Tag: Volume 268 | No. 25 - Page 3 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Tues, Aug 27

2012—New Hampshire “wasn’t a battleground state in 2010,” says Executive Councilor Chris Sununu on C-SPAN. “We swept the vermin out and it’s now a solid Republican state.” 1991—An ABA panel rates Clarence Thomas. Two members find him “not qualified” for the Supreme Court; none find him “well-qualified.” 1980—FBI agents use C-4 to disarm a half-ton bomb planted in Harvey’s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada. Result: a 50- by 30-foot crater. 1979—Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten is assassinated by an IRA bomb which destroys his 27-foot fishing boat off County Sligo. 1960—Whites in Jacksonville, Fla., react to Black lunch counter sit-ins with “Ax Handle Saturday.” …

Mon, Aug 26

2016—S.F. 49er Colin Kapernick protests against racial injustice by sitting while the National Anthem plays. 2005—The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard gets a stay of execution. 1980—Ex-Luftwaffepilot John Birges, trying to recoup his gambling losses, plants a half-ton bomb at Harvey’s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nev. 1969—Five men from New Hampshire’s 197th Field Artillery are killed days before leaving Vietnam when their truck detonates a land mine. 1968—Mayor Richard Daley welcomes Democrats to the 1968 Democratic National Convention while his cops prepare to bust heads outside. 1967—Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” is released escapes. 1967—Burt Munro, a 68-year old Kiwi, hits 183.58 mph on a 1920 Indian at …

Sun, Aug 25

1999—The FBI admits, six years after the fact, that the tear gas canisters it fired into David Koresh’s compound in Waco were incendiary—but still denies they started the fatal fire. 1995—Zany Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) announces his innovative new policy, sure to win the drug war: execute “27 or 30 or 35 people at one time.” 1985—Ronald Reagan admits that, as head of the Screen Actors Guild, he ratted on its members to the FBI. 1967—J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI sets out to “expose, disrupt, misdirect [and] discredit” the Black Panthers. 1967—A former Marine and ex-aide to George Lincoln Rockwell murders the founder …

Uncle Sam Wants You!

by W.D. Ehrhart In a recent essay in the Lynchburg News & Advance, my friend, former enlisted Marine and now-retired Major, Ed Palm pointed out that in spite of minimum starting salaries twenty (20) times higher than my $88 a month back in 1966, “signing bonuses” as high as $40,000, and generous educational benefits, the U.S. military has been unable to meet its enlistment needs in the era of the All-Volunteer Force (AVF). The AVF was supposed to ensure that the U.S. would never again suffer another humiliating defeat like the American Fiasco in Vietnam when reluctant and unwilling soldiers ultimately engaged in open revolt …

Dispatch from the Libertarian Universe

[Note: Here, where we reside, in the commonly-accepted universe as described by the likes of Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking, those wishing to correspond with the editor generally do so by email. It’s simple, it’s convenient, and everyone knows how it works. Tom Alciere, a candidate in the Republican primary for the 2nd Congressional District, is, however, a capital-L Libertarian. He has therefore disdained the normal means of sending us a letter, and chosen instead to post a comment to an article published four years ago on our website, nhgazette.com. To do full credit to the contents of Alciere’s letter we must briefly describe how …

“Nothing to see here, move along…” – A.G. William Barr

Citizens and journalists alike, we live in chaos by design. For a decade, the coalition of grifters and politicians who seem to dominate our politics and culture have deployed Generaloberst Steve Bannon’s strategy of “flooding the zone with shit” so successfully that news stories which once would have been on everyone’s lips now go unremarked. That’s why we’ve been asking The Google about the phrase “$10 million.” We were immediately introduced to “a 19-year-old British garbage man [who in 2002] won 10 million pounds (approx $15 million) on the lottery. He spent it all on drugs, gambling and prostitutes and 8 years later was back …