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The Fortnightly Rant Insurgency Now welve score and four years peat a year to make up for the time ago, smugglers, land grabbers, it took him to recover from an epic farmers,T and shoe makers brought case of gonorrhea. Though he was forth on this continent a new nation, effective early on in his Confeder- conceived in a curiously narrow vi- ate career, he was frequently placed sion of Liberty, and dedicated— under arrest by his superiors. At sev- nominally—to the proposition that eral crucial times, however, he was all men are created equal. unable to perform his duties due to Now we are engaged in a great the lingering effects of his youthful difference of opinion, testing wheth- indiscretion. er that nation can endure much lon- The logistics involved in expung- ger while ten Army posts continue ing Hill’s name alone—post signage, to honor the names of men who stationery, organizational charts, fought against it in a great Civil War. &c., &c.—would be considerable. It would be altogether fitting and But what of, say, Fort Benning? proper for us the living to re-ded- More than twice the size of Fort icate those places. We could give Hill, Benning houses more people them new names, in honor of oth- than Manchester. ers—men, or women, who struggled As things now stand, though, the to complete, rather than halt, the nation is in the uncomfortable— as-yet unfinished work of creating one might say, untenable—position a government of the people, by the of honoring the man who justified people, and for the people. Georgia’s secession thusly: The question is whether such “What was the reason that in- including those named for Confed- Angeles, told the Washington Post. in the World will not be tampered changes can be made without that duced Georgia to take the step erate generals.” National Guard units are typically with. Respect our Military!” difference of opinion boiling over of secession? This reason may be On June 8th, though, Politico re- under the control of state governors. “Respect our Military!” Perfect. into a Civil War re-enactment with summed up in one single proposi- ported that the Secretary of Defense Since the District of Columbia has He’s not channeling his inner Eric life ammunition—an outcome cer- tion. It was a conviction, a deep con- and Secretary of the Army were now no governor, its Guard reports di- Cartman, he is Eric Cartman: a tainly better avoided. One American viction on the part of Georgia, that “open to a bi-partisan discussion on rectly to the President. We have not petulant, two-dimensional cartoon in forty ended up dead during the a separation from the North was the the topic.” seen any reporting to indicate that character—with the authority to first go-round. If a remake produced only thing that could prevent the ab- This surprising announcement the orders for this violation of came unilaterally launch nuclear weapons. a similar result, the loss would be olition of her slavery. …[If abolition came after a week of stories about directly from the Oval Office—yet. On the same day Trump tweeted a equivalent to the combined popu- comes] we will have black governors, U.S. military forces taking contro- Members of Congress and retired demand for respect for “his” military, lations of New Hampshire, Maine, black legislatures, black juries, black versial actions in the nation’s Capitol. officers expressed alarm at the scene. Republicans on the Senate Armed Montana, Rhode Island, Delaware, everything. Is it to be supposed that Perhaps most jarring was a pair Trump, safe within a newly-erect- Services Committee were dissing South Dakota, and Guam. the white race will stand for that?… of District of Columbia National ed Green Zone around the White him. They allowed to pass by a voice When we first wrote about this our men will be compelled to wan- Guard helicopters hovering over House, tweeted praise for the pilots. vote an amendment to the Defense issue, on August 2nd, it seemed der like vagabonds all over the earth; protestors at an extremely low al- Trump had thoughts about re- Authorization Act—put forward by inconceivable that the Pentagon and as for our women, the horrors titude, battering them with rotor naming Army posts, too. The very Sen. Elizabeth “Pocahontas” War- would ever rename even a relatively of their state we cannot contemplate wash, tree limbs, and loose street idea of renaming “These Monu- ren, no less—that would strip Con- minor post such as Fort A.P. Hill— in imagination. …Suppose they el- debris. One was a Lakota medevac mental and very Powerful Bases,” federate names from military bases though there were plenty of reasons evated Fred Douglass, your escaped chopper, marked with large red he tweeted in his inimitable style, within the next three years. why it should. slave, to the presidency? What crosses. which “have become part of a Great Tomorrow, President Cartman It goes without saying that Hill would be your position in such an “Misuse of the red cross symbol American Heritage, and a history will visit Tulsa, which is currently ex- was both a traitor and a loser; that’s event? I say give me pestilence and is prohibited even during peacetime of Winning, Victory, and Freedom” periencing a spike in coronavirus in- true of the whole lot now under dis- famine sooner than that.” by the First Geneva Convention, to was out of the question. His admin- fections. There he will try to assuage cussion. Certain additional factors As recently as February, an Army which the U.S. is a party,” Rachel istration would “not even consider the emptiness within by basking in make Hill a poor role model. One spokesperson had told the website E. VanLandingham, a former Air the renaming of these Magnificent the admiration—and exhalations— of the most notorious carousers in Task & Purpose that it had “no plans Force attorney and professor at the and Fabled Military Installations. of thousands of supporters. his West Point class, he had to re- to rename any street or installation, Southwestern Law School in Los Our history as the Greatest Nation Que sera, sera. The Alleged News® Just Give Us Some Data ll we wanted was one particu- countries of any size. When our more profit-orient- the First World War—that finally OurWorldInData.org has com- lar piece of data: the number Perhaps we’re just slipping. Un- ed colleagues universally adopted a tripped our trigger. piled all the relevant data, from re- ofA Covid-19 deaths per capita in der these conditions…? We’ve been new morbid milestone this week— Getting the answer, it turned out, liable sources, and built an interface the U.S., compared to…let’s just say curious about this for months now, more Americans have now died was easier than we had expected. easy enough even for us to use. We a couple of other places picked at though, and honestly do not recall from Covid-19 than were killed in The answer, however, was worse. dialed in our request, and it returned random. Despite the habitual con- having seen it addressed. We are not this chart—in color. We considered, sumption of mass quantities of news suggesting a conspiracy. We haven’t for consistency, converting the chart and vaguely news-like material, we slipped that much yet. to black and white; color does seem could not recall ever having seen the There does seem to be, though, to help, though. available data sliced that particular less by design than from habit and What it shows is that, at the pan- way. convention, a general reluctance demic’s worst (so far), one Chinese That struck us as odd. What bet- among some news operation— citizen out of every million was dy- ter benchmark could there be for those which one might classify as ing every ten days. judging one country’s performance unavoidable, or ubiquitous—to ask a Meanwhile, out of every million against another? certain sort of question. Some ques- U.S. citizens, nearly ten are dying By quantifying deaths rather than tions yield answers which, if honest every day. total cases, you may assess not just and correct, lead the reader to an Roughly speaking, it appears from the effectiveness of a nation’s efforts uncomfortable choice: existential our inquiry that China and Cuba are to reduce the spread of the virus, but despair, or revolution? both outperforming the U.S. by a also the ability of its health care sys- Other news organizations, of factor of 100 to one. tem to keep those who are infected course, deal with this sort of ques- alive. And, by quantifying deaths tion routinely. For our troubles, we The Alleged News® per capita, you may fairly compare are widely ignored. to page two Page 2 — The New Hampshire Gazette, Friday, June 19, 2020

The Alleged News® though. More likely he was taking from page one his cue from Ronald Reagan, who kicked off his 1980 Presidential The Second Tulsa Massacre campaign with a rally in Neshoba Thanks to thede facto censorship im- County, Mississippi, just a few miles posed on our public schools by the from the site where three civil rights forces of conservatism, few white workers, James Chaney, Andrew Americans were aware until very Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, recently of the bloody 1921 Tulsa were murdered 16 years earlier. Massacre. Most of those who were, The event’s grotesque timing learned about it last year by watch- was more than even the Trump ing the terrific HBO series “Watch- campaign could handle—so it was men.” Believed to be “the single re-scheduled by one whole day. worst incident of racial violence in Trump treats black voters and the American history,” a white mob re- coronavirus with about the same duced the wealthiest black commu- level of respect. There is an import- nity in the U.S. to smoking rubble, ant difference, though. killing hundreds in the process. Republicans are experts at pre- Recently, President Trump has venting black people from voting. increased the general awareness of Indeed, some of them were doing it that terrible crime by scheduling a even before Lyndon Johnson signed campaign rally in Tulsa to take place the Voting Rights Act, back when on Juneteenth—which celebrates they were still Democrats. the end of slavery after the alleged The coronavirus is not so easily defeat of the South in the Civil War. deterred. Trump and his enablers We can probably rule out pub- find that fact inconvenient, so they’re lic education as Trump’s motive, ignoring it. In doing so they’re as-

suring that it will keep going until it chattel slavery. in the Portsmouth Chronicle under burns itself out. One current school of thought the heading… So, Americans—in Tulsa, and seems to hold that since the latter “Old Printers and Printers of Old.” around the country—will get the form of economic development [A note on the text: In addition to a worst of both worlds. We’re getting came to an abrupt halt in mid-1865, certain predictable degree of condescen- the economic effects of a shutdown, it is no longer relevant and the less sion, Miller discounts the possibility without its benefits. said about it, the better. Another that Primus was literate. Some current –=≈=– would argue that, as a nation, we scholars believe he is wrong on that Structural Racism? You’re Looking At It have not done as well as we should point. — The Ed.] There appears to be a debate going have to understand the central role John Melcher, Samuel Whidden, on about whether this country is slavery played in our national eco- Daniel Fowle, and Old Prime— inherently racist. Why not? Ameri- nomic development. Don’t go to thinking, gentle reader, cans will debate just about anything. We count ourselves in the latter that Uncle Toby knew all these; for Is the sky blue? Well…. camp. We haven’t much choice. For some of them died before he was This continental land mass was the first 30 years of its existence, this born; but he knew a part of them, once populated by a people which newspaper was dependent upon the and they knew the rest. There are so many windows in this thing we’re going to call it the New had sole use of it for more than ten enslaved labor of an African man Through one of them, Whid- Panopticon. Marvins must have been on sale during its design phase. Jer- thousand years. Their descendants called Primus. den, Uncle Toby claims a regular emy Bentham’s original panopticon was a prison, designed so that each are now outnumbered fifty to one by Tobias Ham Miller (1801–1870) (though not exactly apostolic) suc- guard could observe the cells of 32 prisoners without being seen himself. more-recent interlopers. The ratio of was born some eight years after Pri- cession from Fowle and Old Prime, Since the prisoners could not know when they were being watched, they the net worth of these two groups is mus died. As an apprentice, though, who were the first printers of New were motivated to act as though they were being watched at all times. also asymmetrical. he sometimes worked in the print- Hampshire—of which undisputed “Thus,” according to the all-knowingWikipedia , “the inmates are effec- During the nation’s economic ing-office of John Melcher, who succession he is as proud as any man tively compelled to regulate their own behaviour.” This version, which em- development, two dominant meth- knew Primus well. ought to be of so high a distinction. ploys the gray, faux-cinder block motif pioneered at the Temple of Gloom, ods developed for the use of capital. Today, Juneteenth, in honor of The order of succession is this: across the street from Keefe House on Islington Street, seems more suited The north invested in machines, the Primus, we re-publish the follow- Fowle, who established the New for surveillance of general public as they negotiate the intersection of Deer south put its money in men—and ing column, by “Uncle Toby,” which Hampshire Gazette, had the old ne- and Maplewood Avenue. women, and children, in the form of originally ran on October 11, 1861, gro Prime, or Primus, for a pressman;

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John Melcher was an apprentice to New Hampshire Gazette. Fowle; Samuel Whidden (who died Mr. Melcher was a correct com- here only a year or two since) was an positor, a careful proof-reader, and apprentice to Melcher; and Uncle a good pressman; and if any man Toby was an apprentice to Whid- ever hated blotches and bunglers, den. he did. When he lost all patience With this man, as kind a man with bad work, he would say, “Why, as need be, Uncle Toby wrought at I have seen a negur, who could not printing some time since, in an office tell a letter in a book, who did better belonging to John Melcher, who was presswork than any of you!” Some- the first State Printer New Hamp- times I have tried to imagine what shire ever had, and who lived until old Primus Fowle thought of his a very recent period. When Uncle business, and how much pleasure he Toby was a boy with a stint, Mr. must have taken in printing books Melcher would sometimes send him he could not read, and working hard on an errand—but he would always without pay. He could not strike for take his ‘stick,’ and ‘set’ for him while wages, but but he could grumble— absent, and when he returned would and tradition says that he did some- commonly tell him a story when he times; and probably he did it rather laid down the stick or emptied the often, for his temper was rather pep- “stickfull.” He was always certain to pery, and he could snap out a reply set a little more than the boy would as tart as any reproof that was given have done; always to mark the copy him. where he left off;—and always to Some time before the Revolution, deal in this little matter so justly Mrs. Fowle died; and in those days, and fairly, that Uncle Toby was well at funerals, the negroes in a family pleased to listen to his stories. Some walked with the whites, as mourn- of these stories were of Old Prime, ers, each white member of the family occasion were chief mourners; but noted no change. Bowing down down again to sun himself, to look who was a negro pressman, belong- having a black yokefellow at the left when they took their places in the to the press, as he toiled year after at the passengers’ feet as they went ing to Daniel Fowle, founder of the hand. Primus and his master on this procession, Primus inadvertently got year, he had a permanent stoop, and by, and possibly to muse on the pas- on the right hand, which, in this case, stood at his work something in the sage back to Guinea, whither all the was evidently the wrong side. His shape of a capital F. In this posture negroes here used to think all black master saw the error, and winked, he labored and grumbled for years, friends went after death. That was and nodded, and pointed with his and seemed to grow no older—but the most beautiful superstition of finger for Primus to exchange places; he did—and by and by he became which their minds were capable— but to no purpose; he touched him; so stiff and dull and feeble as to be and surely nothing of the kind could but the negro remained immovable. incapable of any labor whatever. He be more harmless. Primus returned, At last he whispered, “Go to the was, however, comfortably cared for however, to the dust, not of Guinea, other side,” expecting to be prompt- by his master, as to food and shelter, but of New Hampshire, the scene ly obeyed in so slight and reasonable and suffered to spend his time as he of his toils, and has long occupied request; but, to his surprise and that pleased. that narrow house where the weary of the bystanders, Primus screamed Without companions, and with are at rest! Primus was buried, with out, “Go tudder side ye’se’f, ye mean no ability to read, he seemed to all the negroes of his day, in the old jade.” The master complied, and the have no higher pleasure than to seat negro burying ground, front of the procession moved off. himself on the door-steps of shops old jail in other words, his dust now In due time Mr. Fowle himself or houses in the old paved street of reposes, either under the south end died, and, as he left no children, Portsmouth, and sit for hours to- of Chesnut [sic] street, or perhaps his newspaper and printing-office gether, generally in the sunshine. under the north side of Court street. passed into the hands of his appren- The boys often amused themselves Let no true lover of our noble The Black Lives Matter protest Sunday, June 7th, was undoubtedly the tice, Mr. Melcher, whose term of ser- by offering him a copper for stand- craft blame Uncle Toby for selecting largest gathering of people in Market Square since the pandemic began. vice being nearly run out by its own ing up straight—a feat utterly im- such a subject for a sketch. One of Our Wandering Photographer skirted the back edge of the crowd, grabbed limitation, was now closed by the possible; but he would attempt it, the earliest printers in New Hamp- a few shots, then split. Apparently he needn’t have been so cautious—Mi- death of his master. With the press and with much effort and strange shire was a black slave; and the early chael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert interviewed by Terry Gross went the pressman, and old Primus grimaces, straighten himself out history of the State always seems on “Fresh Air” Wednesday, said such outdoor protests have not been shown probably did the same work in the as nearly as possible. To the honor imperfect to him if Prime is not to result in the spread of the coronavirus. It’s too small to read, but the same way, under the new master, as of the boys be it said, he common- seen working at the press, printing electronic sign near the front of the church reads, “The mask is all we ask.” he did under the old, and perhaps ly got his copper; and then he sat he knows not and cares not what!

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President (t)Ramp lice with rocks, bricks, guns, knives To the Editor: and other weapons. Rioters have vi- Everyone knows the President was ciously attacked innocent people and walking slowly down the ramp at killed several. Looters and arsonists West Point due to his bone spurs. The destroyed thousands of businesses, in- cause of his trouble drinking water is cluding many minority owned; many not as widely known, however. businesses won’t recover. The jobs the isolating it from the state of Minnesota, He acquired that disability saving businesses provided, the goods and the U.S., and the world. Nothing outside Puerto Rico from the hurricane. He support they provided to the local can possibly have an influence on that iso- was injured throwing paper towels! neighborhood, and the investment lated community. It’s just like a big snow ness when the underlying data didn’t Case closed. they represent were destroyed. Most globe. support that conclusion. She had the treat others as you’d like to be treated. Have a little sympathy, will ya folks? residents of these destroyed neighbor- You have also managed to grab—or professional ethics and moral strength When I was a child, my mother ex- K. Fowle hoods will, in some way, suffer. tried to convince us you have—the great to say “no,” although it cost her job. Do plained that freedom did not mean The Skunk Farm Everyone supports peaceful pro- pendulum of the universe, causing time those who feed us good employment you could yell “Fire!” in a crowded the- Hillsborough, N.H. tests; but the rioting, destruction of to stop in its tracks. Those 246 years of news from the White House have as ater. I took that to mean that I couldn’t –=≈=– property, looting, arson, beatings, and legally-enforced chattel slavery? Irrele- much integrity? do what I wanted, when I wanted if Ewing Says Democrats Are to Blame killings are not acceptable. President vant; erased from history. And—here’s The Labor Department has said, that put others in danger. Rather, I To the Editor: Trump begged Mayors and Gover- the truly bold aspect of your feat—their due to limitations in data gathering had a responsibility to others to take The video of police abusing/killing nors to protect residents and peaceful lingering effects are gone, as well! You (many unemployed people are mis- their well-being into consideration. George Floyd is heart-wrenching. The protestors by restoring law and order; were just warming up, though. A century classified as being employed), the true This was just common sense. Tell the police perpetrators are being prosecut- most Democrat politicians have re- of Jim Crow? Brushed aside. Redlining? unemployment rate could be three truth. Don’t unnecessarily endanger ed and should spend the rest of their jected his pleas. Never heard of it. percent higher than currently estimat- others. It is not freedom to possibly lives behind bars. While some pay lip-service to con- No, the only thing that matters is the ed. harm others by ignoring public health CNN spokesmen say “systemic rac- demning the violence, most prominent Minneapolis City Government. If we Bruce Joffe warnings or by treating others as you ism” caused Floyd’s death. That charge Democrat politicians excuse the vio- were you we’d be more careful talking Piedmont, Calif. would not want to be treated. Sur- is simply an attempt to shift the blame lence and refuse to join Republicans in about them like that. Apparently they Bruce: prisingly, it turns out that this is not away from the people truly responsible demanding the swift restoration of law have powers which would have caused We share your essential mistrust of any common sense to many people but ex- for Floyd’s death: the police perpetra- and order to protect the law-abiding Stalin to weep in bitter envy. message emanating from this adminis- traordinarily important for a safe, fair, tors, their police chief, and the Minne- people and the neighborhood. The Editor tration. We had missed, though, the Labor just life for all in our society. apolis Mayor. Not content with enabling and –=≈=– Department’s candid caveat. Thank you. Sincerely, The policies, attitudes, decisions of, excusing the mobs that destroyed Figures Don’t Lie, But Liars Do Figure The Editor Judy Ullman and training provided by the Minne- thousands of people’s neighborhoods, Dear Editor, –=≈=– Portsmouth, N.H. apolis Police Department, controlled jobs, property, dreams, and sometimes Everyone is pleased the May un- A Disgusting Truth About Finance Judy: by its Democrat Mayor, enabled this people’s lives, now some Democrat employment rate dropped to 13.3 To the Editor: How charmingly old-fashioned, we killing. Why was an officer with 18 politicians agree with the mob’s de- percent from 14.7. But no one was Fox News apologized (shocking) say, in a tone devoid of irony. previous charges of abuse still em- mands to cut police funding. Do you more pleased than the President who for the “insensitive” (on Fox News?) Having lived now long enough to ployed? Does the Minneapolis Po- think these cuts will reduce protection crowed, “There’s a great thing that’s post showing the increase in the S&P have a few vague recollections of the Tru- lice Department condone abuse of for the neighborhoods of the rich, the happening for our country.” Not to 500 with a shooting death of a black man Administration, in our estimation citizens? Were these four policemen celebrities, and the politicians? These be outdone by his own rhetoric, he person. The awareness of Fox News the general curdling of our social norms trained? Where were their supervi- cuts certainly won’t make poor and concluded his June 5th presser with, is quite a surprise in itself, but the was caused not by the villified juvenile sors? middle-income neighborhoods safer. “Today is probably, if you think of it, posting actually revealed a disgusting delinquents of the ’fifties, but the exhor- Each community has the responsi- Hopefully, in the next election, vot- the greatest comeback in American truth about the financial industry— tations of that era’s Mad(ison Avenue) bility to elect officials who oversee the ers will remember that Democrat pol- history.” the stock market really does thrive Men. Drawing on lessons learned from police’s implementation of the desired iticians sided with the rioters, looters, Nevermind that 30 million people on racial violence. Why do we place Woodrow Wilson’s WW I-era propagan- policies, culture, decisions, and train- arsonists, and killers rather than with are still unemployed, and Black and so much faith in this epitome of our dists (Ivy Lee, Edward Bernays, &c.), ing. the law-abiding people. Asian American unemployment ac- vaunted capitalist economy? Is this corporations poked and prodded every- At the next election, Minneapolis Don Ewing tually rose. who we are? one’s ids to stimulate their spending. voters will have the opportunity to Meredith, N.H. I don’t trust Trump’s celebratory Dan Mannschreck The Editor approve or disapprove of the political Don: numbers. Barrington, N.H. –=≈=– officials responsible to ensure that the We used to worry that you might be Remember when Florida’s Gover- Dan: Ewing Says Black Lives Matter—But… police department protect and prop- suffering from some cerebro-vascular nor DeSantis announced on May 20th We plead “not guilty” to the charge of To the Editor: erly treat the people of Minneapolis; difficulty. It’s a relief to see you displaying that a Department of Health data an- having faith in this economy. Of course black lives matter; all lives they failed to protect George Floyd. such mental agility. alyst was fired for insubordination? In The Editor matter. So why are people condemned The evil that happened to George Like Secret Service agents erecting a fact, she refused orders to manipulate –=≈=– and fired for saying, “All Lives Mat- Floyd is being used to excuse the fence around the White House to protect the database that keeps track of epide- Whither The Halcyon Days of Yore? ter”? Because “Black Lives Matter” equally evil mobs in cities across our the nullity residing there, you have imag- miological data. She refused to make To the Editor: is a term used to advance the far left country. The mob has attacked po- ined a perimeter around Minneapolis, it say Florida was safe to reopen busi- To paraphrase the golden rule, “Black Lives Matter” (BLM) political

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White Supremacy and World Supremacy made it easier for whites to acknowl- by Winslow Myers edge the depth of the injustice in Recently the Equity Leadership which they play an integral part. Steering Committee associated with We humans are selective listeners. an almost entirely white school district We hear what we want to hear, because in Maine came out with a strong let- it fits our mindset. When Donald moral category as the Klan, Jim Crow, ter asking citizens to acknowledge not Trump hears “defund the police,” he and Bull Connors. Interesting take. just the anodyne “white privilege,” but thinks “anarchy, chaos, abandonment To summarize, you’re saying that be- the actual “white supremacy” pervasive of law and order.” When the millions politicians are joining this demand. cause Black Lives Matter opposes Or- in our nation. Not unexpectedly, they of American protestors hear the same movement. Americans sympathize Defunding the police will make poor ange Hitler, it’s bad for black people. Uh received some pushback. Fortunately phrase, it means “the militarization of with suffering or unjustly treated peo- and middle income neighborhoods huh…. We’re starting to think that per- the Superintendent of Schools had the police only brought out their worst ple and are unknowingly seduced into even more dangerous, reduce local haps you have a garage full of monkeys the courage to back them up. tendencies. Reform is a failure. Time supporting the BLM political move- investment, and destroy job opportu- and typewriters. One last thing, though, Selective listeners heard “you’re ac- to reconceive the police, and put far ment. nities. before we abandon all hope. cusing me of Ku-Klux-Klan-level rac- more funds into social services that The BLM movement is the Dem- The “institutional racism” (poor meet human needs directly.” ocrat Party’s new enforcement arm. schools, lack of economic opportuni- A pervasive paradigm never dies Like the KKK, Jim Crow Laws, and ties, institutional injustice, and dan- a painless death—in this moment officials like Bull Connors, the BLM gerous neighborhoods) that harms the real deaths of far too many black movement uses intimidation and vi- most blacks occurs almost exclusively Vocabulary Lesson people. While we’re on the subject of olence to coerce support for, and to in Democrat controlled cities. For de- defunding an overmilitarized police suppress opposition to, Democrat cades Democrat politicians have figu- corrupted, perhaps from the begin- politicians and policies. ratively had their knees on the throats Idiocracy, n; ning, by invulnerable power, structural But neither the actions nor the pol- of inner city blacks, ruining millions of (1) the political system of the United States; racism, a code of conspiratorial secrecy, icies of the BLM movement indicate lives. (2) the system of governance in practice in the and resistance to reform, let’s also re- an interest in improving the lives of Yet “Black Lives Matter” supports United States; member just how big a paradigm shift most Black Americans. the Democrat politicians, including (3) the culture resulting from such a political we are undergoing in our historical The riots encouraged by BLM and Mayors, City Councilors, Governors, moment—bigger even than racism. allowed by Democrat Mayors since Congressmen, Senators, and Pres- system of governance. Because in this shift, everything is the horrible, unacceptable killing of idents who have done nothing to connected. George Floyd have killed many blacks improve the lives of inner city blacks. Related: When Mr. Trump hears “Green and injured thousands. Thousands Donations to BlackLivesMatter.com go Idiocrat, practitioner of said system; New Deal,” he thinks “radical social- more blacks have had their property to the DNC, Democrat committees, Idiocratic, adj; ism,” where Ocasio-Cortez thinks stolen or destroyed, and/or lost their Democrat politicians, and other Dem- “new job opportunities and a more jobs or businesses. “Black Lives Mat- ocrat causes. Idiocratically, adv. sustainable living system; what’s not to ter” doesn’t care. BLM opposes Republicans who like?” Pushed out of the headlines by Annually black murderers kill about fight for things that Black Americans Example: the pandemic and the police lynching 90 percent of the thousands of black need: strong economic growth pro- “Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Brett of Mr. Floyd, international challenges murder victims; “Black Lives Matter” viding good jobs, safe neighborhoods, Kavanaugh are living proof that the United like climate change do not abate. doesn’t care. equal justice, and school choice so When Donald Trump hears “full “Black Lives Matter” policies make children can escape bad and/or dan- States of America is an idiocracy.” spectrum dominance” or “we have black lives more difficult and danger- gerous schools. more nukes than any other country,” ous. The “Black Lives Matter” move- – W.D. Ehrhart he hears that the “strength” of su- BLM supports illegal immigration ment only cares about the black prob- premacy enforces law and order in- which stifles black economic success lems and black deaths that can be used ternationally as well as domestically. and makes poor neighborhoods more to increase its political power; it isn’t A growing number of the rest of us dangerous. interested in fixing the problems that hear foreboding elements of weakness, BLM exacerbates the problems harm black people. “Donations to BlackLivesMatter.com ism.” But “white privilege,” compared decay, misappropriation of limited re- of poverty and fatherless children by Don Ewing go to the DNC…” That’s not true, as you to “white supremacy,” has the ring of sources, double standards, and possible advocating further erosion, started by Meredith, N.H. could easily have learned if you gave a a garden party to which I somehow nuclear catastrophe. Democrat Welfare Laws, of the tradi- Don: damn. It’s another lie from an inexhaust- deserved an invitation. “White su- It isn’t just the police that are over- tional family. More mental gymnastics? Has some- ible fount of lies, Candace Owens, who premacy,” enforced by the police and militarized; it’s the military itself. BLM advocates the release of con- body been getting into the Geritol again? works for Turning Point, USA, a GOP structures too long set in cultural con- Not just in the United States, but victed felons who often return to vic- When black people join in self-defense feed-lot that does its best to make sure crete, is closer to the truth. The events the United States is a case in point. timize poor neighborhoods. under the banner “Black Lives Matter,” Republican-susceptible kids come out of of the past two weeks, especially so BLM demands defunding police they do so out of dire necessity. In your college dumber than they went in. many young whites demonstrating Mash Notes, Hate Mail, &c. departments, and many Democrat view, though, that puts them in the same The Editor alongside blacks in the streets, have to page six

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The Northcountry Chronicle Echoes of 1942 by William Marvel whose jobs required regular travel empty shelves where toilet paper those who endorse the precaution- were allowed eight gallons a week and hand sanitizer used to be. It’s ary guidelines du jour. In the late omewhere in my house is an on a Class B sticker. Commuter life hard to predict what people will 1950s, war-era jokes still appeared envelope containing my grand- was a postwar phenomenon, and choose to hoard in a crisis, even for in cartoons, and a scowling bureau- Sfather’s World War II certificate for short hops to work were the rule, an old prepper like me. I was way crat might interrupt a chase scene a Class C gas-rationing sticker. I last but rationing still motivated the first ahead of the toilet-paper rush, but to ask “Is this trip really necessary?” saw it a quarter of a century ago, be- widespread carpooling. I never thought of hand sanitizer— Others depicted air-raid drills, with fore my father tucked it away again, My grandfather came out of re- and why would I, with a few dozen self-appointed compliance consta- probably in one of the trunks in the tirement during the war and went bars of soap stashed away? bles screaming “Turn out that light!” upstairs closets. down to Wellfleet, Mass., to replace The hysteria over the latest mu- when they spotted houses without Gasoline was one of the first the town doctor for the duration. tation of coronavirus may also have blackout curtains. Equivalent pre- commodities rationed by the Office That entitled him to a coveted Class resurrected another unpleasant tentions to superior virtue ema- of Price Administration after the C sticker, with no limit. reminder of World War II. The it because of presumed Far Eastern nate today from mask scolds, and attack on Pearl Harbor. They called The next rationed commodity Chinese origin of the virus has ap- ancestry, however, is equally absurd. from the independently wealthy it “mileage” rationing, and gasoline was sugar, which was still a luxury parently led some people to confuse The obvious analogy between that or comfortably retired proponents was not the item they were saving. in 1942. Eventually, ration stickers ethnology and epidemiology suf- and World War II would be the of interminable lockdowns, who What we were lacking was rubber, were needed to buy most processed ficiently to prejudice them against fear that drove Nisei internments, condescendingly lecture a strapped since the Japanese had taken early foods, so packaging plants could anyone who looks remotely Chinese. but advocates of internment could working class to “get a clue.” control of the rubber plantations of make enough C-rations for the ser- Let’s hope this is more reflective of at least make a tenuous argument The main difference between Southeast Asia. Metal soon became vicemen of that war and the next two news outlets exercising their habit for cultural sympathy with the en- World War II and now is the lack scarce, too. Restricting the use of (and the boned chicken stamped of disproportionately emphasiz- emy. And before condemning such of unity. In 1942, a common threat gasoline indirectly kept drivers from 1944 was still tasty in 1969). Fresh ing isolated incidents, but at least paranoia in paroxysms of progres- of existential proportions persuaded wearing out their tires, and their cars. fruits and vegetables were never ra- a few people have been insulted or sive outrage, remember Andrew Americans to set aside their differ- The rationing was calculated on tioned, and wartime posters lauded even assaulted for “coughing while Cuomo’s assertion that it’s better to ences to a greater degree than they an average fuel consumption of 15 the patriotism of women who did Asian,” as one of them put it. be safe than sorry, despite terrible had during any previous crisis—or miles per gallon. Average working their own canning in jars. It’s preposterous to find some- consequences. Anyone frightened any future one. Today, a somewhat slugs were issued Class A stickers All this came to mind repeatedly thing malicious in naming a virus for enough to agree in 2020 might have less apocalyptic threat seems only to for their windshields, and could only over the past two months, especial- the place where it was first identi- concurred in 1942. pose an opportunity to attack each buy three gallons a week. Employ- ly after local stores started taping fied: German measles never inspired A third echo of the past is the other with more ferocity than ever ees in certain industries and those “one-per-customer” signs on the that complaint. Blaming people for effervescing self-righteousness of before. from page five Washington think tank that the U.S. government was prepared to The Lockheed F-35 Strike Fighter outspend Russia and China to win is expected to cost a trillion dollars a new nuclear arms race. “The pres- over its 60-year lifespan. The plan or Hungary or Russia or China or Defund and reconceive interna- ident has made clear that we have to renew our nuclear arsenal over Iran or Myanmar, are invited to re- The people in the streets yearning tional security by forging new arms a tried and true practice here,” he 10 years will cost us taxpayers $1.6 think the age-old question of fun- for something new and hopeful, not agreements which lift the anxiety remarked. “We know how to win trillion—leaving aside our futile damental relationship between the only in the U.S. but all around the of being annihilated off our necks. these races and we know how to and unnecessary wars, including state and the individual citizen. Is world, including Hong Kong, don’t “I can’t breathe” has more than one spend the adversary into oblivion.” the racist one in Vietnam and our the purpose of the state to control, want to be controlled by an intrusive meaning. This comment was not out of line indecisive long-running campaigns or is it to support human dignity and state; they want to be free from the Winslow Myers, the author of Liv- for a Trump administration official. in Iraq and Afghanistan. Imagine equal opportunity and clean air and state unless it is repurposed to more ing Beyond War: A Citizen’s Guide, Indeed, back in December 2016, the trillions expended upon bloated water? effectively champion their needs and serves on the Advisory Board of the shortly after his election, Trump military programs and stupid wars The U.S. Declaration of Indepen- rights. War Preventive Initiative. himself proclaimed that the Unit- that end up diminishing our secu- dence says that citizens will create Nuclear weapons, like our over- –=≈=– ed States would “greatly strengthen rity repurposed to give everyone in an ideal society and government by armed police, are also the expression Let Them Eat Weapons: and expand” the U.S. government’s our nation authentic equality of op- “laying its foundation on such prin- of a brutal, dysfunctional, obsolete Trump’s Bizarre Arms Race nuclear weapons program, adding portunity, equal access to health care, ciples, and organizing its powers in attempt at supremacy and control. by Lawrence Wittner provocatively: “Let it be an arms equally well-funded schools. such form, as to them shall seem Defund and reconceive the police. In late May of this year, Presi- race. We will outmatch them at ev- We, and not just in the U.S. but most likely to effect their safety and Defund subsidies for fossil fuels and dent Donald Trump’s special envoy ery pass and outlast them all.” In a also in other autocracies like Brazil happiness.” support alternative energy systems. for arms control bragged before a fresh challenge to Russia and China,

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Beware a of a Trump Coup! by Jim Hightower with a Bible, as some sort of political forces. playing up to Trump’s grandiosity one’s political pawn to police our stunt. Yes, our nation’s top two war by describing our country as a “bat- own people, and both have since hese mass protests against sys- Especially dangerous, though, chieftains were adding their symbol- tlespace” that “We need to domi- retreated. But their willingness to temic racism are driving Don- is the craven willingness of our ic blessing to Trump’s pathetic desire nate.” Of course, that would make toy with it shows how vulnerable aldT Trump plumb crazy! Of course, top military officials to play along to look tough, suppress our consti- you and me the dominated, which our democracy is to autocrats…and that’s a pretty short drive for him. with his infantile attempts to ap- tutional right to dissent, and milita- is as un-American as they could get, how vigilant We the People must be. He would be hilarious if his buf- pear manly. When Trump strutted rize his claim of autocratic powers. short of trying to crown The Don- –=≈=– foonery was not so dangerous and out to do his little Bible photo-op, Milley even wore combat fatigues to ald as America’s king—and don’t put Copyright 2017 by Jim Hightower destructive. For example, he had guess who was loping along right the media show, apparently to model that past them. & Associates. Contact Melody Byrd peaceful protesters gassed, clubbed, behind him, like eager-to-please the authoritarian look We the Peo- To their credit, dozens of U.S. ([email protected]) for and shoved out of the public square puppy dogs? Secretary of Defense ple can expect in Trump’s brave new military leaders immediately assailed more information. across from the White House so he Mark Esper and Gen. Mark Milley, world. Esper and Milley for even implying –=≈=– could walk out and pose stone-faced chairman of America’s joint military Esper has been even more servile, that the armed forces could be any- from page six “Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means delivered in October 2018, Trump that we choose between two bodies again extolled his decision to win of real, though not avowed, auto- the nuclear arms race, explaining: this top priority for military spend- however, is viewed as insufficient by crats. We choose between Tweedledum “We have more money than any- ing might strike many Americans as in the 1980s, it has become an ob- the Trump administration, which is and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes body else, by far.” bizarre. After all, a disease pandemic session with Republicans, who have engaged in a vast “modernization” for women. What good can votes do And, in fact, the Trump adminis- continues to plague the nation (with managed to secure more than $250 program to rebuild the entire nu- when ten-elevenths of the land of tration has followed through on its more than 117,850 deaths thus billion in U.S. government funding clear weapons complex, including Great Britain belongs to 200,000 promise to pour American tax dol- far), a large portion of the economy for it thus far. Nevertheless, it con- new production facilities, warheads, and only one-eleventh to the rest of the lars into the arms race through a vast has collapsed, unemployment has tinues to fail most of its tests against bombs, and delivery systems. The 40,000,000? Have your men with expansion of the U.S. military bud- reached the catastrophic levels of intercontinental ballistic missiles, price tag for this enormous nuclear their millions of votes freed themselves get. In 2019 alone (the last year for the Great Depression, and Ameri- despite the fact that these tests are buildup, which will occur over the from this injustice?” which worldwide spending figures can cities are torn by strife. Wouldn’t heavily scripted. next three decades, has been esti- – Helen Keller are available), federal spending on this be an appropriate time to focus One of the most cutting-edged mated as at least $1.5 trillion. –=≈=– the U.S. military soared to $732 bil- America’s financial resources on of the U.S. government’s current Against a backdrop of economic “Sooner rather than later, the great lion. (Other military analysts, who public healthcare, educational op- military weapons projects is the hy- and social collapse, plus potential avenues will open again and free men included military-related spending, portunity, decent housing, and a ma- personic missile. Capable of travel- global destruction, the obvious thing will walk through them to construct a put the figure at $1.25 trillion.) As jor jobs program—or, in the words ling five times faster than the speed to do is to pull out of this immense- better society. Long live Chile! Long a result, the United States, with of the U.S. constitution, to “promote of sound (3,800 mph), hypersonic ly costly and bizarre arms race and, live the people! Long live the work- about 4 percent of the world’s pop- the general welfare”? But Repub- missiles with nuclear warheads are instead, foster arms control and dis- ers! These are my last words, and I am ulation, accounted for 38 percent of lican officials argue that these and immensely appealing to the military armament agreements with other certain that my sacrifice will not be in world military spending. Although other public assistance measures are establishments of Russia, China, nations. But Trump seems deter- vain, I am certain that, at the very it’s certainly true that other nations “too expensive.” and the United States. In this case, mined to cast off whatever progress least, it will be a moral lesson that will engaged in military buildups as What are not “too expensive” are too, however, there is a serious prob- in this direction his predecessors punish felony, cowardice, and treason.” well, China accounted for only 14 the administration’s big ticket weap- lem: Given the missile’s incredible have made, scrapping the INF Trea- – Salvador Allende, percent of global military spending ons programs, which, even by mili- speed, it produces immense heat ty, withdrawing from the Iran nucle- September 11, 1973 that year, while Russia accounted tary standards, are of dubious value. while traveling through the atmo- ar agreement, terminating the New –=≈=– for only three percent. Indeed, the Not surprisingly, Trump continued sphere, thus diverting or destroying START Treaty, and scuttling the “What we find in books is like the fire in United States spent more on its pouring money into purchasing it before it reaches its target. Even so, Open Skies Treaty. For a variety of our hearths. We fetch it from our neigh- military than the next 10 countries Lockheed Martin’s F-35 combat air- this weapons project should produce reasons—rewarding giant corpora- bors, we kindle it at home, we commu- combined. craft, which, though an operational yet another bonanza for Lockheed tions, getting reelected, and domi- nicate it to others, and it becomes the The vast military superiority en- disaster, had cost U.S. taxpayers $1.4 Martin, the world’s largest arms nating the world—Trump remains property of all.” joyed by the United States, how- trillion by 2017. Another pet proj- manufacturer, which has already fixated on “winning” the arms race. – Voltaire ever, was not nearly enough for the ect, quickly embraced by Trump, was received $3.5 billion for preliminary When it comes to increasingly –=≈=– Trump administration. In February the newest and costliest U.S. aircraft work on it. desperate Americans, their lives and “Descartes spent far too much time in 2020, the administration introduced carrier, delivered with fanfare to the Of course, the Trump adminis- livelihoods spiraling downward, his bed subject to the persistent hallucina- a 2021 fiscal year budget proposal Navy in late May 2017 for $13 bil- tration has not forgotten about an message seems to be: Let them eat tion that he was thinking. You are not that would devote 55 percent of the lion. Its only problem was that it had array of its high tech weapons that weapons! free from a similar disorder.” federal government’s $1.3 trillion difficulty launching planes from its do work. America’s 5,800 nuclear Dr. Lawrence Wittner, syndicated – Brian O’Nolan discretionary spending to the mili- deck and facilitating their landing. weapons, capable of being launched by PeaceVoice, is Professor of History –=≈=– tary. By 2030, the military propor- Yet another very expensive military from land, sea, and air, provide emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the “Be held truthful that your lies may tion of the federal budget would rise project is U.S. missile defense. Orig- staggering firepower—more than author of Confronting the Bomb count.” to 62 percent. inally derided as “Star Wars” when enough to destroy most life on (Stanford University Press). – Addison Mizzner Today, about four months later, Ronald Reagan began promoting it earth. The current nuclear arsenal, –=≈=– –=≈=–

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Portsmouth, arguably the first whom you choose to believe. drags about seventeen billion moves from the mouth of the Twice a day, too, the moon lets all Badger’s Island, bobbing around in and bridges work their hardest. town in this country not founded The Piscataqua’s ferocious current gallons of seawater — enough to river, up past New Castle, around that water go. All the seawater that the current. It weighs several tons, Ships coming in laden with coal, by religious extremists, is bounded is caused by the tide, which, in fill 2,125,000 tanker trucks — up the bend by the old Naval Prison, just fought its way upstream goes and it bobs and bounces in the oil, and salt do so at high tide, for on the north and east by the turn, is caused by the moon. The the river and into Great Bay. This under Memorial Bridge, past the back home to the ocean. This is current like a cork. more clearance under their keels. Piscataqua River, the second, third, other player is a vast sunken valley creates a roving hydraulic conflict, tugboats, and on into Great Bay. when the Piscataqua earns its title The river also has its placid mo- They leave empty, riding high in or fourth fastest-flowing navigable — Great Bay — about ten miles as incoming sea and the outgoing This can best be seen when the tide for xth fastest current. Look for the ments, around high and low tides. the water, at low tide, to squeeze river in the country, depending on upriver. Twice a day, the moon river collide. The skirmish line is rising. red buoy, at the upstream end of When the river rests, its tugboats under Memorial Bridge. Sunday, June 21 Monday, June 22 Tuesday, June 23 Wednesday, June 24 Thursday, June 25 Friday, June 26 Saturday, June 27

2006—Fox News, citing Sen. Rick 2009—Republican Governor Mark 2016—During W.Va.’s worst flood- 1994—Air Force Lt. Col Arthur Hol- 2013—The Supreme Court rips the 2015—The Supreme Court puts an 2018—Donald Trump’s banker’s fa- Santorum (R-Pa.), reports that Sanford’s spokesman says South Car- ing in 100 years, a burning house is land, hot-dogging during air-show guts out of the Voting Rights Act. end to marriage discrimination. ther announces he’s creating a vacancy WMD have been found in Iraq. olina’s Chief Executive is hiking the filmed floating down a creek. practice maneuvers, crashes a B-52 at 2005—“I could kill someone with 2013—Byron Low Tax Looper [ac- on the Supreme Court by retiring. 2005—Edgar Ray Killen, 80, is found Appalachian Trail. 2008—James Hansen warns Con- Fairchild AFB in Washington State. this,” says Vladimir Putin putting Bob tual name], convicted of murdering 2006—Gutless pinko bastards in guilty of manslaughter in the case of 2005—The Republican-led House, gress about global warming—again. 1982—All engines fail on a British Kraft’s Super Bowl ring in his pocket. his political opponent, dies at 48, of a the Senate block a Flag Protection Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney. undeterred by futility, passes a Flag 2005—Roller coaster safety expert Airways 747 en route to Australia af- 1998—The Fed OKs the Travelers/ heart attack, hours after assaulting a Amendment® by one vote. 2004—SpaceShipOne reaches an alti- Protection Amendment.® Richard H. Brown, 64, dies of injuries ter flying through a cloud of volcanic Citicorp merger: the fuse is lit. pregnant prison guard. 2003—On the first day it’s possible, tude of 100 kilometers; Mike Melvill 2004—On the floor of the Senate, received in a fall in his own driveway. ash; 14 minutes later, pilots re-start 1996—Al-Qaeda kills 19 U.S. ser- 2006—Rush Limbaugh’s illicit more than 735,000 people sign up for becomes the first civilian astronaut. Veep Dick “Dick” Cheney tells Sen. 2001—“Dark Winter”—a war game the engines and land successfully. vicemen in Saudi Arabia and wounds Viagra stash is confiscated on his re- the “Do Not Call” list. 1994—As Jose Martin and his wife Pat Leahy, “Go f__k yourself.” simulation of a smallpox outbreak in 1971—Nixon’s Special Counsel 372. Saudis and the CIA blame Iran. turn from the Dominican Republic, a 2000—“Until I’m the President,” says drive near Madrid, a 3-lb. meteorite 2004—In Iraq, yet another cash-lad- the U.S.—shows lack of preparation Charles Colson circulates the first 1973—Ex-White House Counsel popular sex tourism destination. George W.[MD] Bush, “it’s going to crashes through their windshield, en C-130 arrives. This one’s got the for pandemic would result in chaos. White House “Enemies List.” John Dean, on live TV, blows the big 2002—A Federal court edits “under be hard for me to verify that I think I’ll bends the steering wheel, and lands in biggest load, though: $2,401,600,000. 2001—CNN reports on threat of 1970—Staging fails on the Kittery whistle on his crooked former boss. God” out of the Pledge of Allegiance. be more effective.” the back seat. She is unscathed, he gets 2002—Enron execs admit they hid “imminent attack” by bin Laden. side of the Piscataqua River Bridge 1971—ITT lobbyist Dita M. Beard 1995—In Golf Manor, Mich., EPA 1986—The International Court of a broken finger. $1.5 billion in illegal profits gouged 1988—NASA’s James Hansen warns project. Four men fall 75 feet to their writes a memo noting that Pres. workers dismantle a homemade nu- Justice rules the U.S. was out of line in 1989—The U.S. Supreme Court rules from California ratepayers. Congress of the seriousness of the deaths, seven others are injured. Richard “Dick” Nixon knew ITT clear reactor in the suburban backyard funding the Contras. flag-burning is legal. 1977—Nixon’s ex-AG John Mitchell threat of global warming. 1968—Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, was giving the Republican National of David Hahn, 17. 1973—While reading Nixon’s “Ene- 1964—Michael Schwerner, Andrew begins a 19-month prison sentence. 1976—Edwin Walker, former Army Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, tells a Committee a $400,000 bribe to get a 1976—Gov. Kit Bond rescinds a mies List” live on CBS News, Daniel Goodman, and James Chaney are 1972—UPI’s Helen Thomas gets a General and Lee Harvey Oswald Long Island audience, “The enemy has favorable Justice Dept. decision. predecessor’s “Extermination Order” Schorr discovers that he’s on it. murdered in Mississippi by the KKK. call from Martha Mitchell: “I’m a target, is arrested for fondling an un- lost whatever chance he had of taking 1969—Secretary of Defense Mel banning Mormons from Missouri. 1954—CIA-sponsored rebels over- 1942—A Japanese sub shells Fort Ste- captive…”; the phone goes dead. On dercover cop in a Dallas men’s room. South Vietnam by military force.” Laird gives National Security Advisor 1954—Bao Dai, the feckless puppet throw Guatemala’s democratically vens, Ore., damaging a phone cable. the scene, Nixon’s lawyer orders that 1972—Nixon’s own tape recorder 1968—Cops and the Guard shut Henry Kissinger a menu of options for Emperor of South Vietnam, appoints elected government, napalming a 1935—The top cop busts a cap at a the AG’s wife be sedated by injection. catches him telling H.R. Haldeman down “Resurrection City U.S.A.” in his boss to use against North Korea. Ngo Dinh Diem as premier. British cargo ship in the process. Eureka, Calif. sawmill; chaos ensues 1970—The 24th Amendment gives to order the CIA to block an FBI in- D.C. with dogs and smoke grenades. One includes up to 47 nukes. 1947—Boston Mayor James Curley 1950—Syngman Rhee, U.S. ally but a jammed machine gun keeps the 18-year-olds the vote. vestigation of his Watergate crime. 1947—Private pilot Kenneth Arnold 1962—God is expelled from U.S. goes to federal prison for five months. and President of South Korea, orders death toll down to three strikers. 1969—In Ohio, the Cuyahoga River 1955—Bill Loeb writes in the Union reports “flying saucers” over Wash- schools by the Supreme Court. 1940—At the Waldorf in NYC, Ger- military police to massacre leftists. 1919—Germans scuttle their captive burns for 20 minutes. Leader that Ike has “done more to de- ington state. 1938—FDR signs into law the mini- hard Westrick hosts a gala celebration Between 100,000 and 200,000 die; fleet at Scapa Flow. Brits shoot nine 1964—The U.S. Supreme Court rules stroy the respect, honor and power of 1924—The Democratic National Con- mum wage and the 44-hour week, and of the Fall of France to Nazi Germany. Rhee blames communists. Germans in lifeboats. the Post Office can’t ban Henry Mill- the U.S. than any President in its his- vention begins. It ends 17 days later, puts an end to child labor. His former law partner, future Secre- 1905—In Chicago, 203 trade union- 1877—Ten Molly Maguires, min- er’s Tropic of Cancer. tory.” He ain’t seen nothing yet. having voted down an anti-Klan plank. 1914—A factory full of volatile chem- tary of State John Foster Dulles, de- ists from 43 outfits assemble to found ers arrested by private detectives and 1950—Retired FBI agents help a 1950—A Douglas DC-4 with 58 1902—Deadline looming, Joseph icals explodes in Salem, Mass. The en- fends Westrick from critics. the Industrial Workers of the World. prosecuted by private attorneys for the paranoid fabric importer publish Red aboard vanishes over Lake Michigan. Conrad upsets an oil lamp and acci- suing fire burns 1,376 buildings and 1919—Dist. Atty. and future Con- 1905—Russian sailors aboard the bat- coal companies, are hanged by Penn- Channels, a pamphlet claiming radio 1947—The U.S. Senate puts the dentally burns the second installment leaves 18,000 homeless or jobless. gressman T. Webber Wilson cheers tleship Potemkin, ordered to eat mag- sylvania officials, private executioners and TV are full of Commies. screws to labor by overriding Tru- of The End of the Tether. 1876—Five companies of the 7th on a crowd of 10,000 at the lynching goty borscht made from rotten beef or apparently being unavailable. Pardons 1942—Congress adopts the Flag man’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. 1524—Countess Helena von Lupfen Cavalry, including Gen. Custer and of John Hartfield in Ellisville, Miss. die, choose to mutiny instead. for two arrive minutes too late. Code,® thus replacing the embar- 1937—George Orwell, wounded, orders Stühlingen peasants to collect two of his brothers, and an AP re- 1894—The American Railway Union 1833—In Canterbury, Conn., Pru- 1788—New Hampshire ratifies the rassingly Nazi-like “Flag Salute” with flees Spain with his wife after Com- snail shells for her maids, triggering porter, are killed by Native Americans strikes in solidarity with Pullman dence Crandall is arrested for con- U.S. Constitution. You’re welcome. FDR’s hand-on-heart gesture. munists suppress anarchists. the German Peasants War. near the Little Big Horn River. workers: soon U.S. rail traffic halts. ducting an academy for black females. 12:34 1:16 1:23 2:06 2:13 2:57 3:04 3:49 3:57 4:43 4:53 5:38 5:51 6:34

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2018—A Trump defender with a 2016—The 477-foot tanker Chem 2014—The Supreme Court rules in 1981—Irish Cardinal Tomás Ó Fi- 2003—George W.[MD] Bush says, 1994—The Mayor of Boulder, Colo. 1994—Nye County, Nev., Commis- grudge and a shotgun kills five in the Venus runs aground off Goat Island, Hobby Lobby that people who are cor- aich descends in a helicopter for a mass “There are some who feel that the con- declares this “Allen Ginsburg Day.” sioner Dick Carver re-opens a Fed- Capital Gazette newsroom. damaging itself and three boats at the porations have religious rights, too. on London’s Clapham Common, ditions are such that they can attack us 1993—In just leather jacket, dog col- erally-closed road with a bulldozer, 2009—Stephen Hawking throws a Kittery Point Yacht Club. 2003—The Army Times reports that bearing the head of Oliver Plunkett. [in Iraq]. My answer is, bring ’em on.” lar, and jockstrap, punk rocker G.G. reigniting the Sagebrush Rebellion. party for time travelers. No one shows. 2006—“It was not always certain,” the Bush administration wants to cut 1973—The U.S. military draft ends. 1982—Vietnam vet “Lawn Chair Allin is laid to rest at St. Rose Ceme- 1975—Just 11 years after Goldwater 2005—Operation Red Wings goes says George W.[MD] Bush, “that the combat and family-separation pay for Henceforth, the ranks will be replen- Larry” Walters, 33, ascends to 16,000 tery in his hometown, Littleton, N.H. got the GOP nod there, the Ant Farm sideways: 19 U.S. special operators U.S. and America would have a close troops in combat zones. ished by economic coercion. feet in a lawn chair buoyed by 45 heli- 1988—The U.S.S. Vincennes, in Ira- stages “Media Burn.” A customized die in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, relationship.” 1984—GOP Chairman Frank Fah- 1968—A DC-8 carrying 214 U.S. um-filled weather balloons. nian waters, shoots down an Iranian Cadillac crashes into a wall of burning including Daniel R. Healy of Exeter, 1989—The Washington Times reports renkopf proposes adding Ronald Rea- soldiers to Vietnam strays into Soviet 1980—The Supreme Court rules that airliner ascending within a commer- TVs at San Francisco’s Cow Palace. N.H. It’s the greatest single loss for that high officials in the Reagan & gan’s face to Mt. Rushmore. airspace and lands in the USSR. OSHA must consider corporate prof- cial air corridor; 290 civilians die. 1970—Billie Graham and Bob Hope U.S. special ops since WW II. Bush I administrations are under 1980—The Supreme Court rules that 1956—On “The Steve Allen Show,” its when protecting employees’ health. 1979—President Carter OKs covert preach and joke at “Honor America” 1994—The Department of Energy investigation for involvement in a ho- a woman’s right to a federally-funded Elvis sings “Hound Dog” to a basset 1976—The Supreme Court rules it’s aid to the mujahideen, despite Z. day in D.C. Also: protestors smoke pot admits hundreds of U.S. citizens were mosexual prostitution ring. The story abortion is nullified by other peoples’ hound dressed in formal wear. neither cruel nor unusual for the gov- Brzezinski’s warning it will spur a atop a truck shoved into the Reflecting used as unwitting guinea pigs in radia- quickly and conveniently evaporates. religious beliefs. 1946—The U.S. Army detonates the ernment to kill certain people. Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Pool, and neo-Nazis snarl and jeer. tion experiments during the Cold War. 1987—“We don’t care,” declares At- 1973—Dwight E. Stone, a black, 24 world’s 4th nuclear explosion at Bikini 1967—On their worst day in Viet- 1978—The Supreme Court rules that 1951—In Madison, Wisc., 99.2 per- 1975—Rod Serling enters another torney General Ed “Meese is a Pig” year-old plumber’s assistant from Sac- Atoll. U.S. Navy sailors board radio- nam, U.S. Marines suffer 84 KIA, seven words are too dirty to broad- cent decline to sign a petition contain- dimension…. Meese, “about the political or ideolog- ramento, under indictment for failure active target ships the following day. 190 WIA, and 9 MIA in Operation cast—using those words in its ruling. ing excerpts from the Declaration of 1972—Nixon says no new draftees ical allegiances of a prospective judge.” to appear in 1969, is the last man draft- 1943—Willem Arondeus, who blew Buffalo near Con Thien. 1971—R. Nixon tells B. Haldeman, Independence and Bill of Rights. will be sent to Vietnam, further erod- His audience bursts out laughing. ed into the U.S. Army. up Amsterdam’s Public Records 1964—L.B.J. signs the Civil Rights “Jews are all through the govern- 1947—The Boozefighters, a subset ing an anti-war movement already 1966—U.S. starts bombing major 1971—The Supreme Court rules that building to fight Nazi oppression, says Act, telling Bill Moyers, “I think we ment…you can’t trust the bastards.” of “The Greatest Generation,®” take weakened by the lottery. oil facilities in Hanoi and Haiphong the White House cannot prevent pub- before a firing squad, “Let it be known just delivered the South to the Repub- 1894—Pres. Cleveland sends Feder- over Hollister, Calif. Three days of 1971—Muhammad Ali’s conviction harbor. lication of the Pentagon Papers. that homosexuals are not cowards.” lican Party for a long time to come.” al troops to Chicago to break up the debauchery inspire The Wild One and for draft evasion is overturned. 1956—The U.S. Federal Highway 1956—Two airliners collide over the 1917—In Boston, 8,000 march 1917—After a carload of white males Pullman Strike. spawn a generation of poseurs. 1969—Gays and lesbians battle cops Act OK’s 42,500 miles of new high- Grand Canyon, killing 128 and lead- against the Great War. conducts a drive-by shooting in black 1883—Happy B’day F. Kafka. 1925—The Pickwick Club, a five-sto- at the Stonewall Inn in N.Y.C. way so the Pentagon can move stuff ing to the creation of the FAA. 1916—On the first day of the Battle East St. Louis, Ill., the worst U.S. race 1863—Portsmouth-born Benjamin ry Boston speakeasy with 125 people 1957—At 295 Broome St., New York around if the Cold War turns hot. 1928—Alabama ends a half-century of the Somme, 19,240 British soldiers riot of the 20th century begins. F. Falls captures a flag at Gettysburg. doing the Charleston inside, collapses City’s last known opium den is busted. 1940—The Smith Act, requiring of leasing out convicts as coal-miners. die and 35,493 go missing. On the plus 1894—Ex-railroad director & U.S. He subsequently receives the Medal of at 3:00 a.m.; 44 die in the rubble. 1943—The Sub-chaserPC-815 fires aliens in the U.S. to register with the 1908—A meteor explodes above Tun- side, the Brits take three square miles. Attorney General Richard Olney en- Honor in recognition of his valor. 1924—Four thousand Klansmen target rounds at the Coronado Is- government, is enacted. guska, Siberia, leaving a flattened area 1898—Buffalo Soldiers take San Juan joins Pullman workers from striking. 1850—Australian newspaper pub- march in Long Branch, New Jersey. lands, off San Diego; Mexican Coast 1897—The Chicago Cubs score 36 in the forest 30 miles in diameter. Hill, while T.R. takes the credit. 1881—“Stalwart” Republican Charles lisher James Harrison shows off a 1892—The People’s Party meets in Guardsmen there object. Ship com- runs in one game against Louisville. 1882—Charles Guiteau goes to the 1884—Allan Pinkerton, founder of Guiteau shoots Pres. James Garfield, a refrigeration plant, dooming New Omaha, calling for an 8-hour day, mander Lt. L. Ron Hubbard [yes, 1620—Tobacco growing is banned in gallows for assassinating President the strike-breaking, union-busting “Half-Breed” Republican, in the back. Hampshire’s ice-export industry. regulation of railroads and commu- him] is relieved of duty. England, conveniently giving the Vir- Garfield, chanting “I am going to the detective agency, dies of gangrene at 1822—Charged with plotting insur- 1847—To celebrate the Fourth of nication, and a graduated income tax. 1689—Retaliating for a massacre he ginia Company a lucrative monopoly. Lordy, I am so glad.” 64 after biting his tongue in a fall. rection, former slave and co-founder July, Portsmouth hooligans in Market 1857—With New York City’s two conducted 13 years earlier, Abenakis 1613—A performance of Shake- 1864—N.H.-born Treasury Sec. 1681—Irish Archbishop Oliver Plun- of Charleston, S.C.’s Emanuel Af- Square set a stagecoach on fire. rival police forces distracted by their kill Maj. Richard Waldron of Dover speare’s Henry VIII is interrupted Salmon P. Chase resigns, charging kett, found guilty of treason after a rican Methodist Episcopal Church, 1835—In Paterson, N.J., 2,000 mill own feud, tension between the Dead with his own sword; 22 other Anglos when the Globe Theater burns to the speculators are plotting to prolong the rigged trial on bogus charges, is drawn Denmark Vesey is hanged after a se- girls strike for a shorter work week. Rabbits and the Bowery Boys esca- die, too, and 29 are sold into slavery. ground. Civil War for monetary gain. and quartered in London. cret trial. Two months later they win. lates into an unrestrained gang war. 6:50 7:27 7:48 8:17 8:43 9:04 9:34 9:47 10:19 10:27 11:02 11:05 11:42 11:42

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