigating Burisma, a son had its origins in an earlier en- For Climate–There Is No Planet B;” “What We Stand For Is What We Having expended far too much ink big gas company, which was paying deavor to obtain information that Stand On;” “Which Green Do You See? [with drawings of currency and establishing the ground rules, let’s Biden’s son Hunter rather generous- might provide a pretext and political trees];” “You’ll Die Of Old Age-I’ll Die Of Climate Change;” “We Need get to the heart of the matter forth- ly for sitting on its board of directors. cover for the president to pardon his Wind And Solar Power, Not Hot Air & Energy Fund Theft;” “Science with: Trump confessed Wednesday At first glance it looked as if Biden former campaign chairman, Paul Doesn’t Give A F__k What You Believe;” “System Change, Not Climate that on July 25th—at which time he was protecting his son. In fact, the Manafort….” Change;” “Green New Deal, Not Bad Old Carbon Steal;” “Money Will was improperly holding back a sub- prosecutor was blocking corruption What a fortnight: an overflowing Mean Nothing If You Destroy The Earth;” “Make Earth Cool Again;” stantial amount of duly-appropriat- investigations. By getting him fired, cornucopia of criminality, and this is “Science: It’s Like Magic, Only Real;” “Planet Over Profit;” “The Climate ed military aid from Ukraine—he Biden was increasing his son’s legal just the beginning of the unraveling. Is Changing, Why Aren’t We?;” and “The Earth Is On Fire.” asked President Volodymyr Zelen- peril. –=≈=–

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in 1827, “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us,” describing the function of the Black press in a way that still resonates in the 21st century. Through oral communication, Black Ink print, websites, and social media, The 13th Black New England Con- “Black News” has and will continue ference (BNEC), “Black Ink: Af- to shape African Americans’ under- rican American News from Slave standings of themselves. Songs to Social Media,” will explore The 2019 Conference will explore the critical role of the Black Press as the varied ways African Americans purveyors of news and information have produced and spread news. and as agents of social change from The roles African Americans have its earliest traditional forms to pres- played in the mainstream media, ent day online platforms. covering politics, sports, money From enslaved Africans improvis- and social issues, alongside the role ing songs to warn of slave patrols or Black publications like Ebony and to announce secret religious meet- Jet played in shaping aspirations will ings, to the ways Black Twitter both be examined. The future of “Black circulates stories that impact Black News,” how it might reimagine communities and critique racially what it means to be black in Ameri- biased narratives, “Black News” has ca will also be examined. been integral to black liberation. 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Regarding Postal Service Our Savior, Donald Trump Once again we are compelled by cir- To the Editor: cumstances beyond our control to President Trump has benefitted address certain issues regarding the all Americans, especially minorities, Postal Service. so much that Democrats apparently Before delving into the details, we believe that they only defeat him by would make this point: the fact that falsely charging him with being a rac- our country safer, reduced energy pric- frequent announcements must be ist. es, and provided good jobs for many made about postal service—which If what President Trump has ac- thousands of Americans. ought to be the very definition of complished and is fighting for is “rac- Democrats fight President Trump’s Sean Hannity on the local garbage radio mundane—is prima facie evidence of ist,” then most minorities probably efforts to enforce our laws to make station. It’s one of our ways of staying riority in comparison to whites. Now, bureaucratic mismanagement, polit- wish they had such a “racist” President American neighborhoods safer. Dem- in touch with what the unreality-based I myself believe in affirmative action, ical dysfunction, and overall societal sooner. ocrats provide sanctuary for and fight community is hallucinating at the mo- but it should be based on econom- decline. President Trump is delivering for deportation of illegal alien criminals ment. Thank you for continuing to pro- ic status, not race or color. Of course, Our views on the matter are any- all Americans, and disproportionate- who disproportionately harm mi- vide us with a text-based version. poor children will perform less well in thing but unbiased. Newspapers and ly benefitting minorities with higher norities. Democrats excuse criminal The Editor academic studies when compared to the postal service have been inextri- incomes, record low unemployment, behavior, release criminals to prey on Are They For Real? middle class and upper-class children. cably linked since their near-simul- greater opportunities, safer neighbor- others, poorly enforce laws against To the Editor: especially upper-class children whose taneous creation, decades before the hoods, better educations, and a safer the drugs and crime that plague many Another bad week for Democrats. parents buy them a seat in prestigious American Revolution. The revolution world. minority neighborhoods, and tolerate It seems that their tactic of resort- universities, but all blacks are not poor. was made in the pages of newspapers Republican and Democrat [sic pas- riots that destroy minority neighbor- ing to impeachment when they cannot Mueller better maintain his Wash- delivered through the mail—muskets sim] leaders have different objectives. hoods. win is still alive and well, as an un- ington address, as when Trump wins and cannons just tallied up the mortal Republicans work to create an envi- Democrats fight against school known called Julian Castro, who will in 2020, Mr. Mueller might be called voting on the issues. ronment where everyone can prosper, choice; they care more about political likely always remain unknown even on for the Mueller 2 investigation. Actions being taken from the high- afford their needs and wants, and can support from the education establish- though he himself thinks he can be What will it be this time? Interfer- est reaches of the federal government freely pursue the life he/she wants. ment and unions than about providing president, called for the impeachment ence by aliens? Of course, the Demo- to the lowest local levels are not just Today’s Democrat leaders no longer American children with a good start of Justice Kavanaugh for an alleged in- crats will not admit that they have no inconveniencing users of the Post- work to make Americans self-sup- in life. cident of sexual misconduct of which core beliefs or any platform except that al Service, they are denigrating and porting. Today’s Democrat leaders President Trump isn’t a racist; he the victim herself admitted no knowl- they don’t like Trump. eroding the values on which this na- pursue their own power, wealth, and simply fulfills his responsibility to edge. In addition, [Senator Kamala] John Dente tion was built. fame which they expect to obtain by prioritize American citizens over for- Harris and Pocahontas joined in. Wilmington, Del. Item 1—First, the bad news: promising free stuff and making peo- eigners. This is similar to Dr. Ford, who John: While we are grateful to receive hate ple dependent on government services Democrats clamor “racist” to divert sounded more like she experienced an Where shall we begin? mail, mash notes, and other correspon- promised by Democrats. attention from President Trump’s suc- alien abduction when she could not As you will see, we’ve placed your letter dence through the U.S. Postal Service, So Democrats fight President cesses which expose that Democrats remember how she arrived at the scene next to Don Ewing’s. We’re beginning to the recent physical relocation of our Trump’s efforts to create a growing and their policies make people poor, of her alleged rape, how she got home, wonder: is your perspective on issues and Post Office box to a far less accessible economy which offers more and better ignorant, and dependent on gov- or where the event took place. events as fact-independent as his? site makes our collection of the mail jobs, to provide school choice so stu- ernment. Democrat will shriek even In the end, this allegation of Castro Your mockery of Dr. Christine Blasey somewhat less frequent. We there- dents can escape bad and dangerous more as President Trump continues fell flat, as has his campaign. Ford reveals—or revels in—ignorance fore suggest to our correspondents schools and prepare for successful lives, enabling more Americans to prosper Next, there was Joe Biden reveal- of the well-known effects of trauma on that, if time is a consideration, email is to enforce the laws passed by Congress and live their dreams. ing his senility by remaining lost in memory. preferred. We sincerely hope this an- to protect the American people, and to Don Ewing the days of the phonograph which Your casual repetition of Donald nouncement will not diminish the make our country stronger to protect Meredith, N.H. he thought would save black children Trump’s racist nickname for Senator small but steady flow of amusing and Americans and the world from mali- Don: from the bad parenting they receive Elizabeth Warren does nothing to further creative notes and letters we’ve become cious actors. You keep using that word “accomplish.” by not being exposed to the correct your argument, leading one to wonder accustomed to receiving. Democrats opposed Trump’s tax We do not think it means what you think number of words in the household. about your motive in using it. Item 2—Now, the good news: We cuts that enabled most Americans to it means. The country is going to hell in He states they hear two million fewer We share your doubt about Biden’s have been assured by a reliable source keep more of their money. Demo- a handbasket, and these unsubstantiated words than white kids by the time they mental fitness, but scorning science leads behind the counter at the Heritage crats oppose Trump’s efforts to elim- claims of a cornucopia for minorities have enter school. to…well, we’ll just leave it there. Avenue Post Office that our practice inate excessive taxes and regulations us wondering if you’re just putting us on. Again, we see the liberal racism as Here’s a question: you say that Dem- of using International Forever stamps on American businesses that limited Your letter reads as if you think someone’s we do with programs like affirmative ocrats have no core beliefs beyond their to our overseas subscribers will not workers’ pay and drove thousands of monitoring your mail looking for signs of action that presumes black children dislike of Trump. Would you enlighten be compromised by the Trump ad- businesses and millions of good jobs disloyalty. are not as smart as whites and require us, please, and give us your own straight- ministration’s reckless plan to exit the overseas. The President’s racism is clearly estab- lower college admission standards in forward assessment of our stable genius Universal Postal Union. One-year Democrats opposed President lished in the historical record. Denying order to compete for a seat in institu- President? subscriptions to 190 countries are still Trump’s efforts to make America that does nothing for your credibility. tions of higher learning. Once again The Editor available for $40. energy independent which has made From time to time we like to listen to we see the liberal presumption of infe- –=≈=–

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Executive Branch’s nose-thumbing to uphold their Constitutional duty came to a head recently when Corey and their oaths of office. By that time Lewandowski, Trump’s former cam- it may be too late to save the nation. paign manager, arrogantly refused to The House of Representatives, which cooperate and publicly bitch-slapped she leads, has the duty to initiate an Chairman Jerrold Nadler on national impeachment inquiry when a Presi- programs that turned out not to exist, television. dent has demonstrated behavior that was “painful” for him and would be a Congress needs a mechanism to potentially raises to the level of high permanent “blot” on his record. Joe temporarily detain uncooperative wit- crimes and misdemeanors, and vi- roadblocks. Biden, a Senator at the time, not only nesses independent of the Executive olates the constitution and his oath So Many Lost Stalwarts Obviously they believe the end jus- voted in favor of warring with Iraq, Branch’s Justice Department. Without of office. The House has the duty to To the Editor: tifies the means. but praised Powell the day after his it, they cannot reasonably be expected determine if articles of impeachment The Republic has lost many stal- The 2020 election should be inter- speech, which had increased pro-war to execute the constitutional mandate are warranted, and, if so, forward them warts, giants in their day: Louise Day esting. sentiment at home, proclaiming, “I’d of oversight. to the Senate for a trial. The fact that Hicks, Spiro T. Agnew, Bourke Hick- Eugene Murphy like to move the nomination of Sec- There is no Capitol Jail, but the the Republicans in the Senate may enlooper, and the list goes on and on. Priest River, Idaho retary of State Powell for President of Capitol Police do have a perfectly not convict Trump should not be a But ponder this question: will Eugene: the United States.” adequate holding cell, and Corey Le- consideration of the House of Rep- the following live forever—Heinz You make an interesting point. After Conversely, Bernie, as a member of wandowski should be in it. Perhaps resentatives. It is no different than Kissinger, Dick [“Dick”] Cheney, all the cynical, amoral conduct we’ve seen the House, led the opposition to the Chicago PD’s Detective Sgt. Hank a prosecutor bringing charges against Minister Louis Farakahn, David from the GOP since the Gingrich Speak- War in Iraq. He recently asserted, “I Voight should be in there too, coun- an individual for alleged criminal Duke, Rupert Murdoch, Chuck Col- ership, it’s impossible to rule out your the- did not believe Dick Cheney or John seling him on the error of his ways. activity, even though a jury may not son? ory. Bolton or President Bush and others Rick Littlefield convict the individual. In the name Rufus Meyerbeer The Editor when they told us that Iraq had Weap- Barrington, N.H. of justice, the legal process must take Boston, Mass. –=≈=– ons of Mass Destruction and that we Rick: place regardless of the final outcome. Rufus: Bernie and Joe’s Iraq War votes had to invade that country. The War in We find your blithe disregard for Mr. The decision to initiate an impeach- Thank you for re-introducing Bourke To the Editor: Iraq turned out to be the worst foreign Lewandowski’s well-being entirely ac- ment inquiry should not be based on Hickenlooper to our readers. “Hick” was It’s certainly no secret that the policy blunder in the modern histo- ceptable. political considerations, but solely on one of just six Republican Senators to op- Democratic Party is experiencing a ry of our country and has led to the The Editor the constitutional merits and re- pose the Civil Rights Act of 1964—along struggle between the Establishment destabilization of that entire region, –=≈=– sponsibilities of the House of Rep- with New Hampshire’s own Norris Cot- and Progressive wings of the party with more war, more death and more Impeach! resentatives. Failure to perform their ton. Of the six “stalwarts” you list, Chuck over its identity and direction. Personi- suffering.” Dear Sir: Constitutional duty will make House Colson alone has departed this vale of fying the party’s struggle are two of the That one vote alone tells me who I Speaker of the House Nancy Pe- Democrats complicit in Trump’s agen- tears; certainly all their names, though, frontrunners in the race to become the think has the judgment to be our next losi, in a letter to Acting Director of da, and will set a dangerous precedent will live in infamy. Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential Commander-in-Chief. National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, for future legislatures dealing with a The Editor nominee, former VP Joe Biden, the Wayne H. Merritt stated that failure to turn over the re- rogue President. –=≈=– consummate Establishment candi- Dover, N.H. port of a whistleblower’s report regard- Rich DiPentima McConnell’s Motive? date, a Centrist who represents a re- Wayne: ing the alleged requests to Ukraine by Portsmouth, N.H. To the Editor: turn to the former status quo which We cannot disagree. Trump for election help would indi- Rich I am convinced the Republicans are brought us Trump, and U.S. Senator The Editor cate “a grave new chapter of lawless- Ask and you shall receive. – Matthew reluctant to improve our election secu- Bernie Sanders, the ultimate Progres- –=≈=– ness.” No kidding! 7:7. rity, especially the foreign interference sive, who is calling for the transfor- The “Box” How many more chapters of The Editor from Russia, because they don’t be- mative change necessary to make the To the Editor: Trump’s not so comic book does –=≈=– lieve Trump can win without Russia’s nation work for all Americans. Envision a bully holding a scraw- Speaker Pelosi need to read before she A Defeat for Democracy interference and assistance. Sen. Mc- With the N.H. Primary rapidly ny little kid at arm’s length. The poor gets the plot behind Trump’s agenda? To the Editor: Connell continues to block any and approaching, it would be wise for us kid is swinging wildly trying to make Speaker Pelosi has already seen and Last week the New Hampshire all legislation designed to improve and to start closely examining the voting contact, but his little arms aren’t long read the chapters on conspiring with Legislature voted to let stand 52 of protect the integrity of our elections. records and positions of the two ideo- enough to reach. Hold that picture and Russians to effect the 2016 election, Governor Chris Sununu’s record Gerrymandering, voter suppres- logically different candidates, both you’ll understand the dynamic that ex- obstruction of justice, campaign fi- number of 53 vetoes. Among those sion, and the usual voter purges in with long political careers, and I’d like ist between the Executive Branch and nance violations, countless lies to the bills thrown into the trash was HB GOP-controlled states won’t be to suggest we start with their votes on the House Judiciary Committee. public, the press and Congress, abuse 706 that would create an electoral enough. Putin must come to the res- the Iraq War, which is still heavily im- Historically, Congress has skirted of power, violation of the emoluments redistricting advisory commission to cue. pacting our nation. responsibility to enforce its subpoenas clause of the Constitution, and the list update New Hampshire’s electoral One would think those self-pro- Former Secretary of State, Colin by outsourcing the job to the Federal goes on. maps in 2021 and prevent partisan claimed American Patriots in the Powell has expressed more than once Court System. Unfortunately, that ar- The nation cannot afford to wait gerrymandering. GOP holding offices in Congress that his 2003 speech to the United rangement doesn’t work well when the for Speaker Pelosi to get to the end of would be outraged by foreign interfer- Nations, in which he provided a de- Court System’s boss and his staff are Trump’s book before she decides it is Mash Notes, Hate Mail, &c. ence. Instead, silence and McConnell’s tailed description of Iraqi weapons the ones occupying the hot seat. The time for her and the rest of Congress to page six

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The Northcountry Chronicle Brutality 6; Kennett 0 by William Marvel Prussians pitched in at the last mo- as the team has begun stockpiling least took action of some kind, for underdog. Now they’re the punks ment, Wellington’s boast rang more championship trophies, and team they might have tried to cover it up. who lure the innocent and helpless y father was a basketball and than a little hollow; the Germanic photos at season’s end are often The relative leniency of the conse- to torture, yet none of their team- football standout on Kennett states weren’t known for college dominated by raised index fingers quences nevertheless suggests that mates stop them until it’s too late— MHigh School’s championship teams sports in 1815. and jubilant smirks. Pride all too the offense was not regarded with and all while they’re being indulged of the 1920s, and was on a Navy Even if Wellington did say some- easily burgeons into arrogance, espe- the revulsion it aroused in me, and with a special lakeside retreat, to im- boxing team in the ‘30s. He thought thing like that, he would have been cially when encouraged by excessive that in turn may reflect on the cul- prove their esprit. Yet they get to stay such sports helped build character. referring to teamwork and tactics. adulation, and we saw an instance of ture of violence in which such vi- on the team, and what kind of esprit I was a lousy athlete, and except for My father’s faith in the education- that a few years ago when a couple cious behavior could develop. Those does that teach? baseball I disliked all team sports— al value of athletics leaned more of Kennett jocks chose to fight with involved may be suspended for up The number of participants is especially football. The only son of toward the idea of moral train- Conway police. to three games this season, and they one clue that the problem is sys- a former team captain found that ing—doing your best under adverse Nothing to date has more bla- may also be expected to contribute temic, and the paltry punishment is difficult to admit, so all 115 pounds conditions, and winning or losing tantly signaled that Kennett’s foot- some token community service, but another. Such a diagnosis is all but of me ended up playing football as with equal grace. He harped on fair ball program is instilling the wrong that’s about it. Unless someone no- confirmed by the lack of adminis- a freshman and sophomore. The play, and when I puffed up a little too values than the combined evidence tices and publishes which players trative concern about the impact of experience did help me to develop much over breaking the freshman of cowardly cruelty by some team miss those three games, they will that deeply sick behavior on the rest one good character trait: I learned class bully’s nose (and my hand), my members and the pitifully inade- avoid the shame they deserve by of the team. If these “athletes” aren’t how to brush off personal and col- father deflated me with the scornful quate punishment it elicited. We are spreading it across the entire roster named, or kicked off the team, the lective humiliation, for I was the observation that I had only managed left to understand that during their of the team they have disgraced. opprobrium of gratuitous cruelty worst player on a team that did a lot it by sucker-punching him. football camp in Moultonborough Their odds of internal redemption to an unoffending animal must be of losing. In recent decades, the more admi- last month, several team members from such sadistic impulses are vast- borne by all the players—including The Duke of Wellington report- rable characteristics that my father lured a wild duck onto dry land, ly reduced by misplaced pity. Shame those who, I hope, were sickened edly ascribed the allied victory at thought sports might inculcate have where one or more of them beat it has its own instructive value; let that by it. A team that allows its players Waterloo to the attributes that Brit- not been so obvious a byproduct of beyond recovery with a broomstick. do the work. to commit so clearly evil an act and ish officers had developed through high school sports, at least at Ken- Another teammate filmed it all, and The football heroes of my day continue as members deserves only college sports. Considering that the nett, and especially in football. The proudly posted it online. were the guys who never took ad- the contempt of the community it British forces and their allies were concepts of winning with humility One might feel comforted that vantage of their superior strength pretends to represent. losing that battle until Blucher’s and losing cheerfully have faded the coaches and administration at except, perhaps, to stand up for the from page five Prison for being one of the Paid Off Politicians. During the regular legislative If you want more information session, both the House and Senate then please send me an email at the Election Law Committees unan- New Hampshire voters want [Note: A considerable amount of re- Library that I can attach attach- imously recommended passage an end to the gerrymandering to the INCOMPETENCE and dundant material, some of it probably ments to. (I do not go to the Library of this bill; it easily passed in the that frustrates a core principle of CORRUPTION of Passaic Coun- libelous, has been deleted.—The Editor] every day or even every week.) House (218/123, 64 percent) and by democracy: Voters should select ty and New Jersey Bureaucrats and There is a lot more that I can send If you do not have an email like a voice vote in the Senate. In May their politicians, not the other way Courts that have Disabled me and you. (About 50 Federal and New that then you can get a free email the nonpartisan Brennan Center around. Please join me in expressing Defrauded me out of my World Jersey and Common Laws Were like I have from aol. (Please tell for Justice had praised HB 706 as to Governor Sununu and your rep- War 2 Veteran Father Built 65 Years Violated in My Case including AOL to stop blocking me from get- a model for bipartisan redistricting resentatives in the legislature your ago Family Home and left me to Laws that are an Unlimited De- ting to the email account. They keep reform. Commenting on Governor disappointment in the defeat of HB Die Destitute and Homeless in the fense to Foreclosure and those laws asking for a telephone number for Sununu’s August veto of this bill, 706 and urge passage of similar leg- New Jersey Gutter because of their No Longer exist.) … It is now legal security which is baloney. They just the Brennan Center pointed out islation in 2020. INCOMPETENT and COR- to LIE to the Police Everywhere in want to use it to make money. Just that his act was throwing out a plan Margaret Merritt RUPT Joke of a Legal System that America. like the INCOMPETENT and that would ensure fair treatment of Center Sandwich, N.H. is a National Disgrace. (I live Out- If you like President Donald J. CORRUPT New Jersey Courts Republicans in the 2021 redistrict- –=≈=– side in The Dirt with my Always Trump then All of his people that and Judges they do Not Understand ing even if Democrats do well in the Incompetence + Corruption = Been Totally Worthless Rutgers were arrested for lying to the FBI that I CANNOT give them what I 2020 elections. All but seven Re- Homelessness College Degree. All I wanted was a (The National Police) will have to do not have.) publican House members voted to To The New Hampshire Gazette: Job One Rotten Crummy Stinking be let out of jail. 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When the world’s on fire, what should we do? by Jim Hightower &c. his crew of right-wing fire-breath- the Polluters Protection Agency. throughout American history. From Luckily, we are a sentient species ers in Congress are not directing the They’re slashing dozens of public the Boston Tea Party forward, cre- or millions of people around the with the scientific ability to know government’s hoses at the corporate restraints on the polluters, while also ative and gutsy public protest has globe—especially young peo- that the chief cause of this global de- extractors, but at us, the people, sci- opening up our oceans and wilder- been democracy’s best friend. Fple—the pressing issue of our time struction is not angry gods, but us— entists, environmentalists, and other ness areas to their polluting greed –=≈=– is this: The world is on fire! On fire specifically humankind’s massive activists who’ve dared to point to the and stalling the rational shift to a Populist author, public speaker, and with climate change, creating a new extraction and burning of oil, gas, flames and call for global action to green energy future. radio commentator Jim Hightower and intensifying norm of deadly coal, and other fossil fuels. So, there’s stop the conflagration. They seem The good news is that the people writes The Hightower Lowdown, a weather extremes that make a dys- a rising chorus of people shouting to think the problem will go away are revolting (in the very best sense monthly newsletter chronicling the topian future a distinct possibili- “FIRE!” And, sure enough, our na- if they can make the protesters go of that term!) against our corrupt ongoing fights by America’s ordinary ty—constant wildfires, rising seas, tional government is rushing to the away. leaders’ rush toward climate ca- people against rule by plutocratic elites. desertification, global crop failures, scene to put it out. Worse, they’re fanning the flames tastrophe. Our hope is not in “lead- Sign up at HightowerLowdown.org. widespread hunger, water shortages, Unfortunately, our president and by turning the EPA into the PPA— ers,” but ourselves – as it has been –=≈=– from page six nomic damage, but without directly hitting U.S. targets. Now, for the sec- Climate, Race, and Health ond time in a few months, Trump by Leslie D. Gregory and Tom H. says “we” are “locked and loaded,” Hastings dies, such as higher rates of proximi- in Iran, a decision to go to war with on the pretense of retaliation rather There are misanthropes who un- ty to hazardous and toxic dumps. public health, even though the evi- Iran would be inexcusable and in- than as a follow-up to U.S. economic derstandably and regrettably express And when aid is apportioned, it dence is overwhelming in so many supportable. warfare. In a word, responsibility for grim satisfaction with the prospects is currently going first to industry indices, including the racial make- For one thing, such a decision this crisis rests most directly on the of climate chaos affecting everyone and may eventually trickle down to up of the very areas they describe would not serve U.S. national inter- Trump administration’s rejection of so at least predatory rich exploitive people of color. in the above quote. To help them ests; it would be based on Saudi oil diplomacy in favor of sanctions and elites pay the same serious prices as The health impacts on people of think more about it, sign the peti- supplies and oil prices—a war for oil, threats. poor people and people of color. color are significant. tion at petitions.moveon.org/sign/ pure and simple. The U.S. has no obligation to go That is not correct, however. · “Communities of color breathe racism-meets-criteria. Second, the attack would be a to war for the sake of Saudi oil or Turns out that not only are we in nearly 40 percent more polluted The Trump administration is re- logical (some would say, predict- in defense of Saudi territory. Nor is already well into the worst mass ex- air than whites. African-American sponsible for much of this, as they able) retaliation for many months of there a legal basis for doing so: Saudi tinctions of other species since the children are three times as likely have injected culture war politics U.S.-supported Saudi air attacks on Arabia is not an ally, and any deci- Cretaceous Debacle, but it is also to suffer an asthma attack.”—Ste- into the public health arena by dic- the Yemeni rebels that have caused sion for war, or other military action, evident that climate chaos will in- ven Hsieh, in conversation with tating to CDC what terminolo- tens of thousands of deaths, wide- requires Congressional approval. If deed impact health and well-being NAACP official Jacqueline Patter- gy is forbidden when applying for spread malnutrition, and a health Trump decides on war, it will be to of people of color more than anyone. son. funding—a direct violation of the crisis—crimes against humanity ac- curry favor with his and Jared Kush- Consider the evidence. · “Climate change, together with traditional separation of science/ cording to many observers. ner’s dear friend, the crown prince, · Nations most directly threatened other natural and human-made medicine and political interference. Third, the very idea that the U.S. and satisfy the warmongering Is- by rising seas are generally island health stressors, influences human When the executive and legis- should go to war in support of a raeli leadership—all despite the countries with people of color ma- health and disease in numerous lative branches of government fail criminal Saudi regime is outrageous. Pentagon’s reported advice against jority populations, including eight of ways. Some existing health threats to act on an actual emergency such The government of Crown Prince war. U.S. military leaders well un- the ten most affected by percent of will intensify and new health threats as our worsening climate crisis, the Mohammad bin Salman is respon- derstand the dimensions of disaster population impacted. will emerge. Not everyone is equally grassroots, the people, can do so. sible for the murder of the journalist war with Iran would create. · Floods and storms exacerbated at risk. Important considerations in- Check out Extinction Rebellion re- Jamal Khashoggi, the coddling of Trump may well back away from by climate chaos disproportionately clude age, economic resources, and bellion.earth to learn of nonviolent the 9/11 terrorists, and consistent vi- his latest threat, as he often does, harm poor neighborhoods, primar- location. uprisings that are beginning. When olations of the human rights of Sau- perhaps motivated this time by ily people of color, in lower areas of “In the U.S., public health can be enough direct action imposes peace- di women and political opponents. election concerns. He must still be cities like Houston and New Orle- affected by disruptions of physical, ful but significant economic costs, Fourth, the full backdrop to this held to account, for his every action ans. biological, and ecological systems, case studies from around the world war threat must include Trump’s contributes to tension in the Middle · Poor neighborhoods—quite of- including disturbances originating show that policies can change. withdrawal from the nuclear deal East and does nothing to restrain ten mostly people of color—across here and elsewhere. The health ef- Leslie Gregory is a PA and is Ex- with Iran and the ensuing Bolton- Saudi Arabia in its Yemen war or the U.S. experience 10-degree or fects of these disruptions include ecutive Director, Right to Health. Dr. Pompeo strategy of “maximum provide incentives to Iran to nego- more higher temperatures than increased respiratory and cardiovas- Tom H. Hastings is PeaceVoice Direc- pressure” on Iran designed to pro- tiate. do wealthy neighborhoods. No, cular disease, injuries and premature tor and on occasion an expert witness voke regime change. Ever since, Mel Gurtov, syndicated by PeaceV- the weather gods are not racist, deaths related to extreme weather for the defense in court. Iran’s leaders have been looking for oice, is Professor Emeritus of Political but crowded concrete and asphalt events, changes in the prevalence –=≈=– ways to fight back against a U.S. pol- Science at Portland State University. neighborhoods absorb and retain and geographical distribution of No War for Saudi Oil! icy that has caused considerable eco- –=≈=– significantly more heat than do leafy food- and water-borne illnesses and by Mel Gurtov green expanses and large yards. other infectious diseases, and threats Even if U.S. intelligence decisively It is well understood amongst to mental health.” (CDC) shows that some of the drones and Idiopathic Pulmonary public health empiricists that people Ironically, so far to date CDC has cruise missiles used in the attack on of color already face related jeopar- failed to declare racism a threat to Saudi Arabia’s oil fields originated Fibrosis (IPF), a Disease of the Lungs

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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, September 29 Monday, September 30 Tuesday, October 1 Wednesday, October 2 Thursday, October 3 Friday, October 4 Saturday, October 5

2008—The Dow drops 777 points. 2011—U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki 2013—In the name of fiscal discipline, 2003—Survey chief David Kay re- 2009—Combat Outpost Keating, in 2017—America learns the hard way 2017—The Senate confirms a new 2006—Anti child-porn crusader is smote by a drone in Yemen. Trial? Republicans shut down the govern- ports that his three-month, $300 Nuristan, badly-sited and scheduled it has 800 troops in Niger: four Green Ambassador to the Czech Republic: Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) resigns after We don’t need no stinkin’ trial! ment. Cost to the economy: $24 billion. million search for Saddam Hussein’s for abandonment, is mostly overrun by Berets are killed in an ambush. ex-Wisconsin GOP chair Steve King. his lurid e-mails to young males leak. 2009—The intro- 2003—With Governor Benson’s bless- WMD has turned up squat. Taliban fighters who capture weapons 2004—SpaceShipOne, Burt Rutan’s In 1972, on orders from her husband, 2003—The White House denies that duces International Day. ing, Free Staters choose New Hamp- 2002—George W.[MD] Bush calls and ammunition, leaving eight Amer- tourist rocket, makes it to space a sec- CREEP chair John Mitchell, King Karl Rove had revealed the name of 2005—NY Times reporter Judith shire as their libertarian paradise. Iraq “a threat of unique urgency,” be- icans dead and 27 wounded. ond time, winning the Ansari X Prize. tore Martha Mitchell’s phone from CIA agent Valerie Plame. Miller tells a Grand Jury that Dick 2002—Northern Command is estab- cause of its WMDs. 2006—Republicans in Congress try 2002—Knight-Ridder: “The White the wall and restrained her as she was 2002—George W.[MD] Bush claims “Dick” Cheney leaked Valerie Plame’s lished to “Defend America’s Home- 1990—Three Texans in a Cessna to “roll over” $20 million set aside for a House and the Pentagon…are pres- forcibly injected with tranquilizers to Iraq has WMDs, al Qaeda terrorists, name to her. land”—posse comitatus be damned. come within 30 feet of clearing Mt. celebration of victory in Iraq. suring intelligence analysts to high- keep her from talking to the press. and a nuke coming soon. 1998—The GAO reports that Ken 2002—George W.[MD] Bush claims Washington. Their bodies are brought 2003—The National Enquirer reports light information that supports Bush’s 2010—“Fox and Friends” reports that 1988—The Veterans Peace Convoy to Starr had spent $40 million in a failed he hasn’t “made up his mind we’re go- down on the Cog Railway. that Rush Limbaugh is being investi- Iraq policy.” One paper runs the story. Los Angeles has bought $1 billion Nicaragua wins a lawsuit preventing effort to nail Bill Clinton. ing to war with Iraq.” 1980—Senior members of the Rea- gated for illegally procuring prescrip- 1986—Dan Rather is attacked on the worth of jet packs for its Police and the Executive branch from regulat- 1962—César Chávez founds what 1993—Caving under pressure, the gan campaign team meet in D.C. with tion opioids. streets of New York by two men yell- Fire Departments. They cribbed the ing or prohibiting foreign aid that is becomes the United Farm Workers. IRS grants tax-free status to the a representative of the Ayatollah, who 1993—Berlin, N.H. native Michael ing, “What’s the frequency, Ken?” story from the Weekly World News. intended to relieve human suffering. 1956—Drunk-flying a stolen Cess- “Church” of Scientology. offers to release U.S. hostages. Durant’s helicopter is one of two shot 1971—Pres. Nguyen Van Thieu, un- 2003—Timothy Treadwell and girl- 1980—The Washington Post publishes na, Thomas Fitzpatrick lands on St. 1973—Despite many failures to meet 1980—Michael Myers (D-Pa.) be- down in the First Battle of Mogadi- opposed, is reelected. He says it’s “an friend Amie Huguenard discover the Janet Cook’s Pulitzer-winning story Nicholas St. in Manhattan, taxis to service requirements, George W.[MD] comes the first Rep. expelled in 120 shu. Durant, played by Ron Eldard in achievement for democracy” in ’Nam. hard way that the grizzly bears they’ve about a fictional 8 year-old junkie. Joe’s on the corner, and orders a beer. Bush is discharged honorably from the years, for bribe-taking and conspiracy. Black Hawk Down, survives. 1958—At 12:45 a.m., Thomas “Fitz” been associating with in Alaska are 1972—A short, bearded man in 1954—U.S.S. Nautilus, the first Texas Air National Guard. Why only him? Who knows. 1986—A fire breaks out aboard the Fitzpatrick wins a bar bet by landing not vegetarians. sneakers spontaneously grabs ex-Sec. atomic-powered ship, is launched. 1964—Campus cops at U.C. Berke- 1978—With the Yankees and Red Soviet missile sub K-219. The Reds a “borrowed” Cessna on Amsterdam 2002—George W.[MD] Bush tells of Defense Robert Strange Mc- 1950—Pres. Harry S Truman signs ley arrest Jack Weinberg; big mistake. Sox tied for the season, a playoff game blame an alleged collision with the Ave. and 187th St in Manhattan, just N.H. Guardsmen that Saddam could Namara and tries to throw him off the NSC-68, a blueprint to contain Com- The Free Speech Movement ensues. is held; it’s decided by a three-run ho- U.S.S. Augusta. The Pentagon blames as he had done two years earlier. inflict “massive and sudden horror” on ferry into Vineyard Sound. munism—and reap presumed Keyn- 1952—The first issue of Mad is un- mer hit by New York’s Bucky F. Dent. sloppy Commie work habits. 1957—Two bombs wound 13 GIs in the U.S. It’s not true. 1969—The U.S. Army drops murder sian economic benefits. leashed on an unsuspecting world. 1967—Thurgood Marshall becomes 1980—Moral Majority co-founder Saigon—the first announced U.S. ca- 2001—Robert Stevens, photo editor charges against Special Forces Col. 1938—Thanks to the Munich Agree- 1917—Arabs led by T.E. Lawrence the first black Supreme Court Justice. and U.S. Rep. Bob Bauman (R-Md.) sualties in Vietnam. of the supermarket tabloid The Sun, Robert Rheault—the CIA won’t let ment, peace in Europe is assured. capture Damascus. 1965—In Natchez, Miss., 500 people is charged with making sexual solici- 1946—On President Truman’s or- dies of anthrax. The terrorist who in- its agents testify. 1919—A white man dies in a shootout 1910—Dynamite badly damages the are sent without trial to the Parchman tations to an under-aged boy. ders, the Navy seizes American oil fected him remains at large. 1957—A Soviet nuke fuel plant blows in Elaine, Ark. Over the next three building housing the virulently an- Penitentiary for protesting the denial 1973—Donald Segretti testifies be- refineries to break a 20-state strike. 1988—In a Vice-Presidential debate, up, kills hundreds, and spews more days, 240 blacks and five whites die in ti-union Los Angeles Times; a burst gas of their right to register to vote. fore the Senate about dirty tricks he 1936—Two thousand British fascists Lloyd Bbentsen informs Dan Quayle radiation than anything until Cher- the U.S.’s worst single racial conflict. main finishes the job. 1941—On , Major-General used to get Nixon re-elected. try marching through largely-Jewish he’s “no Jack Kennedy.” nobyl. The CIA suppresses the news 1864—Black Union soldiers capture 1903—Fred Van Wormer’s autopsy is Clifford Thomason Beckett of the 1968—Gen. Curtis LeMay, former Stepney; 20,000 anti-fascists explain 1986—Nicaraguans shoot down a to protect the U.S. nuke industry. Confederate entrenchments at battle halted because he’s breathing. Taken Royal Artillery tells Major H.S. Fowle Strategic Air Command chief and to them why that’s a bad idea. U.S. plane illegally supplying Contras 1940—Over Brocklesby, N.S.W., of New Market Heights. back to Sing Sing’s electric chair, he is he is “not fit to command anything.” American Independent Party Vice 1918—The world’s largest munitions with arms bought with the proceeds of two RAAF Avro Ansons collide and 1630—John Billington becomes the found to have died. He is electrocuted 1919—Woodrow Wilson has a stroke; Presidential Candidate, advocates use factory explodes in South Amboy, illegal U.S. arms sales to Iran. mash together. After the other crew- first Pilgrim hanged for murder. again anyway, just for good measure. the U.S. gets a woman president. of nuclear weapons in Vietnam. N.J., killing 80. Thousands more are 1971—Prescient political advisor Pat men bail, the pilot of the lower plane 1542—Johannes Gutenberg publish- 1860—San Francisco’s Emperor 1918—In the Argonne, the Lost 1955—CIA HQ gets a cable from the made homeless, and are left exposed Buchanan tells Richard Nixon, “If we lands them successfully, saying, “she es The Bible. No royalties for the pre- Norton, by decree, bans Congress Battalion gets cut off behind German Caracas Station: a former SS trooper to the elements. Many catch influen- tear the country in half, we can pick up was heavy on the controls.” sumed author. from meeting in Washington, D.C. lines; in a week, ⅔ are KIA or WIA. says Hitler is alive in Argentina. za; 300 of them die from it. the bigger half.” 12:08 12:34 12:56 1:24 1:44 2:15 2:33 3:09 3:25 4:05 4:21 5:07 5:23

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2004—The top U.S. arms inspector in 2016—The Washington Post releases 2004—American warplanes miss 2005—Four die as the Cold River 2002—The U.S. House of Represen- 2006—Nine years after she was hit by 1972—A race riot aboard the U.S.S. Iraq says there is no evidence Saddam a videotape on which the GOP Pres- Abu Musab al Zarqawi but kill 13 floods Alstead, N.H. tatives votes to give Presidents permis- a lampost knocked over by a Macy’s Kitty Hawk injures 47. Hussein had tried to manufacture any idential candidate brags about grab- people at a wedding instead. 2001—Two Democratic Senators re- sion to use the world’s most powerful parade balloon, Kathleen Caronna’s 1970—Lieut. William Calley is WMDs after 1991. bing women by their genitals. Hours 1991—Speaker of the House Tom ceive letters carrying anthrax spores. military machine to do as they please. Manhattan apartment burns after court-martialled for 102 murders. 1989—RIP Bette Davis. Years earlier, later hacked emails of his opponent’s Foley [D-Wash.] announces that the 1998—In “a mockery of the regula- 1991—Seven of New Hampshire’s being struck by Yankees pitcher Cory 1969—Navy nurse Susan Schnell told she was rumored to have died, she campaign chairman are released. House’s sergeant-at-arms will no lon- tory process” that “brazenly violates largest banks, holding 25% of all Lidle’s Cirrus airplane. drops anti-war leaflets from a plane said, “During a newspaper strike? I 2011—On her 62nd birthday, Wal- ger fix traffic tickets for Members. existing law,” Citicorp and Travelers deposits and 60% of all commercial 2003—Red Sox pitcher Pedro Marti- onto a California military base. wouldn’t dream of it.” Mart heir Alice Walton gets her 2nd 1985—Dining at the White House, Group merge into Citigroup, enrich- loans, are closed by regulators. nez gives Yankee coach Don Zimmer 1964—JFK’s very close friend Mary 1976—Cubana Flight 455 is bombed DWI; but no charges were filed. The President Reagan “praises incessant- ing Sandy Weill and Jamie Dimon but 1990—Coached by Hill & Knowlton, a shove, knocking the 72-year old Pinchot Meyer is murdered under the over Barbados, killing 73. Miami resi- second wealthiest woman on Earth, ly” his guest’s most recent work of art: costing taxpayers billions. the Kuwaiti Ambassador’s daughter Zimmer to the ground. murkiest of circumstances. dent Luis Posada Carriles is wanted in she killed a woman in a 1989 car Rambo: First Blood, Part II. 1992—Hearing a loud bang, Michelle lies to Congress about incubators. 2002—The U.S. Senate approves the 1964—Canadian diplomat John Cuba and Venezuela for the crime, but wreck; but no charges were filed. 1974—The Franklin National Bank Knapp of Peekskill, N.Y. goes outside 1973—Vice President Spiro “Ted” error made yesterday by the House. Watkins, ex-Ambassador to the the U.S. won’t extradite him. 2007—Bangor, Maine celebrates the collapses, undermined by Mafioso and finds a hole punched through the Agnew resigns in disgrace, pleading 1991—Anita Hill testifies before USSR, dies in a Montreal hotel room 1973—Egypt and Syria attack Israel death of Al Brady, Public Enemy No. Michele Sindona, a close buddy of trunk of her 1980 Chevy Malibu and nolo to charges he dodged taxes on Congress that her former boss, Su- during an interrogation to determine on Yom Kippur. This backfires. 1, in a 1937 shootout downtown. President Nixon’s Treasury Secretary a warm 26-pound meteorite lying on bribes and kickbacks. preme Court Justice-to-be Clarence if he’s a spy, as is alleged by CIA count- 1961—President Kennedy recom- 2001—U.S. forces invade Afghani- David Kennedy. the pavement beneath it. 1969—Richard Nixon, puts his Thomas sexually harassed her. er-intel chief James Jesus Angleton. mends that, in case of nuclear war, stan. George W.[MD] Bush writes his 1969—A three-day riot branded 1985—“We should declare war on “madman theory” into practice, order- 1973—Henry Kissinger tells Brent 1961—The FBI launches a “Socialist American families get ready to live for Poppy, “I feel no sense of the so-called “Days of Rage” begins in Chicago. North Vietnam,” says Ronald Reagan. ing a gratuitous global nuclear alert. Scowcroft that President Nixon can’t Worker Disruption Program.” a while in holes in the ground. heavy burden of the office.” 1968—Washington, D.C. riots after “We could pave the whole country and 1957—Britain’s Windscale nuke plant take a call from the British Prime 1960—Otoya Yamaguchi, 17, a 1917—“In time of war,” says Sen. 1996—Fox News begins broadcasting police shoot a black man. put parking strips on it, and still be burns; contaminated milk for 200 Minister because he’s too “loaded.” right-winger, runs a sword through Robert LaFollette, “the citizen must mass quantities of insidious swill. 1967—Ernesto “Che” Guevara is home by Christmas.” miles is dumped into the Irish Sea. 1960—Nikita Khrushchev employs Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Social- be more alert to his right to control his 1985—Attorney General Ed “Meese captured by Bolivian troops led by the 1974—Rep. Wilbur Mills [D-Ark.] is 1933—A Boeing 247 airliner is de- footwear to make his point at the po- ists, during a televised debate. government.” is a Pig” Meese explains that “Mi- CIA’s Felix Rodriguez. stopped at 2 a.m. for speeding with his stroyed by a bomb over Indiana. Seven dium of the UN. 1945—Corporal Desmond Doss, 1886—After spotting a 75-foot sea randa only helps guilty defendants,” 1955—“The nations of the world will headlights off. His passenger, Fanne passengers and three crew die in the 1954—The Viet Minh take over a medic and conscientious objector, serpent near the mouth of the Pisca- because “if a person is innocent of a have to unite” warns Gen. D. MacAr- [sic] Foxe, aka “The Argentine Fire- first such act in history. North Vietnam. becomes the first non-combatant to taqua, its head four feet above the sur- crime, then he is not a suspect.” thur, “for the next war will be an inter- cracker,” hops into the Tidal Basin. 1911—Jasper “Jack” Daniel, distill- 1945—Mao’s Red Army goes to war receive the Medal of Honor. face, two Kittery men “[ply] their oars 1980—Rep. John Jenrette, Jr. [D-S.C.] planetary war.” 1967—Dr. Ernesto “Che” Guevara er, dies of blood poisoning from an against Chiang Kai-Shek’s kleptocracy. 1943—Combat medic Willi Graf is lustily for the shore.” is convicted of conspiracy and bribery. 1942—Shot down on a mission for taunts a hesitant executioner, saying infected toe injured by kicking a safe 1937—Physicians warn the AMA guillotined by the Wehrmacht for un- 1856—Portsmouth celebrates the 1952—Vladimir Vladimirovich Pu- which he volunteered, Capt. Harl “Just shoot, you coward. You are only whose combination he’d forgotten. that Massengil’s new miracle drug dermining the war effort. centennial of the founding of The New tin is born in Leningrad [see 2016]. Pease, of Plymouth, N.H., is behead- killing a man.” 1888—Two trains leaving an ab- “Elixir Sulfanilamide” is causing their 1923—Thousands of Ku Klux Klans- Hampshire Gazette; the railroad lays on 1917—Relief forces reach the Lost ed by his Japanese captors. 1966—Lt. JG William T. Patton, stinence rally collide in Pa.; 66 die. patients to die in agony. men hold a rally in Portland, Maine. extra trains to accommodate the crush Battalion in the Argonne Forest. 1918—In the Argonne, ex-pacifist flying a prop-driven Douglas A1 Newspaper accounts suggest many 1906—The City of San Francisco de- 1917—Passchendaele begins: 13,000 of visitors from around New England 1756—Daniel Fowle and enslaved Cpl. Alvin C. York kills 25 German Skyraider, downs a MiG-17 jet fighter survivors abandoned their pledges. crees that Japanese children must go to Allied casualties, no advance. and beyond. Festivities include a pa- pressman Primus X begin printing soldiers and captures 132. over Vietnam. 1871—Octavius Valentine Catto, 32, segregated schools. 1902—Mine owners in Pana, Ill. im- rade, a regatta, and a banquet featur- The New Hampshire Gazette in Ports- 1871—According to myth, a cow 1963—In , a landslide sends 13 a teacher at Philadelphia’s Institute for 1809—At Grinder’s Stand, a tavern, port strike-breakers. Violence ensues. ing many speeches. mouth. It achieves national seniority starts a fire that burns Chicago and billion gallons of water over an 860 Colored Youth, is shot dead by Frank Meriwether Lewis cuts his wrists and Fourteen die and 25 are wounded. 1536—William Tyndale is burned for in 1839 when the Maryland Gazette kills 200. Meanwhile, Peshtigo, Wisc. foot-tall dam. An 820-foot wave eras- Kelly for having the temerity to vote shoots himself twice—according to 1492—A lost European begins op- printing a Bible people could read. folds. burns completely and 600 die. es five villages and kills 2,000. while black. Kelly is acquitted. the official version of events. pressing native Americans. 6:13 6:30 7:20 7:37 8:22 8:38 9:16 9:31 10:03 10:19 10:44 11:00 11:21 11:38

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