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Hans Hug, Jr. At Taylor Community

Major Step Forward For Capital Campaign At NH Boat Museum WOLFEBORO- Founded in 1992, the New Hampshire Boat Museum (NHBM) recently paid off the mortgage on 4-acres of waterfront property it purchased last year on Lake Winnipesaukee’s Back Bay in Wolfeboro. According to NHBM Executive Director Martha Cummings, this development is a major step forward in its Capital Campaign and builds off sev-

eral fairly recent “unseen accomplishments.” “We completed the initial site survey work last year, which resulted in our plot plan,” she said. “We then received a first ‘Special Use Permit for Parking and Water Management’ from the Town this past September. With these important steps now behind them, Cummings said the next See MUSEUM on 20

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Scuba Diver and History Buff Hans Hug, Jr. presents “Wrecks of Winnipesaukee,” Monday, Feb. 11 at 6:30 p.m. in Taylor Community’s Woodside Building. While the event is free is open to the public, seating is limited and reservations are required by calling Brenda at 3661226. Hug will show a brief video of one of his shipwreck dives, along with photographs and sonar images of wrecks. The event will last approximately 80 minutes, with plenty of time for questions. For 30 years, Hug has been an avid diver throughout New England, from the Connecticut River to Cape Cod. He has dived all over Lake Winnipesaukee, using sophisticated side scan sonar equipment. He has located more than 80 wrecks in the lake, including large pieces of the original steamer Mt. Washington.

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“New Hampshire Landscapes in Motion” – Exhibition of Oil Landscapes by Daryl D. Johnson Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce, 49 South Main Street, Concord. Mon. through Fri. 8:30am5pm. Described by ‘Art New England’ magazine as “…gestural realist landscapes with the overall effect of speeding through layers of lighted space,” Johnson’s oil paintings of landscapes are inspired by her motorcycle travels. The original oil paintings are awash with the energy of movement and nature with shifting patterns of water and rising transient clouds. www.DarylDJohnsonArtist. com or 431-4230 Through Sat. Feb 2nd

Mama Mia! Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. ABBA’s hits tell the story of a young woman’s search for her birth father. The sunny and funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter’s quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother’s past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago. Tickets run from $20 to $26 and are available online at www. RochesterOperaHouse.com or by calling 335-1992 Thursday 24th

Yin/Yang Restorative Yoga Class w/ Tekla Frates

Frates Dance Studio,171 Fair Street, Laconia. 10:30am. This class is for persons of all levels of experience. The sequence guides us through the most gentle movement and then settles us into deep stillness or propped asana. Just the right combination to rejuvenate and realign! Classes are $15pp. Join the YOurGA Facebook page to sign in to class ahead of time for a $5 discount!

Public Skating Merrill Fay Ice Arena, 468 Province Road, Laconia. 11:30am-12:30pm. Cost is $5pp. www.MerrillFayArena. com or 528-0789 Friday 25th

Journeyman & the Pettybreakers The Flying Monkey, South Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH. com or 569-2551

Public Skating Merrill Fay Ice Arena, 468 Province Road, Laconia. 11:30am-12:30pm. Cost is $5pp. www.MerrillFayArena. com or 528-0789 Saturday 26th

Snowshoe Yoga Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 10am-12pm. Hike for a bit to warm up, then enjoy a yoga class in your snowshoes outside i n t h e f r e s h a i r ! P l e a s e we a r boots and dress appropriately for the weather. Snowshoes will be available if you don’t have your own. $22.50/members, $17 for upgraded members, $25/non-members. www. PrescottFarm.org or 366-5695

Public Breakfast and Bake Sale

Masonic Building, 410 West Main Street, Tilton. 7-9:30am. Full breakfast including eggs cooked to order. $8 per person. 524-8268 for more info.

Jumble Sale

First Church, 63 South Main Street, Rochester. 7:30am-11am. Also known as an indoor yard sale! 332-1121

An Evening with Tom Rush The Flying Monkey, South Main Street, Plymouth. www.FlyingMonkeyNH. com or 569-2551

Let’s Go Lego!

Hall Memorial Library, 18 Park Street, Northfield. 10am-2pm. Create with Legos! Free and open to the public. 286-8971

Peacheaters and Truffle

Road, Meredith. The Winni Players kick off the 2019 season at The Winnipesaukee Playhouse with Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prizewinning play, “The Skin of Our teeth”. Tickets are available at www. WinnipesaukeePlayhouse.org or by calling 279-0333

FEBRUARY Friday 1st Comedy Night

Curlies Comedy Club, Downtown Rochester. Admission is $30 and helps support Downtown Rochester. Bar and kitchen open at 7pm. Show at 8:30pm. 21 years and older only/ Tickets at Curliescomedy.com. Saturday 2nd

Jean’s Playhouse, 34 Papermill Drive, Lincoln. 7:30pm. Feed your appetite for live top rock when the Peacheaters headline an all-music night at Jean’s! General admission tickets are $20pp, online advance recommended at www.JeansPlayhouse.com or as available at the door. 745-2141

Danbury Winter Farmers Market

Chili Cook-Off Challenge

Introduction To Animal Tracking

Laconia Harley-Davidson, Route 3, Meredith. Enter your best chili for a chance to win hot prizes, or just stop by to sample them all! V.I.P. Judges, cash bar and beer tasting! www. LaconiaHarley.com or 279-4526 Sunday 27th

Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon – Jazz Vocalist Giacomo Gates Center at Eastman, Grantham. 4pm7pm. Giacomo has been described as “the Dennis Hopper of vocal jazz”. Tickets range from $18 to $20. A bistro menu and full beverage selection is offered. www.JOSAJazz. com or 863-8000 Monday 28th

Public Skating Merrill Fay Ice Arena, 468 Province Road, Laconia. 11:30am-12:30pm. Cost is $5pp. www.MerrillFayArena. com or 528-0789 Tuesday 29th

Public Skating Merrill Fay Ice Arena, 468 Province Road, Laconia. 11:30am-12:30pm. Cost is $5pp. www.MerrillFayArena. com or 528-0789 Thursday 31st

Yin/Yang Restorative Yoga Class w/ Tekla Frates

Public Skating Merrill Fay Ice Arena, 468 Province Road, Laconia. 11:30am-12:30pm. Cost is $5pp. www.MerrillFayArena. com or 528-0789 Thurs. 31st – Feb. 3rd

Wilder’s “Skin of Our Teeth” Winnipesaukee Playhouse, Reservoir

Danbur y Grange Hall, 15 Nor th Road, Danbury. 9am-1pm. Great food, produce and crafts! There will also be FREE family art activity available. You bring the kids, we bring the supplies! The Danbury Market operates the first Saturday of the month through April. 768-5579 Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 1-3pm Tracks always tell a fascinating story Learn the basics of animal tracking on this interactive walk and gain the skills to better determine what our animal neighbors are up to in winter. $15 ($12 for members. Free for upgraded members. www. PrescottFarm.org or 366-5695

Music from the Movie in My Mind – Mike Walsh and his Invisible Band Rochester Perfor mance & Ar ts Center, 32 Nor th Main Street, Rochester. 7:30pm. Come enjoy a night of song and humor with Mike & company! Tickets are $12pp and will be available at the door. www. RochesterOperaHouse.com or 335-1992

Pot Luck Dinner and a Movie – Buster Keaton’s “Our Hospitality” Campton Historical Society, Old Town Hall, Route 175, Campton. Dinner from 5pm-6pm, movie at 6pm. For the Pot Luck dinner, please bring one of the following: Soup, Bread, Salad, Main Dish, Dessert or non-alcoholic beverages. New Hampshire-based musician and composer Jeff Rapsis will be taking his place to accompany the feature movie. He plays with no sheet music but makes up an accompanying score right on the spot with his state of the art digital synthesizer to recreate the texture of the full orchestra. Free and open to the public.

Dawnland StoryFest – Native American Storytelling Festival Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum, Warner. The purpose of the Dawnland StoryFest is to share traditional Native American stories during the heart of Winter Storytelling Season in an atmosphere that invites audience members to not only listen to these ancient and wonderful stories, but to also have the opportunity to learn about traditions associated with Native American storytelling while

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Chili & Beer Tasting Fundraiser at Castle Castle in the Clouds in Moultonborough hosts its second annual Chili and Beer Tasting fundraiser on Saturday, February 16 from 4-6 pm outdoors in the paved area in front of The Carriage House. Guests can enjoy sampling homemade chili and beer from ten local Lakes Region restaurants and breweries, plus spirits from Tamworth Distilling. A variety of chili will be served, including brisket, pork, andouille sausage, prime rib, beef, turkey, vegetarian, and vegan chilies, and more, with classic chili toppings available. Though the event is outdoors, The Carriage House will be open to guests to warm up and relax by the large hearth fireplace. “All proceeds from this event support 2019 Castle restoration projects, which consist largely of the restoration of the mansion’s north tower exterior and the sun parlor.” explains Development Coordinator and fundraising lead, Jill Cromwell. Tickets cost $25 per person, include a Castle in the Clouds tasting glass, and must be purchased by February 15th. To secure a ticket, please visit castleintheclouds.org or call 603-476-5900. This event is only for those 21 years of age or older. Castle Preservation Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, whose mission is to preserve, interpret, and share the buildings and landscape of Castle in the Clouds as a cultural resource for the benefit of the public. For more information, call 603-476-5900 or visit www.castleintheclouds.org.

Fleetwood Mac Tribute Coming to ROH The Rochester Opera House is proud to announce that Tusk (The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute) will perform at the historic theater on Saturday, February 23rd at 8pm. Tusk, The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute, is the #1 Tribute to Fleetwood Mac in the world, bar none! No wigs, no backing tracks, no gimmicks, just five musicians recreating the music of Fleetwood Mac to perfection with note for note renditions that no other Fleetwood Mac tribute on the touring scene today can come close to duplicating. Tickets, which range from $24 to $30, are available now to the general public. The Opera House box office is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10am to 5pm. Tickets can be purchased at www.rochesteroperahouse. com, by phone, and in person at the box office, located in Rochester City Hall.

“A Colored Man In Exeter” On Thursday, February 14, at 7 PM at the Rochester Historical Society Museum on Hanson Street, Michael Cameron Ward will answer questions and read from his book A Colored Man in Exeter, the first of four volumes in the collection Sketches of Lee. In the event of inclement weather the program will be held the following Thursday, February 21, at 7 PM. Ward says, “Traditionally black families have maintained their oral histories over generations. The Wards were no exception. So before he passed at age 94 on June 9th, 2015, my father Harold E Ward made a request. ‘Michael will you do me a favor? Please write down our family history. I want my Grand (7) and Great-Grandchildren (9) to know from whence they came.’ None of these stories have ever been told outside of our family. Some of them have an edge, some are funny, some are not, but all of them are real.” Admission is free and all are welcome to attend. Refreshments will follow the meeting. Ward will have books available for purchase. For more information please call 330-3099 or e-mail rochesterhistorical@metrocast.net.

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I got through it and I hope you did too. It will go down in history as the biggest “maybe” snowstorm so far this century. Having had many experiences with killer “maybe” snowstorms here in New Hampshire over the last few decades, I was ready. As the founder of F.A.T.S.O. (Flatlanders Adjusting To Solitary Oblivion) a winter support group to help new transplants adjust to their first winters here, I was also prepared to give advice to the many who would be calling me about getting ready for the “maybe” snowstorm. “You will need to get to the store and buy as much bread, milk and eggs as humanely possible so you will survive,” I told them. “With just these three things you can make it through any “maybe” snowstorm. As soon as I heard those first forecasts I knew I was in for a busy time, not just making sure myself and my loved ones survived, but also doing all I could to help those without a clue. “This storm hasn’t even formed yet in the Pacific Ocean, but it might bring two feet or more here in northern New England,” said the forecaster. There was no doubt about it, having not even formed yet and having really no clue to what might actually befall us, I knew this system had all of the makings of one of the most terrifying “maybe” snow-

ror as the initial predictions seemed true. There was something out there, something forming along the West Coast and it was heading our way. Something big might happen. Soon it was creeping across the Midwest and heading straight to us. But, this time we had plenty of warning. We had enough time to react appropriately. Get our affairs in order (not to mention milk, bread and eggs.) The calls came in to F.A.T.S.O., as expected, and I did my best to keep people calm as I explained there was plenty of time before this “maybe” snowfall was going to hit. The scenes in the stores were more orderly. Shopping carts full, but no major disruptions. There seemed to be plenty of staples for everyone. We all would be able to survive that crucial eighteen to twenty-four hour ordeal without any disruption to our caloric intake. Of course, like many other “maybe” snowstorms, it turned out to be less than expected. We had survived what could have been and all lived to see another day. Still, we didn’t let that stop us. We will still tune in for that next weather report, we won’t let our guards down. There is always the possibility something might happen. There will be more “maybe” snowstorms before this winter is over, more fronts developing somewhere that might turn into something and we will be ready for them. Maybe, just maybe.

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storms we have seen in decades, or at least since weathermen first walked the planet. We have all heard stories of some of the famous “maybe” snowstorms of days gone by. Stories passed down by our ancestors and the guy at the convenience store. There was the famous “maybe” snowstorm of ’96 when the local television weatherman, using detecting equipment in its infancy, told us we might get as much as twenty-five inches with snow falling at the rate of two inches an hour at times within the next twenty-four hours. It was unexpected and it set off a wide scale panic. There wasn’t much time. The supermarkets and hardware stores couldn’t keep up with the demand. People flooded the stores, afraid that they might be trapped in their homes for a full day to, God forbid, a day and a half, without ever seeing civilization and running out of precious bread, milk and eggs. Of course, only eight inches fell, but the damage was done. Neighbor against neighbor, fighting for the last bag of Cheetos at the local supermarket and sacrificing all dignity to grab that last giant bottle of Diet Coke. It was a hard lesson for all of us. Over the years, weather detecting equipment became more sophisticated and now the weather people can give us forecasts of “maybe” snowstorms up to a week in advance, giving us all time to prepare for what might possibly be. Still, no one could remember a “maybe” snowstorm forecast as dire as the one last week. It was anywhere from a foot to three feet of snow, depending on where you lived. (God help those in the higher elevations.) We all watched in hor-

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Top Valentine’s Day Candy Valentine’s Day is about love and romance and spending money to demonstrate them. Last year, the National Retail Federation predicted a slight drop off in in Valentine’s Day spending in all but one category. You guessed it: candy. As Valentine’s indulgences go, candy is a relatively inexpensive one. It’s also

become a tradition to give, share and eat candy on Valentine’s Day. That could be why people are expected to spend over $1.8 Billion this year. Using sales data from the past 11 years from our online bulk candy store and industry partners, CandyStore.com has compiled sales data to determine the most popular Valentine’s

Cupid Corn Falling Off

Candy corn didn’t do as well. It finished in the #3 spot three fewer times and in the #2 one fewer. Still hanging on in North Carolina, West Virginia and Michigan, among a few other. This bucks a trend we saw for the Christmas season where candy corn and its seasonal variants saw increased sales.

Day candy. Conversation Hearts Top Valentines Candy in 2018

Conversation hearts have been rising in popularity for years, but they were always stuck behind those heartshaped boxes of chocolates. That all changed last year when conversation hearts rose above the heart boxes to claim the top spot. That trend has continued this year, as conversation hearts stretch their lead. M&M’s Moving Up

M&M’s cracked more top 3 spots in 2018 than the previous year.

Since introducing the Cupid’s Message M&M’s in 2017, we’ve seen a rise in M&M’s sales for Valentine’s Day. Though M&M’s did not claim any new #1 spots for any states, it did claim 3 more #2 spots and 5 more #3 spots. It’s not easy to crack the top three with conversation hearts and heart-shaped boxes taking up so many spots. Nice work M&M’s. Perhaps the limited re-introduction of White Cheesecake M&M’s will help boost them even more for the 2019 season.

Valentine’s Day Candy Quick Facts

43% of people said they will buy themselves a box of chocolates this year. 58 million pounds of chocolate are bought during Valentine’s Day week. The peak selling period for conversation hearts is only 6 weeks long. It takes manufacturers 11 months to produce enough for those 6 weeks. Vodka infused with candy remained popular with conversation hearts last year. Children receive 39 percent of all Valentine’s Day candy and gifts.

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We were in the big Argonne forest, which is about 25 miles deep, and we did it all in 11 days. We had thrown away our packs and all the first day we got what sleep we could in shell holes, which were full of water and mud. The rain fell all the time and it was very cold. We had very little food, and never had a hot drink for two weeks. The Boche fought hard and when we came out we had 47 men left from 130 or more. The other three squads of my platoon were wiped out and my squad had the corporal and four men, so you see how lucky I was. In the afternoon of the 7th, we drove ‘Jerry’ out of the woods and onto the plains, where we established our line. We were relieved that night by another division. We hiked all that night and part of the next day, until we met our kitchen, where we had our first hot meal in two weeks. I was about starved and dying for a drink, as most of the water in the woods

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Those of us who have never seen action in military battles can only imagine what it would be like based on the accounts of those who have been there and done that. From my perspective little has been done during the last four years to show appreciation for those who fought for our country and state in an effort to bring peace to the world during World War I. So here’s my effort to give a little recognition to the brave men who fought in that war by passing on most of the content of a letter printed in the Littleton, NH, Courier in 1918 which Private Herbert Phillips wrote to his Aunt Lois detailing his service in France. It was written at Camp Merritt, New Jersey, on December 14, 1918.

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The Covington Rorschach Test Sometimes, a three-point c e l e b r a tion is just a three-point c e l e b r a tion. Sometimes, a pep rally is just a pep rally. by Michelle Malkin Sometimes, a Syndicated Columnist smile is just a smile. And sometimes, a hat is just a hat. Only among the most deranged partisans could a universal sports ritual, a common high school activity, a typical teen face and patriotic headgear be construed as evil symbols of patriarchal oppression. These, however, are the soulsapping, lunacy-inducing times in which we live. Nobody loses their marbles when black NBA stars make the universal “OK” gesture with one hand. Or two. Or when the elite athletes hold up the sign to the sky, turn two of them into triumphant eye goggles, stir the pot, sweep the floor or dramatically holster their finger-trios like weapons. It’s all in good fun. But when reputation-destroying agitators plundered the photo collection of the Covington Catholic High School basketball team in search of evidence to bolster their prefabricated narrative that the white Kentucky boys must, must, must be unrepentant bigots, the three-point celebration transmogrified into menacing proof of R-A-C-I-S-M. Liberal pot-stirrers tweeted celebrities and journalists an image purporting to show that the Covington kids -- still under siege after being slandered last week at the March for

Life rally by Native American agitator Nathan Phillips -- had flashed white supremacy signs. The teens were pictured on the sidelines of a basketball court in their uniforms, paying tribute to a teammate who had just scored. No, they did not hail him with Hitler salutes, but with the innocuous three-point, A-OK sign. Undeterred by basketball fans who futilely tried to explain the actual meaning of the hand gesture, monomaniacal leftwing detectives marked all the Covington athletes’ fingers with cuckoo red-font circles and disseminated their fevered forensic analysis across social media with enraged captions, including this one sent to the pope: “This is the All White hand sign. This is Covington Catholic school. Is this what they teach at this Catholic school? Is this how Jesus wanted it?” Comedienne-turned-decapitation fetishist Kathy Griffin gleefully attacked the boys, tweeting “Covington’s finest throwing up the new nazi sign.” The New York Daily News and U.K. Daily Mail compounded the delusional smear with sensational headlines claiming Covington basketball players had taunted a black opponent while in “blackface.” Quelle horreur! In truth, internet trolls had ripped a screenshot from the team’s video montage of pep rallies -- where students had dressed up as nerds, businessmen and Hawaiians or painted themselves blue, white and (gasp!) black at various competitions. It’s not racism. It’s athletic boosterism. An alum, Ryan Toler, tried to

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Factually Incorrect Cannot Be Morally Correct A few weeks ago, the Fresh Face of the Democratic Party, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., gave one of the great defenses by Ben Shapiro in the history Syndicated Columnist of politics. Accused of fibbing and twisting facts to meet her radical agenda, Ocasio-Cortez explained, “I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually and semantically correct than about being morally right.” Her statement was widely derided. But it is indeed the mantra of today’s politics. The narrative must be preserved at all costs -even the cost of the truth. Take, for example, OcasioCortez’s ridiculous statements this week on the state of modern America. She explained that her plan to radically restructure the American economy is necessitated

by the fact that “the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.” She added: “And your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it? And like, this is the war -- this is our World War II.” Now, put aside her Nostradamus-like assertion regarding the incoming apocalypse. The important part followed: “How are we saying, ‘Take it easy,’ when the America that we’re living in today is so dystopian with people sleeping in their cars so they can work a second job without health care and we’re told to settle down.” Now, when President Trump describes America as a dystopia rife with crime and suffering, the media point out that America is hardly a hellhole -- we’re the most prosperous country in the history of the world. But when the charming AOC uses her false depiction of America to press for higher marginal tax rates, we’re supposed to buy her story. This gap between the facts and

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Latin America & U.S. Put Political Squeeze on Venezuela Regime liance.” Indeed it’s better that political and economic pressures on Maduro come from fellow Latin Amer-

ican countries than directly from the USA. The reason is simple; the Venezuelan regime wishes to

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Harper’s Folly Had he not been eaten, the boy who cried “Wolf!” would have grown up to be a meteorologist. Winter storm “Harper” was a bust. Preby Ken Gorrell dictions of 1-2 Contributing Columnist feet of snow made over days as the storm approached and repeated hours before it hit were off by a factor of four. Long after it was obvious to anyone looking out a window that we weren’t going to get accumulations approaching a foot the weather-hype continued. Perhaps Aesop’s fable of the ill-fated shepherd boy should be taught at metrological school. Back before snow storms were given names (when we just called it “winter in New Hampshire”) predications were often wrong. But they weren’t so misleading. There seems to be little relationship between advances in weather predicting technologies – satellites, doppler radar, computer models – and accuracy, especially for major weather events. Being a cynic, I think the monetary motive is at play here. Big news drives viewership. Twentyfour-hour weather channels need their equivalent of “If it bleeds it leads” to pique viewer interest and drive ad revenue. And as we’ve seen in the news business, there is little downside to getting the story spectacularly wrong. “Look – a squirrel!” and last week’s transgression is forgotten, no forgiveness required. But I’m not a total cynic. I recognize that mathematical models of complex systems like weather have limits, regardless of the modeler’s intentions. Predictions are just that – forecasts of a possible future based on available data and

experience. And when people’s lives could be at stake, it is better to err on the side of caution. Nobody wants a school bus full of kids skidding off into a snowbank. We all understand the limits of weather prediction because we live it in near-real time and can adjust our behaviors accordingly. The downside of closing school for a day or postponing a sales meeting simply isn’t that great. But when the downside includes wasting hundreds of billions of tax dollars, diverting resources away from pressing needs today to “fix” an unknowable future, hobbling our economy in the process and consigning millions of Americans to unemployment lines, the cost of being wrong is unacceptable. Yet that’s exactly what the bullies of “settled science” climate change advocate. In current parlance, “climate change” is a poor short-hand for the evidence-free faith that mankind’s Industrial-Age release of carbon dioxide is going to destroy the planet unless SOMETHING DRASTIC IS DONE NOW! We’ve been reading these predictions for decades, seeing deadlines come and go. Since nothing drastic has been done, the calamities that didn’t happened are excused away, pushed out to just over the horizon because of some new magic (like the “ocean heat sink” theory) that explains away previous failures. The cartoonish Representative from NY’s 14th Congressional District (dubbed by one clear-thinking pundit as “Occasional-Cortex”) uttered yet another climate-change inanity last week that deserves to be quoted in full: “I think that the part of it that is generational is that millennials and Gen-Z and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we’re like, ‘The world is going to See GORRELL on 16

tator” and joined the USA to press the Caracas regime for democratic transformation. “Our cooperation with Argentina on the Venezuelan question is the clearest example of a convergence of positions and shared values,” Bolsonaro said. Later, Argentina’s Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie stated that the only legally constituted power in Venezuela was the oppositionrun Congress. Indeed this freely elected but sidelined National Assembly has become a counterweight of legitimacy to President Maduro’s strong-arm socialist system. Both Macri and Bolsonaro agreed “to defend freedom and the recovery of democracy in Venezuela.” We reaffirm our condemnation of Maduro’s dictatorship. We will not accept this affront to democracy,” President Macri told the media in Brazil. He added forcefully, “The international community has already recognized that Maduro is a dictator who seeks to stay in power through fictitious elections, imprisoning opponents and leading Venezuelans into a desperate situation.” In the wider context, the Argentina/Brazil meeting was all about expanding cooperation and co-ordinating the strategic clout between South America’s two largest countries on political and economic matters. The daily newspaper La Prensa headlined, “An Indispensable Al-

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as Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia. More importantly China and Russia are major political backers of Maduro. The United States has been a strong and consistent supporter of Venezuela’s independent National Assembly and its leader Juan Guaido, (35 years old) as “the last vestige of democracy.” Significantly in this dramatic showdown with Maduro, the opposition leader Juan Guaido has declared himself interim president of the bankrupt but oil-rich socialist state. The move was supported and subsequently recognized by the United States, Canada, most South American countries and the Organization of American States. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo offered Washington’s political recognition to Juan Guaido’s interim government adding, “The Venezuelan people have suffered long enough under Nicolas Maduro’s disastrous dictatorship. We call on Maduro to step aside in favor of a legitimate leader reflecting the will of the Venezuelan people.”

The weathervane of Venezuela’s political fate depends on whether Maduro’s military and security police stay loyal to the regime or begin to fragment. The specter of wider violence looms as tensions are running high as political polarization hardens. Secretary Pompeo stated forcefully, “The new Venezuelan government carries the flame of democracy on behalf of Venezuela.” The hinge of fate will determine whether the flames of civil conflict will soon ignite. Consequently, Nicolas Maduro should voluntarily step down and allow for truly free, fair, and internationally monitored elections. Can dialogue pull Venezuela back from the brink? Hopefully so before it’s too late. John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations; Germany, Korea, China.

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end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,’ and your biggest issue is– your biggest issue is, ‘How are we going to pay for it?’” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And, like, this is the war; this is our World War II.” If Guinness creates a world record for “Most Wrong Human on Earth” AOC would surely be a contender. But she joins a decades-long line of people making insanely wrong predictions on climate change and the consequences that will befall us. My personal favorite is Al Gore’s 2008 Nostradamian “The entire North polar ice cap may well be completely gone in 5 years.” Weather is not climate but predicting each requires models – complex mathematical representations of systems we don’t understand nearly well enough. Weather systems have far fewer unknown variables than our global climate system, and weather predictions are of much shorter duration. The fact that climate-doomsdayers keep finding new magic to add to their model as each prediction fails is proof that their science is anything

but “settled.” Models are only useful if they provide predictive accuracy. Weather models with their near-real-time feedback are useful, with caveats. Climate models that purport to predict global temperature increases to a tenth of a degree over decades using limited historic “temperature” data derived largely from ice core samples and tree rings are beyond useless. When used as political weapons, they are dangerous. Global climate is changing – and has been since before man discovered fire. Scientists simply don’t have a way of making meaningful – i.e., provable – predictions about it. Until they do, demands that we significantly alter how we live are not supportable scientifically. Such demands are based on cultish faith and monetary self-interest. There’s money being made in being wrong about the climate. On second thought, maybe the boy who cried “Wolf!” would have grown up to be a government-funded climatologist.

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These programs and experiences, she said, are for people of all ages. “Boating attracts people for different reasons,” she noted. “It could be for speed, peace, fish, nature, or for exercise and fun. The New Hampshire Boat Museum helps to not only peel back the layers of a lifestyle that is distinctly American, it provides people with opportunities to experience boating in unique and memorable ways.” Founded in 1992 by antique and classic boating enthusiasts, NHBM is committed to inspire people of all ages with an understanding of, and appreciation for, the boating heritage of New Hampshire’s fresh waterways. To learn more about NHBM, or its Capital Campaign, visit nhbm.org.

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the narrative dominates our politics. Here’s how the narrative chain works: Somebody makes a fact-free accusation of X, which supports the more general narrative, Y, supported by the political left or right. Opponents debunk X. That attempt to debunk X is taken as evidence that opponents don’t take the problem of Y seriously enough. Facts are marshaled to show that Y is true, even if X isn’t. In a peculiar way, the lack of facts to back X lends passion to those who defend Y -- it allows them to malign the motives of those who don’t defend Y. Let’s take an example. The students of Covington Catholic High School are accused of mobbing

and mocking a Native American veteran. This incident supports the broader narrative that Trump supporters, religious Americans and young white men are emissaries of racism and toxic masculinity. Then it turns out that the video has been taken wildly out of context and deliberately misinterpreted. Many advocates of the narrative immediately declare that while this incident is a poor example, the overall narrative is true -- and that leaping to conclusions will be justified next time, in order to prove that the overall narrative ought to be taken seriously. The only price: whomever is next maligned without facts. This pattern will continue

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Puzzle Clue: CONTINUING ED ACROSS 1 Shred 6 To another country 12 Buster Brown’s dog 16 Mexican article 19 University of Maine’s city 20 News anchor Katie 21 Arduous task 22 Not be idle 23 Discoverer of Uranus ... and “The Office” co-star 26 Spoil 27 “Orinoco Flow” singer 28 Sea, to Luc 29 Buenos -30 Commanded 31 PCs on planes, often 33 Long-range German gun of WWI ... and “Apollo 13” Oscar nominee 37 Letter #3 38 Bern’s river 39 To the extent that 40 1975 Wimbledon winner ... and “Shape of You” singer 47 German article 48 U.S. architect I.M. 49 Pet treaters 50 Slaughter with a bat 52 Abnormal plant swelling 56 Schindler with a list 58 Deputy of an envoy ... and old CBS variety show host 63 Ballpark gate 64 Explorer Hernando de -65 Rose color 66 Klee output 67 Bistro bills 68 Olay product ... and

“My Cup Runneth Over” singer 73 Sheriff AndyTaylor’s tyke 74 Coach Parseghian 75 -- polloi 76 “T.N.T.” rock band 77 Game venue 78 Officer played by Phil Silvers ... and 1970s-’80s New York City mayor 84 2006 Sacha Baron Cohen film 85 Nobelist Arafat 86 Celine of song 87 Many a repo 89 Poetic form 90 Holiday drink 92 Left-leaning slant ... and “Lou Grant” star 97 “Hips Don’t Lie” singer 101 -- Grey 102 Special span 103 Large, hooded snake ... and “60 Minutes” reporter for 26 years 107 Cited as evidence 111 Ship sailing past sirens 112 “-- Less Ordinary” 113 Suffix with 66-Across 114 Liquefy 115 Rolodex no. 116 Money from investments ... and Reagan cabineteer 121 Previous to 122 Jib holder 123 “No clue” 124 Whoop it up 125 Berlin-to-Prague dir. 126 “-- girl!” (“All right!”) 127 Unboastful 128 Pastoral verse

DOWN 1 Disk at the end of a spur 2 “Three Sisters” sister 3 61-Down producer 4 Open, as a shutter 5 Luau paste 6 Peaks 7 Nobelist Niels 8 Long to undo 9 NHL’s Bobby 10 “-- for Alibi” 11 1983 Mr. T comedy 12 “-- is human ...” 13 Bays, e.g. 14 Detective, slangily 15 Suffix with priest 16 Hedy of film 17 National park in Maine 18 Italicize, e.g. 24 Electrical current unit 25 Move quickly 30 Soccer star Chastain 32 Body of work 33 “Harrumph!” 34 Rage 35 “Oh wow!” 36 Off course 38 Birthplace of St. Francis 40 Desertion of one’s faith 41 Highway pull-off 42 Polynesian-themed lounges 43 Quad bike, e.g. 44 Classic car 45 Actress Blyth 46 Turndowns 51 “Of course!” 53 1996 role for Madonna 54 Steeping sauce 55 Snacker on termites 57 Capone and Unser 59 Dupe

60 Plus more: Abbr. 61 Reef stuff 62 Guitar pioneer Paul 68 “-- wise guy, eh?” 69 Caring 70 Martin Luther opponent Johann 71 Hoopla 72 Actress Mitzi 73 Gold, in Italy 75 Daring 77 On deck, say 79 Tree with fan-shaped leaves 80 Up to, in ads 81 Young male, in hiphop 82 Having five sharps 83 Central point 88 Joined with 91 React to, as a bad pun 93 Moray, e.g. 94 “Norma --” 95 Suffix with compliment 96 Fried quickly 97 Glides on ice 98 Job opening fillers 99 He directed “Life of Pi” 100 Most adept 104 Gaucho rope 105 Mali’s cont. 106 Kin of khaki 107 Natty tie 108 ‘Vette, e.g. 109 Atelier tripod 110 Reflect (on) 113 Rural hotels 116 Thurman of “Prime” 117 Tokyo, once 118 Fizzling thing 119 Opal finish? 120 Hosp. scan

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spitting blood, so they shipped me off to the gas hospital at Rambluzin as a bad bet. I guess they thought me a worse one there, for two hours later they loaded me up again and sent me to Souilly. At Souilly I was put on a Red Cross train and went to Bordeaux,landing there the 4th. I had good doctors there and got better right away. Inside a couple of weeks I could see again and speak. By now I am fine and you would hardly know I was burned at all. I am thankful that my face was not burned. They treat us fine here and I am getting fat again. I hope to leave soon and hope above all things to be with you Christmas. Guess I’ve been longwinded enough today, so will close with love to you all.” HERBERT PHILLIPS

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within their own ranks. They didn’t stop after falsely accusing Zina Gelman Bash, a Jewish Mexican-American lawyer, of flashing a white supremacy sign at a Senate confirmation hearing last fall for her friend Judge Brett Kavanaugh. They didn’t stop after the liberal white zealots of the Southern Poverty Law Center falsely labeled famed neurosurgeon and Trump Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and anti-jihad activist Maajid Nawaz “extremists.” They didn’t stop after hysterically spreading campus hate crime fakery cooked up at my alma

mater Oberlin College, where excitable nitwits claimed a student walking around with a blanket wrapped around her was a lurking racist in a KKK hood; at Michigan State University, where a “noose” turned out to be a lost shoelace; or at Bowling Green State University, where a purported group of Klansmen turned out to be lab equipment covered with a white cloth. They didn’t stop after attacking my Catholic high school alma mater, Holy Spirit High School in Absecon, N.J., four years ago, when a decades-old tradition of basketball fans dressing up in goofy costumes

was falsely portrayed by USA Today as racism because students wore monkey pajamas and a giant banana (others wore a green ballerina tutu, a bumblebee suit, a jack-o’-lantern outfit and “Wizard of Oz” get-ups). The Covington hoax is more than just the epitome of fake news. It’s a cultural Rorschach test that measures the impact of Trump-hating confirmation bias on the viewer’s intellectual honesty and emotional stability. Those calling to protest, dox, stalk or kill the MAGA hat-wearing Covington kids and their families over a selectively edited video planted by a foreign instigator prove,

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