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— Remembering D-Day • 70 Years Later — Eisenhower’s D-Day Speech To Troops This following order was issued by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to encourage Allied soldiers taking part in the D-day invasion of June 6, 1944.

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force. You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-

arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battlehardened. He will fight savagely. But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inSee d-day on 16

Wright Museum Honors D-Day’s 70th Hosts Special Film Screening

D-Day, June 6th, 1944...

The invasion of Normandy was the pivotal Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II. Thousands of soldiers died that day seventy years ago. Their sacrifice and what came of it can never be forgotten.

On June 6, 2014 the world will recognize the 70th anniversary of DDay, one of the seminal events of the 20th century. The Wright Museum in Wolfeboro, NH will honor this momentous anniversary with two special screenings of the Academy Award nominated film, D-Day Remembered. The June 6, 1944 invasion, officially called Operation Overlord, involved five beaches along the Normandy coast of France. Allied armies

landed at Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah and Omaha beaches. The American troops who were part of the June 6, 1944 battle would have landed at either Utah or Omaha Beach. The objective of the invasion was to secure a See film on 17

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Friday 6th Jim Breuer

The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. 536-2551

Thursday 5th Lakes Region Youth Soccer League Sign Up

Dark Star Orchestra

Laconia Community Center, Laconia. 6-8pm. Players range in ages from 5-18 years old. Registration fees are $30 per child or $50 per family. 4556572

Cheap Trick

Hampton Beach Casino, 169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton. www.casinoballroom. com or 929-4100

Rummage Sale

Holderness Community Church, 923 US Route 3, Holderness. 9am-6pm. 968-7643

Lakes Region Camera Club Meeting

Trinity Episcopal Church, Meredith. 7pm. Persons of any experience level are welcome. 340-2359

9 Annual Winnipesaukee Wine Festival th

Church Landing, Meredith Bay, Meredith. 5:30-8pm. Auctions for getaways, appetizers from local restaurants and wine sampling from dozens of domestic and international vintners. $50pp to benefit Advice to the Players and the Plymouth Parks and Recreation Flying Monkey Children’s Theatre and Art’s Program. 968-9330

“The Old Man in the Mountain: Substance and Symbol�

Franklin Historical Society, at the Webster/Tay house, Franklin. Presented by Maggie Stier, a field representative for the Preservation Alliance. www.franklinhistoricalsociety. org

Open Auditions for “Sex Please We’re Sixty�

Garrison Players Arts Center, Route 4, Rollinsford. 6:30pm. Actors should bring a resume and be prepared to do a cold reading from the script. 5164919

Hampton Beach Casino, 169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton. www.casinoballroom. com or 929-4100

Rummage Sale

Holderness Community Church, 923 US Route 3, Holderness. 9am-2pm. 968-7643

Wine and Words – Author Katrina Kenison

Lavinia’s Restaurant, Center Harbor. 2pm. Kenison will be discussing her new book, “Magical Journey.� $30pp which includes the book price, along with wine and treats prepared by Lavinia’s. 253-8858

Rummage Sale and Flea Market

First United Methodist Church, 18 Wesley Way, Gilford. 9am-2pm. 5286485

“D-Day Remembered� – Documentary Showing

The Wright Museum, Wolfeboro. 11am and 1pm. RSVPs are strongly encouraged. 569-1212

Saturday 7th EC and the Moonshiners – Live Music

The Mill Fudge Factory, 2 Central Street, Bristol. 7:30-9:30pm. 7440405

2014 Jeep Line-Up

All Jeeps meet at Steve’s Jeep Country, Rt. 4 in Epsom at 10am. Ride destination will be Funspot, Rt. 3, Weirs Beach.$10 donation requested for each Jeep to benefit Wheeling For The Lost, a non-profit organization that aid local and state police in searching for missing children. All entrants will receive raffle tickets for items donated by Steve’s Jeep Country and a $10 Funspot gift card. Drawing to be held at Funspot. 736-8040 for more info

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Ashland Garden Club Plant & Bake Sale

Memorial Park, across from Meredith Village Savings Bank, downtown Ashland. 9am-noon.

Sock Hop

Danbury Grange Hall, Danbury. 7-10pm. Admission is a suggested donation of $5. 526-2614

The Underwater History of Lake Winnipesaukee

Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Museum, Route 3, next door to Funspot, Weirs Beach. 11am. Presented by Hans Hug Jr. His presentation will include videos of wrecks while diving in the big lake and other interesting artifacts from below the surface of the lake. $5pp/nonmembers. Free for members, however RSVP’s are required. 366-5950

Ed Gerhard

The Bow Lake Grange Hall, Strafford. 8pm. $22/advance, $25/door. 6647200

Flea Market

Masonic Building, 410 West Main Street, Tilton. 8am-2pm

Five Museums Open Free to the Public in the Piscataqua Region

In NH, The Jackson House, Governor John Langdon House and RundletMay House all in Portsmouth will be open free to the public, as well as The Hamilton House and Sarah Orne Jewett House in South Berwick, Maine. Tours are first come, first-served and will run from 11am-4pm. 436-3205 or www.historicnewengland.org

Gathering Time – Live Music

Belknap Mill, Beacon Street E, downtown Laconia. 7pm. Fundraiser for Lakes Region Community Services. $22pp, includes an assortment of refreshments. 530-2267

Roast Beef Dinner

Trinity Episcopal Church, 93 NH Rt. 25, Meredith. 5-7pm. $10pp or $25 per family if purchased by June 1st. 10% of the proceeds go to support the works of Lakes Region Visiting Nurses. 2796689

Rummage Sale

Holderness Community Church, 923 US Route 3, Holderness. 9am-2pm. 968-7643

Rye By-the-Sea Duathlon and Road Race

Both the 5k and the duathlon begin at 1237 Washington Road, Rye. 8am. Parking is available at Bethany Church, 500 Breakfast Hill Road, Greenland. Registration forms available online at www.ryebythesea.com

Everyone’s Going to Die

Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. Includes a cocktail hour with music by folk band Badfellows. $8pp. 332-2211

Girls on the Run – 5K

Starts at 9am in Portsmouth. www. girlsontherun.org

Kick Off to Summer – Henniker Brewing Company

Henniker Brewing Company, 129 Centervale Road, Henniker. 12-

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“The Flatlander Chronicles� In Salisbury Weirs Times editor and “F.O.O.L in New Hampshire� columnist Brendan Smith will be speaking at the Salisbury Baptist Meetinghouse on 459 Old Turnpike Rd Salisbury, NH on Tuesday, June 10th at 7pm. Presented by the Salisbury Historical Society, Brendan will be recounting some of his adventures is adjusting to life in New Hampshire after moving here from Long Isalnd, New York in 1985. Brendan will also be reading a few excerpts from his new book “The Flatlander Chronicles� and will be signing copies after the presentation. This program is free and all are welcome to attend.

“Becoming An Outdoors-Woman� Fall Workshop Women interested in learning outdoor skills in a beautiful setting can now sign up for New Hampshire’s fall Becoming an Outdoors-Woman weekend workshop, which will take place September 5-7th at Rockywold/Deephaven Camps on Squam Lake in Holderness. The workshop fee of $335 includes lodging for the weekend, plus all meals, instruction and equipment use. Participants must be age 18 or older. Participants select sessions from more than 30 different outdoor skills workshops, ranging from archery, fishing and flyfishing to camping, field dressing game, hiking, kayaking, rifle, shotgun, nature photography, outdoor survival, campfire cooking, mountain biking, map and compass, and much more. To register, visit http://www.nhbow.com and download the Becoming an Outdoors-Woman fall workshop print-and-mail registration form. This popular weekend fills up fast, so sign up as soon as you can if you are interested. You can also request a registration form at aquatic-ed@wildlife.nh.gov or 603-271-3212. Registration forms will be accepted by Regular Mail Only. No walk-ins or faxes. New Hampshire’s Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) program is co-sponsored by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department (http://www.wildnh.com) and the New Hampshire Wildlife Federation (http://www.nhwf.org).

“Gathering Time� At Belknap Mill Gathering Time, the New York based folk rock trio which delighted their audience last year, is returning by popular demand to the Belknap Mill in Laconia on Saturday, June 7th at 7pm. Last year’s sold out audience was attended by music lovers who enjoyed the dynamic harmonies ranging from joyous and energetic to sweet and sentimental, from socially conscious to funny and serious. They blend the sounds of a high energy Peter, Paul & Mary or a co-ed Crosby, Stills & Nash and couple this with the electricity of the Byrds, Joni Mitchell, the Eagles and America. No wonder they have captured center stage in the Northeast folk scene, already placing 19th among the top 100 national folk groups, according to the New York disc jockey survey. This year’s program will be enhanced by guest artist Mara Levine whose golden voice has been creating beautiful interpretations of traditional and contemporary songs. Mara often harmonizes with Gathering Time’s exquisite and often spiritual music as they jointly perform up and down the eastern seaboard. Tickets are $22 per person including refreshments and can be ordered at www.tbinh.org. If you are so inclined, do add an additional donation for Lakes Region Community Services.

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The Home Team

by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

There’s been a lot of attention being given lately to the names of certain sports teams on both a national and local level. These team names are considered by some to be derogatory reflections of a particular group’s heritage. Unlike those who are against these names beings used, I am not going to mention the names of these teams endlessly here to try and make my point. (In fact, I never really thought much about these team names until the people who are against them kept on saying them over and over again bringing them to my attention on a regular basis.) Whether I am for or against these names being used isn’t the point of this article. I merely want to suggest that if any of these teams decide to change their names to quell the uproar, I hope they might consider using a name that represents a part of my own heritage and call your team “Flatlanders.” The Washington Flatlanders. How cool would that be? I’m sure there are already more than a few of you, Flatlanders yourselves, who are sitting there open-mouthed and slack-jawed at such a suggestion. After all, isn’t the term “Flatlander” also considered derogatory to many who have moved from the big cities to settle in more rural ar-

eas such as here in New Hampshire? At one time this was true, it was a badge none of us liked to wear and I was no exception. But, unlike many new transplants who came before me and those who are yet to come, I have embraced the designation of “Flatlander” and have used it to my advantage, basically creating a whole cottage industry based on it. It has been close to twentyyears since I first approached the subject of talking loudly about being a Flatlander on these pages. I knew not everyone would be happy, many thinking that if it just wasn’t talked about it would go away. I knew that wasn’t about to happen. I knew that calling us “Flatlanders” was the only thing that natives (and those who think they are) had as ammunition against us. The only thing that would be able to wear us down. For many years they were successful until I took up the fight. Today the term “Flatlander” has, for the most part, lost its sting and is no longer a stigma. In fact, many today wear the designation proudly. That is why I think it would be a great idea in helping dilute the term even further by seeing the term “Flatlander” even become more widespread. What better way than the name of different sports teams? I’m sure that thinking on a national level might be a bit of a stretch right now, but I’ve always been one to aim high. There are a variety of high school teams in New Hampshire that are under pressure to change their names and I feel “Flatlanders” would be

a great choice. I would imagine that more than a few players on the teams are actual Flatlanders, so it wouldn’t be that much of a stretch And for you transplants who are reading this in your silent outrage (or noisy outrage if you are from New Jersey) think about how much fun it would be to go to a high school game and hear a group of natives screaming “Let’s Go Flatlanders” or to pick up the local paper one day and read “Flatlanders Are State Champs.” You know you’d love it as much as I would. It would be a sweet victory in many ways. I’m sure there would be much debate over what the team logos might look like. Some might choose the man with the roof rake, others might go with a perplexed figure at the dump for the first time. But it won’t matter, symbols of Flatlanders would become ubiquitous throughout the state and the original, hurtful purpose of the name would be diminished and even something to be proud of. Over the years the team name might find its way to college teams and even the NFL (nothing is ever impossible). We might not live to see the day, but our grandkids just might. Future generations might not ever know that the term Flatlander was once a bad thing. So, I hope I have changed the mind of some who would be against such a thing; I hope you have come to see my point of view. “LETS’ GO FLATLANDERS!!” Brendan Smith welcomes your comments at brendan@weirs.com

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Shaking His Head To The Editor: The Obama administration is plagued with scandals. This is what happens when you elect a community organizer who is a student of Saul Alinsky and Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.� Benghazi and the cover up. Four dead Americans in Benghazi murdered by terrorists in a coordinated terror attack. A narrative was created by the Obama administration that the attack was a “protest gone awry over an anti Muslim YouTube video.� The CIA knew within hours this was not the case. The video lie was concocted to protect Barack Obama weeks before the 2012 election. The IRS targeted conservative groups in the lead up to the 2012 election. Recent freedom of information requests prove that democrat senator Carl Levin from Michigan coordinated with the IRS to target conservative and tea party groups. Mr. Levin recently announced his retirement from the United States senate after 36 years. Now we have the VA scandal where falsified waiting lists have been kept in order to hide the true and disgraceful waiting lists that men and women who served in the United States military must face. Many veterans do not receive care in time and die. Barack Obama responded “that I am madder than hell over this problem.� One prob-

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lem, it’s been revealed that this waiting list issue was brought to the attention of Barack Obama in 2008 during the transition period between the administrations. On a larger scale this is the type of health care that has come to America under Obamacare. Jill Abramson, the now former executive editor at the New York Times in an interview with Al Jazeera America stated that the Obama administration is the “most secretive White House I have ever been involved in covering.� Ms. Abramson has covered every White House since the great Ronald Reagan. Ms. Abramson was fired shortly after her interview from the New York Slimes. So much for the 2008 campaign promise of Barack Obama that his administration would be “the most transparent� in history. What kind of a nation have we become? One that does not seek the truth. We are a nation who has politicians from both parties running around the nation talking about granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. And we leave our military veterans on the sidelines, in thousands of cases we leave them to die. We had Americans in Benghazi, Libya, denied them additional security, made no effort to defend them and save them from terrorists, allowed them to be slaughtered, then the administration lies to the American people about

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.

the attack to protect the president during an election. And since 1973, over fifty million little babies have been aborted. The Lord is surely shaking his head at what we have become as a nation. Patrick Wetmore Ashland, NH.

Mixed Emotions To the Editor: On Memorial Day I had terribly mixed emotions. Our freedoms and opportunities to prosper have been purchased by our soldiers at great personal cost: moments of great stress and even terror, suffering, physical and mental wounds, loss of limbs, hearing and sight, and many gave their lives. We owe our soldiers much more than we give them. We owe them political leaders who consider each soldier’s life as precious. We must avoid war unless absolutely necessary for national defense, consider our soldiers the most precious things on the battlefield and to be protected above all else, and that there are no restrictions to our soldiers’ ability to win. Today’s volunteer military represent a small percent of our population so most of us are unaffected by the consequences of our leaders’ bad policies that cost our soldiers so dearly. Therefore we haven’t been appropriSee mail boat on 34

Locally owned for over 20 years, this publication is devoted to printing the stories of the people and places that make New Hampshire the best place in the world to live. No, none of the daily grind news will PO Box 5458 be found in these pages, just the good stuff. Weirs, NH 03247 Published year round on Thursdays, we distribute 32,000 copies of the Weirs Times TheWeirsTimes.com and Cocheco Times weekly to the Lakes info@weirs.com Region/Concord/Seacoast area. An independent circulation audit estimates facebook.com/weirstimes that over 66,000 people read our @weirstimes newspaper every week. To find out how your business or service can 603-366-8463 benefit from advertising with us please call Fax 603-366-7301 1-888-308-8463. Š2014 Weirs Publishing Company, Inc.

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Guest Editorial President Obama’s VA National Disgrace! We are now in the sixth year of the Obama Presidency. The American people are continuing to see our economy by Tom Thomson l i m p i n g Orfoed, NH. along at best even after Obama’s trillion dollar stimulus which he promised would solve our economic woes. During the past six years there have been many issues or should I say “scandals” that have plagued this administration which they for the most part brought on themselves. Some of those “phony scandals,” as President Obama likes to call them are: 1.The Benghazi affair; where four Americans were slaughtered by terrorists and our President and former Secretary of State Clinton continue to try and cover up the scandal. 2.The IRS targeting conservative groups, which during a recent national interview our President said there wasn’t a shred of evidence that this happened. Now we know of e-mails that were sent from the White House before this scandal broke. 3. And don’t forget Obamacare which is still playing out and unraveling before our eyes. Remember our President said (a.) If you like your Doc-

tor, you can keep your Doctor; period. (b.) If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan; period. (c.) For a family of four your cost for health care will go down by $2500 per year; and we now know these promises were all false. The VA disgrace is a blueprint for what’s to come when Obamacare is fully implemented. For me, I get upset about any and all of the above. I know there are folks who would disagree and that’s okay because, under the First Amendment of our constitution, we still have the right to free speech, which is just one the many freedoms our veterans have protected for us over the years. But there is one “Scandal” we should all be furious about; every Republican, Democrat and Independent should be disgusted with the outrageous scandal that is boiling over in the 26 Veterans Hospitals throughout this great nation. This is a national disgrace and one that President Obama owns and he has known about it since early 2009 and has ignored it. This story broke recently at the VA Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona where it has been reported that many of our Veterans who tried to get help were put on wait lists for months and the media has reported that 40 Veterans may have died while waiting for care. How could this have happened and why wasn’t it noticed long before now? We are now learning the VA Hospital See thomson on 24

Justice for Taryn And Tanner Behold Canada and America. One country supports the efforts of a U.S. special forces soldier’s widow to hold acby Michelle Malkin countable Syndicated Columnist the jihadist who killed her husband and the father of her two young children. The other country helped free that jihadist from Guantanamo Bay in a shady deal that appeased his far-left allies. Guess which side President Obama’s on. The widow is Tabitha Speer. Her children are Taryn and Tanner. Their husband and father was an American hero: Sergeant First Class Christopher Speer, a 28-year-old medic with the U.S. Special Forces. As I reported in my syndicated column 11 years ago, Speer died in Afghanistan during an ambush by al-Qaida

operatives. The remorseless Islamic zealot who lobbed the fatal grenade that killed Speer in 2002: 15-year-old Omar Khadr. Bleeding-heart activists painted Khadr as a brainwashed “child” soldier -- while ignoring Speer’s then 3-year-old daughter and 11-month-old son left fatherless in the name of Allah. Khadr knew exactly what he was doing: targeting Americans for murder. Sergeant First Class Layne Morris of South Jordan, Utah, was there. He lost his right eye in the ambush and said after the attack: “That was a trained al-Qaida who wanted to make his last act on Earth the killing of an American.” The FBI called Khadr, who was detained at Gitmo in November 2002, “cold and callous.” Terrorist videos showed the teen smiling as he rigged explosives in preparation for the fight. The thought of killing our soldiers brightened his day, he said. One of his leaders exulted on tape as they readied their bombs and See malkin on 24

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Obama Foreign Policy Speech, Like Policy, No Home Run Given his drifting and buffeted foreign policy, President Barack Obama had to hit a political home run in his long by John J. Metzler awaited policy Syndicated Columnist address at the West Point commencement ceremonies. Instead amid the majestic setting of the Military Academy graduation, the President presented a measured and lawyerly foreign policy lecture with a few good sound bites, few surprises, and fewer specific initiatives. Viewing America’s role in the world, the President strove to attain a rhetorical sweet spot between the temptations of isolationism and the pull of intervention. Instead we heard a rehashed defense of his existing policy with a few tweaks against terrorism. Obama had the perfect stage to present what was hyped as a major foreign policy address; an overdue reset of what both Republican and Democrat critics as well as American allies view as a loss of faith and respect for the USA in the global arena. Coming just days after his policy pronouncements on Afghanistan, which foolishly signaled to the Taliban the specifics of the American troop withdrawal plans, the speech presented broad brushed themes and only detailed an important $5 billion anti-terrorist initiative for the NEW YORK

developing world. . Richard Haas, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, conceded the speech “lacked a clear strategic rationale.” Reviewing key foreign policy challenges over the past five years, does the President’s rhetoric at West Point, match the sorry reality in which the world has become a far more dangerous, and clearly less predictable, place because of his wavering policies? Significantly, The Arab Spring swept like a desert sandstorm across much of North Africa; Egypt’s pro-American ruler was toppled only to be replaced by a Muslim Brotherhood regime, which in turn was thankfully ousted by the Egyptian military. Sadly Egyptians on both sides of the political fence blame the USA, and it’s far from assured that the new government of General Abdul al-Sissi will be a reliable partner. Egypt a pivotal ally for the United States, and indeed Israel, has become a political question mark. Libya. After the toppling of the hated dictator Gadaffi, the U.S. watched as Libya degenerated into militia rule. The premediated attack on the U.S. Consular facilities in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, killing four Americans, reflected the instability in which terrorists thrive. Today Libya remains in chaos and a U.S. Navy task force is on standby to evacuate Americans from the beleaguered country. Syria has descended into a humanitarian hell during its three years of civil war. While the

Obama Administration initially encouraged pro-democracy forces to overthrow the Assad family dictatorship, the USA failed to follow through early on with necessary aid. The conflict expanded, the reb-

els became increasingly radicalized, and today the options have dangerously narrowed. Indeed after the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons last August, Obama drew his infamous red

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Random Thoughts R a n d o m thoughts on the passing scene: Will the Veterans Administration scandal wake up those people who have been by Thomas Sowell blithely saySyndicated Columnist ing that what we need is a “single payer” system for medical care? Delays in getting to see a doctor have been a common denominator in government-run medical systems in England, Canada and Australia, among other places. Class warfare rhetoric would have us resenting “the top ten percent” in income. But that would be a farce, because most of us would be resenting ourselves, since more than half of all Americans -- 54 percent -- are in the top ten percent at some stage of their lives. Some people act as if the answer to every problem is to put more money and power in the hands of politicians. Freedom means nothing if it does not mean the freedom to do what other people don’t like. Everyone was free to be a Communist under the Stalin dictatorship, and everyone is free to be a Muslim in Saudi Arabia. Yet whole generations are coming out of our colleges where only those who are politically correct are free to speak their minds. What kind of America will they create? In Thomas Piketty’s highlypraised new book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” he asserts that the top tax rate under President Herbert Hoover was 25 percent. But Internal Revenue Service records show that it was 63 percent in 1932.

If Piketty can’t even get his facts straight, why should his grandiose plans for confiscatory global taxation be taken seriously? Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial. Republicans in Congress seem to be drawn toward the immigration issue like a moth toward a flame. How turning illegal immigrants into Democratic voters, while demoralizing the Republican base, will help either the country or the Republicans is a mystery. If ever there was a high-risk, low-yield investment, this is it. President Theodore Roosevelt said that his foreign policy was to “speak softly and carry a big stick.” President Barack Obama’s foreign policy is to speak loudly and carry a little stick. They say talk is cheap, but loose talk by a President of the United States can be very expensive in both blood and treasure. One of the scariest aspects of our times is how seldom either people or policies are judged by their track record. Why in the world are the Baltic states in NATO? The Russian army could overrun them before NATO could get a meeting together to decide what to do. If the Democrats retain control of the Senate after this year’s election, Barack Obama can load the federal courts from top to bottom with judges who will ignore the Constitution, as he does, and promote his far-left political agenda instead, long after he is gone. I get nervous every time I see Mitt Romney showing up in the media. He seems to be maintaining his visibility, in hopes of another run for the White House in 2016. He might well See Sowell on 27

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Today Cody is a vibrant, magnificent horse—a favorite among children, riding students, and the many volunteers who spend time with the horses. While he still bears the scars of his earlier life, atop that hill he See philbrick on 14

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Here at Reuben’s Rescue Ranch, we don’t always know the backgrounds of the animals that find their way to us. But we have one special farm resident, whose entire history we’ve been privileged to be a part of. She was born right here at our farm on June 6th, 2004. Her pregnant mother, Tiny, had come out of a Premarin factory, and was headed for slaughter, along with thousands of other pregnant horses. Live and Let Live Rescue stepped in and saved a truckload of these horses, and shortly thereafter, we adopted Tiny and her unborn foal. Premarin factory horses are terrified of humans, and we had to earn Tiny’s trust before her foal was born. With only a few weeks left ‘til the impending birth, we knew we had our work cut out for us. Every day was spent proving to our Mommahorse that she was finally safe with us. My entire family was over-the-top excited, to witness our first horse birth! As the due date approached, my good-natured husband agreed to be the night watchman.

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the hay bales. Although he swears he nodded off for only a few minutes, the evidence proved contrary. When Tom came to, he was shocked to find himself staring at a wobbly-legged foal, already cleaned up, and awkwardly taking her first steps at her Mama’s side. He had missed the entire birth! So much for recording the delivery. Tiny obviously had other ideas, preferring privacy to notoriety. But how did Tiny know when Tom was asleep? I suspect that Tom’s richter-scale snoring capability might have been what tipped her off. See dawn on 12

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through our thrift & gift shop. Admission is free, but donations are welcomed, as we rely on donations to help support the animals. Please help us celebrate! Dawn Thomson is an independent columnist who, with the help of her husband and two children, runs a private animal sanctuary, called Reuben’s Rescue Ranch, located at 161 Route 104, Danbury, NH. Their mission is to provide a permanent safe haven for animals in need, as well as offering educational opportunities for the public to share hands-on experiences with these beloved creatures. Reuben’s Rescue Ranch is open to the public for visitor, on Saturdays 10am-5pm, from mid May through late October. Group outings are available at other times by appointment. Farmfresh eggs are available for sale, plus they offer an on-site thrift shop, with all proceeds going directly to support the animals. Donations can be made directly to the farm, or to the Reuben’s Rescue Account at Osborne’s Agway in Belmont. For more information, call 630-2239, or email ReubensRescueRanch@myfairpoint.net. Be sure to check out their website at www.reubensrescueranch.weebly.com and/or like them on Facebook. Thank you for your support!

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Ready for the War of Words? Be Informed! H o w many people believe if you are a conservative, you therefore, you are a republican? by Niel Young I am a Advocates Columnist fiscal and social conservative, and only registered as a republican for voter registration reasons. I guess being old, old, school Republican would describe me. There is pride in being a right-winger, Tea Party, principled common sense conservative, yeah, that is me. On the one hand we are told there are few jobs in America that need to be filled. My wife points out that there several job openings in the local papers. I am sure Obama would consider it racist if white and black Americans were cheating and receiving a government check for disability, or gee, there just aren’t any jobs. How many of my fellow working Americans have a morning where it would be easy finding a reason to fall back into that bed? But we don’t; people are counting on us being there. So, off to work, knowing that other Americans or invaders, are counting on part of your earnings so they can lead the life of fraud. ******** G W Bush tried to sell us on the idea that INVADERS were needed to fill jobs Americans won’t do. A few important Republicans – well, they see themselves that way – here in NH are pushing for Amnesty. Shame on those republicans so they can get cheap labor, and to heck with putting Americans to work. TOM DONOHUE, president of the U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, said “the GOP shouldn’t even field a presidential candidate

in 2016 unless Congress passes immigration reform this year”. Now Donahue says he was joking. ******** From MARY C. TILLOTSON of Watchdog.org: Alabama students who come from low-income families and are assigned to schools the state regards as “failing” should stay in those schools, a trial court judge ruled. An attorney representing parents in the lawsuit said they plan to appeal the decision from Wednesday. “We’re pretty confident that we’ll ultimately prevail,” said DICK KOMER, senior attorney for the Institute for Justice. “We also think we have a good shot at getting a temporary stay of the injunction,” or a ruling allowing the program to continue during the court cases. In 2013, lawmakers passed the Alabama Accountability Act, which allows the state’s residents and corporations to take tax credits for donations they make to scholarshipgranting nonprofits. Those nonprofits distribute the private money in the form of scholarships to lowincome families whose children are assigned to failing schools. Those students use the scholarship money for private-school tuition. An Alabama judge ruled against the state’s school choice program, but attorneys representing parents plan to appeal. Of the three lawsuits initially filed against the program, two have been dismissed. In the remaining lawsuit, the trial court judge put the program on hold until the courts sort out the constitutionality of the program. “Today’s ruling is disappointing and another example of the status quo fighting to block children from attending quality schools of their parents’ choice,”

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were promised. President Obama should promise to clean this mess up from top to bottom. We, the American People, should demand our elected representatives pass the necessary law giving the new VA Secretary the power to fire anyone in the VA system that was or is knowingly involved in the “VA National Disgrace�. Any elected official who is unwilling to thoroughly clean up this mess so that it will never happen again to our veterans should be voted out of office on November 4, 2014. The time has come for real action for the care we promised our veterans. Thomas Thomson is a tree farmer in Orford, NH.

lobbying from the “compassionate� social justice crowd. He was repatriated to Canada just weeks before America’s November 2012 election. Leading the pressure campaign on Obama: the Center for Constitutional Rights, which also crusaded for the release of former Gitmo jihadist Abu Sufian bin Qumu, a primary suspect in the Benghazi consulate attacks. Canadian conservative writer and activist Ezra Levant, who has advocated tirelessly for the Speers and for other victims of jihad, noted recently that the liberal Canadian press has mentioned the Speer children a scant six times as Khadr milks leftist sympathies. But what does it say when the Canadian government shows more compassion for the fatherless children of a U.S. soldier than their own government? A search for the Speer children on the White House website yielded: “No results.� Michelle Malkin is the author of “Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies� (Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is malkinblog@gmail.com.

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get a second chance to fail. Romney is the Republican establishment’s idea of the perfect candidate for president -- no matter how many times such candidates lose, even under promising conditions. Anti-Semitism may have the dubious distinction of being the oldest of the group hatreds. You might think that the world would have gotten over anti-Semitism by now, but Jews have been singled out for separate treatment by the Russian insurgents in Ukraine. “We cannot insure to the vicious the fruits of a virtuous life; we would not invade the home of the provident in order to supply the wants of the spendthrift; we do not propose to transfer the rewards of industry to the lap of indolence.” Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan said that in 1896. Today’s Democrats do all those things that Bryan rejected. Any fool can say the word “racism.” In fact, quite a few fools do say it. But clever people can also say “racism,” in order to get fools to vote their way. Those people who want Hillary Clinton elected

president, so that we could have our first woman president, seem to have learned absolutely nothing from the current disaster of choosing a president on the basis of demographics and symbolism. The old saying that taxes are the price we pay for civilization has long since become obsolete. The amount that the government spends to defend us from foreign attack, or to maintain law and order at home, has been overtaken by the money it spends just to transfer some people’s money to other people who are more likely to vote for the reelection of incumbents. Government policies to “bring down the cost of medical care” almost never bring down those costs, and often increase the costs. These policies simply refuse to pay the full costs of medical care. Any one of us can do that, but we know there will be consequences. There will also be consequences when the government refuses to pay the costs, but these consequences will be concealed and/or denied. The old saying that “politics is the art of the possible” is dead wrong. Politics is the art of mak-

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3rd Annual Friendship Walk

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Rummage Sale and Flea Market

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Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society’s Super Bingo!

Funspot Bingo Hall, Route 3, Weirs Beach. Doors open at 2pm. Over $10,000 in prizes up for grabs! 366-5950

Baker River Arts and Music Festival Fundraiser

The Country Cow Restaurant, Campton. 6-11pm. Come for an evening of live music and a great silent auction. www. bramfestival.com

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Moultonborough Library Hosts Master Gardener Bayswater Book Co. of Center Harbor teams up with the Moultonborough Library to host author Thomas Mickey for a book talk and signing on Monday, June 9th at 7:00pm at the Moultonborough Library. Mickey will be discussing his book, America’s Romance with the English Garden. The event is free to the public and copies of Mickey’s book will be on sale. Be sure to check out Bayswater on Facebook and at www.bayswaterbooks.com to stay up to date.

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Open Auditions for “Sex Please We’re Sixty”

Garrison Players Arts Center, Route 4, Rollinsford. 6:30pm. Actors should bring a resume and be prepared to do a cold reading from the script. 5164919

Tuesday 10th Angling in the Smile of the Great Spirit

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NH Boat Museum, 399 Center Street, Wolfeboro. 7pm. Presented by author, speaker, professor and angler, Dr. Hal Lyon. Free and open to the public. 569-4554 Wednesday 11th

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Monday 9th AARP Smart Driver Course

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Moody Mountain Farm, 100 Pork Hill Road, Wolfeboro. 5:30-8pm. Workshop taught by avid bookbinder, Justin Martin. $15pp with an additional $7 materials fee. 539-6460

Rockin’ Daddios – Live Doo-Wop Concert

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Lakes Region Camera Club Meeting

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Thurs. 19th – Sun. 22nd Hampton Beach State Park Fair

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The Chief’s Cup – 4th Annual Golf Scramble

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Senior Ten Pin Bowling League

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