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Th e Fortnightly Rant Armistice Day Plus 95 Maine and New Hampshire motion passed by a unanimous are connected once again, thanks voice vote, the entire proceeding to the New Memorial Bridge; taking twenty seconds.† pedestrians, bicyclists, and motor- Nine months later, on January ists can stroll or ride or drive with 22, 2013, Assistant City Manager ease across the mighty and turbu- David Allen gave the City Coun- lent Piscataqua. cil a six-minute presentation on Th e bronze eagle and accompa- the preliminary plans for a me- nying plaques from the old bridge, morial constructed in part from salvaged and restored, have now granite footings from the original been mounted on the new south- bridge, which would be cut, re- ern portal — exquisite pieces of fi nished, and made into separate artwork bridging our mundane blocks, each honoring a separate present to more elegant days early branch of the armed services. in the last century. One year after the proposal was Rounding out this profusion of fi rst aired, on April 1st of this civic propriety one hundred yards year, James Teetzel and landscape southwest of the magnifi cent old architect Roberta Woodburn pre- bronze eagle, a new Veterans Me- sented a much-modifi ed memo- morial Circle has been construct- rial plan. ed at no cost to the City of Ports- Due to a shortage of material mouth or its resident veterans. the original plan was scrapped. Th e timing could not be better: Th e few blocks available would just ten days from now we’ll ob- instead be stacked to create a serve what used to be called Ar- vertical central feature: a foun- mistice Day, commemorating the tain adorned with inspirational has 30 more pending, accord- it sells only to the Defense De- country. What’s wrong with that? end of the War to End All Wars. wording. Recirculated by a pump, ing to the Award-Winning Lo- partment and law enforcement. Let’s look at it another way: a What could possibly be wrong water would pour from an open- cal Daily. His company, Wilcox And sell it does. A few years man who has not served in uni- with this picture? ing in the top and gently cascade Industries, manufactures highly ago Wilcox landed a $177 million form but derives his considerable Th at’s the job of the journalist, down, washing over the surface of specialized gadgets for use by U.S. contract to replace worn night- income from martial confl ict and now, isn’t it — looking for fl ies in the stones. Th e central fountain Special Forces. He’s Newington’s vision helmet mounts which were who supports only politicians the ointment?* would be surrounded by two con- Tony Stark, without all the public used in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ten from a bellicose political party, Regarding Th is Gift Horse … centric granite circles, with a fl ag- boozing and womanizing. such devices are off ered on the pays a tiny fraction of his income Th e city’s newest veterans’ me- pole and a bronze medallion for If that comparison seems over- company’s website, at unit prices to honor the worker/soldiers who morial was fi rst proposed at a each branch of the armed forces. blown, visit his company’s web- ranging from $407 to $1,787. risk their lives, using tools that he City Council meeting on April At some point, though, the foun- site, WilcoxInd.com. It’s got videos Morbid curiosity prompted us provides for a profi t, to defend a 2, 2012. Mayor Eric Spear noted tain fell by the wayside. of parachute drops seen through to look at the Teetzels’ political political and economic system in that a letter had been received Our Patron night-vision goggles, weapons campaign donations. Since 2002, which the middle class has been from Attorney James Noucas, Jr. James Wilcox Teetzel is a me- bristling with enigmatic black the couple has given to three treading water since 1980. informing the Council that James chanical engineer who made dingbats, and a soundtrack right New Hampshire Republicans, Jeb Perhaps the proper question is, and Laurie Teetzel were pledging good. He holds 18 patents and out of Iron Man, complete with Bradley, Judd Gregg, and John what’s right with this picture? $25,000 towards its construction. gunfi re. E. Sununu, as well as California’s To which we’d say, this: Teetzel Councilor Anthony Coviello † According to the minutes of ArtSpeak, Whatever one thinks of the de- Duncan Hunter and Maine’s Su- has given us a perfect meta-mon- the city’s cultural commission, the Teetzels’ moved that the letter be referred off er was discussed on July 30, 2012. fense industry in general, Wilcox san Collins, also Republicans. Th e ument. Its surface honors those to Art-Speak, the City’s art com- ArtSpeak would “set up meeting to speak certainly does a lot of things right. total: $23,500. who put their lives at risk for their mission, for a report back. Th e with donor, city reps, and ArtSpeak,” at A promotional video on its web- What’s Right With Th is Picture? country, while the circumstances which the commission would “outline * Th e fl oor of our Mash Notes, Hate Mail, the process for public art and funding site says over 90 percent of their A successful businessman has of its creation refl ect a politi- and Other Correspondence Department for outdoor sculpture.” Th e minutes of workforce comes from the Sea- put up his own money to grace cal and economic system which has been reinforced to accommodate the subsequent ArtSpeak meetings contain fl ood of complaints we expect this piece to no references to the project that we could coast, all the company’s products a piece of city property with a hardly seems to deserve the sac- generate, so don’t hold back. fi nd. are manufactured in the U.S., and memorial to those who serve our rifi ces it demands.

Th e Alleged News The American Nightmare Dare to fl oat a proposal in to- for infl ation, the minimum wage istration of Bush the Lesser, un- are enrolled in one or more public dent Obama’s soul-destroying day’s marketplace of ideas that today — $7.25 an hour — is the til Congress passed a three-stage programs, compared to 25 per- stimulus package but, like George contradicts Republican dogma same as it was 63 years ago. increase in 2007. Eighty-two cent of the workforce as a whole,” W. Bush’s tax cuts, they came with and you will be accused of waging Th at’s a dismal picture but House Republicans voted for the and “the cost of public assistance an expiration date. Unlike Bush’s class warfare. Th ere’s a reason for it could be worse — and it was, bill, which just goes to show how to families of workers in the fast- temporary tax cuts, which Con- that — it’s called projection. during the Reagan and Bush #43 long fi ve years can be in politics. food industry is nearly $7 billion gressional Republicans wanted As their approval ratings cra- Administrations. Th ese days they’d be drummed per year.” to live forever, the food stamp in- ter and journalists debate how For nearly thirty years, from the out of the party as Socialists. Th e GOP’s Mandatory Diet crease must DIE! many election cycles the Party mid-1950s until 1980, the mini- Want SNAP With Th ose Fries? Apparently we can expect Not Dead Enough Yet can withstand before it succumbs mum wage ran about $2 infl a- Late last month labor activ- people relying on food stamps, It’s not enough that Obama’s to the inevitable and retreats to a tion-adjusted dollars higher than ists released a tape recording of a aka the Supplemental Nutrition food stamp increase will end redoubt in the Old Confederacy, its current value. Th e nation never McDonald’s corporate help line Assistance Program (SNAP), to — Republicans want to cut the the GOP is doing to America had it so good. instructing a ten-year company become more svelte soon — as program by another $40 billion what Sherman did to Georgia: Th en, during the administration employee how to apply for food of today, their benefi ts are being over the next decade. Th e Center waging one last, savage campaign of the aff able old Gipper, infl ation stamps, heating assistance, and cut by 13 percent. Among those on Budget and Policy Priorities to destroy what’s left of the mid- steadily lowered the value of the Medicaid. aff ected, according to the Center analyzed the eff ects this would dle class. And they’ll call it saving dollar. With no statutory increase, A study released October on Budget and Policy Priorities: “deny SNAP to approximately the nation. minimum wage workers watched 15th by the Labor Center at UC 900,000 veterans, 5,000 of them 3.8 million low-income people in Disservice With a Smile their pay drop by one-third. Berkeley showed that “more than in New Hampshire. Th e Federal minimum wage A slightly less-dramatic ero- half (52 percent) of the families Th ose benefi ts had been in- Th e Alleged News law is now 75 years old. Adjusted sion occurred under the admin- of front-line fast-food workers creased in 2009 as part of Presi- to page two Page 2 - The New Hampshire Gazette - Friday, November 1, 2013

Th e Alleged News Aware of the sensitive feel- from page one ings of our corporate overlords, the SEC rule “would not pre- 2014 and to an average of nearly 3 scribe a specifi c methodology for million people each year over the companies to use in calculating coming decade.” a ‘pay ratio.’ Instead, companies Th e Gold Ratio would have the fl exibility to de- A person working at McDon- termine the median annual total ald’s forty hours a week and mak- compensation of its employees in ing the federal minimum wage a way that best suits its particu- rakes in a handsome $14,500 a lar circumstances” — so that its year. Th anks to its policy of pay- marketing geniuses could spin the ing workers such lousy wages, results in the least-damaging way McDonald’s recorded a $1.5 bil- possible. lion profi t in the 3rd quarter. Dissenting Republican Com- For managing the company so missioner Michael Piwowar, wisely, McDonald’s CEO Don quoted by Reuters, said of the Th ompson is handsomely reward- vote, “Proponents have acknowl- ed — he was paid $13.8 million edged the sole objective of the pay in 2012. Th e math says Th omp- ratio is to shame CEOs, but the son makes 951 times as much his shame from this rule should not minimum wage, SNAP-reliant be put on CEOS — it should be employees. put on the fi ve of us. Shame on us Th e Securities and Exchange for putting special interests ahead Commission [SEC] voted in Sep- of investors.” tember to propose a rule requiring Taxes Are For Little People “public companies to disclose the On October 22nd, USA Today published two days in the same According to Standard & Poor’s, rity trustees, “[this] confi rms what ratio of the compensation of its reported that American corporate paper helped explain why: 57 the shutdown sucked $24 billion many of us have known, that So- chief executive offi cer [to that of ] CEOs scored an average pay raise companies in the S&P — nearly out of the U.S. economy and cost cial Security is not ‘going broke,’ its employees.” of 8.5 percent last year. A report one in nine — “have found ways 120,000 people their jobs — but that it can pay every benefi t owed to pay eff ective tax rates of zero.” that was just the shutdown. A re- to every eligible American for the Meanwhile, down amongst the port by Macroeconomic Advisers next 20 years, and that after 2033 proles, CNN reported on October for the Peter G. Peterson Founda- there is enough in reserve to pay 23rd that “34 percent [of Ameri- tion, gauging the cumulative ef- three-quarters of future benefi ts. cans] plan to work until they’re at fects of Congressional battles over “Our job now is to make sure least 80 — that’s up from 25 per- the budget since 2010, estimates Social Security is strong not just cent in 2011 and 30 percent last the cost at $700 billion. for 20 years but for generations year. An even larger percentage, By carefully ignoring the real to come. Th e best way to do that 37 percent, said they’ll never re- causes of our economic woes, Re- is not to cut Social Security cost- tire and plan either to work until publicans have diverted attention of-living adjustments as Republi- they get too sick or die ….” to Social Security, pronounced it cans and President Obama have Th e Grand Sellout guilty, and maneuvered it into the proposed, but to do what Obama For the past thirty-fi ve years general vicinity of the chopping called for as a candidate in 2008. Republicans have droned on block. Soon a House/Senate con- We must lift the cap on Social Se- about Federal defi cit spending, ference committee will sit down curity payroll taxes and make the even as they demanded more tax and pretend they can come up wealthy contribute the same per- cuts for the wealthy and waged with a budget agreement by mid- centage of their income as other wars on credit. During the last December. In the meantime, they workers. Today, someone making Th e restored bronze plaque and eagle from the original Memorial Bridge four or fi ve years that drone has are whetting their ax and eyeing $10 million a year contributes the have now been installed on its replacement. Shown here: fi tting adjustments been overlaid with the shrieking what’s left of the nation’s safety same amount of money as some- being made in the early hours of Monday morning, October 28th. Photo of Tea Party hysterics. Th e late and net. one making $113,700. Th at is ab- courtesy of Stephan Smith, Piscataqua Productions. unlamented government shut- At least one member of that surd.” down represented the breaking of committee knows what’s going In 1954, Dwight Eisenhow- that budget fever. Unfortunately on: Senator Bernie Sanders (I- er wrote to his brother Edgar, it seems to be a chronic ailment; VT). Last May he said of the lat- “Should any political party at- like malaria, it will return. est report from the Social Secu- tempt to abolish Social Security,

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Hunt (you possi- Title 18 U.S. Code, Section 2384 bly know his background), a few provides the means to terminate other Texas oil millionaires, and the present controversy. an occasional politician or busi- Under the heading, “Seditious ness man from other areas. Th eir Conspiracy,” it reads in part, “If number is negligible and they are two or more persons … conspire stupid.” to … by force … prevent, hinder, Oh, for the good old days …. or delay the execution of any law Hello? Department of Justice? of the … they shall Charlie Pierce, who blogs at each be fi ned under this title or Esquire.com/blogs/politics, f re- imprisoned not more than twenty quently quotes little bits from years, or both.” James Madison. On Tuesday he Arguing that “extortion falls un- unearthed this gem: “A political der the legal defi nition of ‘force,’” system that does not provide for Belisle has created an online pe- a peaceable and authoritative ter- tition (petitions.moveon.org/sign/ mination of occurring controver- arrest-and-try-house) to arrest and sies, would not be more than the try the House’s GOP leadership © 2013 by Dan Woodman shadow of a government; the ob- for seditious conspiracy. ject and end of a real government “Th e House GOP leadership’s conspiracy. Arrest the perpetra- including seven in Portsmouth, 23 years of service. He became an being, the substitution of law and use of the Hastert Rule and H. tors in Congress immediately and the state-funded monument was instructor and, eventually, acting order, for uncertainty, confusion, Res 368 to shut down the govern- bring them to justice.” created by Bashka Paeff , a young, president of the Hurricane Island and violence.” ment and threaten the U.S. econ- To be delivered to the House of Russian-born woman. Some me- Outward Bound School in Rock- So do we have a government, omy with default is an attempt Representatives, the Senate, and morials openly glorify war, others land, ME, where he developed a or just the shadow of one? Ac- to extort the United States gov- President Barack Obama, the pe- strive to express respect for the program to work with veterans cording to Madison, that depends ernment into altering or abolish- tition currently has 55,045 signa- honor of those who have served. with Post-Traumatic Stress Dis- on whether we have a way to in- ing the Aff ordable Care Act, and tures. Correction: 55,046. Th is one does neither. Depicting order. duce Republicans peaceably and thus, is self-evidently a seditious Sacrifi ces of War a mother attempting to shield In his obituary in the With so much local attention her child from its chaos and de- Globe, his son Robert said, “Time devoted to memorials right now, struction, with two drowned men and again we fi nd that our nation’s and Veterans Day coming soon, at her feet, it prompts a question warriors come back and become we’d be remiss not to mention that is too rarely asked: to what advocates for peace.” the remarkable Maine Sailors and purpose do we put those noble Support the Troops, Texas Style Soldiers Memorial in John Paul sacrifi ces made on our behalf? Meanwhile, in Texas, KRIS-TV Jones Park in Kittery. R.I.P. Col. Robert Rheault asked Rep. Blake Farenthold, a As Jennifer Wingate notes in a Col. Robert Rheault died in Republican representing the 27th 2008 article in Woman’s Art Jour- Owls Head, ME on October Congressional District, how he nal, the monument is “[d]iffi cult 16th at the age of 87. He com- would justify the recent govern- to view properly from the road,” manded the U.S. Army’s Fifth ment shutdown to retired veter- but “comes into better focus from Special Forces Group in Vietnam ans who were on the verge of los- within the confi nes of the grassy for three months in 1969. He was ing their disability checks. common.” Th ose who park and relieved of command and court Farenthold explained, “I feel approach the Memorial will be martialed following the “termi- like my mandate when I was well rewarded; full of grace and nation with extreme prejudice” of elected was to go reduce the size dignity, it is also full of surprises. Chu Van Th ai Khac, a Cambodian of government, lower taxes, and Completed in 1926, just six double agent. Charges were later increase freedom, and freedom Half a mile north of Portsmouth’s new Veterans Memorial Circle, in Kit- years after the Palmer Raids dropped because the CIA refused isn’t free, and sometimes you have tery’s John Paul Jones Park is one of the nation’s most striking, controversial, rounded up thousands of suspect- to provide witnesses. Rheault to make a small sacrifi ce to move and thought-provoking war memorials: Bashka Paeff ’s Sacrifi ces of War. ed Bolsheviks for deportation, then retired from the Army with forward with what you’re after.” Page 4 - The New Hampshire Gazette - Friday, November 1, 2013

After six years of frequent hik- passing the New Hampshire gay ing trips up North with family marriage law four years ago, and Hate Mail, members, several good friends, helping to defeat eff orts to repeal Mash Notes, and my loyal Rat Terrier, and hav- it since then. Jim is an outstanding public Pantelakos; Selectmen: Nancy ing overcome all weather condi- It was an issue of great concern servant, who knows how to work Brown, Joann R. Wyckoff , John tions, challenging water crossings, to me. He and I worked together well with all, and gets things done. Pennington; Registrar: Penny dangerous rock and fl ume slides through the years fi ghting for gay I ask my friends to vote for Jim Reynolds. and open ledges, I fi nally fulfi lled equality. While in the Senate, I Splaine as one of nine choices for Ward 2: Moderator: Susan the promise to myself of stand- helped lead the eff ort in the late City Council on November 5th. Denenberg; Clerk: Rebecca Mc- ing on all 48 of New Hampshire’s 1990s to end discrimination in Portsmouth has a lot of issues, Beath; Selectmen: Diane Stra- tallest summits and taking in all services, housing and employ- like too-tall buildings and out-of- dling, Leslie McCarthy, William the breath-taking scenery that ment. Ours was just the 11th state match development, and having McClure; Registrar: Candace these mountains provide. Hav- to adopt such a law, and even to- proven politicians who can bring Th ayer. White Mountains Not For Sale ing done so, I can now say with day only half the states have such people to work together on im- Ward 3: Moderator: Raymond To the Editor: deep conviction that there is no protections. portant matters is vital. F. Mullaly; Clerk: Catherine Th e proposed Northern Pass energy source or corporate prof- When Jim Splaine decided to Th anks Jim, for running! Blanchard Cosgrove; Selectmen: Project has had me concerned all its worth compromising a single introduce a gay marriage bill in Burt Cohen Shirley Mullaly, Deborah Di- along because its design calls for New Hampshire White Moun- 2009, he met much resistance, New Castle, NH Franco, Jennifer Fahey; Registrar: placing a 180 mile scar, comprised tain National Forest view. even from supporters of equality § Angelynne Hinson. of steel towers up to 155 feet tall, It would behoove all the smartly who felt that the time wasn’t right Fight Voter Suppression Ward 4: Moderator: Gerald W. bearing high-powered transmis- dressed Northern Pass executives yet. But he spent months forging To the Editor: R. Ward; Clerk: Rahul Sivaprasad; sion lines, across the face of New who wish to “borrow” and alter ahead, putting together a coali- Th ere are other elections in Selectmen: Sharon Nichols, Pa- Hampshire, including an 11-mile our publically-owned resources, tion bridging parties and political Portsmouth on November 5 be- tricia Rowe, Matthew Hancock; stretch through our beloved New to put on a backpack and pair of views to do the right thing. sides City Council, School Board, Registrar: Marcia Main. Hampshire White Mountain Na- hiking boots to hike the Whites Passage of the bill he sponsored and Police and Fire Commissions. Ward 5: Moderator: Susan tional Forest. However, I vowed to so they can feel the same sense of surprised a lot of people, and it I refer to the elections for Ward Hubbard; Clerk: Marsha Rob- reserve judgment on which views awe and decreased sense of self- wouldn’t have gotten to Gover- Moderator, Clerk, Selectmen and inson; Selectmen: Nancy Gross- I would be willing to compromise importance and materialistic de- nor’s Lynch’s desk for his signa- Registrar, as well as for Registrar man, Mary Lou McElwain, Brian until I hiked to the summit of all sire. ture without Jim fi rst introduc- at Large. Th ese are the offi cials Wazlaw; Registrar: Sherwood R. 48 of the 4,000’ plus peaks in New Wayne H. Merritt ing the bill at a time that many who actually conduct our elec- Spelke. Hampshire to provide witness. Dover, NH thought it couldn’t be done, and tions. Larry Drake I truly recognize that we must, § bringing people together to do Th ese are the only partisan races Chair, Portsmouth Democratic for vital national security and en- Jim Splaine for Council what some felt was impossible where candidates are identifi ed as Committee vironmental protection reasons, To the Editor: back then. Many other leaders either Democrats or Republicans. Portsmouth, NH wean ourselves of our long, dan- Portsmouth has been through a like Sen. Martha Fuller Clark, I urge the voters of Portsmouth § gerous addiction to fossil fuels, lot of changes these last few years. Speaker Terie Norelli, and area to vote for the Democratic can- Republicans Show True Colors especially those obtained from I live in New Castle, but Ports- legislators helped lead the eff ort, didates. To the Editor: oil-rich Middle Eastern countries mouth, which I represented in and Jim was in the front of mak- Party identifi cation is important Republicans like to brag about ruled by tyrannical dictators and the New Hampshire State Senate ing it happen sooner rather than now because the Republican Par- how they are “fi scally conserva- monarchs. Admittedly the only for 14 years, and where I spend a later. ty nationally for the last few years tive,” support “job creators,” and way to achieve this critical goal lot of my time and have a lot of Marriage equality and the fi ght has been carrying out a campaign generally are good stewards of is via the development of diverse, friends, has always been part of for diversity is important to me. of voter suppression, making it the economy. Let’s see how these aff ordable alternative renewable my neighborhood too. Part of that comes from the fact harder for people to vote. On the boasts stack up with the recent energy sources, to include hydro- What Portsmouth needs is that my brother has been in a other hand, we Democrats en- Federal government shutdown. electric power. However, I would someone who has been involved committed relationship for over courage people to register to vote To review, Republicans in the fi nd it bitterly repugnant to sup- in politics long enough to know 30 years, and discrimination and participate in our democracy. U.S. House of Representatives port these Northern Pass execu- how to bring people together to against my brother is unaccept- Below are the Democratic can- shut down the government for 16 tives who refuse to compromise get things done for the common able to me. To me, the cause is didates. Th ey are all good people days last month in a futile eff ort a piece of their bottom-line for good of all. One of those is my personal. Jim and I worked to- committed to continuing Ports- to block implementation of the the common good. Th ey need to friend Jim Splaine, and the city I gether to end what had been legal mouth’s tradition of clean, fair Aff ordable Care Act (“Obamac- consider burying the entire 180 so love now has the opportunity discrimination based on perceived and accurate elections. I ask that are”). miles of transmission line, so as to put him to work for that com- sexual orientation and because of you vote for them. According to the ratings agen- to eliminate the visual impact on mon good. Jim uniquely showed those eff orts our state has been Registrar at Large: Barbara cy, Standard and Poor’s, the shut- New Hampshire’s natural beauty his ability to bring people together one of the leaders in this national Ward. down cost the national economy and mitigate damage to its eco- around an important cause by his human rights cause — and that Ward 1: Moderator: Petra Pan- $24 billion. Another organization, system. leadership as a state legislator in fi ght is not yet done. telakos-Barstow; Clerk: Joseph Moody’s Analytics, estimated the

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the New Hampshire Execu- or “big government,” believe in And Other Correspondence tive Council’s refusal, 29 percent good government. It is up to the agreed, 16 percent did not take a voters to elect responsible, com- lost economic growth at $23 bil- belief that people deserve second clear position, while 2 percent saw petent representatives who are lion. chances. In serving his time, one both sides of the issue. able to work collaboratively, nego- Congressional Republicans gentleman indicated Schoolcraft Th e LFDA presents this report tiate, make compromises and fi nd have thus demonstrated that they “paid in full his debt to society.” as a summary of citizen testimony solutions that support growth and are absolutely irresponsible and Among those who agreed with as opposed to a scientifi c poll or prosperity for the country. cannot be trusted to govern ef- the New Hampshire Executive survey. As New Hampshire’s Vir- Responsible, sane and sen- fectively. I just wonder, after all is Council’s decision, the specifi c tual Town Hall, the nonprofi t, sible voters know that as well as said and done, why would anyone nature of the crime was cited as nonpartisan LFDA, now num- a stable and dependable democ- ever vote for a Republican again? a plausible reason for refusal. “If bering over 20,000, provides ob- racy, it is diversity and the result- Joan Jacobs he had only done one theft and jective information about state is- ing creativity and innovation that Portsmouth, NH got caught … maybe a pardon, sues, promotes the civil exchange keeps us competitive in the world. both? § but this person committed nine of opinions, and communicates Th ey realize that intolerance of On one hand the brothers LFOD Alliance on Schoolcraft crimes,” cited one individual. citizen views to elected offi cials. ideas that diff er from ones own support the arts and charities to To the Editor: Schoolcraft’s age at the time he To learn more about this issue or and temper tantrums when you the tune of multiple millions — Last month’s decision by the committed these crimes, however, the LFDA, visit www.lfda.org. don’t get your way don’t work in a American Ballet Th eatre, Metro- New Hampshire Executive seemed to somewhat complicate Rob Levey, Editor, Live Free or grown up world. politan Museum of Art, Sloan- Council to deny a pardon for the issue for many citizens. “I can Die Alliance (www.lfda.org) Fellow voters, let’s elect a Con- Kettering Cancer Center, and Th omas Schoolcraft, who was relate to making a ton of mistakes § gress that is capable of doing the NOVA to name a few. convicted of committing a series in my youth,” added one com- Republican Tantrum job we are paying them for — On the other hand, the broth- of burglaries nine years ago at the mentator, “but typically I didn’t To the Editor: governing the country! ers are spending millions, nation- age of 19, reveals a fundamental keep making the same mistake Hundreds of thousands of Cynthia Muse ally, to prevent the working poor divide among New Hampshire over and over again.” workers furloughed, businesses Rye, NH from getting health care through citizens. Th e central issue raised Some argued that a 19-year- losing millions of dollars, life-sav- § expanded Medicaid. Th ese fami- by our citizens revolved around old individual is not an adult and ing clinical trials and research de- Kochs — Jekylls Or Hydes? lies need Medicaid because they how society defi nes the purpose should be held to diff erent stan- layed, world fi nancial community To the Editor: make less than $32,499, which is of rehabilitation. dards. “Your brain doesn’t even losing trust in the U.S. … the cost Why are two old, rich, white 138 percent of the poverty level After serving ten months in reach its full development before of the most recent tantrum by guys spending millions to prevent income for a family of four, and jail, Schoolcraft went on to earn your mid-late 20s,” said one re- the extreme wing of the Republi- working poor families and young are not provided coverage by their a college degree and become a spondent. But other members can party is still being tallied and adults from getting healthcare? employer or cannot aff ord the Cheshire County corrections of- strongly disagreed. “He was not a won’t be known for months. It is In case you don’t know the Koch premium. fi cer. Currently working towards ‘kid’ when he was 19 — he was estimated that the government brothers, Charles and David, here Additionally, the brothers are his Master’s Degree in Criminol- a grown man making selfi sh deci- shutdown and threat of default is the scoop. Th e billionaire broth- running dishonest TV ads in ma- ogy, Schoolcraft sought a pardon sions,” said one gentleman. has cost the US economy $24 bil- ers inherited Koch Industries, jor cities trying to convince unin- to become a state corrections of- Finally, there were those who lion, cutting 0.6 percent off the the second largest family owned sured young adults to not sign up fi cer. saw merit to both sides of the ar- GDP while bringing the world business in America with annual for health coverage. Th is is an at- In the New Hampshire Execu- gument, including one gentleman economy to the brink of collapse. revenues of approximately $100 tempt to sabotage the Aff ordable tive Council’s refusal to grant him who noted the need for legislators Perhaps more importantly, this billion. Th ey are major contribu- Care Act by limiting the number a pardon, however, many Live to revisit the law itself. “Th ere’s a legislative act of attempted terror- tors to the Tea Party and several of “healthy” individuals from be- Free or Die Alliance (LFDA) huge diff erence between whether ism was a mortal threat to our de- right wing organizations. Th ey ing included in the coverage pool. members rhetorically questioned Mr. Schoolcraft should be free mocracy and representative form are extreme libertarians, in favor I have to wonder if the Kochs the need to continue to “punish” to be a Corrections Offi cer and of government. However they of abolishing the FBI, Social Se- are spending charitable millions Schoolcraft given the improve- whether the means should be via feel about the Aff ordable Care curity, public schools, and all gov- to polish their image to off set the ments he has made in his life. Executive Branch and granting of Act, every American should be ernment regulations. Th e last de- tarnish of prior and future bad As one gentleman remarked, “If pardons,” he remarked. Honestly, outraged by this scheme to cir- sire is easiest to understand since acts? Making life more diffi cult prison is to punish people and the it sounds like we need to ease up cumvent the Constitution so that Koch Industries is among the top for the disadvantaged, and doing person serves his time, why are our laws on the books, which is an incompetent, irresponsible and 10 air polluters in America. It is it dishonestly, is an act that no one they then punished afterwards?” the Legislature’s job.” irrational minority can undo a law also no surprise that the brothers wants to defi ne their reputation. Some of the citizens noted that In presenting this question on passed and upheld by Constitu- are climate change deniers and Why is it that those individuals the Schoolcraft story represents an September 5th, LFDA received tional processes. unabashed Obama haters. Th eir who do not need the support of ideal case for rehabilitation. “Th e 337 responses within two days, It is up to the voters to change father, Fred, founded the John our social safety net are always the system worked,” said one respon- including 88 specifi c respon- this dysfunctional Congress. It is Birch Society. dent. “Now we’re going to punish dents and 216 concurrences. Of up to the voters to elect leaders Are the Koch brothers Jekylls More Hate Mail, &c. him again.” Others expressed the these, 49 percent disagreed with who, rather than “no government” or Hydes, good guys, evil guys or to page six

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Northcountry Chronicle Regret and Remembrance by William Marvel the Eaton Village Cemetery. Ac- pect something akin to a virus prison chaplain drove Bessie to cording to his gravestone, Edwin in the air. On Th anksgiving Day a delirious homecoming at her ew England’s autumn has a died at 37, on September 30, 1913. that year, up at a lumber camp in parents’ farm in Eaton, where her Ndecidedly bittersweet edge, According to the North Conway the Crawford Notch settlement four children and one grandchild with a hint of doom hovering Reporter of October 2, 1913, he called Bemis, a Mrs. Addie F. awaited her. behind its brilliant colors — es- was shot to death as he lay in bed, Robinson shot a Finnish logger At the time of the murder, Bes- pecially for those who dread the asleep, and a few days later Bessie to death in what she claimed was sie had borne four children within long Yankee winters. Th at may confessed to the murder. self-defense. Th e Reporter editor barely six years, and the youngest contribute to the allure of old Th e Reporter took a typically seemed to dismiss that as an ex- was only a few months old. If cemeteries at the height of fall self-righteous view of the case, cuse, observing that “murders are the phenomenon of postpartum foliage, where we can speculate noting that during her confession coming thick and fast in Carroll depression had even been identi- on the hidden meaning of epi- “the cold blooded woman” broke County.” fi ed by 1913, it never occurred to taphs and the relationships that down only once. She implicated After so long without a ho- the editor of the Reporter, but it once existed between those who the hired hand, Wilbur Bean, and micide, suddenly there had been would go a long way toward ex- now lie beneath the sod. Th ere is the two of them were lodged in two within two months, and both plaining behavior so alien to the a touch of comfort in the discov- the Ossipee jail together. “Th e with women at the trigger. A later gentle character described by Bes- ery that James and Polly Merrill, defense will plead insanity,” the generation might have wondered sie’s descendants. Severe depres- a West Side couple in their early newspaper continued, lamenting whether there had not been some woman among 134 prisoners at sion may also account for her at- 80s, died within four days of each the virtual homelessness of the abuse involved, and especially in Concord, working in the kitchen. torney’s stated intention to plead other in 1862; there is a lingering four small Shackford children. the case of Mrs. Robinson, who At Christmas the governor usu- insanity. sadness in the graves of Otis and Wilbur Bean apparently went may have been the victim of an ally issued a pardon or two, but After her release, Bessie lived Sarah Hatch, lost in the woods of free, suggesting that he may have attempted sexual assault. She, at in 1932 Governor John Winant with her oldest son, becoming South Conway, where she lived taken no part in the crime, but least, was released eventually, but announced that there would be known to her grandchildren as alone for half a century after his among Bessie’s descendants the in December Mrs. Shackford no Christmas pardons that year. a “warm and loving person.” In death. belief persists that she covered waived her right to trial. Th e life Th en, at the last minute, he freed 1969 she was buried beside the Usually every headstone be- for him. A fi ctionalized account sentence she drew implies suf- Bessie Shackford. Perhaps the man she claimed to have killed. speaks a host of secrets, most of of the murder insinuated that the fi cient evidence of premeditation surprise pardon had something to A stranger contemplating their which are safe forever, but now motive involved money hidden that she could otherwise have do with Governor Winant’s ex- matching headstones might spec- and then one surfaces. Such is in the clock, but the real reason gone to the gallows, and soon af- ecutive secretary, Burnham Davis, ulate that the widow mourned her the case with Edwin and Bessie for the killing remains unknown, ter her 27th birthday she entered of Conway: his grandmother was husband for more than 55 years, Shackford, who lie together be- even within the family. the state prison. a Shackford, and he surely knew and that may not be so far from neath last summer’s geraniums in Th e Reporter seemed to sus- By 1930 Bessie was the only the story. On Christmas Eve the the truth after all.

MoreMash Notes, Hate Mail, And Other Correspondence, from Page Five ones who scream the loudest and hotel rooms. ing and was not asked to look at want to use. ing or water and sewer demands. most vehemently for its destruc- Most discussions have focused satellite parking or transportation In addition, the restaurant and Th e primary driver of these ser- tion? on the issue of whether we have issues. Th at is why it is no surprise hotel businesses in Portsmouth vices has been a push by for-profi t Dave Potter enough parking in downtown to me that our current city coun- must admit that they are not pay- businesses who wish to have as North Hampton, NH Portsmouth. Th e parking study cil was not willing to move ahead ing their fair share of the burden much of their expenses (e.g. park- § commissioned and delivered to with a solution. of operating their businesses; and ing, water & sewer costs etc.) paid Quality of Life or Development? the city in January, 2012 states: Parking is not the problem but residents no longer want to subsi- for by taxpayers, while keeping To the Editor: “Compared to the ideal occupancy, in fact a symptom of what is go- dize them, when they receive very profi ts to themselves (no income Th is year’s election in Ports- these results indicate that for the ing on. We need a comprehensive little back in return. tax, very little reimbursement to mouth is turning into an election majority of the time Portsmouth transportation plan to deal with Th e population of Portsmouth cities from Concord). between preserving the quality has more than adequate parking parking and economic develop- has been fl at for at least the past We all greatly enjoy the many of life for residents or supporting supply to satisfy its demand.” ment, but it must put the needs 10 years, so residents are not the off erings of restaurants and en- more development of properties It said this, even though it only of residents fi rst, e.g. by creating ones pushing up the demand for tertainment that our city off ers to increase the number of res- looked at the immediate down- a truly good city transportation city services like parking, fi re pro- us, however businesses came to taurant seats, condominiums and town area with regard to park- system that residents and seniors tection, police services, city licens- Portsmouth because many resi-

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Lobbyists Hope To Rebrand Themselves by Jim Hightower be mere lobbyists, even though mon hustlers, but of credentialed has its own lobbying group, the an early favorite is “Government they are paid extravagant salaries and well-connected professionals, American League of Lobbyists, Relations Professional.” But that’s ere’s a scary number to by elite lobbying fi rms. Rather including more than 400 former which lobbies for lobbyists! too ponderous. I think any new Hponder: 12,407. Th at’s how than lobby, they “advise.” Th ese US Senators and House mem- As you might imagine, hav- phrase needs to spell out a zippy many registered lobbyists there are longtime Washington insid- bers, plus more than 5,000 former ing such a powerful presence has acronym — like SLICK, CREEP, are in Washington — the bulk ers who act as sherpas, guiding legislative staff ers — all cashing given many within LobbyWorld or LEECH — that really defi nes of whom are paid handsomely to corporate favor-seekers through in on the connections and insider an elevated sense of their own their work. carry water for avaricious corpo- the labyrinth of congressional knowledge they gained at tax- worthiness, so they now want to To paraphrase Shakespeare, rations. backrooms and executive-branch payer expense. Lobbying is now drop the tacky label of “lobbyist.” a lobbyist, by any other name, And that doesn’t count the un- offi ces to reach the peaks of legis- a $3.3 billion-a-year infl uence Instead, the League of Lobbyists would smell the same. told number of infl uence peddlers lative and regulatory power. industry — an unelected, private is asking its members to suggest Copyright 2013 by Jim Hight- who do not stoop to register, for Today’s lobbying corps, you see, government of, by, and for special a more prestigious (and less pe- ower & Associates. Contact Laura they don’t consider themselves to is no longer the domain of com- interests. And get this — it even jorative) brand name. Reportedly, Ehrlich ([email protected]). dents and visitors like the feel and Extreme examples of nasty, sure coverage is eff ective as pos- from any recommendation to ra- behave as if they should punish ambience of our city. People do hysteria-inducing claims with no sible — no excluding people with tion health care or restrict ben- the voters that voted President not move to Portsmouth because fact support are the despicable ad pre-existing conditions, no annual efi ts. Obama in for a second term; that it has more restaurant seats than showing an evil Uncle Sam fi gure or life-time caps. It requires cov- Statements like this, masquer- punishment came in the forms residents or more hotels than we about to perform a gynecological erage for a variety of preventive ading as reality, hurt our democ- of sequestration, the government really need. exam on a young woman, and the care, reduces drug costs for senior racy in two major ways. First they shutdown, and the threat not to No, we moved to Portsmouth, repeated statements from elected citizens and more. distort public information and raise the debt ceiling. Not only is and many come to Portsmouth representatives that the ACA is Another claim made by the understanding of reality when an this behavior destroying the heart because it has history, a casual socialized medicine or a govern- Right but unsupported with any informed public is essential to a of the Republican Party, it could walkable charm and a great lo- ment take-over of health care. evidence is that the ACA is a job functioning democracy. Second, have pushed the U.S. government cation. Th e hospitality industry Not true! killer. Th ey support this claim by they make it much harder for our into total chaos. It is my notion is the benefi ciary of these attrac- Under socialized medicine the referencing the shift to part-time elected representatives to work that the Tea Party (Th e Selfi sh tions and not the attraction itself government owns the hospitals employment. However, this trend together to fi nd reasonable solu- Party) may have faulty wiring. Its to residents and visitors. and employs and pays the doc- began as a result of the recession, tions to our very real problems. members lack the capacity to have Th at is why this year I’ll be vot- tors, nurses, technicians and sup- long before the ACA became law, Robert Wilkinson feelings for others of lesser means; ing for candidates who are putting port staff from administrators and this trend has reversed this Portsmouth, NH if that is so, sensible Republicans the needs of residents fi rst, but also through janitors. We have one bit year as the recovery continues. § are needed to rise up with cour- recognize the value of our hospi- of socialized medicine in the U.S. Studies by a number of econo- A Party With Faulty Wiring age to bring our great nation back tality industry and are willing to — the VA system. Th e current mists fi nd no support for the al- To the Editor: to that time when we believed in encourage them to pay their fair major government involvement legation that the ACA is having Th ey act as if they are from an reasonable compromise. share of the burdens they impose in health care is Medicare, which any signifi cant eff ect on jobs but unknown, undiscovered planet Alfred Waddell on our city and its residents. is an insurance plan administered that does not stop the right from that produces beings that are void West Dennis, MA Peter Somssich by the government, with medi- saying it repeatedly as if it were a of empathy; in my opinion, that Alfred: Portsmouth, NH cal care provided by independent fact while providing no support would be that part of Congress Th e longer we ponder the crazy § doctors and hospitals. Medicare is for the assertion. responsible for having the U.S. state of things these days the more we Fact or Fiction? extremely popular with its enroll- Th ere are other claims about the government shut down. Out of come to believe that your hypothesis To the Editor: ees. ACA that are not fact-based, but this group, some are claiming to is correct. Too many of our elected rep- Th e ACA expands the number probably the most outlandish is be born-again Christians. It seems Recent scientifi c studies have resentatives, both from the Right of people covered, not by govern- that the ACA provides for death these types of born-again Chris- shown that people put in positions of and the Left, make infl ammatory ment insurance, but by existing panels and rationing of health tians are takers rather than givers; power show lower levels of empathy statements without producing any private insurance companies, who care through the Individual Pay- helping the poor and needy does and are also more inclined to cheat. factual data to support what they will contract with existing hos- ment Advisory Board (IPAB). In not seem to be any part of their Others show that our minds — are saying. What those on the pitals and doctors to provide the reality the IPAB is set up to make agenda. However, giving tax breaks all of us, not just the Right Wing — Right, both in government and same kind of services that they recommendations to help control to the wealthy while demonizing often make decisions on a gut level their big money supporters, have do now. So the ACA provides Medicare’s overall costs. It has no the Aff ordable Care Act has been without any conscious input. Th en been saying about the Aff ordable commercial insurance health care function to make decisions about front and center in the Tea Party’s we come up with rationalizations to Care Act (ACA) refl ects this lack coverage for millions more people individuals’ health care. Th e ACA eff orts to push back on the ma- support them. of fact based argumentation. and puts in place rules to make law specifi cally bars the IPAB jority voice in this country. Th ey Th e Editor

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

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1986—A Lebanese magazine re- 2008—Americans elect Barack 2004—A Franklin Co. (OH) offi - 1984—It’s mourning in America— 2007—Private Jessica Lynch ac- 2010—George W. Bush reveals 1998—NASDAQ brokers are ports the U.S. government has been Obama President, and Californians cial reports that Pres. Bush’s 3,893 Reagan defeats Mondale. cuses the Pentagon of using her for that his mother once showed him a made to pay bilked customers $1 selling arms to Iran. restrict the civil rights of gay Cali- vote total in one district is errone- 1977—A dam owned and modifi ed propaganda purposes. jar containing the fetus of a miscar- billion for rigging the game. 1970—Salvador Allende sworn in fornians. ous—only 638 ballots were cast. by the Toccoa Falls Bible Institute 2002—“War is not my fi rst choice,” ried sibling and asked him to drive 1989—Th e Berlin Wall becomes as President of Chile. 1979—Militant Shi’ite Muslims 1994—File under “Non-News:” in Georgia fails, killing 39 people. says George W. Bush, “it’s my last her to the hospital. porous. 1969—Richard Nixon announces take 66 Americans hostage in Te- Ronald Reagan announces he has 1975—Th e Sex Pistols perform in choice.” (It’s a lie.) 2000—At 2:16 a.m., Fox News “re- 1979—Due to a computer error, for “Vietnamization” of Vietnam War. heran, spelling the end of the Cart- Alzheimer’s. public for the fi rst time. 2000—Th e American people vote porter” John Ellis calls Florida in fa- six minutes the U.S. Air Defense 1964—Lyndon Johnson is elected er administration. 1975—Dick “Dick” Cheney be- 1971—Th e Atomic Energy Com- for a president. Instead, they end up vor of his cousin, George W. Bush. Command mistakenly believes that as the peace candidate. 1964—Lenny Bruce is found guilty comes White House Chief of mission explodes a 5-megaton with George W. Bush. 1994—Serial philanderer Newt the U.S.S.R. is attacking the U.S. 1957—A female dog named Laika, of using obscenity during appear- Staff , Donald Rumsfeld becomes nuke—the largest ever exploded in 1983—Revolutionary dingbats set Gingrich and the Republican Party 1969—78 Indians occupy Alcatraz. aboard Sputnik 2, becomes the fi rst ances in New York City. Secretary of Defense, and George the U.S.—one mile below Amchit- off a bomb in the U.S. Capitol, with gain control of Congress. 1967—Rolling Stone begins publi- living thing to orbit Earth. 1958—U.S. B-47 bomber carrying H.[H.]W. Bush becomes Director ka Island in Alaska, about 87 miles no apparent help from the FBI. 1983—Moscow puts its nuclear cation. 1948—Th e Chicago Daily Tribune nukes crashes near Abilene, TX. of the CIA. Gerry Ford is allowed from a Soviet naval base in Siberia. 1972—Richard Nixon kicks George forces on high alert and sends fl ash 1965—Due to a failure at a single mistakenly declares Dewey the High explosives detonate. Nuclear to stay on as President. 1965—In Times Square, fi ve men McGovern’s ass. telegrams to its embassies warning power plant in Ontario the entire winner over Truman in the presi- materials are recovered later. 1949—Deranged WWII veteran burn their draft cards, the fi rst such 1962—Richard Nixon tells the that a nuclear strike on the USSR northeast is left in the dark. dential election. 1956—Soviet troops put down and daily churchgoer Howard Un- protest of the Vietnam War. press they won’t have him to kick may come at any time. 1953—Dylan Th omas dies in New 1917—Bolsheviks take power dur- Hungarian revolt. ruh (1921—2009) shoots 16 people, 1963—Laura Welch—later Bush— around any more. (It’s a lie.) 1970—Singer Michelle Phillips York at 39. ing the Russian Revolution. 1928—Asked who shot him, the killing 13, in Camden, NJ. runs a stop sign in Midland, TX, 1940—Th e mile-long Tacoma Nar- divorces Dennis Hopper — eight 1942—Th e fi rst “Liberty Ship,” the 1913—Th e U.S. introduces the In- dying gangster Arnold Rothstein 1935—Parker Brothers introduces with fatal results. rows bridge wiggles, wobbles, and days of marriage was enough. Robert E. Peary, is launched. come Tax. tells police, “My mudder did it.” the game “Monopoly.” 1961—A three day fi re begins in then falls down. Washington State 1932—Socialist Norman Th omas 1938—German Nazis demon- 1903—Th e Colombian province of 1924—Nellie Rayloe Ross becomes 1930—Told over the phone by a Bel Air, CA, destroying 447 homes is unable to collect on its insurance gets 884,885 votes for President. strate their racial superiority during Panama secedes with quiet back- fi rst female governor of a U.S. state, Swedish newspaper reporter that including those of Zsa Zsa Gabor because their agent fraudulently 1923—Disgruntled corporal A. Kristallnacht by killing 91 Jews. ing from Teddy Roosevelt, whose Wyoming. he’s won the Nobel Prize, Sinclair and Dick Nixon. pocketed the premiums. Hitler, with help from disgruntled 1932—In Switzerland, the Army Republican party recently received 1922—Howard Carter discovers Lewis, thinking it’s a hoax, imitates 1944—Th e Zionist Stern Gang as- 1919—3,000 anarchists are held general E. von Ludendorff , stages fi res on a demonstration against $60,000 from the New Panama King Tutankhamen’s tomb. the man’s accent. sassinates Britain’s Lord Moyne in without bail on Ellis Island as the the “Beer Hall Putsch” in Munich. fascism, killing 13. Canal Company. 1918—Disgruntled German sailors 1872—In Rochester, NY, Susan B. Cairo. Israel honors the assassins Palmer Raids begin. 1897—Birth of Dorothy Day, anar- 1911—Charles Justice is executed 1868—John W. Menard, from take over the port at Kiel, starting Anthony is arrested for voting. with a stamp in 1982. 1903—Th e U.S. denies Colom- chist founder of Catholic Worker. in Ohio’s electric chair—which he Louisiana, is fi rst black elected to the German Revolution. 1857—Birth of Ida Tarbell, muck- 1928—Herbert Hoover beats Al- bia’s request to be allowed to place 1876—Th e editor of Th e New York had built himself while an inmate Congress. 1879—James Ritty gets a patent for raker. fred E. Smith for president. Colombian troops in Panama—a Times and the chairman of the Re- 14 years earlier. 1789—George Washington visits the fi rst cash register, invented to 1855—Birth of Eugene V. Debs. 1922—An explosion kills 77 coal Colombian province—to protect publican National Committee con- 1874—Th e New York Herald reports Madam Lear, his secretary’s moth- outfox thieving bartenders. 1765—Two Boston gangs, instead miners in Spangler, PA. Colombian integrity. spire to bribe election offi cials in that wild animals, escaped from the er, on Hunking Street and attends a 1879—Will Rogers is born. of indulging in their usual Guy 1918—Shipyard workers revolt in 1879—Birth of Lev Davidovich Florida, South Carolina, and Loui- Central Park Zoo, have killed 27 ball at the Assembly. 1798—Vermont elects Matthew Fawkes Day dust-up, join to dem- Kiel and Hamburg. Bronstein, aka Leon Trotsky. siana to “elect” Hayes president. people. It’s a hoax. 1755—Massachusetts establishes Lyon, in jail for sedition, to Congress. onstrate against the Stamp Act. 1917—After three months of fi ght- 1837—Maine-born Elijah P. Love- 1800—A mysterious fi re in the 1872—600 buildings burn in Bos- bounties for Indian scalps, ranging 1791—An Indian force of nearly 1605—Had Guy Fawkes not been ing in mud, Canadians take Pass- joy, an abolitionist editor whose War Offi ce destroys many records ton. Th e Fire Department is ham- from £50 for male Penobscots over 2,000 attacks about 1,500 U.S. betrayed and apprehended, Parlia- chendaele, ending the Th ird Battle printing press has been thrown in after (then-liberal) Republicans de- pered by a lack of horsepower due 12 years old, to £20 for female Indi- soldiers and camp followers in the ment would have been rubble on of Ypres; Allies gain fi ve miles at a the river twice, is murdered by a manded an accounting of (conser- to an equine virus, aka “the Great ans under 12. Battle of the Wabash, killing 832. this day. cost of 250,000 casualties. mob in Alton, IL. vative) Federalist expenditures. Epizootic,” and by looters. 10:26 10:58 11:09 11:44 11:55 12:31 12:43 1:22 1:34 2:16 2:30 3:14 3:31

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2004—George W. Bush nominates 2000—Republicans go to court to 2001—Flight 587 falls apart and 2003—Because he would not re- 2002—Donald Rumsfeld predicts 2006—Jack Abramoff , former Wash- 2000—Bill Clinton fi nally goes to as his new Attorney General, Al- stop manual recounts in Florida. crashes in NYC, killing 261. move a monument to the Ten the Iraq War will last “fi ve days or ington lobbyist, arrives at his new digs Vietnam. Th e visit fails to silence berto Gonzales—who goes on to 1969—Th e U.S.S. Sand Lance is 1980—New York City Mayor Ed Commandments from his court- fi ve weeks or fi ve months, but [no] in a federal prison near Cumberland, his critics. make his predecessor, John Ash- launched, the fi nal sub built at the Koch admits he tried marijuana. house, Alabama Chief Justice Roy longer than that.” MD. 1989—U.S.-backed pro-government croft, look good. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. 1971—Th e Berkeley City Council Morre is himself removed. 2000—Florida Secretary of State 1996—British offi cials return the forces in El Salvador murder six Je- 1982—Th e Vietnam Veterans Me- 1959—“Rocky and His Friends” votes symbolically to provide sanc- 2002—Iraq agrees to submit to UN Katherine Harris certifi es George Stone of Scone to the Scots, from suit priests, their housekeeper, and the morial, a gift to the nation from debut. tuary for draft resistors. Resolution 1441 and allow weap- W. Bush’s dubious electoral lead. whom they had stolen it 700 years housekeeper’s daughter. those it had shunned, opens in 1956—Soviet forces crush the 1970—Th e Oregon Highway Dept. ons inspectors into the country. Fat 1957—In Apalachin, NY, a meet- earlier. 1969—White House Communica- Washington, D.C. Hungarian resistance. discovers that half a ton of explo- lot of good it did. ing of important businessmen is 1995—In the Oval Offi ce, Mon- tions Director Herb Klein says he 1975—Th e Edmund Fitzgerald 1933—“Th e Great Black Blizzard,” sives isn’t enough to dispose of a 1982—Th e Vietnam Veterans Me- interrupted by cops. ica Lewinski fl ashes her thong at opposes government intervention sinks on Lake Superior, taking with the fi rst of the great dust storms, dead eight ton whale. morial is dedicated in Washing- 1954—A campaign to collect 10 Bill Clinton. Later, in the private in the news but that the networks her a crew of 29. hits the Great Plains. 1941—Abe “Kid Twist” Reles earns ton, D.C. Richard Nixon, Henry million signatures petitioning the study of the Oval Offi ce, they fool invite it if they don’t regulate them- 1973—In Drake, ND the school 1921—President Warren G. Hard- the posthumous sobriquet “the Kissinger, and Robert McNamara Senate not to censure Joe McCa- around. selves. board fi res a teacher and burns the ing dedicates the Tomb of the Un- canary who sang but couldn’t fl y” are no-shows. rthy begins. It fails by 9 million. 1967—“I have never,” declares 1966—Strasbourg students blow book he assigned, Slaughterhouse known Soldier. when he autodefenestrates (or is 1974—Disgruntled Kerr-McGee 1927—Workmen in Pittsburgh’s Gen. Wm. Westmoreland, “been the student government’s annual Five. 1919—In Centralia, WA, Ameri- defenestrated) from the sixth fl oor worker Karen Silkwood conve- industrial center, attempting to fi x a more encouraged in my four years budget on a pamphlet, “On the 1969— “Sesame Street” debuts. can Legionaires kidnap, torture, of a Coney Island hotel while under niently turns up dead. leak in the world’s largest gaso-me- in Vietnam,” eleven weeks before Poverty of Student Life.” 1964—In Australia, the draft is re- and castrate fellow WW I vet Wes- the protection of six cops. 1970—Up to half a million die as a ter with an open fl ame blowlamp, Gen. Giap springs the Tet Off en- 1907—Th e fi rst taxi cab meter goes introduced, apparently to protect ley Everest, who had been thought- 1933—Th e fi rst photo is taken of cyclone hits Bangladesh. ignite 5 million cubic feet of natural sive on him. into service. that part of the British Empire less enough to join the IWW. the Loch Ness Monster. 1942—During the Battle of Gua- gas, eff ectively clearing a one square 1929—Bernard Baruch cables Win- 1890—George Seldes, journalist from invasion by Ho’s forces. 1918—At 11:11 a.m., the War to 1927—Stalin reigns alone after dalcanal the U.S.S. Juneau is lost, mile area. ston Churchill, “Financial storm and media critic, is born. He’ll live 1950—Flying over Canada, a U.S. End All Wars ends — too late for Trotsky is expelled from the Com- taking with it all fi ve sons of Th om- 1916—“Put out the bloody ciga- defi nitely passed.” to be 105. Air Force crew in a B-50 experi- the 2,738 who die on this day. munist Party. as and Alleta Sulllivan of Waterloo, rette!” says H.H. “Saki” Munro to 1917—Bolsheviks take Moscow, 1849—Fyodor Dostoevsky is sen- ences engine trouble. Th ey chuck 1911—“Th e Great Blue Norther” 1926—A feud between rival beer IA. another soldier in a trench. Seconds ending Russian Revolution. tenced to death for spreading “im- the bomb (minus its plutonium strikes the midwest. In Springfi eld, and rum factions in Illinois results 1933—Hormel workers in Austin, later a sniper’s bullet extinguishes 1908—Teddy Roosevelt becomes pudent words.” core) which then explodes in Riv- MO the temperatures drops from in the aerial bombing of a farm- MN invent the sit-down strike. him. the fi rst sitting President to travel 1811—An earthquake causes the iere du Loup, Quebec. 80 degrees at mid-afternoon to 13 house by a civilian plane. 1922—Th e Supreme Court rules 1909—Birth of Joseph R. McCa- abroad, visiting Panama. Mississippi to fl ow backwards. 1898—400 Democratic Party ac- at midnight. 1865—Former Senator Preston that Japanese persons cannot be- rthy, “ . . . a great American [whose] 1887—F(ranklin) P(ierce) Adams, 1776—Th e American brig-of-war tivists in Wilmington, NC murder 1889—Marcel Proust, 18, enlists in King (R-NY) ties a bag of bullets come naturalized citizens because stature will grow with the passage a namesake of New Hampshire’s Andrew Doria receives the nation’s 40 to 100 blacks, depose the mayor, the French Army. around his neck and leaps to his they are “not Caucasian.” of time,” according to NH Sen. only president and the godfather fi rst salute from a foreign power at and establish a new government by 1887—Th e anarchist Haymarket death from a ferryboat. 1887—British police charge a Styles Bridges. of the newspaper column, is born Fort Oranje, St. Eustatius. force. Martyrs are hanged in Chicago. 1815—Birth of Elizabeth Cady demonstration by the unemployed 1909—Joshua Slocum, fi rst man to in Chicago. 1747—In Boston, hundreds of sail- 1871—Newspaperman Henry Mor- 1880—Rebellious Australian bush- Stanton, suff ragette. in Trafalgar Square, killing 3 and sail around the world alone, disap- 1864—General William T. Sher- ors, laborers, and free blacks rise ton Stanley, meeting a white man near ranger Ned Kelly is hanged. 1779—Twenty slaves petition the arresting 300. pears near the Orinoco. man burns Atlanta, inspiring well- up in protest against British naval Lake Tanganyika, says “Dr. Livings- 1831—Nat Turner, slave, is hanged New Hampshire legislature to 1877—A locomotive and three 1831—“Only one man ever under- known movie. press gangs. ton, I presume?” for rebellion in Virginia. abolish slavery to no avail. Primus freight cars plunge from an open stood me,” says Hegel on his death- 1805—Lewis, Clark, Sacajawea, 1665—Th e Oxford Gazette—the 1775—Th e Continental Congress 1647—Massachusetts passes the Fowle, Daniel Fowle’s enslaved drawbridge into the Piscataqua, just bed, “and even he didn’t understand and the rest of the mob reach the world’s oldest surviving periodi- creates the Marine Corps. fi rst compulsory education law. pressman, is not among them. missing three ships; no injuries. me.” mouth of the Columbia. cal—is founded. 4:16 4:36 5:21 5:44 6:25 6:51 7:24 7:53 8:19 8:50 9:09 9:42 9:55 10:29

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