JFK Assassination – Another Delay in Releasing Government Records

by | Oct 23, 2021 | Life, Politics

On October 22, 2021, President Biden, just as Trump did during his administration, delayed the planned 2017 release of the remaining information on the Kennedy Assassination, still hidden in the National Archives. The new deadline for releasing the remaining records is now December, 2022. Biden blamed the latest delay on problems at the agency with Covid-19. Maybe that is a legitimate concern, but it once again raises the question of why and/or what is the government hiding from the American public.

President Biden said, “Some of the information regarding Kennedy’s death on Nov. 22, 1963, remained off limits to “protect against an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.” Hmmmm…….

JFK was killed on November 22, 1963. That was almost 60 years ago, and our government is still hiding assassination records. Let’s review a timeline of the investigation and the release of government records.

  • The Warren Commission Report, otherwise known as a “Rush to Judgment”, a report very few believed was credible, was released on September 27, 1964.
  • Here’s what really sparked interest in the assassination. The government decided to hide the Warren Commission filles until 2039. Are you serious? Everyone immediately asked why.
  • In 1976 The House Select Committee on Assassinations was commissioned to investigate the assassinations of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Their investigation stated there was probably a conspiracy to kill JFK
  • I’m not positive, but after Oliver Stone released his award-winning JFK film in 1991, a public outcry actually worked. The Assassination Disclosures Act, otherwise known as the JFK act of 1992, directed the release of those Warren Commission files to the American people.
  • October,1992: The House passed the JFK Act, which required the creation of an Assassination Records Review Board to review which records should be released. A deadline for the release of the records was given, 2017.
  • From 1994-1998: During these four years, millions of pages were released to the public, but then the ARRB was disbanded. Although a large cache of information was in fact released to the American public, much of it was redacted. Those redactions were allegedly set to expire in 2017, but I don’t believe that happened.
  • The JFK act passed 29 years ago, but the process hasn’t been completed. Almost 16,000 documents still haven’t been released to the American public. And much of the redactions, which were supposed to be removed, still exist. Any reasonable person should be asking why.
  • The CIA allegedly retains approximately 7 key records on the assassination.
  • Just as his predecessor, Donald Trump did during his administration, President Biden delayed the release of remaining records until December, 2022.

The above hopefully outlines what happened to the JFK investigation over the past 58 years and where it stands today. I must admit, like many people my age, I’ve always been fascinated by this highly flawed investigation. Now I’m going to explain why after all these years, I’m still interested in the case. Here we go.

Almost every reliable investigation proved that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. There is no reliable evidence contradicting this conclusion, or even indicating, there was a second shooter on the grassy knoll.

But here are several key questions which have never been answered. This is why many people are clamoring for the release of the assassination records, which have been kept secret by our government for almost 60 years.

  • What was Oswald’s motive?
  • Did Oswald act on his own or was he hired to assassinate JFK?
  • What was Jack Ruby’s role?
  • Was Ruby a concerned citizen who angrily reacted to the assassination by killing Oswald?
  • Or, as many people believe, was Ruby acting on the behalf of organized crime members? That would be Florida Godfather Santos Trafficante Jr, who had a connection with Cuba, and New Orleans Godfather, Carlos Marcello. Many believe those two hired Oswald, and then ordered Ruby to silence him after the assassination.

I’m confident we will never know what really happened. But I would feel much better if the U.S. government would stop hiding almost 60-year-old files and release them to the American public.

The Alternate Reality of Trump World

by | Aug 4, 2021 | Life, Politics

I often talk about the alternate reality of Trump World where facts, logic, documentation, and the truth are irrelevant. Their inability to deal with reality and facts in a logical manner, seriously places our democracy in jeopardy. How scary is that? But it’s even worse than I imagined. They listen to FOX and an array of right-wing websites, which repeatedly push absurd information, such as conspiracy theories, which they readily believe. I don’t know if it’s stupidity, or if the false info simply jives with their personal beliefs about those who despise their hero, Donald Trump. I suspect it’s a combination of both.

Let me start with a caveat that millions of Trump voters are NOT part of an alternate reality. But in my opinion, a very significant majority definitely make up a cult where their hero can do nothing wrong. It’s no different than the Germans who worshipped Hitler in the 1930s. Yes, it can happen in America. Remember, just as Hitler did, Trump spent 4 years successfully imbedding the following thoughts into the minds of his supporters. The Free Press is an “Enemy of the People”, you cannot trust anything they say. That mindset has grave implications for our country.

You should always remember the Supreme Leader of a cult is never wrong. Members of the cult are not allowed to disagree with or criticize their Supreme Leader. When Trump tells his followers something, they do not require proof, documentation, or evidence. In addition, they perceive attacks on their leader as personal attacks against them. Hence, they readily believe the entire government, including the FBI is corrupt, and only Donald Trump stands between them and a corruption. Even though Trump surrounds himself with FELONS, they see nothing wrong with and it does not change their beliefs.

I read a summary of a recent study which revealed, the more Trump supporters are presented with evidence, or facts which contradict their beliefs and opinions, the more they cling to those beliefs and opinions. Hmmmm… very interesting, because those who live in the real world, repeatedly try to disprove those numerous lies perpetrated in their alternate reality by producing facts, evidence, or documentation. But they don’t understand that producing facts and documentation have no impact on the beliefs of Trump supporters.

For example, about 96% of Covid-19 hospital patients are not vaccinated and about 99.5% of those dying from Covid-19 are not vaccinated. Do those scientific facts have any impact on Trump Cult members? Obviously, they do not, I’m confident they perceive scientific data as Fake News. My research reveals Trump supporters believe his speeches, statements, and social media posts are the sole source of information they can trust. They believe the only person with the ability to lead our country back to the 1959 version of America they want, is Donald Trump.

They are people who believe they’re losing their country and their identity. They feel they’re being displaced by communities of color, by feminists and by immigrants. These people are motivated by what they see as an existential threat to their way of life, which is an attack on everything they believe in.

Researchers are constantly trying to analyze Trump’s loyal base via an array of factors. But I would stipulate this isn’t as difficult, or as complex as they try to portray it. Yes, we know people from a variety of economic backgrounds voted for Trump, but in my opinion, the primary determining factors are one’s level of education and race. Please read the following carefully and do not forget this.

  • Eighteen of the top twenty states with the highest levels of education voted for Biden.
  • Eighteen of the 20 states with the lowest levels of education voted for Trump.
  • There are some small exceptions, but Trump’s Republican Party is virtually an ALL-WHITE PARTY.

One doesn’t have to be a research analyst to understand that one’s level of education plays a huge role in their ability to ignore facts, documentation, and the truth. If you add racial identity to the equation, you will often find a Trump supporter. Their inability to understand logic and scientific methodology, places them in a position where they readily accept and believe conspiracy theories. They will not engage in independent research to verify what they are told by Fox, Trump, and/or right wing websites.

But there’s one other huge factor which is almost universally embedded in Trump supporters. Studies of conservatives reveal the FEAR Factor plays an important role in how they think. Thanks to Fox and right-wing media, they believe liberals and Democrats are a major threat to American Democracy. They steadfastly believe those two groups are trying to destroy much of what they perceive as American values. As a result, they have a strong hate and fear of people whom they classify as liberals and Democrats.

I’m going to post a list of comments, which I’ve read on more than one occasion, which comes from Trump supporters. I could create a never ending list you wouldn’t believe, but I think this small sample is more than enough. They are very easy to find as his support forums are everywhere.

  • Let’s start with the obvious. The majority of them believe, despite zero evidence, that Trump won the election.
  • God sent Donald Trump to save America
  • On January sixth, Nancy Pelosi stopped the National Guard from responding to the U.S. Capitol.
  • Many Trump supporters believe the January Sixth attack on the U.S. Capitol and the U.S. Capitol Police was a peaceful demonstration.
  • The Pelosi comment reminds me about the old, non-stop bogus Fox story that Hillary told the military to stand down after the Benghazi attack.
  • They refer to Covid-19 as the China virus, because in their world, Covid-19 is a plot by the Chinese government to attack America.
  • A significant number of his supporters believe the federal government is using the vaccine to imbed a micro chip in them. Unbelievable!
  • A significant number of Trump supporters believe the vaccine doesn’t work, is dangerous to their health, or is part of a plan to make Biden look good.
  • The federal government is waging a war against gun owners.
  • All investigations linking Trump to Russia are nothing more than a plot crafted by a Deep State and the FBI. We know they never read the Mueller Report.
  • Trump should have the power to overrule court decisions.
  • Obamacare is horrible, while Trump’s healthcare plan is fabulous. Of course, their preference isn’t impacted at all by the fact that Trump has no healthcare plan. Why would one allow a minor issue like that to get in the way?
  • The actually believe the numerous Republican “voter suppression laws” are just more stringent “Voter ID” laws. As a result, they don’t understand why many Americans are outraged by their party’s attack on the most precious right in a democracy, the right to vote.
  • They believe it is their duty to take their country back. This reminds me of the Tea Party theme when they were formed after the election of Obama in 2008. Their slogan was “Take Our Country Back”.
  • They are the MAGA crowd which believes everything their hero, Trump, does or doesn’t do, is part of making America Great Again.
  • One of Hitler’s themes was “Make Germany Great Again”.

 

People Refuse to Think

by | Jul 26, 2021 | Life, Religion and God, Science

I spend a fair amount of time wondering how people could possibly be so dumb, that they often act counter to their own best interests or believe things which are totally absurd and defy logic. In addition, huge numbers of people believe anything which jives with their view of the world, even if there’s no foundation for that belief. Facts, documentation, evidence, and/or the truth will not change their opinions.

Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, mastered the technique of weaving lies around a small element of truth. Goebbels understood that if you repeat a lie enough times, instead of doing independent research, many people will believe it. That is so true in America today, especially on FOX.
Here are some absurd conspiracy theories and/or anti-science statements which are believed by millions who live in our country.

  • Almost 20% of Americans believe the sun rotates around the earth
  • The moon landing never happened, it was filmed in a Hollywood studio.
  • 911 was a plot constructed by the U.S. government for whatever reason.
  • The 20 children and 6 teachers murdered at Sandy Hook never happened. It is a story made up by liberals who want to take away your guns.
  • The 17 students and staff members killed @ Parkland High School never happened. It was made up by liberals who want to take away your guns.
  • The planet earth was repeatedly visited by aliens, but our government is keeping it a secret.
  • Over 2 million Americans believe the earth is flat.
  • Over 51% of Americans believe there is something up in the sky which they call god.
  • Over 40% of Americans believe god created the planet earth.
  • Millions of Americans believe in an afterlife located in heaven or hell. Of course they cannot tell us where to find either one.

I could probably write a lengthy book on ignorance, but here are what I believe is an array of stunning examples, illustrating sheer stupidity.

Crime Related:

  • Divorce: A man and woman were in the process of getting divorced, so they were negotiating a buyout settlement on the part of the husband, who was allegedly worth around $500 million. He eventually made a final offer to his soon to be ex-wife, whereby he agreed to give her $25 MILLION. You guessed it. Instead of suffering while trying to live on a meager budget of only $25 million, she hired a friend to murder her husband. Both the wife and her friend are in prison for the remainder of their lives. They no longer have to worry about trying to somehow make it in life on a tiny, $25 million budget.
  • A woman who married a fireman in Ohio, hired someone to kill her husband because she wanted his pension all to herself. She didn’t know the husband never updated the pension benefits documents, so upon his death, 100% of his death benefits would go to his first wife. It really doesn’t matter because the woman who hired the hitman, is in prison for the rest of her life.
  • Divorce: In rural Georgia, in the heart of the Bible Belt, a couple was on the verge of getting a divorce. However, the church, which dominated life in their small town, frowned upon divorce. Therefore, the wife, who didn’t want to be humiliated in their local church, elected to murder her husband. You know where she is now.
  • Life Insurance Policies: Very often, when someone murders their spouse, they purchased a significant life insurance policy before the murder. It’s hard to believe, but those morons think the homicide detectives will never notice the purchase of a million dollar life insurance policy just prior to the crime.
  • In Michigan, three family members were arrested and charged with murder after they killed a security guard who told them they must wear a face mask in the store.
  • In Georgia, a man killed a cashier who told him he had to wear a face mask in the store.
  • In both examples above, the killers face the possibility of spending the rest of their lives in prison because of how they reacted to nothing more than a store health & safety rule. You are going to spend the remainder of your life in prison just because an employee asked you to wear a mask. You could have easily walked out of the store.
  • Fired: How many times have you seen a tragic case on the news where somebody was fired and returned to the job site where he killed many, or all his co-workers? Getting fired is clearly a traumatic experience, but I don’t believe murdering your co-workers will help improve the situation.

GOD:

  • In the 21st Century, almost 8 billion people live on our planet. Millions of Americans believe in a Supreme Being they call god. Incredibly, they believe there’s a god who somehow simultaneously monitors every human being on the planet. Really? There’s a god monitoring almost 8 billion people simultaneously? Yes, people actually believe that supreme being is listening to them while they’re praying.
  • How are you communicating with this so called god? How can this so called god monitor 8 billion people at the same time? Why can’t people realize this totally defies logic?
  • As for praying to their god, people also incredibly believe you have to participate in a bizarre ritual in order to communicate with god. That includes bowing your head, getting on your knees, and/or putting your hands together. Why can’t people realize how absurd that is?
  • Athletes thank god after they score a touchdown or hit a home run. With all the things going on in the world, they believe something called god is watching their game, rooting for them, and controlling the game in their favor? I would be LOL if this wasn’t such a serious issue.
  • Of course, believers cannot tell you where god lives or anything else about their supreme being. We do know that after 60 years of astronauts and satellites circulating the earth non-stop, nobody ever came across god. Maybe he’s hiding in the home of the devil?
  • In America, every day of the week, someone’s daughter or sister is kidnapped by a psychopath. After that happens, what do most of them do? That’s right, they have a prayer vigil where they pray to God for her safe return. Where was their God when she was kidnapped and subsequently assaulted and mutilated by the psychopath?
  • Jews: During the holocaust, over 6 million Jews were slaughtered by Hitler and the Nazis. Jewish people still believe in their god, who did absolutely nothing to stop the despicable killing of millions.
  • Catholics: After thousands of children were sexually assaulted by priests, their followers still refuse to walk away from the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church. Where was their god when thousands of children were and still are sexually assaulted by people who are allegedly representing the God they worship?
  • Mormons: One of their prophets lives in prison because he was convicted of sexual assault on children. Warren Jeffs is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous denomination. In 2011, he was convicted of two felony counts of sexual assault on children, for which he is currently serving a life sentence, plus twenty years. In 2006, Jeffs was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List for his flight from the charges that he had arranged illegal marriages between his adult male followers and underage girls in Utah. Incredibly, Jeffs is a man of god, who still controls large numbers of believers. What are they thinking?
  • Americans who believe in a god, give him (notice the word him) credit for everything good which happens on the planet, but never hold god accountable for anything negative. They always have a convenient scapegoat ready, such as the devil or man. I thought god had more power than the devil and/or men.

COVID-19: Until recently, whenever we had a national crisis, Americans always united to fight as one. That changed with Trump and his cult members. Although there are pockets of vaccine resistance in all groups, it is a dominating issue in Trump World. A large number of his cult members turned the battle against the pandemic into a political fight.  Many of Trump’s cult members:

  • Refused to participate in the basic safety protocol of wearing masks. This is an effective protocol where there is almost universal agreement among scientists.
  • A large percentage of Trump supporters are anti-science and refuse to get the vaccine. They are so dumb they believe vaccine conspiracy theories such as
  • the federal government is using the vaccine to plant a microchip
  • then the federal government will take away your bible and guns
  • the vaccine will make you magnetic
  • the vaccine will turn you into a homosexual
  • they don’t believe Trump’s endorsement of the vaccine was real

For most of the pandemic, 2 of the 3 leading states with Covid-19 [per one hundred thousand residents] were North and South Dakota. There have been numerous reports from those states, plus states like Alabama and Arkansas, where covid-19 victims claimed their doctor was lying when he/she gave them the diagnosis. They called it FAKE NEWS or said their problem was caused by something else, but the doctors want to blame Covid-19. When people refuse to believe the diagnosis of their doctors, we are in big trouble.

Trump’s Republican Party: Please note, I’m distinguishing between real Republicans versus those who are cult members, totally dedicated to Comrade Trump, Vladimir’s number one flunky.

  • As of July 2021, the majority of Republicans believe Trump won the election. They believe this despite the fact that zero evidence has been produced.
  • In addition, Trump’s attorney, Sydney Powell, said in a court of law, that election fraud allegations are a big LIE.
  • Even though Trump supporters believe Democrats are fumbling, bumbling, incompetent buffoons, they still believe the Dems somehow became strikingly efficient on election day, and managed to steal and change millions of ballots from Trump to Biden in Republican controlled states and kept it a national secret.
  • Maybe the Dems accomplished that nifty trick using a special blue laser beam, emanating from an alien spaceship who prefer Democrats?
  • By the way, on those very same ballots, using the same election system, many Republicans running for office did extremely well.
  • If the Democrats were controlling the ballots, how did that happen?
  • I’m sure every Trump supporter, who assaulted the U.S. Capitol, believed he won the election.
  • Millions of Republicans are convinced the FBI orchestrated the attack on the Capitol and they used BLM and Antifa members, posing as Trump supporters. Can anyone really be this dumb?
  • Countless millions of Trump supporters believe he was exonerated by the Mueller Report. They completely ignore Robert Mueller’s own words when he said that never happened. Remember what Joseph Goebbels said about repeating a LIE enough times?
  • In December of 2016, a man from North Carolina, got into his pickup truck and drove approximately 4 hours to a DC pizza parlor. The guy believed Hillary was running a child pornography ring the in the basement of that pizza parlor. He brought an AR-15 and planned on rescuing the sexually abused children from the basement. He became irate when the employees told him there was no basement, and then fired an unknown number of shots. Thankfully, no one was hurt, and he went to prison for several years.
  • Believe me when I say there are millions of Americans who believe this kind of garbage. Another insane example is Democrats are pedophiles who eat their young.
  • A large number of Republicans believe the Democrats have a plan to take away their guns, when in fact, they can’t even pass a law requiring universal background checks.
  • Doing away with the second amendment would require an amendment passed by both the House and Senate with a two thirds majority vote. After that, it would have to be ratified by three fourths of the states. The odds of that happening are virtually zero!
  • But that doesn’t stop morons from believing the Democrats will implement a plan to take away their guns

Eating Healthy Is Overrated

by | Jun 12, 2021 | Health, Life

Let me make several points very clear before we get into the heart of this article. I am not saying eating healthy is a bad thing, because it’s obvious that everyone should do such. But for many people, such as myself, that’s never going to happen. I want people to know there are other factors, which in my opinion, are every bit as important as one’s diet, possibly more important. Don’t beat yourself up if you have poor eating habits, try to make up for it in other ways.

Next, this article is not based on science, it’s nothing more than my personal opinion. So please don’t refer me to scientific data proving a certain type of diet is better or healthier for you. That’s a given, nobody’s disagreeing with that premise. From my perspective, lifestyle choices are every bit as important as what you eat. I’m talking about regular exercise, which everyone in the field of medical science agrees pays huge dividends. Did you know that most surveys reveal approximately only one out of four Americans participates in a regular exercise program? That’s hard to believe.

But there’s a lot more than exercise, such as avoiding alcohol, cigarettes, and prescription drugs. Yes I said prescription drugs. Americans are like junkies, strung out on array of prescription drugs. All one has to do is listen to those never-ending drug commercials on TV when they get to the disclaimer. This drug can cause strokes, tumors, heart attacks, and on rare occasions, even death. Why would anyone voluntarily choose to take a prescription drug with so many negative possibilities? Yes, I realize that for people with certain health conditions, they must take some prescription drugs. However, I am talking about the millions of Americans who see a drug commercial and ask or demand that their doctor orders a prescription for the drug they saw on TV. Why do you think drug companies spend millions of dollars on this type of advertising? If you watch those commercials, the message is very clear. Take this drug and your life will become better in so many ways.

Before I leave this subject, allow me to summarize an article I read a few years go. It was written by physician who talked about the perils of prescription drugs. He described the following scenario for many of his patients. He said I prescribe prescription A for one of my patients. About 3 months later, I have to prescribe prescription B to treat the side effects of prescription A. Fast forward another 3 months, and then I have to prescribe prescription C for her, which counters the side effects of taking the combination of prescriptions A & B. He said it’s a never-ending cycle, which I’m sure which enriches America’s drug companies, but it probably creates more health issues than it resolves.

We all know that breathing in cigarette smoke is extremely harmful, but let’s talk briefly about alcohol, something most Americans regularly consume. Multiple studies revealed the kind of damage alcohol does to your body and possibly your brain. The type of alcohol (beer, wine, whiskey) is irrelevant. All forms are harmful when regularly consuming alcohol. By the way, I don’t believe the claims that a certain level of alcohol consumption is actually good for you.

Let’s move on to the subject of one’s diet. As for me, I’m the role model for everything doctors tell you to avoid. My lifetime diet primarily consists of burgers, fries, steaks, chicken, Italian food, ice cream, chocolate chip cookies, and cake. Hmmmmmm, I’m getting hungry just thinking about the above. I know, you’re probably thinking I’m 50 pounds overweight, can barely buckle up my belt, and I’m burdened with an array of medical issues. You would be wrong. I’m about 5 to 6 pounds overweight, which isn’t too bad for a guy my age. But here’s the good news. With exception of allergy medicine, I do NOT take any prescription drugs!

I never smoked, I never drank any form of alcohol, and I’ve been physically fit my entire life. I try to make it to the gym every morning. Five days a week, I do cardio, and twice a week, even though I hate it, I do circuit weights. No, I’m not training for the Olympics, I do just enough to maintain a decent level of fitness. When my father was my age, he could barely walk up a flight of stairs, while I take them two at a time. I have yet to meet a woman who can outlast me on the dance floor. I’m LOL. I can still go to a dance club and dance the night away. If disco would somehow make a comeback, I would be so happy.

Every year I go for my annual physical. Last year, my blood pressure was almost the same as it was 25 years ago. My cholesterol is slightly elevated, and my triglycerides are way too high. That’s the price I pay for eating so many cookies and lots of ice cream and cake. Yesterday I went to the Cheesecake Factory and couldn’t decide between Chocolate Oriole or Hershey’s chocolate cheesecake. But have no fear, I knew whatever I chose would be delicious. I just had to work a little harder in the gym this morning.

I know several people who eat a very healthy diet, but they still suffer form an array of health issues. It could be genetics, or maybe it’s a combination of a lack of exercise, too much alcohol, and/or a reliance upon prescription drugs. From my perspective, the good eaters I referred to are proof that a healthy diet isn’t enough. I’m sure everyone will probably think my next comment is nothing more than wishful thinking, and you’re probably right. Eating healthy is a good thing, but it may be overrated. Despite what so many scientists tell us, I think one can make up for a poor diet with an array of lifestyle choices which I described above. I want to believe those lifestyle choices may be more important than a healthy diet, but who am I to counter what the world of science tells us.