Frebike
I’ve loved searching in New England each fall for the previous 40 years. However each autumn, when the leaves emerge in all their superb splendor and flocks of Canada geese sing their approach south, I’m as soon as once more reminded of considered one of America’s most misplaced priorities.
As a red-blooded, white, cisgender male American (and proudly not a member of the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation and by no means the proprietor of any assault-style weapons), I’ve the authorized proper in New Hampshire to go watch a youngsters’s soccer sport with an AR-15 and a 100-round journal strapped to my again. However, in response to Title 50, Half 20 of the Federal Code, if I’m caught within the wild attempting to find a Christmas goose with a shotgun bigger than a 10-gauge or one with the flexibility to fireplace greater than three rounds, I’ll instantly lose my license and be compelled to pay a hefty high-quality.
Why do People care a lot extra about Canada geese than the security of their very own youngsters?
TIM van LEER
Hanover
As neighbors, we depend on each other to feed, take care of and defend one another. Our relative success in containing the COVID-19 pandemic is a testomony to the care and deliberation of our fellow Granite Staters.
Bullying just isn’t OK. Attacking folks based mostly on their gender, race, sexual orientation or standpoint is flawed. Such habits runs counter to the ideas upon which this nation was based and sows dangerous division inside our group. Kids and adults want function fashions who embody kindness and humility. We’re accountable as New Hampshire residents and United States residents for the conduct we allow in our communities. The people we elevate to positions of authority matter.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has my vote as a result of he treats others with respect and makes selections with restraint. You do not need to carry my place, however stealing and defacing indicators just isn’t permissible.
Please deal with others the best way you want to be handled. Hate has no place in our group.
ANNA HARRIS
Lebanon
I’ve not seen fairly a lot waffle within the Discussion board as I’ve seen about electrical bikes just lately.
I’ve been an proprietor of two e-bikes. The primary one was harmful as a result of the battery pack and the motor had been positioned on the again wheel. When steering from the entrance wheel, the again wheel usually ignored such maneuvers after which threw you to the bottom.
The second e-bike was higher balanced by having the motor on the middle of the foot pedals and the battery pack in entrance of your seating equilibrium and behind the entrance wheel. However such an association additionally has its risks as a result of it makes the bike heavier than what one is used to. In dismounting, you possibly can simply tip the stability and end up on the bottom.
On considered one of these bikes I might, in actual fact, transfer alongside by the motor with out having to hawk, however the bike by no means went quicker than after I would peddle it myself. The second bike wouldn’t even begin the motor should you didn’t peddle. So you bought simply as a lot train as on an unusual bike, besides you didn’t get a lot out of breath going uphill. These bikes actually don’t enhance velocity.
INGE BROWN
Wilder
In historic Athens, the place the primary experiment in democracy befell, residents had been required and paid to attend performs (usually tragedies) annually that served as civic classes and warnings of threats to their type of authorities. A reoccurring theme in these performs was the hazard of hubris, which introduced wreck upon a frontrunner and people round him.
The web site artandpopularculture.com defines hubris as “a character high quality of utmost or silly satisfaction or harmful overconfidence. … Hubris is normally perceived as a attribute of a person somewhat than a bunch, though the group the offender belongs to could unintentionally undergo penalties from the wrongful act. Hubris usually signifies a lack of contact with actuality and an overestimation of 1’s personal competence, accomplishments or capabilities.”
The founders of our republic rigorously studied the instance of Greece and Rome. They knew all too nicely each how historical past repeats itself and the fragility of democracies. Sadly, President Donald Trump and his dealing with of COVID-19, which has resulted in his contracting the virus, the illness spreading to his interior circle and the dying of nicely over 200,000 of his countrymen, would have been nicely understood by the traditional Greeks. They’d attribute it as soon as once more to a frontrunner struggling badly from hubris.
JOHN FREITAG
South Strafford
Apparently President Donald Trump’s medical group at Walter Reed Nationwide Army Medical Middle was required by Trump to profess to his “Hypocritic Oath” earlier than addressing the general public relating to his situation.
GEORGE SUTHERLAND
Grantham
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