Ordering the Maine course
Maine’s natives include Molly Spotted Elk, Joey Gamache, Hannibal Hamlin. Other VIPs include Stephen King, Patrick Dempsey, Willem Dafoe, Martha Stewart, Linda Lavin.
The state’s black-tie dress code? Plaid shirts.
Secretary of State is Manchester’s Shenna Bellows.
Middlebury College grad, a lefty magazine writer, said it’s “an honor” to meet Kamala, and in DC posed with Hunter’s father clutching her in photos.
Worse than Nikki, this former head of Maine’s American Civil Liberties Union — and labeled “a biased Dem hack unworthy of high office” — tried kicking Donald off the state’s Republican primary.
So I decided to look into Maine’s rule of law.
My longtime friends — last name Ballard — own land settled by their ancestors who emigrated here centuries ago. Histories, books, museums include the Ballards.
Current novel “The Frozen River” by “best-selling Ariel Lawhon” states: “This is inspired by the life of renowned 18th century midwife Martha Ballard who defied the legal system and became American history.”
Martha Ballard. Born 1735. Husband, Ephraim. Page 217 mentions a trial where it is stated: “The court points out no witnesses actually saw her being accosted. Without such a witness it would not be lawful to try this man.”
Different from 1996’s E. Jean Carroll case that came up in 2023.
The book’s page 103: “The officer is trained to box and quick on his feet. A left hook to the perpetrator and the officer’s on him in a moment, tying his hand behind him.”
Different from today’s NYPD who must first sit and write a script.
Now we got artificial intelligence, rockets to the moon, driverless cars and a wobbling babbling President. 1789 America had midwives like Martha Ballard and today it’s arguments about abortion.
Plus we have a Maine twit who calls the electoral college “a relic,” and wants Kamala sainted and Donald swatted.
We not a great country or what?
The tortured lives of stars
Think stars always had it easy? Biggies have even suffered it lousy.
Will Smith’s ears? Big. Kids called him Dumbo . . . Teenaged Nicole Kidman, nicknamed “Storky,” dreaded playing Spin the Bottle because boys thought she’s too tall to kiss. “Since,” she says, “I always had a thing for short men” . . . Kate Winslet’s mean name in high school? Blubber. She weighed 180.
A ways ago, at a Lisbon Microsoft conference Bill Gates told Agence France-Presse that the IRS stores his financial data on a special computer. “My fortune is so vast that normal computers can’t deal with such numbers.
“I got notices saying I haven’t paid when it’s really just that wrong computer.”
All together now: “Aaarggghh.”
Please. Easy. We all need back up a little. Reflect. Thank God.
At one World Trade Organization meeting a while ago, organizers discovered that what the world had now was a surplus of wheat, cotton — and anger.
On this planet — and not only in New York, kids, not only in New York.