Okay.
'Fess up. Which one of you is the culprit?

“A British farm has urged visitors to stop posing naked for photographs in its field of sunflowers.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/sunflowers-naked-visitors-gbr-scli-intl/index.html

“The owners of Stoke Fruit Farm on Hayling Island, off England’s south coast, issued the unusual request on social media, having noticed a growing number of visitors stripping naked to pose for pictures among the blooms.
In a post on Facebook earlier this month, the farm wrote: “Reminder to all we are a family area and please keep your clothes on in the sunflowers! We are having a increase of reports of naked photography taking place and this must not happen during our public sessions please!”

Sam Wilson and sister Nette Petley run the farm that their grandfather set up. It comprises 350 acres, producing wheat, peas, potatoes, pumpkins, squash, sweetcorn, hay – and sunflowers.
Wilson told CNN Friday that there had been about six incidents of people stripping off among the sunflowers since the field opened to visitors at the end of last month.
“We’ve always had people take risque pictures but this is the first year it’s been a problem, which is why we’ve put signs up,” he said.
Wilson added that he and his team decided to put signs up around the farm after “a couple of children saw what was going on.””

“Wilson said: “We went away on honeymoon and then my sister rang and said ‘people want to pick your flowers,’ so we set up an honesty box for visitors.”
Nothing could have prepared them for just how popular the attraction would become, with people traveling large distances to see the flowers in bloom.
Today, paying visitors are invited to wander around a massive area of about 50 acres, covered by two million sunflowers, said Wilson.”

Steve Thomas

Meal Team 6.

You notice they're actually backing up?

That's just too funny.

Steve Thomas

Kent State did it for me.

I had been blase about the Vietnam War, but all of a sudden, those vaunted American soldiers from the John Wayne glory days had been turned on us.

Steve Thomas

Mike Lindell's Secret Plan to Save Elections

Little drones to fly over the 116,990 polling places in the United  to detect wireless networks.

"Mike Lindell begged attendees to donate money to his 'Lindell Offense Fund,' telling them it will "be the best money they ever spent" and "very private...no one's gonna know.""

Steve Thomas

The initial description broadcast over the DPD radio at 12:45 PM was for a suspect 5"10" tall weighing 165 lbs and nobody knows where that description came from.

Posted by Pat Speer in the Education Forum 04/25/2023

https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/29040-howard-brennan-the-star-witness-who-wasnt/

“Howard Brennan (11-22-63 FBI interview, as reflected in an 11-23-63 FBI report, CD5 p12-14) "Brennan described the man with the rifle as a white male, who appeared to be in his early 30's. about 5'10" tall, and about 165 pounds in weight.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10406#relPageId=15

The agents for this Report were Gaston C. Thompson and Robert C. Lish

Brennan’s description of the shooter is on page 13.

However,

Posted by Bill Simpich in the Education Forum 10/11/2009

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/4023-lee-henry-oswald/

“Although confused commentators have claimed that Howard Brennan was the source, it's well documented that an "unidentified citizen" gave the above description to Inspector Sawyer after he saw someone looking like Oswald running from the Book Depository immediately after the assassination. The citizen did not comply with the sheriff's request to come to the office later to fill out a report, and Hoover said that the "sheriff's office can locate no record on this citizen".

In January, 1964 J.Edgar Hoover wrote to J. Lee Rankin of the Warren Commission, that an the description came from "an unidentified citizen".

JFK Documents - Federal Bureau of Investigation/ FBI Oswald Headquarters File (105-82555)/

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=57753&relPageId=109

Letter from J. Edgar Hoover to J. Lee Rankin January 14, 1964

Even after the Warren Report was published, Hoover responded in November, 1964 to general counsel J. Lee Rankin's request that according to the Dallas police the information came from an ‘unidentified citizen’.”

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...mp;relPageId=72

I have my own theories about this 5'10" 165lb man with light brown hair, and it's tied up with the Harvey Lee Oswald story; but I won't go into that now.

Steve Thomas

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth190290/?q="Daniel Wayne Douglas"

Arrest Report of Daniel Wayne Douglas

Steve Thomas

Whether it was what Hitler did to the Jews, or Stalin did to his own people, or what we did to the American Indian, or the North Vietnamese did, or what Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde did, what the Persian did to the Greeks and the people of the Near East,

I read a line once that I have always tried to take to heart.

"Never underestimate the capacity for man's inhumanity to man".

Steve Thomas

2 hours ago, Steve Thomas said:

David,

I think that Inv. stands for Investigation, or Investigation of, or for Murder.

It's the same thing that John Elrod and Daniel Wayne House were arrested for:    Inv. Murder.

Steve Thomas

I swear to God I'm going to tape this guy's name to my forehead. I've been calling him Daniel Wayne House for years, and that's wrong. His name was Daniel Wayne Douglas.

The question does arise, Was anyone arrested for Investigation for Murder after LHO was picked up?

Daniel Wayne Douglas was picked up at 2:30. John Elrod was picked up at 2:45, and John Gedney was arrested at 4:00 PM.

I only see arrest Reports for Gedney and Doyle, not for Abrams, and they were arrested for Investigation of Vagrancy and Robbery, although it does say that they were arrested in the vicinity of JFK's assassination.

Any others who were arrested by the Dallas Police?

Steve Thomas

- Rick Wison -

""There. Is. No. Escape," he emphasized. "ETTD [Everything Trump touches dies] is eternal and unerring. The 'Good Republican' will be as shattered as the 'Good German' myth when this is over. The 'Good Republicans' whisper in the dark how much they hate Trump. They tell reporters *every* *single* *day* that *they're* not like the base. *They're* 'just trying to steer the ship.' After eight years, how's that working out? Not well, at any level."

It never ends well. Great charismatic figures. Adolph Hitler, David Koresh, Jim Jones...

People go running after them, thinking those figures are going to save them and save the world.

It never ends well.

Steve Thomas

gr

9 hours ago, David Von Pein said:

Thanks, Steve, for providing this link to the full-sized (non-truncated) version of the Oswald arrest report being discussed in this thread (also seen below).

One odd thing that I noticed in McDonald's arrest report is the reference to the type of murder that McDonald claimed Oswald was being charged with—"Inv. Murder". I assume the "Inv." means "Involuntary Murder",

 

 

David,

I think that Inv. stands for Investigation, or Investigation of, or for Murder.

It's the same thing that John Elrod and Daniel Wayne House were arrested for:    Inv. Murder.

Steve Thomas

Part of me thinks that Donald Trump want to be thrown in jail, so that he can play the martyr.

People will come and gather around the jail singing freedom songs and "We Shall Overcome".

He'll call on the nation to rise up and spring him.

Steve Thomas

This is the Arrest Report that was written up by Officer, M.N. McDonald. The copy that was provided cuts off the  bottom part.

The bottom half lists the names of the arresting officers.

McDonald got the time of arrest wrong..

It's interesting. This copy of that report in the Portal to Texas History also has the word, "DECEASED" stamped on it with the date 11-24-63 and Park. Hosp. written on it, showing that information was added to the Arrest Report at a later time.

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth339964/?q=M.N. McDonald

After the arrest, the various officers who were involved in Oswald's arrest and transport back to City Hall all got together in Westbrook's office in Personnel, and jointly wrote up their reports on what they observed, and the actions they took.

I personally would rather have seen them isolated to eliminate any chance of tainting each others' testimony or memories.

Steve Thomas

2 hours ago, Ed Berger said:

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Tue, Dec 5, 1967:

Reserve Honors, Retires Col. Crichton

 

An oil man and petroleum consultant, Crichton organized his Reserve unit in 1956 and has been its only commander.

Ed,

The same picture was also published in the Dallas Morning News of December 5, 1967 issue too.

The caption on the DMN photo reads,

Sounds like a stock press release to me.

How many people in the U.S. Army just up and formed their own Reserve Units? What was it's command structure? Who did he report to? Who was on his staff?

Crichton may have been a member of the U.S. Army Reserves, but I have real doubts about his own "Military Intelligence Detachment"

Steve Thomas

This is not a transformer explosion in Chile.

This is a Directed Energy Weapon beam starting the wildfires in MauiI

Cross my heart.

Steve Thomas

From Sound of Freedom to Ron DeSantis: how QAnon’s crazy conspiracy theories went mainstreamFrom Sound of Freedom to Ron DeSantis: how QAnon’s crazy conspiracy theories went mainstream

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/16/qanon-conspiracy-theory-sound-of-freedom-trump-desantis

"QAnon gamified these strands. The cryptic missives invited decoding and translation, and were purposefully vague enough that they could be interpreted in any number of ways. Like astrology or tarot cards, Q drops seemed freighted with meaning while lacking any specificity. One could log on, read the latest tea leaves and connect the latest dots, all the while binding oneself further to the web of paranoia. The phenomenon spread widely, roping in not just paranoid conspiracy theorists but puzzle solvers and people looking for community. And because there was so much cryptic messaging embedded in the discourse, it hardly mattered that those few things that might have been verifiable (such as Hillary Clinton being “detained” in October of 2017) were demonstrably false.

It turned out to be a remarkably successful formula;..."

Sound familiar?

Steve Thomas

Trump’s Legal Defense Fund Launches With a Big Typo and Bigger Ethical Questions

By Erik Uebelacker Aug. 13, 2023

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-legal-defense-fund-launches-with-a-big-typo-and-bigger-ethical-concerns?ref=home

“Former President Donald Trump’s legal defense fund went live on Sunday and, of course, it contained a glaring typo in the first heading.

“Support Donald Trumps Patriot Legal Defense Fund,” the site proudly declared, apostrophe omission and all (or maybe the fund aims to raise cash for all the Donald Trumps out there).

But perhaps more egregious than the grammatical goof are the legal boundaries that team Trump seems to be pushing with the fund’s overt ties to his 2024 presidential campaign.

The fund technically may not coordinate with the campaign on fundraising, since its existence as a legal defense fund allows it to skirt the Federal Election Commission’s campaign-finance rules. But clicking the “Donate Now” hyperlink sends users directly to Trump’s 2024 campaign website, where viewers are hit up front with donation requests. The only other link on the fund’s page also takes you to the campaign site.”

Good 'ol Donald

Steve Thomas

- Matt Gaetz -

In Iowa

“"Mr. President, I cannot stand these people that are destroying our country. They are opening our borders. They are weaponizing our federal law enforcement against patriotic Americans who love this nation as we should," before adding, "But we know that only through force do we make any change in a corrupt town like Washington, D.C. “

Matt Gaetz, member of the American WWII German Party.

Steve Thomas

Were any leads ever developed with respect to the radio itself?

That's a pretty sophisticated piece of equipment for the average joe on the street.

I don't know why, but I just got a flash of the IBM guys in Johnny Brewer's She Store.

Steve Thomas

6 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

No comment.

I escaped alive.

2 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

BTW, Fonda turned out to be a real businesswoman.

I think I have said this before but she actually visited my hometown of Erie Pa on a nationwide tour with some VAVW.

Jim,

I spent three years in Warren.

Steve Thomas

Chris Stigall @ChrisStigall on Tw8tter or X or whatever it's called now
https://twitter.com/ChrisStigall/status/1689670913040568320?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1689670913040568320|twgr^aaadae85f0e7388dec9a7af2bc674554552c5da4|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Ffox-news-threatens-sue-rivals-gop-primary-debate-1819085

"Fox News is telling everyone in media not directly affiliated with them that the August 23rd Republican debate is exclusively theirs and no one is allowed to air any clips of the broadcast beyond three total minutes, and never again after a 7 day window.  In other words, they’re treating this debate as if it’s an NFL or MLB broadcast.  It’s not.  This has never been done and deserves a legal challenge."

Huh. A News channel is saying you can't watch the news.
Itnteresting.

Steve Thomas

Trump snarls at having to divert 'vast amounts of money' from his campaign to pay his legal bills

by Tom Boggioni August 12, 2023

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-legal-fees/

“According to a report from the New York Times, "New financial reports show that the former president’s various political committees and the super PAC backing him have used roughly 30 cents of every dollar spent so far this year on legal-related costs. The total amounts to more than $27 million in legal fees and other investigation-related bills in the first six months of 2023."”

If I were Trump's lawyers, I would have just one word for him.

"Keep f***in up, jarhead. I'm getting rich!"

Steve Thomas

Never in my lifetime have we had a guy running for President of the United States as a way to keep himself out of prison.

Look at how far we've come.

Steve Thomas

Protective Order governing what Trump may or may not disclose in the Election Fraud case

Issued August 11, 2023

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.28.0_3.pdf

Steve Thomas

Stephen Miller's Group Has Total Meltdown Over Pop-Tarts And Cheez-Its

By Ben Blanchet Aug 11, 2023

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-miller-legal-group-kelloggs_n_64d5c6b8e4b00a7354eb8d44

““Kellogg’s is yet another big corporation that will break the law and hurt its shareholders’ interests to serve the twisted woke ideology of its officers and directors; like Disney, Budweiser, and Target, Kellogg’s management has shown nothing but contempt and disdain for American families and American workers,” the legal group wrote on X, Twitter’s rebrand.”

Talk about distractions.

Is this kind of crap ever going to stop?

Steve Thomas