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The Fortnightly Rant Lest We Remember emorial Day is coming on Perhaps Trump just thinks that Monday, and not a minute the South should have won the Civ- Mtoo soon. Some of us, it seems, may il War. Of course, with him in the have lost the historical thread. Or, White House, Mitch McConnell perhaps, we’ve all just lost our minds. running the Senate, and the GOP Every spring the White House solidly behind them both, one could invites the reigning World Cham- argue that they did. pions of baseball in for a tour. With If only confusion and ambiguity the Trump Administration running regarding our martial history were the place, naturally there were some confined to the 19th century. Be- complications. White House pub- tween December 7, 1941 and Sep- licists touted the event as honoring tember 2, 1945, 450,000 Americans the “Red Socks” for winning the lost their lives in the struggle to “World Cup.” We shouldn’t criti- defeat fascism. As with the Confed- cise them too harshly, though. We’d eracy, though, fascism seems to be make mistakes, too, translating from enjoying a revival. Russian. It’s a wonder they didn’t call War crimes such as the mistreat- the team “the White Socks,” consid- ment of prisoners were a notorious ering that players of color all boycot- characteristic of our enemies’ behav- ted the event. ior during World War II. President Red Sox Chairman Tom Werner Trump is now erasing that distinc- proceeded to compound the con- tion—such as it is*—between us and fusion. Speaking before C-SPAN our former enemies. cameras he said, “Well the president In 2008, Army First Lieutenant is a pretty good raconteur of histo- Michael Behenna of Oklahoma ry and he did say that, uh—he was was ordered to release a prisoner talking about Abraham Lincoln who’d been held for interrogation. a former Blackwater contractor for trend towards using scatological tive war. President Trump seems losing the war and he said ‘Well, I Instead, Behenna shot Ali Mansur crimes ranging from murder to uri- language, while the latter will howl determined to make the same crim- know you guys have lost a game or Mohamed, then placed a live gre- nating on a corpse. Perhaps to make with delight. inal mistake as Bush, with even less two, but this was a war.’” nade under his head. Found guilty sure no one misses his point, Trump It would be a mistake to think, justification. Some media outlets interpreted by court martial of unpremeditated reportedly asked that the paperwork though, that Trump is somehow After 17 years, 7 months, and 17 Werner’s ambiguous wording— murder in 2009, Behenna was sen- be ready for Memorial Day. uniquely awful among Presidents days of bleeding and dying, we’re there were times during the war, tenced to 25 years imprisonment. Sullying the nation’s sacred rituals when it comes to war crimes. Quite caught in a stalemate in Afghani- after all, when Lincoln did appear Paroled in 2014, Trump pardoned seems to be a theme of this Presiden- recent history provides a far worse stan with a poorly-equipped foe on to be losing—to mean that our 45th Behenna on May 6th. cy. Unnamed “top Administration example—so far, at least. his home turf. He wonders why we President doesn’t know who actually That, apparently, was just the be- officials” have told the Washington Addressing West Point’s Class just don’t go home; most of us have won the Civil War. Our view is, we ginning of a campaign to turn our Post that Trump is planning a couple of 1947, President-to-Be Dwight just forgotten all about it. What does hope, slightly more nuanced. war criminals into heroes. TheNew of changes for the Capitol’s Fourth D. Eisenhower said, “War is man- that remind us of…? Oh, yes—two Just last month Trump said, in his York Times reported last Saturday of July celebration. First, the grand kind’s most tragic and stupid folly; more years and this will have taken trademark semi-coherent fashion, that Trump has made an expedit- fireworks display, traditionally held to seek or advise its deliberate prov- longer than Vietnam. “Whether you like it or not, [Robert ed request for the paperwork nec- on the Mall, will be moved instead ocation is a black crime against all “Game of Thrones” seemed to E. Lee] was one of the great gen- essary to pardon a Green Beret, a to a spot near the Potomac. Second, men. Though you follow the trade of last forever, too; and even it is over erals. I’ve spoken to many generals Navy SEAL, several Marines, and the President, who does not nor- the warrior, you do so in the spirit now. A lot of fans expressed disap- here, right at the White House, and mally feature very prominently will of Washington — not of Genghis pointment with the ending. They many people thought of the gener- * The late Robert McNamara, Secretary deliver an address to the nation from Khan. For Americans, only threat must be civilians. Team Daenerys’ als, they think that he was maybe of Defense under Presidents Kennedy the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. to our way of life justifies resort to finely-tuned plan went straight to and Johnson, served under U.S. Army Air their favorite general. People were Corps General Curtis LeMay during the Perhaps in doing so he may unite conflict.” hell, innocents died in droves, and [in Charlottesville, Va.] protesting fire-bombing campaign against Japan the nation. His detractors and sup- When Ike spoke those words, muckety-mucks divided the spoils the taking down of the monument during World War II. According to Mc- porters alike will be hanging on his George W. Bush was still in diapers. while laughing at the very concept Namara, LeMay once told him, “If we’d lost of Robert E. Lee, everybody knows the war, we’d all have been prosecuted as every word. The former will con- Now he paints bad portraits of men of considering the will of the people. that.” war criminals.” demn him if he continues his recent who were maimed in his pre-emp- Who knew it was a documentary?

The Alleged News® Nice Infrastructure Bill You’ve Got There … ntil quite recently, House for a Festivus ceremony in the Rose Local Fête Spared in Helium Shortage on capital: “Party City closes some mental concern was briefly derailed Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been Garden. The world—well, the internet—was locations every year to invest more by a spasm of local chauvinism. Utelling Democrats that they can’t His podium bore a sign noting abuzz recently over the news of a po- in its most profitable locations.” Market Square Day is scheduled launch impeachment proceedings that the Mueller investigation had tentially-calamitous global helium How else does one protect the board for June 8th. What if Pro Ports- against the *resident because if they cost $35 millon. It did not. The true shortage. An army of byte-stained members from the stockholders, mouth can’t get ahold of its usual do he won’t work with them on an cost was $25 million, one-quarter wretches all reiterated the same who might otherwise storm the ration of helium? The event just infrastructure bill. the cost to date of the *resident’s provocative data point: Party City, boardroom, pitchforks and torches wouldn’t be the same without those The logic behind that strategy golf outings. apparently the nation’s pre-eminent in hand? towering arches of festive, colorful took a hit on Tuesday evening when The *resident then announced purveyor of mylar balloons, was Never having heard of the place, balloons. We emailed Executive Di- the *resident sent a letter to Pelosi that he’s going on strike until the closing 45 stores in 2019 for lack of we were shocked to learn that the rector Barbara Massar, who prompt- and Senate Minority Leader Chuck House stops investigating him—in the gas to fill them. 45 stores which will close represent ly assured us there were “no issues Schumer saying he wouldn’t work other words, stops doing its job. Per- Last week the New York Times let just five percent of Party City’s full with helium supply.” with Democrats on an infrastruc- haps† he’s suggesting that the White some of the hype out of that sto- complement of 870. Wondering Our civic concern alleviated, the ture bill unless they pass his trade House and the People’s House take ry. The paper quoted an unnamed what we’d missed, we took a look question arose—what other critical deal first. turns working alternating shifts. spokesperson for the company who at the company’s website. That only functions might be compromised by Wednesday morning Pelosi let fly The Senate quit working long ago, said that while Party City is “clos- shocked us further. Party City offers the lack of helium? The further we her opinion that the *resident “is en- of course, convening now only to ing more stores than usual in 2019” consumers a vast smörgåsbord of dug, the more intrigued we became. gaged in a cover-up,” which seems to confirm crackpots to judgeships. those closings have “nothing to do plastic geegaws, none of which ap- Helium is one very weird ele- have rustled his jimmies. Hours later, It’s a Federalist Society dream with helium.” peared at first glance to be recycla- ment. Signs of its existence were at an Oval Office meeting scheduled come true. According to the Times’ anony- ble. Closing all 870 stores tomorrow not discovered until 1868; formal to discuss infrastructure with Dem- mous flak, the closings are motivat- would probably delay the environ- † Never articulate, the *resident becomes ocrats, the *resident barked at them increasingly incoherent as investigators get ed by the free market imperative to mental apocalypse a few months. The Alleged News® for three minutes, then abruptly left closer to his tax returns. pursue the highest-possible return At about this point our environ- to page two Page 2 — The New Hampshire Gazette, Friday, May 24, 2019

The Alleged News® lives. The U.S.S. Akron, a 785 foot- from page one long flying aircraft carrier equipped with five Curtiss Sparrowhawk bi- discovery did not come until 1895. planes, went down off the coast of It’s the second most abundant ele- New Jersey in 1933, killing 73 of the ment in the universe next to hydro- 76 on board. Akron’s sister ship, the gen, but it’s scarce because—rather U.S.S. Macon, was destroyed by a obviously—it tends to float away. wind shear off Big Sur in California It is created deep underground by in 1935. Only two crewmen died, the decay of unstable uranium and but the Navy’s rigid airship program thorium and accumulates in rock died with them. formations mixed with other gases. The Helium Reserve lived on, Special equipment is required to though, proving its usefulness capture helium during natural gas during the Cold War due to helium’s processing. Once you’ve got it, it’s unique cryogenic properties. Then hard to store. Complicating matters, someone had a bright idea. helium doesn’t occur in commercial Rep. Christopher Cox, a Cali- quantities in all natural gas deposits. fornia Republican, sponsored the The richest areas for helium Helium Privatization Act of 1996. extraction in the U.S. are around It passed. On signing it President southwest Kansas and the panhan- Clinton wrote, “Once our defense dles of Oklahoma and Texas. That is and aviation industries had a strong why, for reasons of national security, need for helium and the nation the Helium Act of 1925 ordered a lacked a market to supply it. A gov- National Helium Reserve to be built ernment program was appropriate. a few miles northwest of Amarillo. But today, over 90 percent of U.S. Gotta keep those dirigibles flying! helium needs are met by private The U.S. Navy invested heavily producers and suppliers. A govern- in money and manpower, but its ment-operated program is no longer turned out to be well below the mar- due at their destination. An aerial six months that the same company airship program never really got off needed. The private sector can meet, ket rate. As any capitalist could tell search located the wreckage of their had a tour helicopter crash land on the ground. Well, actually, it did. The and now will be able to compete to you, that resulted in wasteful usage. machine in the mountains northeast O’ahu. It is time we reevaluate the problem was the way the ships came supply, the needs of all users.” The government is out of the way of Alpine, Utah. They left a son and FAA’s role in regulating this indus- back down. The first of them, U.S.S. Cox’s 1996 Act didn’t just dictate now, so the famous invisible hand daugher, ages six and five. try. Shenandoah, crashed in a storm in the sale of a unique resource, it dic- of the free market is able to do its That makes five people who have “These tours impact our national, Ohio in 1925, with the loss of 14 tated a formula for pricing it. That thing—and it’s not just the balloon died in Robinson R44 crashes in state and county parks and natural man who’s in trouble. The price is al- less than three weeks. An April 29th resources; cemeteries and memorial ready 20 times what it was ten years crash in Kailua, Hawaii killed a pilot sites; military installations; harbors ago. By law the reserves are sup- and two passengers. and other government infrastruc- posed be drained by September 30, The latter incident spurred Ha- ture; visitor industry locations; 2021, and God knows what it will waii Senator Mazie Hirono and commercial and industrial areas; cost then. First District Representative Ed nearshore waters and recreational Better schedule your MRIs Case, both Democrats, to ask the areas; and throughout our residential now—without helium to cool them, FAA to take action. neighborhoods. those fancy machines are junk. Case wrote to the Western Pacific “As I understand from discus- Regional Administrator, “Commu- sions with the FAA and my own Robinson Helicopters in the News nities throughout the nation, and review of existing laws and regula- Megan Hawk Penna posted a video particularly in my home state of tions, these air tour operations are clip on Facebook last Friday morn- Hawai’i, are dealing with the intru- virtually unregulated at the federal ing, from the cockpit of a Robinson sion from noise and visual impacts, level. The FAA does not consider R44 helicopter. It showed clouds as well as safety risks and other neg- noise emission, time and place of and mountains, her husband Ben- ative consequences of excessive heli- operation, and altitude. The only no at the controls, and herself. Both copter and small aircraft commercial real federal interest or authority at were smiling broadly. “Above the tour operations. … present is strictly operational safe- clouds” was all she wrote. “… [the] tour helicopter [which] ty and national airspace efficiency. The little pier next to the new Memorial Bridge is beginning to see some A relative notified authorities later crashed onto a residential street in With the recent crash and deaths in use, on those fleeting occasions when the weather permits. that day a that the couple were over- Kailua … was the second time in Hawai’i, we must look into the way

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Lafayette Plaza, Route 1, Portsmouth, 422-6758 • Mon - Sat 8am - 8pm, Sun 10am - 6pm The New Hampshire Gazette, Friday, May 24, 2019 — Page 3 safety is being regulated. And as the be appropriate, for the verisimili- federal government largely claims tude—and suggest that he join forc- exclusive jurisdiction over airspace, es with Rep. Case. state and local governments are not Residents of East Brookfield, authorized to legislate or regulate Mass., at least, were able get some any mitigating restrictions. relief from helicopter overflights this “This current situation is not month. It came not from the FAA, acceptable. Commercial air tour but from the U.S. Attorney. operators are not or should not be Since early last year, Antonio entitled to exact widespread and vir- Santonastaso, 59, had been making tually unlimited disruption and risk frequent low-altitude flights in a as a result of their operations. There Robinson R22, taking off from and has been no material effort by oper- landing in his backyard on Podunk ators to mitigate disruption and risk Road. That ended May 9th, when he on a voluntary basis, and none can was charged with one count of “serv- be reasonably expected. My com- ing as an airman without an airman mitment is therefore to pursue leg- certificate and one count of making islative and/or regulatory solutions, false statements to federal agents,” and I would appreciate you working according to a Justice Department with me and others in doing so.” press release. We don’t know if Chris Pappas, Santonastaso did have a license at Congressional Representative for one time, but he lost it in 2000. It the First District, reads this paper was revoked after he was convicted or not. If anyone reading this paper of stealing another Robinson R22 knows him, perhaps they might put from the Norwood, Mass. airport. a bug in his ear—a mosquito might He “pleaded guilty to larceny in the

2000 helicopter theft after initially Steven Mnuchin, urging him to get a team of Black Union Soldiers on claiming that he couldn’t have stolen the lead out. a raid of a plantation in Combahee the helicopter because he was over- Wednesday, Mnuchin said he had Ferry, South Carolina. The intrep- seas performing ‘black ops,’” accord- more important things to do. id crew freed 750 slaves, many of ing to an article in the Worcester whom went on to serve in the Union Telegram & Gazette. Army. –=≈=– For the record, it was the North Tubman Disrespected by Rich Geek that won the Civil War. Three years ago the then-Secretary Steven Mnuchin, if he’s lucky, of the Treasury announced that may eventually be remembered as Harriet Tubman would be placed on the man whose father Robert, an art the front of the $20 Federal Reserve dealer, spent $91 million dollars last note. Andrew Jackson, the current week for a chrome-plated rabbit on occupant, would go to the back of behalf of hedge fund manager Steve the bill. Cohen. Apparently because that change Cohen’s business practices as a Recently it came to our attention that the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail seemed to be losing momentum, hedge fund manager have been includes the Beacon Hill home of Bashka Paeff, the sculptor who created New Hampshire Senator Jeanne so [ahem] creative they inspired a this magnificent work. The entry reads, in part, “Known as the ‘subway Shaheen introduced a bill in March Showtime TV series, “Billions.” sculptress’ because in her spare time [she worked] as a toll collector at the to “ensure that the face of all $20 According to Allen Salkin’s book Park Street subway station…Bashka Paeff (1893-1979) was a Russian Federal Reserve notes printed after “From Scratch: Inside the Food Jewish immigrant who lived with her family at 6 Pinckney Street. Her December 31, 2020, bear the like- Network,” Cohen once paid Guy most controversial work, The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, stands in ness of Harriet Tubman.” Clearly, a little historical refresher Fieri $100,000 “to be his friend John Paul Jones Park in Kittery, Maine. Although she made changes to Earlier this month, Shaheen and is needed here. As Admiral Fowle’s for a day” and drive him around soften the work at the request of the governor [Ralph Brewster], she origi- Reps. Elijah Cummings [D-Md.] Piscataqua River Tidal Guide has Connecticut, reenacting a fantasy nally wanted to depict the horrors of war, saying: ‘…we should set up me- and John Katko [R-N.Y.] wrote been noting for years, 156 years ago episode of “Diners, Drive-Ins and morials that would make us loathe war instead of admire it.’” Amen, sister. a joint letter to Treasury Secretary this June 2nd, Harriet Tubman led Dives.”

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Act Now! OK, we see your point. To the Editor: The Editor That old feeling…the first time I -=≈=– felt it was during the ’60’s when seri- A Constitutional Mandate to Impeach al assassination of America’s leaders To the Editor: dominated the news. It continued At the risk of sounding like a geek, I into the ’70s when America’s youth admit that I’m currently reviewing, as claims to “totally exonerate” him) were commoditized like cattle to be- I have numerous times over the years cites at least 10 occasions where #45 come cannon fodder in an illegal war for my own edification, the Constitu- attempted to obstruct a counterin- everyone knew would fail. “I guess the tion of the United States of America, telligence investigation into a foreign virtuous principles make them offen- kids were right,” Lyndon Johnson later the supreme law of our nation. With adversarial power’s interference in our sive. the sun.” admitted. Thanks a lot! all the discussion surrounding the election, which is all the information The average age of the world’s great- Rep. Dick Marple, Merrimack #24 People in power make mistakes. possible impeachment of POTUS the Constitution says the House needs est civilizations has been 200 years. Hooksett, N.H. Horrendous mistakes that topple na- #45, over what appears to be charges to introduce Articles of Impeachment. Nations have progressed through Dick: tions, destroy futures, and get people of obstruction of justice (certainly a Wayne H. Merritt the following sequence: Thank you for writing. We welcome killed. Honest mistakes, stupid mis- high crime), I am focusing on the sec- Dover, N.H. From Bondage to Spiritual Faith all opportunities to eviscerate this sort of takes, and willfully negligent mistakes tions of the Constitution that cover -=≈=– “ Spiritual Faith to Great Courage pompous, authoritarian claptrap, mas- that can breed bitterness for genera- impeachment. Why Democracies Fail “ Courage to Liberty querading as irrefutable wisdom, which tions. Article II, Section IV of the Con- To the Editor: “ Liberty to Abundance has been undermining the very princi- For the past two years, President stitution says in no uncertain terms: A Democracy cannot exist as a per- “ Abundance to Selfishness ples embodied in our Constitution since Donald Trump has been ruthlessly “The President, Vice President and manent form of Government. It can “ Selfishness to Complacency March 4, 1789—the day it went into jettisoning every check, balance, and all civil Officers of the United States, only exist until the voters discover they “ Complacency to Apathy effect. Usually we rely on Don Ewing for constraint that might save him from shall be removed from Office on Im- can vote themselves largess out of the “ Apathy to Dependency this stuff, but we haven’t heard from him making a mistake. Now, with no ap- peachment for, and Conviction of, public treasury. From that moment This sequence of events is most in a while. We miss him deeply. parent need for advice or consent, he’s Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes on the majority always votes for the commonly attributed to The Decline You are apparently aware of but not free to exercise the same flawed judg- and Misdemeanors.” Article I, Section candidate promising the most bene- and Fall of the Athenian Republic, by troubled by the spurious attribution of ment over our nation that plagued him II makes it clear that the U.S. House fits from the public treasury with the Alexander Fraser Tytler Lord Wood- this piece. We find that curious. in business. of Representatives “shall have the sole result that Democracy always collapses houselee (1748-1813). Of course, we find everything curious. What will history record as Trump’s Power of Impeachment,” and Section over a loose fiscal policy, always to be However, this has also been at- Thanks to the Miracle of the Internet, greatest misstep? War with Iran? An III of the same Article declares that followed by a Dictatorship with loss tributed to Benjamin Disraeli, Alexis we found that someone else had already economy-crashing trade war? Inva- “the Senate shall have the sole Power of freedom for the many and greed de Tocqueville, R. G. LeTourneau and researched the first lump in this stew of sion of North Korea? Gunning down to try all Impeachments” and that con- for the few. This was the conclusion others. It is most likely that it is actual- twaddle. According to Loren Collins, refugee families at the Mexican bor- viction of the defendant will require arrived at by Professor Alexander Fra- ly two quotes, put together. Parts of it [lorencollins.net/tytler.html] it orig- der? Declaring a national emergency “the Concurrence of two thirds of the ser Tytler, a Scottish advocate, judge, show up in printed record as far back inated in a 1951 editorial in the Daily and jailing his detractors? Appointing Members present.” writer and historian who served as as 1950, when the “Fatal Sequence” Oklahoman written by Elmer T. Peter- himself President for Life? Can we af- You probably noticed that the word Professor of Universal History, and portion was cited in a speech by Eu- son. Peterson was—appropriately enough ford to find out? “shall,” which is not synonymous with Greek and Roman Antiquities at the gene E. Wilson at a special Unit- for this hogwash—Dean of the College of Nancy Pelosi tells us to forget im- the word “maybe,” appears in all three University of Edinburgh nearly two ed Nations Convocation at Hillyer Education at the University of Iowa. peachment and sit on our hands until sections on impeachment. I also rec- centuries ago. A conclusion reached College in Hartford, Connecticut. Another chunk of your diatribe, begin- after the 2020 election. But I’ve got a ognized that the Constitution doesn’t during the period when our thirteen Regardless of the quote’s origin, it is ning with “It is to the ‘Republic’ that we gnawing feeling Donald Trump won’t care if anyone’s feelings get hurt or that original states were still colonies of interesting to note how accurate it de- pledge allegiance,” was lifted from West- wait. He’s poised to act now, well be- our already bitterly divided nation be- Great Britain. At the time he was tails the past and how much further we brook Pegler. Time magazine said in fore a reversal in 2020 could tear pow- comes more divided over a President writing of the decline and fall of the have progressed along that predicted 1938 that he was “invariably irritated, er from his grasp. being held accountable for having Athenian Republic over two thousand lines since it first appeared in modern [and] inexhaustibly scornful. Unham- Please contact Nancy Pelosi and committed an impeachable offense. years before. recorded history, in 1950. pered by coordinated convictions of his New Hampshire’s entire Congressio- Additionally, the Constitution does It is to the “Republic” that we pledge I urge you not to be concerned with own, Pegler applies himself to presidents nal Delegation and tell them to get the not instruct the House to hold off on allegiance, as guaranteed by Article 4, the authorship of this quote, but to fo- and peanut vendors with equal zeal and lead out. Do it before they all make a introducing Articles of Impeachment section 4, Constitution for the United cus upon the truth that is in the words. skill. Dissension is his philosophy.” The huge mistake—one that will haunt just because they don’t think enough States of America. Long live the glo- I believe that we can stop this “Fatal older he got, the crankier he got. He even America’s future for decades! partisan Senators from the other party rious Republic of the United States of Sequence,” once the people have ac- managed to get thrown out of the John Rick Littlefield will vote to convict. Furthermore, the America and Damn the democracy. It cepted the truth that history has pro- Birch Society for being too extreme. Barrington, N.H. Constitution provides no directives on is a fraudulent term used by ignorant vided. I close with the admonition of In Pegler’s day, writers occasionally Rick: what actions to take for political expe- persons and more often by intellectual the Preacher, who recorded in verse 9 made references to miscegenation. In this But…but…but…Speaker Pelosi is diency or to make allowances for an fakers, to describe an infamous mix- of Ecclesiastes “The thing that hath day and age, if you do, you’ll get what you deeply concerned that if she offends the upcoming major election. ture of socialism, miscegenation, graft, been, it is that which shall be; and that deserve, namely, a label: racist. Despot-in-Chief, he won’t sign legisla- The heavily redacted version of the confiscation of property and denial of which is done is that which shall be As for The Preacher, for us there’s only tion that Mitch McConnell won’t…. Mueller Report (the one that #45 personal rights to individuals whose done: and there is no new thing under one: Jesse Cutler. He’s played on the TV

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deduction for SS& M taxes, 2) elimi- local ordinances saying no to corporate nate the cap above which no taxes are harms and yes to environmental and collected, 3) merge several pension social justice. programs for state and federal work- Barnstead residents watched for ers into the SS&M system, 4) allow years as sludge, laced with carcino- Medicare to negotiate for drug prices gens from Monsanto and other toxic been discredited by most economic ex- with manufacturers (like the Veterans industries, was dumped on farmlands perts including Reagan’s own. Reagan’s Administration does), pushing down impacting groundwater. We then deficits kept on climbing so much that drug prices for everyone. looked on as our neighbors in the ment allowing limits on political some critics commented: “our country On the political front: 1) our gov- town of Nottingham fought the machine by some English actor, but he spending to combat corruption and owes President Reagan a debt that we ernment must support generating USA Springs takeover of their water talks like a Texan. His girlfriend Tulip protect the equal rights of American can never repay.” In response to these more revenues by increasing the tax- resources. Barnstead residents subse- was dead once, but she’s OK now. His citizens. HB 504 will be voted on by large deficits, his administration de- rates for high income earners and quently enacted a rights-based ordi- best friend Cassidy, is an Irish vampire. the N.H. Senate very soon. Call your cided to create the “Grand Unified corporations, 2) stop using the GUB nance asserting our right to control Here’s what The Preacher has to say: “It state senator now and ask them to vote Budget” (GUB), which included not by separating the SS&MTF from the and protect our water resources. And feels like…there’s a big blender in my OTP (ought to pass) on HB 504. only the normal government bud- regular government budget, providing recently Barnstead enacted a freedom gut. And inside that blender, there’s ev- Jennifer Dube get but added the funds in the Social real budget transparency, 3) ensure from religious identification ordinance erything. Love, hate, fire, ice, polonium, Raymond, N.H. Security and Medicare Trust Funds that the increased government revenue in response to burgeoning religious in- ice cream, tarantulas…everything. All of Jennifer: (SS&MTF), which at the time en- is adequate not only to fund already tolerance. God’s creation inside of me.” Getting big money out of politics would joyed a large surplus. These surpluses existing programs, but also to fund The N.H. Community Rights Works for us. do a lot of good across the board, in ad- made Reagan’s deficits look smaller, new and needed programs like infra- Amendment would have protected The Editor dition to helping neutralize the crackpot and even though SS&MTF were structure and modernization, 4) take these ordinances—as well as those -=≈=– grifters of the NRA. self-funded programs administered by a critical look at military spending. It enacted in numerous N.H. towns Big NRA Money is Killing Kids The Editor trustees, even today politicians are still is not supposed to be a jobs program, fighting pipelines and other corporate To the Editor: -=≈=– using the GUF and pretending that and the U.S. is not the policeman of harms—from state preemption and Are you sick to death of hearing Our National Debt—Causes and Solutions they have control over it. world. Our military spending should would have specifically enumerated about yet another school shooting and To the Editor: While I agree with many of the be limited to the need to defend our the right to local self-government more kids dying? Do you ever wonder I totally agree with recent comments Concord Coalition’s comments, their own country, not someone else’s. affirmed in the N.H. State Constitu- why we just can’t seem to have com- from Robert Bixby of the Concord constant focus on SS&MTF when While deficits and debt are very tion’s Bill of Rights. mon sense gun laws? Believe it or not, Coalition encouraging voters to ask discussing debt and deficits is one-sid- simple ideas, many politicians want Ask your representatives if they the answer is simple—big money in 2020 presidential candidates how they ed. SS&MTF are not the cause of our them to be perceived as complicated, voted to support local decision-mak- politics allows powerful interests to would address our national debt and current debt or deficit spending, in fact so that their drivers are discussed as ing, the N.H. Community Rights prevent the kind of progress We the annual deficits. The Concord Coali- the SS-Trust Fund currently has a sur- little as possible. Thank you, Concord Amendment, or if they chose to yield People want. tion deserves much credit for keeping plus of approximately $3 trillion, even Coalition, for keeping this topic alive, to party pressure and bow to corpo- In 2016, the National Rifle Associa- this issue in front of the public. While though current revenues are lower and yes, let us ask the 2020 Presiden- rate donors. Ask them if they will, in tion (NRA) poured an unprecedented this organization is non-partisan, it is than the payouts. However, the Medi- tial candidates about it. the future, recognize the constituency amount of money into the elections. worth remembering that it was Dem- care Trust Fund will need shoring up Representative Peter Somssich / they are serving and understand that According to Open Secrets, the NRA ocratic Senator Paul Tsongas from soon. District 27, 34 Swett Ave. Portsmouth, the people most affected by decisions spent $419 million to deliver Repub- Massachusetts who first sounded the There are three drivers of our deficits N.H. 03801, (603) 436-5221 should be the ones making those de- licans to the House and Senate, and alarm about out-of-control spending and national debt: 1) constant reduc- Peter: cisions. Trump to the White House. What’s by President Ronald Reagan in the tions of the tax rates for high income Thanks very much—best explana- People all over N.H. are working more, career NRA support for some 1980s. That call for controlling defi- taxpayers and corporations, 2) in- tion we’ve seen of how the GOP risked with the New Hampshire Communi- members of Congress now reaches cits fell on deaf Republican ears at the creased military spending on wars and the peoples’ future to cover up their fiscal ty Rights Network to realize true local well into the seven-figure range. The time, but was as true then as it is today. interventions abroad, without funding hypocrisy. self-government so we can dismantle skyrocketing cost of elections forces A bit of historical context is useful to to pay for them, and 3) overpromising The Editor the power structures that have kept us political parties into the pockets of understand how the Concord Coali- and creating new programs without -=≈=– at the mercy of corporate greed. It’s major corporations. Wealthy donors tion was born. identifying funding. Solutions to this Protect Community Rights time that all of our legislators support have too much influence over poli- President Reagan was convinced national deficit spending and debt are To the Editor: the people’s work that will sustain and ticians. The concentration of wealth that more spending on the military obvious to most Americans: we need In March of this year 74 of our enrich our communities. Kudos to the yields concentration of power. If the and reducing taxes, particularly on the more revenue, and (just like a family N.H. state representatives voted in 74 legislators who did. NRA didn’t have so much control over higher income taxpayers and corpo- budget deficit) we need to control over favor of allowing the people to vote Diane St. Germain, NHCRN Congress, We the People could have rations, would result in increased eco- spending. on the N.H. Community Rights state Board member, www.nhcommunity- common sense gun reform. nomic growth which would more than The SS&MTF trustees have been constitutional amendment affirming rights.org, (603) 496-3503 So what can We the People do pay for any lost revenue by the govern- recommending reasonable changes the right of local self-government. 282 Center Barnstead, N.H. about it? Here in New Hampshire, ment. Of course, as many suspected, to address these issues for years. Here representatives voted to effectively House Bill (HB) 504 calls on Con- that philosophy of “supply side eco- are just 4 suggestions: 1) increase by undermine the efforts of New Hamp- Mash Notes, Hate Mail, &c. gress to pass a Constitutional amend- nomics” proved wrong and has since approximately 0.5 percent the payroll shire communities that have enacted to page six

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The Northcountry Chronicle Waiting, 1945 by William Marvel served for Civil War biography, and February—and there wasn’t much place. Dog-earing the pages of a putting it there would have initiated chance that anyone would pick it up book was a notorious vice of my fa- ookcases and bookshelves another endless shuffle. It wasn’t -re secondhand. It would probably be ther’s, and that page marked the end cover all the open wall space ally a biography anyway, and didn’t bound for a furnace somewhere, so I of a chapter called “The Navy Stands on the first floor of my house, fit any of the other genres in my col- flipped through it one last time. By.” This copy of Pyle’s book was Band every wall of the upstairs, in- lection, so I went down to the glass- Tucked between pages 92 and 93 from the sixth printing, dated Jan- cluding inside the closets. The books front bookcase of miscellaneous was a tiny clipping from a newspa- uary, 1945. My father departed on are largely arranged by category and titles beside the piano. The faded red per, one side of which bore a name- his last tour in the Pacific in Febru- subcategory, although some have to spine of a book with a chipping dust less poem. ary, 1945, aboard the U.S.S. Ottawa, be shelved by size; most of the pa- jacket seemed the perfect size, so I “Last night I dreamed my love came bound for Okinawa, and the book perbacks have their own bookcases. pulled it out and found that the new home. must have gone aboard in one of his Some might fit multiple categories, one fit comfortably in its place. “In the fourth lonely watch trunks when he left. and when I need them I often find The potential discard was Brave “I waked, and waking heard his beside Nicky, the Shetland sheep- The poem and the photograph, them more by memory than by the Men, billed as “the new book by Er- hand dog my parents bought as a puppy meanwhile, were trimmed just small logic of my organization. The shelves nie Pyle.” For the edification of read- “Upon the latch.” when my father was transferred back enough to fit into a V-mail enve- are all full. When a new title joins ers under the age of 60, Ernie Pyle In the middle stanzas the dream- to California in 1943. I knew the lope. He must have received them the collection it can precipitate a was a war correspondent who trav- er found that she had misinterpreted picture, a larger version of which is somewhere between the Ottawa’s wholesale reorganization, forcing eled with U.S. soldiers in Europe and the noise of wind and rain. She con- mounted in a family album. landing at Okinawa and its stop me to choose between duplicate the Pacific, sending frequent col- soled herself with the reflection that It took a while to figure out how at bombed-out Nagasaki, and put copies, or to decide whether I can umns home to the Scripps-Howard another time it would really be him. the photo and the clipping got into them in the book to keep them flat. stand to give away a book for which newspaper chain. This book was his “What night, what watch? Ah, who the book. My mother’s taste in lit- There they’ve sat for three-quarters I’ve never yet found a use. second collection of columns from can say, erature ran to classic fiction and of a century. A new book arrived a few days the front. My interest in World War “And whether soon or late? Gothic novels, so I couldn’t imagine Solving that mystery only raised ago. It was a fairly slim volume—the II is limited to naval operations, pri- “Only, the heart that’s strong to love her finding much pleasure in Pyle’s another—namely, where the hell am last publication by an old friend of marily in the Pacific, and I supposed “Is strong to wait.” depiction of the invasions of Italy I going to put that new book? If I mine, about a soldier we both knew that I could dispense with Pyle’s Behind the poem, cut down to ex- or Normandy. And why would she could open up some new wall space well. That soldier already has a few book without much loss. There was actly the same size, was a picture of squirrel away a picture of herself? downstairs, I suppose I could build biographies, a couple of which sit no one I could give it to—the last my mother. She was sitting on the Then I noticed that page 31 was some new bookshelves to fit. Do we side-by-side on the shelves I’ve re- WWII veteran I knew died last porch of her own mother’s house turned down to mark the reader’s really need a couch? from page five Rich DiPentima Portsmouth, N.H. Mueller’s Testimony is Indispensible -=≈=– Dear Editor: Alabama Bound? Not Likely. Today, Mr. Trump stood behind which were reported to the FBI as accepted the Department of Justice To the Editor: a podium in the Rose Garden that required by law, or the ten episodes It is now imperative that the policy that a sitting president could There is nothing that could lead had a sign saying “No Collusion, No of attempted or actual obstruction of House Judiciary Committee have not be indicted, did he intend for me to support Alabama’s law crimi- Obstruction #35 + Million, 2,800 justice by Trump listed in the Muel- Mr. Mueller come and testify under his report to be used by Congress to nalizing abortion. subpoenas, and 18 angry Demo- ler Report. oath, either voluntarily or, if neces- uphold their Constitutional respon- There are, however, some amend- crats.” An angry Trump had just Once again, Mr. Trump continues sary, under subpoena. Last week At- sibility to determine if impeachable ments to that law that might at least abruptly walked out of a meeting to repeat the big lie, that the Mueller torney General Barr said that he was offenses had been committed? let me feel that those who voted for about infrastructure with Speaker Report totally exonerated him from not preventing Mr. Mueller from Based on Mr. Mueller’s responses it did so on the basis of their true be- Pelosi and Senate Minority Lead- obstruction of justice. That is clearly appearing before Congress. We need to these questions, House Demo- lief in the personhood of the embryo er Schumer, to complain about the not what was stated in the Muel- to have a number of key questions crats would have a better argument and their true caring about the life Mueller Report and the Democrats’ ler Report. The Report stated, “If answered by Mr. Mueller, such as; for either initiating impeachment (not just the brith) of the child. attempts to hold him accountable. we had confidence after a through did Barr’s four page letter fairly and hearings or for not doing so. In any The government denying abor- What the sign did not list were the investigation of the facts that the accurately describe his report and it case, Americans need to fully under- tion shall: number of Trump associates who president clearly did not commit ob- findings? Would he have indicted stand what actually were the find- guarantee the medical costs of pled guilty to felonies, were indicted, struction of justice, we would have so any other person, other than a sitting ings of Mr. Mueller, and that Mr. maternity care, delivery, postpartum convicted, jailed, or the 251 contacts stated. Based on the facts and appli- president, who committed the 10 Trump was not exonerated by the care, and for any medical issues aris- Trump campaign associates had cable legal standards we are unable episodes of possible obstruction of Mueller Report, despite his contin- ing from the pregnancy or delivery. with Russian foreign agents, none of to reach that conclusion.” justice listed in his report? Since he ued efforts to deny that truth. provide funds for the care, medical

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Why a 70% tax rate on the superrich would be good for America by Jim Hightower superiority, and grandiosity—in- build a culture of inequality across United States? grasp of the essential richness of cluding flaunting their wealth like our land. To their dismay, howev- Yes, between the end of World American egalitarianism. We should nce upon a time, there was a the robber barons of old. For exam- er, America’s workaday majority is War II in 1945 and Ronald Reagan’s not be listening to people like him place where the prevailing eth- ple, a ludicrously large “house” is un- rebelling, with newly-elected dem- start of coddle-the-rich government (much less being governed by them) Oic of the very richest people was that der construction in Florida for one ocratic populists like Alexandria in 1981, the top tax rate never fell just because they are rich. monetary self-indulgence was tacky of our modern-day barons, boasting Ocasio-Cortez proposing a 70 per- below 70 percent—and that was a –=≈=– and that wealth was a matter of good 11 kitchens, five swimming pools, cent tax rate on incomes above $10 period of unparalleled growth and Populist author, public speaker, and fortune, carrying with it an obliga- and a 30-car garage. million. “Oh, the horror,” shrieked prosperity for America’s middle radio commentator Jim Hightower tion to the Common Good. Worse, the billionaire class is as- billionaires like computer magnate class. writes The Hightower Lowdown, a Believe it or not, that place was serting its sense of plutocratic priv- Michael Dell: “Name a country Dell, who lives in a sprawling monthly newsletter chronicling the the USA! Where did it go? ilege by weaponizing their huge where that’s worked,” he demanded 33,000-square-foot house with all ongoing fights by America’s ordinary The prevailing ethic of today’s bil- fortunes. They’ve been spending dismissively. the charm of a shopping mall, con- people against rule by plutocratic elites. lionaire’s club is one of entitlement, massively (and often secretly) to Okay, Michael: How about the fuses value with money and has no Sign up at HightowerLowdown.org. from page six the Russians have on Trump and his people that allowed them to exert so and otherwise, of the child up until much leverage on Trump then and the age of 18. This shall include food, now; we deserve to know just how clothing, and other necessities. known Con Don for a long time. filed just in the Mueller investiga- many election and financial and na- provide funds sufficient to offset He’s challenged Con Don in court 288,000 Iraqi and American deaths tion against several entities and at tional security laws Trump violated any loss of wages for the woman and caused him to back down. Bill later. Iraq is a third the population least 34 individuals associated with then and now. whose choice was taken from her. de Blasio said, “Con Don is a regular of Iran. War there would be many Trump’s campaign or his admin- Instead, it’s Wag the Dog time; Even these amendments would playground bully. You can’t let him times more destructive, just when istration and we expect more from scream bloody hell about Iran, let not fully compensate the woman de- get the upper hand.” I heard de Bla- we need the militaries of the world other courts. loose the dogs of war under kennel nied an abortion, but they would at sio recount that he’s had six years of to wake up to climate chaos and stop The protracted and determined master John Bolton and dictator least take some responsibility for the tackling the problems of America’s consuming vast quantities of fossil effort to get Trump’s tax returns is whisperer Mike Pompeo and leap effects of their law and demonstrate largest city, naming his gains for the fuel. also proceeding with force of law around madly, hoping to distract some moral conscience, some sense people. He’s well aware of the short Let’s also recall that the invasion and virtually all his financial deal- us all, even if it takes another war of that they are truly pro-life and not time we have to address climate of Iraq was only sold to the Amer- ings—personal, family “charity,” choice based on lies in the Middle purely anti-abortion. change, and he’s well aware of in- ican people by the creation of Fake campaign, inaugural committee, East, even if it credibly threatens Donna Pistole come inequality hurting too many News, by the incessant repetition business entities—are being re- millions of human lives, even if it Durham, N.H. people. He was elected in 2013 and of two categorical lies: 1) Saddam vealed as corrupt, illegal, cheating, consumes literally billions of gallons Donna: re-elected in 2017 with landslide had weapons of mass destruction, 2) and often literally bankrupt. His of absolutely unnecessary fossil fuel We suspect that you know full well victories both times. Saddam might give one or more of horde of lawyers are suing every- by naval battle groups already on the Republican Party would never If a new Deutsche Bank investi- his nuclear weapons to Osama bin one they can think of—Deutsche their way and thousands of provoc- provide such generous support to any gation of the billions Trump / Kush- Laden. Bank, Capitol One, Mazars, House ative military jet flights taunting and child—unless he or she was the off- ner borrowed and used somehow Why is Trump doing this now? Is Oversight Committee chair Elijah then possibly attacking Iran. spring of a class we ought to call—irony doesn’t make Trump quake, then this this drumbeat also based on lies? Cummings—in a flustered attempt Will we fall for this garbage alert!— “the deserving rich.” challenge by Bill de Blasio should. If Well, to misquote Mae West, “Is to contain each damning revelation. move? Will Trump attempt to do The Editor it turns out we see a Bill Weld can- that a subpoena in your pocket or are We are reminded now on a dai- what so many autocrats have done -=≈=– didacy in 2020 because something you just happy to see me?” ly basis of Trump’s declaration that when they feel imperiled by pop- Bill de Blasio a Great Addition happened to derail Trump before Trump’s coterie, his closest, his he could shoot somebody on Fifth ular disapproval and launch a war, Dear Editor: then, well, we might have two fine family, and his henchpeople are ei- Avenue and not lose any voters. He’s initiated by a false flag operation or While healing from hip replace- elected officials in face off: high- ther in prison, heading there once stonewalling every Congressional concocted false intelligence reports? ment, I’m seeing lots of CNN. achieving-for-the-people Bill de they are through cooperating with subpoena and refusing to allow Will we be suckers complicit in Within minutes of each other, I Blasio v. thoughtful and respected prosecutors or Special Counsel, or anyone to answer any of those sub- mass murder? heard Iran’s top diplomat respond Bill Weld. It could be like the clouds about to get a Congressional force- poenas to come testify and answer The 2016 election was stolen by to our U.S. threats. He said this calls breaking open and a shaft of sun- of-law subpoena to come testify questions by any Congressional thieves, foreign and domestic. Will for U.S. recognizing the precarious light shining down, that election. I and/or hand over germane docu- committees. What’s next for this we the American people insist on situation we, the U.S., are creating know that’s a lot of “ifs.” Just hoping. ments. The stench of corruption is wannabe monarch? Declare Divine justice and defense of democracy or and without thought for conse- Lynn Rudmin Chong revealing that Trump’s promised Right? Summary executions? Jus will we sit back and take more of this quences. (That’s Trump through Sanbornton, N.H. plan to “drain the swamp” worked primae noctis? abuse? and through—unserious about con- -=≈=– only because he brought in a cess- Even Richard Nixon in his worst Dr. Tom H. Hastings is PeaceVoice sequences as he shallow-thinking Iran Wags Impeachment Dog pool with which to replace it. criminal noncooperative period Director and on occasion an expert tweets his orders.) Then I heard new by Tom H. Hastings More from Trump’s inner circle didn’t go as far as Trump is now, witness for the defense in court. Democratic presidential candidate Trump is blustering at Iran and to have traded their charcoal Brooks desperate to prevent any truth at all -=≈=– Gov. Bill de Blasio of New York the world that we might just need to Brothers power suits for orange from reaching the American people. “Why do so many people have the City interviewed. crush that pipsqueak terror country. jump suits as more evidence comes We deserve to know what Trump crash-prone helicopters? Are they sold De Blasio nearly right away Um…it took nine years to invade, to light. More than 200 separate and his people did to steal the 2016 with a free life insurance policy?” launched into explaining he’s occupy, and finally limp out of Iraq, criminal charges have already been election; we deserve to know what —W.F., Rollinsford, N.H.

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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, May 26 Monday, May 27 Tuesday, May 28 Wednesday, May 29 Thursday, May 30 Friday, May 31 Saturday, June 1

2004—The NY Times admits its pre- 2017—Last call for The Coat of Arms. 2009—Jonathan Trappe crosses the 2015—The Washington Post prints 2007—Dale Rippy, a 62 year-old 2009—Dr. George Tiller, ushering in 2005—Paul Wolfowitz, his incompe- war Iraq coverage was “not as rigorous 1994—Charles Rodman Campbell English Channel suspended from a ex-Gov. John H. Sununu’s confession Florida resident, is attacked by a rabid a Wichita, Kansas church, is shot dead tence well-proven at the Pentagon, is as it should have been.” does his best to dodge it, but Wash- cluster of 54 multicolored balloons. that in 1988 he bartered state assets— 25-pound bobcat. Rippy, a ’Nam vet, to uphold the sanctity of life. put in charge of the World Bank. 1989—Future Veep J. Danforth ington State’s hangman finally man- 1987—W. German Mathias Rust, 19, low numbered license plates—to buy strangles the cat with his bare hands. 2007—New Hampshire becomes the 2003—The Bush administration cans Quayle predicts, “We are on an irre- ages to get a noose around his neck. lands a rented Cessna in Red Square. support for G.H.[H.]W. Bush. 1971—Vietnam War veterans are arrest- first state to honor same-sex unions its plans for a large Iraqi assembly in versible trend toward more freedom and 1972—Nixon’s “Plumbers” fail a sec- 1986—The Energy Dept. calls off a 2011—Orange County, Calif., Para- ed for protesting on Lexington Green. without court intervention. favor of a smaller, easier to manipulate democracy, but that could change.” ond time trying to break into Demo- search for a high-level nuclear waste medic Chris Trokey saves Dr. Michael 1962—Missionary Archie E. Mitch- 2005—Ex-FBI official Mark Felt -ad advisory council. 1977—George Willig scales the cratic National HQ at the Watergate. dump which had been considering a Shannon from a burning SUV. Shan- ell, sole survivor of a Bly, Ore. picnic mits he is “Deep Throat.” 2002—George W.[MD] Bush an- World Trade Center in NYC. 1962—To clear an underground land- site in southwestern New Hampshire. non had saved Trokey’s life after his devastated by a Japanese fire balloon, 1971—For the first time in the U.S., nounces at West Point that we’ll at- 1972—Nixon’s “Plumbers” fail to fill, Centralia, Pa. officials set a fire. It 1972—Third time’s a charm for Nix- premature birth 26 years earlier. is captured, along with two others, by Memorial Day is celebrated on a day tack pre-emptively if we get nervous. gain entry to Democratic National spreads to a coal seam, forcing aban- on’s “Plumbers,” finally breaking into 2008—Senator (and candidate) John the Viet Cong. He’s never seen again. other than May 30th. 1967—Disgruntled vets form Viet- HQ at the Watergate. donment of the town 30 years later. DNC HQ in the Watergate Hotel. McCain [R-Ariz.] says “Mosul is qui- 1937—Police attack strikers at Re- 1927—The last Model T rolls off the nam Veterans Against the War. 1970—The destroyer U.S.S. Richard The fire still burns. 1962—The stock market plummets et” on a day when 30 die there. public Steel in Chicago: 10 are shot Ford assembly line. 1954—The AEC pulls the security B. Anderson’s departure for Vietnam is 1959—NBC’s Today Show reports 5.7 percent, the worst drop since 1929. 2002—FBI head Robert Mueller says dead, 55 hospitalized, 30 wounded. 1921—A black WW I veteran in clearance of Manhattan Project boss delayed due to crew sabotage. straight-faced on the Society for Inde- 1959—The U.S. Army sends Able and 9/11 might have been preventable. 1927—In Queens, N.Y., Fred Trump, Tulsa refuses a demand to surrender J. Robert Oppenheimer. 1947—An FBI agent writes a memo cency to Naked Animals’ campaign to Baker, two monkeys, into space. 2001—The Bush twins, charged with father of The Donald, is arrested for his pistol. During a struggle it fires; a 1950—Maine’s Margaret C. Smith noting the Communistic content of clothe quadrupeds. 1946—The Pentagon begins working underage boozing, plead nolo. “refusing to disperse” from a KKK pa- massive “race war” ensues. asks fellow Republicans to renounce It’s a Wonderful Life. 1941—The British sink the Bismark to on a long-range bomber to be powered 1992—In Gibsonton, Fla., “Lobster rade that devolved into a riot. 1921—The mistrial of Sacco and Van- the “Four Horsemen of Calumny– 1938—The House Un-American the bottom of the sea. by a nuclear reactor; 15 years and $8 Boy” Grady Stiles Jr. is murdered by a 1922—The Lincoln Memorial is ded- zetti begins under Judge Webster “Did Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.” Activities Committee begins carrying 1940—As Brits evacuate Dunkirk, billion later it’s declared impractical. hit man hired by his family. icated. The ceremony is segregated. you see what I did with those anarchis- She is duly punished by them. out its un-American activities. Captain Jack Churchill drops a Nazi 1871—In Père Lachaise cemetery, 1987—Michael Jackson attempts to 1909—A National Conference on the tic bastards the other day?” Thayer. 1923—Maine Gov. Percival P. Baxter 1937—Ford’s thugs beat hell out of with an arrow from his longbow. French soldiers restore proper order by buy the Elephant Man’s bones. Negro leads to the NAACP. 1916—The Battle of Jutland begins: orders state flags lowered to half-staff Walter Reuther and three union col- 1923—Arch-fiend Heinz Alfred massacring 147 Communards. 1968—Charles deGaulle flees from 1854—President Franklin Pierce 151 British ships, including 28 bat- to honor the death of his dog, Garry. leagues in the “Battle of the Overpass.” Kissinger is born in Fürth, Bavaria. 1868—”I like an Indian better dead Paris to Germany where he consults [D-N.H.] signs the Kansas-Nebraska tleships, against 99 Germans (16 bat- 1921—Tulsa’s whites use planes to 1934—The Burlington diesel Zephyr’s 1902—Luna Park’s owners poison than living,” says Delegate James M. with French generals about bringing Act, which he also co-wrote. It leads tleships). The results are inconclusive, firebomb the wealthy, black Green- first run spells doom for steam. then electrocute Topsy the Elephant. Cavenaugh [D-Mont.] tells Congress, troops back home to restore order. directly to “Bleeding Kansas.” except for the 8,645 dead sailors. wood neighborhood into oblivion, 1916—Louis Thomas “Moondog” Edison’s cameras film the event. “I have never…seen a good Indian… 1953—Tenzing Norgay and Edmund 1806—Andy Jackson, dueling, takes 1889—A shoddy dam belonging to murdering hundreds in the process. Hardin, composer, street musician, 1777—Maj. Samuel Langdon sets except…a dead Indian.” Hillary top Everest. a bullet near his heart, aims carefully, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, 1918—Advised by a retreating French and Viking-helmet-wearing blind out for Cambridge with gunpowder 1830—Andy Jackson says all Indians 1941—Disgruntled Disney cartoon- and shoots Charles Dickinson dead. and friends at the South Fork Fishing officer at Belleau Woods to turn back, eccentric, is born. expropriated from the Crown. must move west of the Mississippi. ists vote to go out on strike. 1783—America’s 1st daily, The Penn- and Hunting Club collapses upstream U.S.M.C. Capt. Lloyd Williams re- 1647—In Hartford, Conn., where the 1702—“I am about to—or I am going 1754—Tanacharison, scout for Lieu- 1932—WW I “Bonus Marchers” be- sylvania Evening Post, begins. of Johnstown, Pa. The resulting flood plies, “Retreat? Hell, we just got here.” State House now stands, Alice Young to—die;” says French grammarian tenant Colonel George Washington, gin arriving in Washington, D.C. 1741—N.Y.C. burns 13 black men kills 2,200, but the owners are never 1857—The American Party sends becomes the first American hanged Dominique Bouhours, “either expres- murders the wounded Joseph Coulon 1922—The Supreme Court rules that at the stake and hangs 21 men and successfully prosecuted. Baltimore’s Plug Uglies to disrupt for witchcraft. sion is used.” de Jumonville near Fort Necessity. The baseball is not a business and is there- women, black and white, for planning 1779—General George Washington municipal elections in D.C. To restore 1637—At Mystic, Conn., Captains 1541—Margaret Pole, 67, 8th Count- French and Indian War ensues. fore exempt from anti-trust laws. a slave revolt. orders New Hampshire’s Gen. John order President Buchanan calls out the Mason and Underhill start the Pequot ess of Salisbury, tries to dodge the ax 1738—Birth of Dr. Joseph Guillotin. 1913—Stravinski’s Le Sacre du Prin- 1381—John Bampton tries to collect Sullivan to bring “destruction … dev- Marines, who shoot 10 citizens dead. War by burning Pequot forts and kill- in the Tower of London. It only makes 1653—To protect the guilty, Straw- temps debuts in Paris—to a notoriously unpaid poll taxes in Essex. The Peas- astation [and] total ruinment” to the 1660—Mary Dyer is hanged in Bos- ing 600 Indians. things worse; the job takes 12 strokes. bery Banke becomes Portsmouth. tumultuous reception. ants’ Revolt ensues. Haudenosaunee [Iroquois]. He does. ton for her Quaker beliefs. 5:31 6:18 6:29 7:12 7:27 8:03 8:21 8:49 9:11 9:31 9:56 10:11 10:40 10:50

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2016—In Colo., Cindy Estevane-Vil- 2017—Don Opplinger loses his life 2017—“Last Call” at the Press Room. 2003—Two top New York Times ed- 2002—Donald Rumsfeld tells the 2018—Attacked by a bobcat in her 2003—Condoleeza Rice admits Pres. lavicencio sees an Air Force Thunder- and a vast cattle empire when the 2006—A Ukrainian man enters the itors resign in disgrace. Curiously, unknowing that unknown unknowns Georgia driveway, DeDe Phillips, 46, George W.[MD] Bush’s State of the bird crash; the pilot lives. In Ga., her Robinson R44 helicopter he’s piloting lion cage at the Kiev zoo, saying “God many more do not. are “things we do not know we don’t strangles the rabid animal. Union claim that Saddam tried to buy sister Kristyn Lockwood sees a Navy crashes in Dimmitt, Texas. will save me, if he exists.” He doesn’t. 2000—A rented Robinson R22 heli- know.” He should know. 1997—Activists are arrested for pass- uranium from Niger was “wrong.” Blue Angel crash; the pilot dies. 2009—New Hampshire becomes the 2004—In Granby, Colo., Marvin copter crashes outside an Indiantown, 2001—Florida man Vance Flosenzier ing out the Bill of Rights outside the 1994—The main rotor of a Robinson 2010—A Robinson R22 helicopter first state to legalize same-sex mar- Heemeyer destroys the Town Hall, Fla., treatment center. The occupants, drags a seven-foot shark from shallow pro-nuclear Bradbury Science Muse- R22 helicopter detaches over Martin, flying over Spokane, Wash. sputters, riage without a court order. the mayor’s home, and 11 other build- a novice pilot and an escaping sexual water; paramedics drag his nephew um in Los Alamos. England, killing a pilot and instructor. pops, and throws off pieces before 2002—Egypt says it warned the U.S., ings with his home-made armored offender, survive but are soon caught. Jesse Arbogast’s arm from its mouth; 1971—TheArmed Forces Journal pub- 1991—Washington, D.C. hosts a crashing and killing its pilot. a week before 9/11, that al-Qaeda was bulldozer because “God has asked me 1989—A lone Chinese man tempo- doctors successfully re-attach the arm. lishes an article saying “our army… “National Victory Celebration,” com- 2002—The CIA admits to Con- about to strike the U.S. to do this.” Then he shoots himself. rarily stops a line of tanks in Tianan- 1989—Nuclear weapon manufactur- in Vietnam is in a state approaching plete with Abrams tanks and 8,800 gress—in a classified document, to 1987—After a loud “ping,” parts fall 2003—To prove they’re not soft on men Square. ing ends at Rocky Flats, Colo. when collapse.” active duty troops. In 85° heat, the avoid undue alarm—it had tracked from a Robinson R22 over South corporate crime, federal prosecutors 1976—In Idaho, the $100 million FBI and EPA agents raid the joint. 1969—Marine PFC Dan Bullock is tanks wreck Constitution Ave. one 9/11 hijacker months earlier than Windsor, Conn. It crashes, burning pick on Martha Stewart. federal Teton Dam fails, killing 14 1989—Greenpeace reports there are killed in ’Nam. He is 15. 1967—Israeli planes and boats attack it had previously admitted. an instructor and student to death. 1989—The Chinese Army kills thou- and causing $2 billion in damages. 50 nuclear weapons and nine reactors 1966—Walking for voting rights and the unarmed U.S. spy ship Liberty with 1999—The Virginian-Pilot reports 1983—In Medina, N.D., “Greatest sands at Tiananmen Square. 1969—Taken three weeks earlier, at on the ocean floor. freedom, James Meredith, 32, gets rockets, machine guns, and napalm; 34 that evangelist Pat Robertson has had Generation” veteran, Posse Comitatus 1963—Allen Ginsberg visits Saigon a cost of 72 American lives and 372 1988—At a food irradiation plant in three blasts from a shotgun in Her- sailors are killed, 171 wounded. “extensive dealings” with Liberian co-founder, and anti-tax crank Gor- to assess the political situation. Purple Hearts, Ap Bia Mountain, aka Georgia, “unbreakable” cesium cap- nando, Miss. He’s 84 now. 1956—Technical Sergeant Richard war criminal Charles Taylor. don Kahl dies in a shootout with the 1962—The first U.S. high altitude Hamburger Hill, is abandoned. sules break, nuking ten workers. 1960—A BOMARC missile at a site B. Fitzgibbon, Jr. becomes the first 1972—Alfred W. McCoy explains to FBI, having slain five U.S. Marshals. nuke test fails when a Thor rocket 1968—Robert Kennedy is fatally shot 1980—Nuke-armed B-52s go on in N.J. catches fire, melting the 10-ki- American serviceman to die in the Congress that top South Vietnamese 1980—A failed 46-cent computer malfunctions and is blown up minutes in Los Angeles. An LAPD investiga- alert for the second time in three days loton nuclear warhead on board; elev- Vietnam War. He’s murdered by a officials, the CIA, and the Mafia are chip briefly convinces NORAD that after liftoff over the South Pacific. tion convinces the gullible that Sirhan after a computer glitch signals a Soviet en ounces of plutonium go missing. fellow American airman. all in the heroin racket together. 220 Soviet missiles are incoming. 1944—For the first time a subma- Sirhan did it. attack on the U.S. 1943—In L.A., 5,000 soldiers, 1952—“I would never send troops 1971—”Treating [the press] with 1969—In the South China Sea, a nav- rine—U505—is captured and board- 1967—Israel attacks Egypt and Syria. 1978—Voters nuke California’s tax sailors, and civilians strip and beat [to Vietnam],” says Pres. Dwight D. considerably more contempt,” Nixon igational mistake takes the destroyer ed on the high seas. The Six Day War begins. base and future by passing Prop. 13. zoot-suited Hispanics. Eisenhower. writes to Haldeman, “is in the long U.S.S. Evans under the bow of the 1943—GIs in a fleet of cabs roam 1965—The State Department admits 1975—Governor Mel Thomson calls 1924—George Mallory disappears 1944—FDR signs the GI Bill. The run a more productive policy.” carrier HMAS Melbourne. The bow of downtown L.A. searching for and that U.S. troops are engaged in com- for the N.H. National Guard to be near the summit of Mt. Everest. president of the U. of Chicago warns 1944—Donald Trump, 15, of Roslin- the Evans sinks with 73 of her crew. beating up Mexican Americans. bat in Vietnam. armed with nuclear weapons. 1920—KKK Imperial Wizard Wil- that “colleges would become educa- dale, Mass., drowns after being strick- 1961—Henry R. Marshall, inves- 1939—The St. Louis, 915 Jewish ref- 1963—Britain’s Sec. of War John 1949—Orwell publishes 1984. Orig- liam J. Simmons hires two PR experts: tional hobo jungles.” en with a cramp while swimming. tigating LBJ’s pal Billy Sol Estes ugees aboard, is turned away from Profumo resigns after it’s revealed he inally a novel, it became non-fiction. membership explodes. 1943—The Zoot Suit Riots end after 1919—Anarchists set off bombs in for the Agriculture Department, is Florida; 254 later die in Nazi concen- and a Soviet naval officer had, at dif- 1944—GIs are treated to a day on the 1917—Messines, Belgium and military brass put L.A. off-limits and eight cities. In Washington, D.C., the found with five .22 slugs in him from tration camps. ferent times, shared the favors of the beach in Normandy, France. 10,000 Germans vanish as British en- civil authorities impose a dress code. home of Attorney General Mitchell a bolt-action rifle. Verdict: “suicide.” 1919—U.S. Marines invade Costa same prostitute. 1933—The first drive-in movie the- gineers detonate 19 huge mines. The 1917—A 1,200-foot electrical cable, Palmer is nearly destroyed; parts of 1947—At West Point, 56 years before Rica “to protect American interests.” 1943—Clashes between GIs and atre opens, in Camden, N.J. explosion is heard in Dublin. insulated by oil-covered cloth and the bomber’s body land across the #43 preemptively attacks Iraq, #34 1917—President Woodrow Wil- zoot-suited Hispanics continue in L.A. 1907—The University of Bern denies 1862—Under orders from N.H.-born being lowered into Butte’s Granite street on FDR’s stoop. tells graduates, “War is mankind’s son—a Democrat—tells the Jus- 1862—France gains sovereignty over a doctorate to A. Einstein because his Gen. Benjamin “The Beast” Butler, Mountain mine for safety purposes, 1863—Black Union soldiers guided most tragic and stupid folly; to seek tice Department to issue badges to three Vietnamese provinces under the conclusions about light, space and disabled Mexican War vet Wm. B. lands in a heap 2,400 feet down. As a by Harriet Tubman raid Combahee or advise its deliberate provocation is 200,000 jingoistic civilians in the Treaty of Saigon and the principle that time are radical and his assumptions Mumford is hanged in New Orleans miner inspects it his helmet lamp sets Ferry, S.C. and free 750 slaves. a black crime against all men.” American Protective League. might makes right. “more artistic than actual Physics.” for desecrating the U.S. flag. it alight; 168 miners die in the inferno. 11:22 11:29 12:05 12:11 12:48 12:54 1:34 1:41 2:23 2:31 3:15 3:24 4:10

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