Andrew Prutsok

On 8/2/2019 at 6:53 PM, Joe Bauer said:

Alex Jones and Breitbart support and defend who?

Gabbard? Or Harris?

Gabbard.

It's like having Goebbels' endorsement.

I'm undecided on Gabbard, but it's damned hard to support someone supported and defended by the likes of Breitbart and Alex Jones. Why do they support her?

And I thought where she nailed Harris good was on her health plan, where Harris was touting Sebelius' endorsement.

3 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:

I still play but, lately, I need some lessons from a guy like Jeffrey Reilly.

My problem on the (public) courses here in Denver isn't ethnic bias-- it's whacking too many balls into the weeds.

In a bit of a slump myself. Jeffrey would probably analyze my problem as standing too close to the ball after I hit it.

20 hours ago, Jeffrey Reilley said:

I worked as a golf professional in SW Florida for many years, just got out of the business less than a year ago, and nothing has changed...at all. In the twelve years I was at this last golf club, there were a total of five non-white people I ever saw there as a guest(24,000 rounds per year , times 12 years, and only 5 total= 1 out of ever 57,600 golfers). Obviously no members. I blend in fairly well, I like to think, into most social scenarios, and the things I have heard from people of prominence is downright shocking. The relaxed and free way the remarks are made were what really got me...both racist and sexist. 

I may have been and still am in Florida, but 90% of these folks are from Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, Indianapolis, New York, and many other big cities, and are only there for short periods of time. It ain't just Florida, its everywhere and its an elitist thing every bit as much as it is the Florida cracker crawling around in the Everglades thing. 

I could understand in the corrections department where racism could start growing disproportionately because of the high percentage of non-white inmates. Doesn't make it any better, but there is some reason behind it that could at least make sense in the why and how department, but these are people that are completely separated and detached from ever having to deal with anyone that is non-white with the exception of bussers and food-runners you find at the clubhouse. There is absolutely no reasoning behind that hatred. 

I guess, the more things change the more they stay the same?   

Lifelong golfer here. Golf is an abomination by almost any standard. I belonged to a club in Virginia in the early aughts that barred Jews up until the mid-80s. Elitist, wasteful, bigoted, bad for the environment, etc. Yet, I continue to play. 

Reagan raped Piper Laurie, too. So he is at least the second rapey racist we've had as president out of the past six. Another was just rapey.

3 hours ago, Stephanie Goldberg said:

Is it Joe Molina?  He was a member of something called the GI Forum.

Would make sense. Thanks.

I was looking at coverage of the JFK assassination my newspaper provided and came across something I hadn't heard before. In an Associated Press story on Saturday, Nov. 23, Jesse Curry, of course, says the police never had Oswald listed on their supicious list.

"We have another man working in that same building who has been listed in our subversive files since 1955," Curry said. Police were seeking the man for questioning.

Any idea who that might have been?

Was browsing through a bound newspaper volume from 1963 and noticed in February a wire story out of Detroit on a sculpture that was uncovered in a Detroit church basement. It depicted an angel that JFK had posed for when he was a student at Harvard. It was done in the 1930s by a sculptor named Mrs. John C. Wiley. The family was a friend of the Kennedys, apparently. It was sculpted in Latvia while JFK was there on a visit. It was intended to be installed at a church in Antwerp, but the Nazis had overrun it by the time it was finished. It was apparently sent to Rome and then sometime later to a Detroit. The sculpture was placed at Maryglade College in Memphis, Mich. The school closed in 1972 and all I could find online was that the sculpture was removed when the school closed. Can't find anything else about it. My interest is piqued. Hoping somebody knows what became of it and whether an image exists.

On 7/6/2019 at 11:12 PM, Cory Santos said:

Very interesting story and perspective including that RFK knew the whole story.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/john-f-kennedy-jr-fathers-death

I thought you were linking to something that said how much alike JFK Jr. and Eric Trump are.

It was always my understanding that the neocon movement was launched by William Kristol (senior), Norman Podherotz, David Hororwitz and like-minded former left wing (hawkish)Jewish intellectuals in the 1960s. The Ford Administration may have given its followers their first taste of power, but the movement pre-dates his administration.

On 7/8/2019 at 12:50 PM, James DiEugenio said:

Rumors about my demise have been greatly exaggerated Kirk.  So its not safe to do this anymore.

HRC was Secretary of State if you recall.  So she does have a record.  How anyone can excuse what she did in Libya escapes me.  There have been various critiques of that which show that if she really wanted to get rid of Gaddafi so badly, there were other options she could have taken which would not have resulted in something as bad as what she achieved--which was turn the country into a failed state from which terrorism can now strike across the sea.  Gaddafi even warned Blair that it would happen, and that Islamic fundamentalism was behind the rebellion started and supplemented by HRC.

Honduras?  Do you really want to go into that one?

She even tried to get Obama to go to war in Syria.  But I think what happened is that he realized he had been rolled twice already by the three witches--HRC, Power and Rice--and he was not going to play the sucker again.

Need I mention her vote for the Iraq War, like Biden.  At least Biden turned around on that one pretty fast. 

Any person today, with all we know about him, who confers with Kissinger on vacation in the Caribbean about foreign policy ought to have their head examined. As in noted in my recent piece on Jeff Greenfield and Jared Cohen and Condi Rice, Kissinger is a war criminal.  He was directly involved with three genocides: Bangladesh, East Timor and Cambodia.  This is all proven and documented today. In the first matter, he and Nixon were warned AT THE TIME IT WAS HAPPENING, that the USA should not stand by and watch innocent people being slaughtered because of their religion in Bangladesh.  Know what they did?  They sent the perps planes to help them.  (See the book The Blood Telegram.)

This is one reason I like Tulsi.  She understands that the neocon philosophy is simply nutty.  And HRC seemed to buy into it.  Why, I don't know.  But its another reason why I could never vote for her, or her hubby. 

 

 

Trump has consulted Kissinger and heaped praise upon him.

Municipal police departments in the US were set up to be corrupt, unaccountable and brutal entities. Law enforcement in the US was initially the responsibility of elected sheriffs. But it turned out they were reluctant to smash the skulls of labor agitators whose votes, and those of their family members, they might need to stay in office. The first municipal police departments in the US were set up with private funding,

I think JFK and Trump differed on their interpretations of the colonial armies storming the airports during the Revolutionary war.

And don't forget the amazing parallels to the Concentration Camps JFK set up.

My old company was heavily involved in this crap. Google uses several factors to determine search rankings.  There is both internal and external authority. In addition to sites that link to you and to whom you link, it gets as granular as your site having an easily recognizable name, address and phone number. Not only that, this needs to be in text format and not part of an image. Google's crawlers do not read words imbedded in images. Having video on your site is helpful. Google ranks video higher than text. Does your organization or you personally have a wikipedia page? It matters on search rankings. Google likes Wikipedia.

Here's a list of some of the things that Google looks at in rankings:

Late to this thread. Once the 4 Channers and Q believers started asserting themselves, I quit coming -- same reason I left Facebook in 2016. If I want to read their crap I can go straight to 4 Chan, Infowars or other racist, nazi  sites.

You are on the right track with donations. Do not go to subscriptions and block non-payers from content. Same with ads. Every one you put on a site slows load times and detracts that much more from the user experience.

Subscription implies a product relationship only. Membership, on the other hand, is a two-way street. When one is a member of a thing, he or she has responsibilities. If you are a member of a Rotary Club, you are expected to not only pay your dues, but to show up at meetings and participate, volunteer for projects, recruit other members, etc.

It should be the same here. Those who believe in the work being done and can contribute money should. Perhaps for those who can't afford to give, they can fulfill their membership responsibilities in other ways -- helping moderate comments on certain days, linking to and promoting content on social media, starting threads, soliciting donations from others,I don't know. 

It's my guess that those who are committed and talented enough at research to do the heavy lifting day in and day out, do not want their work limited to a few subscribers. They want it to reach as large an audience as possible and a free, open platform is the only way to accomplish that.

You should have the email addresses of everyone who participates in the site. A good idea would be to start a weekly, or even monthly, email newsletter -- you can use a free program like Mail Chimp. Each newsletter should highlight the most popular content, talk about any projects the EF is involved in, solicit donations, encourage members to share the newsletter others. Post the same content of the newsletter regularly to social media.

Most media organizations today face the same situation as EF. There's a group studying this and making recommendations for sustainability called The Membership Puzzle Project, and they are doing good work. I highly recommend the leadership of any media organization to pay attention to what they are doing.

https://membershippuzzle.org/

It is well written, but  are you lamenting Hunt's failure to murder Castro and is that a commonly held sentiment here?

Lyndon Johnson was there.

This forum has been taken over by Q. When are the arrests coming again?

Rod Rosentein, who has said he will stay at the Justice (sic) Department until Mueller probe is finished, did an about face this morning and instead of leaving DOJ as planned this month, will stay on indefinitely.

Another sure sign the end is near and Mueller has nothing?

Obviously, the investigation is over.

And the prosecutor responsible for investigating "any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals aassociated with" Trump's campaign, as Mueller's appointment memo describes it -- Jeannie Rhee --  is still on staff.

Here was Judge Jackson Wednesday after sending Manafort off to his death:

"The 'no collusion' mantra is simply a non sequitur," referring to Manafort's attorneys' claim that Mueller had found no evidence of collusion with Russia (which was just a stunt to appeal for a pardon). "It's also not accurate because the investigation is ongoing."

1 hour ago, Robert Wheeler said:

Special Counsel spokesman Peter Carr told SaraACarter.com that “Andrew Weissmann will be concluding his detail to the Special Counsel’s Office in the near future.” Carr did not elaborate on whether or not Mueller’s Special Counsel will be wrapping up.

There are a number of reasons why Team Mueller is throwing in the Towel.

1. Anybody who could possibly charged with something already has been.
2. William Barr told Team Mueller to wrap it up. (ie. When he was confirmed, he became the official head of the investigation.) Recall Sessions recused himself and the authority to hire/fire the Special Counsel fell to Rossenstein.  Sessions resigned and Whitaker was in charge as the Temporary AG. Barr was confirmed  Feb. 14, 2019 and took over from Whitaker.
3. The Mueller report is, or will be soon, nearly complete.

You appear to be about as knowledgeable about this situation as Ken Dilanen at NBC news who has been reporting the investigation is ending since last fall.

All members of Mueller’s team had specific tasks to which they were assigned. Weinstein’s job was to prosecute Manafort on money laundering charges. His job is done. He is leaving, just as have other prosecutors on the team did after their work was completed.

Deaths going immediately unreported seems to be happening more and more. Recent examples include the Thursday, March 7 announcement of the death of actor Jan Michael Vincent on Feb 10, and the announcement just before Christmas that Sondra Locke had died in early November. Must be a thing now.