Mark Knight

Far-right extremists plotting to attack the energy sector as gas prices finally start to drop: report - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

Actually, as I figure it, the turn from Houston to Elm was a 135-degree angle, changing the direction of travel of the limo from north to southwest, more or less. MUCH more difficult for the driver to execute than a simple 90-degree angle.

I once worked in a plant that had a "catering truck" come by. We called it the "roach coach." While our morning break was "scheduled" from 10:15 to 10:30 am, the truth was, once the "roach coach" hit the lot, our break began. If the "roach coach" came at 10:05 or 10:10, that's when break started, still ending at 10:30 am. The truck that serviced our location had hot sandwiches and coffee/hot chocolate in the rear, and the right side had prepackaged cold sandwiches, salads, cold sodas, and other cold items. The left side had chips and other items that didn't require a particular temperature. So perhaps Oswald bought some fruit from the "roach coach." That would explain him saying he had some fruit for lunch...a banana, an apple, whatever. So maybe his "lunch" in the bag he brought in Frazier's car was a sandwich. Who knows? I know that when I was working this job with the "roach coach," I was about Oswald's age. Some days, even when I brought a lunch from home, I'd check out the "roach coach" to see if maybe he had something I'd rather have than what I brought. But I think we've established that Bonnie Ray Williams bought his chicken sandwich from the "roach coach," and left it on either the first floor or second floor while he was working on the crew laying plywood flooring on the 6th floor. That would logically mean that Williams left the 6th floor to retrieve his lunch from where it was stashed on the lower floors, and then returned to the 6th floor. So why did Jarman and the others from the floor-laying crew NOT return to the 6th floor, as Williams did? Why did they go to the 5th floor? That doesn't quite add up, in my view. Perhaps more people than Williams knew more about the 6th floor than they ever let on.

Speaking of Irish heritage, my mother was a Turley. My 6th great-grandfather was John Turley II, born in 1670 in Newry, County Down, Ireland. My 18th great-grandfather on my mother's side was Robert I the Bruce [Roibert a Briuis], King of Scots (1274-1329). [He also shows up on my father's side of the family as my second great-uncle's great-uncle's wife's 11th grandfather.] Mom had always said that we were of Scotch-Irish ancestry, but she only knew that she was told that as a child. [So I became the amateur genealogist to track it down.] I do know that now and again I like some whisky, while other times I prefer whiskey. And when I drink, I'd much rather sing than fight.

Russian state-funded media director calls for Ukrainian children to be burned or drowned - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

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Sounds like a "Who's on first [floor]?"/"What's the name of the guy on second [floor]?" Abbott and Costello routine to me. Ochus Campbell worked in the TSBD. If he claimed to witness an officer encountering Oswald near/at a storage closet on the first floor, and Roy Truly vouching for Oswald there on the first floor, that should end any speculation. If Campbell was relating what someone else told him, he might be incorrect. But still, he would know the difference in a second-floor lunchroom and a first-floor storage closet. I just don't see how he could confuse the two.

I think we've beaten a dead chicken long enough. [But since you've been a KFC franchisee, you probably already know what my son who's worked there tells me: what sells grocery-store deli fried chicken is the "bargain" $1 per piece on-the bone price, as opposed to whatever KFC and Lee's Famous recipe charge today. Also, KFC needs to bring back the seasoned potato wedges, so I don't have to drive to Lee's to get them.]

Axios, while primarily a news aggregator, also does some good investigative work. They've become my "go-to_ news source of late.

Unless my memory is faulty, Wes Frazier said that after the assassination, he went to the basement of the TSBD to eat his lunch. And I believe that long ago, someone mentioned that there were circuit breakers in a panel in the basement. What did or didn't occur in the basement next to those circuit breakers is all speculation, as there are no witnesses to what did or didn't occur. But at one time or another, these questions were asked on this very forum.

I worked in a chemical plant with a man who often brought for lunch both bone-in chicken sandwiches and bone-in pork chop sandwiches. he would place his foil-wrapped sandwiches on or near the boiler in the maintenance shack about mid-morning, and then retrieve them at lunch and take them to the lunchroom...whereupon he would REMOVE THE MEAT FROM THE BONE and proceed to eat the NOW-BONELESS sandwiches. This occurred just outside of Louisville, KY, and I simply assumed it was either a southern or ethnic culture "thing." But NOBODY eats the meat between the bread STILL ON THE BONE. The meat is simply TRANSPORTED to the lunch site on the bone. It's really a simple concept.

You're going about this in the wrong way. Mr. Koch doesn't directly reply to simple questions. Getting a straight answer from him is like trying to nail Jell-o to the wall. He's not here to seriously discuss anything. He's simply here for his own amusement, more concerned with "owning" those who would engage him than actually dealing in facts. I decided weeks back to not attempt to engage him in a serious discussion, because that seems to be a fool's errand. Whether his failure to engage in a serious discussion is a result of unwillingness or inability on his part I won't attempt to decide. Perhaps it's a bit of both. Of course, I also have given up on having any serious discussions with Ben as well. When one criticizes Ben's sources or his inconsistent positions, suddenly Ben finds that line of discussion to be "less than collegial," and apt to scare off potential new members to the forum. While this tactic does tend to halt any discussion it its tracks, apparently the only way Ben will find any discussion as being "collegial" would be if everyone would simply abandon everything they have already learned and simply agree with Ben. Sorry, Ben. That's not collegiality, that's abdication. But I wish the best to those who continue to attempt to discuss these issues on this thread.

Willaims was part of the crew laying plywood on the flooring on the 6th floor. Leaving his lunch residue on the 6th meant that he expected to deal with it when he returned to work, it would seem to me. Could Dougherty have been a [the?] 6th floor shooter?

The Republicans have demagogued the subject of the national debt. I used to be a daily listener to Rush Limbaugh. Started in the Clinton presidency. When there was a Democrat in the White House, the national debt was not just BAD, but EVIL. But when George W. Bush was elected, suddenly the national debt wasn't such a big deal; Limbaugh simply said, "We'll pay it back with fiat money, letting inflation make the money we use to pay it back worth less than the debt when it was incurred. Then Obama was elected. And the national debt was suddenly EVIL again. That's about the time I stopped listening to Limbaugh. I realized he was less about conservative principles and all about Republican politics, despite his protestation to the contrary.

Ben: IMHO, Tulsi Gabbard is about as "representative" of the Democratic Party as AOC. Both are on opposite fringes. The loss of Gabbard to the Republicans is not unexpected. Her voting record, IMHO leans more toward Republican goals than Democrat goals. Her "defection" is more a case of going where she should have been in the beginning, if she was completely honest with her voters. I don't see that as a bad sign for either party. It's a realignment that everyone with more than 10 brain cells saw coming. Trump spent his entire presidency aligned with a "whatever Putin does is fine with me" position. I cannot recall ONE TIME that Trump objected to Putin's action during his time in office. If you think that a second term of a Trump presidency would have kept Putin out of Ukraine, I see that as willful blindness on your part. While Putin didn't invade Ukraine during the original Trump presidency, Trump's "whatever Putin wants is OK with me" position is inconsistent with the thought that Trump would have opposed Putin's invasion of Ukraine. And that's just how I see it. Not "Donks" and "Phants" policies weighing in, but I believe Putin miscalculated on what he saw as "weakness" of democracies, including those in Europe, no matter what parties are in charge.

MAGA = Making Attorneys Get Attorneys

Why is it the responsibility of the US to stop the war that Putin began? Shouldn't that be PUTIN'S responsibility? It's in NATO's interest that they not allow the war to spread to European NATO member nations. Since NATO members would be the next affected nations should Putin not be satisfied with conquest of Ukraine, why isn't stopping a war that's virtually on NATO's doorstep be the responsibility of European NATO members, rather than the responsibility of the US?

Rudy was supposed to deliver almost a quarter of a mil to the court today for his ex-wife, or face jail time. I haven't heard whether he paid up or not.

I have several guns of different calibers and gauges. I inherited a couple, I won one in a raffle, and I bought a couple for hunting purposes. All will serve as self-defense weapons, if the need arises.

Oh, and you're welcome, Ben.

Matt A., a couple of points: You're correct that antifa literally means "anti-fascist." In WWII, American troops were anti-fascists. I refuse to go there as far as personal attacks that refer to injuries a person may have sustained in the past. But because one is anti-fascist, that doesn't automatically mean that one is far left. Electric cars? Not practical where I live. In the rural areas, the range of an electric car makes them impractical. But Matt K. will still accuse people of being pro-electric cars because it fits his personal agenda to demonize anyone who believes differently than he. I grew up in the car culture. While my car has a 4-cylinder for gas mileage purposes, my pickup truck has a 5.6-liter V8 engine for the power I need to pull my utility trailer without wheezing for breath on the hills. And while not mountainous, the area where I live is quite hilly. But my catalytic converters are intact and functioning, and my Magnaflow cat-back exhaust system has a mellow rumble like a vintage Corvette. And I recycle most of the plastics that come into my house, because they're a product derived from oil. Before I retired, I moved from a suburban subdivision to my family's farm, 10 acres of joy. My sister and I purchased the farm from the remaining relatives [my sister and her hubby live in Colorado] to prevent it from becoming part of another subdivision, and a neighbor makes hay on about 8 acres, and I do my best to maintain the rest. I'm not some dope-smoking hippie tree hugger, but I do enjoy solitude that the farm offers.

The latest in my email from Jefferson [Jeff] Morley: https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/greenwald-trump-and-the-jfk-files?r=elbl1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email Perhaps Trump think THAT is his "get-out-of-jail free" card Or perhaps not.

From AXIOS AM, a news aggregator to which I subscribe: " More than a century and a half after the actual Civil War, "civil war" references are becoming common on the right, The New York Times writes in a front-page story (subscription). Why it matters: Polling and social media "suggest that a growing number of Americans are anticipating, or even welcoming, the possibility of sustained political violence, researchers studying extremism say." 🧮 By the numbers: Posts on Twitter that mentioned "civil war" soared nearly 3,000% after the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. The bottom line: "What was once the subject of serious discussion only on the political periphery," The Times writes, "has migrated closer to the mainstream." Of course, the NYT story is behind a paywall, so I haven't read it firsthand. But the implication is that it's the people "on the right" who are mentioning "civil war." Axios is reporting on the content of the NYT story, not issuing their own opinions here, Notice, Ben, that Axios did not agree or disagree with the NYT; they merely reported what was published.

Many speculated that Lee Oswald killed President Kennedy as a lone gunman. Many speculated that Lee Oswald killed President Kennedy as part of a conspiracy. Many speculated that Oswald was innocent of the murder of Kennedy. Many speculated that there were two Oswalds, Harvey and Lee. "Many speculated" is proof of absolutely nothing. It's right up there with Donald J. Trump's catchphrase, "People are saying..." A responsible journalist [they're few and far between these days] would have either identified in some way the "many], or would have omitted that line completely.

I used PayPal. Once I clicked on the PayPal option, I was taken to the PayPal website to complete their side of the transaction. Once that was completed, I was returned to the GoFundMe page. Easy, simple, and painless. There is an option on GoFundMe to donate anonymously, should you choose to do so.