Volume 268 | No. 12

Mon, Feb 26

2020—“Within a couple of days, [Covid will be] close to zero. That’s a pretty good job we’ve done.” – #45 2015—Sen. James Inhofe [R–Okla.] conclusively proves that global warming is a hoax—or that he’s an idiot—by brandishing a snowball in the Senate. 2003—Saddam Hussein tells interviewer Dan Rather he would like to debate George W.[MD] Bush on TV. 1993—A truck bomb explodes beneath the World Trade Center in NYC; six are dead, 1,000 injured. 1991—George Herbert [Hoover] Walker Bush admits the U.S. has been supporting the Khmer Rouge. 1979—A 328-year old faith which holds that God pays no attention to Earth, and won’t until He …

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Sun, Feb 25

2020—“We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here,” says Dolt #45’s Kayleigh McEnany. “Isn’t that refreshing when contrasting it with the awful [Obama] presidency…?” 2011—“[A]ny future Defense Secretary who advises the President to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should have his head examined,” says Defense Sec. Gates. 1968—“I do not believe Hanoi can hold up under a long war,” says Gen. William Westmoreland. 1953—Ike advises vigilance, lest communist teachers sneak propaganda into math problems. 1913—The IWW’s Paterson, N.J. strike begins; Concord, N.H.’s Elizabeth Gurley Flynn helps organize. 1906—Pianist Nikolay Burenin & comrades …

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Anonymous Chastisement

[To the Editor:] I am a longtime subscriber to the Gazette, living in the Boston area. It’s been disappointing to me that the Gazette has ignored the gravity of the violent atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7th, but now that you’re giving a platform for and even cheering on alternative facts, it’s time for me to say goodbye to the Gazette. In your January 12th edition, you published Will Thomas’s letter. Thomas criticized the Union Leader for publishing a letter which mentioned various references to the violent Hamas attacks without requiring the letter writer to list their sources. Thomas engaged in verbal gymnastics to …

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Smart Fish Don’t Bite

For John Prados Only the stupid ones who get caught,gutted, beheaded, filleted, and eatenfried or poached or boiled or broiled,pickled in brine, fed to porpoises rawat Sea World, canned for family pets. The smart ones just keep swimming.You’ll never meet an intelligent fishbecause they don’t take the bait,though they never seem to go hungry. My friend Gary Metras loves to fish;ties his own flies, pulls on his wadersand heads for his local river severaltimes a week, rain or shine, year-round.Strictly catch-&-release. Lucky fish,but not very bright. He tells mehe often catches the same fishmultiple times. One of these days,the guy with the rod won’t be …

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Local Gunmaker Aiming For Insurrectionist Market?

NEWINGTON, N.H.—Gun manufacturer Sig Sauer, one of the area’s largest employers, recently launched a new advertising campaign for a five-year old product. The ominous tone of the ad suggests that, for the company’s marketing team, civil discord equals profit. Dubbed the “M400 TREAD,” the semi-automatic firearm is yet another knockoff of the Colt AR-15—dubbed “America’s Rifle” by the NRA. TREAD is shorthand, of course, for “Don’t Tread on Me.” About 20 million of these generic murdersticks are already in circulation. Adding a few tens of thousands more with Sig Sauer’s logo probably won’t matter much—except, of course, to any individuals who might be “directly impacted” …

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