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VOLUME 23, NO. 42
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“Run For The Hills” In Franklin “Run For The Hills” is to be presented at the Franklin Opera House October 16th through the 19th, for four performances only. This original production, written by Franklin’s own Dr. Barry “Doc” Taylor and his father William S. Taylor, will be seen for the first time in New Hampshire, having only been staged previously many years ago in Connecticut. This will surely be a memorable evening of theater in Franklin. Tickets are available now online at www.franklinoperahouse.org or by calling 9341901. Adult tickets are $12, seniors and students for $10. Curtain is 7:30pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 2pm on Sunday. The Franklin Opera House is inside City Hall at 316 Central Street, with plenty of parking behind the building and in the municipal lot across Memorial Street. “Run For The Hills!” will be the topic of conversation throughout the winter, so don’t be left out.
Three generations running Skip’s Gun and Sport Shop on Lake Street in Bristol. (L to R) Skip Reilly, Sue Williamson, John Williamson and Andrew Williamson. Photo at right is the familiar sign welcoming sportsmen and women to Skip’s. brendan smith Photos
Three Generations at Skip’s Gun & Sport Shop
Providing Great Service To The Customer And The Community by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor
The sun had just come out from behind the clouds when the small crowd gathered in front of the Bristol Community Services building in downtown Bristol. The building is desperately in need of new insulation so as to not have to endure another
very expensive heating season, and the crowd gathering in front was composed of the workers and volunteers of the non-profit group as well as Skip Reilly and his family who were making a presentation of $5500 they recently raised to help with the new insulation project. Their popular business, Skip’s Gun and Sport
Shop, has been a fixture in Bristol for years and the donation came from funds raised during their 55th Anniversary Celebration. Skip has always realized that his own success went hand in hand with the success of his community. Skip Reilly is originally from Monmouth County, New Jersey, where, in 1959 he opened his
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first retail gun shop. Not long after, Skip became a police officer and, finding the hours difficult to do both jobs, closed the shop but continued to do repair work for other local shops in the area. During that time he also became a firearms See skip’s on 15
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Oct Through the 18th Greater Tuna – Hilarious 2-Actor Comedy Play
Jean’s Playhouse, 34 Papermill Drive, Lincoln. A hilarious send-up of small town morals and mores, they are all among the upstanding citizens of Tuna, the third smallest town in Texas. www.jeansplayhouse.com 745-2141
Through the 31st Scarecrows of the Port
Downtown Portsmouth. Portsmouth celebrates harvest season with a unique display of scarecrows throughout the city. www.scarecrowsoftheport.com
Through Nov. 29th Jeannie Griffin-Peterka Art Showing
Andrew Carnegie Gallery at the Rochester Public Library, 65 South Main Street, Rochester. www. rochestermfa.org
Thursday 16th America’s Test Kitchen Live
Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main Street, Concord. 7:30pm. 2251111 or www.ccanh.com
Community Photo Club
Frame of Mind, Main Street, Plymouth. A fellowship of area photographers at all levels of development meeting with the express intent of improving their skills and broadening their understanding of the art of taking pictures. 536-3208
Non-denominational Bible Talks
Holiday Inn Express, 77 Farmington Road, Rochester. 7:15-8:15pm. Come learn how you can have a living relationship with a living God. Free to all. 868-2073
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Sanbornton. 7pm. This piano concert by returning artist, Benjamin Hochman will include Bach, Dallapiccola, Beethoven and Schumann. $15pp. Students admitted for free. 934-4240
Cooking for Parents and Kids – 6 Week Course
Gilmanton Community Church, junction of 107 and 140, Gilmanton Corners. 6pm. A pork dinner will be served for $16pp. After the meal, popular columnist, John Harrigan will be speaking about coyotes, wolves and the declining moose population. Open to the public. Reservations can be made by calling Lela Corbin at 5245125
Whole Village Family Resource Center, 258 Highland Street, Plymouth. 5:30-7pm. Free cooking and nutrition series that will discuss whole grains and making pancakes; increasing fruits and vegetables into your meals; making snacks; and other fun recipes for parents and kids to do together. Child care or a place to do homework will be provided. 536-3720 ext. 103 for details.
Thurs. 16th – Sun. 19th Dracula
Silver Center for the Arts, PSU, Plymouth. Rich with both humor and horror, this play paints a wickedly theatrical picture of Stoker’s famous vampire. Unique casting choices make this PSU version even more interesting and provocative. Gothic horror may be unsuitable for young children. 535-2787
“Run for the Hills� – Original Musical Comedy
Franklin Opera House, 316 Central Street, Franklin. This original production written by Franklin’s own Dr. Barry “doc� Taylor and his father William S. Taylor, will be seen for the first time in New Hampshire. $12/ adults, $10/seniors and students. www.franklinoperahouse.org 9341901
Thurs. 16th – Nov. 2nd Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. www. rochesteroperahouse.com 335-1992
Friday 17th Sant Bani School Concert Series – Benjamin Hochman
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Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. www. rochesteroperahouse.com 335-1992 Gilford Community Church, Fellowship Hall, Gilford. 6pm. Marinated salad, Sauerbraten with Gingersnap gravy, Spaetzle, Red Cabbage with onions and apples, potato pancakes and apple crisp. $14pp. Call for reservations. 986-6723
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Squam Lakes Science Center, 23 Science Center Road, Holderness. 6-8:30pm. 40-minute guided tours along the newly designed trail depart every 10 minutes from 6-7:30pm. After each tour guests are invited to warm up with Halloween games and tasty treats. Guests are encouraged to come in costume and dress suitably for outdoor weather. $8/members, $11/non-members. 968-7194
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American Legion Hall, 37 Main Street, Ashland. 5-7pm. Join the Pemi-Baker Valley Republican Committee for an AYCE spaghetti dinner. Visit with your local candidates and find out where they stand on the issues that are important to you. $10pp, $5/kids ages 5-12, kids under 5 are free. 536-2224
Trinity Episcopal Church, Route 25, Meredith. 5-7pm. Corned beef and cabbage, many assorted vegetables and delicious homemade desserts. $10pp or $25/ family if purchased in advance, $12pp at door or $30/family. 10% of the proceeds will be going to Lakes Region Habitat for Humanity. 279-6689
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Leaf Peeper’s Craft Show In North Conway Saturday and Sunday, October 18-19, come to the Leaf Peeper’s Craft Show at the North Conway Community Center, 2628 White Mountain Highway, Rt. 16, North Conway (Next to the Scenic Railroad) Hours for the fair are 10am to 5pm both days. Don’t miss this wonderful craft fair with over 70 fabulous exhibitors. Some of the exhibits will include exquisite pottery, fine jewelry, homemade jams & jellies/dilly beans/pickles/fudge/toffee/ kettle corn, Ben’s NH maple syrups, New England photography, scarves, wooden clocks, cutting boards, hand knits, folk art and seasonal decor, secret pillow quilts, fabric fairies, cedar wood furniture, hot & cold packs, carved wooden pictures, soy candles, Saffie’s Whoopie Pies, corian cutting boards, books and more. Music by Tim Janis. Food will be available. Held rain or shine under a canopy. Booths inside & outside. Free admisson. For more info call Joyce (603)528-4014. Preview www.joycescraftshows.com.
NH Audubon Enchanted Forest The McLane Audubon Center on Silk Farm Road in Concord will host the annual Enchanted Forest on Saturday, October 25, 4:30-9pm. This family friendly event brings groups into the woods along a jack-o-lantern lit trail. In the forest, participants will encounter larger than life characters such as owls, insects, giant plants and more. The characters will dispel myths and share facts about nature through engaging skits and stories. There will also be a campfire to gather around. Crafts, games and refreshments will be available indoors to enjoy before or after the tour. The event will occur rain or shine, skit sites are undercover. Preregistration for a specific tour time is required. Call 224-9909 x 333 to register or see Featured Events on NH Audubon’s website: www.nhaudubon.org. This popular event sold out in years past. Don’t miss out on the 2014 edition of the Enchanted Forest. Cost is $6.50/Member, $9.50/NM. Group rates available for scout and youth groups, call for details.
April Verch and Band Performing in Wolfeboro Fiddle, String Bass, Banjo, Guitar, Stepdancing, Vocal World champion fiddler, step dancer and singer April Verch and Band bring their high-spirited musical fusion of Canada’s Ottawa Valley folk tradition with Celtic, jazz and bluegrass to the Lakes Region Saturday, October 18th at 7:30pm when Wolfeboro Friends of Music presents its second concert of the season at Anderson Hall, Brewster Academy, 205 S. Main St., Wolfeboro.
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Artificial Intelligence
by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor
Remember Y2K? Ahh!! Those were the good old days. Y2K, for those of you who may have forgotten, was a phenomenon that was supposed to happen when 1999 changed over to the year 2000. Supposedly, most computer systems in banks, airlines and many businesses were set up so as not to recognize the change in the date and would think that, once the year changed, they were really going back to 1900, long before computers existed. Hence the computers would be confused and many systems would shut down, or something like that. I could Google it but I don’t have the time. It was supposed to be a huge disaster that would create panic in the streets and anarchy across the world. Some people ran for the hills with enough supplies to get them through the coming revolution. Businesses spent tons of money to put off the inevitable and we held our collective breath. Nothing happened. Still, I wonder if the panic that we thought might happen then would be even worse if it did happen today. Forget about ISIS, Ebola, political campaign seasons and Al Sharpton, a Y2k incident today might just be the biggest threat we are facing. It’s not that we would be that concerned about
bank information being compromised and planes falling from the sky due to computer malfunctions. We would, I’m sure as a nation, be really scared of losing the ability to use our really cool phones. If you are a Luddite, you need not be concerned. (If you don’t know what a Luddite is you can Google it on your iphone. If you don’t have an iphone or Smartphone then you don’t have to worry since you already are one.) I will be the first one to admit that I think technology is great. The wonderful inventions that have been created in my lifetime have been remarkable. Still it is amazing to think that in the future even some of these great inventions will be considered obsolete as newer, more practical and, of course, easier to use versions of some of these inventions will take their place. Will I still be around when man can pop corn without a microwave? Possibly, but the thought of it boggles the imagination. The one avenue of technology that has continued to grow by leaps and bounds since the ancient days of Y2K, is in how we gather our information. Swiftly diminishing are the days when you would need to get yourself to your local library, track down the proper volumes and then pore over pages until you found the information you were looking for; maybe even picking up a few unexpected nuggets along the way. Today Smartphones, iphones, tablets and other impressive gadgets provide us with the opportunity to learn about anything, anywhere, in an instant. We can learn all we need to know about math, chemistry, geography and history on a simple whim
without ever having to get off the couch. We hold a world of knowledge in the palm of our hands. Our phones and alike are a reality of unlimited knowledge that was only dreamed about by past generations. Still, it seems, most of us would rather use them to watch things like videos of cats doing things that cats do. It can be argued that in the library you can only read about cats and things like the uniqueness of their skeletal system and their evolutionary progression, but on your phone you can actually watch them getting their heads stuck in small spaces and falling off things while sleeping. I admit, I am as guilty as the next person when it comes to the way I use these technological wonders. I can often spend hours trying to find who that person was who guest starred in a certain movie or simply scare myself to death trying to figure out the new red spot on my shoulder. (Dengue Fever or just a pimple?) As I watch people nowadays, heads down, staring at their phones (are they doing business or finding out about George Clooney’s wedding?) trying to avoid others in their paths who are doing the same thing, I wonder what would happen if a Y2K event were to actually happen and everyone’s phones, etc., were shut down for awhile. Would there be chaos, panic, anarchy? I’m not sure. Maybe we would all just talk to each other or go to the library or maybe just go home and play with our cats.
Veteran Peer Support Group Hosting Meetings In Laconia All Veterans are welcome to join these newly forming Veteran Peer Support Groups.
A peer support group is a safe place to connect with like-minded veterans that share similar backgrounds and experiences. It is a place to talk about day-to-day issues and give and receive support from fellow veterans. These groups run by and facilitated by fellow veterans. Meetings held in the Conference Room At Health First Family Care 22 Stafford St., Laconia. Two groups available. Tuesdays: Morning Group: 9AM-10:15AM. Evening Group: 5:30PM-6:45PM.
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Elections Are A Referendum To he Editor: Are you tired of the constant and repeated campaign attack ads on television? According to the ads Senator Shaheen is… exposing the nation to peril at the border, truant at important D.C. meetings, an Obama minion, and has gotten wealthy since in office. Scott Brown is a carpet bagger, votes for big oil, and is also a lobbyist/ consultant. Attack ads for the two New Hampshire congressional seats and the governor’s seat follow suit. Politicians underestimate the intelligence of the informed voter. We get it. Your political opponent is misguided, self-centered, a follower, and otherwise loaded with warts. Do you wake up in the morning and wonder what wheels have fallen off the nation’s wagon or what other shoe has dropped while you were sleeping? Most informed voters have a sense that the current administration has lost control on far too many fronts: the economy, our borders, health care, government websites, immigration policy, Department of Justice, IRS, State Department, Secret Service, Veteran’s Administration, foreign policy, terrorism, welfare expenditures, and the national debt. Most think that the nation is clearly headed in the wrong direction. As such, the November election should be a referendum on the performance of those elected officials that are respon-
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sible for the current state of affairs. Jeanne Shaheen is one of those individuals. The perfect attack ad for the Granite State senatorial election should take the form of a silent, still frame picture depicting a group shot of current government officials. Imagine this group photo: Jeanne Shaheen, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and Susan Rice. The caption on the ad should read: “Think about it. Are you comfortable with this group of individuals managing the nation’s affairs”? Do the politicians in this photo instill confidence or do you get a sense that now a behemoth government is open but no one is home? Your vote in November should be a vote for confidence and competency in government. For Granite Stater’s that means voting Jeanne Shaheen out of office. Vote for Scott Brown. Bob Witkop Dover, NH.
Unemployment To The Editor: The unemployment rate is now 5.9 percent. Sounds good. But what about the people who stopped received unemployment or just have part time jobs because they cannot find a full-time job with the same pay rate as the job they lost? They are no longer counted in the unemployment rate. What about the people that did find a job but are getting paid less than the last job they had?
This newspaper was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert as Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette and continued until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. The new Weirs Times was re-established in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee and the Cocheco Valley area with the new Cocheco Times. Our newspaper’s masthead and the map of Lake Winnipesaukee in the center spread are elements in today’s paper which are taken from Calvert’s historic publication.
Just after the primary I heard Maggie Hassan talk about all the jobs she created. I got a job under Maggie Hassan. I also lost that same job. I was hired by a company with a big project. When the project was finished there was not another to take its place, so over a hundred people were laid off. I wonder how many people who got a job created under Maggie Hassan are still employed in that job. I am looking and it does not look good. I do not want to collect unemployment. I want a job. A good job with benefits. A full time job. And so do a lot of people in this state. NH is 50th in corporate taxes. Yep… last in the country. That really is enticing companies to come here. NH needs full time year round jobs. Maggie Hassan is doing nothing to bring businesses to NH. Some are leaving. NH needs jobs with benefits. I do not think Maggie helped the people in our state. She did not help me…… and I am sure she did not help others. I just heard Secretary of State Kerry talk about global warming. He said US policy on global warming will increase global employment. Personally I do not care about global employment. I care about employment in the US, especially NH. Linda Riley Meredith NH.
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by Mike Moffett Contributing Writer
WHITHER FOOTBALL? The punch Ray Rice threw in that Atlantic City elevator last spring continues to rock the football world. Oh, how t h e g r i diron universe would be so different if Rice had controlled his temper that fateful evening—or if the camera wasn’t working when he knocked out his fiancée with one punch. The incident focused attention on misconduct by NFL players and the story often led the news. Many called for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to resign because of the way he dealt with it all. As egregious as Rice’s punch was, I wonder if the response might be disproportionate. As always, in situations like this, those who hate football seek to exploit the incident to the max. Was the punch part of an epidemic of player violence, or a relatively isolated occurrence that should not define the NFL? President Obama famously said that if he had sons, he’d discourage them from playing football. Millions share those sentiments. (There
Over 100 years ago, President Teddy Roosevelt DID threaten to do away with football because of the carnage. was a rumor that the President was going to take executive action against football, but decided to wait until after the mid-term election, so as not to have Democratic U.S. Senate candidates suffer backlash!) But is the NFL’s Golden Age over? Will there be major changes? Should there be? Over 100 years ago, President Teddy Roosevelt DID threaten to do away with football because of the carnage. One year 18 college players were killed. College presidents got together and created what later became the NCAA and rules were changed and helmets introduced. Football endured and the NFL was born in 1920. By the 1970s, with the help of television, it was the country’s most popular sport. But there have always been those with a visceral distaste for football. Too expensive. Too violent. Too male. Last year the anti-football crowd was using the concus-
sion issue to undermine the game. This year it’s player misconduct. These efforts are finally having an effect. Some sponsors threaten to pull back their football advertising. TV ratings are down. So is the sport of football taking a new, downward trajectory? Compared to sports like soccer or basketball, football IS rather odd. In soccer and basketball everyone touches the ball. In football only a few players on offense touch the ball. Defensive players seldom get a touch. Soccer and basketball
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Guest Editorial
And Now, The Rest of the Story….
This week, Charlie Arlinghaus of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy wrote an important article about how our NH state budget by Jane Cormier is in a bad Hooksett, NH. way and is unavoidably about to get much worse. I would like to break down this article for you. It can be read in its entirety at www.jbartlett. org or in the archives at the Union Leader newspaper. Arlinghaus reflects the 2011 state budget was a “crisis budget”. There was an $800 million dollar deficit and because of this, it was necessary to enforce spending cuts to
align with REAL revenues. The 2013 state budget, because of these cuts in spending, enjoyed a surplus. Arlinghaus writes, “The 2013 budget relied on a significant surplus generated by its predecessor to include budget growth that was almost but not quite supported by revenue. The budget counted on spending $29.5 million of the surplus in the first year and $26.7 million in the second.” Now, after requesting for months that our Governor release a budget summary, the unaudited budget was finally released last week. It showed a clear spending issue – NOT a revenue issue. The numbers themselves showed almost perfect revenue estimates. If we spent what we budgeted, then NH would not be in such See cormier on 12
Look Who’s Data Mining Your Toddlers Attention, parents: Have your little ones been subjected to “TS Gold” in school yet? If you care about student privacy, by Michelle Malkin data mining Syndicated Columnist and classroom intrusions, you might want to start asking questions and protecting your children now before it’s too late. What’s happening here in Colorado with this onerous testing regime is happening everywhere. Informed families and teachers from all parts of the political spectrum agree: It’s a Big Government/Big Business “gold” rush you don’t want to join. “TS Gold” stands for Teaching Strategies Gold. This “school readiness assessment system” was mandated in our state several years ago. It has already permeated private day-care centers and preschools; pilot testing in publicly funded preschools and kindergartens is currently taking place. More than 42,000 kids in Colorado alone have been subjected to the assessments. Most parents have no idea the scheme is on track for full implementation by the 20152016 school year. The company already plans to expand assessments to cover children from birth through third grade. Competitors include California’s “Desired Results Developmental Profile” system and the “HighScope Child Observation Record.” TS Gold’s creators describe
the testing vehicle as “an early childhood assessment system” that purportedly measures the “whole child.” What that means is that the tests are not only for “literacy, mathematics, science and technology, social studies and the arts,” but also for “developmental domains including social emotional, physical, language and cognitive development.” Aligned to the federal Common Core standards, which were designed and copyrighted by a small cadre of Beltway educrats, TS Gold received $30 million in federal Race to the Top subsidies in 2012. The assessors have 38 “objectives” arranged under nine topics of academic learning, psychomotor data and social-emotional development. Students are rated and recorded on their ability to do things like “respond to emotional cues,” “interact cooperatively” and “cooperate and share ideas and materials in socially acceptable ways.” TS Gold directs teachers to document student behaviors with videos, audio files, journals and photos -- which are then uploaded to a central database cloud. Already overwhelmed by myriad testing burdens, teachers must undergo intensive training that takes scarce time away from actual instruction. Educators must gather disturbingly intimate and personal data every school day, collate and upload it, and then file lengthy “checkpoint ratings” on each child every 10 to 12 weeks. Creeped out yet? This is just the tip of the data-mining iceberg. Last spring, parent Lauren Coker discovered that TS Gold assessors in her son’s Aurora,
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Hong Kong’s Lessons for Taiwan UNITED NATIONS--Hong
Kong has always been a city of contrasts. Wealth, a free economy, a feisty media, and the rule by John J. Metzler of law, have Syndicated Columnist always contrasted with poverty, crowding and claustrophobia. Still, Hong Kong remains a refuge for millions of Chinese who choose freedom despite its doorstep proximity to Mainland China. Yet, in the past seventeen years, the narrative has somewhat changed as China has tasted the fruits of economic prosperity but has remained politically authoritarian. When the former British Crown Colony was returned to China in July 1997, many people assumed that the glory days were over. After all, this thriving bastion of capitalism and free enterprise was now coming under the wing of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Though the Beijing communists were treaty bound to ensure and guarantee Hong’s Kong’s social, economic and political freedoms for fifty years, few believed this deal, inked in 1984 between Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher, would last for very long. Hong Kong’s freedoms, and may I say freewheeling pace and lifestyle, contrast with most of Mainland China save for a few places like Shanghai.
Hong Kong became the template for Beijing’s reunification formula, “One Country, Two Systems,” in other words the People’s Republic would showcase Hong Kong as an example of political autonomy and peaceful coexistence. The formula was particularly aimed at the Republic of China on Taiwan whose economic prosperity and democratic political institutions glaringly contrast with the PRC model. Having been in Hong Kong at the time of the 1997 handover, the lingering fear was would Beijing’s Marxist mandarins kill the golden goose represented by this spunky Crown Colony? The Chinese allegory emerged that if you kill the Golden Goose, you have one splendid meal, but if you keep it alive, the goose keeps laying golden eggs. Having returned to Hong Kong a few years ago, it was more than obvious the golden goose was still alive and well. This Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic had morphed into the capital of freewheeling Bling-bling with high-end shops rivaling New York or London. Press freedoms were eroding but heavy -handed Mainland censorship was not the norm either; just “patriotic journalism” in other words, writing either positive accounts of Big Brother or saying nothing at all. Now of course the political narrative has changed as Hong Kong’s well educated students and young people are chafing over PRC’s political plan whereby pre-selected
and regime approved candidates will be the only choice in elections for the region’s Chief Executive in 2017. True democratic reforms are clearly not on Beijing’s agenda. Authoritarian “stability” endorsed both by the communist
politicians and the capitalist business tycoons remain the order of the day. Mass pro-democracy demonstrations, dubbed the Umbrella revolution, have rocked Hong
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Ebola and Obama The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is both a danger in itself and a wake-up call for Americans -- about President Obama, about the inby Thomas Sowell stitutions of Syndicated Columnist this country and, most important, about ourselves. There was a time when an outbreak of a deadly disease overseas would bring virtually unanimous agreement that our top priority should be to keep it overseas. Yet Barack Obama has refused to bar entry to the United States by people from countries where the Ebola epidemic rages, as Britain has done. The reason? Refusing to let people with Ebola enter the United States would conflict with the goal of fighting the disease. In other words, the safety of the American people takes second place to the goal of helping people overseas. As if to emphasize his priorities, President Obama has ordered thousands of American troops to go into Ebola-stricken Liberia, disregarding the dangers to those troops and to other Americans when the troops return. What does this say about Obama? At a minimum, it suggests that he takes his conception of himself as a citizen of the world more seriously than he takes his role as President of the United States. At worst, he may consider Americans’ interests expendable in the grand scheme of things internationally. If so, this would explain a lot of his foreign policy disasters around
the world, which seem inexplicable otherwise. Those critics who have been citing Barack Obama’s foreign policy fiascoes and disasters as evidence that he is incompetent may be overlooking the possibility that he has different priorities than the protection of the American people and America’s interests as a nation. This is a monstrous possibility. But no one familiar with the history of the twentieth century should consider monstrous possibilities as things to dismiss automatically. Nor should anyone who has followed Barack Obama’s behavior over his lifetime, and the values that behavior reveals. A few critics who, early on, sensed something un-American, if not anti-American, in Barack Obama, succumbed to the idea that he was not a native-born citizen. That claim blew up in their faces. Nor was birthplace crucial anyway. People born overseas have put their lives on the line to defend America, and scientists who escaped from Europe in the 1930s played a major role in creating the nuclear bomb that made the United States a superpower. Conversely, the country’s most notorious traitor -- Benedict Arnold -- was born on American soil. Whatever the reason, or combination of reasons, that led to President Obama’s foreign policy disasters around the world -- with the crowning disaster of all, a nuclear Iran, looming on the horizon -- it cannot be a simple lack of knowledge or experience. Various former members of the Obama administration are telling the same story, of information and advice from knowledgeable and experienced See Sowell on 31
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Establishing your backyard as a reliable food supply will encourage resident birds to include your area with their feeding range. migrating birds may stop at your feeders for a brief visit, which means you may see even more new species in your backyard. Feeding during the fall is the most effective way to help establish a larger resident population of birds in your vicinity during the winter. Contrary to some beliefs, feeding during this period does not deter birds from migrating, but instead may only hold them in a more northerly segment of their normal range. Migratory birds instinctively will head to more favorable climates. The availability of food affects only the migratory distance. It does not induce a bird to stay in an intolerable climate or in an area that otherwise would not be normal for it to reside in. It is very helpful to start supplying any winter foods such as high oil content seeds as well as suet during the entire autumn season. This will show your current population and any transient birds that your feeders will provide adequate, high-energy foods to help carry them through the upcoming winter months. Establishing your backyard as a reliable food supply will encourage resident birds to include your area with their feeding range, or as we like to call it, their “dinner circuit” Be sure to take the opportunity during the pleasant fall months to clean out
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have constant motion for 90 or 40 minutes, respectively. The actual time the ball is in play during a football game is only around ten minutes. The rest of the time features players in huddles, heading to huddles, or staring at each other on the line of scrimmage. In soccer and basketball all players must have certain skills. Football is incredibly specialized. Offensive lineman are typically behemoths who just block. Punters punt and kickers kick. Some running backs only come in on third downs. On and on. Two officials can control a soccer or basketball game. An NFL game needs eight officials and an instant replay booth. Talk about being overregulated! Soccer and basketball players have all kinds of freedom of movement. Football players at the line of scrimmage must stay still until the ball is snapped, and then usually follow prescribed movements. As George Will once
said, “Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” And he forgot to mention that it is over-regulated, politically incorrect, and too expensive to be played anywhere but North America. But at least football is less dangerous than it was when Teddy Roosevelt threatened to do away with it. Or is it? There are calls for University of Michigan coach Brady Hoke to be fired for leaving quarterback Shane Morris in a game after a brutal hit to the head. There are many similar situations at all levels. In 2013, the NY Daily News reported that between July 1990 and June 2000, an average of 12 high school or college football players died each year. So what’s going to happen to football? Well, it’s not going to go away. NFL games still draw vast TV audiences. It remains a golden goose laying golden eggs. Cosmetic changes will occur
rver (1941). Sportsquote “They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.” ― Wilt Chamberlain Sportsquiz Answer Curly Lambeau of the Green Bay Packers. (George Halas coached the Chicago Bears for many years, but not consecutively).
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CS-P and Kuster - Just Words, No Content DOE and Tea Party “I’d like to pick up where we left off last week concerning national security, terrorist and Eboby Niel Young la incurAdvocates Columnist sions, our troops, and diseases, jihad and illegal immigration. Things have taken a turn for the worse in just a week and the saga continues.� That is Diane Grassi my regular guest for the 4th hour of our Saturday Advocates program. Podcast at wezs. com. ******** Do you have any idea how wonderful it is to have this column and radio program? Do you know how it feels to still be a social and fiscal conservative with principles? Well, some of us older folks understand that we are an endangered species, but we are not going away. Not after the blood shed by so many who would be my age today. That is 58,000 lost lives in Viet Nam! We will not forget those ahead of us who fought and died to preserve this great country. The enemy is within our borders. He lives in a big white house in D.C. We will take our government back at the ballot box beginning November 4. ******** Republican candidate Marilinda Garcia is endorsed by former CD2 Congressman Charlie Bass. The Liberals are running ads that say Marilinda is against education because she will eliminate the Federal Department of Education. What does that DOE really do that the State Board or Local School Boards can’t do? Why
do we need a big budget department in DC? Jimmy Carter created the DOE, and my favorite President did not get rid of it! Marilinda is an extremely intelligent woman. If the DOE in D.C. was to close; how many of us would notice? Ask yourself; would you miss what they do for American education? ******** Cong. Carol Shea-Porter was in Laconia recently. CSP says “We should have had a debate and a vote on the situation in the Middle East, and Congress has not addressed the economy. The economy is getting better, but, unemployment is still high and wages are flat.� Gee, I wish someone at this gathering would have challenged her by asking; you are blaming the Congress for these problems, shouldn’t you be asking your leader Barack Hussein Obama why he cannot find time to speak WITH the members of the body instead of just going around the U S Constitution using Executive Orders? Cong. Shea-Porter, have you spoken to Harry Reid about holding the many pieces of legislation in his desk drawer without debate or discussion? ******** Last Thursday my guest was Dick Morris, author of POWER GRAB. This was the first visit for Morris in all of my years on radio. He is an excellent guest. Here in the short version is what the book will interest you. : “implementing the biggest power grab of all: Obamacare. The law that says anything supporters say it does.� ******** Member of Advocates radio: “My belief is that if enough events begin
to coalesce, his numbers can be driven down in at least a couple of those states, especially if incidents occur there. If the enterovirus starts killing MA school children or there is an ISIS terror attack in Boston or Baltimore traceable to cross border infiltration, even in those states his numbers are going to drop. “Additionally, several million people are going to be dumped by medical insurers after November 15th. That is going to further erode his appeal, even in bastions of liberalism like VT. “This is important because we need numbers down far enough so that when the House investigations uncover felonies we can get rid of him. We are not there yet. By the way, I’m good with Biden for 2 years, it will be entertaining in a vaudeville/NASCAR multiple car chain reaction crash sort of way and may help discredit liberalism to a point that even the media and public universities can’t rehabilitate it in the short run. In the long run, that is good for our country. Biden does not have the political skills that Johnson had. If he can’t be beaten, given the mess we are in, America deserves to go the way of the passenger pigeon and the dodo Bird.� ******** Like his father GHW Bush, and his brother GW Bush, Jeb Bush is so wrong on so many issues. And George is telling us that Jeb should run for president, and he would make an excellent president. Please Lord, never another Bush, please. Jeb, please listen to your mother.
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instructor for the police department and the county as well. After retirement from the force in 1982, Skip and his wife moved “much to our pleasure� to New Hampshire where she had some relatives in the area. “I continued with my business (gunsmithing)
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The present day location of Skip’s Gun and Sport Shop on Lake Street before the renovations. Purchased in 1999, it was a former barn and once housed five businesses. courtesy Photo
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as business was growing and Skip purchased their present location on Lake Street in Bristol, an old barn that once housed five retail businesses. After a great deal of renovation work to the new location, Skip’s Gun and Sport Shop opened its new doors and things have not slowed down since. Originally Skip worked with just his son-in-law, John Williamson. Soon daughter Sue joined the business and today they employ eight people as well as a third generation, Sue and John’s son, Andrew.
But as the business grew, Skip never lost sight of how important a successful community is in keeping a business successful as well. The recent donation to help Bristol Community Services was just one of many donation of not just money, but also time, that Skip has given over the years. The $5500 was the result of the profits from a special line of commemorative Ruger firearms that were created to designate Skip’s fifty-five years in the firearms business. Fifty-five of the numbered Ruger 10/22 rifles were
Skip Reilly holding the first of fifty-five, special edition, Ruger 10/22 rifles that were made to celebrate his fifty-five years in the business. courtesy Photo special ordered (with the first one going to Skip of course) and the rest were sold with all proceeds going towards the Community Services building’s insulation project.
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“This donation is so important to us,” said Susan Colby, director of Bristol Community Services. “We spent thousands last year heating this building. This is going to make a huge difference.” Bristol Community Services works in the towns of Alexandria, Bridgewater, Bristol, Groton and is the food pantry for Hebron. Over the years, Skip’s Gun and Sport Shop has held contests to help other organizations such as a recent one where customers would pay a dollar to guess how many rounds of ammo were in a jar. All of the proceeds went to help the Junior Newfound Bears Football Team. “We collected about three hundred and fifty dollars in that contest,” said Skip. “But we rounded the donation up to five hundred.” In the past Skip himself has even participated in a dunking booth to help raise funds for local kids sports programs. “I remember there was one kid who could hit the target every time and kept dunking me,” laughed
Skip. “Most of the adults couldn’t hit it once. But it was all worth while.” Skip is also a proponent of the Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program, a firearms safety program provided by the NRA that is free to schools. It teaches children what to do of they should happen upon a firearm. ( STOP! Don’t Touch. Leave the Area.Tell an Adult.) But even when the lights go out at Skip’s Gun and Sport Shop (which can sometimes be very late) Skip still gives of his time in other ways. He has been a member of the Newfound School budget committee for years and has also served as a state representative for the past four. “Last year I jokingly wanted to introduce a bill in the house to extend the working day from twentyfour to seventy-two hours so we could all have more time in the day,” Skip said. But he does take his time committed to such ventures seriously and expressed his concern on See skip’s on 17
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LRGH Auxiliary 13th Annual Craft Fair
Laconia High School, 345 Union Ave, Laconia. 9am3pm. More than 65 vendors, artists and crafters will be featuring their hand made crafts and artwork for sale. Free admission. Refreshments will be offered by Annieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CafĂŠ and Catering.
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Lakes Region Energy Fair
Inter-Lakes High School, Route 25, Meredith. 9:30am-2pm. The fair features a gymnasium full of vendors coupled with 15 topical sessions held throughout the event. If you are considering a project and would like to learn more about various technologies including: solar panels, pellet fired boilers, domestic hot water alternatives and financing opportunities, this is the place to be. Free admission. 677-4228
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The Arts Collaborative, 5 Winona Road, Meredith. 4-7pm. Original artwork by The Circle Program teens in Plymouth will be displayed with many items on display for sale. The evening also includes handmade chocolate and live Jazz music. Free admission. Open to the public. 536-4244
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Winnipesaukee Playhouse, 50 Reservoir Road, Meredith. Doors open at 7pm. Tap your feet and feel the beat as the Freese Brothers Big Band performs the music of Ellington, Basie, Miller and Sinatra along with more contemporary tunes specially arranged for Big Band performances. Delicious refreshments and soft drinks. Wine and beer cash bar available. $25pp. www.tbinh. org
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First Congressional Church, 63 South Main Street, Rochester. 4:30-6:30pm. Lasagna, tossed salad, plain or garlic bread, beverage and homemade dessert. $10/adults, $5/kids ages 5-10, kids under 5 are free. 332-1121
Meredith Sculpture Walk â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Guided Tour
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Variety Show
First United Methodist Church, 18 Wesley Way, Gilford. 3pm. There will be a mixture of instrumental music, vocal presentations, poetry and comedy by local talent.
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Praise Assembly of God, 180 School Street, Tilton. 10am and 6pm. This drama examines the question of eternity and weaves together, through the use of true to life situations, a message of hope. Performed by Destiny Drama Ministries out of Lakeland, Florida. 2863007
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Woodside Building Conference Center, Taylor Community, 435 Union Ave, Laconia. 7pm. Laconia painter and muralist, Jeri Bothamley will share her methods for getting a painting started and how these guidelines benefit you as you continue towards completion. Open to the public. 293-2702 www. lakesregionartassociation.com
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Rummage Sale
The Congregational Church, Corner of Pleasant Street and Veterans Square, Laconia. 5-7pm.
Pumpkin Carving Night
Laconia Community Center, 306 Union Ave, Laconia. 6-8pm. Open to families and friends. $8 per pumpkin. Please pay and register by October 20th. 524-5046
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Strawbery Banke Museum, 14 Hancock Street, Portsmouth. 6-8pm. Come meet the Ghosts at Strawbery Bankeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famous Halloween Celebration. Experience Jack-o-LanternLit lanes, Trick or Treat at the Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic houses, watch spooky Halloween movies outdoors, eat at Old Witchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house and enjoy the bonfire. Family/kid friendly. www.portsmouthchamber.org/ events
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Rummage Sale and Flea Market
Redhook Ale Brewery, 1 Redhook Way, Portsmouth. 1-4pm and 6-9pm. Sample over 90 brews from more than 28 breweries. www. p o r t s m o u t h c h a m b e r. o r g / events
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Dusty Gray Band & Pat and the Hats
Strawbery Banke Museum, 14 Hancock Street, Portsmouth. 6-8pm. Come meet the Ghosts at Strawbery Bankeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famous Halloween Celebration. Experience Jack-o-LanternLit lanes, Trick or Treat at the Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic houses, watch spooky Halloween movies outdoors, eat at Old Witchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house and enjoy the bonfire. Family/kid friendly. www.portsmouthchamber.org/ events
Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main Street, Concord. 225-1111
Marshall Tucker Band
The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com 536-2551
Funspotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annual Halloween Party
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are actually as much about Taiwanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future as about Hong Kongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s present predicament.â&#x20AC;? The editorial added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Xi is a bad salesman trying hard to sell Taiwan a product that has already proven stale somewhere else. He hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even tried to sugar-coat the offering for Taiwan.â&#x20AC;? Hong Kongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restless protesters are demanding the rule of law not the rule by law. But beyond the glittering skyscrapers and vistas of this entrepreneurial city by the bay, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a wider lesson emerging for the island of Taiwan, an increasingly unwitting and unwilling suitor to Mr. Xiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charms. 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 (2014).
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Colo., public preschool had recorded information about his trips to the bathroom, his handwashing habits and his ability to pull up his pants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I asked if we could opt out of the system,â&#x20AC;? Coker told me, school officials told her no. She pulled her son out of the school and still doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know whether or how the data can be removed. Sunny Flynn, a mom with kids in Jefferson County, Colo., started raising pointed questions to her school officials about TS Gold last year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where exactly is this powerful, predictive and personal data on our children being stored?â&#x20AC;? she asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What security measures are being used to protect this data? Who exactly has access to this data? How long will the data be stored? What is the proven benefit of a kindergarten teacher putting all of this data into a database?â&#x20AC;? The ultimate goal is not improved school performance. The real end is massive student datamining for meddling and profit. The Obama administration sabotaged federal student and family privacy protections through backroom regulation, allowing onceprotected student data to be sold to private vendors for the creation of what one Colorado bureaucrat calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;human capital pipelines.â&#x20AC;? Edutech firms such as Pearson, Microsoft, Google and Knewton are salivating at the lucrative opportunities to exploit educational Big Data and sell â&#x20AC;&#x153;customized learningâ&#x20AC;? products in the most data-mineable industry in the world. And the politicians who can hook them up are reaping rich rewards in their campaign coffers. As the authors of the Pioneer Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s invaluable report â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cogs in the Machineâ&#x20AC;? explain: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Accompanying Common Core and national testing, and undergirding their influence, is a
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officials being ignored by this vain and headstrong man. Back in the 18th century, Edmund Burke pointed out that, whatever the institutions of government, most of the outcomes of what it does â&#x20AC;&#x153;must depend upon the exercise of the powers which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state.â&#x20AC;? What did the American voters know about the prudence and uprightness of this untried man they elected president, as a result of his glib rhetoric and his racial symbolism? It is not just bad luck when a reckless gamble turns out disastrously. No one knows at this point how big the Ebola danger may turn out to be. But what we do know is that official reassurances about this and other dangers have become worthless. The erosion of Constitutional government over the years has become, under the Obama administration, a deluge of arbitrary edicts and defiant lawlessness protected by a grossly politicized Department of Justice. It may be time to consider reorganizing the institutions of government,
so that high officials who try to reassure the public about medical crises are not officials who serve â&#x20AC;&#x153;at the pleasure of the president.â&#x20AC;? Nor should the Attorney General, whose duty is to enforce the laws, be part of an administration whose law-breakers the Justice Department can protect from prosecution.
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73 Propyl ending 74 Not a single soul 76 Pet dog in “The Thin Man” 77 Like pets 78 Title in Uncle Remus stories 79 Not stored on disk, say 82 Mystery writer Stanley Gardner 84 It flows to the Rhine 86 Nickname of Utah 89 Berate loudly 93 Wood and Wynn 94 Wrist-related 95 Quadri- less one 97 Wipe the chalk from 98 Singer Folds 99 Toys - (kids’ chain) 100 Second man on the moon 103 Moneyless 106 100-yr. stretch 107 Sea east of Greece 108 Former jet to the U.K. 109 Like the languages Hebrew and Somali 113 Gear part 115 Astonishment 117 Yardstick 118 Region between the Adirondacks and Catskills 123 Prison term 124 Utah city 125 Realm 126 Give rise to 127 Skulking sort 128 Not as great
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where the two previous dates - Hammersmith Apollo and Royal Albert Hall - completely sold out. It will be a chance to celebrate the success of the Genesis Revisited - Live at Hammersmith CD/DVD box set and Hackett’s recent Award for best Live Event, again for that famous Hammersmith night. If you missed the show or the show missed your favorite track, here’s your chance to relive the timeless magic that is Genesis, thanks to guitar wizard Steve Hackett and his remarkable live band. Once again, back to make everyone happy. Tickets for Steve Hackett’s Genesis Extended Tour are available now by calling 603225-1111, online at www.ccanh.com, and at the box office, located at 44 South Main Street, Concord, NH 03301, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 11am to 6pm, and Saturday 11am to 2pm. Tickets: Extra $65 Gold Circle, $55 Orchestra/ $1000 Mezzanine, andBonus $45 Balcony.
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