Ron Ecker

I thought that God quit talking directly to people after Old Testament times. But apparently he's still at it. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-says-god-told-her-eclipse-shooting-spree-police_n_66147707e4b0743395c2f12d

Believe me, I'm not taking sides, I just want to point out a fact. That photo of Rita Palma standing beside Looney Bird Powell means nothing because we don't know if it's real or not. With photoshopping and AI today we can't know if anything's real. And just wait till tomorrow! For all we know, even the Zapruder film, going all the way back to 1963, was tampered with. (There's been a rumor to that effect.)

I kept thinking all day today about that line spoken by a hen-pecked husband in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: "Never fall in love during a total eclipse."

Not according to any poll that I've seen. They're running neck and neck. And now with RFK Jr., the black professor (is that what he is?) whose name escapes me, and the Stein woman (what does she do besides run for president?) determined to take votes away, I don't see much basis for optimism. Everyone knows what Trump is and too many people don't care. In fact, two or three more Trump indictments or even just one conviction and Biden might as well concede.

Try to look at it philosophically. In a free and fair election, people get what they deserve in those whom they elect. If this country wants a dictator (and it certainly acts like it does), it will get one. A lot of people won't like it, but the majority (or rather the Electoral College) rules. That's how our democracy works, while it lasts. And, to paraphrase Sandy, it was good while it lasted. When you're as old as I am, you can be more philosophical, knowing that you won't have to live through what's coming. (I look at climate change the same way.) I at least have the comfort of knowing that I lived in the best of times.

I'll buy that. I just wish someone, anyone, in the mainstream would say it. Maybe I've missed it. I'll say this anyway. Netanyahu is really a nice guy.

Yeah, I remember the phrase "conquest of the MIddle East." Syria was to be the first country taken. Somehow things just didn't pan out. Or things didn't go Syriaously. Now I guess Israel attacking the Iranian embassy in Syria is (to paraphrase the PNAC) Iran's "Pearl Harbor." Looking at the bright side, I guess it's best to go to war with Iran before it has nuclear weapons. Wait, maybe therein lies the "who benefits."

I found the statement I’m think of in a Web search. It was in a meeting with Bin Laden supporters and was videotaped. But unless I’m mistaken, this is the videotape that was “found” by the US with a guy portraying Bin Laden who was about a hundred pounds too heavy. I knew this was faked, but my recollection was that the statement in question came from some other source. My bad. (Bad memory, that is.) This is from the transcript: UBL: (...Inaudible...) we calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I was the most optimistic of them all. (...Inaudible...) due to my experience in this field, I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would melt the iron structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane hit and all the floors above it only. This is all that we had hoped for. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2001/d20011213ubl.pdf

Israel bombs Iran’s embassy in Syria, killing several Iranian commanders. Well guess what. When commanders are killed, they are simply replaced. So what was accomplished? Who benefited from Israel inviting absolutely certain Iranian retaliation, against both Israel and US interests, since Iran of course holds us partly to blame? In all the news coverage about this bombing and the anticipated retaliation, I haven’t heard one comment about why Israel did it, just when the US government is reportedly worried about a wider war in the Middle East, with the US of course sucked into it. Does anyone have a theory?

I think RFK Jr. as a kid was given some kind of bad vaccine. We're having to live with the result.

I recall a reported remark by Bin Laden some tme after 9/11 in which he expressed surprise at how the Twin Towers fell, that he only expected damage to the buildings. Do you recall that statement? Do you know its source? Was it a legitimate report by some news agency, a U.S. fabrication, or what?

When you had the CIA ("betrayed" by JFK at the Bay of Pigs plus the firing of Dulles), the JCS ("Vietnam, here we come!"), LBJ (a Get Out of Jail Free card as POTUS), and the FBI (J. Edgar would be rid of his boss Bobby), what more did you need? The Mafia, anti-Castro Cubans, some Dallas cops, some SS agents and various other JFK haters would be glad to lend helping hands as may be needed. We know for a fact that the mainstream media would be no problem at all, though I do have to wonder how much the media's disgraceful conduct could have been foreseen.

Thanks, Vince. I wouldn't be surprised if you found that long-suppressed ABC video while rummaging through an attic that once belonged to Peter Jennings. Sort of like A.J. Weberman rummaging through Bob Dylan's garbage. Anyway, good find!

Maybe it's his subtle way of getting votes for a Kennedy who is running for president. Nah. FoxNews doing that would hurt Trump more than Biden.

Dubya also had a personal grudge against Saddam. There had allegedly been an Iraqi plot to assassinate President George H.W. Bush. In that sense Dubya's conquest of Iraq was for Daddy. In any case, whatever Dubya's self-selected VP wanted he got. The Masters of War could also be Puppet Masters.

I'll never forget Rumsfeld saying on TV about the invasion of Iraq, "They have weapons of mass destruction and we know where they are."

I should note that you can see some great stuff with closed captions. For example, the closed captions at CNN refer to Ron DeSantis as Rhonda Santos. (Any relation to Cory?) And Fanni Willis and her lover were said to have gone to a "hate-filled condo." (I eventually found out it was a Hapeville condo.) Closed captions are like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

And Rupert Murdoch just received some award named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg. How's that for a slap in the face of the dead?

100%! For example, if you hear FoxNews report that a bridge has collapsed in Baltimore, or that Sean Diddy Combs is under investigation for sex trafficking, it's all lies!

Yes, I can't speak for Sandy, but that's how stupid I am. Thanks for the appraisal.

Mark Antony had an ear problem too. He even begged a crowd, "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!"

Thanks. I agree that it's no big deal. As I said, he stumbled a bit but was trying to say the same thing he said in the State of the Union Address. But FoxNews made it a big deal by devoting an article to it, wanting people to believe that Biden is so far gone mentally that he thinks he's running for Congress. Yeah, right.

That looks like the clip. And it's not edited as far as I can tell. Now I don't try to listen to clips on the Internet because of a chronic ear condition - the sound quality is too abrasive. I depend on closed captions for everything I watch. And the closed captions on that clip state what he said: "Send me the Congress...." (emphasis added). It's FoxNews' own captions, right? Oh, but how many people are going to read those, eh?

CNN as a news network is the closest thing I can think of. I know it's considered leftist, a lot of its commentary may be slanted, but it doesn't tell flat-out lies as news to its viewers. At least I haven't heard one. It certainly hasn't had to fork out millions and millions of dollar for lying like FoxNews has. Now I’ll give you a good, up-to-date example of FoxNews telling blatant lies as news. I saw a FoxNews article (not on its website, which I do not visit, the article was republished by Microsoft Start--IOW as click bait, and against my better judgment I clicked on it). The article said that Biden, in campaigning for reelection, told an audience in Philadelphia, “Send me to Congress!” Wow, a prime example of dementia, right? All of the FoxNews faithful would certainly eat it up. The trouble is, there’s a video and a transcript of what Biden actually said: “Send me the Congress that I — can support this right" (referring to reproductive freedom). He stumbled a bit but was reiterating the same thing that he said in his State of the Union Address: “If Americans send me a Congress that supports the right to choose….” “Send me to Congress!” That’s real “fair and balanced” news reporting, isn’t it?

Jesse can't spell his own name right. There's only one T in waters. Wait, on second thought, he's even lying about his name.