Ron Bulman

Trump chooses a vice president who would do what Mike Pence wouldn’t (msn.com)

Mark has been back a couple of times now since I locked this thread and not unlocked it.  Maybe it's time to move it and open up a space at the top of the first page.

4 hours ago, Frederic Galle said:

In fact, in the interview, Hunt only talks about a French shooter, it is his interlocutor ( Marrs I think ), who evokes the Corsican track. Personally, I think that Hunt knew who the French shooter was and that he even frequented him when he was creating the Mexico City station. It has since been shown that Sarti was incarcerated in Bordeaux during the events.

If not Sarti, Soutre?

41 minutes ago, Matt Allison said:

What part of the ear was Trump shot in? This pic was taken today. 

Thanks, I've been wondering about this.  There was a good bit of blood.  I wondered, going to the convention would he have a band aid on it or maybe a little gauze. 

On 7/14/2024 at 8:19 AM, W. Niederhut said:

Hopefully, Ben Cole won't also misconstrue this Sachs essay as "hijacking" this thread about the Neocons.

That was a futile hope.  He's taken Kirks comments about Sachs to he brought us Putin to this:

"I hope Trump and Vance come to the conclusion that Putin must be blocked somehow." 

That is a current politics statement.  That and his other posts are in essence spamming, hijacking the thread.  A repeated theme. 

I don't believe in censorship.  I do believe this thread is interesting and informative.  I'm not going to move it to Political Discussions because of this.  I want to read more about JFK and the Neocons.  I have deleted one post since becoming a Moderator, a distasteful insult of one member by another.  I'm seriously considering Hiding 3-4 posts at the moment to get the thread back on track.  While I seek a second or third opinion there is a short-term solution.  

1 hour ago, James DiEugenio said:

In the third or fourth part of my essay, I will put forth the concept that the Neocon movement was first named as such back in the seventies by Michael Harrington.

At the time he was referring to Democrats who had jumped ship on things like the War on Poverty and the Great Society.

This was really kind of prophetic, since that was just the beginning.  Almost all of Henry Jackson's foreign policy team would later jump to Reagan.

So, its an incredible irony, that the Neocon movement was in reality started by former Democrats. As I will argue, I doubt this would have happened if JFK had lived.

Yes, it is ironic.  I thought it started with Chenny and Rumsfeld under Nixon.  But thinking deeper now LBJ and Connally were conservative democrats, funded by oil money.  Does it all link back past JFK to what Ike called the Military Industrial Complex and in turn then on to his assassination?

Gee.  I thought the whole Mount Rushmore aspect was about Trumps desire to be on it.  I mean Kristi Noem had a 4' replica made of it with him added to it and presented it to him.

Yes, of course Donald Trump wants his face added to Mount Rushmore | CNN Politics

1 hour ago, James DiEugenio said:

I agree Paul.

Can you imagine working on that speech for about a year, and having his wife translate articles from the French and Spanish?  Going all the way back to Roosevelt and his thoughts on the Middle East?

What is remarkable about that speech is thinking back to the time frame it was made in: The hotbed of the Cold War and Foster Dulles condemning the whole idea of neutrality in the Third World.

Kennedy got pilloried for making it.

Yet he wondered about his efforts as a result of the criticism afterwards and called dad.  Who said you will be proven right, which he was.  Made the cover of Time Magazine for it.

Seriously, named Crooks?  An AR15 for a for a 145 yard shot, not a good choice.  (Attempted) Assassin nailed by SS/FBI/CIA, after the fact.

If Oswald had been so lucky.  As it was Wade and Fritz by this time of night, they had they had him pretty well convicted.

7 hours ago, Greg Burnham said:

Jones Harris has died. Another first generation WR critic is no longer with us, but his contributions will remain.

Greg, the name is familiar to me, but I can't remember why, could you point me to some of his work or maybe an obituary?

4 hours ago, Cliff Varnell said:

 

Thanks Cliff.

Lock him up, lock him up!

23 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

I am going to get to what a neocon is in this essay.

It will be complete and accurate.

And I will show how they disavowed and buried Kennedy's foreign policy until today it might as well be in a museum.

The first two articles are great.  I'm not well read on the beginnings of the Cold War and find that period interesting as it relates to US involvement in the Vietnam war.  Vietnam was so much a part of my coming of age, in the news, the protests, turning 18 in October 1974 I still have a draft card.  The backstory of how we got there is fascinating, that it really started with the death of Roosevelt.

In that vein, I think I probably first heard the term Domino Theory somewhere in the early to mid 1970's.  I thought I'd read somewhere in the last 30 or so years that Eisenhower had first used it.

I was surprised to find this while reading The Brothers by Stephen Kinzer.

"Eisenhower wished to crush Ho-to keep him from power at all costs, destroy his popularity - without using military force.  "In certain areas at least, we cannot afford to let Moscow gain another bit of territory," Eisenhower told one National Security Council meeting.  "Dien Bien Phu may be just such a critical point."

"Foster and Allen decided to try the same brotherly combination that had succeeded in Iran and Guatemala.  One would orchestrate political and diplomatic pressure on Ho while the other launched a covert war."

"Foster launched his part of the campaign with a speech to the Overseas Press Club in New York on March 29, 1954.  His central challenge was to explain to Americans why they must resist Ho.  The answer was what he called the "domino theory."   

Don't go to Vegas right now if you don't have to.  High yesterday was 118.  5th day in a row over 115.  I think the article I read said the low last night was 93.

A sarcastic take on Neocons, by I think an Irishman like JFK.

Mark is the one who merged these six topics.  They have become quite political and more.  For now let's lock it.  He can unlock it.  Or maybe W, IDK, I'm still learning my way myself.

Well, this can't be ignored.  The tour the song was first played on in the fall of 1969.  The last stop ultimately at Altamont Speedway outside San Francisco coordinated by Melvin Beli (yes Jack Ruby's lawyer).  "Security" provided by the Hells Angels.  A man dies in the end, literally, Meredith?

On 7/9/2024 at 3:49 PM, Ron Bulman said:

Thread Topic/Title falls under "Reason for Warning Member" as "Mocking another member" and/or "Mocking another members opinion."  Automatic 15 point penalty.

Bill, it seems you ignored my hint here.  I changed the name of the thread, something I can do as a Moderator but have not to this point, to "McBride's Early Badgeman thoughts."  You changed it back.

Seems you're Mocking Another Member and Treating Admin. Disrespectfully.

1 hour ago, Matt Cloud said:

Why don't you stick with the conversation and actually help develop it, Moderator?  I know all about everything you think you know.  Do you understand?

I think that qualifies as "Treating Admin. Disrespectfully" on our list of Reasons for Warnings. 

Here's your second opinion W.

It starts at midnight with lightning in the Isle Of Wight.

Have you ever read Into The Nightmare?

Same outfit, different cat's paws.

The NY Post.  Snuff said.

12 minutes ago, Paul Brancato said:

I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when the Kennedy family sat down together and discussed the assassination of JFK, and perhaps even more so after RFK. What responses did they consider? 

That they were both conspiracies?  

1 hour ago, W. Niederhut said:

If only Dick Cheney could convince Donald Trump to go hunting with him... 🤥

Good one.  I really needed a laugh, thanks.