conan o'brien was funny at the correspondence dinner Sat. night.

conan o'brien was funny at the correspondence dinner Sat. night.
I wasn't there, but you can watch it at youtube.
this event for a comedian is difficult...you have to walk a fine line between joking and not insulting the pres. and first lady.
kudos to o'brien (and his writers) for successfully walking the fine line
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJvS4aTcUyQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJvS4aTcUyQ

Bush 43′s Library will be dedicated today.

Bush 43′s Library will be dedicated today.
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“Visitors will first be led through exhibits about some of the issues Bush had hoped to work on at the start of his time in office, including education and tax cuts. Then, the former first lady said, “you turn the corner and there’s the huge beam from the World Trade Center standing in the middle of a memorial to everyone who died on Sept. 11.”
Interactive exhibits on the war with Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the economic downturn at the end of Bush’s administration, give visitors the chance to vote on what they would have done — and then watch videos of the former president explaining his decisions. It’s called “Decision Points Theater,” .
to those of other presidents. It is the most expensive of them all, at $250 million. Private funds paid for the construction, but taxpayers pay for the operation of presidential libraries. , “the National Archives expects to spend $68.7 million in administration at the presidential libraries in 2013.”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/04/25/178974849/5-presidents-set-to-help-dedicate-george-w-bushs-library
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In most cases, our presidential libraries serve ego displacement…as a substitute for NOT being qualified to be carved on Mt. Rushmore.
The libraries are gold mines for researchers; and can be locus for POTUS directed projects and research programs.
But the building of these monuments are too expensive.
The $69 annual fed. money is a speck on the fed. budget windshield. No problem there.
It is the construction of these symbols of presidential power that is corrupting.
The hidden politics involved, never to be known, is how presidential decisions are made to satisfy future donors to these libraries.
Another issue is how many annual visitors tour these libraries, scattered all over the country?
Would it have been better, for research and public touring, to cluster all the POTUS libraries together in DC?
Apparently Cheney and Rummy will not attend the dedication.
Since Cheney was the power behind the oval desk, he should be there.
Karl Rove will not be there.
Rove was often called Bush 43′s “brain”,which perhaps calls into question all the brain research recently that tells us that the 3 pound brain’s neurons, dendrites, synapses are constantly dying and giving rebirth.
Bush 43 often called Rove “turd blossom”…so there seems to be confusion on the location of the brain.
Will these 5 current/former POTUSes attend the 50th commemoration of the JFK murder/conspiracy in Dallas in Nov.?
Right, and Justin Bieber is an adult.

More than four years after leaving office, former President George W. Bush has a question for America: So what would you have done?

(..UNIVERSITY PARK, Tex. —
A Presidential Center for the 21st Century
In a new brick-and-limestone museum, visitors to an interactive theater
will be presented with the stark choices that confronted the nation’s
43rd president: invade Iraq or leave Saddam Hussein in power? Deploy
federal troops after Hurricane Katrina or rely on local forces? Bail out Wall Street or let the banks fail?...)
 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/us/politics/hitting-rewind-bush-museum-says-you-decide.html?hp&_r=0
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Good golly, Mr. POTUS Bush.
Hellzapoppin', I say.
Now you want to make your decisions democratic, with every visitor to your library voting.
Where was this interactive decision-making when we needed it?
Would Cheney/Rumsfeld, and the war-mongering neo-cons. have wanted a democratic process on these decisions?
When Bush 2 was getting ready to invade Iraq, this poster walked to the Albany Capital on a very cold Jan evening. I walked with several hundred, in a real, not interactive, opposition to the bad decision to invade Iraq.
Millions in the US and the world did the same.
But it didn't matter; and Bush lost no sleep on this decision.
Yes, Bush 2 should have sent in federal troops to the Big Easy. That was a no-brainer. Just one media interview with the Big Easy corrupt, brain dead, Mayor Ray Nagin would have convinced anyone that fed. troops were needed.
If a Wall St. bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

The Boston Mayor and Mass. Gov. both claim that there could have been additional terrorists about to engage in evil doing; and the shut-down of the Boston metro. area was a judicious ,cautionary act.

The Boston Mayor and Mass. Gov. both claim that there could have been additional terrorists about to engage in evil doing; and the shut-down of the Boston metro. area was a judicious ,cautionary act.
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Some Senators are calling for the death penalty for the surviving kid terrorist.
If you are opposed to the death penalty, as this poster is, then there must be consistency. No wobbling on this opposition.
Experts on the Sunday AM political shows all concur that the surviving terrorist cannot be tried as an "enemy combatant"..he is a US citizen
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A robot was used to remove the boat tarp. to make the kid terrorist visible.
Kudos to the robot.
Hopefully he/she is paid a living wage; and was given some ice cream and cake.
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Ok, I understand how preventing backpacks, bags etc among the finishing line crowd would not be feasible.
But how about detectors, scanning every bag/backpack as the spectators lined up?

"..When it is harder to obtain a library card than it is to buy a gun in this country, something is terribly wrong.." Tony Bennett

"..When it is harder to obtain a library card than it is to buy a gun in this country, something is terribly wrong.."
Tony Bennett
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-bennett/tony-bennett-gun-control_b_3112398.html

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Spot on, Tony.
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(..DENVER — Gunfire erupted at a Denver pot celebration Saturday, injuring
two people and scattering a crowd of thousands who had gathered for the
first 4/20 counterculture holiday since the state legalized marijuana....)
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/20/shots-fired-denver_n_3124744.html

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Are we in the first stages of a violent civil war?
POTUS Obama's 2nd term may have him obtaining no Congressional victories of any magnitude.
But he could spend spend most of his time at services for victims of violence.

A few random ruminations on the Boston tragedy from a tattered nonentity.

A few random ruminations on the Boston tragedy from a tattered nonentity.
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"...Arkansas State Rep. Nate Bell (R) sent out an insensitive tweet Friday morning amid breaking news surrounding the Boston bomber manhunt.
Bell brought the topic of gun control into the mix when he tweeted:
"I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes
wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine? #2A— Nate Bell (@NateBell4AR) April 19, 2013"
The problem with tweets is that so many human plankton, under-medicated whackjobs, twits can tweet anything, at anytime.
For example, Tsarnaey, the younger bomber caught in the boat last tweeted on Tuesday night:
"I'm a stress free kind of guy."
Right, and Justin Bieber is an adult.
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As Tsarnaey recovers in the hospital, he should be presented with a bill from the Boston city and region to cover the cost of the shut-down and the security forces..perhaps a billion or so.
“Boston and the entire area of Massachusetts around it represents a
billion-dollar-a-day economy,” Jim Diffley, chief regional economist at
research firm IHS said. “If everything stops, then you can think of it
as a billion-dollar loss...."
He could arrange a restitution plan of $10 dollars a month from his prison job, for the remainder of his life.
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That raises the issue of the death penalty.
Mass. has no death penalty, if he is tried at the local level.
But the feds. do have the penalty if he is tried thru DC; and is considered an enemy combatant.
If one is opposed to the death penalty, as I am, then the position needs to be consistent...without wobbling.
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NBC and Brian Williams did a superb job last night. Kudos to the non-cable network.
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Why were backpacks, bags allowed to be carried in to the Marathon finish line?
I believe these cannot be brought into a ball park, basketball arena etc.
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Surveillance cameras are everywhere, and can capture every move we make outdoors.
The Google map can show us walking from our house to the driveway.
It is these cameras that nailed the bombers.
If you are an evildoer, then surveillance by government,security forces are good.
If you are not engaged in evil doing, should we care if cameras are ubiquitous,everywhere?
I really do care, and I'm not an evildoer.
The bomber brothers apparently thought they were invisible men able to ignore public surveillance technology.
How dumb is that?
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Some reports have said that the brothers placed one of the bombs in front of the Russian flag at the Marathon finish line.
Haven't been able to confirm this as yet.
If true, this could be evidence that the brothers wanted a terrorist attack against Putin and Russia, and were able to pull it off in Boston.
The brothers are originally from Russia region near Chechnya, Chechnya nationalists have been fighting Russia for independence for 20 years.
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Was the security response, especially the Boston shut-down and the total number of security personnel, an overkill?
I certainly believe so at the finale at the Watertown boat capture.
The military helicopter infra-red technology had already spotted the bloody kid under the boat's tarp.
Having hundreds of security converge on the scene was an overkill.
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The aftermath of each of these terrorist episodes produces a fear that diminishes our civil liberties.
The security forces did a super job, no question.
But as NBC cameras showed the residents of Watertown cheering every security car that pulled out after the capture, the residents reactions are understandable.
But one also senses that such fear,such terrorism, can easily create conditions that would allow citizens to welcome a police state.

"..Astronomers said Thursday that they had found the most Earth-like worlds yet known in the outer cosmos, a pair of planets that appear capable of supporting life and that orbit a star 1,200 light-years from here, in the northern constellation Lyra...."

"..Astronomers said Thursday that they had found the most Earth-like worlds yet known in the outer cosmos, a pair of planets that appear capable of supporting life and that orbit a star 1,200 light-years from here, in the northern constellation Lyra...."
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/two-promising-places-to-live-1-200-light-years-from-earth-356091
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Sure those isolated academic astronomers can invite us to plan our next vacation in the north of Lyra.
And getting there could be safer than taking a Carnival cruise vacation.

But what those esteemed astronomers don't tell us is whether Lyra would have take out pizza; cell phone service; satellite dishes; the ability to take in a Lady Gaga concert; CSpan cameras showing an empty US Senate chamber(which most believe is better than having Senators voting on the floor);cars, hopefully the driver-less kind that make parallel parks; or highway driving circles.
If Lyra has none of these, it's not worth going.

Rather than traveling to Lyra, young mothers to be would do better to enroll in a diaperless baby course...the new fad sweeping the country, or at least the wealthy upper Manhattan west side.
The appeal of this diaperless movement is that it would eliminate disposable diapers; diaper rash; and the laundering of cloth diapers.
I enjoyed the description of diaper-less baby mothers having their babies pee between two parked cars.
And I would imagine the mothers of diaper-less babies would have to carry baby scoopers when out in public.
Would restaurants allow this?
Would this be allowed on Lyra?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/nyregion/babys-latest-going-diaperless-at-home-or-even-in-the-park.html?_r=0

Two promising places to live, 1,200 light-years from Earth

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Astronomers said Thursday that they had found the most Earth-like worlds yet known in the outer cosmos, a pair of planets that appear capable of supporting life and that orbit a star 1,200 light-years from here, in the northern constellation Lyra.

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As we approach the 50th commemoration of the JFK assassination, I would ask what should be done now?

 As we approach the 50th commemoration of the JFK assassination, I would ask  what should be done now?

I would favor a federal special prosecutor be appointed, with subpena power, and the ability to depose witnesses; and then the findings be presented to a grand jury.
The special prosecutor would have perhaps two years to gather all the evidence of the research community; and from the declassified files.
There is no statue of limitation on the capital murder of a federal employee (a President).

All files related to the Dallas murder should be de-classified; released to the public.

There should be a citizen's petition to local district attorney offices....likely at the Dallas level, but also at any relevant district attorney office.

The 1976-79 Select House Committee on Political Assassinations concluded that JFK was killed through a conspiracy, likely coordinated by the Mafia godfathers-Marcello, Trafficanti, and Giacana . The Committee sent their results to the Justice Dept.; and it appears that all this documentation got swallowed in the bowels of the Justice bureaucracy.

The Special Prosecutor should also have a mandate/charge to gather all the evidence on the murder of RFK. His murder was also a conspiracy.
My fellow graduate school friend, the late Phillip Melanson, did enormous important research on the RFK murder. His UMass RFK Assassination library is a treasure of information.
Sirhan is alive in prison; and has been petitioning for a new trial.
He should have a new trial.

The Special Prosecutor should also have a mandate on the investigation of the MLK Jr. assassination.

For those who cannot get to Dallas for the 50th anniversay of the murder, an alternative would be to go to the DC Vietnam Veterans' Wall, and have a moment of silence at 12:30 pm, central, the time of JFK's murder.

The historical evidence is compelling that JFK would not have, never have, approved the sending of 500K troops to Nam.

After visiting the Wall, one can go to JFK's grave and pose for another moment of silence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqEJnVly8J

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A US Senate majority is 51 votes. For some inexplicable reason, the background check amendment defeated yesterday needed 60 votes to pass.

A majority is 50% +1
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A US Senate majority is 51 votes.
For some inexplicable reason, the background check amendment defeated yesterday needed 60 votes to pass.
Dem. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid speaks softly; a Mormon with strong personal morals (he apparently doesn’t smoke or drink).
But perhaps what is needed is a lapel grabber; a neck squeezer; an LBJ “treatment” leader.
This is not an endorsement of LBJ. He was an “animal in many ways” (RFK); and corrupt.
The ’64 Civil Rights, voting rights, and the ’65 Medicare laws would have become reality if JFK had lived. Goldwater would have been defeated in ’64; and the Congress would have had a strong Dem. majority in both houses.
90% of adult Americans favor stronger background gun checks.
As the ladies in the Senate gallery shouted out when the amendment was defeated “Shame, shame on you all.”
The US Senate is an elitist; dysfunctional non-democratic dinosaur.

(It may not be a coincidence that April 19 (tomorrow) is the 20 year anniversary of the Waco siege (often called the Waco massacre) at the Branch Davidians’ home and church in Waco. Read more: http://www.everyjoedotcom/2013/04/18/work/was-the-waco-plant-explosion-a-terrorist-attack-branch-davidians-connection/#ixzz2Qp3YmPfC)

(It may not be a coincidence that April 19
(tomorrow) is the 20 year anniversary of the Waco siege (often called
the Waco massacre) at the Branch Davidians’ home and church in Waco.
Read more: http://www.everyjoedotcom/2013/04/18/work/was-the-waco-plant-explosion-a-terrorist-attack-branch-davidians-connection/#ixzz2Qp3YmPfC)
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The Homeland Security bureaucracy, and the FBI, should be in Waco
determining if the Waco fertilizer plant explosion was an act of terror.

"I rolled out this morning Had the mornin’ news show on Charlie Rose and Nora O’Donnell were talkin’ ’bout the Waco fertilizer disaster Texas US Sen. Ted Cruz was squawkin’ ’bout background checks and the 2nd Amendment* And he wasn’t tending to the Waco disaster It’s gonna get worse you see, we need a change in policy

"I rolled out this morning
Had the mornin’ news show on
Charlie Rose and Nora O’Donnell were talkin’ ’bout the Waco fertilizer disaster
Texas US Sen. Ted Cruz was squawkin’ ’bout background checks and the 2nd Amendment*
And he wasn’t tending to the Waco disaster
It’s gonna get worse you see, we need a change in policy
There’s a local paper rolled up in a rubber band
One more sad story’s one more than I can stand
Just once how I’d like to see the headline say
“Not much to print today, can’t find nothin’ bad to say”, because
Nobody bombed runners on the lower part of town
No Elvis wannabe in Miss. sent a poison letter to DC
Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain
We sure could use a little good news today
I’ll come home this evenin’
I’ll bet that the news will be the same
Somebody takes a hostage, somebody steals a plane
How I wanna hear the anchor man talk about a county fair
And how we cleaned up the air, how everybody learned to care
Whoa, tell me
Nobody was shot in the whole USA today
And in the streets of Chicago, all the children had to do was play
And everybody loves everybody in the good old USA
We sure could use a little good news today"
Reconfiguration of Anne Murray – A Little Good News Lyrics
http://www.youtubedotcom/watch?v=zqUUQElQ8kM
http://www.cowboylyricsdotcom/lyrics/murray-anne/a-little-good-news-15140.html

The Boston bombing was horrific; and punishment should be swift and severe when the criminal(s) are caught. But it is also important to avoid a panic that swells into strident calls for increased state surveillance; increased police-state mobilization; and more curtailment of our country’s personal liberties and freedoms. The Boston terrorist act is not an existential threat to our country’s survival.

• (The FBI hasn’t named a suspect in the Boston bombings, though officials searched a suburban house early Tuesday morning. (AP))
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  The Boston bombing was horrific; and punishment should be swift and severe when the criminal(s) are caught.
  
  But it is also important to avoid a panic that swells into strident calls for increased state surveillance; increased police-state mobilization; and more curtailment of our country’s personal liberties and freedoms.
  
  The Boston terrorist act is not an existential threat to our country’s survival.
  
  As the Albany TU good editorial this morning advises us: take a deep breath, and proceed with caution.
  http://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/Take-a-breath-America-4439453.php
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  The Huffington Post’s senior religious editor Paul Brandeis Raushenbush asks us to apply “holy anger” rather than “demonic anger”.
  “By rejecting demonic anger, and choosing holy anger, our response to the horror in Boston in the coming days can be focused on affirming life, rejecting terror and death, refusing to succumb to fear and hate. Our holy response will recognize the need for justice in a world that continues to have so much evil, even while we dedicate our lives to building a future world where horrific events like the bombing in Boston never happen again.”
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-raushenbush/responding-to-boston-anger_b_3092758.html
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  But we can be angry.
  As the late, late show comedian Craig Ferguson ranted: "Anyone Else Sick of This $h!t??
  http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2013/04/craig-ferguson-boston-marathon-monologue-anyone-else-sick-of-thi/

  

  Take a breath, America

  www.timesunion.com

  [...] we want it wrapped up in an hour, just like on television crime dramas. The danger in the wake of the Boston bombings and incidents like it is in trying to rush answers without all the facts. Yet we grew tired of the seemingly constant orange alert, as if things would not be so bad if the co...

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There is evil in the world; evil people and evil acts. But there is also light in the midst of darkness.

There is evil in the world; evil people and evil acts. But there is also light in the midst of darkness. Below is a link to a summary of acts of kindness in Boston and elsewhere.http://www.buzzfeed.com/erinlarosa/boston-marathon-tragedy-met-with-amazing-acts-of-kindness

Boston Marathon Tragedy Met With Unbelievable Acts Of Kindness

www.buzzfeed.com

These Bostonians will restore your faith in humanity.

(President Obama called
California AG Kamala Harris late yesterday to apologize for his remark
that she was the “best-looking attorney general in the country.”)

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Does anyone else besides myself believe this kerfuffle is really silly?
Now, I can understand if he had called Mitch McConnell, the GOP Senate leader, an ugly nattering nabob of negativism.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/04/05/obama-called-kamala-harris-to-apologize-for-best-looking-attorney-general-remark/

David Stockman, the former Gipper budget director, says the Social Security trust fund is composed of confetti.

David Stockman, the former Gipper budget director, says the Social Security trust fund is composed of confetti.
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Stockman and Paul Krugman went toe-to-toe on George Steph.'s Sunday Morning.
I tend to agree with Stockman's call for breaking up the 6-7 largest banks.
I don't agree with Stockman's attack on SS.
He's been a Street advisor, a hedge funder of some sort, recently; and he seems to be salivating to get his paws on the SS billions from the payroll tax.
Shame on David.

Bill O'Reilly and his best seller Killing Kennedy...a diversion continuing the coverup as we approach the 50th anniversary of the JFK murder.

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I've also posted a couple of blogs on the Amazon website, re O'Reilly's book :

  

"We are approaching the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination.
The current Mayor of Dallas has been the public face of the Dallas Establishment that wants to keep any conspiracy groups out of the commemoration in Dealy Plaza.
Talks are continuing on this issue.
Dealy Plaza is a public park, and access to it should be open to the public.

Bill O'Reilly and his co-writer, researcher, Martin Dugard, would likely favor the Mayor's position on this issue.

Taken to its' extreme, the Dallas Mayor's position could demand that anyone wanting to attend the commemoration at Dealy Plaza would have to wear an O'Reilly mask, and carry his Killing Kennedy book.

I can imagine a young child there asking his/her parents who JFK was; who is O'Reilly; and could we all wear Justin Bieber masks?

The JFK assassination continues to be very important.
The focus should be on why he was murdered; and what the short- and long-term consequences were of this murder?

One consequence is the Vietnam war.
The issue is resolved; the historical evidence is overwhelming that JFK would not have sent in 500K + ground troops into Indochina.

If one cannot go to Dallas in November, then an alternative way to commemorate the JFK murder is to go to DC, and visit the Veterans Vietnam wall.
This wall has over 54K names of the US soldiers that died in Nam. The names are arranged by date of death and then alphabetically.

Then go to JFK's grave, with the eternity flame.

The Vietnam wall and the grave are linked; if the grave was not there, the wall would not exist.

O'Reilly can take the Killing Kennedy readers on a historical journey that is misleading, inaccurate and dangerous.
He can take his readers down a worthless rabbit hole following Oswald, a low-level US intelligence contract player.
He can tell the readers to accept the Warren Commission as the final word on the JFK murder.
O'Reilly is a Rip Van Winkle who ignores the good research of the last 49 years.

The Warren Commission's 27 volumns should be put into a large shredder; and the shreds should be dumped into O'Reilly's spin zone. Being a tall dude, O'Reilly would still be able to be seen.

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I have been a part-time Kennedy assassination researcher for decades.
It is not an obsession but of personal and academic interest.

My suggestion re shredding the Warren Commission volumes was an attempt to deal with O'Reilly's dangerous recommendation to readers of Killing Kennedy to rely on the Commission for an explanation of the assassination.
It was made in jest; and the joke will not be used by Maher, Stewart, and any other media comedian.
I'm not a book-burner...just don't take the Warren report as a serious explanation of what happened in Dealy Plaza.

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the assassination, the O'Reilly book will be used to divert attention. It will allow those who want to continue the cover-up to claim that O'Reilly/Dugart is the final word.

O'Reilly takes the readers down a rabbit hole, following Oswald as the alleged assassination.
Oswald was not a communist, or a pro-Castro leftist.
He was also not unemployed during the 1963 Summer in New Orleans.
He was a low-level US intelligence contract player.
He was getting small checks from the FBI, Guy Bannister, the CIA, and possibly the Office of Naval Intelligence.
He had at least 12 different intelligence handlers, bosses, during the 1959-63 period.
The tracks of intelligence were so deeply imbedded all over his body, even laser surgery and a dozen plastic surgeries wouldn't have erased the tracks.
He was involved in a bizarre bio-weapon research project during the New Orleans '63 Summer. He, and his young naive girlfriend, Judyth Baker (see Lee and Me), worked on developing a cancer-causing virus, first experimenting with mice, then transferring the virus to monkeys, then to a human mental hospital patient. When the virus seemed to be working, it was Oswald's role to get this virus bio-weapon to a contact in Mexico City, who would then get it to a doctor on Castro's medical team to assassinate the bearded one. The contact never showed in Mexico. It was another CIA project against the bearded one that failed.
Oswald was a fake defector to the Soviet Union, part of a small CIA project in the late 50ies. The project attempted to get several young men, pretending to be defectors, into the Soviet Union for spying information.
In summary, Oswald was mucking around with a boiling stew of anti-Castro Cubans, CIA contract players, the neo-fascist Guy Bannister and the Mob. He was a naive kid, somewhat bonkers, who was in over his head.
There is also evidence that he sent a certified letter to FBI's Hoover, warning that JFK was going to be killed in Dallas. This kid tried to prevent the "big event."

The "big event" was the assassination in the kill zone of Dealy PLaza.
The Dealy Plaza magic trick was planned by elements of the boiling stew of the Mob, spooks,likely Texas industrialists (the regional arm of the military-industrial-intelligence).
Security was withdrawn from the Kennedy motorcade.
The route included an unexplainable left turn onto Elm, into the Dealy Plaza kill zone.
Dallas motorcyle cops were pulled away from the JFK limo.
The press car, normally to be in front of the Pres. limo, was placed at the end, preventing the press and photographers from witnessing the shooting.
The Secret Service was pulled back. Instead of having a SS agent on the back of the JFK limo, one protecting JFK and the other Jackie, they were in the follow-up car. Clint Hill was the only SS agent that reacted during the shooting (actually after the shots). He was Jackie's protector, not JFK's.
The windows of the tall buildings in Dealy PLaza/Elm St. were not sealed (this was before the modern air-conditioned buildings that windows cannot be opened).
SS or military protectors were not on the buildings' roofs.

Before this motorcade took place, JFK and his two Boston political pals, Dave Powers and Kenny O'Donnell should have become aware of something unusual taking place.
When the parade route was changed within 48 hours before the motorcade, JFK should have called Bobby, described the situation, and Bobby's instincts would have told JFK to get out of the killing zone.

In spite of O'Reilly's dangerous rendering of the Dealy PLaza murder, it was a military-type triangulation of fire....with a rifle team likely in the Book depository, the next door Dal-Tex building, and behind the fence above the grassy knoll.

Finally, the historical question on whether JFK would have approved sending 500K ground troops into Indochina is the super issue.
He would NOT have done that.
By the 63 Summer, he was alone among his national security team in opposing expanding our role in Indochina.
And this was one of the major reasons he was murdered.

I say again, the historical record is clear on this issue.
The Veterans Vietnam wall in DC is linked to JFK's grave at Arlington.
If the grave was not there, if JFK had lived for a second term, the Vietnam wall was not have been necessary.

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