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I doubt that MTG even recognizes the profound irony of her comment. The freedom of the former Confederate slaves was, certainly, not free. It was purchased with a great deal of American blood. And her 18 Confederate "stars" weren't fighting to preserve freedom. They were fighting to preserve slavery.

Nonsense. Michael Griffith doesn't have the scientific education or background to legitimately review this study. Griffith doesn't even have the empirical ability to accurately perceive the serial explosions (on film) that pulverized the Twin Towers.

Why would the CIA have edited out any forward head movement on the Zapruder film? That makes no sense. They were the guys pushing the fictional narrative that the bullets all came from the TSBD. That's why C.D. Jackson & Co. reversed the sequence of the Z-film stills in Life magazine-- to promote the CIA myth that JFK was shot from behind by a lone assassin.

Trump's personality disorder -- including his use of projection-- is becoming more glaringly obvious as he loses gray matter. How bizarre is it that Trump would accuse liberal "fascists" of endangering American democracy? That's like Mike Tyson accusing other boxers of wanting to bite off their opponents' ears.

Good news and bad news for Denver. The good news is that Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets will have the home court advantage in the Championship series-- 5,280 feet. The bad news is that Miami has already upset the #1 and #2 seeds in the NBA East.

Doug, Not much there in this case. It's a Slate story for skeptical positivists. I got interested in the subject of near death experiences about 30 years ago, after hearing about them from two former patients. I read Dr. Raymond Moody's 1975 classic on the subject, Life After Life, and some related literature. Nowadays, there's a vast array of popular literature (and videos) on the subject, most of which I haven't studied. Some of the phenomenology is inconsistent with the positivist theory that near death experiences are mere hallucinations or dream states-- because the subjects describe seeing things, from above, (e.g., ICUs, dead bodies on a battlefield) that actually happened.

This July 2015 comment by the late David Lifton is worth reading, for anyone interested in understanding the bogus blather about alleged posterior JFK skull entry wounds. There weren't any. I have a related question. Where is the evidence of a posterior skull shot/entry wound on the Zapruder film? There is none. The fatal head shot struck the right upper forehead and blew off the back of JFK's skull (i.e., the occipital Harper fragment.)

Matt, Agreed. And what Mathew Koch doesn't understand is that "liberals" may be critical of the U.S. military industrial complex in the post-WWII era, but that doesn't mean we aren't "patriots." Nor does it mean that only right wing Republican families have fought for the U.S. in time of war. The Kennedy brothers-- John and Joseph, Jr.-- are a good example. And Oliver Stone volunteered for military service in Vietnam!

Ron, Since this is a nostalgia thread about the early 60s, I should mention that I met the Scare Crow, Ray Bolger, when I was a little boy. Bolger bought the AAA Bowling alley in Denver in about (?) 1961, and signed autographs for the public. My mother took us to see him, and I remember watching him bowl, before he signed some autographs. He didn't seem very friendly or enthused about the crowd from our working class neighborhood.

Mathew, Trump is a pseudo-patriot. There is ample evidence that Trump has always been contemptuous of our American veterans. General John Kelly will vouch for Trump's pseudo-patriotism. Trump's father despised Fred Trump, Jr. for wanting to join the National Guard. No one on either side of Trump's family ever served in the U.S. military. And Donald dodged the Vietnam War by claiming to have bone spurs. He's a flag-waving fraud.

Geez... talk about a projection. Words cannot describe my disgust with the anti-democracy, proto-fascist American traitor Donald J. Trump. And, since it's Memorial Day, let me add that no one in Trump's family has ever fought for the U.S. in time of war. In contrast, I'll add that, although I'm an anti-war "LIBTARD," (as Mathew Koch put it) I come from a family of U.S. war veterans. My uncle was killed on the U.S.S. Lexington, and my father and two other uncles fought in the U.S. Army in Europe in WWII. My great uncle and his cousin fought in the U.S. Army in Europe in WWI. My great great grandfather fought in the Army of the Potomac in the Civil War, and his grandfather fought in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War. I'm proud of them, but I'll always be an anti-war liberal.

Yes, those flying monkeys were scary when I was 4 years old. So was Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook, in the Peter Pan film with Mary Martin. I watched Peter Pan with my daughters 40 years later, when they were little, and realized that Cyril Ritchard was side- (and pants-) splittingly hilarious as Captain Hook.

This Deep Fake stuff is like George Orwell's 1984 on steroids. Creepy. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's brain child, Don, Jr., has denounced Ken Paxton's impeachment as, "a RINO witch hunt."

We had only CBS, NBC, ABC, and a local KWGN television channel in Denver in those days, with occasional Denver Public Schools shows on PBS (no 24/7 programming.) We also watched a lot of westerns, including Bonanza, The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, Laramie, Rawhide, Wagon Train, Cheyenne, etc. Once or twice a year we could also watch the Wizard of Oz, (in B&W) Ben Hur, and Richard Burton in The Robe.

Speaking of deep fake MAGA videos, I recall seeing a video clip in 2016 showing Hillary Clinton having an apparent petit mal seizure. At the time, Trump and his MAGA media echo chamber were repeating a trope that Hillary was infirm and unable to safely govern the country.

Adam, You and Michael Griffith forgot to praise Vincent Bugliosi. Hugh Aynesworth? Gerald Posner? Gary Mack? The Sixth Floor Museum? What is this-- CIA Propaganda Saturday on the Education Forum?

Dr. Michael Chesser's analysis of the skull X-rays has now proven that the fatal bullet caused a right frontal entry wound--consistent with the obvious violent, retrograde motion of JFK's head, and the retrograde propulsion of the occipital skull fragment that was blasted behind the limo. Basic Newtonian physics+Parkland witness testimony. The skull exit wound was occipital. Not to mention that a bullet fired from a Carcano in the TSBD blew off the right half of a cadaver's face.

Doug, Be careful. If you keep posting these accurate political cartoons, you may be attacked by some very active, loquacious Education Forum members as a "radical ideologue."

Fletcher Prouty responded long ago to the CIA/Mockingbird smear campaign claiming, falsely, that he was an Anti-Semite and a "Holocaust Denier." We have already discussed and debunked that CIA smear campaign on the thread entitled, "Why Prouty's Critics Are Wrong." Nevertheless, the First Amendment allows propagandists (McAdams, Litwin, et.al.) to repeat defamatory disinformation and infinitum. It's the Swift Boat Vet propaganda technique-- repeat the lies until the public believes them. I hate to see it on the Education Forum, but it's the price we pay for freedom of speech.

It has taken forever, but it looks like justice is finally catching up with Don the Con. If Stewart Rhodes got 18 years for seditious conspiracy, Trump should get at least 20.

Griffith reminds me of that Biblical character who kept urging the Israelites to ignore Moses and worship the Golden Calf.

Folks, Since Michael Griffith joined the Education Forum last July, he has spent 70% of his time falsely disparaging the superlative research of JFKA expert, James DiEugenio. He has spent 25% of his time falsely disparaging Col. L. Fletcher Prouty. He has spent the other 5% falsely disparaging the scientists and scholars who have debunked the official government narrative about 9/11.

SCOTUS votes 5-4 to restrict EPA enforcement of the Clean Water Act. Alito wrote the majority opinion. MAGA!!

Michael Griffith and Fred Litwin are the price we all have to pay for our First Amendment right to free speech. Disinformation and slander are unethical, but not illegal.

Ron, This is a longstanding issue on Colorado's wild rivers. Even up in my old summer vacation home, in Tincup, Colorado, there are privately owned areas of the river (Willow Creek) that are closed to public access. You can fly fish up to the barbed wire fences, but not beyond. One of my childhood friends was a guy from Midland, Texas whose father owned a beautiful ranch on the lower Taylor River, about a mile below the dam, that has always been off limits to the general public. That private stream and timber is usually fenced off with barbed wire, like ranch land.