Tag: Volume 266 | No. 10 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Sat, 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 …

Fri, 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 …

Thurs, Feb 10

2020—“You know, a lot of people think [Covid-19] goes away in April with the heat,” predicts Dolt #45. 2014—Donald J. 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. 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 …

Wed, 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 7

2020—Li Wenliang, a Chinese doctor reprimanded for warning of a new SARS virus, dies of Covid-19. 2013—Mississippi abolishes slavery. 1998—GOP-run Congress names Washington National after the guy who fired all our air traffic controllers. 1991—IRA mortars 10 Downing St. 1968—“It became necessary to destroy [the Vietnamese village of Ben Tre] in order to save it,” an American major tells reporter Peter Arnett. 1965—VC attack Camp Holloway near Pleiku killing 9 Americans and wounding 137. The U.S. responds by bombing North Vietnam. 1951—In Korea, Capt. Lewis Millett leads the U.S.’s most recent bayonet charge. This anachronistic victory earns him the Medal of Honor. 1950—Ex-Emperor Bao Dai …

Sat, Feb 5

2021—An inebriated man in a red hat with “mouse ears” spends five hours wandering around Joint Base Andrews, home to Air Force One. 2018—At a rally, D.J. Trump says Democrats who didn’t applaud his State of the Union speech are traitors. 2007—Astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak is arrested for attempting to kidnap another astronaut’s girlfriend and misappropriating NASA diapers. 2003—Secretary of State Colin Powell tells the UN that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq is bristling with WMDs. 1981—For her husband’s 70th birthday, First Lady Nancy Reagan flies her manicurist in from Los Angeles. 1958—A B-47 bomber collides with a jet fighter near Tybee Island off the coast of …