Tag: Volume 265 | No. 10 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Sat, Feb 13

2013—Justice Antonin Scalia goes to his final judgment. 2008—The Senate tells the CIA to lay off the waterboarding. 2007—An Al-Qaeda tape calls George W.[MD] Bush a drunk gambler. 2002—Donald Rumsfeld’s ex-assistant Ken Adelman predicts the Iraq War will be a “cakewalk.” 1991—A super-accurate, laser-guided U.S. bomb kills some 400 Iraqi civilians in a bunker in Baghdad. 1983—Radicalized by anti-Semite Henry Ford, decorated WW II vet and anti-tax crank Gordon Kahl and his son Yorivon murder two U.S. Marshals and wound three other lawmen in a shootout near Medina, N.D. 1981—Hexane gas illegally discharged from a Purina plant fills the Louisville, Ky. sewer system. A spark …

Fri, Feb 12

2004—USA Today reports that former top Texas Air National Guard officers say files were “cleansed” to protect George W.[MD] Bush. 1999—N.H.Senators Gregg and Smith notwithstanding, the Senate finds President Clinton not guilty. 1983—SS Marine Electric, a rusted, beat-up hulk whose lying owners faked inspections, sinks off Virginia; three survive from a crew of 34. 1976—The New World Liberation Front bombs Hearst Castle. 1975—Two top Nixon aides, Haldeman and Erlichman, and AG John Mitchell, are sentenced to prison. 1968—LBJ puts the kibosh on Westy’s plan to nuke the NVA. 1962—Bill Lancaster is discovered in the Sahara, mummified alongside his biplane, 29 years after disappearing. 1947—Sixty protesters …

Thurs, Feb 11

2014—An FEC report confirms what his mom and sis said: U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta lied, that $355,000 wasn’t his. 2013—Bad news today from KRTV in Great Falls, Mont.: “the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living.” 2006—Dick “Dick” Cheney becomes the second sitting Vice President to shoot a man when he “peppers” his pal Harry Whittington in the face. 1992—“I’d like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me,” says Johnny Frank Garrett (IQ under 70), as Texas prepares to poison him, “and the rest of the world can kiss my ass.” 1990—Nelson Mandela is …

Wed, Feb 10

2014—Donald Trump tells Fox “News,” “When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell, and everything is a disaster, then you’ll have riots to go back to where we used to be, when we were great.” 2010—Innovative tax protestor Joe Stack flies a fuel-laden Piper into the IRS Field Office in Austin, Texas, killing another person, injuring 13, and causing damage in the millions. 2009—One chance in 50 million: Russia’s defunct Kosmos-2251 hits Iridium 33, 490 miles above Siberia. 2003—The G.W.[MD] Bush Administration touts plastic sheeting and duct tape as a first line of defense. 1968—General Westmoreland, U.S. commander in Vietnam, sends a …

Tues, Feb 9

2007—A Pentagon report concludes that Douglas Feith’s policy office inappropriately manipulated intelligence on Iraq. Punished? Hell, no. 2001—The USS Greeneville, demonstrating an emergency ballast-blowing maneuver to 16 “Distinguished Visitors,” half with Texas oil and Bush connections, sinks a Japanese high-school fishery training ship off Hawaii, killing five adult crew and four high-school students. 1982—George Herbert [Hoover] Walker Bush denies ever having used the term “voodoo economics.” NBC then plays him the tape. 1980—Ted Bundy gets married and is sentenced to die. In Florida, of course. 1971—Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player inducted into the Hall of Fame. 1967—NYC cops bust cellist Charlotte Moorman …

Mon, Feb 8

2020—Given a choice between a second term for Trump or “a giant meteor [striking] the earth, extinguishing all human life,” a poll says 62% of N.H. Democrats would prefer the meteor. 2015—Another two feet of snow fall on Portsmouth. It’s five feet deep now. 1996—The Telecommunications Act gives corporations airwaves worth $70 billion, eliminates ownership limits, deregulates cable rates, and protects licenses against citizen complaints. 1971—ARVN invades Laos in Operation Lam Son 719: a chaotic disaster. 1968—State Troopers fire on Black protestors in Orangeburg, S.C., killing three and wounding 27. 1946—For taking down a sign about Jim Crow laws in a Bessemer, Ala. bus, honorably …