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THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, January 14, 2010
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Hi s t o r y
Historical SOciety News.... 12
Po l i t i c a l/oP i n i o n
The Mail Boat.... 4
Michelle Malkin .... 6
2010 - Year of the
single day of phenomenal Terminator type success, with no regards for the
David Limbaugh....... 6
Ordinary
results, good results, not just being a slight cut other guy and of course
Thomas Sowell...... 7
John Metzler ........ 7
bad ones. Again, this is above the rest, a goal the guy with the big-
Advocates ....... 8
To The Editor: something within the within everyone’s reach. ger more powerful more
We are so used to ev- reach of all of us. Years ago, I read many expensive vehicle would
li f e s t y l e /Hu m o r erything being dramat- I believe that is also the books by the motivational have an advantage over
SportThoughts....... 5
ic, even ordinary things root of the popularity, writer Og Mandino. Many the little guy in the little
Rambling Through History... 9 made to appear more and polarity, of Sarah had the word ‘Secret’ in car. That’s why we need
Here There & Everywhere... 13
dramatic than they are. Palin. She has succeeded their titles. Many of the the government to step
Church Meditations.... 18
Home Improvement 101.... 30
And we are exhausted. by doing ordinary things messages boiled down to in and police the ego’s
Enough already. These consistently well. She being ‘a small but mea- of the big guy and keep
sP e c i a l se c t i o n s
things are mostly beyond knows how to be happy surable bit better than them under control. The
Home Services.... 21
our reach. So-called real- every single day. She others’. Again, a goal guy with the little car
Out On The Town... 24
ity shows are anything considers it a good day within everyone’s reach. watches his speedometer
Real Estate Guide.... 31 but real. when she gets up, has So I’m going to pursue while the fat cat watches
m
I think we are all ready breakfast with her fam- that goal of 51%, a slight his greedometer.
i s c e l l a n e o u s
for a rest. A year of or- ily, goes out & tries not to bit better, rather than And for Mr. North and
Classifieds ........ 26
dinary everyday things. fall on the ice, go snow- the perfectionist goals his remarks about “get-
The Puzzler Page .... 27
Things each and every- machining, or hunting, of 99% or 100%. It will ting serious”, we have
Photo Caption Contest... 28
The Funnies ....... 28-29
one of us can do. Bake and come home to dinner create a lot less stress an army, a navy, an air
an apple pie. It is said with more family. She for me and maybe, just force, the coast guard,
that when the student is knows how to be happy maybe, I’ll wind up doing the Marine Corps, a
ready the teacher will ap- now, and I think that something worthwhile Pentagon and the Joint
Ou r st O r y
pear. I believe that teach- irritates so many. Many this year. Chiefs of Staff. We have
er is Sully Sullenberger. who ‘will be’ happy when the largest war and de-
The Weirs Times was first published
His success was not a they get the next raise, Bob Gorman fense budget in the world
in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert. The hurricane or volcano, or the next promotion, the Nashua, NH. and yet we only have just
newspaper, then named Calvert’s
Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette, was
blowing up a building, next election... But they under l,000 people in our
published until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. but 40 years of doing are miserable today.
Issues With Some of
peace core with a bud-
One of the most remarkable features each day his own private This years Rose Pa- get less than $6,000 per
of the publication was a map of Lake
Winnipesaukee which occupied the
best, something within rade, on New Year’s Day,
Our Columnists
month. Has the thought
center spread of the paper. Readers the reach of all of us. had a similar theme - A To The Editor: occurred to you that just
will find the same map reprinted on the
center pages of this, and every issue.
All of those thousands Cut Above the Rest. No In opposition of Mi- maybe we the American
The new Weirs Times was re-established
of ordinary days built a Arnold Schwarzenegger, chelle Malkin’s The tax payer are sick and
in 1992 and strives to maintain the Depths of Demcare, she tired of war and bearing
patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well
as his devotion to the interests of Lake
indicates the more the the expense of being the
Winnipesaukee and vicinity. American public learns world’s police force. We
about the health care should first have the most
G
plan, the more opposition advanced missile defense
O O d st u F F increases. Quite the con- system the world could
trary! The more the Re- only envy, patrol our in-
Locally owned for over 17 years, this publicans jump up and ternational waters with
publication is devoted to printing the
stories of the people and places that
down and scream bloody nuclear submarines, ro-
make New Hampshire the best place
murder the more the fol- tate our aircraft carriers
in the world to live. No, none of the
daily grind news will be found in these
lowers of the Democratic strategically positioned
pages, just the good stuff.
party wonder just how way out to sea far from
30,000 copies
Advertise with confidence. important this may be our borders. We should
are distributed
Circulation Verified by
and the more they want
every week
maintain our geographic
in the Lakes it. She must not under- bases where we are wel-
Region/Concord
area. 15,000
stand anything about come to do so, and where
Audit Completed 09/30/09
delivered to adolescent psychology we have U.S. territories.
communities along the shores of Lake
Winnipesaukee and another 15,000
(try telling a kid they We should co-operate
to neighboring cities and towns.
can’t have something) fully and contribute to
An independent circulation audit
estimates that over 60,000 people
or the merit side of bad the United Nations. If we
read the Weirs Times every week.
publicity. I guess she has reduce the war budget,
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