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  1. Just viewed Trump's pathetic response to the tax story in the New York Times.

    Trump actually said this today to the national press:

    "The IRS does not treat me well."

    Please, I must repeat this Trump quote ...

    "The IRS does not treat me well."   !?

    Billionaire Trump pays only $750 in personal income tax in 2016 and only $750 in 2017.

    Trump pays "NO" personal income taxes in 10 of the 15 years previous to 2016?

    That is mistreatment?   Ha!

    My family wishes the IRS treated us as badly as they have Trump the last 17 years.

    And Trump says it's all fake news!

    Still, crazily and sadly, Trump's cult followers will blindly pretend and convince themselves none of this tax cheating fraud is real or important.

    And to add outrage to outrage... the same year Trump paid only $750 to our own government in income taxes, he paid $16,000 in taxes to the country of PANAMA!

    I have read where the Trump organization ( basically just Trump and his kids ) were paid $14,000,000 just to hang their name on that Panama property. And they only have to pay Panama $16,000 in taxes? Where's the business expenses with that?

    Trump has also paid over $100,000 in taxes to the Philippines. $40,000 to Turkey? Other countries as well.

    Trump has reported over $50,000,000 in losses just from his Washington hotel property "alone" to the IRS.

    12 million dollars a year in losses for 4 straight years is a business model so losing you'd think the banks would call the loans in.

    Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner got in the same massive business loss hole with his 666 Park Ave. property until he got improbably bailed out by Brookfield Inc. 

    Trump receives a $10,000,000 refund check from the IRS and according to his former fixer attorney Michael Cohen Trump crows...

    "Can you believe how f***ing stupid the IRS is?"

    "Who would give me a refund check of ten f***ing million dollars?"

    "They are so stupid!"

    There looks to be hundreds and hundreds ( if not thousands ) of suspected tax cheating actions on the part of Trump and the Trump organization over the years.

    All it takes is one conviction on one count for Mr. Trump to be in serious trouble in this case.

    How can America's Evangelicals see all these outrageously massive criminal tax cheating charges unfolding ( over decades ) and still claim Trump is their chosen moral man sent by ....?

     
    Federal income taxes paid in 2017 (jointly with spouse): Joe Biden - $3,742,974 Kamala Harris - $516,469 Bernie Sanders - $343,882 Elizabeth Warren - $268,484 Donald Trump - $750
  2. Trump is a proud and bragging member of the Leona Helmsley "We don't pay taxes, only the little people pay taxes" club.

    New York City chapter.

    Leona Mindy Roberts Helmsley (July 4, 1920 – August 20, 2007) was an American businesswoman. Her flamboyant personality and reputation for tyrannical behavior earned her the nickname Queen of Mean. After allegations of non-payment were made by contractors hired to improve Helmsley's Connecticut home, she was investigated and convicted of federal income tax evasion and other crimes in 1989

    • The "Queen of Mean"
     

    Although having initially received a sentence of sixteen years, she was required to serve only nineteen months in prison and two months under house arrest. During the trial, a former housekeeper testified that she had heard Helmsley say: "We don't pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes," an aphorism which was identified with her for the rest of her life. 

     

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  3. 10 hours ago, Chris Barnard said:

    This certainly makes Biden look half decent, and Trump. There was a bunch of stuff like this in Roger Stones LBJ/JKF assasination book. Getting is manhood out in front of strangers and sat with the loo door open, having a sit down. An absolutely repulsive man, a disgrace that he led the Dems or the USA. Are there any worse ones? Probably not. Everyone would have condoned it if RFK had chinned him. 

    LBJ's defenders always present his "Great Society" program as his most defining legacy achievement as a President. 

    A President who did much for the poor and racially oppressed.

    That no matter what else LBJ did in his political career and personal life, including reported unprecedented long term corruption ( some say even ordering murders ) fixed elections, the most perverse, grossest even sadistic personal behavior in front of others, fathering children outside of his marriage, and on and on...this one political program achievement is the only real justification needed to record LBJ as an honorable and even great President and man in our official historical record.

    But we all know this honorable President and person image promotion of LBJ is a complete sick and disturbing charade. A cynical, shameless and corrupt cloaking of the truth.

    Great effort on every level of highest status quo power since the 1960's has been taken to create and continuously promote this false reality narrative.

    Why?

    To reveal and acknowledge the full reality of LBJ's massive corruption could very well also reveal the true identities of our non-elected power elite that have been in greater charge of our society since JFK more so than any average citizen could ever imagine or want to believe and face.

    An equally corrupt MIC cabal of unwarranted and non-elected power Dwight Eisenhower warned us all about in his final farewell speech. 

    Revealing LBJ's true corruption would expose and threaten the entire network of this greatest power and control group which JFK himself threatened imo.

    This whole dark reality of highest power and control corruption during the last half of 20th century America will never be brought out into the truth light as long as false reality historical narratives about leadership characters like LBJ continue to be allowed as our official record of note.

    Corrupt LBJ was a creation of our just as corrupt greater highest power and control complex group that Eisenhower tried to warn us about in 1961.

     

  4. 3 hours ago, Steve Thomas said:

    Humble and Kind

    by Lori McKenna

     

    You know there's a light that glows by the front door
    Don't forget the key's under the mat
    When childhood stars shine
    Always stay humble and kind

    Go to church 'cause your mamma says to
    Visit grandpa every chance that you can
    It won't be wasted time
    Always stay humble and kind

    Hold the door, say "please", say "thank you"
    Don't steal, don't cheat, and don't lie
    I know you got mountains to climb
    But always stay humble and kind


    When the dreams you're dreamin' come to you
    When the work you put in is realized
    Let yourself feel the pride
    But always stay humble and kind

    Don't expect a free ride from no one
    Don't hold a grudge or a chip and here's why
    Bitterness keeps you from flyin'
    Always stay humble and kind

    Know the difference between sleeping with someone
    And sleeping with someone you love
    "I love you" ain't no pick-up line
    So always stay humble and kind

    Hold the door, say "please", say "thank you"
    Don't steal, don't cheat, and don't lie
    I know you got mountains to climb
    But always stay humble and kind
    When those dreams you're dreamin' come to you
    When the work you put in is realized
    Let yourself feel the pride
    But always stay humble and kind

    When it's hot, eat a root beer popsicle
    Shut off the AC and roll the windows down
    Let that summer sun shine
    Always stay humble and kind

    Don't take for granted the love this life gives you
    When you get where you're going don't forget turn back around
    And help the next one in line
    Always stay humble and kind

    Thank you for sharing this.

  5. Strip joint owning Jack Ruby getting within inches of a wide open Lee Harvey Oswald and blasting out his guts right inside the Dallas Police Department building with 70 armed police and other agency people all around him live on national TV with millions of Americans watching was "by far" the single most conspiracy suspicion arousing event in the entire JFK affair in the national psyche.

     And which is still felt today.

    Those millions of viewers of Ruby whacking Oswald didn't need conspiracy books and articles to give them these conspiracy feelings and suspicions.

    They "saw" a conspiracy happen right before their almost disbelieving eyes!

    Like me, most average Americans knew Oswald was one of the most threatened criminal suspects in American crime history if not "the" most threatened.

    Knowing this, to then see Oswald so open when he was brought around the corner into the basement and right up to the press crowd and then see this kind of frumpy, dark, stocky, hat wearing figure explode from the closest press line and get within inches of Oswald to blast away...was beyond negligence and coincidence in everyone's mind and just shouted conspiracy.

    Salt of the Earth JFK Dealey Plaza shooting eyewitness railroad man Richard C. Dodd ( interviewed in Mark Lane's documentary "Rush To Judgement" ) summed up the general American sentiment of Ruby shooting Oswald ...

    "Well, when a man can walk up and shoot a man handcuffed to two policemens, why, there's a sumthin' else goin on besides what should be."   

    Right on Mr. Dodd!

    Jack Ruby destroyed the best chance America had to learn the JFK assassination truth.

    He saved Jackie Kennedy anymore anguish and proved Jews had guts but he screwed the rest of us...royally.

    Thank you Jack Ruby.

     

  6. Once again Trump and Melania face huge crowd booing and chants of "Vote Him Out." So loud and unified it forced them both to walk out of a nationally covered public ceremony.

    For the second time in Trump's presidency he has encountered unprecedented mass booing and chants of rejection while attending a large public event with thousands of Americans not screened like those at his staged rallies.

    Friday, September 25, while safe distance standing together directly behind recently deceased Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg's flag draped coffin on display on the steps of the Supreme Court building, thousands of people in the gathered crowd below spontaneously burst out in unified booing and chanting "Vote Him Out." "Vote Him Out."

    The pitch and intensity of this angry chanting grew to such a loud level, Trump and his wife reactively soon turned and walked back into the bldg to escape the embarrassing scene.

    For the first time in recent presidential history,Trump faced a similar scene of thousands angrily booing him and chanting "Lock Him Up" ... "Lock Him Up" at last year's World Series in Washington D.C. with a packed stadium crowd of over 50,000.

    The booing was so loud and continuous it stopped the normal public address announcing for several minutes.

    That kind of mass vocal public rejection of a sitting President at one of our most iconic national sporting events was a first. No President has ever encountered such mass jeering at highest celebrated, national audience watched public events until Trump.

    The World Series Trump booing scene was reported and replayed in the national media, though the loudness of the booing and chants was reportedly turned down in some of the replayed broadcasts.

    Appearing before huge assemblages of public citizenry audiences besides highly screened campaign rally ones has not been a glowingly receptive experience for this President. At least in these two highly viewed situations.

    Reflection of unprecedented angry societal divisiveness amongst our citizenry? 

    It appears so.

    Watch Trump Get Booed at Visit to Ruth Bader Ginsburg Casket

    2 days ago - On Thursday, the crowd at the viewing for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg booed President Trump and Melania Trump ...

     

     
  7. 1 hour ago, Richard Booth said:

    I haven't seen the Cavett interview (and I want to) but I noticed something was wrong with Priscilla Johnson MacMillan pretty much immediately when I saw her on PBS Frontline. 

    Her eyes bug out of her head and she seems to speak with a strange affect. I find her absolutely repulsive.

    And yes I have seen the Mailer vs. Vidal episode, a classic. The audience loved the "fold it 5 ways and stick it where the sun don't shine"

    Mailer was definitely drunk and was behaving like a real asshole. 

    I haven't seen the Hoffa episode, but now I'm going to look for it.

    P S Y C H O

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    Yes! That's the crazy Carol Channing face!

    Minus the teeth.

    Brando was a tough interview for Cavett as he was for every interviewer.

  8. 2 hours ago, Richard Booth said:

    She always looks and sounds like a lunatic.  In another documentary, she's got her head cocked way to the side (her neck looks broken in it) while her eyes are bugging out of her head and she's doing the baby-talk thing. 

    She comes off as really creepy.

    Evidently a CIA document refers to her in a derogatory manner, something about her being a "nut" or "nutty" or something like that. Didn't stop them from using her, though. 

    You noticed the Carol Channing big eyes, baby talk mannerism thing too RB?

    Speaking of favorite Cavett interviews, have any of you seen the one with Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal? HA!  One of the funniest interviews ever! Even Cavett worried that hot headed Mailer might start throwing blows!

    Cavett was so disgusted with Mailer's boorish, bragging, insulting ego maniac behavior and comments he actually said to Mailer (after Mailer condescendingly told Cavett to get back to his talking point list)  ..." why don't you fold it 5 different ways and stick it where the sun don't shine!" On air!

    Mailer seemed somewhat inebriated during this interview. Mailer even insults the audience!

    Another Cavett interview that was very interesting and even intriguing to me was the one with Jimmy Hoffa.

    Hoffa not only doesn't hold back his hatred of the Kennedys ( JFK and especially Robert ) he blatantly brags how he had the building manager raise the flag back up to full mast after it had been lowered to half mast the day of JFK's murder  ( or was it RFK's? )  His hatred of the Kennedy's with no remorse at all about their brutal murders made me believe that if he could have done these killings himself, he would have.

    Hoffa was brutish, thuggish. He believed in the use of violence in promoting the Teamsters influence, power and wealth.

  9. 4 hours ago, Robert Burrows said:

    The sound that you heard was the sound of human beings with a conscience, realizing that its the future of our republic lying in that flag draped casket. 

     

    Who can forget the Trumps attending the World Series and when their names were announced and their faces shown on the stadium Jumbotron, thousands erupted into loud boos and a collective "LOCK HIM UP, LOCK HIM UP!"

    Never before has a President been so mass booed at a major sport event like that.

    It was so bad, the main stream media turned down the actual loudness of the booing and shouting and got it off the main page in one day.

    It was so bad with thousands breaking out in angry shouting and booing it was embarrassing. This is what Trump receives when he is facing real non-screened rally Americans.

    Even Morning Joe Scarborough tried to defend Trump regards this humiliating reception. Scarborough said these people should have shown more respect! This was our President good or bad. HA!

    And guess what Trump rewards Scarborough with later on for Scarborough's defense? He retweets news reports of a young aide of Scarborough's suspicious death when he was a Congressman and inferred Scarborough had something to do with her death!

    Joe....hope this backstabbing of you shook you out of your Trump defense oddity.

  10. I just watched the film "20 Million Miles To Earth."

    I saw this film at our local theater here in Pacific Grove, California when it first came out in 1957/58?

    I was 6 or 7.

    Even today I loved the special effects created by Ray Harryhausen. Hokey compared to today's CG films?

    No, not at all.  When you consider what Harryhausen had to work with back in the fifties and 1960's, his special effects were amazingly powerful.

    I am sure that I was probably wide eyed and jaw dropped terrified when I watched the creature Ymir battling the elephant in that film. What a battle and the Ymir was just scary as can be! Devilish face with horns, huge teeth, lizard skin body, three clawed hands, all alligator muscled, long tail and it's awful screams!

    I surely had nightmares after watching this film. Probably choked on my theater candy as well in the most frightening battle scenes.

    And who could forget the creatures in Jason and The Argonauts? Those skeleton warriors...wow!

    Today's Super Hero and CG film going kids are simply spoiled.

    In the fifties and 60's, the bad news creatures and monsters were low tech compared to today, but for their time they were incredibly powerful and terrifying in watching them on the big screen

    Heck, even cheesy Japanese monster films were great to watch and be frightened. Godzilla, Mothra, you name it.

    Other girl scream creatures:

    Giant ants in "Them."

    Frozen then thawed out flying saucer monster in "The Thing."

    Giant crabs in "Mysterious Island."

    Red body eating goo in "The Blob."

    100 foot high tarantula in the film "Tarantula."

    And on and on. 

    And didn't we all love seeing kind of B rated movie stars in these low budget films, like James Arness, Raymond Burr, James Whitmore ( who always creeped me out ) and a few great stars before they made it big like Steve McQueen in the Blob. Michael Landon as a werewolf?

    Great times to go to the movies in the 1950's and 60's for everybody of all ages.

    Popcorn and candy were cheap. We were easily moved and effected because we hadn't yet been spoiled by CG.

  11.  

    Thought I'd give any members here who haven't had a Covid-19 nasal swipe test a heads up.

    I just had one a few hours ago.

    It was required upon my admission to our local hospital. I had to rush there at 8:am this morning for a serious Afib episode as well as three days of Colitis pain.

    I had heard this test was painful and or in the least uncomfortable.

    Well, I don't know if it is was the skill of the nurse, but my test was hardly painful and only mildly uncomfortable.

    Much easier and almost pain free than I had expected.

    The nurse inserted a very thin, 8 inch long test poker into a nostril and pushed this very slowly and gently all the way to the back to the throat and kept it there for about 5 to 10 seconds.

    I will get the results within a few days I was told. If I had been admitted overnight, they would have gotten the results within 2 hours. I wasn't admitted.

    Heart back to sinus rhythm. Sent home.

    So, don't worry about this test being very uncomfortable. In my case it was only mildly so. Nothing compared to strep throat where they stick a swab way back on your tongue which makes me gag horribly.

     

  12. 57 minutes ago, Steve Thomas said:

    Joe,

    Trump says the Covid 19 virus only effects old people.

    I say we just cut right to the chase and kill off anybody over the age of 40.

    We could kill three birds with one stone.

    • We could eliminate all those old blood suckers who are draining the public coffers with their snowflake demands for Medicare and Social Security,
    • By reducing the demand for social services we could give more tax breaks to the wealthy; and,
    • Since the virus only affects the elderly, we could eliminate the pandemic.

    It's simple.

    Steve Thomas

    Brilliant Steve, Brilliant!

  13. On 9/21/2020 at 11:27 AM, Steve Thomas said:

    Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan lead drop in financial shares amid report the banks moved suspicious funds

    Published Mon, Sep 21 2020 by Yun Li

    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/21/deutsche-bank-jpmorgan-lead-drop-in-financial-shares-amid-report-the-banks-moved-suspicious-funds.html

    • “Financial stocks sold off on Monday, led by Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan, after a report that several global banks moved allegedly illicit funds over the past two decades.

    • A new investigation by BuzzFeed and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists found banks’ internal compliance officers flagged a total of more than $2 trillion in transactions between 1999 and 2017 as possible money laundering or other criminal activity.

    • The report cited confidential documents submitted by banks to the U.S. government.

    • These leaked suspicious activity reports do not necessarily indicate wrongdoing, and they were just a tiny fraction of the reports filed with U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the news report said.

    Deutsche Bank appears to have facilitated $1.3 trillion of suspicious money in the files, while JPMorgan disclosed $514 billion, the report found. Other banks mentioned in the investigation include HSBC Holdings, Standard Chartered and Bank of New York Mellon. HSBC fell more than 6%, touching a 25-year low.”

    Steve Thomas

     

     

    TWO TRILLION! 

    NOW THERE'S A CRIMINAL ENTERPRIZE OF DECADES LONG WORLD WIDE IMPORTANCE THAT NEEDS HUGE DEEP INVESTIGATION.

    As well as Trump's dealings with the worst offending bank...Dousche.

    And did we give any bail out monies to J.P. Morgan after the G.W. Bush financial collapse of 2007?

  14. I do like Walt Brown but I've come to believe that there isn't any one researcher that has ALL the right answers. Of course he is way above JVB  ( no comparison? ) in the credibility department.

    I like Ed Tatro as well.

    Garrison may have taken some unproven leaps but over-all he is a hero in my mind for spending years of family, reputation and personal emotion sacrificing effort in his investigation and finding and revealing mountains of previously hidden truths that we are all so much better served knowing.

    I have a question for anyone out there that may have known anything about Reilly Coffee back in 1963.

    I would ask them, did you ever hear of any connection to government agencies by them or their owners or management?

    Rob, I would suggest to you that hundreds if not thousands of U.S. corporate entities provide cover jobs for our government needs when requested.

    And they have for decades. I know this to be a fact. Hence my belief that Reilly Coffee could easily be used for this purpose.

     

     

  15. In just one week, conspiracy nut Trump has:

    Retweeted another tweet inferring Biden as a child molester for kissing his grand daughter on the top of her head.

    Suggested that Ruth Bader Ginsburg's grand daughter's claim of her grand mother's wish that her replacement not be chosen except by the next duly elected president was not real and something Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi or "shifty" Schiff made up.

    Suggested liberal terrorists will invade and take over our suburbs.

    Claiming even elements of Fox News are now conspiring against him.

    Joe Biden's election would destroy our policing structure and again turn everything over to liberal terrorists.

    And on and on... with all this crazy super hyped fear mongering rhetoric in just one week!

    Sorry, but just this latest one week's worth of super exaggerated fear and paranoia mongering ALONE would be enough for legitimate calls for a President's removal due to mental instability and irresponsibly upsetting of our citizens in normal times.

    Trump claims he personally downplayed the Civid-19 threat to "calm" our society. That this was his sacred duty as President.

    Yet every week he does and says things through our national media that do the opposite!

    The liberal terrorist hordes are coming! The election will be rigged! Every criticism of him is a conspiracy. Even elements of Fox news are being compromised! Biden is a child molester! Biden and his son and the Clintons should be investigated for high crimes! Dozens of women going public and charging Trump with sexual battery against them...are all XXXXX...every last one of them!

    The man is truly, seriously paranoid delusional and super aggressive in pushing his own fear mongering paranoia upon the entire nation almost every day.

    Yet, this reality has never been reported as such by the great majority of our main stream media. This possum like hiding and non-reporting of this reality is the main reason Trump gets away with his paranoid fear mongering for the last 3 and 3/4ths years imo.

    Pretending or portraying Trump as not that much different or paranoia fear mongering and angry divisive dangerous than any other President is as blameful as he is for the unprecedented agitated, angry, anxious and divided state we are in imo.

    Hope enough former Trump voters somehow come out of their Trump idolizing trances this election to stop this chaotic anger, fear and paranoia suspicion inciting madness.

     

     

     

     

  16. 2 hours ago, Pamela Brown said:

    Richard Booth said, 

    "Agreed that Riley is very interesting, seems like a cover job. In fact almost all of Oswald's places of employment are very interesting in that respect."

    Judyth's story revolves around Riley Coffee.  Without that connection, she has nothing.  And yet she claims she and LHO met at the Post Office. 

     

    And she never brought forth a single one of the over 100 employees of Riley Coffee at the time to confirm that they had seen Lee and Judyth together.  

    I think that speaks volumes...

    I worked for the local Hyatt Regency here in Monterey for about 9 months back in 1989.

    This is a large resort type complex. 500 employees!

    I worked in purchasing, lowest entry level trainee position.

    Even though I was there for 9 months, I couldn't remember 99

    % of the employees I engaged with 30 years ago. 

    My immediate two bosses died within 10 years after my employment there.

    I only made "one" half-way close friendship there.  He died 15 years ago. My social circle was outside of work and family.

    JVB was employed at Reilly for how long? Very briefly I have read.

    Not enough time to develop any close friendships I would imagine and her position seemed quite contained in one office. She may not have remembered even her immediate boss's name. 

    And after 30+ years until she came forward, memories of specific employees she may have had some contact with would be so hard to remember.

    I worked a few 1,2 and 3 month menial labor jobs at JVB's Reilly Coffee age.

    Kentucky Fried Chicken, hotel gardening, temp jobs with a company called "Manpower."

    I couldn't remember a name or face of other employees on these jobs within 6 months after leaving them. Didn't JVB flip burgers for a few days once also?

    Not trying to make JVB out to be some innocent truthful person here. But the fact she couldn't produce anyone from Reilly Coffee to verify seeing her there let alone an often job skipping Oswald or anyone seeing them together entering or leaving their jobs there has no weight in proving or disproving her employment there imo.

    Those W-2s are suspicious. What does JVB say to counter claims that they are forgeries?

  17. 5 hours ago, Rob Clark said:

    Sounds like we got a J.V. Believer here!

    Anyone with access to the WC exhibits in the last 55 years could have known Oswald had flip flops. (see photo below)

    Prove anything you wrote in the last 2 posts pertaining to JVB's assertions, as being in any way factually correct..

    Lots of speculation without documentation and straight up storytelling going on here.

    Any proof/documents Reilly Coffee was a CIA front?

    Dr. Mary's Monkey is a fictional novel, based almost entirely on speculation (Haslam's part) and lies (Baker's part)

    I agree with DiEugenio that there wasn't a linear particle accelerator in New Orleans either. Evidence shows she was stabbed and burned...horrific yes, sinister...no.

    For more on Tyler's upcoming documentary....

    https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_7022729c-95bf-5fc7-b9ab-8000e1336f6a.html

     

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    Your right Rob.

    Great pic.

    Is that a camera case?

    I am not a totally convinced JVB person. 

    Yet, I do think there are just a few JVB claims that warrant at least some consideration.

    Yes, hard to prove JVB claims.

    But do you dismiss Haslam's claims as much as JVB's?

    And you ask for proof of Reilly Coffee providing cover jobs for intel persons?

    Jim Garrison himself is my source for that suggestion.

  18. Strange times with the Covid-19 shutdown and economic turn down like nothing I have experienced in my 69 years ( turn 69 today ) but this following political election campaign observation just adds to this odd and ominous weirdness imo.

    We have what ... just 6 weeks until the national election?

    I haven't yet seen ONE political party or candidate yard sign, one open space banner or sign, one bumper sticker, one newspaper ad ... nothing!

    And we haven't received one political campaign mail brochure as well!

    I have always remembered presidential election political signs everywhere in the past.

    Obama -McCain, Kerry - Bush, Obama - Romney, even Hillary - Trump!

    It was always fun to read funny bumper stickers. Yard and window signs gave color and excitement all over town like Christmas decorations.

    They added to the excitement of the election. Same with state, county and local candidates and issues.

    I understand almost everything has been put on the internet with T.V. ads as well, but even with TV, there seems to be a huge drop off.

    Heck, we received political ad promotion mailers almost daily from the Mike Bloomberg campaign when he ran in the Democratic primary for 2 and 1/2 months.

    Since then...nothing!

    Why the complete disappearance of these traditional campaign ad items?

    Could it be that because we have never been so divided politically with palpable anger towards each other that people are afraid to display yard and window signs and car bumper stickers?

    Lest someone take a pot shot at their homes and cars?

    If so, what a sad state of national angst we have in the U.S. anymore.

  19. 14 hours ago, Richard Price said:

    David, it sounds trite, but I understand your situation pretty well and agree about insurance/healthcare.  I was a supporter of Bernie Sanders (and anyone else) that truly wanted to reform our healthcare/insurance industry for that very reason.  I don't care what it's labeled, if a country cannot take care of its citizens who toil at the mundane and mostly low paying jobs that make it run, there is a problem that sooner or later will boil over.  My family would be in exactly your situation had I not lucked into a US Postal Svc. job many years ago.  We have been blessed with pretty good health up until now and no accidents that required hospitalization.  Even with this, we are struggling to hang on to our bottom of the barrel "middle class" status.  It always feels that we are swimming against the current and the current is getting stronger while we get older and weaker.  My best to you.  I wish I could offer more.

    Well said...true reality.

    My family situation is so similar to yours. Except I never had even the somewhat benefit providing middle class job like your U.S. Postal Service one. 

  20. 19 minutes ago, Richard Booth said:

    Agreed that Riley is very interesting, seems like a cover job. In fact almost all of Oswald's places of employment are very interesting in that respect.

    Regarding JVB's hire date and fire date, that's far too thin a basis for me to buy her story. People are hired and fired every day, and oftentimes several people go or come at once, nothing nefarious about it. You also have full time regular employees doing real jobs working for companies that provide cover to people. For example, most of the employees at Kellog Brown and Root are actual real jobs and it's just the few people who use the company for cover. Would two people who were hired and fired from KBR within a day or two of one another necessarily also be connected somehow to the spies that work there? (this comparison refers to CIA agent Valerie Plame whose cover was a job at KBR). 

    Let's say a Joe Smith and a Nancy Jones are both hired and let go within a day or two of one another at KBR. Does that mean those two are connected to Plame or any of the organizations' other spies?

    So you see what I mean.

    I think JVB at some point discovered the significance of Riley Coffee Company, many years after the fact, and she built her story around it. I doubt she ever even knew Oswald at all. 

    Definitely check out Walt Brown's book "Judyth Vary Baker - In Her Own Words" if you think there is something to her story. It's both informative, and very amusing. 

    Also look at her claims, they are almost laugh out loud amusing. Such as her claim she would wear Marina Oswald's clothing and go around town with Oswald. Or how she claims she met Oswald: at the post office, she dropped something and Oswald picked it up for her, and she said "thank you, Comrade" in Russian. You've got to be kidding me, right? She just happens to speak Russian? And she just happens to know Oswald speaks Russian? Come on!   

    She mentioned Oswald's flip flop type footwear too.

    Turns out he DID own such shoes!

    Oswald liked the ladies from his own Russia dairy. He flirted. Some say he tasted the Sake girls in Japan as well. He openly flirted with a Japanese girl at one of the Dallas White Russian parties he and Marina attended once.

    If this is all fact, It is very possible that if the opportunity presented itself, Oswald could have had a brief affair outside of his unhappy young and stressed marriage imo.

    I could see him going for someone like JVB who could carry on an intelligent conversation and be interested in philosophical ideas.

     

  21. Jim Garrison himself suggested the Reilly Coffee company was used as a phony job cover operation by government agencies.

    He also mentioned NASA I believe. May be wrong with Nasa but some aerospace company.

    Cover jobs. This is common practice for companies in that loop.  Front companies.

    E.Howard Hunt's employment with Robert R. Mullen company. Malcolm Wallace's job placements. It's so common it's not even a secret.

    Oswald getting work at Reilly's ( absolutely no dispute about this fact ) is a huge tip off regards his connection in some way with intel imo.

    His job is to maintain and service coffee grinding machines? Dirty oily job. Not Oswald by any stretch.

    Oswald would never have even applied for such work.

    He is so non-serious about the job and neglects his duties there so blatantly and is engaged in Cuba promoting leaflet work and is fired within weeks? JVB herself punches and signs his end of day time card at least once because he would leave early? How could JVB be close enough in her work to Oswald to cover for him like that?

    JVB is gone within one day of Oswald's firing?

    JVB is hired to a position at Reilly Coffee she has absolutely no training or work experience for? She has joked about her being placed in this job.

    This laughably incongruous employment scenario for both Oswald and JVB means nothing?

    JVB is hired the same day as Oswald? Fired the day after Oswald?

    Why fire JVB? Unless someone at Reilly's knew she was close to Oswald personally and maybe even knew of her signing Oswald's time card?

    Reilly's Coffee is a suspiciously illogical connecting puzzle piece in Oswald's odd New Orleans activity imo.

     

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