Tag: Volume 268 | No. 11 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Sat, Feb 24

2001—“My plan reduces the national debt, and fast,” says G.W.[MD] Bush, “…economists worry that we’re going to run out of debt to retire.” 1989—Bad door latch design results in nine passengers being sucked out of a Boeing 747 southwest of Hawaii. 1988—SCOTUS says it’s OK to show Jerry Falwell drunk, losing his cherry to his mama in an outhouse. 1988—Capitol cops carry Sen. Bob “The Groper” Packwood (R-Ore.) into the Senate to make up a quorum. 1942—Turned away from Istanbul, MV Struma, a decrepit hulk carrying 791 Jewish refugees, is torpedoed by a Soviet sub. The 19-year old sole survivor, David Stoliar, lives to be …

Fri, Feb 23

2016—“I love the poorly educated,” says Dolt #45 to a mob in Nevada. 2016—GOP Senators deny Obama’s Supreme Court nominee a hearing. 2008—Because one maintenance crew fails to warn another that humid air confuses its sensors, a $1.4 billion B-2 bomber crashes in Guam. 2004—Rod Paige, U.S. Sec. of Education, calls the nation’s largest teachers union a “terrorist organization.” 1974—Days after presiding over his paper’s 100th birthday, and deep in debt to mobsters, Oakland Tribune owner and ex-Sen. William Knowland (R-Calif.), shoots himself dead. 1971—Lt. William Calley confesses to mass murder, and says his CO, Capt. Ernest Medina, ordered it. 1966—Barry Bondhus dumps human digestive …

Thurs, Feb 22

2018—After jabbing him in the legs and groin for 2.5 hours, Alabama prison officials wheel cancer patient Doyle Hamm out of the death chamber alive. 2004—A Pentagon document leaks: it says climate change may spell doom. 1994—The FBI arrests a spy: 32-year CIA officer Aldrich Ames. 1974—Samuel Byck, planning to crash an airliner into the White House, carelessly shoots the pilot before takeoff. He’s then shot dead, too. 1965—The New York Times calls the late Malcolm X “an extraordinary and twisted man [who turned] many true gifts to evil purposes.” 1965—Sam Lovejoy derails a planned nuke plant in Montague, Mass. by downing a tower with …

Wed, Feb 21

2012—Caught by the Piscataqua’s mighty current during construction of the New Memorial Bridge,the tugboat Miss Stacy nearly sinks. 1975—“Original Dick” Nixon’s top goons, John Mitchell [ex-AG!], Bob Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman, each get 2 ½ years in the slammer for conspiring—yes, we used that C-word again—to do more than will fit here. 1965—A week after his home was firebombed, assassins murder Malcolm X; his last words: “Brothers! Brothers! This is a house of peace.” The FBI knew it was coming but didn’t tell the NYPD which didn’t care anyway. One assailant, not the killer, is jailed, along with two innocent men. 1934—The U.S.-backed Nicaraguan National …

Tues, Feb 20

1950—Joe McCarthy delivers a five-hour, paranoid rant in the U.S. Senate; a four-month inquisition ensues. 1945—At Iwo Jima, Jacklyn “Jack” Lucas, 17, dives onto one live grenade and pulls another under him. One goes off, one doesn’t. He sets off metal detectors until dying at 80. 1943—Hollywood embraces Office of War Information censorship. 1939—Fritz Kuhn, a German veteran of WW I and naturalized U.S. citizen, leads 22,000 people in a pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden. 1933—At least 20 top German industrialists meet secretly at Reichstag, President H. Göring’s official residence and—yes, we’ll say it—conspire to raise funds to get Nazis elected. 1893—After the Reading …

Mon, Feb 19

2009—Outraged that the government might assist mere homeowners, CNBC’s Rick Santelli has a fit on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. His convulsions spawn a Tea Party. 2000—“I understand small business growth,” says George W.[MD] Bush, “I was one.” A business? Or a growth? 1988—Prosecutors in Passaic County, N.J. drop the bogus case against Rubin “Hurricane” Carter after he’d been imprisoned for decades. 1986—After due deliberation—37 years—Congress ratifies a UN treaty outlawing genocide. 1975—Watergate burglar James W. McCord, Jr. admits that “basically, Martha [Mitchell]’s story is true”—she was abducted and drugged to cover up the break-in. Her abductor, Steve King, is later made …