Wisconsin GOP slammed for 'potentially disastrous' plan to let 14-year-olds work in bars
By Brad Reed May 25, 2023
https://www.rawstory.com/wisconsin-republicans-child-labor/

"Republicans in Wisconsin think they've come up with a plan to solve a shortage of workers in their state -- and it involves letting children as young as 14 serve alcohol in bars."

Are these people brain dead?

This should work out about as well as Marjorie Taylor Greene demanding decorum on the House floor.

Steve Thomas

Ron DeSantis announces his new Axis of Evil.

Mickey Mouse, Pluto and Daffy Duck.

"Okay, Let's start buildig our National Security Apparatus. How's our Force Readiness?"

Steve Thomas

Marjorie Taylor Greene demands decorum on the House floor.

Let's just say things didn't go so well.

https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-decorum/

Steve Thomas

 

1 hour ago, James DiEugenio said:

I agree that the whole WC story on this is ridiculous, especially burying the gun is wild.

If Oswald took the rifle out of the house on Sunday, and the shooting wasn't until Wednesday, where was it in the meantime?

Steve Thomas

23 hours ago, Douglas Caddy said:

 

Greeks shall not replace us!

Greeks shall not replace us!

Steve Thomas

2 hours ago, Pete Mellor said:

Steve, I've attempted to log onto this Forum but keep getting error msgs.  Any chance you could cut & paste this info, it sounds interesting.

Also anything else you may have come across on the Anderson/McFadin story.

Pete,

I kept encouraging Arjian to get these down on paper so they wouldn't get lost in the mist of time.

He did, sorta. He put them up on his own web site.

You can find them here:

https://jfk.boards.net/thread/121/erasing-past-protect-fairytale

Steve Thomas

Florida school bans poem read at Biden inauguration after objection of just one parent

by Brad Reed May 23, 2023,

https://www.rawstory.com/florida-book-ban-2660538687/

“The poem that was read by poet Amanda Gorman at President Joe Biden's inauguration has been banned from elementary schools in Miami-Dade County, Florida after the objections of just one parent.”

"   she also complained that the district had left the books she objected to available for middle school students, as she claimed they were inappropriate for all ages."

 

This is wrong.

It’s just wrong, and it’s insane. This can only lead to absolute chaos.

Steve Thomas

On 7/8/2018 at 9:36 PM, Michael Clark said:

 

Back in the day, when the Dallas Police Department Archives was a thing, they devoted a lot of resources investigating Sergio Aracho Smith during 1967 and 68 during the height of Garrison's investigation. I got the impression that the DPD wanted to discredit anything that would upset the "Oswald did it alone" cart. To me, they seemed kind of paranold about it.

I don't know how much of their Smith files made it to the Portal To Texas History collection, but interested parties might look there.

Steve Thomas

 

Jack Smith might suspect Trump was trying to make money from classified documents: former White House lawyer
By Sarah K. Burris May 22, 2023
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-documents-selling-questions/
"Speaking on MSNBC Monday – just after news broke that special counsel Jack Smith had subpoenaed financial records from the Trump Organization's business deals with seven countries since 2017. According to Katyal, it could mean Smith is following the money from the government documents Trump took.
The New York Times broke the news that Smith had issued the subpoenas as part of his investigation into the classified documents."

Business dealings? Foreign Governments? Government Documents?

hmmm...

Steve Thomas

 

I have found 4 instances of Marina Oswald either testifying on insinuating that the Oswalds were living on Neely St. in January, 1963.

(1) Warren Commission testimony of Marina Oswald February 3, 1964,

http://jfkassassination.net/russ/testimony/oswald_m1.htm

 

Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall seeing any guns at Mercedes Street while you were there?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.

 

Mr. RANKIN. Did you observe any guns in your things when you moved? (From Fort Worth to Elsbeth)
Mrs. OSWALD. No.

 

Mr. RANKIN. While you were at Elsbeth Street do you recall seeing any guns in your apartment?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.

 

Mr. RANKIN. When did you move to Neely Street from the Elsbeth Street apartment?
Mrs. OSWALD. In January after the new year. I don't remember exactly.

 

Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall the first time that you observed the rifle?
Mrs. OSWALD. That was on Neely Street. I think that was in February.

 

Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall the day that you took the picture of him with the rifle and the pistol?
Mrs. OSWALD. I think that that was towards the end of February, possibly the beginning of March. I can't say exactly. Because I didn't attach any significance to it at the time. That was the only time I took any pictures.

 

For whatever reason, this can't be true. The Oswalds moved from Elsbeth to Neely on March 3^rd and according to the postal money order, the rifle wasn't ordered until March 12^th.

 

(2) Two weeks later, Marina told the FBI on February 17, 1964 that she saw Oswald practicing with the rifle at the Neely Street address in the beginning of January, 1963 and that he had been cleaning the rifle that same day.

CD 735 page 441

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11133#relPageId=450&tab=page

At the bottom of CD 735, there is the handwritten notation “CE 1156”.

This interview was conducted by FBI Agents, Anatole Buguslav and Wallace Heitman.

 

(CE 1156 Warren Commission Hearings, Volume XXII p. 197).

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1317#relPageId=227&tab=page

includes this information in an interview the FBI conducted of Marina on January 29 1964 and dated February 1, 1964.

This January 29^th interview was conducted by FBI Agents, Richard Wiehl and Wallace Heitman.

 

(3) Marina told the WC that she first met Ruth Paine at a party in January, but the party didn’t take place until February 22, 1963

Mr. RANKIN. Can you tell us approximately when you first met Ruth Paine?
Mrs. OSWALD. Soon after New Years I think it was in January.
Mr. RANKIN. Would that be 1963?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.

Mr. RANKIN. Did Mrs. Paine ever visit you at Elsbeth Street?
Mrs. OSWALD. At Neely, on Neely Street.
Mr. RANKIN. But not at Elsbeth?
Mrs. OSWALD. We moved soon after that acquaintance.

(4) Here is the translation of CE993, Marina's Narrative of life with Lee:

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1135#relPageId=610&tab=page

I started reading this narrative, and was immediately struck by how similar it is in linguistic style to Oswald's Daily Diary. Read his entry for October 21st, when he attempts "suicide" to the sound of violins playing. https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh16/pdf/WH16_CE_24.pdf

One other thing struck me. On pp. 626-627, she writes of moving to Neely St. after New Years, and then writes of meeting Ruth Paine.

Officially, she met Ruth on February 22nd, prior to her Neely St. move.

Is Marina once again putting herself on Neely St. in January, when they didn't actually move there until March?

Mr. JENNER - Now you are acquainted, became acquainted with Marina Oswald, did you not, in due course in Irving, Tex.?
Mrs. PAINE - No. I first met her and her husband at a gathering of people in Dallas at the home of Everett Glover.
Mr. JENNER - I will get to that in a moment.

 

Mr. JENNER - You met Marina for the first time when.
Mrs. PAINE - I judge it was the last of February, towards the end of February of 1963.

 

WC testimony of Marina Oswald February 3, 1964

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/oswald_m1.htm

 

Mr. RANKIN. Did you ever observe your husband taking the rifle away from the apartment on Neely Street?
Mrs. OSWALD. Now, I think that he probably did sometimes, but I never did see it. You must understand that sometimes I would be in the kitchen and he would be in his room downstairs, and he would say bye-bye, I will be hack soon, and he may have taken it. He probably did. Perhaps he purely waited for an occasion when he could take it away without my seeing it.

 

However, on March 3, 1964 Marina told FBI Agents, Wallace Heitman and Anatoly Boguslav that not only had she seen Oswald take the rifle out of the apartment in March, 1963, but that she had gone with him! This is CE 1838.

 

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1139#relPageId=549&tab=page

March 3, 1964

 

If Marina never saw Oswald take the rifle from the apartment, how could she re-trace for the FBI the route he used?

 

So, let me see if I've got this straight.

Marina first saw the rifle in February, before it had even been purchased.

She first told the FBI that she saw Lee cleaning the rifle in January, but then later told them that she was mistaken and that the cleaning had taken place in March.

It was kept out in the open, but maybe he kept it outside.

She never actually saw him take the rifle away from the apartment and never talks about seeing him bring it back, but traced for the FBI the route that he took.

Lee took the rifle on Sunday, but the shooting wasn't until Wednesday. Where was the rifle in the meantime?

She said that Lee had told her her buried the rifle after the shooting. When did he go back and dig it up?

When she saw the rifle, it didn't have a scope on it, but knew it had a scope because she recognized it.

I read that Love Field is something like six miles from where they lived on Neely St., so he would have had to have taken the bus, unless someone was giving him rides – all the time while he working at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall.

Lee was riding a bus for six miles with a rifle, several times.

 

Steve Thomas

About 15 minutes after that post, Trump published an altered meme showing his face superimposed over what appears to be Daft Punk playing drums. Instead of the drums, the heads of various women that Trump has called enemies are superimposed. One of the faces belongs to CNN's Kaitlan Collins, who hosted the town hall that he hailed as successful. Other women faces present in the altered GIF were Hillary Clinton and various members of "The View."

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110403836698565135

 

Donald Trump hates women.

That’s all there is to it.

 

Steve Thomas

 

 

Marina told the FBI on February 17, 1964 that she saw Oswald practicing with the rifle at the Neely Street address in the beginning of January, 1963 and that he had been cleaning the rifle that same day.

CD 735 page 441

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11133#relPageId=450&tab=page

At the bottom of CD 735, there is the handwritten notation “CE 1156”.

This interview was conducted by FBI Agents, Anatole Buguslav and Wallace Heitman.

 

(CE 1156 Warren Commission Hearings, Volume XXII p. 197).

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1317#relPageId=227&tab=page

includes this information in an interview the FBI conducted of Marina on January 29 1964 and dated February 1, 1964.

This January 29^th interview was conducted by FBI Agents, Richard Wiehl and Wallace Heitman.

http://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1317#relPageId=815

But

For whatever reason, this can't be true. The Oswalds moved from Elsbeth to Neely on March 3^rd and according to the postal money order, the rifle wasn't ordered until March 12^th.

On February 18, 1964 the FBI agents went back to Marina at the offices of her attorney, and said, “Uh, we’ve got a problem. You told us yesterday that you saw Lee cleaning his rifle in January, but he didn’t buy it until March”.

On February 18, 1964 she told the FBI that she was mistaken on February 17^th about the date, and that the rifle cleaning incident had really taken place in March, 1963.

That suggests three possibilities:

a) she was genuinely mistaken about the date; or,

b) the FBI caught her in a lie and confronted her; or,

c) that since her statement of the 17^th was already part of the official record, the FBI went back to her and helped her coordinate her story to set the record straight.

 

Steve Thomas

31 minutes ago, Greg Doudna said:

That is interesting Steve, seems like it could be the four, i.e. two versions not just one of the same story. In this second version with actual names that could be further traced and researched.

If Elrod was picked up Friday on suspicion and held 72 hours (as in the memory of Elrod in the excerpt you quoted), he would have been in the Dallas jail after Ruby's killing of Oswald Sunday morning, and the reference to Ruby by name would make sense as after Ruby was in the news, not before, therefore the incident of the seeing the man with the smashed-up face I reason should be Sunday afternoon or Monday (and the man in the cell with Elrod therefore not Oswald but someone else--Thomas Masen, who supposedly was arrested about that time and also was involved with gunrunning (and according to ATF Ellsworth, could be confused in appearance with Oswald thereby accounting for possible confusion in Elrod's memory on that point?)

Borchgardt says all four in that meeting worked for someone named "Fred". Any idea who "Fred" could be?

Greg,

Elrod (along with Gedney, Doyle, etc. and Daniel Wayne Douglas, and who knows how many others) were all released at 9:00 AM on November 26, 1963; so he was still in jail on the 24th.

I was never able to get a line on "Fred". I always thought it would have been a good line of research to look into a possible car theft ring running stolen cars from Chicago down to Mexico.

The LaFontaines maintain that Elrod's informant was Oswld. The FBI report is very careful not to identify whose informant Elrod's was. 

Was the FBI trying to shield Oswald as a source?

I don't know.

Steve Thomas

 

Rep. George Santos Disappears Mysterious Campaign Treasurer

By @robertmaguire.bsky.social (@RobertMaguire_) May 19, 2023

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-george-santos-disappears-mysterious-campaign-treasurer-andrew-olson?ref=home

Rep. George Santos’ latest federal campaign filing lists himself as treasurer—supplanting the previous treasurer, whose existence was never verified. Robert McGuire, research director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, noted Andrew Olson’s removal from the paperwork in a tweet and also pointed out that Santos is still using the personal email address that was listed for Olson in the earlier filing. CREW filed a complaint last week—the day Santos was indicted on charged related to other problems with his campaign filings—asking the feds to investigate whether the New York Republican was illegally operating a campaign committee without a treasurer. There was no immediate comment from Santos.

After months of suspicions, and now a federal indictment, George Santos removes his mysterious treasurer “Andrew Olson” (whom no one was ever able to confirm existed) and signs his campaign filing as his own treasurer (left is old filing, right was just filed today) pic.twitter.com/6rcsOD8pK1

Steve Thomas

‘Locked in': Legal expert details why Fani Willis' letter to judge is very bad news for Trump

by Tom Boggioni May 19, 2023,

https://www.rawstory.com/fani-willis-trump-2660299652/

“According to MSNBC legal analyst, … Speaking with host Ana Cabrera, the criminal defense attorney stated the Thursday letter which announced plans for 70 percent of her staff to work remotely during a three-week period up to August 18, with her office only populated by herself, top aides and armed investigators is a sign that she has "locked in" the dates for a Trump indictment announcement. “

“Noting that Willis has also asked the judge to not have any trials going on at the courthouse during the definitive period, Cevalos explained, "Fani Willis is asking the court to devote, clear its resources, clear the calendar, that can only mean that she plans on big news."

 

Sounds like Fani Willis is getting her people out of harm's way.

Steve Thomas

‘What’s next, rainbow uniforms?’: Republican suggests defunding US Army over Pride celebrations

By David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement May 19, 2023,

 

"U.S. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) is demanding the Dept. of Defense rescind a memo authorizing LGBTQ Pride celebrations on military installations, and says Congress should defund America’s Armed Forces if it refuses.”

 

"If DOD doesn’t put a stop to these kinds of divisive – and frankly embarrassing – DOD events, Republicans should pull support for this year’s [National Defense Authorization Act].”

 

“Calling to defund the U.S. Armed Forces is in keeping with Congressman Roy’s previous acts. Earlier this year he called to defund the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security.

In 2021 Rep. Roy became the lone Congressman to block a 5-month overdue disaster aid relief bill, saying it was “fine” that migrant children are dying at the border.”.

 

Steve Thomas

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A very frightening period': MAGA Republicans threaten librarians with prison time
By Alex Henderson, AlterNet May 18, 2023, 
https://www.rawstory.com/a-very-frightening-period-maga-republicans-threaten-librarians-with-prison-time/

 

Kepp 'em barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen. That's what I say.
As for the boys, the mill needs workers.
Don't let 'em read. If you teach 'em to read, they get uppity.

Steve Thomas

 

Lauren Boebert's divorce helps explain a surge in misogynist rhetoric: columnist
By Gideon Rubin May 18, 2023, 
https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boeberts-divorce-helps-explain-a-surge-in-misogynist-rhetoric-columnist/
 "Marcotte writes that Boebert’s divorce is a “window into an aspect of red state life that hasn't been much discussed, one which is likely fueling the ugly surge in misogynist rhetoric and policy being pushed by Republicans, especially the men.”
“The dark little secret of red state life is there's a lot of Lauren Boeberts out there: Conservative women who disavow feminism, but, when given a shot at more independence for themselves, gladly use hard-won rights like divorce and abortion. Republican men are getting increasingly angry about even this minor loss of control over women.”
This “minor” loss of control appears have had a major impact on America’s political dynamics in recent years, Marcotte contends, noting that a “sexual predator is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. Abortion bans keep getting passed, despite being wildly unpopular. And now there's even a GOP push to make it harder for people — mostly women — to file for divorce.”

Steve Thomas

1 hour ago, Greg Doudna said:

This is interesting Steve but I see nothing connecting Ruby to the Miller gunrunning four or a motel room in the borchgardt story, though it sounds like borchgardt knew the same ones in the Elrod story. What is interesting is borchgardt picked up some rumor that ruby owed bookies —not the irs—$40,000 (about a half million in todays money) which would be forgiven if he offed Oswald. But no verification and officer Anderton didn’t think there was anything of interest there, such as to ask borchgardt where he heard that. 

Greg,

Elrod told the FBI that Ruby had met four other men in a motel to talk about a gun running scheme.

I wondered if Borchgardt named those four other men. We know Lawrence Miller was one.

Was Wydell Ruby's car mechanic?

Steve Thomas

Editorial: GOP chief wants to make Kansas ‘hostile’ to push out ‘bad people’ he disagrees with

The Kansas City Star

https://nordot.app/1031843092084457498?c=592622757532812385

 

“The nonprofit Kansas Reflector this week reported on a newly revealed recording of Adam Peters, the Ellis County GOP chairman, who during a March 2 meeting in Hutchinson made plain his desire to purge the state of any Kansan who doesn’t subscribe to his conservative beliefs. He railed against the “degradation” of society caused by so-called “critical theory,” which he blamed for crime, suicide and racial strife.

His solution? Harassment.

“If you can make it hostile to that group of people, that small sliver of society, and have them move elsewhere, that does a huge amount to shut this down,” Peters said, according to the Reflector’s Sherman Smith. “It’s both sides of it: You need to attract the good people here, and you also need to make it clear to the bad people, this isn’t gonna go well for you.”

Ominously, he also offered a suggestion of violence."

“You know,” Peters reportedly said, “if we look in scripture, there was a time when the nation of Israel had to take up arms in defense of themselves.”

If you get rid of black people, there wouldn’t be any “racial strife” See?

Now, if we could do the same thing with all these liberals and women and gay people and young people, and books, we’d be doing OK.

Welcome to 1860.

Steve Thomas

 

This is slightly off-topic, but I wanted to jot it down before I forget it.

On December 1, 1963 Richard Borchgardt (who had appeared in a lineup alongside Lee Harvey Oswald) told Patrolman Kenneth Anderton that he had information that Jack Ruby was involved in a gun running scheme involving Lawrence Miller, et.al.

Portal to Texas History John F. Kennedy Memorial Collection

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth338950/?q=Anderton

Though Anderton identified Borchgardt as “Robert” instead of “Richard”, Borchgardt told Anderton that Ruby had been in a motel room with four other men and named Lawrence Miller as one of the four. Lawrence Miller is the man with the smashed - up face.

Compare the Borchgardt/Anderton story to the account of John Elrod in this FBI Report:

Steve Thomas

On 5/16/2023 at 12:37 PM, Bill Brown said:

 

It's laughable to believe that Oswald would have been placed in a cell with (or alongside) other prisoners where he could have "talked" to them at all.

The testimonial record tells you that Oswald was completely segregated.

 

 

I thought I had seen pictures of those jail cells before.

Pause that Hard Copy film at the 1:21 mark.

The jail cells in the Dallas Police Department were just a line of open bar cages. They were not separate rooms.

Steve Thomas

- Donald Trump -

"I WAS BEING FRAMED BY THE FBI AND THE DOJ,"  "NOW IT CONTINUES WITH THE BOXES HOAX, THE 'PERFECT' PHONE CALL IN ATLANTA, THE MANHATTAN D.A., AND THE NEW YORK STATE A.G. SCAM. WHAT A GROUP, BUT ALL REPORT TO THE DOJ IN WASHINGTON. IT’S JAMES COMEY AND THE SLEAZEBAGS ALL OVER AGAIN. THEY ARE PLAYING ELECTION INTERFERENCE IN 2024 THROUGH ILLEGAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST REPUBLICANS, IN PARTICULAR YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT, ME. THESE ARE CHEATING LOWLIFES, BUT WE WILL WIN. OUR COUNTRY IS GOING TO HELL!"

 

Dirty sleazebags.

Steve Thomas

McCarthy demands work requirements on ‘all the programs’ including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP

by David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement

May 16, 2023

https://www.rawstory.com/mccarthy-demands-work-requirements-on-all-the-programs-including-social-security-medicare-medicaid-and-snap/

“Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is under fire after announcing Tuesday he is demanding work requirements for "all" social safety net programs as part of his debt ceiling "negotiations" with President Joe Biden.”

 

I don’t care if you are 85 years old. Get out there and work, damn you!

You’re disabled? Get your ass out of that damn hospital bed, you lazy piece of...!

 

Steve Thomas