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A SPECIAL COCHECO VALLEY EDITION OF THE WEIRS TIMES NEWSPAPER. VOLUME 25, NO. 52

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Remembering Past New Year’s Resolutions If you started to read this expecting to find a list of New Year’s resolutions, you are looking at the wrong page. In looking back over the years I can see that the road that I have traveled is littered with broken resolutions. I recall a New Year’s Eve in Manhattan back in the Roaring Forties when but we had better not go into that one.

There may be a genetic glitch in our genes that we can blame our backsliding on. As he hummed, “Ain’t No Bugs On My Begonias” to himself while hoeing his rutabaga patch in the Garden of Eden, I am sure that Adam was filled with the moral integrity of Dudley Do-right. Trouble was, he was human. When Eve came tippy-

toeing around the rhubarb with a gleam in her eye and a plump Pippin in her hand, plucked from a precious tree in the orchard, Adam started grinning and you could hear his good resolutions shattering way over in the land of Nod. A couple of days later he had built a booth just outside the Garden where he was See allard on 23

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In celebrating the New Year we present this classic column by Ed Allard who wrote the always entertaining “Around The Cracker Barrel” column in the Weirs Times from 1993 until his passing in 2000. This column originally appeared in our December 30, 1993 issue. Enjoy!

From all of us at The Weirs Times and Cocheco Times, we wish you a happy and successful New Year!!

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December Through the Month “Diane Bowie Zaitlin: Revelations” – Art Exhibit on Display The Carnegie Gallery in the Rochester Public Library, 65 South Main Street, Rochester. Monday through Thursday 9am-8:30pm, Friday 9am-5pm and Saturday 9am-4pm. Zaitlin’s work involves layering of imagery and marks. The artist typically starts with writing and drawing that sets the tone for the piece. She works intuitively, creating a give and take between layers; a revealing and obscuring of fragments of phrases, marks and patterns that suggest a story of their own. www.dianebowiezaitlin.com to see her work.

Through January 27th “The Whole Flock” – Art Exhibit

Massabesic Audubon Center Gallery, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn. “The Whole Flock” represents work by a group of artists creating around a common theme: birds! Visitors will view traditional hand-carved birds, contemporary paintings, illustrations, and sculptures of birds from around the world. If you love birds, you will love The Whole Flock! 30% of all sales directly support the Massabesic Audubon Center. 668-2045

Thursday 29th 2 Good 2 Be True

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 2 local favorites on stage with $2 drafts and 2-for-1 appetizers after 8pm. 2930841

Matchstick Productions Ruin and Rose The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

Zest Fest – New Vaudeville Festival Strawbery Banke Museum, 14 Hancock Street, Portsmouth. 2pm. Zest Fest features family-friendly shows sure to delight audiences of all ages with magic, mirth and mayhem. Tickets are $15pp and can be purchased online at www.pontine. org or 436-6660

Friday 30th Dueling Pianos

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. Prepare your friends for some serious fun as YOU pick the music and join in the show! 293-0841

Warren Miller’s “Here, There & Everywhere” Jean’s Playhouse, 34 Papermill Drive, Lincoln. 4pm & 7pm. www. jeansplayhouse.com or 745-2141

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Lakes Region Art Association Art Gallery, Tanger Outlets, 120 Laconia Road, Tilton. 10am-12pm. www. lakesregionartassociation.com or 998-0029

Saturday 31st Adam Ezra Group The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

No Hassles, No Frills New Year’s Eve Party Patrick’s Pub and Eatery, Gilford. 8pm-11:55pm. Come join the casual fun on New Year’s Eve with the staff and patrons at Patrick’s! www.

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New Year’s Eve Sleigh Rides

Charmingfare Farm, 774 High Street, Candia. 5pm. Climb aboard the sleigh of your choosing and head for the party. The horses are sure to provide you with a spirited ride on this evening. A roughly 40-minute ride will end with you comfortably settled around the raging bonfires, where the farm’s staff has prepared a wonderful meal for everyone to enjoy campfireside. There will be music, laughter and good cheer had by all. The menu for the evening includes marinated steak tips, grilled chicken breast, grilled hot dogs, steamed veggies, rice pilaf, rolls and butter, hot cider and bottled water to drink. Visitors are welcome to bring additional refreshments. When you are ready to wrap up your evening, just step aboard the next available sleigh. $42pp. 483-5623

8th Annual Live Free or Die Laughing New Year’s Eve Comedy Show

Sheraton Harborside Hotel, 250 Market Street, Portsmouth. There will be 2 shows; 8:30pm for those who plan to attend First Night festivities in downtown Portsmouth, and a 10:30pm show for those want to literally laugh in the new year. $20-$35pp. 498-5192

New Year’s Eve Fireworks Show Hampton Beach, Hampton Beach. 8pm. Summer isn’t the only season when Hampton Beach is set alight with fireworks! Bundle up and hit the boardwalk for the town’s last Oceanside light show of 2016. www.

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New Year’s Eve Package – Stay and Play!

The Margate Resort, 76 Lake Street, Laconia. The New Year’s Eve package includes; lodging, dinner, live entertainment with Back 2 Back, a 5 piece classic rock cover band, party favors, decorations and a champagne toast and balloon drop at midnight! Also included is a full, hot breakfast buffet served from 7am-noon. Guests will also enjoy a later check out time of 1pm. Packages range from $279 and up. 1-800-MARGATE

New Year’s Eve Celebration at Tavern 27 Tavern 27, 2075 Parade Road, Laconia. Regular menu will be served until 8pm. Late night festivities begin at 9:30pm. Music, 9 course Tapas

Menu, champagne and party favors! Reservations recommended. www. tavern27.com 528-3057

January Tuesday 3rd Open Mic Night

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. Multitalented host Jon Lorentz and a great variety of talent! To get in the gig, email: jlo_saxboy@yahoo.com 2930841

Tues. 3rd – Thurs. 5th Explorations in Printmaking – 3 Day Workshop

Lakes Region Community College, 379 Belmont Road, Laconia. Workshop runs from 9:30am-12:30pm all 3 days. This workshop will take a look at a variety of printmaking techniques and the unique possibilities that they provide. This workshop will introduce monotypes, collagraphs, and relief prints, as well as the materials and tools used to create them. Experimenting with these processes, students of all backgrounds will explore 2D design, pattern, and personal expression. The cost is $130 for all 3 days, and includes materials. 366-5235 to register.

Wednesday 4th Harnessing History: On the Trail of NH’s State Dog, the Chinook

First Baptist Church, 122 Main Street, Plaistow. 7pm. This program looks at how dog sledding developed in New Hampshire and how the Chinook played a major role in this story. Explaining how man and his relationship with dogs won out over machines on several famous polar expeditions, Bob Cottrell covers the history of Arthur Walden and his Chinooks, the State Dog of NH. Cottrell will be accompanied by his appropriately named Chinook, Tug. Free and open to the public. 3825843

(Not So) Elementary, My Dear Watson: The Popularity of Sherlock Holmes

Rodgers Memorial Library, 194 Derry Road, Hudson. 7pm. The recent spate of Sherlock Holmes movies, television shows and literary adaptations indicate the Great Detective is alive and well in the 21st Century. Ann McClellan’s presentation explores the origins of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective and tracks his incarnations in literature, film, advertising, and modern media in order to crack the case of the most popular detective. Free and open to the public. 6592626

Weekly Cribbage Tournaments to Benefit the Children’s Auction Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 7pm. $10pp with weekly cash prizes. Come have some fun and support a great cause. 998-1418

Friends Program Youth Mentoring Orientation – Free Friends Program Offices, 202 North State Street, Concord. 4:30pm-7pm. This session will equip participants with information about Friends Youth Mentoring and introduce them to some best practices. This opportunity is for those who are considering stepping up and stepping in to help a needy

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“SHOUT” At The Rochester Opera House “SHOUT! The Mod Musical” will be at The Rochester Opera House January 19 - February 5th. Swing into the freedom of 1960’s London with an irresistible blend of hip-swiveling hits, eye-popping fashions and outrageous dance moves! With the orchestra floor leveled, the Rochester Opera House transforms into a posh British nightclub. SHOUT! follows five groovy gals, beautiful ‘birds,’ as they come of age during those glorious days that made England swing. Traveling in time from 1960 to 1970, SHOUT! chronicles the dawning liberation of women, from the rise of Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark and Cilla Black as independent women with major careers redefining themselves in the face of changing attitudes about gender. With a shimmy and shake, the songs are tied together by hilarious sound bites from the period – from ‘60s advertisements to letters answered by an advice columnist who thinks that every problem can be solved with a ‘fetching new hair style and a new shade of lipstick.’ Reserve tickets online or call the box office (603) 335-1992, M/W/F from 10-5pm and 2-hours before the show. There will be a dance party immediately following the shows. Cash bar. Patrons under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult. The Rochester Opera House is located in City Hall, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester NH. Visit www.RochesterOperaHouse.com for more information.

Discovery Center Holiday Week Programs The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord will be open from10:30am to 4pm every day through December31 for the winter holiday break. Five planetarium shows - including the Discovery Center’s newest shows, Space School and The Little Star that Could - will be offered every day, as well as the special NASA exhibition, The Hubble Space Telescope - New Views of the Universe. Admission to the Discovery Center is $10 adults, $9 for students and seniors; $7 for children up to age 12; and free for members and children ages 0-2. Planetarium shows are an additional $5 (free for members and children ages 0-2). During the holiday week, the Discovery Center will also offer three full-day science camps, from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.: Mini-Rocket Workshop for kids ages 8-12 on Wednesday, December 28; Mini-Mindstorms Challenge for kids ages 10-14 on Thursday, December 29; and TinkerLab for kids ages 10-14 on Friday, December 30. Cost is $60 per person per workshop, with discounts for kids enrolling in multiple workshops: $110 for two workshops and $150 for all three workshops. The cost includes all materials; there is a 10% discount for members.

Dover Children’s Home Bowl-A-Thon Four teams are still needed to fill the lanes at Dover Bowl on Sunday, February 19, for the Annual Dover Children’s Home Bowl-A-Thon. Reserve a lane for a foursome for 90-minutes of bowling at 10am, noon, 2pm, or 4pm. Friends of all ages and skill levels are invited to participate. Bowling shoes and lane fees will be free for all bowlers. Prizes will be awarded each session to the teams with the best theme wear, highest youth and adult team scores, and most money raised. The individual members of each four-person team that raises a combined total of $800 or more will also be entered into a Grand Prize drawing. All money raised will support exceptional treatment services designed to help at-risk children learn to reclaim their lives, recover their dreams, and achieve their full potential. For more information:Email Renee at rtouhey@doverchildrenshome.org, Donna at dcoraluzzo@doverchildrenshome.org or call/ 603-742-4289.

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Friends getting ready to go cross-country skiing. Waterville Valley is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this season.

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Two Questions To The Editor: Our media have made much of Mr. Obama threatening dire consequences against Russia since the CIA and FBI said that Mr Putin hacked the DNC emails. I have two questions: 1) Mr. Obama was silent when hackers stole our entire personnel database, including information on people with security clearances and many military secrets. Why wasn’t he concerned about hacking before a hacker embarrassed the DNC? 2) Why aren’t we hearing more about the content of the emails instead of just reading about who may or may not have released them? As Mr. Putin said, whomever released them did a great public service. From the way the media are criticizing this act of journalism, it seems that they don’t do actual investigating any more. Bill Taylor New Hampton, NH

Why Trump Won / Why Hillary Lost To The Editor: The 2016 presidential race began shortly after the 2012 election. All the contestants knew the objective was to win 270 Electoral College votes. No one started out on the campaign trail with the goal of trying to win the popular vote and no one challenged

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the game rules at that time. The Democrats can blame, the FBI Director, fake news, the Russians, voter intimidation and so on, but Trump knew what had to be done to win. He didn’t get where he is by following bad advice. The Democratic game plan was to pander to the Hispanics, Blacks, Latinos, gays, and just about every ethnic and racial group (except the core people of this country). The problem with that strategy was that these voters were concentrated in urban areas in a few states and getting 80% of them to vote for Hillary was not going to get her 270 Electoral College votes. Trump could have worked harder at gaining a larger percentage of those urban voters, but he knew the objective was to win states and he worked to achieve that goal. Whether he will be a good president or bad one will be decided down the road, the point is that Trump achieved the goal of getting 270 (and then some) Electoral College votes. He did so against long odds, a media stacked against him, paid troubled makers at his rallies, bias debate moderators throwing hard balls at him and softballs at Hillary and a sitting president and his administration rallying for his opponent. Trump dismantled all this and achieved the objective, isn’t that the kind of attribute the leader of this

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country should have? As opposed to someone who has a dozen excuses for not achieving a goal? Now like spoiled children who lose at a board game, the Democrats are kicking the game board trying to knock the pieces on the floor. Dennis Robitaille Laconia, NH.

Assimilation To The Editor: New Hampshire’s economy is at a tipping point; there exists a shortage of skilled workers that serve tech, healthcare, manufacturing, and other sectors. Reasons for these shortages include an aging workforce and the exodus from the state by young workers (several studies have demonstrated that many college-aged residents leave the state to pursue their post-secondary education and typically do not return to join the workforce). An older population can lead to increased healthcare costs, workforce shortages, and lack of workforce diversity. A recent study by the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies shows that a path forward is to attract more new Americans and immigrants to NH. Immigrants can bring new ideas, business, and vitality to our economy. But to facilitate assimilation, we need to increase our ability to teach EngSee mail boat on 26

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I have heard it all over the years, but certainly not for awhile. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My kids think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m crazy. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even walk out of the bathroom without sticking my head out as far as I can and look both ways.â&#x20AC;? I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t count how many times I heard that one. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I walk around the house on tiptoes, being so careful with each step. My wife keeps feeling my forehead to see if I have a fever.â&#x20AC;? Not that uncommon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom without putting on my pants, shoes, coat and hat.â&#x20AC;? These are all the classic symptoms, most of which have disappeared over the years, but the way this winter has started, I am concerned that they will be reappearing at a frantic pace very soon. When FATSO started offering personal and private consultations years ago is when the admission of these symptoms first came to the surface. For the uninitiated, FATSO stands for Flatlanders Adjusting To Solitary Oblivion, a winter support group for transplants to New Hampshire I started it with my friend Vinnie back in 1995. One of the first things we noticed in studying those learning to come to terms with their first winters here was a syndrome we called Obsessive Winter Weirdness (O.W.W.) Back in the mid 90s and earlier in the 2000s we

saw quite a lot of this, but in the past couple of years it was an illness that went to the back burner and fell from the public consciousness (as well as losing crucial federal funding). O.W.W. is brought on by the repetition of certain movements in the winter that carry on into normal day-to â&#x20AC;&#x201C;day living, even when they are unnecessary. For example...the above, aforementioned subject introduced at the beginning of this narrative (Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun to sound lawyerly once in awhile) finds it difficult to step out of the bathroom without straining his neck and looking both ways first. This is caused by the repeated motion of inching oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car out into traffic while stretching the neck forward so as to try and catch the sight of oncoming vehicles beyond the sight line of ten-foot high snowbanks. Over the course of a day, between home, work, shopping, etc., this motion suddenly becomes ingrained into the psyche of those suffering from O.W.W. and becomes a part of the rest of their waking hours. The same can be said for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;walking around the house on tiptoesâ&#x20AC;? phenomena. This is triggered by the constant daily struggle of trying to wend oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way safely across large icecovered parking lots. The mind adjusts to this common defense mechanism and, after weeks of this motion, carries it over into non ice-related circumstances. The last example my subject had mentioned; putting on pants, shoes and coats even for middle of the night trips to the bathroom, is more common than you might imagine. Of course, this is triggered by the daily routine of having to cover oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s self in full winter armor even when making a

simple trip out to the car to get the package you left out there or just taking out the garbage. There are many other symptoms of Obsessive Winter Weirdness: the nervous foot caused by the motion of constantly tapping on the brakes as if driving in a snowstorm, the food shopping splurges caused by the constant fear of being trapped for days in your home without proper nourishment after hearing overblown news forecasts about a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Winter Storm Warning,â&#x20AC;? and the 24-hour a day need to turn on the Weather Channel. If you find yourself, or a loved one, suffering from any or all of these symptom of O.W.W., be assured that you are in good company FATSO counseling can help you overcome these issues. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no need to feel afraid and alone anymore. Feel free to contact us here at FATSO for a consultation. The cost is relatively minimal and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll even throw in your choice from our full-line of FATSO gear (www.cafepress.com/nhflatlander). The sooner you come to terms with and rid yourself of this common problem the sooner you can live a fuller life. Address your winter fears. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be glad you did. Next week I will present my well researched predictions for 2017. Brendan Smith is the author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Flatlander Chroniclesâ&#x20AC;? as well as Best Of A F.O.O.L. In New Hampshire.â&#x20AC;? He also loves to tell his Flatlander Tales and other stories to groups and organizations. Find out more at his website www. BrendanTSmith.com

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Michelle Obama’s Christmas Lump of Coal Just what we all need to ring in the Christmas season: Unmerry millionaire Michelle Obama bellyaching about the burdens by Michelle Malkin and sacrifices Syndicated Columnist of public life with billionaire Oprah Winfrey. “There’s nowhere in the world I can go and sit and have a cup of coffee,” Obama lamented. It’s a frequent grievance. In September, she told InStyle magazine: “My hopes are to recapture some of the everydayness, some anonymity. ... (I)t will be nice to open up the paper, look at the front page, and know that you’re not responsible for every headline.” And back in June, again with Oprah, the first lady griped that living in the spotlight was like “living in a cave.” Complain, complain, complain. What a way to make the most of your last six months in the grand and glorious White House. For the past eight years, Obama has traveled to every corner of the planet on the taxpayers’ dime. She has splurged in Spain, traversed the Great Wall of China, tangoed in Buenos Aires, skied in Aspen, lolled in Martha’s Vineyard and feasted in Marrakesh. Thanks to her public position and celebrity, she has been bestowed “fashion icon” status -- donning a $12,000 custom-made Atelier Versace gown at her final State Dinner last month after enjoying two terms clad in Givenchy, Gucci, Jason Wu, Vera Wang, Caroline Herrera and other haute couture stars whose designs are unattainable to ordinary women

in America. Count your blessings much, Mrs. Grinch? Nope. All Barack Obama’s bitter half really wants to do, she told Winfrey, is “drop into Target. I want to go to Target again.” Funny that. The last time Obama shopped at Target, she turned the outing into a fake news narrative to stoke racial division in America. It is worth reminding the public about the noxious lie one last time before the grumbling FLOTUS leaves office because I consider her exploitation of the incident a perfect metaphor for the Obama years -- faux populism bolstered by elitist Hollywood enablers, and then cynically transformed into a phony social justice crusade for crass political gain. Back in 2012, you may remember, Obama sat down with David Letterman in one of her endless, popularity-enhancing pop culture appearances. She bragged about her ability to shop incognito at Target (does she get a secret commission every time she mentions the store?) and told a warm and fuzzy story about helping a fellow customer who didn’t recognize her. The shopper innocently asked Obama to retrieve laundry detergent from a high shelf. “I reached up, ‘cause she was short, and I reached up, pulled it down,” the first lady recounted, and the shopper joked, “Well, you didn’t have to make it look so easy.” Obama beamed as she told Letterman: “I felt so good” doing an everyday good deed. Letterman’s audience cheered at the “first ladies, they’re just like us!” theater. Just a few years later, however, the encounter morphed into a

The Party Of Workers

In the course of a couple of tweets, Donald Trump may have ended the image of the GOP as the by Rich Lowry party of corpoContributing Writer rate America. After striking a Carrier deal to preserve about 800 jobs, the president-elect slapped the Indiana company Rexnord on Twitter for “rather viciously firing” its workers and then went after Boeing for ripping off the public on a $3 billion Air Force One deal. Just like that, and in less than 280 characters, Trump had established more distance from big business than the GOP had in a generation. In his frenetic way, he is forcing a reorientation of the Republican Party’s economics, a change that is welcome in its broad contours, even if his See malkin on 17 methods are dubious and the

potential pitfalls considerable. Gone is the vaguely Randian emphasis on “makers vs. takers,” with anyone who doesn’t earn enough to make a net contribution to the funding of the federal government considered a parasite on the body politic. Gone is the obsession with the federal deficit that has long been the King Charles’ head of Republican policymakers. Gone is the difficulty of conceiving of people as anything other than consumers or budding entrepreneurs who care only about the top marginal tax rate. Contradicting these tropes, Trump bragged about taking even more people off the tax rolls; paid only lip service to the deficit; and made workers and their jobs his most prominent theme. Trump hammered away at what’s the true bottom line of the economy for most people -- their wages.

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Close Them Down!! D o n a l d Trump is appointing good people — Andy Puzder, for example, Trump’s nominee for labor secretary. When Puzder by John Stossell took over Syndicated Columnist Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s restaurants, they were deep in debt. Four years later, they were profitable. I bet his 70,000 workers are happy about that. “What did you do that your predecessor didn’t?” I asked Puzder. His answer sounded a little like Trump. “They were entrenched. ... My second memo as CEO was: Next person that answers a question with ‘because we’ve always done it that way’ will be fired.” Sounds ruthless. No wonder he opposes the minimum wage! But wait: He got his start scooping ice cream at Baskin-Robbins. “Minimum wage, dollar an hour... I learned about customer service, about inventory. That was a good start, a good step on that ladder.” Puzder painted houses and mowed lawns as a teenager, jobs that today’s minimum wage and employment regulations sometimes make illegal. People think those rules are compassionate, but not Puzder. “I have a 16-year-old son, and

I really love him,” he told me, but “there’s no way in the world I’d pay that kid $12 an hour to do something. We’re losing a generation of people because we’ve eliminated jobs that those people normally filled. How do you pay somebody $15 an hour to scoop ice cream? How good could you be at scooping ice cream? It’s just not a job where you could compensate somebody like that.” The media hate businessmen who say things like that. A Washington Post headline: “Ayn Rand acolyte Donald Trump stacks his cabinet with fellow objectivists.” This is absurd. Trump likes capitalism, but he’s no objectivist. Objectivists have firm principles. The Post article smears Puzder as a cruel Ayn Rand fan who “wants to automate fast-food jobs.” But Puzder doesn’t want to automate. He just states an obvious truth: A higher minimum wage leads employers to replace some workers with machines. Fast-food companies were already installing touch screens. A $15 minimum wage speeds that process. If reporters were actually compassionate, they would oppose the endless regulations they routinely champion. People can’t gain the experience needed to earn higher wages if they aren’t allowed to be hired in the first place. “We have restaurants in 33

countries and 45 states,” says Puzder, describing how hard it is to get permits to open restaurants. “In Texas, it’s 60 days. In LA, it takes 280. I can open a restaurant faster in Siberia than I can in California.”

Remember when it was Russia that opposed capitalism? “The permitting is ridiculous,” says Puzder. “They make us put in stoplights and curb cuts and plant trees two blocks away.

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A Public Service Sometimes someone inadvertently performs a public service by bringing an unbelievably stupid and dangerous idea to the surface, by Thomas Sowell where it can Syndicated Columnist be exposed for what it is. The New York Times can be credited -- if that is the word -with performing this public service in a recent editorial against proposals to allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed guns. They refer to what they call the National Rifle Association’s “fantasy that citizens can stand up to gunmen by shooting it out.” Nobody has suggested any such thing. Data collected over many years -- but almost never seeing the light of day in the New York Times or the rest of the mainstream media -- show many thousands of examples of people defending themselves with a gun each year, without having to pull the trigger. If someone comes at you with a knife and you pull out a gun, chances are they will stop. The only time I ever pointed a gun at a human being, it was when someone was sneaking up toward me from behind a shed in the middle of the night. I never fired a shot. I just pointed the gun at him and told him to stop. He stopped. Actually having to shoot someone is the exception, not the rule. Yet the New York Times conjures up a vision of something like the gunfight at the OK Corral. Concealed guns protect not only those who carry them but also those who do not. If

concealed guns become widespread, then a mugger or a car jacker has no way of knowing who has one and who does not. It makes being a mugger or a car jacker a less safe occupation. Gun control laws are in effect occupational safety laws -- OSHA for burglars, muggers, car jackers and others. The fatal fallacy of gun control laws in general is the assumption that such laws actually control guns. Criminals who disobey other laws are not likely to be stopped by gun control laws. What such laws actually do is increase the number of disarmed and defenseless victims. Mass shootings are often used as examples of a need for gun control. But what puts a stop to mass shootings? Usually the arrival on the scene of somebody else with a gun. Mass shooters are often portrayed as “irrational” people engaged in “senseless” acts. But mass shooters are usually rational enough to attack schools, churches and other places where there is far less likelihood of someone being on the scene who is armed. Seldom do we hear about these “irrational” shooters engaging in “senseless” attacks on meetings of the National Rifle Association or a local gun show or a National Guard armory. The fallacy of believing that the way to reduce shootings is to disarm peaceful people extends from domestic gun control laws to international disarmament agreements. If disarmament agreements reduced the dangers of war, there would never have been a World War II. The decades leading up to that war were filled with international disarmament agreements. As See Sowell on 26

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in your life where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve experienced real stress or real tragedy, you probably stopped complaining about traffic and the weather. When we lose a loved one or get a scary diagnosis ourselves, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry about your bank account or your broken cell phone. The point here, I think is this: save the complaining for the real stuff and stop sweating the small stuff. Enjoy your life and enjoy all the days that have no real problems. Those days are blessings. There will be enough bad days in our lives, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not make the mundane ones bad, too.

1) Change your perspective. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to complain about small stuff. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even easier to complain about big stuff like work, finances, or relationships. Yet, if you think about times

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2) Recognize there are positive complaints. Most complaints are pointless and negative, but what if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been truly wronged. What if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the victim of a crime, fraud, or a bad product? These may be cases where logging a complaint can protect your interests or safety. The key here is to make your complaints goal and outcome oriented and not just for the sake of complaining. We need to save this type of complaining for when it is needed and not use it all the time.

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As a Laconia High school student in the 1950s, I would occasionally stop at my Dad’s place of employment, the Laconia Evening Citizen office on Beacon Street. As I entered through the front door, and before I turned to the left and went down the stairs to the news room, I often saw in the office straight ahead of me - my dad’s employer and publisher of the newspaper, Edward J. Gallagher. Mr. Gallagher was the founder and owner of the publication with the first edition being published on January 4, 1926. It should be noted that Mr. Gallagher was previously involved from its beginning in producing the Laconia Democrat newspaper. He died in 1978, but the Citizen continued to be published by his daughter Alma and son-in-law Lawrence Smith until 1991, and was published by others until its last edition came out on September 30, 2016. Those visits to the Citizen office and my observance of my Dad’s work (even trying to assist him in covering high school football games) allowed me to learn about the steps involved in the publishing of a newspaper. Watching the reporters do their job, the teletype machine printing out the latest news from national sources and the type-setter assemble the letters for the paper and operate the linotype machine. On one

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we have experienced the Korean Police Action, Viet Nam, and a 15 year non-war in the Middle East! “Neville Chamberlain served as British prime minister from 1937 to 1940, and is BEST KNOWN for his policy of ‘appeasement’ toward Adolf Hitler’s Germany. He signed the Munich Agreement in 1938, relinquishing a region of Czechoslovakia to the Nazis.” Does this loser remind you of any leader (non-participant) that we are familiar with? For 20+ years I have been verbally warning and writing about INCREMENTALISM. Very few people in the columnist/talk show hosts business discuss the possibility over the years –NOW the enemies of freedom, prosperity, and religion are “within”, as predicted many years ago! http://www.wcbm. com/2016/12/22/muslim-students-at-university-of-maryland-demand-prayer-rooms-inevery-major-building/ ******** There is another source written by a national name who appears weekly in The Weirs Times; Michelle Malkin; Her book “INVASION (2002) – How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and other foreign Menaces to Our Shores”. She knew! Sir Winston Churchill: “Everybody is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.” Source: Speech, House of Commons, 1943.

******** Thomas Jefferson: “To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, ‘by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only.’ Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.” It is a new time on the calendar, but we deplorables never rest in the effort to save our great country. God bless you and your families in this new year!

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merchandising new and used fig leaves. And he was still grinning. If your family tree has been pruned of pirates and horse thieves - although they make it much more interesting and you really give a hoot about it, you can trace your genealogy back to this ancient ancestor who busted the first good resolution into smithereens and passed his trait on down through the centuries. It’s kind of nice to have someone to blame for our shortcomings. There is nothing quite so effective in promoting resolutions as an icy glare from a mother-inlaw or a tightlipped, “You ought to be ashamed of yourself!” from the little woman as you grope in the refrigerator for the tomato juice on New Year’s Day. Looking into the mirror at a haggard face that stares back at you with bloodshot eyes or shuddering at the sound made by the handful of Alka Seltzers fizzing in your glass has a tendency to make one say, “Never again”. There is no tension quite like that of wondering just what you did do the night before and how soon it will be before the boom is lowered. Somehow those virtuous intentions fade as fast as the colors in a four-dollar shirt. I can remember resolutions that I made immediately after a tearful visit to the woodshed - and which I promptly forgot once my bottom stopped smarting and my britches stopped smoking. One such occasion came after a young minister stopped by to talk to us about a church that he was trying to establish in town. He was a tall skinny young fellow, sort of a skeleton with skin, with a lean and hungry look and mother invited him to stay for supper. She told father that the visitor looked as if he hadn’t eaten for a week. Father just grunted. While the three of them

were in the kitchen talking, I took advantage of the occasion to blow up my Whoopie Cushion and slide it under the cushion of the visitor’s chair. Mother bustled around and set the table and brought in the food and we all trooped in and took our places. As the minister sank into his chair there was a loud flatulent blat. The cleric jumped to his feet, blushing furiously as he stammered in embarrassment. The trip to the woodshed was a memorable one. Pete claimed that he heard me whooping it up way over at his house. Sent to my room where I slept on my stomach for a couple of nights I firmly resolved to have nothing more to do with the Whoopee Cushion. Three days later I was trying to figure a way to slip it under Miss Springer, our sixth-grade teacher. I remember the New Year’s Day that Uncle Fred swore off drinking. His resolution lasted until the middle of the afternoon when he decided that a little of the hair of the dog that bit him was the only thing that would help the condition he was in. It seemed that the Sons and Daughters of the Plow were having their annual New Year’s Ball at the town hall. The women, all trying to outcook one another, showed up with loads of food. Uncle Fred, who had been in and out of the cellar all day, showed up with a load, too. When Lem Snopes tuned up his fiddle and

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the waist. He tripped, all right, and it was fantastic. Rufus Tweeber and Doc Carver helped him out into the fresh air, somewhat against his will and watched him weave off towards his Model-T. Five minutes later he was back again. This time he cornered the Widder Hoskins under a bedraggled sprig of mistletoe left over from the Volunteer Fire Department’s Christmas party and tried to plant a kiss on her lips. Fortunately, his aim was poor. Unfortunately, hers was not. The Widder felt that she had a right to be left alone. She had a pretty good left too. The glare in Aunt Em-

ma’s eye was lethal as she escorted Uncle Fred from the hall with a firm grip, his right eye beginning to turn a purplish hue. His cronies were a little puzzled the next day when he showed up at the stable, a little sheepish and hung over, with both eyes blackened. When they encountered Aunt Emma at the village store and noticed the swollen knuckles on her right hand, they understood. Sometimes a man has to soar like an eagle and come down to earth like a gooney bird. It must be the old Adam in us.

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a narrow, open bookcase installed under the granite. Many books are just 6 or 8 inches deep, and this would not take up too much space. The bookcase wouldn’t have to be packed full of cookbooks, and if you do this, once again, there will be open space that helps satisfy your desire to keep the look sleek and simple. You’ll not lose a moment of sleep once you have support under that granite. My vote, in case it counts, is to go with the thin cabinet with the glass doors. I’d put a bunch of my colorful granite rock samples in it! Need an answer? All of Tim’s past columns are archived for free at www.AsktheBuilder.com. You can also watch hundreds of videos, download Quick Start Guides and more, all for free.

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that alligator! What are you, some kind of nut?” I retreated, more afraid of Wendy than the gator. Steve got a free drop. Sports Quiz What was the original nickname for the Oakland pro football franchise? (Answer follows) Born Today ... That is to say, sports standouts born on Dec. 29 include legendary Green Bay Packer middle linebacker Ray Nitschke (1936) and renowned MLB baseball executive Theo Epstein (1973). Sportsquote “Football is not a contact sport. It is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.” Michigan State football coach Duffy Daugherty Sportsquiz Answer A “Name the football team” contest in Oakland in April, 1960 resulted with the “Señors” as the top choice. Nine days later the owners arbitrarily changed the team’s nickname to “Raiders,” the contest’s third place finisher. Michael Moffett is a Professor of Sports Management for Plymouth State University and NHTI-Concord, while also teaching on-line for New England College. He co-authored the critically-acclaimed and award-winning “FAHIM SPEAKS: A WarriorActor’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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with domestic gun control laws, the agreements were followed by peaceful countries and ignored by belligerent countries that built up huge war machines, such as in Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. The net result was that the belligerent countries had every incentive to start wars, and that they inflicted devastating losses on the peaceful countries that had drastically curtailed their own military forces. Eventually the Western democracies got their act together and turned things around, after they belatedly beefed up their military forces. But thousands of lives were lost needlessly before that happened. World War II was in its third year before Western forces won a single battle. Undaunted by history, the same kind of thinking that had cheered international disarmament treaties in the 1920s and 1930s once again cheered Soviet-American

disarmament agreements during the Cold War. Conversely, there was hysteria when President Ronald Reagan began building up American military forces in the 1980s. Cries were heard that he was leading us toward nuclear war. In reality, he led us toward an end of the Cold War, without a shot being fired at the Soviet Union. But who reads history these days, or checks facts before leading the charge to keep law-abiding people disarmed? Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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Everybody on the planet wants input. You’ve got to get approvals from the city, the county, the state, satisfy federal regulatory requirements.” As a result, “You can’t grow, can’t build restaurants, can’t build a new Wal-Mart, that new office building if you can’t use the land, if you can’t get through the regulatory process.” Trump nominating someone who sees that problem is encouraging. I hope he surrounds himself with other people who love free markets, not just power. Another possibly good Trump appointee is Linda McMahon, his nominee to head the Small Business Administration. McMahon almost defeated Connecticut’s clueless socialist Sen. Richard Blumenthal in the 2010 Senate race. She calls herself a fiscal conservative, so I wish she’d won. But I hesitate to support her, since I once sued her and her husband for allegedly telling one of their giant actors to beat

me up because I pointed mail boat from 4 out that WWF wresting is lish as a second lanfake. Really. Google “Stos- guage in our schools. sel wrestler” and you’ll see Hellenic American what I mean. University is proud to But my main objection to launch a Teaching Engboth nominations is that lish to Speakers of Other we don’t need either agen- Languages (TESOL) procy! The SBA is wasteful fessional development cronyism. Federal bureau- program that combines crats have no clue which online courses and a small businesses deserve s u p e r v i s e d t e a c h i n g funding. practicum in a classLikewise, workers don’t room setting. need a Department of LaAll this, together with bor to set one-size-fits-all close faculty mentoring labor policies. Let competi- and academic support, tion set the rules. Employ- make this program a ers and workers will make smart choice to improve the choices and contracts our educational offerthat work best for each of ing, and get students on them. a path to success. I hope Andy Puzder and Together, we can help Linda McMahon take over retool our economy for the SBA and Labor Depart- a better future with new ment, then immediately thinking, a more diverse shut them down. population, and hard work. John Stossel is the author of “No They Can’t! Why John F. Slater, Ph.D. Government Fails — But Associate Professor Individuals Succeed.” For Hellenic American other Creators Syndicate University writers and cartoonists, Manchester, NH visit www.creators.com.

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demick School” he went to New Hampton Literary Institute from which he graduated. He then went to Dartmouth College, graduating in 1836. (Leavitt was another New Hampshire journalist.) Nicknamed “Long John” because of his 6’6” height, Wentworth became the managing editor of Chicago’s first newspaper, The Chicago Democrat, which led to him becoming the owner and publisher. This journalist became a lawyer and entered the political arena, first as a Democrat and later as a Republican. He was elected for six terms to the U.S. House of Representatives and for two terms as the Mayor of Chicago. Not forgetting his home town, when given the opportunity to change the name of a town in Illinois, the name he selected was Sandwich. On May 17, 1864, a baby boy was born to Moses and Emma Chandler in Landaff, New Hampshire, and he was named Harry. As a student at Dartmouth College Harry Chandler responded to a dare by jumping into a vat of starch that had been frozen over which led to him coming down with a severe case of pneumonia. With the goal of improving his health he moved to Los Angeles, California. He started a newspaper delivery service through which he met Los Angeles Times publisher Harrison Gray Otis who hired Chandler as the general manager of the newspaper. Harry married the daughter of

his boss and, when Otis died in 1917, he became the publisher of the paper, which became one of the leading newspapers in the country under his leadership. Harry Chandler added real-estate investing and community projects to his publishing vocation and has been described as “…the leading citizen of Los Angeles in the first half of the twentieth century.” He was involved in the building of the famous Hollywood sign. The Boston Post newspaper was also founded by a man who was born in New Hampshire. Charles Gordon Greene was born in Boscawen on July 1, 1804, but began his journalistic career in Massachusetts. He worked in several editing, managing and publishing positions there before going to Philadelphia in 1827,where he was involved in starting the National Palladium, and in 1828 was working for the United States Telegraph in Washington D.C. Returning to Boston, Charles Greene founded the Boston Post in 1831 and headed that newspaper until 1875. Belonging to the Democrat party he served in the Massachusetts Legislature. The one thing that I find most interesting that all these journalists had in common was they not only reported and commented on the news of their day, but were personally involved in the political process and accepting elected positions in government.

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