1 The beautiful part of senility is the 50 First Dates syndrome.
2 Hey.
3 You awake?
4 Just checking.
5 No matter. Just doing some early morning bone rattling. You awake yet?
6 The reason I call it beautiful is that it helped me put the Niner game behind.
7 Great game. Lots to talk about.
8 After around an hour of talking and moaning I stopped and moved onto newer things. The team had a wonderful season. The game disappointed in the end, but it was a great game, and the team and the fans have nothing to feel bad about. That team gave everything they could in a hostile situation and came up short. That's part of being a championship-caliber team. Time to move on. I would like to give a huge shout out to the team as well as to the entire Niner community for a great ride. It's why we watch, and why we care. Plus we could put it all on Sherman. Nice to have a guy like that we could use as a scapegoat. God bless the fellow.
9 Moving On, Part One: Yesterday morning I watched a special on the Martin Luther King story. I spent the day honoring King in a somewhat personal way.
10 It is an incredible story. No matter how many times I examine it, I always come away with King emerging as one of the most remarkable leaders in human history.
11 His bravery, his realization in Memphis that he was in too deep, and his final speech all tear at the very fabric of America.
12 It all led quite neatly to my searching through sources, old and new in order to find if Dr. King's murder involved more than James Earl Ray.
13 It didn't take long.
14 I won't go into a lot of details, but by 9 p.m. I connected E. Howard Hunt to a mysterious gentleman Ray allegedly knew, a man named "Raoul."
15 I'm still gathering things, but even to scratch the surface of these political assassinations becomes instantly labyrinthian.
16 Former Berkeley English professor, political researcher and poet Dr. Peter Dale Scott had this to say in his introduction to The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond, an anthology of interestng articles revolving around the murders of JFK, MLK, and RFK: "To speak of the politics of assassination is to imply a range of questions
that is beyond this volume even to enumerate. Readers who are moved by this anthology to inquire more deeply into the politics of assassination should not forget the wider setting."1
Dr. Peter Dale Scott
18 I have to like that.
19 I like a lot of it.
20 I like that in 2014 we still have people who fight for truth. Dr. Scott has presence, and has been on board with this stuff for a long time.
21 There are others equally as vigilant.
22 I saw precious little regard given to Dr. King yesterday, although I wasn't home.
23 I dedicated my day off to researching his life, his loves, and his amazingly brave spirit.
24 There are thousands of others who will never give up the fight.
25 We live in dangerous times; so dangerous in fact that I sometimes want to crawl into a dark hole and hide.
26 We also have a younger generation who has to live with a lot of this stuff.
27 They see the boogy man replayed so often they must sometimes sit, sigh and wonder.
28 Here's the good news. There are more people researching this stuff and bringing more things to light.
29 The awesome thing about the internet is how readily available Freedom of Information is.
30 Yesterday I was at Barnes and Noble with my daughter Nicole. She picked up some book called something like I Shot JFK. I'm too tired to trace it down, because to me it doesn't matter who pulled the trigger. What matters is that someone put that person up to it, and then proceeded to cover it up, with mainstream media falling right into line. That's been the pattern. That must change.
31 I said, "Hey Nicole. See if that guy's name is Jim Files. I'm pretty sure he was the grassy knoll assassin."
32 She looked. "James Files," she said.
33 "It's either him or some French guy." I said.
34 We both laughed. We laughed not because it was funny but that I don't really need to read too much more.
35 THAT'S how mainstream this "news" is to anyone who has been around it for a few years.
36 So there's hope. I can't wait until a few of these creeps get indicted. Most of them are thugs and goons. Unfortunately a lot of them are respected world leaders.
37 So it goes.
38 I'll continue to blow light whistles.
39 Dr. King was a brave man. He wasn't a perfect man.
40 Who is?
41 I'm glad I spent my entire day dedicated to his spirit and his drive.
42 I have a lesson prepared today where I'm going to bring in the dream.
43 Oh, I'll talk a little football. I might even mention the utterly classless Sherman whatever-his-name is from Seattle.
44 Great player. Moron. At least he came off as a jack ass and a moron. I'm sure his mother doesn't think so. Whatevs. Why spend time on it?
45 Moving On, Part Two: Looking forward to getting back to a reasonably normal week, and going up to Dad's this weekend.
46 I'm also looking forward to enjoying the many stories and thoughts of Dr. King this fine day.
47 Here is an excerpt from Dr. Scott's Coming to Jakarta (a poem about terror):
IV.IX
When some toys from the West
where stolen out of the back seat
of our Peugeot in Saska Kepa
I went without thinking
to the Warsaw police
A moustached officer
wrote down everything
I had to say
which was very little
and then asked me
Was the door locked?
I said I had no idea
probably not and he said
Prosze Pana excuse me
but it would be good in the future
to keep your doors locked
Our children are not used
to seeing toys from the west
and you do not want
to encourage them in crime
those Sunday walks with
Cassie in her blue pram
the well-dressed housewives
offering in illegal dollars
twice what we paid for it
I told the officer
I was withdrawing my complaint
He smiled and began to talk
about his life as a policeman
how much easier it had been
after Stalin had died
in those days no one
wanted to talk to us
even our own children
sometimes mistrusting us
despite what they learned at school
We talked for two hours
and I think of him often
as I read in the papers
49 I chose this because I almost understood it. I understand his political prose a lot more. I thought it would be nice to show that this stuff can turn into a form of art. Dr. Scott is a worthwhile read. A warning: he doesn't hold back. Brave man. He's on our side.
50 I think I'm going to gather my things and move silently into this day.
51 Life goes on.
52 I like to stay ahead of it whenever possible.
53 Have a GREAT day.
54 Fly low. Think.
55 Peace.
~H~
1 The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond (in collaboration, 1976, ISBN 0-394-40107-7)
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