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Vertical Jigging For Striped Bass by Tim Moore Contributing Writer

Of all the ways to catch striped bass, vertical jigging is one of my favorites. There’s a thrill in feeling the thump of a striper that is directly beneath my boat or kayak, setting the hook. And trying to bring the fish to the surface. Casting to fish, which is also fun, leaves more slack or bows in your line, compromising sensitivity. When you’re vertical jigging, your line is (ideally) straight down, and you feel everything. The

fight feels harder, especially in current, and the fish feel bigger. One of the most common questions about vertical jigging is where to fish. Striped bass are migratory. Once they are finished spawning, which happens mostly during early spring in the Chesapeake Bay and Hudson River, the stripers continue their northerly migration with one thing in mind…food. If you find the food, you find the stripers. In New Hampshire, the striped bass arrive sometime See MOORE on 15

Bird Sightings Around New Hampshire by Chris Bosak Contributing Writer

Tim Moore holds a striped bass which he caught using vertical jigging which is a technique widely used along the striper coast which stretches along the east coast.

It’s been a busy spring around here for sure. The bluebirds have youngsters, the grosbeaks are regular visitors and the female rubythroated hummingbird is back to her old tricks of dominating the backyard. There have been plenty of other highlights, but I want to share what others throughout the region have been seeing. I received an interesting email from Roxanne of Swanzey. She noticed a blue jay hanging upside down batlike. She assumed it was

sick, injured or dead, but 15 minutes later the bird perched upright and soon after flew away. As it turns out, blue jays sometimes roost upside down. Who knew? Roxanne sent me a photo of the upside-down bird, which I posted on my website, www. birdsofnewengland.com, under the “Reader-Submitted Photos” tab. See BOSAK on 18 & AD RE

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uity to our members through a Capital Credits program beginning in July of 2021 – you will receive a credit on your invoice for the amount of equity you have earned. There are many more initiatives in the works to save you money, improve our services and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. These include battery storage pilot programs, Electric Vehicle charging stations, automation of the electric distribution system and much more; and finally we are exploring how we can best support and facilitate broadband in our service area. Tomorrow’s Cooperative will be cleaner, greener, more affordable, and better able to empower you to live independently and comfortably. In closing, again I humbly ask for your vote to return me to the Board of Directors for one more term to help assure a brighter future for our community. As always, feel free to contact me with your concerns: Complete contact information is on my web page www.HarryViens.com Harry Viens Center Harbor, NH.

Insulted By Editorials To the Editor: It’s Memorial Day Weekend, the unofficial kickoff off for summer, and not like the ones we’re used to. But we desperately need the fun and sun of summer, even if we have to enjoy it differently than in years past. I love vacationing in NH. The

Lakes Region is so special and beautiful. When I’m here, I try to forget about our divided nation, and the daily nastiness that generally fills the news. NH is a conservative state... and I get that. It’s not my persuasion, but NH people are wonderful, and politics shouldn’t change how we treat each other and enjoy each other’s company. But then I opened your May 21st issue with two nasty, meanspirited, and accusatory editorials -- one by Michelle Malkin, beating up on Anthony Fauci and one by Ben Shapiro, beating up on Barach Obama. Really? It’s vacation time, and you can’t find something else to print? Makes me feel downright unwelcome and certainly takes away from the summer vibe I so badly need. Then I read your own words on page 2: Our Story. “...this publication is devoted to printing the stories of the people and places that make NH the best place in the world to live. No, none of the daily grind news will be found in these pages, just the good stuff.” Oh come on! These two editorials insulted the politics of at least half your visitors (and maybe even some of your residents) and in no way, shape, or form represent the “good stuff.” It’s summer, for goodness sake. Can’t you give nasty politics a rest? Molly Kate Howe Stockbridge, MA

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Summer Reading Now that we have been told to “Stay At Home” for another two weeks, it is no surprise that folks are running out of things to by Brendan Smith keep them Weirs Times Editor occupied. You have played all the board games, binge watched everything, painted all the rooms in the house and have lost all or most of the friends you had before the shutdown due to ridiculous arguments on Facebook and Twitter. Now what? Yes, it is time to crack open a book. I prefer some of the classics, but I have found out that some of these have been rewritten recently to reflect how our society has changed in only a matter of weeks. For example, in the new version of the “Lord Of The Rings” Trilogy, now set in America, instead of a fictional land, Frodo Baggins and his companions set off on a journey to bring the ring to a safe place. Each book in the trilogy finds the travelers in a different U.S. state that has completed one of the three phases of reopening. Will they ever get to a place that has fulfilled all the requirements for a complete reopening, or will they find, just when they thought they were safe, that the powers that be have changed the rules again? In “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”, the original story told of Dracula’s attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse. In the new version he is moving from China to Transylvania and catches the last plane before the travel embargo takes place. The ruler of Transylvania is blamed for not stopping him in

time and sets up the CDC (Center for Dracula Control) who make up stuff that may or may not help with the situation. In “Murder On The Orient Express”, Detective Hercule Poirot must find out who the killer is on a train when a passenger is found dead. In the new version, Poirot’s efforts are hindered by the fact that the room where the murder took place has to be completely sanitized with bleach and anything that may have been touched, and might now have the virus, has to be removed before Poirot is allowed to enter and investigate. Finding no clues, the book is over in two chapters. In the new version of “Lord Of The Flies” the original story of schoolboys stranded on an island has been changed to be about adults who find themselves trapped in a grocery store when the automatic doors stop working. Half are wearing masks and the other half are without masks. Over the course of a couple of hours anarchy ensues between the two groups who are just about to come to a final, deadly confrontation, when the automatic door guy shows up just in time. In the updated “Moby Dick”, Captain Ahab is still obsessed with having his revenge on the great white whale who took his leg, but he is having a lot of trouble trying to gather a crew for the expedition. It seems that the government’s generous unemployment package is keeping the crew at home since they are being paid more money sitting at home then they will ever make working hard on a dangerous sea journey. After 135 chapters, Ahab finally gives and never gets back to sea to catch the whale. The latest version of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” has Scrooge visited on Christmas Eve by the three ghosts of the Pandemic.

First the spirit of “Flattening The Curve.” Then the spirit of “We Have Flattened the Curve..Now What?” Finally, Scrooge is visited by the Spirit of “There Still Might A Couple Of Germs Out There So We’re Not Ready Yet...Just A Few More Weeks...We Think.” In this new version, Scrooge is more miserable at the end of the story than when it started. When it was published in 1949, the classic book “1984” by George Orwell was a futuristic tale about government overreach, mass surveillance and the repression of all people within a society. The main character, Winston Smith, works at the Ministry of Truth where his job is to rewrite history on a daily basis. The new version, now called “2020” is basically the same story line, except Winston now works for a cable news network. There are also some new versions of books for kids. In the updated version of “The Wizard of Oz”, Dorothy is transported to Oz because of a tornado, only to find when she arrives that she must observe a 14-day quarantine. The Tin Man also needs to be wiped down and completely sanitized every quarter mile of their journey to Oz since Tin has been suspected as a place where the virus can live for days. (Of course, in later versions, that might be changed to straw.) Some kids book have new titles as well, like “Oh, The Places You Used To Be Able To Go And May Be Allowed To Again…Maybe” and “Charlie and The Hopefully Soon To Be Reopened Chocolate Factory That Is Close To Going Out Of Business.” So, there you have it, I hope some of these books help you pass the time. Heck, you can even bring them to the beach now, though it may be a little difficult to read since you can’t sit down in the sand yet. BrendanTSmith.com

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Cashing In On Contact Tracing

Look out. An “army of contact tracers” is about to be unleashed on America. Corporations, political lobbyists and government bureaucracies all win. Privacy, freedom and family autonomy all lose. Big time. You may have already heard of the aptly named House Bill 6666, sponsored by Illinois Dem. Bobby Rush. Known as the Testing, Reaching and Contacting Everyone by Michelle Malkin (TRACE) Act, the legislation would allocate Syndicated Columnist $100 billion in public funding to “eligible entities” to “conduct diagnostic testing for COVID-19, and related activities such as contact tracing, through mobile health units and, as necessary, at individuals’ residences, and for other purposes.” The cash could be used to hunt down infected individuals, quarantine them in their homes for undefined periods under unknown conditions and subsidize a hiring spree of untold thousands of trackers from nonprofits, schools and medical facilities. As for “other purposes,” the proposal does not define them -- leaving Swamp public health bureaucrats and their pet grantees’ imaginations to run wild. What recourse or appeals process to citizens have when the “experts” get diagnoses and assessments wrong? Or when, say, homeschool families refuse to submit to intrusive phone call monitoring or forced quarantine? What are the opt-in or opt-out mechanisms? H.R. 6666 is silent on all these fundamental issues of autonomy and sovereignty. Feel safer yet? This federally supported surveillance-state bonanza comes on top of the $631 million in Centers for Disease Control funding for contact tracing already in the pipeline after the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, plus another $75 billion in proposed contact-tracing spending embedded in the House Democrats’ supplemental stimulus bill known as the HEROES Act. Who benefits? Let’s take one prominent entrant into the “digital transformation services” arena: a company called MTX. Founded in Albany, New York, and now based in Frisco, Texas, the small software company is raking in hundreds of millions of tax dollars to construct “virtual call centers” of 25,000 COVID data-mining agents. In Chicago, MTX has partnered with Google to create an app so residents can “pre-register” for the vaunted coronavirus vaccine and receive alerts on treatments and testing. In Georgia, the company nailed a five-year government contract for a new online contact-tracing platform. In New York and Massachusetts, MTX’s mission has spread to monitoring jobless claims and See MALKIN on 20

Making The World A Worse Place, One Twitter Mob At A Time Life is filled with nuance, with complexity. Take, for example, the case of Amy Cooper. Cooper is a 41-yearold white woman who worked at Franklin Templeton, an asset management firm. She was walking her by Ben Shapiro dog without a leash Syndicated Columnist in the Ramble section of Central Park when she was confronted by a black man named Christian Cooper (no relation). He told her to leash her dog; she refused. According to Christian, he then stated, “Look, if you’re going to do what you want, I’m going to do what I want, but you’re not going to like it.” She asked what he meant. He then summoned her dog, planning to give the dog treats. “I pull out the dog treats I carry for just such intransigence,” he explained. At that point, he began filming the exchange. She told him to stop taping; he refused. While grabbing her dog by its collar, she informed him she would call the cops. “I’m going to tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life,” she said. He responded, “Please tell them whatever you like.” She did, in fact, call the police, and said: “I’m in the Ramble, and there’s a man, African American. He has a bicycle helmet, and he is recording me and threatening me and my dog.” In real life, we’d examine the issue as objectively as possible. It appears that Christian Cooper did indeed say something vaguely threatening -- “I’m going to do what I want, but you’re not going to like it” -- and then attempted to get her dog to approach him. It also appears that Amy Cooper threatened him in racist fashion, implicitly suggesting that by telling the police that a black man was

threatening her life, she could place him in mortal danger. Suffice it to say that the proper solution here would have been for Amy Cooper to apologize and recognize the implicit racism in her own statements, for Christian Cooper to forgive her and for everyone to move on. Instead, Christian Cooper posted the video. Twitter went wild. The outcome: Amy was labeled a racist and fired from her job, and had to surrender her dog. Her life was effectively ruined. The world of social media has not made us any more responsible, any kinder or any more decent. It has made us far worse. That’s because Twitter isn’t about signaling virtue. It’s about signaling commitment. It’s insufficient to merely analyze events and give an honest take. You must be for or against something. And you demonstrate full commitment to that position. Your entire online identity rests on others retweeting or liking your purity of heart. There is no risk -- only reward -- in dunking on Amy Cooper, tweeting at her employer, encouraging her destruction. You will be rewarded for your anti-racism, amply demonstrated with just a few clicks. If you suggest any motivational complexity -- that perhaps Amy Cooper said something racist and over-the-top but wasn’t lying when she said she felt threatened -- then you will be tarred as insufficiently committed to the antiracist cause. This logic holds across the board. If President Donald Trump sends out a series of bizarre and morally reprehensible tweets accusing Joe Scarborough of murdering a congressional intern -and if you point out that this is both bizarre and morally reprehensible -- then you will be labeled insufficiently loyal to the cause. It’s not about truth; it’s not about decency; it’s about signaling your commitment. See SHAPIRO on 20

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A Different Presidential Candidate

by John Stossel

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We have a choice! Next presidential election, we don’t have to decide between two big-spending candidates, neither of whom has expressed much interest in limited

government. Now, we have a third serious choice. This week, Dr. Jo Jorgensen, a psychology lecturer at Clemson University, won the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination.

OK, I won’t delude myself -- a libertarian is unlikely to become president. But Jorgensen’s platform is a refreshing change. She correctly points out that government “is too big, too bossy, too nosy, and way too intrusive.” Of course, many candidates say that when running for office. President Donald Trump said it, but once he was elected, he increased spending by half a trillion dollars, created a new military branch designed to protect U.S. interests in space, imposed tariffs and demanded more funds for “infrastructure” and “building a giant wall.”

Joe Biden wants to spend $532 billion more, increasing spending on things like education, climate and health care. By contrast, Jorgensen says government should do less and spend less. She’s right. The founders’ insistence on limited government is what made America prosperous. Jorgensen noticed how our big and cumbersome government slowed our response to the coronavirus. “We had about 60 American companies making testing kits and the FDA only approved two,” she said in the final Libertarian Party de-

bate. “What the president should have done was use the Emergency Powers Act and say, ‘FDA, you only have to prove safety, not efficacy. Get these kits out there.’” If some tests don’t work, the free market will weed that out, says Jorgensen. “If you are a large drug company, you don’t want to put out a drug or testing kit that doesn’t work -- you’ll go bankrupt.” Trump supported the latest multitrillion-dollar stimulus bill, saying, it “will deliver urgently needed relief to our nation’s families and workers.” Biden called for another stimulus -- “a hell of a lot bigger.” See STOSSEL on 21

Beijing’s Hong Kong Squeeze The crisis was brewing for months. Storm clouds were gathering around Hong Kong’s splendid bay as China’s commuby John J. Metzler nist authorities Syndicated Columnist have put the vice grip squeeze on democratic Hong Kong’s political rights and social freedoms. The world has watched aimlessly until the United States and a few fellow democracies said Stop. President Donald Trump threw down the gauntlet to Beijing’s leadership. In a measured but tough speech on a wide range of issues implicating China from having dismantled the American industrial

economy, profited from unfair trade deals and industrial espionage, the President addressed the Hong Kong crisis head on. But first he warned poignantly, “The world is now suffering as a result of the malfeasance of the Chinese government. China’s coverup of the Wuhan virus allowed the disease to spread all over the world, instigating a global pandemic that has cost more than 100,000 American lives.” The President added, “China has total control over the World Health Organization…we will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization.” Washington will redirect its $440 million WHO funding to other global public health needs. Earlier in the week the U.S.

planned an urgent UN Security Council meeting to address the deteriorating political situation in Hong Kong. China predictably blocked the formal session. Nonetheless the United States and United Kingdom pushed back. During a subsequent discussion in the Council, U.S. UN Ambassador Kelly Craft stated forcefully, “The PRC’s actions to undermine the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law eviscerate the free society that has underpinned Hong Kong’s success since 1997.” Britain’s acting Ambassador Jonathan Allen added, “this legislation risks curtailing the freedoms that China has undertaken to uphold as a matter of international law.” The communist crackdown in Hong Kong today could well presage

similar bully boy tactics towards democratic Taiwan, over which Beijing has never renounced the use of force to “bring back to the Motherland.” Britain holds a special moral responsibility towards its former Crown Colony in the Far East. In 1984 Britain and China signed a formal treaty in which the colony would revert to Chinese control in 1997. Importantly the deal allowed for the heralded “One country two systems,” a formula whereby Hong Kong would retain its legendary free market and social freedoms for a fifty year period. For a while, China kept to the bargain but over the past few years the winds have changed. While Britain has done little to chastise t h e P R C See METZLER on 21

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NBM Rail Services from Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada will be employing a variety of high-tech rail maintenance equipment in support of the Tie Replacement Project which is now underway. Shown here are three (3) pieces of equipment which will be used on the project - these include a Plater, a Tie Inserter and a Grapple Truck. like to also take this opportunity remind everyone that caution should be exercised at all times while around moving trains and to always expect a train. Other safety considerations to keep in mind include grade crossing signals which should always be obeyed. Drivers should always stop when they hear whistle signals at

tential danger around moving rail equipment, even when rail cars and locomotives are moving at slow speeds,” stated Benjamin Clark, President of the Railroad, “Safety is always our first priority.” Both the Hobo Railroad in Lincoln, NH and the Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad in Meredith See HOBO on 11

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Paid Too Much? by Mike Moffett Contributing Writer

Economics has been called “the dismal science” but what’s really dismal is how little most folks know about the subject. Case in Point: Bernie Sanders. The Vermont socialist had the inside track for the Democratic Presidential nomination in February. But even though most Democrats favor activist government policies and higher taxes, the Sanders platform was a “bridge too far,” even for them. So the Dems coalesced around Joe Biden. Bye bye Bernie. Aye caramba! I’ll stop there on the politics. But economics remain important. Money matters! Countless billions of sports dollars are out there. To include salary dollars. A recent SportThoughts column pointed out that Mookie Betts is making $27 million this season— despite not playing. The question of pro athletes making “too much money” regularly comes up on-line. Or in the classroom. It came up every year in my sports management classes. Students were daunted by the high cost of Red Sox tickets. And if they were old enough to buy beer at Fenway they were REALLY daunted! What to do?

Do athletes like Phil Mickelson make too much money? “Salary cap!” was the inevitable answer. But who are we to limit what someone can earn in the private sector? We’d eventually get into that most basic concept from the dismal science: Supply vs. demand. To bring down the cost of tickets, apparel, hot dogs or beer we simply have to stop buying those things and stop watching TV sports. Then the prices will come down. “You mean it’s OUR fault that prices are so high because we’re passionate sports fans?” “Yes.” Then there’s golf. “It’s not right for a golfer to win a million

bucks at a four day golf tournament!” But consider what Phil Mickelson actually took home when he won the 2013 British Open. Kurt Badenhausen reported in Forbes Magazine that Phil’s prize money from his British trip actually totaled $2.2 million, as he won the Scottish Open the week before he won the British Open. But the United Kingdom took a million bucks right away in standard income taxes. Then there were subsequent taxes on bonuses. In the USA Phil faced self-employment taxes (2.9%) and a new Medicare surtax (0.9%). Also, California had a 13.3% state in-

come for Michelson to deal with as well. Michelson kept less than 30% of his winnings. Free market advocates like to say that people should be encouraged to succeed and rewarded accordingly. We really do need rich people to buy yachts, etc. Let the money of successful people “trickle down” to the rest of us. Ten percent of Mickelson’s winnings trickled down to his caddy, Jim “Bones” Mackay. Occasionally Sanders and his ilk impose “luxury taxes” on yachts. Massachusetts tried this. Rich people stopped buying boats. So boat builders then laid off the “little guys” when money stopped “trickling down.” Economics should not be dismal. The subject is interesting, important, and should be better understood. What’s dismal is the Mickelsons of the world working hard and succeeding only to have most of their See MOFFETT on 21

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pers. And I assume the newspaper reporters received their tickets. That, moreover, isn’t the end of the story. The legislature was in session the day the circus came to Concord, and a number of the members were in on a secret plan, along with the newspapermen. That secret was to make maneuvers that would cause the legislative sessions that day to be shortened so that they also could attend the afternoon circus show. The circus was to begin its acts at two in the afternoon and the secret was to enable the House to adjourn at one o’clock. Someone made a motion to move the scheduled afternoon session to the morning and the vote was in favor of the motion. When it appeared that the business would probably end at the hoped for time agreed upon by those in on the secret to assure closing for the day at one o’clock

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foreign aid. No loan guarantees.” This is not pacificism, she says, “I am proposing an American military force ready and able to defend the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii and all U.S. territories against foreign attackers.” But like most libertarians, she doesn’t want America involved in foreign wars. As the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate, Dr. Jorgensen will be on the ballot in most states. Voters will have a real choice this November. Libertarian ideas are very different from those held by today’s Democrats and Republicans. Instead of lusting for more money and power, her party proposes a government that keeps the peace and, mostly, leaves people alone. Sounds good to me. John Stossel is 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.

METZLER from 7 for its political pressures on Hong Kong’s freedom, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government would be wise to mobilize global opposition not only at the United Nations but as importantly through the Commonwealth, the Group of 54 predominantly former British colonies and as mostly democracies, may be quicker to support censuring China. Australia, Canada, and India, are among them. President Trump warned, “Hong Kong is no longer sufficiently autonomous to warrant the special treatment that we have afforded the territory since the handover. China has replaced its promised formula of “one Country, two Systems” with “one country, one system.” Thus the U.S. may cut the special trading status we have with Hong Kong as well as restrict Chinese firms with listings on the New York Stock Exchange. Chinese companies on American exchanges have surprisingly not been subject to the same financial transparency as other listings. Significantly U.S. two-way trade with Hong Kong reached $36 billion in 2019; but with the U.S. sporting a $26 billion surplus! Despite being under PRC’s “Special Administrative Region” since 1997, the Hong Kong SAR nonetheless remains one of the world’s freest and most entrepreneurial economies. This is something to be preserved, not pressured. The successful city state of 7.5 million people has traditionally served as a halfway house for trade between China and the West. Clearly American

sanctions should punish the PRC regime, not penalize pro-U.S. Hong Kong. Otherwise Xi Jinping will have scored another backhanded victory; pressuring Hong Kong politically and having the USA help hurt the relatively independent Hong Kong economy. Though Hong Kong no longer holds the economic clout it had in 1997, China’s Communist Party wishes to see the feisty city state sidelined to the more prosperous counterweight of Shanghai. “Hong Kong has flourished as a bastion of freedom,” stated a joint communique from Australia, Britain, Canada and the United States. Beijing’s new security law would “curtail the Hong Kong people’s liberties, and in doing so, dramatically erode Hong Kong’s autonomy and the system that made it so prosperous.” Is that Beijing’s true plan? 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 9 money confiscated and used to subsidize things that the Michelsons of the world oppose. Sports Quiz What many “Majors” has Phil Mickelson won? Born Today That is to say sports standouts born on June 4 include NBA star Xavier McDaniel (1963). Sports Quote “I model to stay alive. I don’t enjoy my work. I don’t find it creative. You don’t need brains. But I shouldn’t complain, because I’m privileged enough to be overpaid.” Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model

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