Comment from Michael S. Levinson
Time: April 30, 2009, 10:22 pm

To The New Hampshire Gazette,

Dear Steve,

I want to clear the air with all the New Hampshire Newspapers. I was a candidate for president, I am a candidate for president, and, as a candidate for president, I have been to New Hampshire many times.

The last time was October 15, 2007, in Secretary William Gardner’s Office, where I declared I was a write-in candidate seeking the nomination of both parties, so to present a united face to the world. Every thing that happened in the Secretary’s office is on the web, at http://www.youtube.com/poetprophet.

You need to have a look at that, after you revisit what Channel 9 played for its viewership.

Channel 9 took my comments and chopped them up to appear I was mocking my religion. Channel 9 was mocking my religion, with malice. It wasn’t news. It was a fascist confusion of reality. The person who did the editing has close family that works in the pentagon. Isn’t that interesting?

Relative to the “publicity seeker” Channel 9, gave a full minute to, a few months ago, Secretary Gardner was in Florida. We got together and had breakfast, and Bill told me the fellow had been arrested later that day, and kept getting in trouble, in jail, and was still in jail.

Did even one newspaper in the state point out the TV station’s obvious anti-Semitic prejudice?

Before we get to the 700 word essay I am hereby submitting for publication to your newspaper there is another matter. As I see it, our politics in America needs renewal. I have been a registered republican my whole life, but, like so many others, have never felt comfortable with the party’s leadership or ideas.

My plan, in the event it should unfold in New Hampshire, will generate 250 million fresh tourist dollars spent in the state of New hampshire. I posted the following online at The Daily Beast yesterday:

“We need a new politics, a new Independent Party, its platform hammered out by all who join, a giant convention with 200 thousand delegates paying a $200 delegate fee (which adds up to 40 million dollars) to run as a four day open air Woodstockian convention where we advance write, and then ratify our platform all day long and have delegate’s entertainment every night – Metallica, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tina Turner every group you can imagine who believes in peace and freedom will gladly perform every night for the delegates as 40 million dollars in delegate fees can cover their expense.

We will also have the DVD rights, with HBO paying to play all the music live every night, and C-SPAN all day, and besides HBO, a giant pay per view for an additional 20-30 million dollars we can divide amongst the 435 candidates we are going to put up to run for every seat in the House of Representatives, and every open Senate seat, too!

The 435 candidates for the House can hold their first press conference at each individual PBS station where they will all be applying for studio time to give a live speech on behalf of their candidacies without a tele-prompter.

That is my plan. I have had this idea for a long time. I can take it to another state. I don’t have to offer this to your state, but I’d like to because New Hampshire is the perfect place. I will see what all the newspapers in the state do with my 700 word article on saving our automobile industry.

What follows is the same basic letter I sent yesterday to newspapers in the state of Michigan.

To the editor

The following is an op-ed for The New Hampshire Gazette. I’d like to negotiate a series of commentary pieces for a reasonable amount of money with every independent newspaper in the country, say $10 per acceptable article per paper. Regardless, let The National Car-Lotto essay be an essay you publish!

In 1980 I was a write-in candidate for president. At that time our domestic automobile industry was being eaten alive by foreign producers. The Japanese were exporting fuel efficient cars by the boatload.

This was my program that I talked about in that 1980 election. I also did a couple of 90 minute cable-casts as a candidate – um – then coincidently, after 1980, but before 1986, the FCC pulled cable out of the access law making it impossible for anyone to run for high office without millions of dollars.

We need to change that policy so your children can seek high office without compromising their integrity. I’d love the opportunity to come up with an innovative 700 word approach as to how we accomplish that.

The following is my letter to the editor essay for op-ed publication. You can run with it, edit it, whatever you want to do. I’d like it to be the first of a series. You might fax it over to a car dealership that places ads in your paper, and ask their opinion – should you push the idea with a complimentary editorial?

The National Car-Lotto

I want the car czar job. I like the rhyme. Here is my plan regardless of bankruptcy and bailout – to rejuvenate our American automobile industry without government intervention.

As car czar I will organize a national car-lotto raffle, with tickets sold nationwide wherever lotto tickets are sold. Car-lotto raffle tickets will go for one dollar. A winning ticket gets the GM or Chrysler of your choice, with taxes, tag, dealer fees and extended warranty included.

Income tax liability will be forgiven until such time as you sell or trade the car. Our goal, with an advertising blizzard on radio, and TV, is 30,000 yet to be built cars raffled every week, as soon as we clear the cars currently in stock on the lots!

The lotto-raffle winner goes to their favorite dealership. The sales commission on the sticker price is divided amongst the sales force so every buddy benefits. In this manner, the future of America’s car companies is in the hands of we, the people, not Washington, DC bureaucrats.

The Sebring convertible is the sharpest convertible in USA. Were it announced that Chrysler was finished and the last ten thousand Sebring Convertibles were being sold via raffle ticket, every ticket would be gone in an hour!

Cable TV’s blabberific squawking heads don’t get it.

Facing the demise of General Motors and Chrysler, millions of people would purchase a car-lotto raffle ticket every week to win their favorite car. Upon winning you visit the dealership with your winning ticket in hand and order exactly the car and color you want.

I hold millions of people who can’t afford to purchase a new car but can afford to operate a car would purchase car-lotto raffle tickets every week. All of the millions of people who purchase scratch offs and lotto tickets would certainly earmark a dollar or two each week for a car-lotto raffle ticket as the odds of winning a brand new state of the art car are so much better then winning a lotto!

GM would have one million Volts pre-sold before their first car rolled off the line. We should include the all-electric Silicon Valley Tesla, too, for a two dollar ticket. Instead of Obama’s bureaucrats deciding which companies survive in the shrinking world e con oh me, we, the people would be the deciders on what cars we drive.

My car-lotto national raffle program will pre-sell 30,000 new American made cars every week, the money on hold, after all the inventory on all the lots is rolled. Each and every car will be loaded with the latest state of the art features, too. The beauty in this: so many of the car-lotto winners will be people who drive but are not in the market to purchase a new car, much as they’d love to have one.

Those people who are planning on a new car, in spite of today’s e con oh me, aren’t going to hold off until they win one in the car-lotto. They will simply go around to the dealerships and negotiate their best deal. In a troubled world market, our auto industry will survive from the good faith of the car-lotto raffle ticket purchasing American public.

Here is our president, Barky ‘Good Wrench’ Obama, on TV Monday, March 30, barking his approach to killing off GM and Chrysler. I paraphrase President Obama:

“Its time we make the automobile industry dependent on the unending flow of American raffle dollars.”

So why don’t we move on this and give our car industry a chance to renegotiate fresh rolls in a permanently altered world e con oh me? I want to be industry appointed, the car czar guy on the TV ads exhorting everyone to purchase their car-lotto raffle ticket, and make the talk show rounds, pushing our new car for a dollar raffle.

The only hinderance to the above is it is my idea and I am a candidate for president. Once you get past that minor detail you have a winning program. One million jobs will be saved from this. Our whole economy nationwide will benefit.

Michael S. Levinson
8601 9th St N. #9
St Petersburg, Fl 33702
727-234-0979

jacklegsjumpingup@earthlink.net
michaelslevinson.com

Comment from Robert C Gaudet
Time: May 5, 2009, 6:11 pm

U.S. Coast Guard Station Portsmouth Harbor Invite’s the public to Armed Forces Day Open House at
25 Wentworth Road New Castle, NH
SATURDAY MAY 16 2009 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD STATION PORTSMOUTH HARBOR AND COAST GUARD AUXILIARY FLOTILLA 28 WILL BE HOSTING TOURS AND SAFE BOATING EXHIBITS.
This is an educational experience that will be of interest to all members of the family.
Tour the rescue boats and see where the U.S Coast Guard receives distress calls, and how they deploy the rescue boats for Search and Rescue, when a vessel is in distress on the ocean.
Coast Guard Station Portsmouth Harbor will also have an exhibit demonstrating Search and Rescue equipment.
NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will be staffing an exhibit about our local whale populations and distributing materials about marine mammal protection and safe whale watching practices and regulations
Experience how to identify Aids to Navigation and how they are maintained.
Learn about Marine Radios and how to operate them.
Auxiliary Public Education programs will be available, including materials for safe boating. Fined opportunities in the Coast Guard Auxiliary and how you can be involved in Homeland Security as a civilian.
The Auxiliaries operational role on the water will be explained.
For further information, go to our website http://www.uscgauxnh.org
The Coast Guard Auxiliary will explain the Marine Safety Operation mission for the U.S. Coast Guard and how the Coast Guard Auxiliary protects the environment and port security.
Observe a demonstration and discussion of various types of boat fires and the various types of fire extinguishers used to extinguish them. This information would also be useful at home.

Know how and where to have a vessel or paddle craft safety check performed and what required equipment is needed for your boat. Learn how and where you can have your boat inspected to receive the U.S. Coast Guard inspection sticker.
Due to increased recreational use, and the increase of accidents and fatalities in the use of paddle craft, safety checks are now given to paddle craft .Learn about safety tips and equipment needed for safe canoeing or kayaking. Remember, even the most experienced boaters fall victim to boating accidents, always wear your life jacket.
The Coast Guard and Coast Guard Auxiliary will explain how to patch and repair boat leaks at sea.

There will be a demonstration of a high speed pump used to pump water from sinking vessel.

Knot Tying will be demonstrated and you will have an opportunity to try your hand at the nautical skill of knot tying for boaters and land lubbers.

Kids and adults check out your line throwing skills by hitting the target.

Meet Coast Guard Artist, Chris Demarest, and see his exhibit of paintings and drawings he has been commissioned to do for the Coast Guard
End your tour by enjoying a family picnic at the Historic Fort Constitution adjacent to the Coast Guard Station.

Submitted by:
Robert C Gaudet FSO/PA Flotilla Staff Officer/ Public Affairs
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary U.S. Coast Guard Station Portsmouth Harbor
978-462-6792
robertcgaudet@comcast.net
Coast Guard Station Portsmouth Harbor and the Coast Guard Auxiliary invite you to cover this event.

Comment from A.J.Morton
Time: May 23, 2009, 3:01 am

I recently finished research on The Master’s Apron, one of Robert Burns’ most famous masonic poems. Turns out it was written by an New Hampshire statesman, almost a century after the death of the Scottish poet. The story ran in the Sunday Times back in the UK and various county papers. I’ve been advised to inform the press in the States simply because the poem now belongs to the USA. Let me know if it’s newsworthy. If you need any info just email.

A.J.Morton

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6256836.ece

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Comment from David Marshall
Time: September 26, 2009, 1:16 pm

A trust betrayed?

The Chief Judge of Congress’s Court of Veterans Appeals stated that the, “Constitution, Statutes and Regulations” are “policy freely ignored” by both “The Veterans Health Administration” and the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), i.e., the “STATE OF COURT” transcript PARAGRAPH 9 with the U.S. CODE, TITLE 38, SECTIONS (§) 511 and § 7252. Decisions of the Secretary; finality. This is a no teeth Congressional LEGISLATIVE vs an independent from Congress and the DVA, Judicial Branch Court. The DVA Health Care laymen, “initial adjudicators” still are not held responsible for their “freely ignored” and medically ignorant “Schedule of Ratings for Disabilities” decisions. Just one example is this veterans to date “initial adjudicators” ignored “MPerR PERMANENT” “SURGEON HQ ARRC JUN 25 ‘58 MEDICALLY DISQUALIFIED FOR MILITARY SERVICE”! Six (6) months later an “Honorable Discharge” with “Recommended for reenlistment – Yes”. A betrayal reconfirmed by the “initial adjudicators” 27 June 1996 medically unqualified and misleading no “competent medical evidence” overturning of USAF, HMO and DVA physician decisions!

It is now 15 years later without the Chief Judge’s advised Congressional oversight and accountability. Please hold your U.S. House and Senate members accountable for Congress’s perverted Veteran Care.

The complete 16 paragraph “STATE OF COURT” transcript is available on request. Previously at, and now missing from the Chief Judges and state_of_court sites: http://www.goodnet.com/~heads/nebeker and http://www.firebase.net/state_of_court_brief.htm

“STATE OF COURT

CHIEF JUDGE FRANK Q. NEBEKER

STATE OF THE COURT

FOR PRESENTATION TO THE

UNITED STATES COURT OF VETERANS APPEALS

THIRD JUDICIAL CONFERENCE

OCTOBER 17-18, 1994

{as it appears in Veterans Appeals Reporter}”

——————–PARAGRAPH 9 of 16 in “STATE OF COURT” TRANSCRIPT records DVA laymen ignoring medical opinion without veteran recourse.—————————–

“I believe my message is clear. There is, I suggest, no system with judicial review which has within it a component part free to function in its own way, in its own time and with one message to those it disappoints — take an appeal. That is, I am afraid, what we have today in many of the Department’s Agencies of Original Jurisdiction — that is AOJs — around the country. Neither the Court, through the Board, the Board, nor the General Counsel has direct and meaningful control over the Agencies of Original Jurisdiction. Indeed, it is also clear that the VHA — the Veterans Health Administration — ignores specific directives to provide medical opinions as directed. And this is resulting in unconscionable delays. Let us examine judicial review. Remember, the Court and the Board do not make policy, the Secretary and Congress do. The Court simply identifies error made below by a failure to adhere, in individual cases, to the Constitution, statutes, and regulations which themselves reflect policy — policy freely ignored by many initial adjudicators whose attitude is, “I haven’t been told by my boss to change. If you don’t like it — appeal it.” (Emphasis added)

The top medically ignorant “boss” is Congress’s confirmed “Secretary” of the DVA.

AND THE CONGRESS’S “policy freely ignored” UNITED STATES CODE law of the land Health Care take away from Veterans:

1. UNITED STATES CODE, TITLE 38 > PART I > CHAPTER 5 > SUBCHAPTER I >
§ 511. Decisions of the Secretary; finality

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/usc…11—-000-.html

“(a) The Secretary shall decide all questions of law and fact necessary to a decision by the Secretary under a law that affects the provision of benefits by the Secretary to veterans or the dependents or survivors of veterans. Subject to subsection (b), THE DECISION OF THE SECRETARY AS TO ANY SUCH QUESTION SHALL BE FINAL AND CONCLUSIVE AND MAY NOT BE REVIEWED BY ANY OTHER OFFICIAL OR BY ANY COURT, whether by an action in the nature of mandamus or otherwise.” (Emphasis added)

THEREFORE, NO COURT REVIEW OF THE MEDICALLY UNTRAINED laymen “initial adjudicators” “schedule of ratings for disabilities” decisions as proven by:

2. UNITED STATES CODE, TITLE 38 PART V > CHAPTER 72 > SUBCHAPTER I >

§ 7252. Jurisdiction; finality of decisions

“(b) Review in the Court shall be on the record of proceedings before the Secretary and the Board. The extent of the review shall be limited to the scope provided in section 7261 of this title. THE COURT MAY NOT REVIEW THE SCHEDULE OF RATINGS FOR DISABILITIES adopted under section 1155 of this title or any action of the Secretary in adopting or revising that schedule.” (Emphasis added.)

Comment from admin
Time: September 28, 2009, 8:01 pm

David

None of those links seem to go anywhere. And we’re having trouble understanding exactly what you’re getting at.

That said, it appears to be a slam against the existing system of veterans compensation. We’re inclined to believe the critics, and take a pass on the official version.

Check back in, willya?

Comment from Matthew J. Nasuti
Time: December 28, 2009, 9:53 am

Please GOTO http://www.kabulpress.org and click on ENGLISH and goto our 2nd story.
“Remembering Daraz Khan, the First Afghan Killed by a Hellfire Missile Fired by a CIA Predator Drone.”
The Kabul Press authorizes anyone to use the story or summarize it as long as you include a link to the website. It is an important story.
Matthew J. Nasuti
Former U.S. Air Force Captain and U.S. State Department Official (2008)
Resident of Deerfield, Mass.

Comment from Ed
Time: January 7, 2010, 11:02 am

I thought news was supposed to be impartial to political partisanship. It sounds like you guys missed that class in journalism school. Your paper constantly bashes the right and is nothing more than left wing propaganda. Heaven forbid theres another side to an argument. If this nation had it your way we would be bankrupt as a country, taxed till we’re individually poor with no accountability, have all profitable services outsourced because we wouldn’t want someone to turn a profit, rely on mother government because we’re too incompetent to take care of ourselves, give our core freedoms, life, liberty and the persuit of happiness over to our best intentioned government with absolutely no concern that anything like opression or Nazi Germany could every happen to us because we’re american and modern even though universalist control has happened all over the world throughout the entire course of history (have you heard of Darfur fairly recently?

Anyway, your newspaper is pure propaganda. That word has been used alot lately, so please allow me to tell you what that means since I already know you’re not going to admit to your paper being left wing propaganda.

Propaganda is a form of communication aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. It often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda.

Propaganda is neutrally defined as a systematic form of purposeful persuasion that attempts to influence the emotions, attitudes, opinions, and actions of specified target audiences for ideological, political or commercial purposes through the controlled transmission of one-sided messages (which may or may not be factual) via mass and direct media channels.

Comment from Gunther Ostermann
Time: February 22, 2010, 1:29 pm

Kelowna, Feb. 19,10

Dear Editor, would you be interested in publishing this letter?
Open letter to Bill Gates.

Dear Bill Gates, recently the prominent scientist Stephen Hawking warned humanity that “we’re acting with reckless indifference to our future on Planet Earth.”
Your dream in cutting CO2 to zero by 2040 is praiseworthy, but much more than that needs to be done to save our planet, and it’s just not happening. Since several attempts to contact you previously have failed, I’m trying with this open letter to reach you, as it is urgent, since Stephen Hawking also said earlier “the Doomsday Clock advanced to five minutes to midnight.”
I’ve been orbiting (involuntary J) the sun since 1935 and researched the causes of our problems, and if there are possible solutions, for as long as you’ve been alive.
I invite you to look through ‘my telescope’, as I am, until proven otherwise, a modern day Galileo, ignored and maybe silently ridiculed. You’ll find some of my thoughts on the Internet, but these are only appetizers.
Should you decline to meet me privately, I then ask you to a public debate where, should you be the looser, you will spend three hundred thousand dollars, to a project that is needed to allow other people to look through my telescope. I do not want your money. Personally, I know nothing; I’m just stepping on the shoulders of giants and consolidate their genius.
However, to be fair, should I loose this debate, my loss will be one dollar, as this is about the relative worth between us.
You know Bill, we have much to learn. I heartily embrace the humble and honest admission by the late physicist John Wheeler “we do not know the first thing about the universe, about ourselves, and about our place in the universe.”
Sincerely
Gunther Ostermann
Kelowna, BC. 250 765 8726 gco@shaw.ca

Comment from tom Lonnquist
Time: March 27, 2010, 5:13 pm

An Open Letter To the Honorable Senator Mitch McConnell and Congressman John Boehner.

Re: Repeal and Replace

As a patriotic American, I want to applaud and encourage your efforts to improve our healthcare system with sensible conservative solutions. I happen to have a self-employed brother who is a diabetic and is losing his eyesight due to a progressive degenerative condition. While his quarterly insurance payments have gone from under $500 a quarter to over $2500 per quarter over the past decade and his out of pocket co-payments etc run him another $5- 6000 annually, that us not why I am writing you.

My spouse has Crohn’s Disease which (if you know anything about the progression of same) will end up requiring a surgical procedure to bag her waste rather than just dump it directly into the municipal water supply. She receives a bi-monthly infusion that used to cost $10K a dose, but unlike most drugs has come down in price and now only cost around $4 K six times a year… but that is not why I am writing you.

As you Repeal and Replace the current healthcare reform with your sensible, conservative solutions, I want to make sure that you include coverage for a long overlooked condition that a majority of my fellow citizens in your party and in the Tea Party movement certainly suffer from. It causes a severe oxygen deficiency resulting in erratic and irrational behavior, great anxiety, fear mongering behavior, an inability to recognize rational thought, the complete acceptance of fallacious ideas and comments, promotion of thoughts and advocacy of candidates who have little substance and who care only for the smallest percentage of the population, with no concern for the planet they live on or how their behaviors affect anything else.

I am writing because I have another brother, and two brothers-in-law, who each have chronic cases of this condition. It is imperative that coverage be included in any replacement legislation you bring forward to benefit the American people who suffer from this condition. The remedy is simple, inexpensive and can be performed by veterinarians or gastroenterologists. It is called Cranial Rectal Extraction.

When I think of the relief you can bring to these citizens, the improvement in family relationships, the reduction of domestic violence, the elevation in civil discourse and the restoration of true bipartisanship that will result from your efforts and all it will bring to America….well it make me proud. As Vice President Biden said, “This is a big fucking deal!” And to think the GOP could actually be a part of a solution that makes America better. Once this replacement legislation passes, the majority of Americans (and indeed most of the world) will welcome hearing the “giant sucking sound” that will resonate around the world.

A better America! An appreciative population… Repeal and Replace! Include FREE, MANDATORY Cranial Rectal Extractions for any registered Republican or Tea Party member in the GOP Healthcare Reform Package.

Thank you.

Tom Lonnquist