Tag: Volume 269 | No. 9 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Sat, Jan 25

2005—Conservative columnist Maggie Gallagher admits she accepted $21,500 from the Bush Administration for plugging its proposals. 2004—Senator John McCain confirms to Vermin Supreme that Karl Rove dynamited the Old Man of the Mountain “in a fit of anger” over McCain’s defeat of George W.[MD] Bush in the 2000 N.H. Primary. 2002—White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales advises the Bush Administration that it’s legal to ignore the Geneva Conventions. 2002—Veep Dick “Dick” Cheney asks Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to limit investigations into the events of 9/11. 1996—Billy Bailey, the 19th of 23 children raised in a two-room shack, is killed by the State of Delaware. He’s …

Fri, Jan 24

2015—The first snow of winter falls on Portsmouth. It is far from the last. 2001—GOP hack Rich Galen reports (falsely) that outgoing Gore staffers slashed all the power cords in the Office of the Vice President. 1999—Reading the crawl on “Dateline NBC,” Joe DiMaggio is disturbed to learn that he has died. 1992—Gov. Bill Clinton flies to Arkansas so the execution of self-lobotomized cop-killer Ricky Ray Rector—who asks jailers to save the dessert from his last meal “for later”—will enhance his campaign for President. 1963—The tail falls off a B-52 flying over Maine at 500 feet—one-seventieth of its design altitude—and it crashes into Elephant Mountain. …

Thurs, Jan 23

2016—The Republican presidential nominee brags, in Sioux City, Iowa, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” 1986—After getting a FOIA request from the son of the Agency’s former station chief in Mexico City, the CIA destroys audio tape of Lee Harvey Oswald talking on the phone to the Soviet Embassy there. 1973—President Nixon claims his “peace with honor” deal doesn’t betray allies, abandon prisoners, or let the war in Vietnam go on. It does all three. 1968—North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo for spying within its waters. 1957—Klan members in Montgomery, Ala. force …

Wed, Jan 22

2008—Sticklers list 935 instances of “orchestrated deception” about Iraq from the Bush #43 administration. 1997—Walking in a Tulsa park, Lottie Williams is hit on the shoulder by a small falling chunk of a Delta rocket. 1987—Charged with fraud, Pennsylvania Treasurer Budd Dwyer blows his brains out on live TV. 1973—The Supreme Court issues its Roe v. Wade decision. 1961—Iberian leftists hijack the luxury liner Santa Maria as a first step towards deposing Portugese dictator Salazar and establishing democracy. 1959—Ordered to dig coal under the Susquehanna with no means to gauge clearance, 12 miners end up drowned. 1958—The FBI, developing a program to read Americans’ mail, …

Tues, Jan 21

2010—The Supreme Court flaunts its supremacy by ruling, in Citizens United, that wealthy corporations are entitled to political domination over the less-endowed, i.e., ordinary citizens. 2001—With George W.[MD] Bush duly sworn in, Paul Wolfowitz, Ahmad Chalaby, Doug Feith and other neocons meet at Richard Perle’s home to plot a regime change in Iraq. 2001—Ignoring the jeers of 20,000 demonstrators, the New York Times “reports” George W.[MD] Bush may usher in a “new era of… social justice.” 1997—Newt Gingrich becomes the first Speaker of the House to be disciplined for unethical behavior. 1996—Bill and Monica enjoy their fifth illicit encounter. 1977—Pres. Carter issues a blanket pardon …

Mon, Jan 20

2017—After D.J. Trump gives his “American Carnage” speech, George W.[MD] Bush says to Hillary Clinton, “Well, that was some weird shit.” 2009—“If I ever run for President,” says Donald Trump, “please shoot me.” 2009—Swearing in President Obama off the top of his head, Chief Justice John Roberts blows his lines. 2009—Frank Luntz invokes a conclave of GOP bigwigs. It promptly resolves to thwart President Obama. 2005—J.P. Morgan Chase admits two banks it swallowed had taken enslaved people as collateral years before. 1981—Awakened at 9:00 a.m. and reminded that he’ll soon be inaugurated, Ronald Reagan asks, “Does that mean I have to get up?” He will …