Tag: Volume 269 | No. 13 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Sun, Mar 16

2008—The New York Federal Reserve fronts JPMorgan $30 billion to buy Bear Stearns’ bankrupt corpse. 2003—On “Meet the Press,” Dick “Dick” Cheney claims that Saddam Hussein “has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons,” and that“we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.” 1995—Mississippi, after 130 years, ratifies the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery; its actual certification takes another 18 years. 1993—“The Storm of the Century” kills 318 on the East Coast. 1990—GOP race whisperer Lee Atwater “repents” on his deathbed; no lie detectors are present, however. 1988—Kurds in Iraq are gassed with ingredients Saddam Hussein bought from the U.S. and Europe. 1970—Sen. Roman Hruska (R-Neb.) defends G. …

Sat, Mar 15

1999—The “Hockey Stick” graph shows that global warming’s real; corporate demand for expert liars soars. 1989—To flatter veterans without incurring any actual additional expenses, the Veterans Administration is elevated to Departmental status. 1982—Donald Trump gets a New Jersey casino licence—normally a months-long process—in hours. 1980—A Boston Globe editorial about a speech by Jimmy Carter is headlined, “Mush from the Wimp.” 1969—The National Security Council OKs the Nixon/Kissinger plan to illegally bomb Cambodia. 1962—Flying Tiger Flight 739 from Travis AFB to Saigon disappears with 107 soldiers and crew on board. 1948—“Without superior air power America is…easy prey to any yellow dwarf with a pocket knife,” says …

Fri, Mar 14

2018—Hoping not to get shot like so many of their late peers, a million American students walk out of school to demand gun control that works. 1977—RIP Fannie Lou Hamer, organizer of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, who said, “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” 1970—Richard Nixon plays piano at the Gridiron Dinner. His standards are drowned out by Spiro Agnew singing “Dixie” in “Black dialect.” 1965—“Except for Vietnam,” the AP reports Richard Nixon saying, “U.S. foreign policy is in a shambles.” 1964—We still don’t know who killed JFK, but on this day a jury decided Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald. 1961—A B-52 with two …

Thurs, Mar 13

2020—Dolt #45 states the obvious: “I don’t take responsibility at all.” 2019—Gambino family mob boss Frank Cali is whacked in front of his Staten Island home by a QAnon follower who thought “he was enjoying the protection of President Trump.” 2002—Asked about Osama bin Laden, George W.[MD] Bush says, “We haven’t heard much from him…I don’t know where he is…I truly am not that concerned about him.” 1968—A nerve gas dispenser on an F-4 Phantom malfunctions, allowing VX nerve gas to drift away from the Army’s Dugway Proving Ground in Provo, Utah and poison 6,400 sheep in nearby Skull Valley. 1962—General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Chairman …

Wed, Mar 12

2014—Austin Ruse, head of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, says on American Family Radio, “the hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities…should all be taken out and shot.” 2013—Jim Clapper, Dir. of Nat’l Intelligence, swears to Congress citizens aren’t being spied on. He’s lying. 2003—News reports say VP Dick “Dick” Cheney is still being paid up to $1 million a year by Halliburton. 1990—ADA activists visit the Capitol the only way they can: leaving their wheelchairs and crawling up the steps. 1956—Bill Fulbright, Sam Ervin, Hale Boggs—Cokie Roberts’ dad—and 98 other Congressmensign a “Southern Manifesto” pledging to maintain school segregation. 1947—President Harry …

Tues, Mar 11

2020—Dolt #45 announces a travel ban; infected U.S. citizens turn airports all over into super-spreader sites. 2012—Freedom, Maine’s Town Meeting votes to amend the Constitution, nixing corporate “personhood.” 2011—An earthquake knocks Earth 10 inches off its axis, brings Japan four feet closer to the U.S., causes a tsunami that kills 15,850 people, and triggers three nuclear meltdowns. 2008—SEC Chair Chris Cox says “We have a good deal of comfort about the capital cushions at these firms,” days before Bear Stearns collapses. 2002—Fox military expert Lt. Col Joe Caffasso, who boasts a Green Beret and a Silver Star, resigns. Weeks later the N.Y. Times reveals his …