11/23/2023 Weirs Times

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VOLUME 32, NO. 47

THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2023

COMPLIMENTARY

Holiday Open House At Loon Center

A Second Pilgrim Thanksgiving Four Hundred Years Ago

by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Contributing Writer

The first settlers in New Hampshire from England chose their home sites here in the year 1623, just a few years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in Massachusetts.

The first to come to New Hampshire to reside here

were associated with the Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts which is known for observing a feast with the native Americans in the year 1621 that is commonly called the first Thanksgiving observance in what was a new world to the English.

What many people probably do not know is that

two years later, in the summer of 1623, the Pilgrims held another day of thanksgiving which some would insist was really the first genuine Thanksgiving holy day (holiday) in the New World. In spite of all the difficulties those who arrived on the Mayflower, and others soon after, encountered in the land they

called New England, their writings indicate that they were a grateful people.

It seems as if it is a continual mission of someone(s) each year to give us a “corrected” version of the what many of us have been taught since elementary school about the first ThanksgivSee SMITH on 22

The Loon Preservation Committee will host its annual Holiday Open House at The Loon Center in Moultonborough, NH on Saturday, November 25th from 10am - 2pm.

There will be fun for the whole family, including horse-drawn wagon rides, holiday refreshments, balloon animals, crafts for kids, and a visit from Santa! Event is free and all are welcome!

There will also be special holiday sales in the Loon’s Feather Gift Shop (10% off for every visitor, 20% off for members, and 25% off for new members).

Last chance to get tickets for LPC’s Annual Benefit Raffle. Drawing will be held at the Event. Need not be present to win.

Come take part in the holiday cheer and learn about these birds and how you can help protect them. To reach The Loon Center from Route 25 in Moultonborough turn onto Blake Road at the Moultonborough Central School.

Follow Blake Road one mile to the end at Lees Mill Road. Turn right and the Loon Center is the first building on the left, #183. For more info call (603) 476-5666 or email info@loon.org.

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Supporting Trump To The Editor: Take a moment to understand just how the people in this country are being manipulated, not only by a current President who is unable to govern but by those behind the intended destruction of our Republic. Some may believe that there is an unelected faction running this great country and may be much deeper than anyone can even comprehend.

Some may think that the January 6th “insurrection” very well may have been prevented were it not for an effort to discredit President Donald Trump. An enlightening American Thinker October 3rd article titled “The Real Motive for January 6th” by George Shuster contradicts what the government is telling us and worth a read. If one were to objectively do a little research as opposed to the belief that the media is not a propaganda tool then, since the beginning of the last presidency and prior our opinions may be quite different.

Are we really in a position to accept an Administration that promotes the influx of millions of undocumented illegals into a civilized society without any knowledge as to who these people are.

Are we willing to accept those that purposely seek to divide the population and erase the tremendous progress made to address the race issue the previous 50 years.

Is a godless society that promotes immorality towards our youth in the media and in education the new norm.

In addition, a push towards

critical race theory has weakened our military and again serves to infect our educational system The voice of thousands of climate scientists that really don’t agree with the alarmists are censored from social media platforms while the use of fossil fuels are systemically eradicated with the potential to destroy our standing in the world order.

The left and those that promote these radical ideas are exploiting the average American worker struggling to survive in an economy that is either the product of stupidity or insanity because it didn’t have to happen.

The working men and women that made America great since World War II and before are not to be forgotten as they have sacrificed much, nor will the ones that are left allow this country to be taken down by those that hate America.

We have a very powerful weapon in the Constitution and Bill of Rights written for us all and those documents may just stand in the way of those seeking unbridled power but we need a leader that will stop any attempt to change that.

I ask you to vote foe President Donald J. Trump for President in the 2024 election, as in my opinion, he is our last chance at saving this great nation of ours from those that have been successful to date at fundamentally changing it forever.

Francis Boksanske USMC Veteran New Hampton, NH.

Patriotism Lives At Franconia School

To The Editor: Just as they did years ago when they answered the call to serve our country in the various branches of our US military, local northern Grafton County veterans answered the call again, but this time, by accepting an invitation, and attending an event entitled a “Thank You Tribute to our Veterans” by the students and staff of Lafayette Regional Elementary School in Franconia.

The vets were honored as part of the schools “We Salute Our Veterans” in the school auditorium.

In-coming Principal, Amy Koop, along with SAU 35 Superintendent, Kate Segal, welcomed all for this first-of-a-kind event at Lafayette, held on Monday, November 13, 2023. I know I’ve never witnessed this event at this school in the 20 years I’ve lived here.

Many thanks are being extended to the classroom teachers, classroom paras and subs, the multi-talented librarian, the gracious music teacher, the “Coast Guard vet” custodian, the school secretary and office staff, and the cafeteria chef who is also a vet. It seems from the outcome of this marvelous display of gratitude and patriotism by the students and staff… all involved devoted much time and effort in making this tribute such a warm, welcoming, wonderful, and meaningful event, not only for the vets, but more importantly, for the impressionable, young students.

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Our Story

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 reestablished in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee.

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.

Locally owned for 30 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 be found in these pages, just the good stuff.

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An email the night before announced their opening day. I wasn’t able to make the first bell at Bretton Woods because I had a dentist appointment. I got

there as soon as I could, driving straight from the dentist to Bretton Woods.

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EVENTS & ACTIVITIES Moultonborough Book Launch And Upcoming Events

Please join local authors Cristina Ashjian and Jane Rice for the launch of their Arcadia book Images of America: Moultonborough on Wednesday, November 29th from 3-6 PM at the Moultonborough Public Library. This open house and book signing event is generously sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

Cristina Ashjian is chair of the Moultonborough Heritage Commission and director of the Lake Winnipesaukee Museum, and Jane Rice was assistant director of the Moultonborough Public Library for 38 years. For this book, the authors have selected images from the collection of the Moultonborough Historical Society, from the postcard collection of resident Dick Wakefield, and from numerous family albums.

Featuring over 200 photographs of historic Moultonboro, many drawn from private collections and never before published, the book’s images range from the late 1800s to the early 1960s. This new book’s focus is on historic buildings, farms, and camps, with period scenes of recreation and transportation, and image captions identify places and their local significance.

The authors will be happy to sign your copy of this new community book celebrating Moultonborough history, which also makes a great holiday gift. A slideshow of images featured in the book, as well as additional photographs that could not fit in, will be on display on the big screen during the Library open house.

The authors also plan book tables at holiday fairs and community events in early December. Upcoming events include the PTA Holiday Fair at the Moultonborough Central School on Saturday, December 2 from 9-2 and Christmas in the Village in Sandwich on Sunday, December 3. Please contact moultonborobook@gmail.com with questions or for more information.

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Carry On Last week I went to a local store to pick up a few things.

I do like to shop in town when I can.

This store, I admit, was not

by Brendan Smith a “ m o m a n d Weirs Times Editor pop” type of establishment but was part of a chain. Still, it was in town and employed local people, so I consider it keeping the money local in a sense.

I won’t mention the store or the types of items I was purchasing since that isn’t the point, but I will say that what I purchased could just as easily been bought online at a slightly lesser cost and delivered to our house without me having to drive anywhere.

Now the items I bought weren’t big, but I needed six of them and they fit in my hands a bit awkwardly as I went from the back of the store to the front where the cashier was located.

If I had decided to buy, say, eight of these items, which wasn’t at all unreasonable as I would most likely need more at a later date, it would have been a definite handful.

Placing the items on the counter the cashier scanned each one and then, before telling me the price asked me: “Would you like a bag for these for ten cents?”

I looked up from my wallet where I was gathering my debit card.

“I’m sorry, what was that?”

“Would you like a bag for ten cents?”

I must admit I was a bit surprised. I believe that this was the first time in my decades of shopping that such a question was asked of me.

My first thought was to say, “Actually, I’d like a bag for free as I’m used to,” but I didn’t.

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overthinking this. After all, it did look like I could handle the items fine by myself, so maybe she felt I didn’t need a bag and was attempting to follow a possible corporate directive to pretend they are “saving the planet” by charging folks who could probably manage fine without a bag.

So I asked: “If I had twenty of these items that I had to carry to my car, would you still charge me for a bag?”

“Yes,” she said.

She told me this while I spied a plastic bag, fully opened on the metal holder right next to her, beckoning to me, but beyond my reach unless I coughed up an extra dime.

“So, everyone has to pay ten cents for a bag no matter how many items they have?” I asked.

“Unless they brought in their own bag,” she said.

I looked again at the massive stack of plastic bags next to her on the counter and then back to the six items I was purchasing and was having a hard time with this new era in shopping that I was experiencing.

Was this going on in other stores? Maybe I’m just behind the times.

I imagined an elderly woman coming into the store (sans her own bag), maybe with a cane, purchasing several of these items, barely making it from the store shelf to the cashier and then being told that if she didn’t cough up an extra ten cents she was going to have to find a way to get the items out of the store, across the parking lot and into her car, balancing them in her hands.

Or maybe she had a bag, but forgot and left it in the car. I could imagine the cashier directing her: “That’s fine, I’ll just set your items aside while you go get it.”

I imagined other scenarios as well, but I won’t bore you with all of them,

CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATE I finally said: “No bag.”

It certainly wasn’t the cost; it was the principle.

The cashier then asked me if I was a rewards member and had a telephone number to share.

(Did rewards members get free bags? I pondered but did not ask.)

I said I wasn’t a member and she asked if I’d like to become one.

I realized that the cashier was not the maker of store rules and was only following the directions given to her and none of this was her doing. (Maybe she thought the bag policy was stupid herself but couldn’t chime in.) So, I politely said: “No thanks, but could pass along to the manager that I think the bag policy doesn’t make a lot of sense as far as customer service goes.”

She looked at me as if I had three heads. (Which still wouldn’t qualify me for a free bag I assumed.)

I couldn’t help but wonder if this trend was going to grow into other businesses.

For example, will I one day go to a restaurant someday and, after a nice meal, ask for a carry-out container for leftovers only to be told it will cost a quarter since I did not bring my own and then somehow, have to balance my remaining chicken parmesan and rigatoni with tomato sauce in my hands to my car and then somehow drive home? (I guess I could stuff the uneaten breadsticks in my pockets.)

Let’s hope not.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving and I hope all your bags at the grocery store were free.

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The Importance Of Tim Scott’s Presidential Run Sen. Tim Scott left the door open for a future presidential run with his announcement that he is withdrawing from this one.

I hope it’s the case. Although Scott’s presidential campaign never ignited, his presence and campaign contributed immeasurably to our national politics, and perhaps this first experience of his in the national spotlight will

by Star Parker make him that much more effective the next Syndicated Columnist time around.

I would summarize Scott’s unique and critically important message as follows: Race matters. But not for the reasons that those on the left say.

For Scott, race matters to the extent his personal life story matters.

Born in poverty, raised by a single mother, Scott’s turning point came when the light of faith ignited in his soul at age 18.

Beginning at that point, his life was defined by faith, meaning, work and personal responsibility. These are the values that lead him from poverty to the U.S. Senate and to a presidential campaign. And these are the values, per Scott, that define what America and freedom are about.

During the last Republican debate, Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker questioned the most basic premise of Scott’s campaign in her online debate commentary: “Sen. Tim Scott must recognize that America is not exclusively a Christian nation. How can he sell himself to a diverse country if he’s only willing to address Christians?”

The answer to Parker is that Tim Scott is not trying to make every American a Christian, any more than Ronald Reagan was, whose message Scott used as the model for his message that America is a land of hope and opportunity.

Freedom, per Scott and Reagan, is about every citizen taking personal responsibility for the outcome of their own life. This, Scott would say, is impossible without faith to get you through the hard times, to give you assurance that your struggles have meaning, and eternal values that respect life and property.

The center of responsibility in a free country lies with each individual citizen.

Reagan’s global battle was with the Soviet Union and communism.

It’s not so different from the See PARKER on 28

The Barbarians Are Inside The Gates This weekend marked Armistice Day in Great Britain and Veterans Day in the United States. Both are somber days typically marked by honor and respect for symbols of the country and the men and womby Ben Shapiro en who have sacrificed Syndicated Columnist so much for them. Instead, both London and New York City featured terrorist supporters marching en masse through the centers of the West, proclaiming their sovereignty.

Marxist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once blustered that the West was so guilty for its colonization that the best path would be to be colonized in reverse: “It’s our turn to tread the path, step by step, which leads down to native level. But to become natives altogether, our soil must be occupied by a formerly colonized people and we must starve of hunger. This won’t happen.”

Sartre, obviously, was wrong. He, along with his like-minded and soft-headed colleagues, helped to discredit the West so thoroughly that the West spent decades importing millions of people who despise it.

And so London this weekend saw radical Muslims threatening the open annihilation of Jews. It saw home-grown or imported radicals wearing the headgear of terrorist group Hamas. It saw them attempting to mob the current Secretary of State for Housing Michael Gove. At least 150 people were arrested. But there were 300,000 marching in solidarity with a terrorist group.

The philosophy of those marching with Hamas and against the West is clear and obvious: The West is powerful; the West has exploited; the West is white; therefore, the West is powerful because the West is white and exploitative.

Under this theory, antisemitism is directly linked with anti-whiteness. The idea is that the Jews are the ultimate white

people: They are unduly successful, and thus must be stopped. As one pro-Hamas flyer distributed at the University of Chicago read, “Ending White Privilege Starts With Ending Jewish Privilege.”

This notion is fully coincident with antiAmericanism, too. America, after all, is largely great because of the promise that anyone of any background can get ahead.

Jews are one of the great success stories in American history by that standard, given the fact that they arrived mostly in the early 20th century dirt poor, and quickly became highly educated and economically successful.

The current antisemitic movement is linked directly to hatred for the country and its meritocratic promise. That’s why pro-Hamas protesters spent the weekend ripping down American flags.

Across the world, those who have not achieved are uniting against the West. They blame the West for their lack of success while living off the West’s largesse.

The West has a choice. It can be colonized in Sartre’s fashion, or it can refuse that colonization. In the UK, that battle is taking place largely over the verbiage of Suella Braverman, former Home Secretary, who has been stalwartly calling for an end to the police and government’s coddling of pro-Hamas ralliers. Noticing the predations of the pro-Hamas crowd, however, is a dismissible offense in the U.K. In the words of Neil Basu, former head of counterterrorism policing in the U.K., “You have a chance of inflaming both sides when you make such divisive remarks.”

Yes, it was the remarks that were divisive, not the hundreds of thousands of people calling for the destruction of Israel and the West from the heart of London.

Mustn’t offend, you know.

In the United States, that battle is taking place at the universities, where enemies of the United States are ushered in and offered scholarships. The latest iteration comes courteSee SHAPIRO on 15

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Government Deceit “Experts” were confident that they knew what America should do about Covid. They were wrong about so much.

Officials pushed masks, including

by John Stossel useless cloth ones.

Syndicated Columnist Dr. Anthony Fauci said, “Don’t wear masks” -- then, “Do wear them.”

Some states closed playgrounds and banned motorboats and Jet Skis.

Towns in New York banned using leafblowers. California pointlessly closed beaches and gave people citations for “watching the sunset.” The list goes

on.

Sen. Rand Paul’s new book, “Deception,” argues that government experts didn’t just make mistakes; they were purposely deceitful. A few weeks ago, this column reported how Paul was correct in accusing Fauci of funding virus research in Wuhan and lying about it.

In my new video, we cover other government deceit.

Paul says, “There’s been one set of truths in private and another set of truths for the people who aren’t smart enough to make their decisions.”

He points out that Fauci, in private, told fellow bureaucrats that masking is pointless. Fauci wrote in one email: “The typical mask you buy in the drug

store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.”

But in public, complains Paul, Fauci would sometimes wear multiple masks “Things that have no scientific basis in fact. ... There’s two sets of information going out, one privately and one publicly.”

“Why?” I ask.

“They think that there could be hysteria. They’re in government. They need to do something. ... So let’s get everybody occupied with wearing masks. ... But in the end, the Cochrane analysis looked at 78 randomized studies and found that masks didn’t work at all.”

“N95 masks may work,” I say.

“The Cochrane analysis looked at the N95 and found they didn’t work very well,” Paul replies.

Another mistake: the virus is 500 times more likely to kill people ages 65 and up than kill kids. But our government told parents: mask your children. Some states kept kids out of schools for two years.

Also, “When they approved the third vaccine for children,” says Paul, “The first committee was the FDA committee. ... They came out with the advice: 65 and older. Nobody else. The CDC had another vaccine committee. ...

They said the same thing ... (but) Rochelle Walensky, a political appointee See STOSSEL on 28

Argentines Choose Freedom Over More Of The Same Old Political Tango Facing a tight and tense Presidential election showdown, Argentines chose Freedom. In a stunning upset, the South

by John J. Metzler American counSyndicated Columnist try elected an upstart libertarian candidate Javier Milea, an economist who promised to cut spending, reduce bloated budgets, mixed with calls for economic shock therapy to save the resource rich country from its downward spiral.

The second round election came a month after both men emerged

from a bruising multi-candidate contest. Economics Minister Sergio Massa, a professional politician and part of the center-left government faced off Javier Milea, (53) new to politics, who mixes populism with pragmatism.

The result saw Milea gain a commanding 56 percent of the vote to 44 percent for the government candidate. Results were called less than two hours after the polls closed. Cheering crowds filled the streets of the capital Buenos Aires.

The political contenders were polar opposites in nearly every sense; one a man of the establishment, another a sometimes comically controversial populist with

an appeal to the young voters and a bruised business sector; 76 percent of voters cast ballots.

Many observers describe Javier Milea as Argentina’s populist persona of former Brazilian President Jiar Bolsonaro or former U.S. President Donald Trump.

Milea’s new movement La Libertad Avanza (Liberty Advances) a political coalition, lacked the formal party structures and organization of the mainstream centerright party led by former President Mauricio Macri who lost four years ago but who supported Milea.

The election was set to the backdrop of Argentina’s drastic economic and social decline where a

resource rich land seemed in a race to the bottom. Inflation hovers at 140% while the national currency the Peso has sadly become just short of play money with 354 Pesos to the U.S. Dollar. When this writer visited Argentina just a few years ago, the exchange rate stood at 38 Pesos to the 1 U.S. dollar.

The reasons are manifold but are rooted in a bloated social welfare state, combined with the enduring political cult of Peronism, a 1950’s hyper nationalist/populist/socialist dogma. High levels of corruption and cronyism have long eroded the national fabric.

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Letters From God This series of Letters From God is an attempt to put the thoughts of God as revealed in the Scriptures.

your Father. All life has come from me, from my heart of love and my power to create. My very nature is love (1 John 4:8). I created you because I love you and wanted to share all that is mine with you, my “children.” It is the nature of love to give and to share so others can benefit from what you have. When I created you, I originally placed you in a perfect environment, one without death or decay that reflected the life that I possess and longed to share with you, my creation (Genesis 1: 3-31). I am your heavenly Father! Now think for a moment how you would “feel” if you had children, as earthly fathers and mothers, and lavished your child with everything good, sacrificing and sharing all that you have to bring them into existence and bless them with all your resources for life, but they never gave you thanks. Imagine how you would feel if they selfishly took all that you gave them and attributed it all to themselves or others.

Think of how the lack of thankfulness would drive a wedge of separation between you and your love, so that with each passing day they would move farther and farther away from you and become lost in a world of selfishness and greed.

This leads me to the second reason why it hurts me when you fail to give thanks. I know that when you forget me, the source of love & life, you will search

for it in all the wrong places. You will discover that those you pursued for love and life, whether yourself or others, cannot love you as you need or give you “life that is truly life” (1 Timothy 6:19) because their selfishness, though masked with generosity, must always take.

When you realize this, it will be too late. You will be hurt badly. I grieve that you are not thankful because I know you, my creation, will never know true love and will, in the end, languish in death.

If you have not read my book, the Bible, which I wrote to convey my love and desire to give you life, I urge you to read the parable of the “Prodigal Son.” (Luke 15:11-14).

He represents all of mankind who fail to give thanks to me, the source of life, then squander their lives with those who “befriend” him but never truly love. They provide things that give temporary joy but always return enduring pain. Read it and weep as I do, and as the father in the story must have wept. His grief was from knowing that his son’s failure to thank him and appreciate his love would lead him to languishing in the squalor of death, depicted as living among swine (Luke 15:15-16).

But please read on and see that the father in this parable, representing me your heavenly Father, has never stopped loving his thankless son (Luke

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QUESTION: How Do You Feel About Not Being Thanked For All You Have Done?

I t is interesting that you asked me how I “feel” about not being thanked. First, let me say that with the recent defection from looking to me as God and trusting me, there are fewer of my creation who are expressing thanks. How would you assess your own expression of thanking me in light of who I am and what I have done for you?

With regard to your question, you have recognized that I do “feel.” You are well aware that you, as my creation, feel things emotionally. Do you know that the ability to feel is because I created you to be like me, in my “image?”

(Genesis 1:27). Since I feel, I created you to feel as well. I say this not only to affirm the reality that you feel but to answer your question. Yes, I do feel and with respect to not being thanked as I deserve, it hurts me badly. (Genesis 6:6; Psalm 78:40; John 11:35; Matthew 26:38).

It hurts for two reasons. First to be as giving and gracious as I have been and knowing that what I have given you is often taken for granted or unrecognized altogether is, in itself, painful. I am your creator God,

15:17-24). He longs for his son to return, not to punish and alienate him with cold, stern and begrudging “love,” but instead longs to be restored with his “child” and lavish his treasures upon him once again.

Can you see that this is me? I “grieve” at the loss of relationship with you my “child.” I weep over the effects of death that you are experiencing as a result of failing to give thanks and looking for love in all the wrong places. I long for us to be restored so much, that I sent my son Jesus, your Messiah, to live among you and die to pay your debt of sin that separated you from me.

If only you could see how your thanklessness hurts you as it has hurts me! If only you could see that my son Jesus and I have continued to love you by making the ultimate sacrifice of his life so that you could be restored? Open your eyes and your heart.

Become thankful again and draw near and we will draw near to you again (James 4: 8) and lift you from the squalor of death to the glories of life and love again.

I love you, God These letters are written by Rev. Dr. Sam Hollo of Alton, NH.

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Unions have their places in our employment universe.

They’ve done muchneeded good during certain historic times.

And at other times they’ve also harmed the greater good.

While I’ve always felt “Right to Work” legislation deserves fair consideration, I’ll also point out that I may be the most unionized legislator in Concord, having been a duespaying member of the NEA, the SEA, and the United Papermakers Union.

This all brings us to Hanover, N.H., and the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team. The Big Green hoop squad recently submitted a petition to the National Labor Relations Board to unionize. The players filed with the help of the Local 560 chap-

This man is the answer to this week’s trivia question. He was head coach for the Boston Celtics before he became head men’s basketball coach at Dartmouth College. ter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). I don’t know the latest re: this labor action or where it all might end up, but athletics unionization does inspire some sport-thoughts.

Fairly or unfairly, many folks associate unions with strikes.

In fact, I’m writing this from Portland, Oregon, where teachers are presently on strike.

(Possibly doing some harm to the greater good?)

All our pro sports have unions, or player associations, as they’re called. And they’ve all had strikes and/or lockouts. Fans

hate those. Such work stoppages tend to do harm to sport’s greater good for several reasons. But pro athletes understandably seek to maximize incomes and perks.

College athletes also want to improve their circumstances. And they now have more rights—and more power—than ever.

The NCAA recently lost several court battles re: name, image, and likeness (NIL) compensation for student-athletes. The U.S. Supreme Court earlier unanimously confirmed a Ninth Circuit ruling that the NCAA’s limitation on

education-related benefits for student-athletes violates federal antitrust laws. Players rate more compensation for their unique efforts.

So college athletes are now swimming in some (figurative) uncharted waters. (And I’m not talking about Lia Thomas. See Oct. 5 SPORT-THOUGHTS).

So, while I admittedly don’t yet fully understand the ramifications of college teams unionizing, some questions do pop up.

Like: Could there be a “work stoppage?” (i.e., a strike or a lockout?)

What is the grievance procedure? (if “management” is “unfair?”)

Will a team elect a “union steward?” (a top player or a benchwarmer?)

Will the Big Green hoop union support other local SEIU labor actions? (i.e., sympathy strikes, boycotts, or picketing activities?)

Other questions percolate as well.

In this age of quotas and “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” one wonders if coaching decisions might more need to reflect DEI influences. What about “equitable” playing time for all union members?

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Wild Turkey In New England

by Chris Bosak Contributing Writer

I have two routes to get to work each day.

According to my GPS, each way takes the same exact amount of time to reach my destination.

The route I end up taking is usually a spurof-the-moment decision right before I either go straight or take a left.

Neither route is particularly conducive to seeing wildlife, unfortunately. However, one route does take me by a cemetery where I often see a large flock of wild turkeys. Sometimes that alone is enough to sway my spur-ofthe-moment decision to take that route.

I see the turkeys there in all seasons. I’ve seen them on rainy spring days, hot summer days, colorful autumn days and snowy winter days.

When I get to work, I am often treated to even more sightings of wild turkeys as there is a flock that scours the property looking for food. The turkeys at work are particularly brave and if you are not paying attention or walking with your head down, you are liable to almost bump into them.

Of course, this is all just a way to set up my somewhat annual Thanksgiving turkey column. The story of the wild turkey in New England is an interesting one. I have seen turkeys from the tip

A wild turkey struts in a cemetery in New England. of New Hampshire in Pittsburg to the middle of the state in Laconia and at the bottom of the state in pretty much every Monadnock Region town.

It wasn’t always that way.

At one point there were no turkeys in New Hampshire. None. From the middle of the 1800s to the middle of the 1900s, turkeys were absent from New England, mostly due to the clearing of forests. In the 1960s, other states were having success reintroducing wild turkeys into their ecosystem, so in 1969, New Hampshire gave it a try.

It failed.

In 1975, Ted Walski of the New Hampshire Fish & Game Department gave it another go. It was successful.

The story, of course, is a lot more involved

than that. Walski is the hero of the story with his instincts, hardiness and perseverance being the keys to the successful reintroduction of the wild turkey into the Granite State.

NewEngland.com has a terrific story on Walski and the New Hampshire turkey reintroduction, written by Jim Collins.

An internet search for “Walski New Hampshire wild turkey reintroduction” will find the story, for those interested in learning more.

I met Mr. Walski back in the 1990s when I was working on a story about fishers for The Keene Sentinel. I don’t remember the particulars of the story, but I do remember meeting Mr. Walski. He’s a character.

Now, for your Thanksgiving enjoyment, here are a few of my favorite

wild turkey facts: Turkeys have bald heads that can change color from white to blue to red in a matter of seconds depending on the turkey’s mood.

Turkeys can run about as fast as the fastest humans — about 20-25 miles per hour. They can also fly, despite some lore to the contrary, and sleep in trees.

You can tell a turkey’s sex by examining its droppings: males’ are J-shaped and females’ are spiral.

Wild turkeys occur in every state except Alaska.

About 40 million turkeys are consumed on Thanksgiving. Enjoy yours and thanks for reading For the Birds.

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With a bit more vigor (some would say panic), I started to huff and puff like the Big

Bad Wolf. The flames snuffed out, but now the kitchen was filling with a blue haze as I scurried about to open windows before the fire alarm went off to wake the sleeping household.

Crisis averted, aside from a few char marks on the underside of my toast, all was well and no one was the wiser.

As to the inspiration for this bread? This comes from ‘Uncle Leo.’ When Uncle Leo comes to visit he usually brings with him all manner of gifts, anything from little trinkets and useful yard sale finds to delicious foods he has discovered in his travels. A Tomato Bread, a yeast loaf from a bakery, was one of his finds and it is so delicious one could probably eat the entire loaf in one sitting. It’s that good!

As stated in the past, to make yeast bread, well, that is an art I have little patience for

and as such, have yet to master. So, as I was eating my second or third piece of Tomato Bread the idea hit me, why not a Tomato Beer Bread? Exploring some internet recipes I couldn’t find what I wanted so I decided to use the basic Beer Bread recipe I had and modify it. The experiments began.

It was a few days later that I was exploring one of those “All for a dollar twenty-five” stores. Now, one would think, if you’ve been in one, you’ve been in all of them, but this simply is not true. Merchandise fluctuates little in concept but greatly in details and that is how I found the Roasted Red Pepper Tomato “Sip¨” Soup.

Originally, I was looking for a can of Tomato Soup, the one wrapped in that familiar red and white label made famous by Andy Warhol.

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The flowers of Evergreen amaryllis feature mint green petals, and Wild Amazone has long, recurved petals in a blend of brick-red, maroon, ivory, and pale green.

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free public concert of holiday music and traditional carols, which will be performed by a low brass ensemble featuring low brass instruments, such as tubas, baritone horns and euphoniums, usually seen at the back of the band. This year the TUBACHRISTMAS

concert is part of the Wolfeboro Christmas Spirit Open House and monetary donations will be gratefully accepted for the L.I.F.E. Ministries Food Pantry to provide food and other necessities for area residents.

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, November 23, 2023 —

‘Presbybop’ Jazz Quintet In ‘A Joyful (Jazzful) Holiday Concert’ DON’T BE A GRINCH! Wolfeboro Friends of Music continues its 88th season with one of America’s most unique and soulful jazz ensembles, ‘The Presbybop Jazz Quintet’, back by popular demand! This encore concert takes place at The First Congregational Church, 115 South Main Street, Wolfeboro, on Friday, December 8th at 7pm/.

Since 1993, the Presbybop Quintet has offered jazz that brings listeners completely to life.

Founded by pianist Bill Carter, the band is a consort of professional musicians from New York and eastern Pennsylvania.

They are excited to return to Wolfeboro for a toe-tapping evening of Holiday jazz. Since two of the band’s albums fea-

ture holiday music, listeners can expect to hear familiar songs of the season - including a medley of music from “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”

Don’t miss this great opportunity to hear these outstanding musicians! (the band’s leader just happens to be a Presbyterian minister- thus their music is ‘Heavenly’) “Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quar-

Opening for the Christmas Season starting Nov. 24.

Will be open weekly from Thursday – Sunday.

tet honor the Christmas Season with a thoughtful collection of standard and notso-standard melodies of the Christmas Season. “Fragile Incarnation, is a collection of carols presented with a swinging and reverent style, all translate very well to the jazz vernacular in the hands of the capable Mr. Carter” says Michael Bailey in ‘All

About Jazz’ magazine.

Tickets are available for $30 at the website: www.wfriendsofmusic. org; at Black’s Paper & Gift Store and Avery Insurance, Main St. Wolfeboro, and at the door on the day of the concert.

High School students with ID will be admitted free of charge. Children accompanied by an adult ticket purchaser will be admitted free of charge.

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TUBA from 18 TUBACHRISTMAS at www.tubachristmas. com. According to the conductor, “The arrangements are wonderful, very fresh, and appealing, for they focus upon the melodic capabilities of the instruments and their rich, mellow sound when played together in close harmony. For the audience, it’s very much like listening to familiar music being performed in an interesting new way, quite warm and welcoming.”

Harvey Phillips, a renowned tuba virtuoso and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, School of Music, founded TUBACHRISTMAS in 1974. He conceived it to honor the great tubist and teacher, William Bell, who was born on Christmas Day in 1902. The famous American composer,

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Claudia Bissett, who holds a Masters degree in Musicology from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, is the Conductor of the Wolfeboro TUBACHRISTMAS concert. She is a member of the Strafford Wind Symphony, the Cate Park Band, and is also the flute soloist at All Saints Episcopal Church in Wolfeboro.

The public is invited to attend the Wolfeboro TUBACHRISTMAS concert, which will begin at 2 pm in the sanctuary of the First Congregational Church, 115 South Main Street, Saturday, December 9. If you have never been to a TUBACHRISTMAS performance before, you are in for a musical treat, so mark your calendar, bring your family, invite your friends! For more information about this concert, contact the local TUBACHRISTMAS co-coordinator, Joe Ewing, at (603) 569-3861 or the TUBACHRISTMAS website.

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, November 23, 2023 —

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was there. I figure that an eyewitness account is apt to be more accurate than speculation offered 600 years later.

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cerning the planting of the corn, because they had nothing to give to help the people, so felt

William Bradford,Governor at Plymouth WHO along with Winslow, wrote about the three day Thanksgiving observance of 1621. they could make no requirements of them, as they had done previously. The idea was that they, the governors, would step in to make sure everyone was cared for when the harvest took place.

Mr. Winslow, in his writings, mentioned the “disposition of some drones,” who would be burdensome to the rest of the colony. The planting went well and the corn grew well until the end of May when a period of six weeks without rain caused the corn stalks to wither. The drought also affected their beans, and they, too, began to dry up.

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Myles Standish - Military leader of the Puritans (Pilgrims) and friend of David Thomson.

SMITH from 22 crops was the news given to the Plymouth colony that a ship full of supplies for them, and for which they had been waiting for months, had apparently been wrecked. Of the Plymouth colony Edward Winslow said, “The most courageous were now discouraged, because God, which hitherto had been our only shield and supporter, now seemed in his anger to arm himself against us.

And who can withstand the fierceness of his wrath?” All these unfavorable happenings moved “every good man,” according to Winslow, to privately examine his own relationship with God, and to join the others in humbling themselves together before the Lord by fasting and prayer.

A day was set apart for the Plymouth colony to gather together for that purpose while avoiding doing other things on that appointed day. “In the morning”, Winslow

wrote, “when we assembled together, the heavens were as clear, and the drought as like to continue as ever it was, yet, (our exercise continuing some eight or nine hours,) before our departure, the weather was overcast, the clouds gathered together on all sides, and on the next morning distilled such soft, sweet, and moderate showers of rain, continuing some fourteen days, and mixed with such seasonable weather, as it was hard to say whether our withered corn or drooping affections were most quickened or revived; such was the bounty and goodness of our God.” The Indians were said to have taken notice of what had happened on behalf of the colonists and the quick change in the weather when the people fasted and prayed to God asking for rain. A difference was noted between the “conjuration” of the Indians and the invocation of the settlers

on the name of God for rain, with the response to the Indians said to sometimes be storms and tempests that laid the corn flat on the ground, unlike the response to the colonists’ prayer of a gentle, seasonable rain.

It was in response to the change in their circumstances that the Thanksgiving Day of 1623 was held.

To quote Winslow again he said, “So that having these many signs of God’s favor and acceptation, we thought it would be great ingratitude, if secretly we should smother up the same, or content ourselves with private thanksgiving for that, which by private prayer could not be obtained.”

So another “solemn” day was set apart as a day of Thanksgiving.

In it they gathered to “..return glory, honor, and praise, with all thankfulness, to our good God, which dealt so graciously with us..”

It was truly a day of thanksgiving and Winslow labeled these events to be the most remarkable since those of December, 1621.

The supply ship they thought was wrecked

Sarah Josepha Hale of New Hampshire who was instrumental in persuading President Lincoln to proclaim a national day of Thanksgiving. had returned to England, but two other ships with supplies arrived in late July and early August giving them more reason to be thankful.

It was at about the same time that Captain Miles Standish showed up at the colony with Mr. David Thomson, a Scotchman, who was known to have “begun a plantation” that spring of 1623 at a place called

Pascatoquack.” Thomson’s “plantation” at Little Harbor (now Odiorne State Park) only lasted a few years, but William and Edward Hilton became the founders of another settlement a little farther up the Piscataqua River which eventually became known as Dover. History books date that settlement as also beginning in 1623, though some claim that the Hilton’s didn’t

arrive until years later.

The sponsor of these men was “The Company of Laconia.”

The early colonists at Plymouth and other settlements endured severe hardships, including losing many of their family members and friends by death, but they seemed quick to thank God for their blessings.

Winslow said that when morning came they often had to seek their food for the day.

Also that “at noon I have seen men stagger by reason of faintness for want of food, yet ere night, by the good providence and blessing of God, we have enjoyed such plenty as though the windows of heaven had been opened unto us.”

Concerning New England, the weather of which he found to be like the Old, Winslow wrote: “ I cannot but think that God hath a purpose to give that land as an inheritance to our nation.”

Still, there was no plan or intention at that time to drive the Indians out of that land, nor to make it independent of England.

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, November 23, 2023 —

Yours Truly and Barb riding the chairlift for the first time this ski season at Bretton Woods.

PATENAUDE from 3 ticket buyers were rewarded with a discount for their contribution.

My friend Barb met me and we skied a few runs together. The Zephyr high-speed

quad was the only lift running and the trail beneath it, Range View, was covered wide with snow from the lift to the far edge to the snow guns. The top half of the mountain was in a

cloud and the visibility wasn’t good. But the snow was great. I loved the feeling of my skis making turns on the snow while gravity sped me down the slope.

The temperature was

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just below freezing and we were bundled up to stay warm. It felt like winter. Barb and I giggled on the chairlift when she said her nose was cold.

I made 15 runs and tired myself out in three

hours. My friend Barb lasted about an hour.

This was a good start but it will take a few more outings to get my ski legs strong. There were lots of smiles on everyone’s faces enjoying opening day. Visit BrettonWood.com for current snow conditions and upcoming events.

New England Firsts: A small ski area in Massachusetts, Ski Ward, opened in mid October with one slope serviced by their magic carpet claiming honors as the first to open in North America. I don’t think anyone saw that coming but fun for them for pulling it off and with $5 lift tickets.

Vermont’s Killington opened at the beginning of November. They first opened the top of their mountain for See PATENAUDE on 25

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, November 23, 2023 — The Timbertown Quadchairlift has a loading carpet that will serve a mix of new blue square and green circle gentler slopes in addition to providing access to the Pemi Base Camp/ Lincoln Express Quad.

Cranmore Mountain Resort is opening their new big base lodge this season.

Attitash has replaced the Summit Triple with

Dr. Jeffrey Davis Dr. Thomas Detwiller Dr. William McCann

a new high-speed Quad lift that will reduce the ride time by more than half to just six minutes and it will increase carrying capacity.

After a brief scare, Black Mountain in Jackson plans to open this season and has a new General Manager, Gareth Slattery. His experience as a patroller and risk manager includes 17 years at

Cannon and The Yellowstone Club.

New Hampshire’s resorts have made major capital improvements. Projects range from snowmaking to base lodge improvements and new grooming equipment. There is a lot to look forward to experiencing this winter.

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Another happy face on the slope at Bretton Woods. Check for snow reports at BrettonWoods.com and/or SkiNH.com.

PATENAUDE from 24 skiers and snowboarders with a ride up the gondola and a walk down to the top of the Upper Great Northern.

A gondola ride was required to get back to the base. Kiillington is making all the snow they can to cover the Superstar Trail where they’ll be hosting the Women’s World Cup Skiing on the weekend

after Thanksgiving.

Maine’s Sunday River opened the same day as Bretton Woods.

More resorts will open

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, November 23, 2023 —

MAILBOAT from 2 tire student body stand, place their hands over the hearts, and recite The Pledge of Allegiance to our American Flag.

Great job, kids!

One could tell that the music teacher spent considerable time leading the Lafayette School Chorus in singing a Thank You Tribute entitled “The Brave” written

by John Riggio. Another

wonderful expression of Thank You to the vets was played by the Lafayette School Band, and led by the same music teacher. The selections which were played included “When the Saints Go Marching In” and “Ode to Joy/ Conquest,” which went off without a hitch! Who knows,someday, these same students may be playing in the US Army

Band, or the US Navy Band, or the US Air Force Band? And, to think, it may have all started here in little Franconia Elementary.

“Thank You” letters, written by the students themselves, and read to the assembled audience via a microphone, promoted some self-confidence in these Kindergarten to Grade 6 students!

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Maybe, a Presidential candidate will someday spawn from that courageous reading.

The final “Thank You” by the kids to the vets was a memorable march around the auditorium with the kids waving and shouting “Thank You” to the vets.

All in all, this “Thank You Salute” by the students and staff of Lafayette Elementary School left this vet with the view that there is still hope for the kind of America envisioned by our Founding Fathers centuries ago.

The students’ display of patriotism should be a model for other New Hampshire school boards and town boards to emulate.

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I always felt I should be playing the whole game. Every game!

What player wants to sit on the bench?

Therein lies one of the many issues associated with unionizing college basketball teams. Labor unions sometimes discourage personal initiative.

Union contracts tend to reward longevity and “next-in-line” advancements—as opposed to supporting individual initiative or meritorious promotions.

But high-level sports are meritocracies. Just win, baby.

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Presumably the Blue Devils all played without union contracts.

Sports Quiz What Boston Celtic basketball head coach left Boston to coach men’s hoop at Dartmouth? (Answer follows) Born Today That is to say, sports standouts born on November 23 include MLB pitching great Luis Tiant (1940) and NBA star Vin Baker (1971).

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, November 23, 2023 — FEAST from 13 And, while this store has a small selection of soups, sadly,Tomato was not one of them. I had just about given up when I looked down to the left, something red that looked like a melted soup can partially hidden behind a floor display had caught my eye.

Purposefully packaged in a curvy canister with a tactile surface unlike a normal metal can wrapped in paper, this “can” fit just right in the hand. The target audience was obvious, people who wanted something convenient, presumably healthy, but were on the go with little time for lunch.

A cute, easy to handle container with a name that included the word “well”; it must be healthy! Call me cynical. Call me crazy. Call me what you want. But, it’s all about marketing. Just don´t look at the sodium content, 650mg per serving is about 28% of the average daily value. But, I was sold to the tune of $2.50 and walked out with two “cans.”

I should also mention, while you’re in this store, move a bit further down the aisle.

Here you will find a good variety of herbs and spices. When comparing ingredients with those found in regular grocery stores they typically contain the same thing, Ground Cinnamon: Cinnamon.

Parsley Flakes: Parsley. Garlic or Onion Powder: Garlic or Onion. And guess what?

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Onto the tops of the first batch I made, I tossed a few dashes of

Cinnamon. This really added to the fragrance as it was baking but added minimally to the flavor, so for the second and final test batches I left it off and didn’t miss it.

As mentioned earlier, this bread’s flavor gets better with age.

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Made a day ahead, this would be a nice hostess gift when visiting during the holiday’s. Just wait for it to cool before wrapping it or placing it in a zip lock bag.

So, you may be wondering why I held the cheddar out of subsequent batches? Well, as an accelerant, it worked splendidly, the grease from the melted cheese dripping onto the heat shield of the heating element in the toaster oven. When things got hot enough, FOOF! “Houston, we have ignition!” Adding little to the overall flavor of the bread, it made me realize there are better uses for little gobs of sharp cheddar rather than in beer bread. My advice, use grated parm in the bread and slice the cheddar for an accompaniment with this bread and a nice fall apple such as a Macoun or a Honey Crisp.

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28 PARKER from 6 battle today of those, like Scott, who wish to preserve America as a free country, and the left who carry the message of “wokeism.”

The core characteristic of “wokeism” is no different than the core characteristic of communism.

It puts its faith in government and politics and not in individual freedom and God. The massive fiscal and economic problems we have today are the direct result of increasing faith and reliance in government and politics.

More debt, more spending, more government translate into less growth and less wealth.

Just as communism was a failed model that ultimately collapsed, so we are heading down the same path with big

government wokeism in our own country.

This is why Scott’s place in national politics is so important.

Our political future increasingly depends on Americans of color.

When Reagan first ran for president in 1980, 88% of voters were white.

In the last presidential election in 2020, 67% of voters were white.

Disproportionately, non-white voters have placed more faith in government than in themselves. It is killing these communities and the country.

It is of critical importance that a successful Black man like Scott stand before the nation and argue against big government and for the eternal values that sustain individual freedom, a free society and that

— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, November 23, 2023 — he showcases his own life as proof that these STOSSEL from 7 values work. of Biden, overrode both Recently the Census scientific committees Bureau, for the first and said the vaccine time, projected that booster should be given the American popu- to six months and up.” lation will shrink. As “Why? What’s the mowe approach midcen- tivation?” I ask. “Get tury, deaths will exceed more people frightened, births, as the population and then they’ll take the ages and we produce vaccine and that will fewer children. save America?”

Kathleen Parker may Paul says, “I think question Tim Scott’s most of them are not message of Christian very smart and they just values. blindly think, ‘Take the But it is those values damn vaccine, shut up that enable America as and take it. It’s good for a free country and lead you.’” us into the future.

Has he been vaccinated?

Star Parker is presi“God gave me my vacdent of the Center for cine.” He tells me. “I Urban Renewal and Ed- was naturally inocuucation and host of the lated. But members of weekly television show my family, my wife, got “Cure America with Star vaccinated. We’re not Parker.” Her recent book, against the advice.”

“What Is the CURE for I clarify, “’Naturally inAmerica?” is available oculated,’ meaning you now. got Covid?”

“I had Covid, so I have immunity,” he replies.

At the start of the pandemic, Sweden’s health officials did not shut down restaurants or other businesses. They also announced that they would not close schools for younger children.

For doing that, Sweden was repeatedly trashed by American government officials and the media. Time Magazine called Sweden’s plan “a disaster.”

But the Swedish approach was right! Not only did Sweden escape the economic and social harm of lockdowns, but its Covid-related death rate was lower than that of most other countries.

“It turns out they did as well, or better, than most parts of Europe,” says Paul.

“Better,” I point out.

“They also didn’t mandate masks in schools (or) close the schools.

Everything we did in this country was wrong.”

I push back. “On balance, vaccines were a good thing. They work for older people, people my age.” In fact, Republican anti-vax “messaging may have killed people!” Before the vaccine came out, an equal number of Republicans and Democrats died.

But once the anti-vax messages spread, Republicans had a higher death rate.

Paul replies, “Vaccine hesitancy comes from people’s disbelief in government.”

He adds, “I think people learned from this ... (learned) what to trust and what not to trust.

People will be smarter the next time around.”

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, November 23, 2023 — METZLER from 7 Javier Milea’s formula; abolish the Central Bank and U.S. Dollarize the currency.

Whether this can work in an economy as large as Argentina is very debatable.

Argentina’s 46 million people nonetheless face the fact that 40 percent of their population live under the poverty rate! This echoes a shameful legacy of the ruling political class, and equally served as a powerful catalyst for change.

People tend to forget that during most of the 20th century, Argentina was a rea-

sonably prosperous middle class country, a leader on the South American continent.

At first, the era of Juan and Evita Peron was able to live and give off the accumulated wealth of the past.

But by the 1960’s and 1970’s, money had run out and the debts became unmanageable. The Falklands Islands military blunder with Britain in the 1980’s toppled a military junta from power and then actually brought democracy and a modicum of political stability to Argentina.

Yet, despite its eco-

nomic problems, Argentina holds vast natural resources and remains a key agricultural producer.

China wants to vacuum up Argentina’s resources and already has vital inroads to the country. Setting up Hwawei 5G networks, access to a satellite tracking station in southern Patagonia, and coaxing the Buenos Aires government into supporting Global South causes with its decided tilt away from Washington. Beijing’s ambitions are hampered but not stopped with the win of the center-right govern-

ment.

Javier Milei’s profile has soared in recent weeks. In the final TV debate between the two candidates, he made the case for shaking up the status quo; “Ask yourself if you prefer inflation over stability, if you prefer this decline in production and employment or if you prefer economic growth?”

Currently the country owes $44 billion to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and faces a negative GDP growth rate of -2.5 percent.

With its vast underperformance people

were fed up with the unfolding disaster.

Yet can any new government, despite its good intentions, overcome the undertow of the old regime?

In his victory speech president elect Milei stated, “Today Argentina’s reconstruction begins.”

The Argentine left dances to a sad political tango, holding a strange sentimentality for Peronism’s socialist past. Thus be assured that the new president will face strikes, demonstrations and political calumnies as he tries to reset the national free-

dom agenda.

Milea won but now look at what he inherits.

John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations; Germany, Korea, China.

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