Tag: Volume 270 | No. 3 - Page 3 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Mon, Oct 20

2011—Libya’s ex-Brotherly Leader Muammar Ghadaffi is dispatched—very rudely—by victorious rebels. 2005—Sen. Judd Gregg [R-N.H.] votes against increasing Federal home heating aid for the poor. 1990—Americans in 22 cities protest the impending Gulf War. 1983—Reagan inks the Conn. Indian Land Claims Settlement Act recognizing the Mashantucket Pequots. 1973—After A.G. Eliot Richardson and Deputy A.G. William Ruckelshaus refuse on principle to comply with President Nixon’s order to fire Special Prosecuter Archibald Cox, Solicitor General Robert Bork, who is not so encumbered, complies. 1967—Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin shoot 24 feet of film purporting to show a Sasquatch walking along a streambed in northern California. 1947—HUAC opens hearings …

Sun, Oct 19

2005—Diagnosed with terminal cancer, a woman requests a refund of a down payment on some real estate. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.)., a recent Powerball winner ($853K), says “No.” 2005—Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity and pissing off Bushes. 2000—George W.[MD] Bush says at the Al Smith Dinner, “This is an impressive crowd, the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite. I call you my base.” 1998—Shortly before his likely re-election, Tennessee Senator Tommy Burks [D] is murdered by his middle-name-changing opponent, Byron Low Tax Looper [R]. 1987—Computers say stocks are too damn high—the Dow drops 22 pct. …

Did You Notice the Devious Smirks?

To the Editor: On the day the first phase of the ceasefire was signed, did you notice the devious smirks on the faces of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu? Both these “peacemakers” knew they had pulled off a peace propaganda coup for the moment, but the deep dark recesses of their hearts could not help but rejoice at the inevitable crumbling of peace that would come in either the very short term of weeks, or at worst in the months or the next few years to come. Trump and Netanyahu do not have love in their hearts for Palestinians. They have everlasting hate. And why, …

“Beauty is truth; truth beauty.”

by W.D. Ehrhart “His primary rules are: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.” Does this sound at all familiar? Might it remind you of a certain someone currently in the process of dismantling two hundred and fifty years of …

Lucky He Was Drunk

Isaac Bennett of South Berwick visited Dover, N.H. on Saturday, got gloriously drunk and drove his horse recklessly about the streets until the animal ran away and “fired out” the drunken driver, landing him on his head on a reservoir cover. He was badly cut and bruised; had he been sober his brains would have been scattered all over the street. The Rochester correspondent of the Portsmouth Times asks: “Will some one throw a brick at the Portsmouth correspondent of Foster’s?” He evidently thinks Portsmouth is south of the Mason & Dixon’s line. Morris Hennessy, sixty years old, was killed by the fall of a …

Well, here we are: a fortnight into freefall, and still no government in sight. In a manner of speaking, that is. Just try walking out of a bank with a bundle of somebody else’s Franklins. The truth is that—and this has always been the case—the rules are the rules, until they aren’t, and the rules apply to us all, until the time they don’t. If there’s any difference between today and a month ago, it’s this: things are more like they are now than they have ever been.* Israel suspended its genocide against Palestinians earlier this week. Not officially, of course, because according to Israel, …