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  •  NINERS!

    Colin Kaepernick Kicks Bears Behinds in First Start!!!

    a a a Colin Kaepernick's First Start 

    1 On a national stage.

    2  I expect my Bay Area teams to create torture.

    3  Last night wasn't supposed to be that easy.

    4  When the Niners first acquired Colin Kaepernick, I looked at his films from college. His statistics as both a baseball pitcher and a quarterback were startling. He pitched two no-hitters in high school. Maybe the Giants could use him. The film of his career at the University of Nevada was incredible.

    5  I was absolutely convinced that he was amazing. My only criticism of the guy was that he focused on his primary receiver almost to the point of telegraphing where he was going to throw. I saw him as a guy who could get intercepted, and I still see that.

    6   But his mobility and ability to get the ball downfield was obvious, and awesome.

    7   I never thought Alex Smith was anything but a dog-and-pony show. Once Harbaugh drafted Kaepernick, I knew that Alex Smith was just a poseur, if I may use that idiotic term. Every now and again I go to a frilly word. All apologies.

    8  I knew that they were grooming Kaepernick to be the real quarterback, and that the second Smith couldn't play, he would become the guy.

    9   He did it last night on a national stage against a pretty good team.

    10  I'm still a bit shaky on the guy, but last night he unleashed his talents and showed them off to the world.

    11  He isn't just a one-trick pony.

    12  It is too early to tell, but I have been a huge supporter of Kaepernick since we got the guy.

    13  My only concern as a Bay Area team guy is that he must have some sort of weakness.

    14  To me, his only weakness is his youth, and his telescopic focus on his receivers. The NFL isn't stupid, and defenses will feast on a guy who telegraphs his throws.

    15   He has shown that he can get shaken, and that he can throw the ball up for interceptions.

    16   He didn't show that last night.

    17   Once this guy has a few games under his belt, he is going to be awesome.

    18   After last night's performance, Alex Smith may not be back.

    19   Smith is a fine quarterback; I never thought I would hear myself say that.

    20   He just has an inability to go deep.

    21   Kaepernick staged a clinic last night in how to get the ball downfield and to score in the red zone.

    22  It's still too early to tell, but if Kaepernick becomes consistent, then the Niners are going to be the toughest team in football.

    23  And how can you underestimate Harbaugh's performance?

    24  The guy just came back from a stay at the hospital for heart murmers, and he is out there on Monday night getting crazy once again.

    25   The circus has clearly come to town.

    26    Fun game, but certainly a weird one.

    27   Talks of Super Bowl are a bit premature in my eyes. I'm going to enjoy last night's game just because I have been exhausted from work, and it was a decent rest. I even found time to nap during the game.

    28   This is a good thing.

    29    Nice job, Niners. Even if someone isn't a fan, you gotta love watching Kaepernick.

    30   And Aldon Smith played like the madman he is. The guy has had the weirdest year anyone could, and he came in last night to prove he can play football.

    31  Frankly, I don't like the guy. His off-field behaviors are pretty suspect. I don't mean to judge, but he comes off to me as a moron with skills, unlike most NFL super stars.

    32  I'm glad the Niners have held back on promoting a Smith Brothers handle.

    33  That doesn't play well when one guy is getting beat up in bars and the other is clearly a steroidbot.

    34  Sorry.

    35  No evidence.

    36  Except the guy's size, age, and speed.

    37  That stuff is rampant in the NFL. Get real.

    38  We are a nation of stooges.

    39   Moving on, Part the First: In other news, we educators have a two-day week this week.

    40   The idea seemed so good when everyone voted on it.

    41    The deal is that we have these things called "furlough" days, which save the state money.

    42    Older teachers love them, because furlough=days off. We older guys can afford days off. Younger teachers take a bit of a hit on furlough days.

    43    What they do is they cut the school year shorter. It is in actuality a bad thing for the students, because they get fewer days of school each year.

    44   This affects the entire second part of the school year, particularly athletics and other after-school activities.

    45   When you combine furloughs with state testing, the education of our young people diminishes dramatically in the second semester.

    46   When we have to vote on which days we are going to scrap, I usually vote to take it off at the end of the school year, when the seniors are gone and it is usually the dog days of the year.

    47   But someone at some meeting brought up the idea that the day before Thanksgiving would be a perfect furlough day. We usually have a minimum then anyway, so why not just give us the entire day off?

    48   The day before Thanksgiving off would give all of us time to spend with family, and to help set up Thanksgiving. The idea looks awesome on paper.

    49   Makes perfect sense.

    50   What most of us forgot was that by giving up this Wednesday, Monday and Tuesday become goof-off days to the students.

    51   I spent my entire weekend planning my JFK unit. I feel it was a brilliant move to bring in that unit as an exercise in fiction/non-fiction. The newest trend in education is to teach non-fiction, because it is more useful.

    52   Something like that.

    53   Don't get me going.

    54   I decided long ago that bringing back my JFK unit would be a perfect way to teach fiction/non-fiction, since the Warren Report remains a sack of boushit to this very minute.

    55   And government lying is quite the trend on Facebook, Twitter, and all the rest of that nonsense that seems to pass as news nowadays.

    56   I almost wrote "nowadaze" but thought it corny.

    57   AnywayZ...

    58   Nothing worked with my JFK unit. I found this awesomely accurate nine-part documentary called The Men Who Killed Kennedy, but it was on a VHS which had a very weak sound. I had everything tested and ready, and the sound couldn't go past two feet yesterday. The trouble is I watched the You Tube version, but brought in the VHS without having tested it for sound quality.

    59   I had to re-route the sound from the teevee to an LCD projector, and then put an audio-out cord into my iPod deck in order to get the sound louder.

    60   This required ten-minutes of re-setup on a Monday of a Monday/Tuesday week.

    61    I succeeded, but none of it came close to the impact I wanted to make as a teacher. The sound was louder, but a bit scratchy and muddled. It was okay for the students, but tremendously difficult to hear and understand. On a getaway Monday/Tuesday session, it got a bit lost on them.

    62    And today is a getaway day. Failure is not an option. Today I have to bring in the big guns. Today I will bring in Oliver Stone's JFK, which is a pretty accurate depiction of what took place on November 22, 1963. Stone's effort was deemed a "conspiracy theory" in the press, but so was Garrison's incredible story. Don't listen to the propaganda. Stone's JFK stands as monumental work in my eyes. This is coming from a guy who expected it to be lousy. I was impressed and remain impressed by the accuracy of JFK.

    63  It will work. Meanwhile, educationally  I'm not so sure the Wednesday Thanksgiving furlough was such a good idea.

    64    We would probably be better served to simply take this entire week off and add two days to the end of the year. It would clearly be better for the students.

    65   Live and learn.

    66    It is well into the 5 a.m. so I think I'm pretty much done here.

    67    I'm going to go home right after school today and clean my gutters.

    68    It's turkey time. Oh yeah, that's right. Family and friends. Remember them?

    69    Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone.

    70    See you again on Monday.

    71    Peace.

    ~H~

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  • The Daily News
    1  I spent a goodly part of the weekend watching JFK documentaries. I rarely place full credence on anything I read with regards to the assassination, except that the government's claim of a lone gunman is an absolute fabrication, and a disgraceful one.

    2   The trouble with the story is that it can't be allowed to end simply. One lone nut did not change the entire history of our nation.

    3   One unrelated patriot did not silence the lone nut. They should teach this in kindergarten.

    4   There are simply too many direct routes to the CIA, to the mafia, to anti-Castro Cubans, and to powerful oil guys who in turn connect to Fascism and to extreme anti-Communism. To ignore this historically is akin to ignoring Hitler.

    5   After a billion years of this case still being argued, any serious person researching it already has about ninety-five per cent of the answer.

    6   And I still run across interesting stories that are slightly credible and slightly not.

    7   That's the wonder of disinformation.

    8    One thing is certain.

    9    Everything having to do with the autopsy of the death of JFK is suspect. The back part of his head was blown off. According to one doctor at Parkland Memorial hospital in Dallas, at least one fourth to one fifth of the President's brain was completely gone.

    10   The official autopsy pictures in the National Archives don't show this. They show a head that is intact, and that has a neat little hole where Kennedy's brain was obliterated. The remainder of the President's head disappeared, and the autopsy reports were burned. The limousine was flown out of Dallas and completely re-constructed. Any physical evidence of gunshot directions disappeared.

    11  All of the doctors who worked to rescue him knew he was dead within seconds after the assassination. His brain was blown to smithereens. A huge area in the right rear of his head was missing.

    12  All of the doctors at Parkland Hospital reported this gaping hole in the right occipital parietal area of his head, yet the autopsy pictures show this tiny bullet hole and the back of his head completely intact.

    13  That information alone is enough to take the Warren Report and place it on the fiction shelves of every library in the world. Dr. Cyril Wecht, a long-time critic of the Warren Commission report, said these words, which to me are words for the ages regarding the government's official report of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy:

    "There’s no question in my mind that that 26-volume set [the Warren Report] should be taken from the shelves of all the libraries where they now rest in the United States, from non-fiction and placed in the fiction shelves along with Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Fin, and Gulliver’s Travels because that’s where they belong."

    ---Dr. Cyril Wecht, Warren Commission Critic

    14  As we approach yet another anniversary of the fatal shooting on November 22, 1963 I find that rather than diminishing, the lies have increased to the point that history books and DVD's have removed words like "alleged" or "purported" when referring to Lee Harvey Oswald, the government's patsy in the murder. 

    15   The biggest culprit so far is the current documentary that has been donated to schools throughout the nation. It is called America: The Story of Us, this DVD that has taken America by storm. Unfortunately, it is filled with lies and omissions. It is this beautifully packaged DVD that looks wonderful, and it is marketed with an accompanying book that looks absolutely gorgeous. 

    16   All I did the second I saw that DVD was to turn to the JFK stuff only to find all of this tremendously complex story neatly solved. Oswald killed Kennedy. They even have a picture of a police officer holding up the murder weapon. Ruby killed Oswald. End of story. 

    17   And this boushit was donated to schools. It had other ridiculous omissions, but I saw this thing two years ago when it came out, and looked to the stars. 

    18   That's where we are. 

    19   My hope is that a younger generation discovers government lies and cover-ups, and that they get their heads out of reality teevee shows and that they begin understanding the dangers of ignoring the real news. 

    20   Many are on the verge. Unfortunately, when attempting to get to a real story, many sucker for manipulative "researchers" who mix and stretch the truth but who might be backed by CIA disinformation sources. 

    22   The disinformationists are willing to put the true stories out there, but to associate them with fringe, or celebrity sources. Wrestlers, loudmouths, and other circus acts spout a lot of the truth, but they look like madmen rather than like historical researchers. 

    23   It takes a credible eye to see the difference, and to get to the real truth. After years of chasing down the story, I look at every fact as suspect. But one thing is obvious at this point in our history: someone in 1963 had JFK killed, and for a reason. 

    24   They had FBI and secret service guys all over Dealy Plaza, the area of Dallas where the assassination went down. Oswald did not orchestrate the JFK assassination. People who owned power and wanted to keep power did. How simple can you make it?

    25   The news reporters everywhere knew instinctively to buy the government's explanation, which is ridiculously filled with gaping holes. Not to could lead to brakes going out on cars, bullets going through car windows, or hatchets winding up in the backs of heads.

    26   Whoever gained power and influence back then never fell out of power. Imagine that. It was a coup. In America. And it remains a coup to this very day.

    27   Our last President, for example, is descended from some low-level CIA operative who ascended to the head of the CIA, and was eventually elected President. His father was a fellow with known ties to Fascists. 

    28   That stuff is mainstream, yet most Americans choose to believe stuff like America: The Story of Us rather than simply Googling Prescott Bush/Allen Dulles.

    29   You don't have to go far. This stuff is all out there. Thank goodness for the internet. The info is fast and readily available. Unfortunately, the ability to see through all the smoke and mirrors is a tad tricky. You need a trained eye and a teaspoon of common sense.

    30   If I were new at this, I would check good sources: college professors, the National Archives (I KNOW, I KNOW!), guys like Russ Baker and David Emory. Both of these gentlemen have researched quietly and without a lot of headline seeking. They are good sources. 

    31  I would avoid guys like Geraldo Rivera, who at one time was a pretty good source, but who fell into sensationalism and idiotic things like trying to find the body of Jimmy Hoffa. The same is true of Jack Anderson. He fell into the limelight and wound up looking like a madman. Anderson and famed reporter Drew Pearson were once a remarkable team. Anderson was the first reporter to put the CIA and the Mafia together in their attempts at killing Fidel Castro of Cuba. Anderson became a larger figure, but wound up looking at the dazzling lights of fame a little more than perhaps he should have. So where do we look?

    32  I'm running out of time here, but Russ Baker is the author of the monumental Family of Secrets, an expose of the Bush dynasty. He and several other former mainstream journalists have a website called WhoWhatWhy.com. Baker and others tired of the mainstream news being controlled, and subsequently united to get the real truth out. Here is a link to Russ Baker's WhoWhatWhy.com website:


    33  David Emory has done political research on the Fascist elements that have been controlling American thought for decades. Schooled by the late Mae Brussell, Emory meticulously researches and gives citations and footnotes for things that might sound outrageous to your average American, but which also stands up to the test of time. 

    34   In recent years Emory has backed off his research due to exhaustion, but his website spitfirelist.com remains active. Here is the link:


    35   He tends to be a bit doom-and-gloom, but his work has always been pretty accurate, and well-documented. The very fact that he never ventured into headlining or grandstanding gives him some credibility. 

    36   Cal professsor Peter Dale Scott chased the JFK story for years. He still teaches at Berkeley as far as I know. Here is a link to his website, which has links to all of his research:


    37   A great CIA source is a fellow by the name of Col. J. Fletcher Prouty.  He has been a good man, a CIA man who tells the real story with tremendous credibility. Here is a piece by Prouty:


    38   Those of you out there interested in this stuff could look to those resources. They will be portals to tons of other research. 

    39   A basic rule-of-thumb in terms of who is telling the truth and who is lying is their approach to JFK. If they go Warren Commission/Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy, then they are absolute liars and should probably be brought up on charges. If they chase the killers and want justice, they are probably credible. Simple test. 

    40  It is JFK week. The anniversary of his assassination is Thanksgiving. I predict that a lot of "Oswald-Did-It Alone" crap will be all over the news. That's the present agenda, and it sickens me. 

    41   Obama v. Romney? Really? People need to understand who it is that really runs us. 

    42   The Oswald test is always a good ink blotter. Three shots or fewer=damnable lies.

    43    A lot of the truth about America begins with taking a look at the event surrounding November 22, 1963. JFK was killed. Oswald was silenced. Ruby died trying to tell the nation that it had been taken over.

    44    Strong stuff. The assassination we will once again examine on Thanksgiving is not old news.

    45    It connects immediately with 2012. 

    46    You may begin Thursday. Take a look at some of these links in the meantime. I won't be around forever. Someone has to take some light from the eternal flame at Arlington and ignite the truth.

    47   Someone has to.


    48    Peace.

    ~H~



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  •  
    The Daily News
    1  MVPOSEY!!!

    2  I'm sorry, but this guy is the real deal. 

    3  Hey everybody. Buster is not a fluke.

    4  This guy recovered from massive trauma last year to light up the playoffs for the entire nation. 

    5  So Buster, this is YOUR day. Of course you will not agree. 

    6  Because on field, you have skills and courtesy beyond any other players. 

    7   Off the field, you demonstrate humility, and a dedication to not only you, but to your family, and to your fans. 

    8   Monumental 

    9   Sometimes what amazes me is amazing people.

    10  Guys like Buster make all of us bow with pure humility.

    11  Because although I'm quite certain he is not perfect, he is as close to perfect as most of us are willing to believe. 

    12  Yesterday I had such a great day that I bordered on declaring myself perfect.

    13

    14  You know me too well.
    15  I was having an ALMOST perfect day. 

    16  The reason I was having an ALMOST perfect day was that I spent the past four months working night and day for my students and for my family.

    17   Consequently, I was able to beat the grading deadline by an entire day. To put that one in perspective, it usually takes me right up to a minute before the deadline. 

    18   Nobody really cares, but to me, it was like winning the World Series.

    19   And I knew that my grades were more accurate than they have ever been.

    20   I was at the top of my game, and still dealing.

    21   Quite rare, yet somewhat awkward. 

    22   How do you pat yourself on the back without looking like you are bragging?

    23   Thank goodness for Buster, and his outward humility.

    24   That alone makes him the MVP in life. 

    25    I couldn't stand it. 

    26    I wanted my students to know just how difficult this year was. I wanted sportswriters to validate my humble efforts.

    27   I knew it wouldn't happen, so I sort of let it leak in my lessons. 

    28   Delicate sitch.

    29   But I DID work hard. And I DID go through massive amounts of personal trauma this year. 

    30   And I DID come through all of it with laughter, with music, and with hope for the future. 

    31   Don't we all?

    32   I know a LOT of you, and I know that a LOT of you are MVP's to your own family and friends. 

    33   But a guy like Buster lets all of us know that we do work hard, that we do care about people, that we do love our loved ones, and that we are all superstars. 

    34   It's just that Buster is so humble. 

    35   I love it. 

    36   I love the guy. 

    37    He is a true Avenger.

    38    Enough of this.

    39    Buster: thanks man. 

    40    Moving on, Part the First: Okay, so I'm not Buster Posey. 

    41    I did brag slightly to my students that I had worked hard all year making certain that their grades were absolutely accurate, to a person. 

    42    I talked about how my system insured accuracy, and was a mirror shot of their own abilities and efforts. 

    43    I talked about how I knew each person as a person from having read their autobiographies and from having looked over their magazines. 

    44    I knew much about their personal struggles, their personal life ambitions, and their personal dreams. 

    45   In short, I was bragging a bit about how perfect I was. 
    46   But with a little humility.

    47    No dude. 

    48    Seriously. 

    49    Y'all know how humble I am. 

    50


    51    At one point I saw two heads down, asleep at their desks. I thought to myself, "Stop talking, dude."

    52    Well, I didn't. But I had to let them know that I had flaws. 

    53    I didn't want them to go home and tell their parents, "Mr. Harrington told us he was poifect!"

    54    So once I saw two heads down, I stopped talking about how Lee Harvey Oswald was a spy and all, and decided to tell them the story of how I'm not perfect.

    55   I told them that when I was just a little guy, maybe a little over two-feet tall and with a Hello, Kitty! head, how I was playing alone in my back yard one lovely day. 

    56   Sunshine, bending fences, and backyard ennui. Childhood in a cloud. 

    57   I located an old bucket around the side of the house, and a rope lying in the weeds. 

    58    I thought to myself, "Well!" I decided I was going to play well. 

    59   That was an unauthorized and unintended pun, which still got a humble laugh. 

    60    I decided that I was going to fill the bucket with water, tie the rope to the bucket, and hurl the other end over the tree in our backyard. 

    61   As I pulled it up the tree, my Mom looked out back and yelled, "DON'T PULL THAT BUCKET OF WATER UP THE TREE!!!!"

    62   I had no idea that what she was talking about. Turns out she was worried that the bucket might fall and hit me in the head. I just thought she was being unreasonable.

    63   So I brought the bucket down, and then looked over to the sand box. A sand box is a brilliant invention in which parents could have a square made of wood filled with sea sand that children could play in, and which stray cats could poop in. 

    64   Fortunately for me, the sand box was sans cat poop. 

    65   I followed my own lead and brought my bucket over to the sand box. 

    66   I filled it to the brim with sand. 

    67   I then analyzed the amount of rope it would take to fly it back over the tree limb, and did so successfully.

    68   Science in action. 

    69   I was on the job. 

    70   I hurled the rope back over the branch, and in an instant the well was back in action. I was taking care of business, yo. 

    71   I pulled the sand up to the very top. I was triumphant!

    72   I pumped my fists to the sky. My well worked! 

    73   Within seconds, the bucket shot straight down and crowned me on the backside of my head. My head split open, and blood poured down my back. 

    74   I screamed as only a Hello, Kitty! kid could scream. My Mom came out and shouted, "Stop screaming! What is wrong with you?" I kept screaming, turned around, revealing a tee-shirt that was red from top to bottom with blood. 

    75   Head wounds tend to bleed ridiculously, so my Mom must have been horrified. She cleaned me up and rushed me to the doctor, who cleaned it all up, put a few stitches in, and said the usual: "He'll be okay."

    76  Somehow I made it through that, but if I'm so okay, why have I reached my DN record for amount of items?

    78  It's all about humility.

    79   Thanks, Buster, for putting an end to my hubris. 

    80   The scars still remain, but I walk forward today with some sort of smiling humility. AND this is the Daily News record for most amount of items. How great am I? <lmfao>

    81   Have a GREAT weekend man. And I mean that. 

    82   Peace.

    ~H~



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  • THE REAL AVENGERS IN OUR LIVES!!!
      



    The Daily News

    1   Yesterday when I was just about to lose it, Avengers shot down out of the sky and joined me in an epic battle against all the Evil Forces. 

    2    Grades are due today. Two computers couldn't get the job done. 

    3    My daughter Nicoley Boley Macaroni flew in and with one touch took care of two years of insanity, and suddenly everything got done.

    4   Thanksgiving came in over the wire with my daughter Caitlin's ability to arrange and change, and fix all that is not right. 

    5    Rene managed to miraculously arrange new teeth for her brother who can't eat without them. A dentist friend is going up to Martinez to fit him with some new choppers. 

    6    I turned the entire semester around and got all my grading done AND have engagingly incredible lessons for the rest of the week. 

    7    All challenges were met with certain doom as the result of all of us coming together as a team. 

    8    I slept through the night and I don't care. Insomnia is overrated. 

    9    I'm beginning to get the entire Avengers' thing. 

    10  This Brave New World keeps trying to throw crap at all of us, more crap, perhaps, than has ever been thrown at people in quite a while. I'm talking not only about my family, but also your family, your friends, your lives. 

    11   I don't know about you, but I will always fight.

    12   And so will my family. 

    13   And so will all of you. 

    14   Yesterday was the academic equivalent to yet another doomsday. If you have followed this folderol, you must know by now that my mortal enemy is grades. And meetings. 

    15   Whatever bothers you the most, you must always add "And meetings" to the mix. 

    16   And technology, which is always certain to fail right when you need it the most. 

    17   That's when we turn to our personal Avengers. 

    18   Yesterday I came out of a fairly productive meeting, and still stumbled home like Jimmy Stewart at the end of It's a Wonderful Life. Meetings are my personal kryptonite. 

    19   Grades are due tomorrow. I have worked on them almost twenty-four/seven. Like how I took the time to write that out? It is grammatically incorrect, but I didn't really give a poop. Never do. 

    20   Grades are like those irritating things that flew out of that snake-like monster in the Avengers. They go down easily, but they are relentless. 

    21   My laptop, which is in the warm area of the house, refused to go on, except in "Safe Mode."

    22   Swell. I made my way to the frosty sunroom, which is the real-life equivalent of the Fortress of Solitude, buried somewhere in the icy mountains of Comic Book Land. 

    24   I turned on the teevee. On the television there was this HGTV episode about a couple who bought a beautiful house, paid well over the asking price only to learn that its infrastructure was teeming with bugs, rats, squirrels, and other pests which were eating all of their insulation and chewing through all of their electrical. 

    25   In other words, right when I was finishing up the biggest task of the school year,  I was watching a symbolic story of a beast invading someone else's life. Beasts and monsters invade all of our lives on an alarming scale; have you noticed?

    26   Fortunately, she was on one of those shows where a crew of young bucks with sledge hammers and sideways talking were going to rescue them. 

    27   And there's always some butch dame making sure all the macho men get it right. 

    28   Avengers. 

    29   I quickly changed computers yesterday. Making the grade deadline is alway a thrill ride. The second you post a new grade, or a new zero, a parent will write an email protesting it, and you will have to go back to that one child, look up all of his or her stuff, write an email back to the parent explaining that Johnny can't turn in all fourteen of the assignments he skipped in October, and delicately send it off. 

    30  It is an angry, burning Hydra that needs a certain sort of sword. 

    31  All jobs have them. 

    32  All of us encounter them. Every single day. 

    33   College students in particular are at the mercy of them. Especially college students in grad school. But they all know how to battle them.

    34   We all know how to battle them. 

    35   We turn to our own Avengers. 

    36    Yeeeeee-uh!

    37    Perhaps. 

    38   Unless you see it all a bit more symbolically. 

    39   Moving On, Part the First: Does it ever occur to you that others are praying for you?

    40   It never occurs to me. 

    41   I pray every single morning at around 5 a.m. when the radio pops on and the coffee starts on its own, a real-life Disney thing. 

    42   I don't remember who said it, but I always loved the concept that there are no atheists in trench holes. 

    43   Each time I do my Heidi unit, I think more and more that maybe I'm on the wrong track with ghosts. 

    44    Maybe I'm dealing a lot more with angels. 

    45    Maybe Avengers are symbolic of the angels we perhaps experience every time a real-life disaster, or miracle, enters our lives. 

    46    Yesterday at least nine things miraculously turned around for me and my family. 

    47    We have been going through just as much as are all of you. 

    49    We had our symbolic World Series victory last night, complete with last-minute miracles and celebratory plates of BBQ chips-and -parmesan, and with celebratory tankards of Crystal Light. 

    50   Last night the particles rained down. 

    51   Yesterday the clarion call to celebration with the angels opened the skies and let us all see eternity. 

    52    Lost loved ones partied with us, because there was at last proof of immortality. 

    53    And there was proof that we all have our own Avengers, whatever you wish to make of that. 

    54    Yesterday was pure victory. All the evil forces that were coming at all of us fell to a sledge hammer of love and support. And of ridiculously silly mixed metaphors. 

    55    Yesterday we won. 

    56    All of us won. 

    57    At least for now. 

    58    So I'm off to the wars once again, but like all of you, I am not alone. 

    59    Fight the bastards with everything you have. 

    60    We will all win. In the end, we will all win. 

    61    Peace.

    ~H~



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  • CONGRATULATIONS TO THE A.L.
    MANAGER OF THE YEAR!!!

    BOB MELVIN, BASEBALL
    LOVES YOU!!!

       

     
    The Daily News
    1   More on that later. Let's begin with this: I was in the mood last night for a lamb chop, so I Googled "lamb chops."

    2   What popped up startled me.

    3   The pictures above came up, the meat on the left, and Lamb Chop on the right. I decided to add a second Lamp Chop just for artistic purposes. It's actually a Lamb Chop Pop or something. I was into the 1 a.m. and didn't really look.

    4   The caption under Lamb Chop was this: "The lovable and huggable Lamb Chop, from the Shari Lewsi Show, is just as you remembered, right down to the trademark fluffy eyelashes."

    5   I stared at the grisly sight for a few seconds. 

    6   I then vaguely remembered an old TV show called The Shari Lewis Show, starring a charming young lady and her sock-puppet sidekick, Lamb Chop.

    7   I began remembering that the show starred Lewis, Chop, Hush Puppy, Charlie Horse, and Wing Ding. 

    8   The first thing I did upon seeing those two images so poetically juxtaposed was to take out salad makings and go vegan. 

    9   I thought of some of my vegan friends who have told me on occasion, "I can't eat anything that has eyes." I don't know if that includes potatoes, but I do get the idea. 

    10  I thought  I would write about it, and took to going to bed a little late, at least for me. I knew what I might be in for with a story like that. 

    11  It was a pinpoint, actually, in the event I should awaken into the 4 a.m. with a broken computer, or with writer's block. 

    12  Fortunately I awakened at a little past midnight, brought up the pics again, and it had the same affect. 

    13  I thought that I would have a look at Shari Lewis, at her bio, and at the ultimate story of her career as a ventriloquist and sublime entertainer for several generations of children. 

    14   What I got was somewhat sensational. I found that she was born in 1933, the daughter of two parents, her father being a fellow by the name of Abraham Hurwitz, and according to Wiki-Leaks, "who had been declared New York's official magician
    by Fiorello H. La Guardia during the Great Depression." Fiorello!

    15   Pretty impressive. Her bio had me a bit riveted. I had no idea she was so multi-talented, and that she had such an interestingly positive career. I decided to leak some more about the quite interesting Lewis to my DN crowd. Here is my personal Wiki-Leak of the immortal Shari Lewis:

    Shari Lewis

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Shari Lewis

    Lewis with her puppets, Lamb Chop and Charlie Horse, 1960.
    Born Sonia Phyllis Hurwitz
    January 17, 1933
    Bronx, New York, U.S.
    Died August 2, 1998 (aged 65)
    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Cause of death Viral pneumonia[1]
    Occupation Ventriloquist, puppeteer, author, children's television show host
    Years active 1952–1998
    Spouse(s) Stan Lewis
    Jeremy Tarcher
    Children Mallory Lewis

    Shari Lewis (January 17, 1933 – August 2, 1998) was an American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most popular during the 1960s and 1990s. She was best known as the original puppeteer of Lamb Chop, first appearing on Hi Mom, a local morning show that aired on WRCA-TV (now WNBC-TV) in New York City.


    Contents

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    [edit]Early life

    Lewis was born as Sonia Phyllis Hurwitz[2] to Abraham Hurwitz, an education professor at Yeshiva University, and Ann Ritz. She had one sister. Her parents encouraged her to perform, and her father, who had been named New York City's "official magician" by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia during the Great Depression,[3]taught her to perform specialized magic acts by age 13. She also received instruction in acrobatics, juggling, ice skating, baton twirling, piano and violin.[4] She was taught ventriloquism by John W. Cooper. Lewis continued piano and violin at New York's High School of Music and Art, dance at the American School of Ballet, and acting with Sanford Meisner of the Neighborhood Playhouse. She attended Barnard College for one year, then left college to go into show business.

    [edit]Career

    In 1952, Lewis and her puppetry won first prize on the CBS television series Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. Lewis then hosted several New York children's series over the balance of the decade. On July 5, 1953, Lewis made her television hosting debut on Facts N'Fun on NBC-owned WRCA-TV. The program was a variety show where she engaged her viewers and studio audiences in games, songs, stories, craftmaking, informational segments and interviews with guest performers and personalities. She also performed comedy skits with two vent figures, Samson and Taffy Twinkle. The series remained on the air until September 26, 1953.

    She moved to WPIX in 1953 to replace Ted Steele as host of Kartoon Klub, which featured a variety format with a live studio audience. Lewis performed with Randy Rocket and Taffy Twinkle, and the program also featured reruns of Crusader Rabbit cartoons. Kartoon Klub later changed its title to Shari & Her Friends on September 23, 1956, and then to Shariland a month later. Lewis won New York-area Emmy Awards for her work on Shariland and on a succeeding series on WRCA-TV, Hi Mom (1957–1959). Hi Mom marked the first appearances of Lamb Chop, Charlie Horse, Hush Puppy, and Wing Ding in a regular series. Lamb Chop was previously introduced during a guest appearance by Lewis on Captain Kangaroo in March 1956.[citation needed]

    NBC gave Lewis her first network program -- The Shari Lewis Show, which made its debut on October 1, 1960, replacing The Howdy Doody Show. The show ran until September 28, 1963, and featured such characters as Hush Puppy, Charlie Horse, Lamb Chop, and Wing Ding, a black crow. Lamb Chop, who was little more than a sock with eyes, served as a sassy alter-ego for Lewis. Hush Puppy had a Southern accent and a reserved shy personality, while Charlie Horse was a slow-witted goofy character. Guest TV and movie personalities and even occasional stars often appeared on her show, as they did later on Jim Henson's Muppets series.

    Capturing kids' imaginations in the early 1960s, consumer versions of Lewis's initial three puppets sold briskly. Subsequent television programs re-introduced these characters (minus the black crow, whose characterization became more problematic after the 1960s) to a new generation of children.

    In 1961, she played the title character, Dulie Hudson, in Watching Out for Dulie, a United States Steel Hour production.

    In 1968, she and her then-husband, Jeremy Tarcher co-wrote the episode "The Lights of Zetar" for the original series of Star Trek.

    In 1992, her new Emmy-winning show Lamb Chop's Play-Along began a five-year run on PBS. Lewis starred in another hit PBS series, The Charlie Horse Music Pizza, which was one of her last projects before her death. The video Lamb Chop's Special Chanukah was released in 1996 and received the Parents' Choice award of the year.

    An accomplished musician, she has conducted major symphonies in the United States, Japan and Canada. She wrote many books, and created 17 home videos. http://www.angelawards.com/sharilewis.html

    [edit]Personal life

    "Shari" Hurwitz acquired the name Lewis by a brief marriage. By her second marriage to Jeremy Tarcher in 1958, she had one daughter, Mallory.

    When Lewis appeared before Congress in 1993 to testify in favor of protections for children's television, Lamb Chop was granted permission to speak. Lamb Chop's passionate, well-informed and vivid testimony made an indelible impression.

    [edit]Death

    Shari Lewis was diagnosed with uterine cancer in June 1998.[5] While undergoing treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on August 2, 1998,[6] she developed viral pneumonia and died at the age of 65. Her remains were cremated. She was survived by her husband, daughter and sister.

    [edit]Awards/Honors

    Lewis was the recipient of numerous awards during her lifetime, including:

    • 12 Emmy Awards
    • Peabody Award (1960)
    • Monte Carlo Prize for the World's Best Television Variety Show (1963)
    • John F. Kennedy Center Award for Excellence and Creativity (1983)
    • 7 Parents' Choice Awards
    • Action for Children's Television Award
    • 1995 American Academy of Children's Entertainment award for Entertainer of the Year
    • Dor L'Dor award of the B'nai B'rith (1996)
    • 3 Houston Film Festival awards
    • Silver Circle Award of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (1996)
    • Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence (1996)
    • 2 Charleston Film Festival Gold Awards (1995)
    • Houston World Festival silver and bronze awards (1995)
    • New York Film and Video Festival Silver Award (1995)
    • In 1998, she was posthumously awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television.[7]

    In addition to writing over 60 books for children, she and her second husband wrote an episode for the third and final season of the original Star Trek series entitled "The Lights of Zetar". This was produced in 1968. Lewis had hoped to play the part of "Lt. Mira Romaine," but the role was given to actress Jan Shutan.

    [edit]Family

    Her first husband was Stan Lewis. Her second husband, who survived her, was publisher Jeremy Tarcher, a brother of the novelist Judith Krantz.

    Lewis's daughter, Mallory Tarcher, wrote for the shows Lamb Chop's Play-Along and The Charlie Horse Music Pizza. She legally changed her name to Mallory Lewis, and in 2000, she resumed her mother's work with the Lamb Chop character.

    [edit]Television shows

    [edit]Specials

    • Lamb Chop's Sing-Along, Play-Along—1988
    • Don't Wake Your Mom!—1989
    • Lamb Chop in the Land of No Manners—1989
    • Lamb Chop in the Land of No Numbers—1993
    • Lamb Chop and the Haunted Studio—1994
    • Lamb Chop's Special Chanukah—1995
    • Shari's Passover Surprise—1996

    [edit]Episodic TV appearances

    • Lewis guest-starred on Episode 1.20, "How High is Up", of the sitcom Car 54, Where Are You?,which premiered on February 4, 1962.
    • Lewis (and Lamb Chop) guest-starred on Episode 2.20, "Lamb Chop's on the Menu", of the sitcom The Nanny, which premiered on February 13, 1995.
    • Lewis, Lamb Chop (dressed as Santa) and Charlie Horse sing "Jingle Bells" on "The Ed Sullivan Show" (Season 15, Episode 15, Aired Dec 24, 1961)

    [edit]Discography

    [edit]Cultural references

    • In the episode "Dummy for Love" on Season 2 of the sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Salem the cat has digitally inserted images of himself with various celebrities such as Mother Teresa to give to Zelda so she will put in a good word for him at the Witches Council, hoping for leniency. Later, Zelda finds a hidden photo of him and Shari Lewis, and Salem nervously mumbles, "That's from my personal collection." And at the end of the episode Salem tries to pay Cupid in anchovies to make Shari fall in love with him. Cupid declines stating that its against his principles and because Salem is a cat and she is Shari Lewis.
    • In the episode "Summer Sucks" on Season 2 of "South Park", Mr. Garrison, angered over the theft of his hand-puppet Mr. Hat, turns on his television to a caricature of Shari with Lamb Chop. He then envisions himself entering the set and approaching them with an axe. Mr. Garrison severs Shari's hand holding Lamb Chop, and tosses the puppet onto a burning grill. Shari cries out, as does Lamb Chop, while Mr. Garrison is seen back in his chair with a very wide smile on his face.
    • In the Animaniacs episode "Papers For Papa" Ernest Hemingway watches Shari and Lamb Chop perform on TV and one of Lamb Chop's button eyes falls off.

    [edit]References

    1. ^ "Shari Lewis (1934–1998)". Lambchop.tv. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
    2. ^ Birth name Sonia Phyllis Hurwitz as per as per Ancestry.com
    3. ^ "Abraham Hurwitz Dead at 76; New York's Official Magician". The New York Times: p. 12. 1 October 1981. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
    4. ^ Albin, Kira. "Shari Lewis in the Lamb Light", Grand Times, 1997.
    5. ^ Gray, Tam Martinides; Dara Horn, Belinda Luscombe, Jodie Morse and Alain L. Sanders (1998-06-29). "Milestones Jun. 29, 1998". Time. Retrieved 2009-03-24.
    6. ^ Williams, Scott (1998-08-04). "Puppeteer Made Kids Laugh—Lamb Chop Creator Shari Lewis Dies at 65". Daily News. Retrieved 2009-03-24.
    7. ^ "Past Recipients-Lucy Award". Women in Film. Retrieved 2011-06-08.
    8. ^ "The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show". ctva.biz. Retrieved November 25, 2010.

    [edit]External links

    16   I consider this a GREAT "leak" and one I had no intention of throwing out there. 
    Pretty impressive stuff.  Underrated talent.

    17   The truth is I began jotting a few simple notes down, and then was ready to seek  
    other sources but there was just too much interesting information on this leak.

    18   To me, Wiki is to internet research what the World Book used to be to encyclopedic
    research: we are told as both students and as teachers to refrain from using cheap, fast 
    resources for our projects. 

    19   Let's face it. Wiki-Peeks is a relatively harmless way of getting a general overview 
    of information. In no way would I trust it, particularly with something as shady as the 
    JFK assassination.

    20   I thought twice before posting this, but found much of the information to be 
    not only innocuous, but fascinating, and probably true. 

    21   So I want to give Wiki-biographer/reporter Kitten Kaboodles all the props for 
    doing such a professional job, despite her obvious stage name. 

    22   Moving on, Part the First: Actually I don't know that. She very well might be
    related to Winchell K. Kaboodle, who worked for years on the New York Times and
    who is alleged to have been the first person to crack the Wiki-Leaks story of Julian
    Orange, or whatever the guy's name is. Stieg Larrson-gone-mad guy. Assange. Does
    a slant rhyme count as poetry here?

    23   I'm tempted to Wiki the bio of Kaboodle, but I fear I may have discovered one of the greatest crack
    journalists in the business. I may never get to sleep. How is this cheap journalism if I'm
    actually working on it?

    24   I think I won't check. You can, but I'm satisfied to know that I can certainly trust
    Kitten Kaboodles to be my personal Wiki source for stuff that is fun and filled with
    trivia. 

    25   Saves me a bundle of time as well. 

    26   I'm a bit in fear, because it is now well into the 1 a.m. and I find myself still
    up and working. 

    27   I'm also pretty sure that this cut/paste stuff is going to change all the
    fonts and make this thing go mad. I may be re-inventing journalism in the 10's. 

    28   No going back. That's the uniqueness of the DN: it has to be what it will be due 
    to a pressure-cooker deadline each morning. I can add only so many pics. I can write
    only so much boushit. And I have only so much time to edit before it hits the streets. 

    29  Tough reporter over here.

    30  Ultimately, it is something for people out there to chuckle at, to swear at, or to 
    sip coffee and have your oatmeal occasionally find its way through your 
    noses at. And while you wipe up both your nose and clothes, I boldly
    end sentences in prepositions with little fear of reprisals. 

    31   If I've boldly done any of that for the past sixteen years, then so boldly be it. 

    32   Moving on, Part the Second: Congratulations are in order to the A's' 
    amazing manager Bob Melvin (see above). 

    33   Any manager who could pull me off the Giants and ask me to run alongside the A's
    AND Giants has to be good.

    34  The A's were picked to be in the tanker all year. 

    35  They somehow managed with 19 rookies. Joe Stiglich of the Merc News
    was quick to point out this morning that 12 of those rookies were
    pitchers. 

    36  It wasn't just that. It was the stadium. It was Billy Beane. And it was the fans,
    those tough A's fans who went through their own form of torture, but through it all,
    gave other teams enough fits that it became fun.     It began at the beginning, but the A's
    real  Tour of Duty began just before All-Star Break, where they made a statement.

    37  After that it was all belief. 

    38  I'm wondering what the East Coast fans are thinking right now. I'm wondering what
    the East Coast sports' world is thinking about this.

    39  The Giants rip the Tigers to win the World Series easily, and now Bob Melvin 
    becomes the AL Manager of the Year. 

    40  Who woulda thunk?

    41  And Bochy was third? Are ya kiddin' me?

    42  Calm down Giants' fans. It isn't about you. You have your rings.
    The sports' writers can't count post-season miracles. Prior to the post, Bochy
    was still awesome in all of our eyes, but not enough to make the East Coasters sit up and take 
    notice. 

    43  Melvin and the A's did, because their Tour was SO unexpected. 

    44  So hats off to Bob Melvin, and hats off to the A's and to all their fans. 

    45  Today is your day. 

    46   Moving on, Part the Thoid: I find myself needing to put both this flashy piece as well my happy rear end
    to bed. 

    47   No news? Nah. Bob Melvin is big news. This isn't to detract from Lewis and the Chop.

    48  But Bob Melvin is big news this morning, at least for this Old Brown Shoe.

    49  Have a GREAT Wednesday.

    50  See you again.

    6   Peace.

    ~H~


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    The Daily News
    1   Amazing what one day could do to refresh. 

    2   I thank my Vets every day for all they have gone through, but yesterday, I was stubbornly thanking them for taking all the pressures of the past six months off me. 
    3   Each Fall is a tough go, because I give a lot of essays and stuff. I also have to correct all that stuff. 

    4   It used to be pretty rough, but I always insist on teaching seasonally and allowing Madison Avenue to advertise my lessons. 

    5   I've mentioned this stuff before. 

    6   I use advertising to chime in with my lessons. 

    7   Usually by November I would already have taken advantage of Back-to-School Night (magazines), 911 (CBS film 911, which is awesome!), Halloween (Heidi Chronz and ghosts/legends), followed by a natural move to Greek mythology and a continuation of ghosts/myths/legends. I used to squeeze the JFK assassination in there, and always had a somewhat compelling series of lessons about the lone-gunman theory (government's story) v. the real story ("conspiracy theories," horrible term in this instance.) I use it to conduct a fiction/non-fiction unit. 

    8   I decided a week ago to go back in to the case. I assume that as we get closer to the date of JFK's assassination, that the news media will spark up a small bonfire, which it annually does, and at least warm up this cold case. 

    9   It may seem to be a story that is long past, but just a little over (or perhaps less than) a week ago Arlen Specter passed away. Specter, along with then Representative Gerald Ford, came up with the now famous "Magic Bullet Theory." 

    10  Both Ford and Specter were members of the official government investigative authority in the murder of Kennedy, the Warren Commission. 

    11  The Warren Committee was stacked with highly suspect individuals. It was their intention to make it look as though purported assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, a mousy-looking fellow, was a lone-nut whose personal life led him up to the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository window (aka the "sniper's nest") and wait for the President's motorcade to pass below. 

    12  Because of a tree blocking the motorcade, it was proven that given the speed of the motorcade as it emerged from the tree and given its moment of disappearance, Oswald would have had no more than six seconds to load and re-load an older Italian rifle with a lousy scope. The maximum amount of shots he could have gotten off in that window of time was three.

    13   Arguments went back and forth, but nearly everyone agreed that the maximum amount of shots one could get shooting that rifle was three, and that's without aiming. 

    14   Could the greatest marksman in the world possibly get three shots off AND three hits?

    15   Of course. For whatever reason, the Commission wanted to nail Oswald. They had to keep the amount of gunshots to three. One more would place a second gunman at the scene, indicating a far more sinister conclusion than the neat package of three, done by some poor schmuck down on his luck.

    16   The earliest reports had Kennedy getting hit by the first one, Texas governor John Connolly, who sat in front of Kennedy in the limousine with the second, and the one that blew Kennedy's head to smithereens the third. 

    17   Neat package. 

    18   Enter a citizen of Dallas named James Tague. Tague was an important witness, because Tague told reporters that one of the shots had hit the street and ricocheted to his mouth. 

    19   Tague's testimony at the time, taken by a Dallas police officer, threw a huge monkey wrench into the three-hit theory, because if one of the bullets missed, then the damage done to both Kennedy and Connolly's bodies by the second bullet had to do all sorts of strange turns and zig-zags. That bullet was purportedly found on a stretcher that was already on the second floor of Dallas' Parkland Hospital when Governor Connolly arrived on the second floor. 

    20   Walter Cronkite interviewed a hospital intern who reported in a NOVA series called Who Shot President Kennedy? that the bullet he found, the so-called Magic Bullet, was on a different stretcher, a stretcher that was already on the second floor of Parkland Hospital before Connolly arrived. If it was already there, then how did it jump over to Connolly's stretcher and fall out of the Governor's body? How did it emerge in pristine condition if it had smashed into bones?

    21  Yet Arlen Specter and Gerald Ford insisted over the years that their story was the case. Specter went on to be the guy who investigated whether the Government (by "government" I mean the people now in charge, not the "people") spied on our cell phone calls. Following some other cheesy investigation, he found that, and here I paraphrase, they do a little, but not much. 

    22  If all of this sounds a tad spurious, it is because I am writing it for the DN, which is often done between bouts of insomnia. I haven't time to pull all of the citations and all necessary facts to make this truly journalistic. I do include a bibliography for my students if they would like to look a lot of this stuff up. 

    23  I have done all the checking and cross-checking of sources. The testimony by the hospital worker who said that the bullet he found was on the other stretcher is on camera in the Cronkite NOVA episode, which aired in 1988, Season 16, Episode 8. It is entitled Who Shot President Kennedy?

    24  Somewhere over the years I lost my copy, and set out looking for a DVD of this episode so that I could use it in my new work this year. I just couldn't find a copy fast enough, and November was here before I knew it.

    25  When the witness was interviewed, the camera panned in on an empty gurney, but when Cronkite talked about the bullet that fell out of Governor Connolly, the camera zeroed in on a gurney with all sorts of equipment on it, which took the attention off what he was saying and blended the two bullets into one. 

    26   The effect was slight, but what was being said by the witness and what was being panned made a brain that might not be riveted to each word by this guy go blank. For years I never even paid attention to what that witness said. It would always get a little noisy in my class, and I assume that a lot of people who watched the NOVA show that evening had similar experiences: people talk during shows, they get up, they stretch, a lot of times when they are hearing the same old stuff. 

    27   I'm guessing you could get a copy of that episode on Amazon. 

    28   Yesterday I went to get one at Barnes and Noble <basketball buzzer> and then Rasputin's <basketball buzzer # two> and had no luck. I talked to the manager of Rasputin's and he helped me by saying, "Sometimes with that topic we put it in with UFO's and the Paranormal."

    29   I thought, "Swell." <sigh> That will teach me to have a ghost unit. It was like, "We park that sort of thing over here in the fiction area."

    30   I'll still get myself a copy. 

    31   The point is that both Specter and Ford went on to play key roles in American history. 

    32   Without the NOVA episode, I don't get the acoustic recording of the shots. I always enjoyed that special because of its awkward attempts to back the Warren Commission. A motorcycle cop in the motorcade testified in the 1975-8 House Select Committee on Assassinations that his microphone was on during the assassination. This went to a dictograph recording apparatus in the Dallas police station, and was recorded. The HSCA concluded that it could accept four shots caught on tape, that three were from the Book Depository, but that one was from the grassy knoll area. 

    33  The HSCA concluded "...on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy."
    34   The NOVA episode, which clearly backed the Warren Commission, took the acoustic evidence and lined it up with the famous Zapruder film. What they were trying to establish was how this stuff all lined up with the shots. They would later bring some guy out to debunk this. 

    35   What I did was record the acoustical shots on an audio tape for my students. The NOVA program shows it with the Zapruder film, and it sounds at first to the layman like around three shots. 

    36   When I listened without the distraction of the film, it became obvious at once that there were not only more than three shots, but a barrage of shots going on as the motorcade moved toward the Stemmons Freeway to Parkland Hospital. 

    37   I used to begin the unit with that recording. I would have each class tally how many heard three shots? Four shots? Five shots? All day long the answers that were over three were overwhelming, always at least 95%. Very few students heard three. 

    38   I would start the entire session as I have this year: by telling the students that, "We are going into a murder mystery. The murder has been caught on audio tape. As people joining me on this murder, I want you to tell me how many shots you hear on this audio recording." 

    39   It traditionally isn't until AFTER I play this that I reveal that it is the murder of JFK we are going to study. 

    40   Since I couldn't find the NOVA episode over this past weekend, I was without that. I did find an interesting documentary on You Tube entitled JFK: The Case For Conspiracy which I previewed yesterday. It worked. They even had the acoustic evidence, but this piece was written and directed by a photographer named Robert Groden, famous for analyzing pictures of the assassination. 

    41   This piece had filtered the shots so that there clearly were five. Too clearly. I never had the chance to check out the entire acoustical section of the documentary because You Tube muted it. In the morning it worked beautifully, but in the afternoon it was muted. 

    42   I searched high and low for something to jump-start this lesson, and came up empty. At Rasputin's I did find a curious DVD called The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After, a 2003 documentary put out by the History channel. This instantly worried me, because the History channel has lost some credibility in recent years, especially with me. 

    43   I Googled it and it did have some interesting luminaries, Gore Vidal being one. I put it on my computer and had no sound. I took it out and put it on the DVD that is hooked into my large screen and it said something like, "Illegal to watch this."  I'll get the exact words hopefully tomorrow. I began to see a pattern. 

    44   As I was writing this last night, I gave the Nova thing one more shot, no pun intended. I hit gold. I found a You Tube video of the NOVA episode! 

    45   I put it on.

    46   No sound. After a few minutes, as I was writing this piece, a commercial suddenly blasted me out of the room. When the documentary came back on, it fell silent. 

    47   Hmmm. You go ahead and try this link:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsan2aVJhis

    48  I will too. 

    49  Ready? Go.

    50  Okay I realize that the link is not working. Cut and paste. Hmmm. They are sure making it difficult to study this case. Cut and paste. It is eerie. Have your sound up. 

    51  I got almost four minutes into it and it remained mute. I haven't heard the commercial blare at me. I did notice that people who commented could hear it, but it is still strange that this is the third JFK thing to lose sound. 

    52   Of course, I could just be an idiot and not know to restart my computer (already did earlier today). I certainly can't rely on this for acoustic evidence!

    53   The small bonfire that the news media stirs up each year may be almost out. 

    54   It is harder and harder to find good material on this. 

    55   Yet the evidence is to most people who have ever taken the slightest look at this case overwhelming that the killing of JFK was an overthrow. Anybody who could have testified is either dead or still scared. There are people in place who are in control of our media, of of our senators, our congressmen, of our judges, and of our children's thoughts. 

    56   I'm not an Occupy guy. I do understand where they are coming from. Most Americans have a slight sense of it, but for myself, we don't need to have huge protests. That just invites Marshall Law. We need arrests made. 

    57   Eisenhower was correct when he said, "The eyes of the world are upon you."

    58   It's late. It is into the one a.m. I awoke earlier than normal because I still need to put this lesson together by later today. 

    59   I also have to put together the story of the Trojan War for my freshmen. 

    60   Sophomores could do Julius Caesar later in the year, and I could come back to the assassination, especially  when we consider the early scenes in Caesar. 

    61  So there you have it. Grades are due Thursday. I got almost everything done in that regard and had a ball this morning on the trail of the assassins once again. 

    62  It has never been more relevant. 

    64  It's set. We're going in. I'm scared because I don't have all my materials in place, but I do have the very powerful On the Trail of the Assassins by Garrison, which I turned into non-fiction packets with excerpts and pictures. 

    65   I'll keep you posted. I gotta get some sleep. 

    66   Have a GREAT Tuesday.

    67   Peace. 

    ~H~

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  • The Daily News

    1   I have to stop having potato chips for dinner. My ears are likely to fall off. 

    2   When your team gets to the World Series, you do all sorts of idiotic things. 

    3   One of my rituals was making a small bowl of Lays' BBQ chips and sprinkling some freshly grated cheese over them, settling in to a  raspberry Crystal Light, and then blasting Sugar Magnolia to the extremes of the Universe.

    4   I also wore a Steal Your Base baseball shirt and got myself into a seventh state of Zen, if there is such a thing. 

    5   I would then turn on my computer an hour before the game and work on grading papers and entering grades, as though nothing was happening. 

    6   I changed my pants to shorts, every single night. 

    7   I KNEW that these sorts of things would send particles into space, and that those particles would help the Giants. I believed that these sorts of rituals were going on in billions of homes in the Bay Area, and that those psychic forces were going to make it to Detroit. Detroit never saw it coming. Cosmic tsunami.
    8   I still believe that is what took place. 

    9   I would lighten my mind and hope that my laptop would go on. It has been a little touchy, but it has always pulled through. Sometimes it would take about thirty tries to get it going, but that mirrors my getting out of bed in the morning. 

    10  Each day I would get rid of some odd thing called "jucheck." It pops up out of nowhere and is the computer equivalent of an interjection in speech. It has no seeming computer value any more than an interjection has any grammatical value. You hit your thumb with a hammer, for example, and what you blurt out is an interjection.

    11  I would then wait until right before the anthem, and then turn down the teevee sound and turn up the sound on KNBR, because KNBR has the greatest baseball announcers on the planet. 

    12  They have this odd delay between the teevee and the radio.Our announcers were always around six or seven seconds ahead of each pitch, which gave me a Nostradamusal advantage over the rest of the nation.



    13  To me, it just gave me six or seven seconds more of going crazy. When your team is clearly dominating another team, it obtains an other-earthly advantage over the rest of the cosmos in terms of ultimate torture, and ultimate ecstasy. 

    14  I also got to enjoy six or seven seconds more than anyone else when Cabrera struck out on that cheeseburger. 

    15   I got over all of it rather swiftly, as I do most things. I love the past, but I don't like lingering there. Once something happens, I get over it pretty quickly, whether it is tragic, or in this instance, comic and atomic. 

    16   There are still people grousing about the Giants. There are still people grousing about the election. I'm like, "Dude, really?"

    17   The only thing I can't seem to put behind me is the bowl of Lays with freshly grated cheese, and an ice cold Crystal Light. I don't play Sugar Magz too much anymore because there is simply no need. 

    18   We won. I don't have to launder the same clothes at the end of each night anymore. 

    19   I'm very hygienic. 

    20   I had people I know BRAGGING about not changing their shirts for three weeks. 

    21   Homie refused to go there. 

    22   Dude. Soap is good. Soap and water work. Soap and water do nothing to vibes. 

    23   Amateurs. 

    24   Moving On, Part the First:  Back to yesterday, I came home, changed my clothes, threw them into the laundry, cleaned up a bit, and set up my desk for grading. The ritual seldom changes.

    25    Our grading period ends today, and I had around thirty more things to grade, all due on Thursday. 

    26    I sat down to go in and take care of business. 

    27    I didn't bother turning on Sugar Magz, or even wearing my Steal Your Base baseball shirt. We already won, so no pressure. 

    30   But I couldn't resist the Lays' BBQ with the freshly grated cheese, nor the chilled glass of Crystal Light. I feel responsible for keeping the cosmos alert to good vibes. 

    31   I fed Phoebe the Amazon, our dog, and her sidekick, the benign Rocket J. Dog, one of the best puppies on Earth. 

    32   I settled into doing some grading, and knocked off almost everything when my daughter Nicoley came by to pick up the Rocket. 

    33   We decided to take both dogs for a November walk in the rain and talk teaching. 

    34   We must have walked at least two miles, or at least it seemed like it. It reminded both of us when we used to walk around the neighborhood in October and November so that we could crunch leaves and watch sunsets. 

    35   It always worked, and it worked once again. Plus we got to compare teaching techniques in a workshop that was clearly better than all the meetings I've been to this year combined. 

    36   I don't mean to brag, but my daughter Nicole is a brilliant teacher, and one of her best coaches is my daughter Caitlin. 

    37   Awesome techniques, brand new, and the result of professional studies. 

    38   Amazingly, I have used a lot of those techniques just by trial and error. 

    39   The most amazing technique to me is what the most amazing technique has always been for a successful teacher: passion for the job. 

    40   You either have it or you don't, the same way athletes either have it or they don't. 

    41   I see teachers who look at the job as a job. You can't do that if you want to enjoy a career. You have to love the pain. You have to endure the hard times. And you have to energize from the good times. 

    42   It was a great walk, and a great talk. The particles shot through the cosmos,and I'm quite certain both of us got energized by the walk and the talk 

    43   I'm gonna cut this one short. 

    44   It's Friday, and that job does not own me. 

    45   But it sure can be fun. 

    46   Have a GREAT three-day.

    47   Peace. 

    ~H~


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  • The Daily News

    1  Here is an actual headline from AOL: Jennifer Aniston rumored to be pregnant for the millionth time.

    2  Pretty telling. 

    3  I guess it's good to be back to normal. 

    4   Sort of normal. 

    5   I need my sense of humor back.

    6   I'm trying to make sense of all that happened in the past couple of days.

    7   Obama won. My important school propositions won. 

    8   I had a great teaching day. 

    9   And yet here I am into the 4 a.m. and I am a tad depressed. 

    10  OH!

    11  Meetings. Bleh.

    12  I abhor meetings. 

    13   Most of this year our meetings have been pretty grim. 

    14   Public schools have been on their last legs since I first started teaching. 

    15   I have always heard doom and gloom, but never saw it as I saw it these past few years. 

    16   There are insidious things that go on with regards to the education of our children. 

    17   I have to look at the bright side, because when I see what is happening from the inside, it is terrifying. 

    18   The public has NO idea. 

    19   Or maybe some idea. 

    20   I want to thank everybody who voted, whether they voted for what I believe, or whether they didn't. 

    21   Now that all the glitz and glamour are done and the confetti swept up, we seem suddenly to be back to normal. 

    22   I don't know. 

    23   I'm just glad that the entire thing of the election being over suddenly puts us back to reality. 

    24   If Jennifer Aniston rumored to be pregnant is at the top of today's news, then the news is good. 

    25   Moving On, Part the Second: Every Wednesday we have meetings, and every Thursday I am relieved. I have back-to-back meetings, close to four hours of negative vibes. 

    26  As teachers, most of us just want to get in there and teach. In fact, being in the classroom and teaching is invigorating! We laugh, enjoy students' goofiness, and engage students in fun activities. When people say, "I don't see how you can teach; kids are incorribible. I couldn't do it." I laugh. The kids are just goofy. It's a given. Occupational hazard. But they're real, and most have really good hearts. 

    27  The part of the job that many people feel is difficult is actually not. 

    28  The most difficult part of the job is dealing with people in power who control funding, and meetings that deal with that subject. 

    29  That subject comes up often. 

    30  The political side of education is monstrous. 

    31  It is particularly monstrous when I am elected a union representative. 

    32  That greatness was thrust upon me. 

    33   For whatever reason, people tend to look to me as a leader. 

    34   It's possibly because I have always sort of been one. 

    35   I was senior class president in high school. 

    36   I ran because people wanted me to run. 

    37   I understand political power. 

    38   I liked leading without the handle of being a president. 

    39   That has always been a strength of mine. 

    40   Once elected, however, it becomes an obligation. 

    41   I don't think I was a very good senior class president, for example. I was okay, but not astounding by any means. 

    42    Why?

    43    Because once a person gets into a position of power, even if it is something as simple as a high school election, they realize it is a job, and a job that tries to please everyone. Abraham Lincoln saw that as an impossibility. 

    44   Some people take that power and allow it to alter their perspective of things. 

    45   I was wise enough to get through my one-year tenure as senior class president and then get out of Dodge. Contrary to popular belief, that isn't a popularity contest. It is an insanity. And a scary one for someone who is just eighteen. 

    46  It built character, I'll tellya that much. 

    47  And what I learned pushed me into a good direction. I never wanted to run for anything ever again, but I did want to take what I learned and use it in the same way I led people when I didn't have that title. 

    48  I also learned how to move politically through the educational system. I knew that many people in power must also have been insecure, and used that to my advantage, and by association, for my students' advantage. 

    49   I was cocky, and never in fear of admins. I saw right through their boushit, always did, and still do. 

    50  That empowered me in my quest for doing what I believe was best for my students: staying rebellious, enjoying life, enjoying intelligence, and liberating students' thoughts about everything. 

    51  I still do that. 

    52  It's just that I see people in positions of leadership who don't know how to control that, and who are fearful of their own inadequacies, and who simply take orders from those who have risen higher, and who have eventually to make decisions in fear of whoever is in charge. That's usually an insecure bully. They generally don't last too long, but sometimes they last WAY too long. 

    53   There used to be a name for that. It was The Peter Principle. The Peter Principle was this: You rise to your own level of incompetence. 

    54   For those of you seeking greatness, it is a pretty important principle. Many people rise above that and become powerful.

    55  They can be cut down at the knees; they know it, and many become vicious as a result. They become like Disney villains.

    56   I'm in my comfort zone right now. 

    57   Greatness was indeed thrust upon me, and is about to once again. 

    58   I know this. It is a pattern. 

    59   I have risen to my own level of competence. 

    60   I will not take that next step.

    61   I remain a mischievous rebel that way.

    62   Jennifer Aniston rumoured to be pregnant for the millionth time. 

    63   Now THAT's news. 

    64   I better go. 

    65   I'm such a grammarian. 

    66   'Til the next time. 

    67   Peace. 

    ~H~
     

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  • Obama Wins!!!
    The Daily News

    1  In the end, Obama's victory was a bit like the Giants beating the Tigers. He clearly outplayed Romney by not campaigning where he knew he would win, and concentrating on minorities, Latinos, African-Americans, Asians, younger voters, LGBT's, and women. 

    2  In the end, a stunned Romney refused to believe it, and came out late to concede.

    3  I was asleep by then. 

    4  Make no mistake; this is one of the most interesting and historical elections ever. 

    5  Romney's strength worked against him. He aimed at white voters, and he aimed at the rich, but in the process, revealed a stunning ignorance of America's diversity. His 47% remark buried him to many people. That was one of his most idiotic moves. 

    6   In the end, Obama displayed a much clearer vision of where America is right now. Romney was out-coached. Obama brought it more than anyone had guessed. Quite similar to sports. Romney got spanked. 

    7   Romney was too old school. He fought an outstanding battle, and was reasonably graceful much of the time. 

    8   "For the United States of America, the best is yet to come." --Barack Obama

    9    Obama's speech was amazing. I'm not gonna lie. His speech was amazing. 

    10   I have taught the real America for years. White America remains clueless to diversity, and Romney showed that to everyone. 

    11  Maybe it is time, America. 

    12  I laid low during all of this. 

    13  I saw a whole bunch of it as a reality teevee show rather than a serious campaign. 

    14  I also watched silently while I watched Romney hang himself. 

    15  His weakness? He is clueless of diversity. A lot of white people are clueless about their own fear and racism. He doesn't realize that the "minorities" are and have always been the "majorities." Should we change that term? Some day we'll wonder why that term was ever used. 

    16  Those of us who have lived among diversity see the real America. We enjoy multi-cultural America, and embrace the differences, and the cultural richness of being a nation that is diversified. 

    17   What bothered me about the election was the same thing I liked about it: it was presented as a reality teevee show. 

    18   I remained silent because it was bizarre. It appealed to the reality-teevee mentality. It appealed to our national idiocy about making news out of things that aren't news.

    19  The only difference: this was also political reality. This will have an impact on America. 

    20  And one thing I saw in this election was the people who don't ordinarily vote came out in droves. My students were absolutely engaged in the election. The entire school was abuzz about the election. 

    21  To me, it is an exciting time. I have never seen students so excited and interested in what is going on in their country. 

    22  To those who hate Obama, I understand. I understand your fear of Obamacare. I understand your fear of "socialism." That was how the media painted this man. That was the propaganda that the controlled media wanted you to think. 

    23  The past two days I outlined exactly what happened to America beginning long before November 22, 1963. For all I know, it may still be going on. For all I know, Obama might be a puppet of these same forces. 

    24  I don't know. 

    25  Any political figure is suspect to me. 

    26  What is refreshing about this campaign is that people who normally don't come out and vote came out and voted. It is going to become interesting, because I'm quite certain that the people who voted are going to want to research politics a lot deeper than perhaps they ever have before, so that they could argue, debate, and talk intelligently about political candidates. 

    27  They could also be brainwashed by Rupert Murdoch, and the forces who are still lingering up there. Obama could certainly be torn down by these forces. 

    28  I'm pretty sure that the way he played this campaign, he probably knows a LOT more than he did four years ago. 

    29  There is no way a guy gets to re-election and doesn't know who is REALLY in power. 

    30  Re-election eliminates a lot of that. He now has the power. He has become instantly dangerous to those forces. 

    31  Well, let's be open minded and see where this amazingly historic night heads. 

    32  Moving On, Part One: I was into the 3 a.m. when I began writing this, and had ABC news on. Some gal in a red dress referred to us as "the left coast." 

    33  News gal. I have no idea what her name is, but she came across instantly to me as a moron. She couldn't hide her disappointment. She said "the left coast" with an attitude. I was personally offended. "Left" I suppose now means "socialist" or "communist." She is a moron. 

    34  No shortage. 

    35  There's a reason I have a job. 

    36  Some girl corrected herself yesterday for some grammatical error she almost uttered. I can't remember what it was, but she caught it immediately and blurted, "I almost said..." and gave me a glance. 

    37   I immediately said, "There's a reason I have a job." She threw a huge grin, and I moved off, turned and she smiled. Fun teaching moment. Sidebar: yesterday was a dynamic teaching day for me. Every period kids who weren't understanding my lesson all "got it." I had a "got it" day! 

    38  Moving On, Part Two: When I went to bed last night, Proposition 30 was losing. I was pretty upset, because I felt that California was turning its back on schools.

    39  I woke up to find it had passed. I also saw that Proposition 32 was losing. 

    40  Whew. 

    41  Moving On, Part Three: Did I hear that Colorado and Washington voted to legalize recreational use of marijuana? I'm not sure exactly what that means. Anyway, I thought it should have been legalized about a hundred years ago. It is as prominent as alcohol, and clearly a better choice than alcohol, but millions of people still have to lock all their windows and sneak the stuff, like they are teenagers sneaking smokes in the school bathroom. 

    42  Moving On, Part Four: Maryland and Maine should be congratulated for voting for same sex marriage. While some people see this as the end of civilization as we know it, others feel that it is about time. 

    43  I happen to be one of those. If two people fall in love, then those two people shouldn't have any outside forces telling them that they can't marry. It is nobody else's business. They will go through the same things any couple will go through, but it is THEIR decision. 

    44  I look around at all the dysfunctional hetero couples and ask myself, "Who are you to judge anybody?"

    45   Life is tough. Leave people alone. 

    46  Moving On, Part Five: I am into the 4 a.m. right now, so I have to move this along. History is going to show this as a monumental election. White America is learning that this truly is a melting pot. A lot of them sealed themselves in white communities, and closed their blinds to all the realities. 

    47  The fact is, this nation is diversified. It is not blue. It is not red. It is not black. It is not white. 

    48  Obama stated that rather eloquently last night. 

    49   It is the United States of America.

    50   I'm going to leave that on the field. 

    51   Have a great Wednesday. 

    52   Peace. 

    ~H~




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  •  




     
    The Daily News

    1  Yes on 30. No on 32. You either support children or you don't. Period.

    2   The propaganda against this thought is disgraceful. As a teacher, I have not had a raise since 2002. 

    3   It isn't about teachers, or unions, or whatever. It's about kids. 

    4    Like everyone else, educators are working twice as hard as ever. Layoffs aren't imaginary. I have watched at end-of-the year meetings some of our most amazing workers being lined up and given flowers for having done impossible things, but who have been laid off because of cutbacks. 

    5   We have two counselors for 2600 students. We do have one "floater" who comes in and helps every couple of days, but who has to float from school to school.

    6   Those two counselors are doing the work of five. 

    7   Our book room has had three different people coming and going, including one admin. I have personally given up on the book room. The hours it is available are in the morning. My prep period is in the afternoon. Even when I have gotten in and given my requests, they have not happened. 

    8   It's a crap shoot. Planning in 2012 is a nightmare. 

    9   I no longer rely on the book room. I buy my own class sets of books. I run things off, and I can't depend on the copy machines. They have fired anyone who could assist us in that regard, and the machines now continually break down. 

    10  Just yesterday I had materials for my JFK unit cocked and ready. Some younger teacher took up two machines for the good part of a half hour. When he left, he had left paper jams in both machines. Nice guy. 

    11  Honestly. It is down to that. HE is so overworked that he didn't have the courtesy to clear the jams. I always make sure I either clear the jams, or at least leave an apology note that I had to get to class.

    12  I wound up spending over forty dollars on making copies at Fed Ex. This cut into my grading-of-papers time. Because of larger class sizes, my paper load is another half of a class. That adds at least another hour or two per assignment. That adds up to a lot of weekend hours. A LOT of weekend hours. I do it because I want my students and parents to be up-to-date on their child's progress. I want to be current on answering emails. I want to remain a good teacher.

    13 And I realize it sounds petty to some, but support staff is WAY needed. The schools are now operating on food stamps. 

    14  Yes on 30. No on 32. You either support children or you don't. 

    15  The propaganda behind 32 is repulsive. It has the Bush family all over it. It has large corporations behind it. It has nothing to do with unions. 

    16   I will repeat what I said yesterday. We are not obligated to join a union. We have teachers who are anti-union. I have and always will be pro-union, because if you know the history of America, you know that given a chance, corporate America will screw the workers to the wall. They will cut back and cry poor mouth the same time the count their profits. The easiest way to improve profits is by cutting back workers, benefits, retirement, and by association, the security of families.

    17  And trust me, given a chance, any "efficiency expert" who is a corporate upstart will slash your job in two seconds. 

    18  Because the largest enemy to profit is people. People can be replaced. They can fire seven people and then give all their jobs to one person, and make a much larger profit. Sound familiar? The workers who are lucky enough to have jobs nowadays are working ridiculous hours and being asked to do way more than ever before.

    19  The middle class is being annihilated by corporate greed. Good people have lost jobs everywhere I look. 
    20  It is happening in education as well. 

    21  Education is America's future. What don't people get about that?

    22  Keeping good employees is essential to that end. 

    23  It is already disgraceful to see how schools have been cut back.

    24   Two counselors. 2600 students. People, really?

    25   Prop 32 is backed by the Bushes and their corrupt cronies. 

    26   America was doing fine until George W. Bush took office. 

    27   That family. I swear. You have to be a moron if you don't see the connection between them and all that is wrong in America. 

    28   Yesterday I talked a bit about the history of their family. Prescott Bush was clearly in bed with fascists and Nazis. You don't have to go too far to find that information. I've known this for years, but I depended on libraries, book stores like Kepler's to get the information. It wasn't always readily available. Now it is.

    29   Prescott Bush was pure corporation. I'm not making this stuff up. I didn't get this information from some moronic website. I have researched this stuff for years. It is out there now. You can Google this information, but someone will also deal a hand of misinformation too. And some "conspiracy theorists" are made to look wacky on purpose. I always went to quieter and more studious resources, such as David Emory and Russ Baker. Crazed guys and wrestlers make real political research look bad. The story of the Bushes?

    30   It is all laid out in a book by the very brave Russ Baker. 

    31   The book, once again, is called Family of Secrets. I will repeat what I wrote yesterday. Family of Secrets was originally a book Baker wanted to write when he thought this: How did a goober like George W. Bush ever become President?

    32   Well, he was the son of George Herbert Walker Bush, who was the son of Prescott Bush.

    33   They hung around with a shady group of people who flurried around the assassination of John F. Kennedy. George Herbert Walker Bush eventually became the head of the CIA, and THEN he became President. His story of where he was when Kennedy was killed is a fairy tale. Baker does a meticulous job of showing this.

    34  The CIA started as the Office of Strategic Services. The OSS brought in thousands of Hitler's people to come in and train the CIA. The guy in charge of Hitler's spy community on the Eastern Front, Reinhard Gehlen, was set up as an emperor in the USA. We are talking Nazis here. Training our fledgling CIA.

    35   When I first found that out years ago, I was astonished and in disbelief. One day I walked into a supermarket and found a VHS about Gehlen, distributed BY the CIA explaining WHY they brought Hitler's people in to train our OSS. 

    36   Google it. It's out there. It is probably controlled; I don't know. 

    37   Today is voting day. I just wanted you to know that anyone or any issue remotely connected with the Bush family is probably not a good thing. 

    38   To me, this election is a no-brainer. There are only two guys running. It just may be that both are controlled by these a-holes. 

    39   One guy is clearly for women's rights, for LGBT rights, for the working class, for the end of war, and for education. Even there he is a bit shaky, but if you look across the field you see a rich fellow who is clearly clueless about multi-cultural America. 

    40  Re-think your vote. A lot of you are victims of this brainwashing that killed a President, never convicted anyone, and took over America and along with it, thought. We have been policed. Period. It is clear as a bell if you have lived a little.

    41  Only two guys were ever convicted of that murder, by the way. One was a seemingly mousy little guy who was probably a CIA patsy named Lee Harvey Oswald.  The other guy was a fellow named Clay Shaw, who was clearly guilty up to his ears, and who hung around with fascists. The jury found him not guilty due to a lack of evidence or . 

    42  It was hard for New Orleans DA Jim Garrison to get witnesses, because they all were either hatcheted, or perhaps shot two times in the head with an apparent suicide. Yes I say that with tongue planted firmly in cheek.

    43  George Herbert Walker Bush LIED about where he was on November 22, 1963. That fact is delivered on a silver platter in Family of Secrets. 

    44  I don't get my information off the internet. I have researched this stuff for years. People who know me know that I have checked sources. Once I balance two differing sides to this stuff, I look to the sources. If two or more sources are clearly correct, I accept it as truth. If there is an accusation, I read the other person's side. Always.
    45  Oswald, for example, was seen on the streets of New Orleans passing out "Fair Play for Cuba" documents. This would imply that he was pro-Castro, and therefore a communist. 

    46  He stupidly stamped the address 544 Camp Street, New Orleans on each document. 

    47  544 Camp Street in New Orleans in 1963 was a bee-haven for anti-communists, and was in the heart of the New Orleans spy community, with the DIA, the CIA and the FBI within city blocks. 

    48   The Warren Report is the official document that investigated the murder of JFK. It concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, was simply some nut who killed the President. Earl Warren was the guy in charge of the investigation. 

    49   The Warren Report included 544 Camp Street in it, but never took it a step further. Ummmm...if Oswald was a communist, then what was he doing hanging out in a building teeming with anti-communists, all in the heart of the New Orleans' spy community? Are you following? Someone did a coup in America in 1963. It is blatantly obvious. Either that or you are not following this.

    50  And the Bush's hung out with Allen Dulles, former head of the CIA, and who, with his brother John Foster Dulles worked for a law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, whose major client was a company called I.G. Farben, which financed Hitler's death camps. 

    51  Allen Dulles was a member of the Warren Commission, along with the recently deceased Arlen Specter, who, along with former President Gerald Ford, came up with the ridiculous "single bullet" theory that made Oswald look like the lone gunman. Gerald Ford became President after Richard Nixon, who helped orchestrate the Bay of Pigs invasion and then left office after the Watergate affair, which was teeming with all sorts of shady characters who popped up in the JFK assassination. 

    52  Arlen Specter went on to become the number one guy in the nation to investigate whether the government was listening in on our cell phones. His conclusion a few years ago pretty much said in essence, "Oh, maybe a little."

    53  Moving on, Part the Second: This isn't a rant. It is the result of years of careful study. Why people refuse to accept these facts is a mystery to me. They have been carefully researched, and are not the result of internet insanity. 

    54  America has been brainwashed. Who controls the present controls the past. 

    55  E. Howard Hunt of Watergate fame announced practically on his deathbed that he was a "bench player" in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He confessed it when he thought he was on his deathbed. He confessed it to his son, and it is on tape.

    56  How that never made national news is again a mystery to me. Are there any real journalists left?

    57   Probably not. Rupert Murdoch has taken care of that. Rupert Murdoch controls close to eighty per cent of the news media in America, and is decidedly right wing, in the extreme. So much for your "liberal media." All lies.

    58  No time to go into THAT guy, but he is clearly a sinister sort whose agenda is in lock-step with the rest of these boys. 

    59  So vote today. But think about this piece. It is the result of years of my personal investigating, and seeing all of these things clearly. 

    60  You might reconsider. You might be brainwashed. I don't think I am, because I stayed away from it all these years. I dealt with facts. And they never became facts until I measured two sides of issues. It took years to reach the conclusions I am printing here. So take that as you list.

    61  Yes on 30. No on 32. You either support children or you don't. Period.

    62  Peaceout. 

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