April 5, 2011
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And…an immediate pictorial of why America (and subsequently the world) is in the toilet…See below.
First, buy, own, and read this book:
And now, meet Prescott Bush, the puppeteer:
His son George:
His son Dubya:
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The Daily News1 Let’s start with the good news: SHARKS!!!! They’ll open at home!!!2 Nice to have a game where you just kick the other team’s kutootie.
3 Especially an L.A. team!!!
4 <All apologies, So Cal folks, nothing personal. I was raised a Bay Area sports guy, and trained to enjoy these sorts of things. If it makes you feel any better, I DIDN’T enjoy the Dodgers spanking my Giants the past few days!>
5 The Sharks still have their work cut out, but whew!
6 Nice.
7 Moving on, Part the First: Ah, another four days of bubble tests for my students.
8 Amount of days this week students will take bubble tests: 4.
9 Amount of days they will receive regular classes: 1. The remaining time after the tests will equal one weekday of actual education.
10 Oh, it’s off a little because the bubble tests are just in the morning, they’ll receive around five-and-a half hours total of actual schooling this week.
11 Necessary evil. STAR testing officially begins at 8:15 this morning.
12 Grueling.
13 I’m thinking of bringing them some treats, like say, Little Debbies and Scotch.
14 Poor guys.
15 Ah, vell.
16 Moving on, Part the Second: Yesterday I again took the backroads home, and drifted down Story Road to Capitol Exressway. I pulled into the little shopping center that has a Starbuck’s and Mi Pueblo in it.
17 I was ready to go into Starbuck’s, but I noticed a homeless guy parked outside of the place. He appears to be there every day. I noticed also that he doesn’t walk up to you, which bothers me, as I’ve stated previously. So for that non-gesture I already like the guy. Normally I don’t like being approached by strangers of any sort.
18 It’s just me. I don’t like being solicited by total strangers, or anybody for that matter. Too many weirdos and kooks out there.
19 This guy looked a little like Aubrey Huff in a construction worker’s helmet.
20 After Sunday’s game, it well might have been.
21 M’ bad. Huff is actually better than he played. He has better statistics with the glove than people might think.
22 Anyway, this guy sat quietly the last few times.
23 As I pulled into the parking lot yesterday, I looked over and saw that he had a small white sign on his lap.
24 The sign said this: “Shitty Advice.”
25 Haha, just perfect. The guy had a sort of clean hippy, aw-shucks look about him.
26 I didn’t give the guy any money, but today I might give him a buck for the entertainment.
27 Helene asked me if I asked him what advice he gave me. I said, “Don’t talk to strangers!”
28 Nah, I didn’t talk to the guy. But I might.
29 For all I know the guy might be a prophet.
30 Might just be.
31 Moving on, Part the Third: So…Obama is about to become the first billion-dollar candidate for President.
32 Uh…what do you call 41 and 43, George HW Bush and his son, Dubya?
33 Insidious family, by the way.
34 I finally came upon a well-researched book on the scary Bush dynasty. The book was filled with copious footnotes, and frightened me. It frightened me because it wasn’t some kooky conspiracy book. It was filled with cold, hard facts.
35 If you dare wish to know what has REALLY been going on in America for the past hundred years, you might pick that one up. It’s called Family of Secrets, the author, the quite venerable and lucid Russ Baker.
36 Gore Vidal called the book “One of the most important books of the past ten years.”
37 It’s fascinating, and includes TONS of new information, some of the most important of which is the Bushs family’s associations with hundreds of names that popped up in the JFK assassination, names like Earl Warren, Allen and John Foster Dulles (old family ties going WAY back), George de Mohrenchildt (Lee Harvey Oswald’s “handler”), the Bouviers (Jackie Kennedy’s family), and Jack Crichton, to name but a few.
38 George Herbert Walker Bush was in Dallas the night before JFK was shot, and clearly lied about it.
39 It isn’t all about the JFK stuff though; it’s about the power elite who have controlled our oil, our money, our thought, our newspapers, our judges, our politicians, and our wars.
40 I’m just around 40 pages in, but it is certainly the single most amazing non-fiction book I’ve read since Jim Garrison’s immortal On the Trail of the Assassins.
41 It’s also a little scary because most journalists with any brains know that these things go on, but they also know that to report them is moving into extremely dangerous circumstances, circumstances that could result in job loss, or even worse, death threats, and perhaps even death. These people are that insidious.
42 It is a monumental piece, lots of names to keep track of, but it brings that history right down to the current state, and why perhaps Obama hasn’t been able to do a lot of things he set out to do.
43 Interestingly, it gives us a better picture of Richard Nixon, who began to balk at the CIA and large corporations trying to control everything, as did Truman, Eisenhower, the Kennedy’s, Carter, Clinton, and now Obama. The Cheney’s and the Rumsfeld’s and other Bush cronies seem to remain, while the White House changes puppets every few years.
44 I’ll back off a bit here because this stuff, while clearly happening, can only be digested in small amounts. And you might check for poison while you chew.
45 It is well researched, and discusses how all of those politicos, tycoons, and spies have always worked together, the spies originally coming out of corporate spooking. They network, and have before networking became fashionable.
46 Fascinating piece. It’s called Family of Secrets by Russ Baker.
47 Baker originally set out to write a simple book with one question in mind: How did George W. Bush rise up to become President of the United States? How’d it happen?
48 In the conclusion of this essential work, Baker states: “Were it not for W. and his self-dramatizing swagger, his blustery excesses, and his cavalier indifference to the havoc he wrought, I might not have asked myself how such a man came to be president in the first place.”
49 What I like about it is it isn’t an Infowars “conspiracy theory” book. Rather, it is an astonishingly well-researched piece of American journalism at its finest. Each piece is meticulously researched and chronologically placed, and anything remotely controversial has a source. Baker spent five years researching this.
50 I trust you have a look. I’ll provide links soon, but it’s getting pretty late as I compose.
51 Until then.
52 Peace.
~H~
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