Ah, but, Wizard: Barack Obama never wrote a damn thing while editor! Shouldn’t some prof have chided him? …..or bounced him? He did not do the job. Period. …..Lady in Red

I must admit, as fact-free as this poorly written essay is, I have adored the old Fred Reed who takes on the Theory of Evolution quite well.

Why don’t you bone up, again, on that, Fred, and write something new and interesting, there? …..Lady in Red

Wizard….. I admit I’ve found “Dreams from my real father” to be the most credible of the swirling accusations around the mystery that is Barry:

Why ever would a person born in 1960 not have easy access to his birth certificate? That’s bizarre.

Where are all his college records?

How can you be editor of the Harvard Law Review — and never publish a word?

Why doesn’t anyone at Columbia, from profs to students remember him — at all?

How many social security numbers does he really have?

Why are there so many black holes in his young life? Where was he travelling and why?

The book certainly does not answer all the questions, but we do know his mother went to college — minutes after his birth — in Washington. We know that Obama Sr and Stanley Ann never lived together at all and that she was a rebellious women when her parents dragged her to Hawaii….. And we know she knew Frank Marshall Davis. It seems like Occam’s Razor to me.

I don’t have answers for the other questions and…. …..smile….. I am not sure I want to turn over those rocks. …..Lady in Red

My “conspiracy theorist” coming of age occurred during a professional and personal crisis concurrent with the Oklahoma City Bombing, when I did little but stare at a computer screen. Always, before, I had trusted and believed my government and the media. Then, the pieces were not fitting, well….. ….but I was still told: Nothing to see here; move on.

I wanted to move on, but I also trusted my own ability to think and discern.

Then, there was the investigation into the Vince Foster “suicide.” More mental dissonance for me. I read Hugh Sprunt’s brilliant Citizen’s Independent Report, sent to every member of the several Congressional investigatory committees. As with the media, Congress ignored Sprunt’s work:

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/kavanaugh/releases/docid-70105694.pdf

Next, I discovered the Washington bureau chief, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, of the London Telegraph writing about both the Foster death and the Murrah Building bombing. He made sense, but his research was not appearing in the Times or WaPo. Why? My dissonance was getting worse. I truly *wanted* to face the rear of the elevator like everyone in Asch’s conformity tests, but — blessedly — my trust in my own mind slowly calmed me down.

Finally, I called Evans-Pritchard in DC. “Who are you?” I asked. “What is going on?” We talked for half an hour and he offered to take me and my husband to lunch the next time we were in DC. He did so, about six weeks later. He is a pleasant, quite brilliant, but straightforward man, now the International Business Editor of the Telegraph. Me? I’m just glad he made it out of DC without having the brakes on his car fail……

A E-P’s book is a fascinating, well-documented book (horribly titled!) “The Secret Life of Bill Clinton.” It documents Foster’s murder, the BATF/FBI Keystone Cops mess over the Murrah blowup and the story of the Mena drug traffic out of Arkansas when Clinton was governor.

Do I know who killed Foster and why? Nope. Beyond the mess the feds made of the Murrah bombing, do I know why? Nope. Possibly to increase agency budgets…..? Trust the feds to “protect” the citizen chickens from the evil right wing foxes….? Perhaps.

I don’t go dumpster diving into the facts as deeply as I did before, but, when I saw the twin towers come down I said to myself, “That’s a controlled implosion.” Why, who? I don’t know.

I do have a couple of books on TWA Flight 800 and, yep, it does look like the govt did it. Why’d they lie? I don’ know.

What I have learned is to be skeptical, dig — at least a little. Then, let it go because the truth, most likely, never will surface. …Lady in Red

PS: BTW, Obama was not born in Kenya, but was born in Seattle just a few weeks before his mother started college. His grandfather paid Barack Sr for a scam marriage and sent him off to Harvard. Obama’s real father is Frank Marshall Davis, a black poet and Communist and the reason the birth certificate was such a “problem,” is that Obama Sr. refused to sign it and the real one lists “Father Unknown.” Ergo, the need for the photoshopped copy from Hawaii. At least pieces of the “truth” are easily available; one merely has to accept that there are other pieces we may never know…..

……and Fred Reed is becoming something of an ignorant blowhard.

You think that public schools with their constant clamoring for more taxes and new bond issues and six figure salaries and nifty pensions and one month of sick or personal days (plus the summers off) is non-profit? ….smile…. ….Lady in Red

This may be simple-minded for you Planet Uranus folk, but “proof” that planes collided with the WTC bldgs might, simply, be that none of the people who had tickets on any of the planes ever showed up on earth again.

Would that count? …Lady in Red

PS: I do, also, think that, even to a layperson, it is obvious that the buildings were professionally imploded — somehow.

Argggghhhh! I misspelled “brakes!” ….Lady in Red

Hell. I always believed everything I read in the papers, including that America was the land of the free and the home of the brave and that we were the world’s white hats.

My moment — months? — of panicked dissonance involved the Oklahoma City bombing and the Vincent Foster “suicide,” almost contemporaneous events. Since 1994, I’ve read a lot including “The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror” and Hugh Sprunt’s wonderful “Citizen’s Independent Report” about the Foster death.

At the time, however, I was glued to the highly credible writings of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, the DC bureau chief for the London Telegraph. He wrote about both events and my twitching elbow told me this was truth — but the views, the facts, were no place else, never showed up in the NY Times or WaPo.

When I was exploding with the dissonance, I called the DC office of the Telegraph. Evans-Pritchard answered the phone. “Who the hell are you?” I began. We had a wonderful talk and he told me that when my husband and I got to DC next, he would take us to lunch.

He did, at the Capitol Grille. As I prepared to pay, he took the check and said, “The Telegraph can afford this.” He is a gentle soul who always believed that the truth about both incidents would come out. …..sigh….

I prayed for him a lot, that he would not have a fall over a loose balcony railing, or a problem with his car breaks….. ….that he would get out of America alive.

Today, he’s back at his beginning: economics, the International Business Editor for the paper. I’m not sure if it’s safer for him.

His book about the Clinton administration is a thriller, as is Hugh Sprunt’s work.

Mostly, I leave this stuff — 9/11, flight 800, Obama’s “real” background and papa — alone. It takes a toll. I have learned that the government — and media — will lie in lockstep conformity and in direct contradiction to the most massive physical evidence. And, they always get away with it. That knowledge is good enough for me. …..Lady in Red

I sent this link to a prog friend of mine, terribly opposed to the “war on drugs.”

He sniffed and wrote back, “There is no war on guns.”

I wrote, “When you are sitting on my side of the church and they are shooting at you, it sure seems like there’s a war going on.”

The right wants to fight drugs and abortion and the left hates guns. Neither side can look in the mirror and see themselves for what they are. ….Lady in Red

Brilliant analogy!

It is sad how intellectually frozen folk are, depending upon which side of the political church grabs them. They never see the lunacy of their own enforcement, morality imposition, on “the other side.”

It ain’t looking good for the simple White Hats. ….sigh. ….Lady in Red

I found Hillary’s statement that she used a separate communications system for TS communication fascinating. I was always wondering where all that stuff was, had never heard that before. Then, this from Breitbart:

At the NBC News “Commander in Chief” forum on Wednesday night aboard the U.S.S. Intrepid in New York, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton invented a new alibi for her mis-handling of classified information, telling host Matt Lauer that she used a secure server when she needed to send classified information.

In July, FBI director James Comey revealed that Clinton not only withheld and deleted work-related emails, but also sent classified emails — many marked as such — on her private, non-secure email server.

Clinton told Lauer:

I communicated about classified material on a wholly separate system. I took it very seriously. When I traveled, I went into one of those little tents that I’m sure you’ve seen around the world because we didn’t want there to be any potential for someone to have embedded a camera to try to see whatever it is that I was seeing that was designated, marked, and headed as classified.

In fact, the FBI report released last week confirmed that Clinton declined to use a state.gov email account, and defied her own department’s policy to use an “authorized information system” for official business. She had no computer in her office, which was a secure environment, nor did she use a computer inside the secured area in her homes. (In her FBI interview, she said she could not recall receiving any advice about email policies.)

The report implies that the only time Clinton used a secure system for sending email was when she was traveling abroad — when State Department career staff, not her personal entourage, were responsible for setting up her communications.

As left-leaning PolitiFact noted in July:

To electronically transmit classified information, State Department employees must use a specific closed system, not their usual @state.gov email addresses. Clinton has said she viewed classified information in hard copy in her office, and she used other secure channels when traveling. Some emails now made public actually show Clinton’s team discussing how they couldn’t email each other classified information over the private server and instead had to move the conversation to a more appropriate venue.

So while it might be true that Clinton used a secure system when abroad, she did not use that system as a matter of routine when sending classified material.

Quite the opposite, in fact: at least some of the time, she sent and received classified information and documents, including emails pertaining to drone strikes, on her private, secret, non-secure server.

If there is evidence she used a secure server to send email while inside the U.S., the public has yet to see it.