06/02/2022 Weirs Times by The Weirs Publishing Company

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Forming Bonds At Live & Let Live Farm by Scott Philbrick Live And Let Live Farm

As I sit here writing this update for Live and Let Live Farm Rescue & Sanctuary in Chichester, it is the 30th anniversary of my father’s passing. Each year on this day, I set that entire day aside for doing nothing. Which, I might add, is quite different from simply “not doing anything.” Today however, I’ve made an exception and broken my own rule. I’m sitting at the Circle Diner in Epsom, NH having lunch with LLLF

Founder and long time Executive Director Teresa Paradis, going over the material for this very article. It’s always emotional to discuss the rescues, the victories as well as the heartbreakers, but this one was especially moving, and quite apropos for having violated my selfimposed homage to my father. When I turned twentyfive, I felt it was a time for introspection on my young life, deciding to compare my father’s life to mine at age twentySee LLLF on 19

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To The Editor: When Congress passed the STOCK Act in 2012, the law was supposed to stop congressional insider trading, improve transparency, and increase public trust in the legislative branch. But it didn’t go far enough. Recently, the news outlet Insider identified that many members of Congress have failed to properly report their stock trades, making it impossible to fully enforce the STOCK Act. We must go further and stop sitting members of Congress from buying and selling stocks altogether. That’s the best way to make sure that our elected representatives are responsive to our needs and not thinking about how a particular policy might affect their stock portfolio. Thankfully, there are several proposals before Congress to address this problem. I urge our leaders in Congress to come together and pass legislation for the good of the American people. Lisa Clark New Hampton, NH,

What To Do? To The Editor: We need to do this..., we need to do that…, we need to do something. Those were opening statements made by law enforcement officers, medical first responders, educators, politicians, media commentators and victimized family members following the horrific school shootings

at the Columbine High School in 1999 and the Sandy Hook elementary School in 2012. Similarly, we have heard those statements following every other mass shooting and now hear them repeated in reaction to the recent tragic murders at a Texas elementary school. Within a few hours following the Sandy Hook School crime, Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal went before national media to condemn National Rifle Association President Wayne LaPierre as having responsibility for that tragedy and stressed “We need to have stricter gun control laws”. Over the next two years the Connecticut Legislature enacted new gun control measures however, law enforcement personnel and firearms experts noted that had those laws been in effect at the time, they would not have prevented the killer Adam Lanza from committing the crime at the Sandy Hook School. When Connecticut legislatures were confronted with that fact they responded “Well we had to do something”. Not surprising, when the facts came out following the Sandy Hook School crime it became apparent that Adam Lanza had a long history of psychological problems and was infatuated with a violent on-line game called “Kindergarten Killer”. Viewing that game before it was pulled off the internet I found that Adam Lanza acted out the script exactly as portrayed in that game. Following a federal investigation into the Columbine High School tragedy in 1999 NPR

radio interviewed an FBI agent involved with producing the report. After his presentation of the facts found, the interviewer asked “Don’t you think there needs to be more gun control laws”. The agent stated that the two young men that committed the crime violated over onehundred and twenty gun control laws already on the books and noted that more gun control laws would not have made a difference since the criminals obviously don’t follow the laws. He also emphasized the facts that both of these young men had previously stated intent to commit violent actions on school mates, demonstrated disturbing psychological behaviors and regularly engaged in playing violent video games. The most violent mass murders ever committed in the United States were conducted by flying airplanes into large populated buildings in 2001 and exploding a truck bomb filled with a mixture of agricultural fertilizer and diesel fuel next to a Federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995. Murders are committed regularly by various forms of weapons. While politicians and media commentators stress their opinions on the need for more gun control legislation, problems dealing with mental illness, failure to enforce current gun laws, failures in communication between different divisions of law enforcement and lax policies for dealing with people demonstrating violent behavior go on. While new gun laws will no doubt be the prime subject deSee MAILBOAT on 27

Our Story

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History Of Page Pond At Meredith Historical Society The Meredith Historical Society is pleased to announce its upcoming program on June 7th“Meredith’s Page Pond Community Forest- A History Tour” The program will be presented by John Hopper, Ph.D. John is the author of several books on local history and heads up the Research Committee of the Society. John will provide insights into the evolving history of the Meredith Neck area up to the present day establishment of this one-of-a-kind Town Forest. Many significant cultural features on the property will be highlighted including the Bickford homestead and the historic Page Pond Mill Dam. The presentation on June 7th will be at the Meredith Community Center, 1 Circle Drive. Doors open at 6:30pm for light refreshments. The program begins at 7pm Masks are optional and will be available at the event. All programs of the Society are free and all are welcome! For more information about the Meredith Historical Society and a complete schedule of upcoming programs please visit us on Facebook or our web site at www.meredithhistoricalsocietynh.org As a follow-up to the Meredith Historical Society’s program, the Meredith Conservation Commission will be providing a guided on-site tour of the Page Pond Community Forest on Saturday, June 11th at 10am. Participants on the Saturday tour will have an opportunity to see some of the historical features that will be discussed at the June 7th program. Tour participants should meet at the Barnard Ridge Parking and plan for a 1-mile hike.

On Saturday, June 4, 11:00am to 1:00m, the Laconia-Gilford Lions Club joins with the Green Sanctuary Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Laconia for their latest drive to collect clean soft plastics. Our volunteers will be curbside in front of the little while church at 172 Pleasant Street in Laconia. Our greater Laconia community is doing an awesome job collecting these plastics and keeping them out of our landfills. Thank you. We ARE collecting plastic grocery bags, vegetable bags, bubble wrap, newspaper sleeves, bread bags, air packing bags, ice bags, dry cleaning bags, wood pellet bags, cereal box liners, and plastic films labeled with #2 or #4 recycling symbols. We can no longer accept pet food bags and we are NOT accepting hard plastic items. What we collect is sent to Trex Corporation in Maine via the Hannaford’s in Gilford to be repurposed into composite decking and outdoor furniture. Consider setting up a neighborhood collection box. Laconia High School Interact Club and Prescott Farm have collection boxes as does the Taylor and Wesley Woods communities. Our thanks to all of them and also to St. Vincent de Paul as well as everyone else who has helped with this on-going program.

The New Hampshire Jewish Food Festival Celebrates 25 Years - The New Hampshire Jewish Food Festival will be open accepting online orders beginning on June 1 and continuing to June 30 with pickup, by appointment, on July 22, 23, or 24. Temple B’nai Israel is excited to announce Laconia Village Bakery will be supplying freshly baked rye bread, seeded or unseeded options, to make sandwiches with the deli meats from Evan’s NY Style Deli. Along with the usual array of homemade Jewish foods that the Lakes Region has come to enjoy, the menu has been expanded to include halva, a sweet middle eastern treat, homemade Israeli salad, and reimagined recipes on several old favorites such as matzah ball soup and traditional rugalach, a sweet crescent shaped cookie. Quantities are limited so don’t wait to order. Visit the temple website, www.tbinh.org, beginning June 1.

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Franklin Opera House welcomes The New England Irish Harp Orchestra Saturday 04 June 2022 at 2:00pm. Franklin Opera House is hosting a FREE concert to say “Thanks” to its loyal members, supporters, and community. A dozen or more harps on one stage is a visual treat, and the Orchestra’s performance of traditional Irish tunes and original pieces is sure to delight your senses and fill your heart. NEIHO is a lively band of harpers who love creating Celtic music together, with a shared vision of playing great music and having fun doing it. This energetic group plays Celtic harp music all over New England. Seats can be reserved online at www.FranklinOperaHouse.org; otherwise, general seating will be available beginning at 1:30 p.m. Franklin Opera House is located within historic Franklin City Hall, 316 Central Street in downtown Franklin, NH.

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I recently turned my FRA. For those of you youngsters who don’t know what I am talking about, let me clue you in on by Brendan Smith what a FRA is Weirs Times Editor and what to expect when you get older. FRA stands for Full Retirement Age, but it has nothing at all to do with retirement. At least for me anyway. Full Retirement Age (FRA) is a random age that the government assigns that allows you to get back some of the money each month that you have been giving to them over the past several decades whether you liked it or not. You might also know it as Social Security. Reaching your FRA means that you can collect your full Social Security payout while still working without them keeping some as a penalty for continuing to work. But you will likely still have to give them some of it back come tax time, since you kept working, so they will have enough money to give you back some of the money that you have been giving them over the past several decades so that you can give them a little bit more of it back at tax time again. Make sense? My FRA was sixty-six years and two months which I reached a few months ago. So today, I am the FRA that someone born a couple of years after me would need to be in order to get back some of the money they have been giving to the government over the last several decades so that they can give them back some of it next April if they continue to work. Follow? I must admit I was pretty

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excited to get my first official Social Security check that I had patiently waited years and months to get. I could have started collecting Social Security when I was a mere lad of sixty-two when only one knee hurt. I did consider this, dreaming of spending this extra cash on so many things that only required one good knee. But if you are still working at sixty-two, you may feel you don’t have quite enough savings to retire since you had to give so much money to the government over the years so they would have enough money to give you back some of it every month when you reached your FRA. On the other hand, if you are still working, collecting Social Security at sixty-two might give you enough money to make up for the taxes they are taking out to give back to you in your Social Security payments. So, when the big day came when my first Social Security check was about to hit my bank account since I had waited patiently to reach my FRA, I turned on my laptop, signed into my bank account and there it was as promised (One of the few promises the government actually keeps… for now.) I look ed at the nu mbers staring me in the face and thought… “That’s it? That’s all your gonna give me?” So, I closed my laptop and headed to work so that I could earn another paycheck that would have some more money taken out of it so that I could keep on looking at my bank account each month and say… “That’s it? That’s all you are gonna give me?” Of course, as some will point out, this is my own fault. I could have kept having money taken out of my paycheck each week until I reached the age of seventy, which is when you can

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collect the maximum monthly Social Security paycheck. Of course, by then it will not be just both knees that have given out, but also your lower back as well as the loss of any desire to travel or do anything fun with the money since you’ve been watching the news way too much and the safest thing it seems to do is just stay home, turn on your laptop, sign into your bank account and say… “That’s it? That’s all your giving me?” since things are a lot crazier out there and also cost a lot more than when you were a mere lad of sixty-six and two months. Of course, you first have to make it to seventy in order to stay home. But that goes without saying. If you’re smart, you have invested some of your money over the years, so you won’t have to depend solely on Social Security for your income. You might have put it into a 401(k) so that when you finally need it, the government, which has been waiting for you to touch it, will be able to take some of it to help give you some of it back in your Social Security. So, for you youngsters out there in your fifties and early sixties, take heed. You have to pay attention since every year later you were born adds a few months onto your FRA age and eventually, maybe, you will actually reach your FRA after your maximum retirement age. Yes, the Social Security system is a bit complicated, but if you are savvy you might just be able to figure it out. So, that’s it. That’s all I’m gonna give you. Good luck out there.

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Sabotaging America’s Military From Within A year ago this month, a comparison of military recruitment ads from China, Russia and the U.S. went viral on social media. Our foreign competitors wooed their potential enlistees with muscular appeals to national pride and protection of the traditional nuclear family. A U.S. Army promotional campaign, by by Michelle Malkin contrast, featured a pastel-hued cartoon depiction of a female soldier named Syndicated Columnist “Emma” who marched in a gay pride parade with her two mothers and became a soldier to “shatter some stereotypes.” Wokeness is a terminal cancer in our armed forces, eroding the foundational bones of its honor-bound institutions and ravaging the core values of generations of America’s frontline fighters. Integrity, honor, personal courage, excellence and commitment to truth have been subjugated to the progressive false gods of diversity, equity and inclusion. Who needs outside threats to our troops when the most lethal saboteurs are embedded inside the bowels of our own Pentagon and service academies? “Diversity,” of course, is exclusively defined by selective skin color and politically correct pronouns. “Equity” is a farce if you are white, male, Christian and patriotic. “Inclusion” is a grand illusion. Nowhere are these toxic realities more clearly illustrated than in the American military bureaucracy’s vindictive witch hunt against our best and brightest soldiers, Marines, sailors, airmen and Coasties who have resisted the COVID-19 jab. “I’m frustrated,” Air Force Academy cadet Nathan Suess told me on Monday in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as he braced for punishment and retaliation during graduation week. The 21-year-old civil engineering major is one of four seniors who objected to the COVID-19 vaccine because of their deeply-held religious beliefs -- as well as on irrefutable scientific and legal grounds. Suess quietly filed his religious exemption request last fall as a “devout follower of God,” citing aborted fetal cell lines used to develop the shots; the low mortality rate among young, healthy activeduty personnel; more than 600,000 adverse vaccine reactions reported to the government, including permanent heart damage among young men; and the illegality of mandating experimental vaccines not fully approved by the Food and Drug AdministraSee MALKIN on 26

The Elitists Who Want To Rule The World

Klaus Schwab is the head of the World Economic Forum; he founded the organization in 1971. Each year, the WEF hosts a massive conference in Davos, Switzerland, with thousands of world leaders, diplomats and by Ben Shapiro Syndicated Columnist experts on various topics gathering to trade ideas about how best to cooperatively run the world. Lest this characterization be seen as overstating the case, Schwab himself said as much this year in opening the conference: “The future is not just happening. The future is built by us, by a powerful community as you here in this room. We have the means to improve the state of the world. But two conditions are necessary. The first one is that we act all as stakeholders of larger communities, that we serve not only self-interest but we serve the community. That’s what we call stakeholder responsibility. And second, that we collaborate.” This is the call to action for elitists the world over. They appoint themselves the representatives of global interests -- without elections, without accountability -- and then create mechanisms of national and international order to control citizens over whom they claim to preside. Schwab himself has decoded his favorite term, “stakeholder capitalism.” He wrote in Time magazine in October 2020, “Free markets, trade and competition create so much wealth that in theory they could make everyone better off if there was the will to do so.” To do so, however, would require taking hints from Greta Thunberg, #MeToo and Black Lives Matter; it would require “building ... a virtuous economic system” in which companies abandon their core mission of serving customers and shareholders

and instead embrace answering questions like “What is the gender pay gap in company X? How many people of diverse backgrounds were hired and promoted? What progress has the company made toward reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions?” All of this extraordinary arrogance is predicated on a perverse view of how successful change works within decentralized systems. As Schwab himself acknowledges, free markets have generated more prosperity than any system in human history. But that’s because free markets are (SET ITAL) not (END ITAL) a top-down imposition, a system created by conspiratorial muckety-mucks in a back room somewhere. Free markets were the outgrowth of centuries of evolutionary societal progress: gradual recognition that private ownership was the greatest incentive toward work and innovation; incremental understanding that individual rights are the only alternative to endless conflict; step-by-step acceptance that decentralized sources of knowledge are both broader and deeper than centralized ones. The most powerful and durable institutions we have are traditional because, as F.A. Hayek wrote, they are “a product of cumulative growth without ever having been designed by any one mind.” For Schwab and his ilk, however, it’s precisely such an evolutionary approach that must be ended. Instead, he and his rationalist buddies -- brilliant businessmen and ambitious politicians, striving bureaucrats and myopic experts -- will cure the world of its ills, so long as we grant them power. Or, more likely, so long as they seize power in the name of “stakeholders” to whom they are never answerable. One of the great ironies of the past several years is the gap between the elitists’ perception of themselves. To the elitists, their solutions failed because citizens

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Government Delays Flights Planning to fly this summer? Good luck. Delays are up. Cancellations, too. Why? Because of the pilot shortage. A pilot shortage? How can this be? by John Stossel Flying is a popular Syndicated Columnist job. Some people fly small planes just for fun. Why aren’t there enough commercial pilots? Because the government passed another dumb law. In 2009, after a Colgan Air crash near Buffalo, New York, killed 50

people, Congress decided that airlines could only hire aspiring commercial pilots who already had lots of flight time. Instead of 250 hours, now they have to have 1,500 hours! “That never made any sense,” says current commercial airline pilot Tracy Price in my new video. The sixfold increase wouldn’t have prevented the Colgan crash. Those pilots had many more than 1,500 hours of flight time. The pilot had 3,379 -- the co-pilot, 2,244. That didn’t matter to the politicians. “We need to improve pilot training, address flight crew hours and service,” said Sen. Frank Laut-

enberg. Demanding more pre-hire flight time discouraged people from trying to become pilots. It had “the effect of pulling up the ladder,” says Price. Few people have the time or money to get 1,500 hours in the air before they can even apply for a job. The number of certified pilots fell even as flight demand increased. The pilots unions didn’t object. “Fewer applicants means higher pay,” explains Price. I say to Price, “This rule is good for you!” “Great for me (and other) professional pilots,” he replies. “If you believe in freedom though, it’s a bit

of an issue.” The union blamed the pilot shortage on poor pay at regional airlines, so I push back at Price, “Some of these regional airlines were paying pilots as little as $21,000 a year.” “(But) there was no shortage of applicants!” Price responds. “Plenty of people were willing to take fairly low pay and live with roommates for a year or two to gain that really valuable jet experience.” Today’s required 1,500 hours doesn’t even create better pilots. Actual pilots get trained in simulators today. The computerized cockpit gives them more useful experience See STOSSEL on 28

North Korea Emboldened By Diplomatic Silence North Korea has been making a lot of noise but few seemed to notice. Kim Jong-un’s reclusive communist regime has fired by John J. Metzler off 23 missiles since the beginSyndicated Columnist ning of the year to the yawns of world opinion. So is another North Korean missile showdown creeping up to surprise the West as we are intensely focused on Russia’s war in Ukraine? It appears Kim Jong-un is seeking attention if not validation as a

global bad guy, a role his elders in Moscow and Beijing seem to comfortably hold. North Korea’s sustained and dangerous antics raise the political stakes in East Asia as the United States faces the appalling aftermath of the Afghan debacle last year. Moreover anguished East Asian allies fear what future actions Beijing’s military may take towards democratic Taiwan. Just hours after President Joe Biden left Asia after an overdue visit to South Korea and Japan, the quaintly titled Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) popped off another four missiles, including an intercontinental ballistic one. The message was unmistak-

able. Some pundits argued earlier that the rocket firings or even an underground nuclear test would transpire during the Presidential visit to Seoul and Tokyo just to gain extra points. Joe Biden’s trip to South Korea as president was politically important and strategically vital. Though the USA’s military defense treaty with the Republic of Korea is unquestioned, the Summit focused on meeting South Korea’s new conservative President Yoon Suk-yeol as well as visiting Samsung’s high tech semiconductor plant. President Biden called the seventy year old U.S./ROK defense Alliance “a lynchpin of peace,

stability and prosperity.” Here we have a good blend of underscoring South Korea’s role both as a vibrant military ally and high tech hub and trading partner. Significantly President Biden failed to go north of Seoul, the vibrant and bustling South Korean capital, to the foreboding Demilitarized zone (DMZ) where at the iconic truce village of Panmunjom so many American Presidents have stood alongside American and South Korean forces at the diving line between both Korean states. The DMZ remains a stark reminder of why we are in Korea in the first place; it evokes Divided See METZLER on 27

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appropriate use of those products. Every one of the products you buy and sell have warnings about changing the nature of the product and they are invariably accompanied with a list of potential dangers, if they are altered. I am your Creator. I made each of you. I created you as male and female and every cell in each of your bodies carries DNA information for your particular sex (Genesis 1:26-27). When my Son visited your planet to deliver you from the penalty of your sins, he reinforced our design of male & female, not transgender (Matthew 19:4-6). You may choose to call yourself something else or even make yourself something else through reconstructive surgery but your body, because of my design, is uniquely fashioned to be what you have been created to be. Watching your political leaders bend and break all my laws and design features in order to garner support for their political positions and power is so sad. Leaders must courageously enforce what is right and not forfeit what is wrong. For your President to declare a transgender day and unilaterally support any and all who desire to change their sex, even and especially children as young as 8, is a mockery of me and my will. He and all those promoting this abomination are usurping my will and making their will the new law of the

land. This has been tried repeatedly in history and in every instance, it has failed and incurred my judgment. I am God, even if you don’t think so and even if you declare yourself “god.” You will one day stand before me and give an account, not for your will but my will. If you continue to defy me and my will, you will suffer tragic consequences. Like our previous letter about the debate on abortion, for all who call what I declare wrong a “right,” you may have a moment of glory and prosperity but because you don’t follow my design, your “house” will collapse on you and on your nation. With this issue and many others coinciding with your newfound “freedom” and defiance, you are repeating the mistake I addressed in my book, the Bible. In Psalm 2, I asked, “Why do the nations conspire and the people’s plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against his anointed One. Let us break their chains, they say, and throw off their fetters.” (Psalm 2:1-3). You, like those in the past, are taking a stand to oppose me and my design. But listen to my words that follow and consider the futility of seeking to overthrow me, God. “The one enthroned in heaven laughs; The Lord scoffs at them. Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath (Psalm 2:4-5). There is only one sensible course of action to

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QUESTION: What Are Your Thoughts On Transgender Lifestyle And Its Legal Endorsement? As I promised in my previous letter, I would like to specifically address the social issues that you are facing today, and which are tearing you apart. With respect to my thoughts on the social issue of transgender practices and legal endorsement, I have much to say. By rejecting me and my will and creating your own, you have brazenly made my created design, for maleness and femaleness, a matter of personal choice. From the beginning of time, my standard has been the basis of defining sexuality, yet now, in an era of “doing what is right in your own eyes,” (Judges 21:25) you have not only overthrown me and my design as God, but, de facto, declared yourselves to be “god.” You may think that this is no problem but, in your limited knowledge and sinful hearts, you have begun to unleash a firestorm that will destroy you unless you come to your senses. You have laws protecting the integrity and substance of products made, in order to safeguard the

take and I described it by saying, “therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the sun, lest he be angry, and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.” (Psalm 2:10-12). If you ever hope to enjoy life, that I alone can give, you must recognize your terrible mistake and turn quickly back to me and my will. Though you my challenge my Deity and that of my Son, Jesus, because you are not God, you will lose in this battle. Follow my design, it was perfect until you chose to reject it and replace it with your faulty and fatal design. If you do, I will forgive your sins and once again bless your life and prosper you and your country. I love you, God These letters are written by a New Hampshire pastor.

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History Made: The Mt. Washington Auto Road Paved Top To Bottom For the first time in its 161 year history, the Mt. Washington Auto Road is a solid ribbon of pavement from the base to the 6,288’ summit. Opened on August 8, 1861, the Mt. Washington Auto Road is the oldest man-made and continuously operating tourist attraction in North America. Built by hand using shovels and black powder to clear rocks, the Auto Road ascends over 4,000’ of elevation in 7.6 miles from scenic Pinkham Notch to the summit of Mt. Washington. For the majority of its history, the road was a rough surface of dirt and then gravel, first traveled by horse and mountain wagon, and then by car at the turn of the century. It has always been a rite of passage for automobiles and drivers, giving credence to the famous bumper sticker: “This Car Climbed Mt. Washington.” The Auto Road saw

Central Paving out of Jefferson, NH completes the near 50 year process of paving the Mt. Washington Auto Road, known as the “Road to the Sky.” its first sections of pavement in the early 1970s and sections have been added in subsequent years. Until today, only the section of gravel known as the “5-mile” remained as it was the most challenging to pave. Over the past several years, the Road Crew made many improvements to this section, including wid-

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Washington Auto Road this summer remarked about the paving, “it’s the end of an era.” Car-race enthusiasts already have nostalgia for the iconic spray of dirt at the transition from gravel to pavement in the Subaru Mt. Washington Hillclimb. That event, which will likely return to the Auto Road in 2024, may see even faster times from base to summit. Travis Pastrana broke his own record in 2021 with a blazing time of 5 minutes and 28 seconds. But for guests of the mountain maintaining safe traveling speed at no more than 25 mph, the ride to the summit will remain an exhilarating experience and drivers and their automobiles still earn the bumper sticker with each ride given out at the Toll House. The Mt. Washington Auto Road opens for 7-day a week operations, weather permitting, on Saturday, May 28th. Visit mt-washington. com for the road status and hours of operation.

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I’m not going to try to emulate Dr. Seuss, but I think he would have drawn plenty of inspiration from a walk in the woods in New England in May. His classic “Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!” comes to mind, but only altered to “Oh, the Colors You Can See.” A recent walk made me think of this. The majority of the walk was along a wide dirt path with shrubby habitat on both sides. Beyond the thickets on one side was a large field and beyond the thickets on the other side were deep woods. It is perfect habitat for a bird walk. The first bird I saw was a male eastern towhee. It was once called rufous-sided towhee because of the unique dark orange color of its sides that complement the otherwise white and black plumage of the bird. The bird’s red eyes are visible when it approaches among the shrubs closely enough. I did not see a female towhee on this particular day, but they are lighter brownishorange where the male is black. A little later in the walk, I heard a loud whistle from the top of a tree. I knew from the clearness of this song and the height at which it was sung that it was a Baltimore

An indigo bunting perches in a tree in New England. oriole. Despite their relatively large size and electric orange plumage, they are often difficult to find because they are hidden among the leaves. This particular bird, thankfully, perched at the top of a dead tree and was clearly visible from a far distance. I used my binoculars to get a better view but the bright orange bird stood out just fine without them. It is always a thrill to see a rose-breasted grosbeak. It is even more spectacular when two males are fighting over the territory and chasing each other around. Often, one of the birds would land within a few yards of where I stood, giving me a front-row view of the namesake rosecolored triangle on its

breast. At almost the same time, I saw my first indigo bunting of the walk. Its brilliant blue shined beautifully in the early evening light. I saw a few more buntings as my walk continued. I heard two familiar songs frequently in the brush and knew I would eventually see both of these birds. The first one I found was a blue-winged warbler, which despite its name, is mostly bright yellow. Next, I found a few male yellow warblers, which as their name suggests, are mostly yellow with a few rusty streaks on their chest and belly. As I made my way towards the field I could hear the bubbly sounds of many bobolinks. En-

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Sports “Equity” by Mike Moffett Contributing Writer

NEWS ITEM: The U.S. Soccer Federation has announced a deal to pay the U.S. Men’s National Team and the U.S. Women’s National Team equally, eliminating a contentious pay gap that saw female players earn significantly less. “Equity” is a common buzzword nowadays— kind of like “diversity.” It does seem equitable that members of our men’s and women’s national soccer teams be compensated similarly. Still, some feel that the quest for equity sometimes creates unfairness. Men’s World Cup soccer has been around for almost a century. The first women’s World Cup was awarded in 1991. Does longevity matter? Some wonder. Further, consider the differing followings for men’s and women’s World Cup tournaments. The 2018 men’s World Cup soccer tournament was watched by a record-breaking 3.57 BILLION people. In contrast, the 2019 Women’s World Cup was viewed by “only” 1.12 billion, according to FIFA. Men’s World Cup soccer generates much more revenue than does Women’s World

American women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe. Cup soccer. Should that fact influence the compensation levels for our respective national teams? Some think so. But would that be “equitable?” Consider the disparate compensation levels for NBA and WNBA players. The average annual NBA salary is $7.5 million. The average WNBA salary is $121,000. That’s hardly equitable. But the average WNBA attendance is around 2600 per game, as compared to an average NBA attendance of over 17,000 per game—92% of capacity. So should market realities impact compensation levels for men’s and women’s sports? Some wonder. Federal “Title IX” legislation passed in 1972

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Scott Philbrick’s father, Walter Philbrick, enjoying his favorite mount while in the U.S. Army, 1953. LLLF from 1 five. By the time my father was that age he had married, had three children, was a veteran in the Korean War, bought a house, and successfully started and ran two businesses. Comparatively, I was single, renting a small apartment, working as a graphic designer, and about to move to western Colorado and live the cowboy life on a mountain mesa ranch. Not much of a comparison, is it? I wonder if perhaps his was the last generation that simply knew how to get things done. So how does this relate to rescuing animals in crisis? We form all different kinds of bonds in life; bonds with friends, bonds with coworkers, bonds with animals, on and on. But the experience of war, by its very nature, brings a bond that is rarely, if ever, found elsewhere in life. And it is in this regard that I wish to tell you about one of our adopters, a man named Ernie who, like my father, served in

Puppy Mia, when first found and rescued. the Korean War. He also served in the Vietnam War. My dad and Ernie, both animal lovers, could have met, and in ten minutes you’d think they’d known each other for years. Through seemingly random chance, people and other creatures of this Earth come into our lives and change us. And we, in turn, change them. The good ones

change us for the better, and bonds are formed. Louis Pasteur notso-famously said, “chance favors the prepared mind.” A strong animal lover, Ernie, veteran of two wars, tragically lost his beloved wife of nearly sixty years, a little less than a year ago. Then he lost his companion dog of fourteen years just a few short weeks

ago. Now here’s where it gets interesting. Teresa Paradis was having dinner with Dot, one of LLLF’s invaluable volunteers, at the regular hangout of the LLLF family, the Circle Diner. Her waitress, April, inconspicuously directed Teresa’s attention to another patron, saying, “you need to help that man over there… he needs a dog!” She was pointing to a man dining alone at a booth, a gentleman, quietly minding his plate. His gold embroidered veteran’s hat, neatly removed and positioned beside him, did not go unnoticed by her, either. Teresa acknowledged April’s prompt, continuing her discussion with Dot. A moment later the waitress returned to Teresa exclaiming, “he’s leaving! Quick… go talk to him!” Teresa approached him as he was signing his tab, and in her uniquely resolute style, playfully reached out and took the pen from his hand. “Do I know you?” he asked, understandably perplexed. With a soft smile, she answered, “well, you want a dog, don’t you?” Chance brought them both to that moment; chance was forming a bond. A brief but warm conversation followed, she left him her number, and a few days later the gears were in motion. Ernie visited LLLF, where he met Mia, a rescued black lab puppy who had originally been found on the street; discarded like meager refuse. Yet her personality and love set about the fragile task of healing Ernie’s broken heart. Ernie is now awaiting the See LLLF on 20

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Some of the many kittens that seemed to be New puppies arrival at Live and Let Live Farm coming out of the woodwork here at Live and Let Big, with Big’s momma many “chance meetLive Farm. the strength to nurse on his own. By chance, a pregnant feral cat had been trapped locally, and brought to us in need of an emergency C-section. While she did give birth to six healthy kittens, she

was unable to produce milk. As is the case with so many situations day in and day out, year after year at LLLF, chance smiled upon these wee ones, and the six babies of the feral cat were able to suckle alongside

Jess taking to them all like a duck to water, gladly welcoming them all as orphans. More chance, more bonds formed. One need only to look at the photo of Ernie and Mia to see that there is great privilege in witnessing and being a part of so

ings” and bonds being formed through our efforts. LLLF has some needs we’d like to tell you about, as well; perhaps you could help us spread the word. Our primary operations building, the 5500 square foot Brittany Searing Memorial Building which opened in 2016 has served us well as both a quarantine and rehabilitation

facility. But it’s also become our adoption center, and is getting pretty cramped, with lots of mission crossover. We’ve simply outgrown it. The exploding crisis of abandoned pregnant and/or orphaned dogs and cats we take in from not only New Hampshire, but all over the country, when and where we are able, has us bulging at the seams. We find ourselves in dire need of a new building to accommodate these ever-increasing needs. Our vision is for a new building to serve as an adoption and rehab center for small animals; dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, etc., with a separate ward for maternity and birthing, to include orphaned, abandoned, or neglected animals that find their way to our loving confines. Lastly, I’d like to share that 2022 is our silver anniversary; our Twenty-Fifth year of operating as a rescue & sanctuary. I’ll most likely be writing up a “Silver Anniversary Special” later on this year, but I wanted to at least offer up a small teaser. The monumental results, the See LLLF on 21

— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, June 2, 2022 — dured. So I’m thinking about the nature of the whole “chance” concept, and I’d like to think that Pasteur, upon hearing Ernie’s story, in considering the account of Big and those six orphaned kittens; and through observing all that’s happened in the quarter century journey of Live and Let Live Farm, would have let slip a fleeting smile.

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MALKIN from 6 tion and undermining informed consent (as determined by courts that ordered the suspension of the military’s anthrax vaccine mandate in 2004). “I could not dirty my conscience” by obeying an unlawful order undergirded by “deception and dishonesty,” Suess told me. Suess and his fellow objectors were left in the dark about their fate until last week, when the Academy publicly outed and humiliated the quartet -- threatening to force them to reimburse their tax-subsidized tuition (upwards of $200,000) and denying them military commissions. The Air Force Academy, increasingly infiltrated by radical leftists who require critical race theory brainwashing and subsidize pagan, witch and Wiccan worship on campus, is the only one of the military academies imposing such draconian penalties. The self-described

“Navy brat” from a family with three generations of veterans believes “critical thinking is imperative for officers.” Joining the Air Force was Suess’ “biggest high school goal.” But he now feels “ostracized” and betrayed by leaders who have “made everything up on the spot” in defense of sham science and unconstitutional orders. “This is tyranny at its finest,” he lamented as he packed his bags this past weekend, but he vows to fight it on behalf of other peers. “We do not swear an oath to obey our leaders,” Suess declared defiantly. “The Constitution always comes before military mandates.” Suess is not alone. As a federal judge in Texas ruled in January in halting punishment for 35 Navy special ops members who refused the COVID-19 shots, “There is no military exclusion from our Constitution ... There is no COVID-19 exception to the First Amendment.” And just this week, a

secretive Navy Administrative Board ruled unanimously that Lt. Col. Bill Moseley, a Navy weapons specialist with 22 years of active-duty service, was not guilty of “misconduct” for refusing to obey a direct order to submit to the COVID-19 jab because of his religious objections. Conveniently, the full ruling is hidden by a convoluted military process that only discloses results when dissenters’ challenges fail. But Moseley’s attorney, R. Davis Younts (who himself served 12 years active-duty in the Air Force and in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps), was able to tell me this week that “it was very clear that the board had legitimate concerns about the lawfulness of the order and whether the vaccine mandate was reasonably necessary to accomplish” the Navy’s mission. “We are supposed to be free-thinking and use our discretion. We are legally bound to challenge unlawful or-

ders.” Younts, a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force reserves, is now defending more than 50 military clients fighting to protect their faith. He has filed his own religious exemption request from the COVID-19 shots as well. “This is a very personal fight for me,” he revealed, and “it’s not just about the vaccine ... It’s a very difficult time in the military today for people of Christian faith who hold to Biblical teachings.” In a sane and self-respecting sovereign nation, wise, brave, Godfearing, independentminded warriors like USAFA cadet Nathan Suess, Navy Lt. Col. Bill Moseley and military defense lawyer R. Davis Younts would be celebrated and promoted, not spurned. But in woke, broke America, our military no longer liberates the oppressed. It oppresses the liberated. And all our enemies laugh mightily at our selfinflicted civilizational wounds. Michelle Malkin’s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, June 2, 2022 — METZLER from 7 Berlin during the Cold War. American presidents would visit to underscore the glaring political lessons and the military significance of our defense commitments. Biden’s East Asia visit had much to do about China, after all the 800 pound Dragon in the room. Conversations focused on isolating and countering Beijing’s military and commercial interests. Yet is China nudging its political comrades in Pyongyang to create another security concern? Possibly so. On 25 May the DPRK launched another three ballistic missiles. Since early 2022, North Korea has launched six Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM’s). In the meantime the UN Security Council met to discuss a draft resolution on the recent North Korea missile firings. The plan by U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield was to pass yet another international condemnation of the missile tests as in the past. Prior to the vote Ambassador ThomasGreenfield asserted, “The DPRK has taken the Council’s silence as a green light to act with impunity and escalate tensions on the Peninsula. It has engaged in an unprovoked series of 23 – and let me repeat that – 23 ballistic missile launches since the beginning of the year and is actively preparing to conduct a nuclear test.” But in a once rare but now increasingly common abuse of their double vetoes, both Moscow and Beijing shut down the reso-

lution. The United Kingdom deputy delegate James Kariuki later surmised, “We are concerned that the DPRK may resume testing of nuclear weapons… North Korea must not be allowed to test missiles and other weapons with impunity.” So we return to a remarkably similar, if downplayed, situation as in 2017 when the new American President Donald Trump forcefully confronted the North Korean dictator. The ensuing standoff saw Kim Jong-un blink, then agree to negotiations at the Singapore Summit in June 2018, and subsequently shelve his missile and nuclear tests. The Pyongyang regime refrained from provocative missile and nuclear testing for a nearly three years. During the recent Summit with Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon stated, “I commit to resolutely safeguard peace on the Korean Peninsula and encourage North Korea to come forward for dialogue and engage in practical cooperation.” He stressed the “common goal of the complete denuclearization of the DPRK” adding “there is no compromise for security” adding “strong deterrence against North Korea is paramount.” Confronting North Korea’s nuclear ambitions remains paramount for Korean and regional peace. 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.

MOFFETT from 13 Born Today That is to say, sports standouts born on June 2 include NFL placekicker Garo Yepremian (1944) and American women’s soccer star Abby Wambach (1980). Sports Quote “The worst form of inequality involves trying to make unequal things equal.”—Aristotle Sports Quiz Answer Host Uruguay won soccer’s first World Cup in 1930. State Rep. Mike Moffett was a Sports Management Professor for Plymouth State University and NHTI-Concord. He co-authored the award-winning “FAHIM SPEAKS: A WarriorActor’s Odyssey from Afghanistan to Hollywood and Back” which is available on Amazon. com. His e-mail address is mimoffett@comcast. net.

MAILBOAT from 2 bated in the aftermath of this tragedy in Texas, we need to seriously address mental illness, we need to provide adequate security at our schools to prevent these crimes from ever being committed again, we need to enforce current laws and correct deficiencies in systems to make those laws work as intended and we need to take actions that will actually correct these problems not just do something ineffective simply to say “We did something”. Stanley R. Bujalski Thornton, NH

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STOSSEL from 7 than unsupervised hours of hobby flying. In fact, those hours may leave pilots less prepared. “Flight time does not equal experience,” Faye Black of the Regional Airline Association told Congress. “We waste a lot of time in training, breaking bad habits pilots acquire while trying to quickly get to 1,500 hours.” The politicians ignored her. That’s not surprising. Once government

creates new rules, those rules tend to live forever. Many are just unnecessary. Airlines don’t want to kill their customers, and pilots don’t want to kill themselves, so they self-regulate. The last fatal commercial airline crash was 13 years ago. Flying is much safer than driving, biking, and taking a bus or train. “Safer than any mode of conveyance ever, including walking,” says Price.

But politicians believe that if they’re not passing more rules, they’re not doing their job. So expect more flight delays this summer. “I spend a lot more time than I want to making announcements to people apologizing for being late,” says Price. “We should be looking for ways to expand the availability of airline travel to more people so more people can take advantage of this amazingly safe way to get from A to B.”

SHAPIRO from 6 John Stossel is creator of Stossel TV and author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.

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