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| Contact Matt! mypiece1@mailcity.com |
My Piece
Matt
LeBlanc (11-12-01)
So it has been a few weeks since my last entry and there has been a lot to talk about. Most recently came the report that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is considering putting toll booths on the New Hampshire border to help pay for the "Big Dig" with toll money from people who live in New Hampshire but work in Taxachusetts. Keep in mind these people are already paying income tax, which does not exist in New Hampshire, to the good commonwealth. Now granted, Taxachusetts will also be collecting the toll from the hundreds of thousands of people who travel to New Hampshire for various leisure activities. The question that begs to be asked is what the government of New Hampshire would do in response. They already give Massachusetts the big middle finger when they drop Interstate 93 from 4 lanes to 2 in a matter of seconds across the border, and then put up signs directed at the good citizens of the commonwealth asking them to drive with courtesy, because "That's the New Hampshire Way." Of course with Jeanne "Betty Crocker" Shaheen in office, as usual nothing will be done, but with a new governor being inaugurated in just over a year (Betty is running for senator), we could see a full out border closing between the sovereign state of New Hampshire and the Commonwealth of Taxachusetts.
Speaking about New Hampshire, that monkey is still wandering around Danville.
Quite frankly, if the monkey is still alive after 2 months in the New Hampshire woods amongst the native bear and moose, we should let him stay. Less intelligent human species from Massachusetts (Worcester west and my relatives not included) move in with out restraint and after a couple weeks act like they own the place (a good reason for the border closing). This more intelligent species has survived for 2 months; it is the least we could do if we find him to give a nice warm home for the winter. Maybe we could import another monkey of the opposite sex and a new species could be bred in New Hampshire. After a few hundred years they would adapt to the colder climate. Or maybe we can let it play with Clark's trained bears. That would let us laugh at the less intelligent species from Massachusetts (again, people Worcester west and my relatives not included) as they laugh at the trained
bears and the monkey.
I was glad to see Dick Cheney's Veterans Day speech. It proved that he is still alive.
So Rye, New Hampshire is going ahead with seccession due to the State of New
Hampshire's socialist school funding plan in which Rye looses mucho dinero. I
congratulate them and offer my full support. The school funding plan is highly unfair to the people of Rye. Plus, it would certainly be fun to see what they would do if they actually were successful in going through with it. As I see it, they would have 3 options. They could ask Maine to annex them. Maine already got the Portsmouth Naval Ship yard, why not give them more of our coast. They could form the nation-state of Rye and not ask for entrance into the United States of America. Or they could form the state of Rye and apply for entry into the United States. #51, Rye.
By the way, while you have been reading this the government has taken away 2
more of your civil liberties.
Slobodan Milosevic continues to sit in the Hague as his trial continues. I would like to ask the people of these United States if they would be willing to send Andrew Jackson or Abraham Lincoln to the Hague for war crimes. I am not saying that Milosevic did not over see some horrible acts. He did order the displacing of thousands of Croats in the early 90's and more recently ethnic Albanians. But Andrew Jackson ordered the displacement of over a million Native Americans. Milosevic did order his army to bring the state of Kosovo back into the Yugoslav union by using force against the Kosovo Liberation Army, and the Yugoslav army did murder civilians. Abraham Lincoln ordered the Union army to use force against the Confederate army to bring back a group of southern states that had collectively succeeded, and this army did murder civilians. Now again, I am not saying what happened in Kosovo or Croatia is acceptable, because it is not, and as a human being I condemn it, but the people of the United States of America should understand our own history before we hypocritically make decisions considering others.
Matt LeBlanc is from Manchester, New Hampshire, and he gladly accepts
questions and comments at mleblan1@ic3.ithaca.edu
