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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, April 26, 2018
A SPECIAL COCHECO VALLEY EDITION OF THE WEIRS TIMES NEWSPAPER. VOLUME 27, NO. 17
THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, april 26, 2018
COMPLIMENTARY
Rebecca Rule At Rochester Historical Society
One of the thirty-six incredible Max Desfor photographs of the Korean War that will be on display at the Wright Museum from June 24- August 12th. The Wolfeboro Museum opens for its 24th season on May 1st.
Wright Museum Opens For Season With Fascinating Special Exhibits In 1994, the Wright Museum of World War II opened in Wolfeboro. Now in its 24th year the Wright has become one of the most exceptional museums in the coun-
try. Its focus of has always been on the unselfish contributions on the home front and the battle fields made by World War II-era Americans. This season the mu-
seum continues its mission as well as paying tribute to veterans of other wars. A special exhibit on the Korean War will be one of this year’s highlights.
Our special pull out section this week will give you an insight into this and other great exhibits and programs offered this season at the Wright Museum.
SPECIAL FEATURE SECTION INSIDE THIS ISSUE...
The Rochester Historical Society presents That Reminds Me of a Story by Rebecca Rule on Thursday, May 10, at 7pm at the Rochester Historical Society Museum at 58 Hanson Street in downtown Rochester. Becky has made it her mission over the last 20 years to collect stories of New Hampshire, especially those that reflect what’s special about this rocky old place. She’ll tell some of those stories, her favorites are the funny ones, and invite audience members to contribute a few stories of their own. From Pittsburg to Peterborough (Peeta-burah), Becky is out and about telling and gathering stories with a strong dose of good old-fashioned Yankee humor (humah). She loves to laugh and to get others laughing, too. Becky is a full-time writer, humorist, and storyteller. This program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will follow the meeting.
THE WRIGHT MUSEUM’S 2018 SEASON PREVIEW
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show Saturday. General admission is $8pp, free for kids under 12. www.
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Thursday 26th Brett Eldredge The Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton Beach. www. casinoballroom.com or 929-4100
How to Access and Use Deeds in Family Research
Wolfeboro Library, Wolfeboro. 6:30pm. Lisa Scott, Register of Deeds for Carroll County, will present this program on how to access and use deeds in family research. Program is free and open to the public. 569-2428
Step-by-Step Acrylic Painting Class – Instructor: Kim Merritt Lakes region Art Association Gallery, Tanger Outlets, Suite 132, 120 Laconia Road, Tilton. 6:30pm. The subject of the evening will be the Nubble Lighthouse on a 12x12 inch canvas. This class is for painters of all experience levels, and is especially beginner friendly! The coat is $25pp and includes instruction and all supplies. To register, visit the Gallery, or contact Kim directly at
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Friday 27th Joe Bonamassa The Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton Beach. www. casinoballroom.com or 929-4100
50s-Themed Party
Lottery
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Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 5:30pm. Celebrate Arts for All at the Rochester Opera House Lottery Cocktail Party, the premier fundraising event of the season. Ten lucky ticket holders share $13,000 in cash prizes and the last ticket drawn names the $10,000 Grand Prize Winner! Tickets start at $100 and admit 2. www. RochesterOperaHouse.com or 3351992
Biscuit Miller and the Mix Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. BYOB venue. www.pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043 for tickets.
Merrill Sings The Rochester Performance Arts Center, 32 North Main Street, Rochester. 7:30pm. Merrill Peiffer performs a music revue that includes rock, blues, and country tunes that stir the soul. Merrill has been dazzling audiences on the seacoast for years! Tickets start at $15pp and are available on line or by calling 948-1099 or www.
RochesterOperaHouse.com/rpac
Fri. 27th & Sat. 28th Hannah Dustin Quilters Guild 29th Annual Quilt Show Hudson Community Center, 12 Lions Ave, Hudson. Fri. noon-7pm, Sat. 9am-4pm. Show includes quilts of all sizes and designs, vendors, refreshments, raffle baskets, a boutique, and pre-made quilt blocks to get you started making your own quilt. A quilt made by Guild members will also be raffled off at the end of the
Saturday 28th Leo Kottke The Flying Monkey, South Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.
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Chef Koz’s 2nd Annual Summer Kick Off Dinner The Inn at Thorn Hill and Spa, Thorn Hill Road, Jackson Village. This will be an elegant 5-course southern-inspired meal starting with a cocktail reception and appetizers from Koz’s new stateof-the-art food concession trailer, garnering Top 5 food trucks in NH in 2017. $65 per guest. Reservations required and are bookable on www. Innatthornhill.com 383-4242
Joe Bonamassa The Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton Beach. www. casinoballroom.com or 929-4100
“Sweet Art” Competition
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Rochester Public Library, 65 South Main Street, Rochester. 1pm-3:30pm. The dessert competition is limited to local amateur bakers only. The public is encouraged to attend. $5 to purchase a ticket to be a judge or a competitor. Tickets are limited and can be purchased at the library during regular business hours.
Merrill Sings The Rochester Performance Arts Center, 32 North Main Street, Rochester. 7:30pm. Merrill Peiffer performs a music revue that includes rock, blues, and country tunes that stir the soul. Merrill has been dazzling audiences on the seacoast for years! Tickets start at $15pp and are available on line or by calling 948-1099 or www.
RochesterOperaHouse.com/rpac
Superhero Pancake Breakfast Jetpack Comics, Rochester. 9am11am. The public is invited to join several costume-clad superheroes while enjoying all-you-can-eat pancakes with sausage, bacon and beverages! Tickets are $5/children, and $10/for those over 10 years of age. Tickets can be purchased in advance at www.RochesterMainStreet.org/
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Tilton Masons Public Breakfast
Masonic Building, 410 West Main Street, Tilton. 7am-9:30am. Full breakfast cooked to order for only $8pp. 524-8268
“Saving the Sash” – Hands- On Window Restoration Workshop Moffatt-Ladd House, 154 Market Street, Portsmouth. 9am-3pm. Join the NH Preservation Alliance at the Moffatt-Ladd House for a hands-on workshop presented by Jade Mortimer, Heartwood Window restoration, on the techniques of wooden window restoration. Paint removal, glass cutting, glazing, sash rope replacement, weather stripping and storm window choices will be covered. Participants may bring their own sash or use one provided, and will be guided through the necessary
steps of a complete wooden window restoration that they can replicate on their own. Class ranges from $60 to $80pp, contact Beverly Thomas 2242281 or visit www.nhpreservation. org for further info.
Sat. 28th – May 26th Gov. Wentworth Arts Council’s Art Show & Silent Auction
The Art Place, Wolfeboro. The event is organized by the art council and will feature works from their many talented artists. The artwork will be on display at The Art Place during the above days, ending with a celebration of their 50th during Wolfeboro’s first Art Festival of 2018. Please stop by during store hours (Tues. – Sat. 9:30am-5pm) and place your bid on your favorite piece. Announcements of the winners will be made on May 26th.
Sunday 29th Merrill Sings The Rochester Performance Arts Center, 32 North Main Street, Rochester. 7:30pm. Merrill Peiffer performs a music revue that includes rock, blues, and country tunes that stir the soul. Merrill has been dazzling audiences on the seacoast for years! Tickets start at $15pp and are available on line or by calling 948-1099 or www.
RochesterOperaHouse.com/rpac
May Tuesday 1st Annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner Mountain Club on Loon, Lincoln. 5pm9pm. This year’s guest speaker for the evening is the highly respected Mrs. Augusta Petrone.Tickets are $50 pp for Dinner, or $100 pp for Dinner and the Meet and Greet VIP Hour with Mrs. Petrone. To purchase tickets email Karen kcervant@earthlink. net or call Cindy at 603-536-3880 to pay by credit card.
Origins of Meredith- The Masonian Proprietors, Range Townships & Early Settlement The Meredith Community Center, 1 Circle Drive, Meredith. 7pm. Brian Nelson Burford, NH’s State Archivist will share his unique insights about the earliest beginnings of Meredith during a period of significant colonial change. Light refreshments will be served beginning at 6:30pm. Free and open to the public. www.mhsweb. org or 677-2693
Wednesday 2nd Polliwogs Pre-K Spring is Here!
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Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 10:30am-12pm. A fun group for the littlest explorers amongst us! Adult and child will explore the forests, fields and gardens around Prescott Farm. These sessions are designed to keep children active and engaged. For ages 2-5, with adult. Programs are held rain or shine, if it’s raining the activities will be held inside. $10 per adult/child pair, $8/members, plus
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Matthew Marsit and Annemieke McLane in Concert The 2018 Taylor Community Concert Series, sponsored by Bank of New Hampshire, continues Sunday, April 29 at 3 p.m. with Clarinetist Matthew Marsit and Pianist Annemieke McLane. Their program will feature music by Camille Saint-Saëns, Gerald Finzi and Johannes Brahms. The event is free and open to the public. Marsit is currently on the artistic staff of the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts at Dartmouth College as the Director of Bands. He also serves as the Music Director of the Charles River Wind Ensemble and maintains a small studio of private students in and around Hanover. A native of the Netherlands, McLane is currently the pianist for the Handel Society of Dartmouth College and plays for the College’s Theater Department. She also teaches at her home studio and is music director of the United Church of Strafford. Visit www.taylorcommunity.org, or call 366-1400 for more information.
“Dorks In Dungeons” Improv Troupe Coming To Rochester The Rochester Performance & Arts Center presents Dorks in Dungeons, an internationally renowned fantasy/ improv troupe on Saturday, May 12th at 8pm. The Dorks have shared the stage with guests from film and television, such as Miltos Yerolemou from Game of Thrones and Mark Patton from Nightmare on Elm Street 2, as well as local actors from a variety of production companies. Some shows have even incorporated musical underscoring from live musicians with Miles Burns, Artistic Director of the Seacoast Rep, as the most-often recurring musical guest. In 2013, Dorks in Dungeons was awarded Best of NH 2013 Editor’s Pick: Best Improv Comedy by New Hampshire Magazine. They have also written their own book, the Dorks in Dungeons Setting Guide. The show starts at 8pm. Doors Open at 7:30pm. Cash bar. Tickets are available online and at the door for $15. The Rochester Performance & Arts Center is located at 32 North Main Street in Rochester, NH. Visit www.rochesteroperahouse.com/rpac or call (603) 948-1099 for more information.
ILST Brings Comedy Show To Pitman’s in May The Interlakes Summer Theatre will bring three cool comedians together at Pitman’s Freight Room on Friday May 18 at 7:30, to perform an improvisational comedy show-with audience input! Allison Deller is a comedian from NYC, coming to us off recent appearances at Dangerfields. J.T. Turner is a professional actor with a prolific career in the Boston area. Fran Page is well known in the Lakes Region/Plymouth area, a beloved Comedian Allison director, professor at PSU, fondly Deller. remembered for his performance at ETC as Shrek. The evening will be hosted by local Radio personality, Pat Kelly. For tickets and info, visit interlakestheatre.com or call 603-707-6035.
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Putin Is The Enemy
Weed Watchers
To The Editor: Vladimir Putin denies Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections, but U.S. intelligence agencies have conclusive evidence of the meddling. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has charged 13 Russians and three Russian companies with interfering in U.S. elections. The U.S. has sanctioned Russian individuals. The Russian firm, Internet Research Agency, which directed the Russian espionage in the elections, was funded by Yevgency Prigozhin, a close ally of Putin. During an interview with Megyn Kelly Putin attempted to shift the blame for the election interference to Russian citizens who, according to him, are not real Russians. This dumb commentary was made by a so called world leader. Putin said “ Maybe they’re not even Russians. Maybe they’re Ukrainian, Tartars, Jews-just with Russian citizenship. “ Evidently, Communist Russia has varying classes of citizens based on ethnicity, religion, and other backgrounds. Inhumane Putin and Communist Russia are enemies of the U.S. and other democratic countries.
To The Editor: The Winnisquam Watershed Network (WWN) will be actively managing invasive milfoil in Lake Winnisquam this summer. The WWN is also coordinating a Weed Watcher program to assist us in locating any invasive species inhabiting the lake for later management. We are looking for volunteers to help us conduct oncemonthly weed surveys of the shoreline areas near them. This is a great way for residents to get involved – volunteers will be instructed on how to conduct a weed survey, what to look for, and who to contact if there is a problem. They will also receive a bag full of information on the program and details on the most threatening invasives, and a plant identification key for common aquatic plants. Training will take place at the Winnisquam Marine Services Sales Showroom Conference Room on June 2nd from 9:30-11am. The only equipment needed is a boat, a helper or two, and a nice bright summer day. WWN with N.H. DES assistance will run a weed-watcher training class that will take place in early June. Lake wide weed watching events will be scheduled in the months of JulySeptember. Please consider joining our weed-
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This newspaper was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert as Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette and continued until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. The new Weirs Times was re-established in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee and the Cocheco Valley area with the new Cocheco Times. Our newspaper’s masthead and the map of Lake Winnipesaukee in the center spread are elements in today’s paper which are taken from Calvert’s historic publication.
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The Little Things with the old blade before changing. It is a liberating experience.
by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor
Back in February, I wrote about open heart surgery that I underwent to replace a bad valve. As of April 17th, I was three months removed from the procedure. People come up to me and ask me all the time: “How are you feeling? You look great” and that is much appreciated. I do feel pretty good. Things went well I seem to have a lot more energy than I did before it all went down. But I also feel better in other ways. I find that I am not worrying about all the little things that I used to. I have been given an extension on life, so to speak, and the big picture seems to be more in focus. Those small things are just unnecessary distractions. There is only so much time after all. Make the best of what’s left. I have been keeping a list of things that I no longer let bother me and I am sharing them with you in the hopes that I can bring some of this insight into your lives as well. The razor blades I use have blue strips on the top that wear down over time to let me know when I might need to change them. The old me would panic when the blue began to fade and I would immediately change blades. The new me will go a week or more
The old me would seethe inside as I stood on line at the 14 item or less checkout and watch someone in front of me with 15 or more abuse the privilege. Now I just look and smile and try to put myself in their shoes. I don’t know what is going on in their lives, who am I to judge? (Of course, when I count 20 or more items the old me still wants to take charge. Positive change takes real time.) I now take the time to sit and actually listen to another person’s point of view if it is different than mine. Then I will take that information, process it for a few hours, do a little research of my own and then reach the conclusion that I was right all along. (At least I am giving it a shot.) I no longer spend months agonizing over whether or not my football team is going to make it to the playoffs and maybe have a chance at the Super Bowl. I have found this a big waste of energy that can be best utilized toward other more productive goals. (Of course, being a fan of the New York Jets make this easy.) I no longer worry about having the latest phone or computer or whatever so I can keep up with ever-changing technology. (In fact, I am still wasting too much time trying to figure out the old technology.) I don’t spend my evenings worrying about who is going to win American Idol or The Voice or Dancing with the Stars. (Then again, I never did,
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I no longer will spend valuable time worrying about what I will wear each day. So what if my shoes and socks don’t match or I decided to wear a striped shirt with plaid pants? There are more important things in life. Vanity can be time consuming and better used on other avenues. (Of course, this may just be a thought process that affects every man approaching their midsixties and might not just be specific to me. I’ll keep you posted.) I no longer worry myself with what tomorrow’s weather is going to be. I have made the mental commitment to enjoy each day to the fullest no matter what the temperature or precipitation. Each day is beautiful. (Full disclosure – I am writing this near the end of April. I may have to revisit these commitments come December.) I hope that this small list may inspire at least a few of you to change a few things and help you lead a fuller, happier life. (Look for these and more in my new book “Don’t Perspire Over The Little Things (Too Much)” coming out in 2022, if I ever get around to writing it. You can preorder now on Amazon. Join Brendan at Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia on Wednesday, May 16th at 7:30pm as he hosts a StorySlam to benefit Camp Resilience and their work in helping our veterans. For more information on this fun event see the ad on page 8. You can also visit his website BrendanTSmith.com
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Return of the Feckless Chick-Fil-A-Phobes Move over, Trump Derangement Syndrome. Another unhinged liberal pathology is back: Chick-fil-Aphobia. Perhaps, by Michelle Malkin Syndicated Columnist in the interest of public health, the CDC should launch a weekly C-F-A-P surveillance report to map the recurrence of this culturally infectious disease. Early-onset symptoms include fear of pressure-cooked poultry, allergic reaction to waffle potato fries and an irrational hatred of cow costumes. AntiChristian prejudice and coastal elitism are common comorbidities associated with this debilitating progressive condition. Ground zero for the latest outbreak? The headquarters of The New Yorker magazine. This week’s issue online features the bigoted lament of writer Daniel Piepenbring, who decries the fast-food chain’s “creepy infiltration” of the Big Apple and warns against the company’s “pervasive Christian traditionalism.” Chick-fil-A opened its fourth location in the city last month. The largest franchise in the country, it seats 140, employs 150, and along with the other NYC locations, donates an estimated 17,000 pounds of food to a local pantry for the homeless and hungry. The company is reportedly on track to become the third-largest fastfood chain in the world. What are the Chick-fil-Aphobes so afraid of? A private business succeeding in the marketplace based on
its merits, without coercion or cronyism. An enterprise that values hard work, honesty and integrity. A family-owned American Dream come true that creates jobs, pays taxes, satisfies customers of all backgrounds and gives back to the community. Horror of horrors, what menaces these sandwich-sellers of faith be! Chick-fil-A’s corporate mission to “glorify God” and “enrich the lives of everyone we touch” leaves The New Yorker scribe terminally heartsick about the “ulterior motive” of its restaurant execs. So do the founding family’s commitments to faithful marriages, strong families, Sundays off and the highest standards of character for their employees. The frightened New Yorker critic is especially perturbed by the “Bible verses” enshrined at Chick-fil-A’s Atlanta headquarters and by the restaurant’s popular bovine mascots -which he dubs “morbid” and the “ultimate evangelists” -- whose ubiquity on New York billboards and subway corridors is akin to a “carpet bombing.” Notice, by the way, how these hysterical Chick-fil-a-phobes have no qualms about the success of Jewish-owned delis or the spread of Muslim halal food shop operators in New York City who openly pay tribute to their faiths. Imagine a reporter freaking out over Quran verses or Torah citations hung up on a business owner’s wall. Welcome to Social Justice 101, where discriminating against Christianowned business in the name of opposing discrimination is the definition of tolerance. We’ve been here before, of
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If You Don’t Agree With Me, You’re a Racist Who Likes Death Threats On Monday, George Yancy, a black professor of philosophy at Emory University, wrote a lengthy piece by Ben Shapiro in The New Synidcated Columnist York Times detailing the awful death threats he has received from white racists. I can sympathize — throughout 2016, I received my fair share of death threats. But Yancy sees those death threats as representative of a deeper malignancy plaguing all of white America, not a sickness within a subset of the population. Thus, he asks, “Should I Give up on White People?” Yancy’s case isn’t particularly strong. According to him, he faces a serious dilemma: “Do I give up on white people, on white America, or do I continue to fight for a bet-
ter white America, despite the fact that my efforts continue to lead to forms of unspeakable white racist backlash?” But why exactly is that a serious dilemma? America isn’t filled with racists — America is one of the least racist places on Earth, and its rate of racism has been decreasing steadily for years. In order for Yates’ complaint to make any sense, he has to believe that America is actually becoming more racist. And he does. He says that he is “convinced that America suffers from a pervasively malignant and malicious systemic illness — white racism.” He offers no statistics to support this contention. And he suggests that those who disagree with his contention do so out of willingness to ignore white racism: “There is also an appalling lack of courage, weakness of will, spinelessness and indifference in our country that helps to sustain it.” So, to get this straight, you may not be racist, but if you believe
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Cuba Without The Castros UNITED NATIONS - For as
long as I can remember, the phrase Castro’s Cuba was synonymous with a Caribbean island by John J. Metzler ruled by one Syndicated Columnist Family. Indeed for sixty years the phrase had a certain, if unfortunate, political ring. So when Raul Castro, the second member of the ruling dynasty, stepped down from formal power in Havana, the linguistic modifier of Castro’s Cuba entered the past tense. Or did it? Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power picked VicePresident Miguel Diaz-Canel as Raul’s successor and a reliable candidate to lead the country in the post-Castro era. He won with a respectable 99.83 percent of the vote. At the start of his tenure, Diaz-Canel stated that there was “no room in Cuba for those who strive for the restoration of capitalism.” But will this relatively young man (58) as compared with the Castro brothers Raul (86) and now deceased Fidel at (90) really be more than a communist Party cutout for caution and conformity? Since Fidel Castro’s triumph in the Cuban revolution back in 1959, the Castro family along with the dictates of the Communist party has ruled the island with a mix of terror, coercion and paternalism. In the early years, Cuba’s Communist ex-
periment was supported by the former Soviet Union as a kind of classic Cold War showdown between a Fidelista David and the Goliath of Uncle Sam. Contrary to media myth the early years of Fidel’s regime were replete with mass arrests, executions, property expropriations and crackdowns on dissent. More than a million would flee. As years turned into decades, Castro’s socialist policies eroded a once reasonably prosperous country into a moribund Marxist economy sustained by Soviet largesse, Venezuelan oil, and Canadian tourists. Conventional wisdom, which is usually wrong, assumed that with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Castro would soon fall. Certainly Cuba suffered additional economic hardship in the wake of Moscow’s aid cutoff but the island was able to slog on with the cultivation of new allies in socialist Venezuela and China. Yet, the Cuban revolution which has outlasted a dozen American presidents and ensuing political hostility from Washington appears entrenched. The Obama Administration changed what had largely become a mantra of American foreign policy; isolation of Castro’s Cuba to a hopeful political opening. In late 2014 Barack Obama stated characteristically, “we will end an outdated approach that, for decades, has failed to advance our interests.” In July 2015 the United States re-opened diplomatic relations
with Cuba; the once shuttered American Embassy on Havana’s majestic seafront Malecon was re-opened by the Secretary of State John Kerry in a moving if slightly awkward ceremony with John Kerry standing on crutch-
es. Ties had been cut during the Eisenhower Administration in January 1961. Obama’s reengagement with Cuba rested on the wishful assumption that Cuba had
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Hidden Taxes The cable bill was the last straw, says Kristin Tate. “That’s the one that really made me mad.” Comcast included $36 in charges for by John Stossel mysterious Syndicated Columnist things like “utility tax” and “government access fee.” That motivated her to research obscure taxes and put what she learned in a new book, “How Do I Tax Thee? A Field Guide to the Great American Rip-Off.” Rip-off? Even limited government needs some taxes to fund basic functions. “Yes,” says Tate. “But politicians are cowards. Instead of creating a tax, they magically create these little fees (so) they don’t have to tell their voters they raised taxes.” Voters don’t often notice the sneaky taxes. Yesterday was “Tax Day.” It was April 17 this year because April 15 fell on Sunday and Monday was Emancipation Day. But by calling April 17 “Tax Day,” the media miss the big picture. Income taxes make up less than half the tax most of us pay. We also must pay payroll tax, corporate tax, gift tax, gambling tax, federal unemployment tax, gas tax, cable and telecom taxes, plane ticket tax, FCC subscriber line charges, car documentation fees, liquor and cigarette taxes, etc. People can’t keep track. For my latest YouTube video, Tate asked people, “What’s your tax rate?” Tourists in Times Square said that they thought they paid about 20 percent. But they left
off the hotel taxes, airline taxes, etc., that push Americans’ total tax load to almost 50 percent. When you pay those hidden taxes, you may assume they go toward useful things, but Tate knows her taxes pay for government waste. “Extreme inefficiencies, pensions that are to die for — these amazing salaries that these public workers get that are just laughably above market.” New York City’s average subway worker makes $155,000 a year. Politicians suggest their extra taxes go, not to fund those big salaries and “pensions to-diefor,” but to pay for the specific services for which the taxes are named. Tate says that’s rarely true. “Cable bills and cellphone bills both have an ‘Enhanced 911 Fee.’ Consumers were told 911 fees were necessary to make upgrades to emergency communication needs. (But) after it was updated, instead of taking away the tax, it just stayed there.” Chicago doubled cellphone fees to fund its Olympics bid. The Olympics rejected Chicago — but the tax remained. Now Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to raise it again. More. They always want more. “New York City has an eightcent ‘bagel-cutting tax,’” says Tate. For some reason, unsliced bagels are not taxed. California has a 33 percent tax on fruit bought through a vending machine. Maine imposes a one-and-ahalf-cent per pound tax on blueberries shipped out of state. Because these taxes sound petty, governments disguise them, says Tate, using “important-sounding language — like See stossel on 38
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Come and tell your story, or just sit back and be entertained by those who do. 12 storytellers will be selected at random and have up to six minutes to tell their story. Stories can be funny, sad, inspirational or all three, but please, no politics or preaching, we all get enough of that every day as it is. No notes allowed. Prizes will be awarded and a good time will be had by all. “StorySlams” are hugely popular events across the country, but very few, if any, have been held North of Concord. What better way to introduce it here than with a benefit for one of the area’s favorite charities? More information can be found on “Real Stories North Of Concord” Facebook page. Those who are interested in telling a story can register in advance by sending their name to realstoriesnoc@gmail.com. (Registering does not guarantee that you will be picked.) Admission is $20 per person for both storytellers and spectators. Seating is limited so call Pitman’s at 527-0043 for tickets. Pitman’s Freight Room is a bring your own food and drinks venue. Pitman’s is located at 94 New Salem Street in Laconia.
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Healthy Tip From Dr. Fink A Common sense approach To Healthy Digesting
by Dr. Charles Fink
Fink Chiropractic & Natural Health Improvement Center
Eating the best food or taking the best supplements in the world is expensive and in vain if they are not being digested. Many people do not realize the improvements they will get in their health by understanding what it means to digest. One very important aspect of digesting begins with enzymes. An enzyme is a substance within living cells which causes changes in other substances. In regards to food it changes it by breaking it down. They are vital to breaking apart food to get all the nutrients out of it. These vitamins and minerals then absorb into the bloodstream, from there they are carried to the individual cells in our body. Without enzymes present, food or nutrition will pass straight through you. Enzymes are the key to unlocking all of the nutrients from the food we eat. Enzymes are produced in the stomach and pancreas. However ill health and aging decrease the amount we have naturally. Anyone who eats cooked food can improve their health by supplementing their diet with enzymes. Adding enzymes to every meal could add years to your life and life to your years. It can ensure you get your money’s worth out of your groceries, give you fewer,
if any doctor bills, and give your body that much more stamina and energy. If you have heartburn or acid indigestion you should consider this: Turning off the acid in your stomach, whether it’s with a purple pill or an antacid, can lead to a myriad of other problems. Many people use these acid neutralizers to treat acid reflux, sour stomachs, gas/bloating and other digestive symptoms. However, many of these people are suffering from not enough stomach acid! The function of your stomach acid is to digest protein. When your stomach acid is “turned off”, you can’t digest well. Say someone eats a piece of chicken; it lands in the stomach, and needs hydrochloric acid to break it down. If there isn’t enough of that acid the protein sits in the stomach and starts to putrefy, creating acid and gases. Now, the person might have some symptoms – sour stomach, belching, or even acid reflux. But, it all happened because there wasn’t enough acid to digest properly. If there’s enough stomach acid, the upper sphincter closes when you’ve eaten to prevent that good acid from going up into the esophagus. It also opens the low-
er sphincter to empty your stomach. If you don’t have enough acid, not only can you not digest the protein; the upper sphincter does not close causing acid reflux and potential damage to the esophagus. If you ache all over, have stiff joints and an overall lack of energy, maybe properly digesting your food is the answer. For help in choosing proper digestive aids and for information on this and more, call Dr. Fink @ Fink Chiropractic & Natural Health Improvement Center 603-524-4555 or check us out on the web www.finkchiro.net
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Your Health is in Your Hands by Dr. Graham Moneysmith, DC. Contributing Writer
This week is a school vacation week for my kids. My family is using this time to travel out to the Midwest to visit our families. I hesitate to call it a vacation, since it involves 20 hours of driving in a van with our four kids. Let’s call it travelling instead! Anyway, despite the drive, it is fun and a good time to rest and recharge. Sometimes when travelling, I find myself still thinking about work and things I should be doing or could be doing, instead of recharging. I think this is common feeling for most folks‌whether it be a day off, a free hour, or a vacation; the feeling that one should be busy always lurks. Let me give you (and myself) a piece
of advice: you don’t have to feel this way. I don’t know where this fallacy comes from that we should always be busy. This is just who we are as a culture now. A report in 2013 from the Center for Economic and Policy Research looked at the 21 countries considered advanced economies or rich nations. These countries were 16 European countries, the US, Australia, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand. Our country is the only one NOT required to give workers paid vacation. The fact is: without paid vacation it’s hard for many to take time
off. Furthermore, many folks are not too busy by choice, but simply have to work more than one job to make ends meet. This is our reality as Americans currently: to keep up, we have to stay busy. Money isn’t the only thing that stops us though. In fact, according to a 2014 Glassdoor survey US employees only take 51% of their PAID time off. The pressure to be productive, to protect your job, or to try and get ahead appears to be too great. Being active and productive is good for an individual. There does come a point, though, where it is too much and it can become a health issue. There are connections to those who vacation/ take time off from work with increased happiness and decreased depression. There is also evidence according to the Framingham Heart Study that men who take time off are 32% less likely to have a heart attack and women are 50% less likely. Time off appears to increase health. See moneysmith on 13
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The fact remains we all need our jobs: we have bills to pay and ends to meet, I get that. However, if you are too stressed, depressed, and generally burned out, then those obligations are creating long term issues and it will not be worth it to grind out today to destroy tomorrow. So what do we do? Well, if you have time off - take it! Get away, take a road trip, just go. Yet, you don’t have to go anywhere and you don’t need to spend a bunch of money. If you can’t go away somewhere fun, then make home fun. Sleep in, take a lazy day, read a book, rent a mov-
ie, go for a walk, swim in the lake, do whatever you want. Just take the time for yourself. On the other hand, if you really can’t take time off work because you get no paid leave, my advice is this: you still have to take time for yourself. Maybe it’s only a long weekend, or maybe it’s a hour per day, but you have to turn off your brain, unplug, and be free. Your health is too valuable. Our health mindset, is generally built on disregarding the future to survive today. This will always lead to more problems in the future. Bigger problems, problems that are more expensive,
more time consuming, and sometimes unable to be fixed. It is always preferable to “prehab� your life and health, then rehab it. Remember our health is worth taking care of today, maybe if we weren’t so busy we’d all remember that. Bottom line is this: you need time for yourself, mentally and physically. It is your job to find this time because if you can’t voluntarily slow yourself down, eventually your health will do it for you, involuntarily. This is not an option, take control of your health and you take control of your life.
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As we all know, California lives life to the fullest, on edge of new things and the people who live there are known for being shakers and movers. By this I mean, they create uniqueness in new endeavors. They come up with things no one has yet tried. They unearth ideas that become special products everyone adores. I could begin to name companies we’d all recognize but you get the picture. And when it comes to brewing great beer, California is right in there at the top with highly acclaimed brewers. So the one we concentrate on today is Lagunitas. Lagunitas Brewing Company, Petaluma, CA, is a slightly quirky set of people bent on bringing you the very best and varied beer you might ever taste. Owner Toby Magee admits he has been curious of how people affect beer. So he creates circumstances where people can enjoy beer while they are‌ being people. Each of their offerings is special and oddly named, but that’s the fun they put into each can or bottle. In his own words, beer speaks, people mumble. Look at their unique website; lagunitas.com The Waldo’s is more of a story that became a tremendously revered beer. Waldo packs a punch coming in at 11.3% ABV and 100 IBU’s (bittering scale). It is sold in 12 oz six packs (astounding for NH’s strict total volume ABV limit). It’s slightly hazy golden and delicious hue, short-lived but radiant white head, and malty
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SPORTS BRAWLS Let’s be honest. A bench-clearing baseball brawl involving the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees is one of the most thrilling sights in sports. It’s okay to admit it. It’s akin to watching “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” Sometimes human spectacles captivate us. So when dugouts clear and bullpens empty, frenzied fans leap to their feet in fascinated anticipation of seeing players get punched out. Recall the Pedro Martinez/Don Zimmer confrontation during the 2003 Red Sox/Yankee playoffs? Was it horrifying? Certainly. Was it exciting? Absolutely. I was at Fenway Park on an August afternoon in 1973 when a home plate collision between Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk and Yankee catcher Thurman Munson thrillingly brought every player to the infield to tangle— or untangle. As in 2003, players later acknowledged conflicting emotions as they rushed toward the fight. Munson had been on third base when Yankee manager Ralph Houk called for a suicide squeeze. With Munson barreling down from third base the batter (Gene Michael) missed his bunt attempt, leaving Munson as dead meat as Fisk waited to tag him out. Munson crashed into Fisk full bore but the Red Sox catcher held onto the ball. Then
A scene from the Pedro Martinez/Don Zimmer confrontation during the 2003 Red Sox/Yankee playoffs. the swinging started. It was scary to watch, but yes, it was thrilling. Some NASCAR fans admit hoping to see crashes and pileups at car races, just as many hockey fans love to see fights on the ice. The NHL tacitly condones a measure of violence. It’s part of pro hockey. Similarly, baseball has an unwritten code that sometimes calls for pitchers to throw at batters. That’s what happened at Fenway Park on April 11 after Yankee Tyler Austin slid—spikes up—into Red Sox shortstop Brock Holt. When Austin came to bat again he was nailed by BoSox pitcher Joe Kelly. On cue, the benches and bullpens emptied as crazed and inebriated fans egged them on. That’s baseball. MLB officials subsequently suspended Kelly and Austin for several games—officials who likely hope that the violence increases TV ratings for future Boston/New York games. You can be sure that when the teams meet again at Yankee Stadium from May 8-10 many fans will be secretly—or not so secretly—hoping for Round 2. But while violence can be exciting, hopefully none of us really want to see anyone seriously injured during any unscripted spectacle, whether it involves Yankees, NASCAR drivers, or pro hockey players. Or even Kardashians!
Sports Quiz What New York Yankee cheap-shotted Boston Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee during a bench-clearing melee at Yankee Stadium in 1976, dislocating Lee’s arm? (Answer follows) Born Today ... That is to say, sports standouts born on April 26 include MLB pitching great Sal “The Barber” Maglie (1917) and former San Diego Charger running back Natron Means (1972). Sportsquote “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.” – George Orwell Sportsquiz Answer Mickey Rivers. State Representative Michael Moffett was a Professor of Sports Management for Plymouth State University and NHTI-Concord and currently teaches online for New England College. He co-authored the critically-acclaimed and award-winning “FAHIM SPEAKS: A Warrior-Actor’s Odyssey from Afghanistan to Hollywood and Back” (with the Marines)—which is available through Amazon.com. His e-mail address is mimoffett@comcast.net.
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Aerospace Fest McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, Concord. 10:30am4pm. The public is welcome to engage in a wide variety of hands on science and engineering activities at the festival, to see the Discovery Center’s newest planetarium show, and to meet an astronaut: NH’s own Dr. Jay C. Buckey, Jr. The all-inclusive admission coat is $15/adults, $13/students and seniors, $10 children ages 3-12, and free for Discovery Center members and children under 3. www.
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Southern Dinner and Kentucky Derby Party Beane Conference Center, Blueberry Lane, Laconia. 5pm8pm. Dinner consists of split pea salad, biscuits, chicken, gravy and grits. The dinner will finish with your choice of Texas sheet cake, or pecan pie. Live entertainment will be provided by The Tom Robinson Jazz Trio. Partygoers can take a chance on a horse (a $25 ticket includes a mint julep) and win prizes for win, place or show. The evening includes an “Enter the Hat� contest for men and women. Take a chance gift basket raffles will also be held. $40pp includes dinner. Limited number of tickets available. Call 524-6488 to reserve yours, or visit www.nhisom.
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Wednesday 9th Polliwogs Pre-K Program – Sneaky Salamanders Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 10:30am-12pm. A fun group for the littlest explorers amongst us! Adult and child will explore the forests, fields and gardens around Prescott Farm. These sessions are designed to keep children active and engaged. For ages 2-5, with adult. Programs are held rain or shine, if it’s raining the activities will be held inside. $10 per adult/ child pair, $8/members, plus
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ROCHESTER - Many may not recognize his name, but when they hear and instantly recognize any of John Ford Coley’s triple-platinum hits they surely get a smile. His duo England Dan and John Ford Coley were household names through the 70’s and 80’s, with smash top-10 hits that still get a lot of airtime on the radio, including “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight,� “Nights Are Forever,� “Love Is The Answer� and “We’ll Never Have To Say Goodbye Tonight.� John Ford Coley recorded 13 albums, many of them gold and triple-platinum. A Grammy Award nominated singer, songwriter, classically trained pia- John Ford Coley nist, guitarist, and actor, John Ford Coley has written the book on music performing - literally -- with his book “Back Stage Pass,� a memoir of decades in the music business, travelling cross country, across Europe and throughout Asia On Saturday, April 28 John Ford Coley comes to NH to perform an intimate concert at the historic Castle on Charles, promising to play his familiar songs about 85% of the evening, along with some new songs from his recent album ‘Eclectic.’ Coley’s brand of soft, romantic music had many influences. “I grew up in Texas listening to and learning jazz music, classical, opera, show tunes, doo-wop and church music,� he said. “It was romantic. You hear those songs, you gotta feel something - it fills a spot deep inside. You play those
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old church hymns and it drops me to my knees in a heartbeat. Those songs had so much heart and soul.� Coley spent 15 years writing songs and performing with his friend and partner from high school, Dan Seals, who was known as England Dan. They were inspired by the Beach Boys. Together they made history and ten albums. Coley slowed down before Dan’s death, but from his home bases in Charleston and Nashville, still averages about forty performances a year across the globe, playing both guitar and piano at most shows. He just recently returned from an Asian tour, where he has made over thirty trips over the years, performing to crowds crazy about him. Coley described playing a song called ‘Just tell me you love me’ which was also from a film he made, to a crowd in the Philippines. “The audience knew it so well they were singing it louder than me with speakers, they knew every word. Every school child knew that song.� The John Ford Coley concert at The Castle on Charles is on Saturday, April 28. Doors open at 6pm to the Tavern for drinks and a small menu available including a cheese board, salad, and a hearty bowl of beef stew over rice. The show is 7:30 to 10pm. There will be an opening act by NH singersongwriter Chris Bonoli. Seating is limited. Tickets are $25, available at www.CastleNH.com
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Story Slam – Real Stories North of Concord Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. This event’s theme is “Random Acts of Kindness�, and it features The Weirs Times’ own Brendan Smith! Camp Resilience will be the beneficiary of this Story Slam event. BYOB venue. pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043 for tickets.
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Gardening and Lawn Care Workshops At Moulton Farm Hosts Open House Moulton Farm’s spring open house on Saturday, May 5th, is featuring several free “Good Gardening” workshops that can help you have a great garden and lawn this summer. The first workshop is “Bugs and Insects You Should Love: Pollinators & Beneficials” and it starts at 10 am. It will explore the often overlooked but vitally important role of pollinators and insects at the farm and the ones you want to encourage in your home garden. Kyle Lecasse and Wes Thomas, who manage field operations at the farm, will also be sharing what Moulton Farm is doing to encourage pollinators, such as bees, and how they use other beneficial
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Artists view of Crawford Notch. she had fallen in love with. After crossing what is now known as Nancy’s Brook, the young lady apparently finally stopped beside the edge of the water. The folk back at Colonel Whipple’s farm, thinking that Nancy would return before dark, did not become concerned with her absence until she had been long gone, but the men eventually went out to find her, which they did the next day in that spot on a rock beside the brook with her head resting upon one hand and a strong stick she had carried during her
quest in her other hand. But alas, poor Nancy, was dead, a victim of the exhaustion, cold, and hunger. It is said that the man who had betrayed her, upon hearing the news, was overcome with grief and remorse, could not be comforted, but went insane and soon died in an institution for such people. An event involving a couple about to wed in Portsmouth also had a sad ending. Just a few years previous to Nancy’s sad love story, Margaret Sheafe the daughter of a prominent man in Portsmouth, See smith on 33
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was engaged to be married to another Portsmouth native, one James McDonough. Margaret Sheafe was the youngest daughter of Jacob Sheafe, a merchant, who was said to be one of the richest men in the colonies, and, to add to her good fortune, her fiancé was “richly endowed in this world’s goods.” The two families had been neighbors and friends for years and there was great satisfaction and anticipation concerning the wedding scheduled for June 1, 1768. There probably would have been many young men who were envious of James McDonough because of the woman he was about to wed. She was twenty-three years of age, had a great personality and was multitalented besides having a place in the most exclusive places of society in Portsmouth. On the evening of the selected day everything was in place for the ceremony and reception that would bring the two young but prominent citizens of Portsmouth together as husband and wife. The invited friends and relatives gathered at the home of the bride where the banquet table in the dining room was described as “a delight to look upon with its rich damask linen, the old family silver and imported china, here and there a shaded candelabrum which cast a sheen of great beauty over this important feature of the occasion.” (according to a great-grandson of Jacob Sheafe). There were expensive wedding gifts
waiting in an upstairs room and musicians in the main hall were prepared to play the harp, mandolin, and spinet. The minister, wearing his robe and carrying a book, stood near the mantelpiece waiting for the ceremony to begin. When the time for the ceremony passed and nothing happened the guests became quiet and an uneasy feeling permeated the house. The butler, a man by the name of Amos Boggs, became anxious and spilled a bottle of burgundy over his new clothes. And then, after a half hour’s wait the reason for the delay began to be relayed from one guest to another. James McDonough, the groom, who had told a friend the previous evening that he chose his bride the same way that she chose her wedding gown, “for qualities that will wear well”, had not arrived. Nor did he. James McDonough had disappeared. He was never seen or heard from again. If anyone knew what happened to him it was not revealed to the public, though the obvious questions were asked. Did he intentionally skip his own wedding? Was he the victim of foul play? No one could imagine him being a victim or victimizing Margaret whom they were convinced he genuinely loved. He was last seen on the afternoon of June first on the streets of Portsmouth. The reaction of the bride left without a groom was said to be painful to behold, and, though I have not been able to verify it, I read that in the King’s Chapel Burying Ground
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Puzzle Clue: CELEBRITY SPOONERISMS ACROSS 1 Former Delta rival 4 Humane org. since 1866 9 Shining 14 Birds’ beaks 19 On top of, in verse 20 Nerd relative 21 City in Utah 22 Bugged a lot 23 Support a female donkey? 25 All fired up 26 Flag sewer Ross 27 “Dies --” (Mass hymn) 28 Squirmy 30 “Listen up, warmblooded animal!”? 32 More itty-bitty 34 African country 36 Disfigure 37 Horror director Roth 38 Open a new tavern? 41 Magna -- laude 42 Baltique or Adriatique 43 Units of bag thickness 44 “Bridge of Spies” actor Mark 46 Core belief of orthopedic practice? 48 Home to Pago Pago 52 “Vesti la giubba,” e.g. 53 -- Majesty the Queen 54 IM-offering ISP 55 Choose a wooden peg? 57 Aromatic resins 59 Chai or pekoe 62 Pyle and Els 63 Railcar walkways 64 Sees 66 Church call
67 Makes a warden gentle? 72 Australian avians 73 Be the king 75 Delilah duped him 76 Rub down 78 Sketch show since ‘75 79 Estate of a winegrower 81 Curly-furred cat’s giggle? 84 The way, to Lao-tzu 85 Undertake 86 Thing to hum 87 Wraith 88 Descend upon a certain grainfield in droves? 92 Circles around heavenly bodies 94 Sails through 95 Neither hide -- hair 96 Bad review 97 Very tentative taste of food? 102 Greek “H” 103 Match unit 104 Ballroom dance 106 Dr. Seuss’ real surname 107 Pale people writing things quickly? 110 Jetsons’ dog 113 Caffeine-laden nut 114 Perrier rival 115 Aristocratic 117 Toast topper that’s nifty? 119 Tuscan town 120 Bugs a lot 121 Sporting site 122 Big cat’s lair 123 Stunning gun 124 Cries out 125 Cyclist, e.g. 126 Before, in verse
DOWN 1 Way of being thrilled or torn 2 What to do if the shoe fits 3 Esoteric stuff 4 Modifying word: Abbr. 5 Really rely on 6 100-Down’s partner in magic 7 Euro fraction 8 Big gulf 9 Orang, e.g. 10 Minister Billy 11 Boston airport 12 Outranking 13 Guys on the job site 14 Elephant king of kiddie lit 15 Agenda unit 16 “Open up!” 17 The Bunkers’ “old” car 18 Hair salon employee 24 Actor Dullea 29 Agave plant 31 Actress d’Abo 33 Online brokerage 35 Receivable 39 What “there oughta be” 40 Uncommon 42 Choice bit 43 Hollywood’s Gibson 45 Zippo 46 Celebrity lawyer Melvin 47 Mix, as salad 48 Pickle units 49 Flying guys 50 “Chicago Hope” doctor 51 Assenting to 53 -- impact on (effects) 56 East, in Ulm
57 Small jewel 58 Suffix of enzymes 59 V8 ingredient 60 Musician’s exercises 61 Affirm 63 Analyze 65 Australian state capital 68 -- whole 69 Subject 70 Manicure aid 71 Scoundrel 74 University sports org. 77 Tuna variety 80 Wasp variety 81 1921 sci-fi play 82 Sufficient, in verse 83 TV “Warrior Princess” 84 “Conan” network 86 Pacific island country 88 “My Little Chickadee” co-star 89 Wife of Nero 90 Head-hugging hats 91 Mega Millions, e.g. 92 Soup holder 93 French forest region 96 Soft shade 98 Moped, e.g. 99 “Tristan und --” 100 6-Down’s partner in magic 101 Boosler of comedy 103 Sub detector 104 Quaver 105 Actor Werner 108 Tarzan’s lady 109 Author Wiesel 111 Actress Polo 112 Bog grass 116 Slalom path 118 Pickle holder
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course. It was a liberal activist reporter and gay marriage advocate at The New York Times, Kim Severson, who helped launch the first nationwide witch hunt against Chick-filA in 2011. The former vice president of the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association used her straight-news platform to invoke fear of “evangelical Christianity’s muscle flexing� and spread false and libelous attacks on Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy and his family as “antigay.� Her propagandizing in the radical rag of record helped stoke boycotts and regulatory crackdowns by pandering Democrat Mayors Thomas Menino in Boston, Rahm Emanuel in Chicago, and New York City’s Bill de Blasio. Ultimately, those media-manufactured efforts to stifle Chick-fil-A’s free enterprise and First Amendment rights failed. The company’s products have proved irresistible to customers on all sides of the political spectrum. Gastronomical satisfac-
tion trumps anti-Christian zealotry and zealous anti-Trumpism. And that’s what chaps the thin hides of the farleft journalists at The New York Times and The New Yorker who choke at the sights and smells of good, old-fashioned capitalism. If leftists only want to eat and drink at a global fast-food company whose progressive CEO shares their Democrat-supporting, gun-grabbing, openborders, gay marriageboosting values, they should stick to Howard Schultz’s Starbucks cafes. Oh, wait... Michelle Malkin is host of “Michelle Malkin Investigates� on CRTV. com. Her email address is writemalkin@gmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators. com.
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that most Americans aren’t racist, just like you, you’re an aider and abettor of racism. You’re in league with those sending the death threats. In fact, you’re a monster under almost any circumstances. Yancy calls white Americans “monsters ... Land takers. Brutal dispossession. And then body snatchers and the selling and buying of black flesh.� No one alive in the United States has forcibly dispossessed anyone of land; this has been true for generations. No one alive in the United States has been involved in the slave trade. Yet the legacy of white racism lives on in us, according to Yancy. So, how are white Americans to escape this label? Only by agreeing with Yancy. He praises one of his white students who agreed: “The system is racist. As a white woman, I am responsible to dismantle that system as well as the attitudes in me that growing up in the system created. I am responsible for speaking out when I hear racist comments.� Well, of course we’re responsible for speaking out when we hear racist comments. That’s not a revelation. But Yancy wants more than that. He wants
a collective oath by white people to never deny generalized white racism, factfree or not. Which, of course, is racist. Yes, racism plays a central role in American history. Yes, there are still racists in America. But slandering white America in general for the crimes of a few bad apples is no better than slandering black America for the crimes of a few. If Yancy wants to deal with racist death threats, he could start by recognizing that we’re all in this together — and that
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we side with him against those who threaten him — rather than pre-emptively characterizing us as the types of people who would write such vitriolic and evil screeds. Ben Shapiro, 34, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show� and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is the New York Times best-selling author of “Bullies.� He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles. To find out more about Ben Shapiro visit www.creators.com.
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Tate. “They can come track me down.� They may. Governments go to great lengths to collect taxes. “Seattle purchased lists of people buying pet food and mailed them threatening letters,� says Tate. “The county’s pet-licensing agency made more than $80,000.� Governments should drop the pretense and just charge one huge “everything tax.� Of course, then taxpayers might wake up and realize what’s been done to us. That’s one thing politicians don’t want. John Stossel is author of “No They Can’t! Why Government Fails — But Individuals Succeed.� For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.
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