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1 Saturday morning I went over to the drive-thru Starbucks on Calaveras, the one near Black Bear Diner, and the barista told me that the people in front of us had bought us our coffee.
2 She said that it had started earlier in the day, and that everyone had been buying Starbucks for everyone else all morning.
3 I laughed, and told them that I would pay for the guy behind me.
4 I told the girl to call the Merc News, and I had completely planned on calling them and THEN going on Facebook and seeing if we could stoke that fire and keep it going. Yay! Fun, right?
5 Okay, don't get old.
6 By the time I got home, I had completely forgotten that I was going to do all that.
7 I'm not sure if that is getting old, or whether it's just life in 2013.
8 Anyway, kudos to that Starbucks for keeping that one going. It made for a lovely morning. Great Starbucks, always.
9 Moving On, Part One: Fast weekend.
10 Knew it would be.
11 I didn't have much grading to do, which is a rarity. I did have just enough to put a damper on Sunday AND Monday.
12 Ah well.
13 One sort of fun thing was going back into the JFK case. I did a mini on that one last year, so it's still pretty fresh in my mind.
14 It's the fiftieth anniversary of that tragic day.
15 I wasn't certain that I was going to go back in but decided to go ahead. Already there are programs set up to apple-polish the single-bullet theory and ignore the real issues.
16 There are STILL people who refer to Oswald as the assassin, and the sixth floor window the location where Oswald did the shooting. The odds are pretty good Oswald wasn't even on that floor. Fun little lie though, I imagine.
17 I'm afraid 'Merica isn't interested, and has somehow embraced the neat Warren Commission package. Neat and clean.
18 No ties to anyone or anything in 2013.
19 Yes I am being facetious.
20 It would be laughable if it all wasn't so tragic, and if it wasn't a ticket for politicians and news people to lie and distort our news almost daily.
21 Welp I pretty much have solved the main issues. The only question I have is this: who would have wanted JFK killed?
22
23 Maybe a better question would be who DIDN'T?
24 Anyway, I'll try not to soapbox.
25 Seems pointless.
26 I did have a lot of fun researching it further. I re-visited a lot of stuff about who controls the power in 'Merica.
27 Same as it ever was.
28 Fascinating story. More relevant now than ever.
29 All the new stuff seems to want to bury all of it.
30 I still think that it is a cold case that needs arrests and people put behind bars.
31 I also hope that the younger generation will pick up the torch and expose these thugs historically for who and what they were and are.
32 History is going to be pretty harsh on single-bullet apologists, especially such notables as Walter Cronkite, Gerald Ford, George Herbert Walker Bush and his entire family, and Arlen Specter. Before he passed away last year Specter, who along with Ford concocted the single-bullet theory, also ran some committee or other that concluded that the government does listen in on our cell phones, but just a little. Sure Arlen, and I'm the Queen of England.
33 Like I said, I have learned all I'll probably ever need to learn. I know where I stand in terms of those guys. Huge lies, and you don't really have to go too far to figure this out anymore.
34 If you reach the amount of hours I spent arguing about grassy knoll idiocy, don't even bother. People who have never researched the facts MUST know more than you.
35 To people reasonably new to all of the JFK stuff, if you are searching for a rule of thumb as to where to wander in the bizarre house of mirrors that is the assassination, here are a couple of pointers:
36 One, if the documentary features Dealy Plaza, guns, computers, and bullet angles, run. It is simply an "Oswald did it. Lone nut. Ruby killed him. Now go home." doc. Useless. That story was and remains the biggest lie ever told.
37 If the doc starts talking about where Oswald hung out, who he hung out with, the Kennedy war on Hoffa and the Mob, Operation Mongoose, LBJ's fear of prison as well as his sordid history of having people killed coupled with his abject hatred of the Kennedy boyz, then you might want to take some notes.
38 If a lot of the doc has to do with Oswald's travels, pay attention. He sounds a WHOLE bunch like Agency. It isn't rocket science.
39 The story should be simple. Lone crazy nut my ass.
40 Anyway, if it sounds odd that I look at it as a bit fun after all these years, it's because I no longer waste time with single-bullet supporters. No point.
41 I find it fascinating to follow the story and watch the mystery of it slowly disappear after all these years.
42 So who did it?
43 Chase the story down. Get off the grassy knoll and the bullet angles and all and look at associations, mobsters, prostitutes, sleazy bars, CIA operatives, people with tremendous power, entire families with tremendous power, and enjoy all the twists and turns of this. It remains one of the greatest murder mysteries of all time.
44 I'll get back to you tomorrow.
45 I got a saloon to run.
46 So have a great day.
47 See you again.
48 I hope.
49 <looking around>
50 Anybody lookin'?
51 Peace.
~H~
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