Volume 270 | No. 17

2017—Dolt #45 lets the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Ambassador Kislyak into the Oval Office; he divulges classified info, exposes a foreign agent, and says firing the FBI’s boss relieved him of a “great pressure.” 1945—New Hampshire adopts John Stark’s motto, “Live Free or Die.” 1933—Joseph Goebbels rants to a mob as Nazis in Berlin burn the library of the Institute of Sex Research. 1919—In Charleston, S.C., white sailors foment the first of 33 U.S. race riots over a five-month period. 1908—The first Mother’s Day Service is held in W.Va. at the instigation of Anna Jarvis. She will be arrested on Mother’s Day 40 years …

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2017—D. Trump fires J. Comey. 1991—Bush aide John Sununu is told to quit using military planes to visit his dentist in Boston or ski in N.H. 1989—“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind,” says Veep Candidate Dan Quayle, addressing the Negro College Fund, “or not to have a mind is being very wasteful, how true that is.” 1980—The SS Summit Venture collapses Fla.’s Sunshine Skyway Bridge; a Greyhound on it plunges, killing 35. 1976—German Justice officials announce, before her autopsy by an ex-SS man has begun, that leftist Ulrike Meinhof hanged herself in her cell. 1974—Congress finally begins to ponder impeaching Richard Nixon. …

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2024—RFK Jr. tweets an offer “to eat 5 more brain worms and still beat” Trump and Biden in a debate. 2018—To “prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon,” Dolt #45 rips up the JCPOA preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. 1970—With flags at half mast for Kent State kids shot by National Guardsmen, students protesting in NYC at Wall and Broad streets are attacked by 200 “hardhats” organized by AFL-CIO leader Peter Brennan. Nixon will make him Sec. of Labor. 1970—At the University of New Mexico, 11 people protesting the Vietnam War are bayoneted by National Guardsmen. 1967—For refusing to be inducted, Muhammed Ali …

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1999—A U.S. B-2 drops five “smart” bombs on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade: three dead, 27 wounded. 1998—Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan successfully quash an effort to regulate credit default swaps. 1997—Alan Dershowitz argues in the L.A. Times that the age of sexual consent should be lowered to 15. 1985—New York City throws a ticker tape parade for 25,000 Vietnam veterans. Better late than never. 1970—In Quang Nam Province, 1st Force Recon Marine Sgt. Robert Phleger is killed in the night by a tiger. 1955—Black voting activist Rev. George W. Lee is gunned down in Midnight, Miss. No charges are …

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2010—An imaginary bus bomb inspires panic in Portsmouth, N.H. 2010—A Londoner scamming from his parents’ basement gives The Invisible Hand of the Market™ jitters: the Dow drops nine pct. in five minutes. 1996—Former CIA boss William Colby, missing for nine days, turns up in Chesapeake Bay, dead but fresh-looking, 20 feet from where his canoe had been found eight days earlier. Verdict: a routine drowning. 1982—LAPD Chief Darryl Gates explains “some blacks [die in choke holds because] the veins or arteries do not open up as fast as they do in normal people.” 1978—In Chicago, First Lady Rosalynn Carter shakes hands with Polish Constitution Day …

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