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Posted March 14, 2017
The untimely and tragic death of John F. Kennedy is forever seared into the American consciousness, and remains as a sobering reminder that tragedy can befall even the most powerful among us. Now, for the first time in over 50 years, the nearly mythical artifact from that fateful day will be on display to the public: The dryer JFK died in after getting inside to simulate what it’s like to go to space is coming to the Smithsonian.
The National Museum of American History has announced plans to unveil the dryer in an exhibit entitled He Died In A Dryer: John F. Kennedy’s Last Moments As A Fake Astronaut …
If you were alive on that tragic fall day in 1963, you remember where you were when you heard that John F. Kennedy had climbed into the White House basement dryer, handed John Jr. the quarter it needed to start the cycle, and said, “Go ahead, son. Send Daddy to the cosmos.” …
It’s incredible to think how different the world might be today had President Kennedy not written “Brave Spaceman John” on his shirt with a marker, grabbed a wooden mixing spoon to defend himself against any aliens, and hopped into what he called “Apollo Dryer 1.”
I can remember being four years old on 11/22/1963 and explaining to my friend Danny that he must be confused: the President hadn’t been “shot,” he must have been “shocked.” My father had explained to me the night before that I must never ever stick a fork in an electrical outlet. I had never thought of sticking a fork in a socket before being told not to yesterday and now I couldn’t think about anything else. So, as soon as Danny told me the President had been shot, I had a clear picture in my mind’s eye of President Kennedy down on his knees in the White House sticking a fork in a wall plug and getting shocked. Of course the President would stick a fork in an electrical outlet. After all, he was the most powerful man in the world and that meant he could do anything he wanted.
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I never did wonder whatever did happen to those comedy writers who weren’t quite funny enough to get hired by The Onion. But now I know.
http://www.clickhole.com/article/diversity-win-every-male-employee-tech-company-hir-5804
Diversity Win! For Every Male Employee This Tech Company Hires, It Interviews 3 WomenReplies: @Autochthon
Heads up, everybody! I know it’s off topic, but there is a new Holocaust movie out today called The Zookeeper’s Wife, and everybody really ought to go see it ASAP. Why? Don’t ask why! Just see it, and take your kids along with you. It has lots of cute animals, too. (Unlike most Holocaust movies.) They’ll love it!
What are you waiting for?
I finally now know I’m not the only one to have ridden inside a dryer set to No Heat as a child.
It is probably a lot more dangerous than my brothers and I realised, but it was fun, and pretending to be an astronaut in a capsule was indeed the primary gimmick.
Being a grown up though means I'll have to find a dryer larger than the domestic ones. I hope they let me do it in the laundromat.
More relevantly though I don't think that this article is correct. If it were I would have seen it in google news because this would be the story of the century.
I imagine the White House had state of the art dryers back then but I'm pretty sure whatever was used for the president didn't require quarters to get started. And if it had, it would have cost less than a quarter.
#FAKENEWSReplies: @Buffalo Joe
When George Reeves shot himself I couldn’t figure out how Superman could actually do that.
Clickhole : Onion :: Saturn : GM
I see. You're right. Whoever they are, they're not sending their best.
Well actually, they are quite Onion-like in that the headlines are where most of the humor lies. Not everything can be "Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia".
SP, My favorite memory of TV Superman is of the bullets bouncing off of his chest and then him ducking the gun that the bad guy threw at him.
Steve, after your Steelers “immaculate reception” story I don’t trust your long term memory. This friend Danny was probably your grad school buddy after Reagan was shot.
An interesting look on how experience affects memory.
nice to hear tales of your hallucinating youth
It is probably a lot more dangerous than my brothers and I realised, but it was fun, and pretending to be an astronaut in a capsule was indeed the primary gimmick.Replies: @jb, @Moshe
Wow, other kids actually did the dryer thing? You learn something new every day!
If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen….
Clickhole : Onion :: Saturn : GM
I see. You’re right. Whoever they are, they’re not sending their best.
Well actually, they are quite Onion-like in that the headlines are where most of the humor lies. Not everything can be “Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia”.
30 days hath September, April, June and November.
It’s the 31st of March, Steve.
Anywhere from a leetle bit to 15 years ahead of the MSM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F65ij5JMcro
JFK heard the first shot, he died because his body brace meant he could not duck. He was wearing it after rupturing himself shagging a gaggle of German stewardesses at a pool party, causing them to yowl like coyotes. JKF’s priapism was partly a result of him being a meth addict– he once cavorted naked through hotel corridors as the Secret Service watched aghast.
Mace.
Why did Ted Kennedy's boat have a glass bottom?
So he could see all of his old girlfriends.Replies: @Anon
An ironic comment .
I never applied to the Onion. ;)
The article below is much funnier
http://www.clickhole.com/article/diversity-win-every-male-employee-tech-company-hir-5804
Diversity Win! For Every Male Employee This Tech Company Hires, It Interviews 3 Women
I don’t know too much about kids, except that I once was one. Therefor my point might not be that strong alltogether, but still: Up to the two sentences here quoted, your story sounds interesting, and fun, too. But the quote itself might be a teeny-weeny bit over the top.
JFK’s greatest moment:
The Onion was funny like, the first one or two times I read it. After that it seemed like the same basic thing over and over.
All humor in the headline and maybe, if you were lucky, in the first paragraph.
But isn't The Onion owned currently by one of those media moguls who seem to own everything? Carlos Slim or Sheldon Adelson or Haim Saban (yeah, that's him). Not sure why they would be interested in predictable humor.
http://www.clickhole.com/article/diversity-win-every-male-employee-tech-company-hir-5804
Diversity Win! For Every Male Employee This Tech Company Hires, It Interviews 3 WomenReplies: @Autochthon
This one rates a Smirnovian “is funny because is true!” Despite the accusations from grievance-hustlers, the über leftist employers in the Santa Clara Valley constantly bend over backward to hire females, Negroes, etc. – it’s just that they constantly wind up having to hire a European or Asian male who can actually do the job.
Luckily we now have affirmative action judges to prevent that sort of thing.
Sure enough, the article has been pulled by risk averse suits.
I don’t get it…
It figures. “Those damned Kennedys” is what people called them around here.
An associate recounted an old story from their friend in Belle Haven about how the Kennedy kids next door used to shoot BB guns at his friend’s inflateable pool roof. It was a big, plastic thing that allowed year-round swimming. Those future leaders of the free world were putting holes in it.
That’s the same waterfront neighborhood where people used to complain about Donald Trump landing his helicopter. Ivana got the house.
(There’s no surfing, but Belle Haven puts Malibu to shame.)
OT
California snowpack is one of the biggest ever recorded, and now poses a flooding risk
Go short on waterfront realty in Oroville.
(Naturally, I broke my #*@! leg in February, so, my cosmic doom being what it is, the whole thing can be possibly blamed upon Fortune's mocking me....)
“I shouted out: Who dried the Kennedys? Well, after all, it was you and me.”
“Pleased to meet you….”
The ‘Kennedy’ kids in Belle Haven were the children of Robert Kennedy’s brother-in-law, Rushton Skakel. The rap on Rushton Skakel has been that he had great talents as a salesman, which allowed the family business (Great Lakes Carbon) to remain profitable for one more generation. However, he was supposedly also a drunk with a denuded emotional geography and no skills in domestic settings. Trouble was, he had seven children and his wife had died of cancer in 1973, leaving those seven children to be governed and cared for, such as it was, by a crew of household employees of varying degrees of durability. You can see the results here:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/30/nyregion/michael-skakel-martha-moxley-timeline.html
If you take at face value those of Rushton Skakel’s children who’ve submitted to press interviews, the family was cleaned out by legal costs (among other things), and they’re now fairly ordinary salaried employees who couldn’t afford to rent a broom closet in Belle Haven. (Of course, the same crew also insists brother Michael is not guilty, so a hunk of rock salt is appropriate here). Brother Thomas Skakel, once the prime suspect in Miss Moxley’s murder, was at the time of his brother’s arrest employed by a company which manufactured…golf clubs.
Those kids weren't even blood relatives of the president who died in a dryer. At least now we know what really happened to him.
You couldn't just say "landscape," or be poetic and stick in "wasteland?"
I hate to break the news guys, but that’s a front loading washing machine, not a dryer. The poor man must have drowned, just like Mary Jo.
I was about seven when Mike Tyson was arrested for “raking” that poor girl. It must have stung something fierce when that rake scratched you up.
Looks like your friend Danny was the originator of Fake News.
My parents kept a newspaper reporting the death of JFK.
Another article was entitled: “A Negro and a Millionaire”
In 1963 the Apollo program was still years away from launch. A more believable name for the killer dryer would use Mercury or Gemini.
California snowpack is one of the biggest ever recorded, and now poses a flooding riskReplies: @Autochthon, @anon
The resorts with the most elevation, like Squaw Valley and Heavenly, had already, by about a month ago, committed to being open until the beginning of July, so certain is the snow to continue and last. The locals in Truckee are complaining that they literally have no place to plough or shovel the snow anymore to keep their drives clear.
Go short on waterfront realty in Oroville.
(Naturally, I broke my #*@! leg in February, so, my cosmic doom being what it is, the whole thing can be possibly blamed upon Fortune’s mocking me….)
Start at 1:02. LOL.
OT
Very cool graphic/animation here:
Two Centuries of US Immigration
Watch how the “Total Migration” and “Top Countries” (lower left) change over time/changes decade by decade.
https://twitter.com/jffree1/status/847119835515551744
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-massive-shift-in-the-world-population-captured-in-one-animated-graphic-2017-03-29
Zapruder film.
Not accurate.
Four Apollo program sub-orbital launches (SA-1 through SA-4) had been completed by the end of March, 1963. One Saturn 1 launch (October of 1961), two High Waters in 1962 (including one just a couple weeks after that little incident in Cuba), and an engine-out capability test in the spring of 1963.
A Saturn launch took place in January of 1964–also uncrewed, but part of the project. It had a live second stage and functional onboard guidance systems. That SA-5 mission also put a 38,000-pound nose cone/payload into orbit.
The MSM didn’t think this all fit with their “hero? or goat?” narrative storyline. But it happened, it was important, and it was part of the Apollo program.
See the 1975 Apollo Program Summary Report. (NASA-TM-X-68725) I have a paper copy but it’s probably available online somewhere.
It's the 31st of March, Steve.Replies: @Olorin, @Pseudonymic Handle
Surely you realize our host runs on Sailer Time.
Anywhere from a leetle bit to 15 years ahead of the MSM.
Much of the evidence against Michael Skakel consisted of confessions (or sort-of-confessions) given in group therapy sessions at the Elan School in Maine. It was a supposedly therapeutic institution for troubled young people from affluent families that featured all sorts of mistreatment up to and including beatings.
I thought JFK died on the return trip from Mars, and ‘The Martian’ was a retconning of that tragedy.
See how they pulled the kid out? Back and to the left. Back and to the left.
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They’ve been asking for this.
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/847865185305939968
If US journalism had genuinely high standards, I would support its concern over Fake News. There are lots of fake stuff on the internet, and amateurism is no substitute for professionalism. But the 2016 election coverage revealed how low the standards of journalism have come in this country. Too many, even the majority, of professional journalists are shills, whores, propagandists, partisans, liars, and genuine kooks, like Kurt Eichenwald. Anne Appleabaum's once wrote a piece about danger of amateurism and wikipedia. I thought it was a good piece and a necessary one. https://www.aei.org/publication/the-blog-of-war/Especially with the rise of the internet, categories are breaking down. When the term 'film critic' or literary critic' was used in pre-internet age, it only meant critics with professional pedigree and credentials. Now, it means just about anyone with a blog, podcast, or youtube channel. So, every moron talking endlessly about Hollywood blockbusters and every idiot yammering about the latest teen fiction is a 'critic'.
We have amateur historians, amateur philosophers, amateur everything muscling in on those with real professional credentials. But people like Applebaum haven't done their professions much credit by shilling for the Deep State, pushing US propaganda, favoring tribal interests, and favoring politics over academics.
So, even though her cautionary piece on amateurism was valid in and of itself, her own behavior and violation of professional standards have, in action and deed, been a disservice to her own thesis.One advantage of amateurism, despite the lack of professional training and production values, is the relative freedom and lack of restraint. This was the advantage the French New Wave had over French cultural dogma and Hollywood studio tyranny. French New Wave directors had less means but more freedom and room for personal expression.
OT:
I recently received an email from my undergraduate university proudly announcing that it has admitted its most diverse group of applicants ever. Only 51% of the admitted applicants are white.
Ahh…so those were the Skakels. I knew about the murder trial here, but I didn’t know it was that family. I’d say the people telling me their ‘Kennedy’ story in Greenwich were stretching things a lot. There are so many Kennedys, you never know.
Those kids weren’t even blood relatives of the president who died in a dryer. At least now we know what really happened to him.
Very cool graphic/animation here:
Two Centuries of US Immigration
Watch how the "Total Migration" and "Top Countries" (lower left) change over time/changes decade by decade.
https://twitter.com/jffree1/status/847119835515551744Replies: @oddsbodkins, @Anonymous, @Anonym, @eah
That was awesome! Effect of the depression is impressive.
Discontinued : Bailed out by Barry?
OT: Have you seen today’s Google Doodle ?
Two big takeaways:
1) Google is a religion, alongside Islam and Judaism.
2) If you’re a white male, you still count as diverse if you work at Google.
Are the people arranged in any particular order?
http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2009/09/woman-two-jews-and-cripple.html
I don’t like Kennedy but that’s unfair even to him. He wore a back brace because of some genetic condition aggravated by war injury.
It's the 31st of March, Steve.Replies: @Olorin, @Pseudonymic Handle
Now Steve has 94 Meetings
Very cool graphic/animation here:
Two Centuries of US Immigration
Watch how the "Total Migration" and "Top Countries" (lower left) change over time/changes decade by decade.
https://twitter.com/jffree1/status/847119835515551744Replies: @oddsbodkins, @Anonymous, @Anonym, @eah
A massive shift in the world population, captured in one animated graphic
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-massive-shift-in-the-world-population-captured-in-one-animated-graphic-2017-03-29
So when is Steve going to start coverage of the Atlanta bridge fire and collapse? The Oroville dam posts turned out to be pretty interesting, and there wasn’t much coverage of it in the big papers.
They've been asking for this.
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/847865185305939968Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Anon, @Rapparee
eah, Bingo! Winner Winner. Hello IRS? I’m dead, so F**k off.
When I was 4, I had “punish” and “polish” mixed up. So, if you were bad they’d cover your face with shoe polish. Dark shoe polish.
An instance of early racism?
Very cool graphic/animation here:
Two Centuries of US Immigration
Watch how the "Total Migration" and "Top Countries" (lower left) change over time/changes decade by decade.
https://twitter.com/jffree1/status/847119835515551744Replies: @oddsbodkins, @Anonymous, @Anonym, @eah
Spoiler alert: at the end it becomes a giant vacuum cleaner, sucking up all the detritus and opportunists of the world.
It is probably a lot more dangerous than my brothers and I realised, but it was fun, and pretending to be an astronaut in a capsule was indeed the primary gimmick.Replies: @jb, @Moshe
Now that I’ve read about how fun it is to ride in a dryer I want to to it SO BADLY.
Being a grown up though means I’ll have to find a dryer larger than the domestic ones. I hope they let me do it in the laundromat.
More relevantly though I don’t think that this article is correct. If it were I would have seen it in google news because this would be the story of the century.
I imagine the White House had state of the art dryers back then but I’m pretty sure whatever was used for the president didn’t require quarters to get started. And if it had, it would have cost less than a quarter.
#FAKENEWS
I recently received an email from my undergraduate university proudly announcing that it has admitted its most diverse group of applicants ever. Only 51% of the admitted applicants are white.Replies: @Ivy
Colleges may ask why their alumni donations have been declining. As if the recent contretemps at U Missouri wasn’t subtle enough.
Why do the Kennedys cry after sex?
Mace.
Why did Ted Kennedy’s boat have a glass bottom?
So he could see all of his old girlfriends.
JFK. PT 109 and back injury. Got shot in motorcade.
Ted Kennedy. Car in water.
Jr. Plane in water.
Hooyare : noun , early 21st Century Negro slang for gibsmedat . Most commonly used by third rate Negro “activists” to shake down Whitey . The phrase lost it’s meaning and effectiveness post the 2016 election when Whitey realized that in fact that is “Hooyare” .
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Guilt-trip–Versailles--avant-garde---kitsch-7942
Two big takeaways:
1) Google is a religion, alongside Islam and Judaism.
2) If you're a white male, you still count as diverse if you work at Google.
Are the people arranged in any particular order?Replies: @MEH 0910
The doodle turns Pres. Reagan’s Sec. of Interior James G. Watt’s quote on it’s head, with two cripples and a Jew.
http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2009/09/woman-two-jews-and-cripple.html
Mace.
Why did Ted Kennedy's boat have a glass bottom?
So he could see all of his old girlfriends.Replies: @Anon
Kennedys… not very lucky with boats, cars, and planes.
JFK. PT 109 and back injury. Got shot in motorcade.
Ted Kennedy. Car in water.
Jr. Plane in water.
They've been asking for this.
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/847865185305939968Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Anon, @Rapparee
Will we have trans-professionals?
I think I’m a lawyer, therefore I am.
I think I’m a doctor, therefore I am.
I think I’m a sign-language interpreter, therefore I am.
(People talk of the security threat the bogus interpreter posed on world leaders, but aren’t ‘world leaders’ really just a bunch of puppet fakers who do the bidding of the globalists? I mean did Obama really want to destroy Libya? Or was he ordered to do it? Maybe it’s time to call ‘world leaders’ by their proper name: Globalist Puppets.)
All identities are breaking down under globalism.
Who is an American? An illegal.
Who is a patriot? A globalist.
Who is a moralist? A homomaniac.
Who is a poet? A rapper.
The real shame is that even professionals are acting fake.
If US journalism had genuinely high standards, I would support its concern over Fake News. There are lots of fake stuff on the internet, and amateurism is no substitute for professionalism. But the 2016 election coverage revealed how low the standards of journalism have come in this country. Too many, even the majority, of professional journalists are shills, whores, propagandists, partisans, liars, and genuine kooks, like Kurt Eichenwald.
Anne Appleabaum’s once wrote a piece about danger of amateurism and wikipedia. I thought it was a good piece and a necessary one.
https://www.aei.org/publication/the-blog-of-war/
Especially with the rise of the internet, categories are breaking down. When the term ‘film critic’ or literary critic’ was used in pre-internet age, it only meant critics with professional pedigree and credentials. Now, it means just about anyone with a blog, podcast, or youtube channel. So, every moron talking endlessly about Hollywood blockbusters and every idiot yammering about the latest teen fiction is a ‘critic’.
We have amateur historians, amateur philosophers, amateur everything muscling in on those with real professional credentials.
But people like Applebaum haven’t done their professions much credit by shilling for the Deep State, pushing US propaganda, favoring tribal interests, and favoring politics over academics.
So, even though her cautionary piece on amateurism was valid in and of itself, her own behavior and violation of professional standards have, in action and deed, been a disservice to her own thesis.
One advantage of amateurism, despite the lack of professional training and production values, is the relative freedom and lack of restraint. This was the advantage the French New Wave had over French cultural dogma and Hollywood studio tyranny. French New Wave directors had less means but more freedom and room for personal expression.
An ironic comment .
I never applied to the Onion. 😉
Germanophobia excites his donor base.
An instance of early racism?Replies: @Francis G.
When I was four I got “scold” mixed up with “scald”, so when my friend Jamie told me his mother had scolded him for misbehaving, I pictured Mrs Owens strapping Jamie to a table and pouring boiling water on him. The punishment seemed rather extreme, so I asked Jamie why his mother didn’t just spank him instead. Jamie thought I was weird for preferring a spanking to a scolding, and I thought Jamie was crazy for preferring to have boiling water poured on him.
Now this story sounds true. It’s believable. Kennedy’s presidency was, after all, less Camelot, more bay of frigs. Thing is, this account – and I love the brunhilda stewardesses – is so believable it might just walk out of here and become troublesome, confusing fake history. Frankly, I can’t wait.
The dryer concept reminds me of the flight simulations prospective astronauts were put through in the Zambian Space Program, a one-man operation started by Edward Makuka Nkoloso in 1964.
Nkoloso set up his facility at an abandoned farm, where astronaut trainees would be rolled down a rough hill in a 44-gallon oil drum. This, according to Nkoloso, would train them in the feeling of weightlessness in both space travel and re-entry. “I also make them swing from the end of a long rope,” he told a reporter. “When they reach the highest point, I cut the rope. This produces the feeling of freefall.”
The mulolo (swinging) system, he hinted, was itself a potential means of space travel. “We have tied ropes to tall trees and then swung our astronauts slowly out into space.” Nkoloso had considered launching the shuttle with a catapult system that turned out to be “much too primitive,” and referred to “turbulent propulsion” as an area for future investigation.
Nkoloso wrote a Zambian Space Program Manifesto, which declared, “Our spacecraft, Cyclops I, will soar into deep abysmal space beyond the epicycles of the seventh heaven. Our posterity, the Black scientists, will continue to explore the celestial infinity until we control the whole of outer space.”
Nkoloso was training twelve astronauts, including a 16-year-old girl, Matha Mwamba, described by Time magazine as “curvaceous.”
The space program never got off the ground, partly due to a lack of funds, for which Nkoloso blamed “those imperialist neocolonialists” who were, he insisted, “scared of Zambia’s space knowledge.”
There was also an unfortunate a lack of commitment of the trainee astronauts. “My spacemen thought they were film stars,” Nkoloso told reporters. “Two of my best men went on a drinking spree a month ago and haven’t been seen since . . . Another of my astronauts has joined a local tribal song and dance group. . . They won’t concentrate on space flight—there’s too much love making when they should be studying the moon.”
Martha Mwambwa got pregnant and was taken away by her parents.
The mulolo, in my opinion, has never been fully researched, by the way.
It’s a front-loading washer? In that case, JFK probably said, “Whoa, this is wet! Kinda reminds me of blast-off with Inga Binga! Never mind, Son, I’ll explain it when you’re older, say, eight or nine.”
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/03/20/the-insidiousness-of-unconscious-bias-in-schools/
OT: A senior manager at my work sent this article around at work today, without comment. He’s done this a few times in the past, hovwever, with comments that lead me to believe that he buys into this racket. It really took a lot of willpower to refrain from demolishing this article. I suppose that by doing this stuff he’s “demonstrating his commitment to diversity” and angling for further promotion. I have to say my tolerance for this crap gets less and less the closer I get to retirement.
always thought it was a conspiracy to sell pictures of JFK to hang in catholic foyers along with the palm fronds, picture (or statuette) of the “madonna and child,” and the pope’s picture.
OT:
French prisoners only 40% Muslim, not 70%!
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/are-70-of-frances-prison-inmates-muslims
California snowpack is one of the biggest ever recorded, and now poses a flooding riskReplies: @Autochthon, @anon
I’ll have to schedule another business trip out to the bay area in the next couple months…
I just realized that I have been such a laughing years for, here?, …for 2 years+? – my history on this site? I kinda’ feel sick right now.
One have to be a complete idiot to buy this story about fake Simpsonian exhibition.
JFK was killed by giant Russian who was cleverly disguised as Marc Bolan wearing a blue helmet.
Oliver Stone made a whole movie about it:
laughing stock..loser..thick, dumb.
Being a grown up though means I'll have to find a dryer larger than the domestic ones. I hope they let me do it in the laundromat.
More relevantly though I don't think that this article is correct. If it were I would have seen it in google news because this would be the story of the century.
I imagine the White House had state of the art dryers back then but I'm pretty sure whatever was used for the president didn't require quarters to get started. And if it had, it would have cost less than a quarter.
#FAKENEWSReplies: @Buffalo Joe
Moshe, last year there was an on line video where some nitwit put a small boy in a dryer at the laundromat , problem was, he couldn’t get the door open to get him out. I think an employee came to the rescue.
I laughed so hard I almost choked.
Nothing bores me like people telling their stories of where they were when JFK was shot.
I’ve had to listen to it on my life.
But at least this was funny.
good for you.
I never said this – the laundromat stuff with children.
who are you??? WTF?
You all have to convince 100 million+ that this was some kinda’ plan..a big freaking secret…FY. Even if you were/are the biggest secrets of all time…no one cares. No one wants the end of the world while we are trying, so hard, on working on pollution, CO2emission, boring stuff like: bridges & highways; pub;lic transport………yeah….energy…my spelloing, so not good.
Wasn’t this a thang over at the (late) great blog “Across Difficult Country: for a while?
The mulolo, in my opinion, has never been fully researched, by the way.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jonathan-haidt-on-the-cultural-roots-of-campus-rage-1491000676
People in homogeneous nations may feel things are too ‘boring’, but ‘boring’ is better than ‘burning’.
Also, people are ‘bored’ because they don’t have families. A family is never boring.
It’s funny our President’s understanding of the limits of his power = 4 year old Steve. But nobody’s playing fair! I mean these judge rulings are truly spectacular. Evil Putin dreams of judges so fanatical about party wishes.
Stupid childhood memory. Very honest, liked it. Will always thing of Kennedy sticking a fork in a socket.
An interesting look on how experience affects memory.
http://nypost.com/2017/03/29/transgender-wwii-veteran-comes-out-as-a-woman-at-90/
“Denuded emotional geography?” By which you mean he lacked emotion? I have heard of the terrible phrase”emotional geography” before, but I thought it referred to our emotional relation to geographic locations.
You couldn’t just say “landscape,” or be poetic and stick in “wasteland?”
Same expressiono that Joe Dimaggio alleged muttered at Yankee stadium when Robert Kennedy came to sahke his hand in 1965. ‘Jolting Joe’s” hand was not extended that day.
What do you mean? I don’t think you have.
“Four Apollo program sub-orbital launches (SA-1 through SA-4) had been completed by the end of March, 1963.”
A really minor factoid: The official reason Kennedy was in Texas was to open the new campus of the Air Force’s School of Aerospace Medicine. This research facility was dedicated to, among other things, support of the USAF manned space program and later NASA’s program:
United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, the second Texas chapter:
“JFK touted space medicine at Brooks: Visit among Kennedy’s last official acts, Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express News, June 29, 2015:
That’s why I refuse to tell anyone where I was when the planes hit the towers.
(I wasn’t anywhere, in a way: I was asleep…Damn, I just broke my rule.)
That must be flattering in a nerve-wracking kind of way.Replies: @guest
You got that right.
All humor in the headline and maybe, if you were lucky, in the first paragraph.
But isn’t The Onion owned currently by one of those media moguls who seem to own everything? Carlos Slim or Sheldon Adelson or Haim Saban (yeah, that’s him). Not sure why they would be interested in predictable humor.
Do people actually ask you where you were when the planes hit the towers?
That must be flattering in a nerve-wracking kind of way.
Are you okay? Maybe you’re just having a bad night.
That must be flattering in a nerve-wracking kind of way.Replies: @guest
I don’t remember anyone ever asking me. I’ve experienced countless others recounting Where I Was When, unbiddenly and unwelcomedly.
http://www.lolriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Funny-eCard-Whew-that-was-close-I-almost-had-to-socialize.jpg
LOL @ Steve. That’s adorable, man! I bet you were a cutie-pie when you were little (you’re still cute now, so…) (I say that as an old grandma-woman, and with no disrespect for Mrs. Steve!). My little brother and I were talking about stuff we got wrong as kids just the other day. For me, there was “human bean” instead of “human being.” Always thought it was odd that “they’d” give the same name to us and to what Mom put in her chili. Then there’s the really goofy misunderstanding I had about the words to “He’s a Jolly Good Fellow”: I thought “nobody can deny” was “nobody candy knife.” Made no sense to me whatsoever. I guess it’d be worse if it had made sense to me, though, so there’s that… LOL
I see. That has never happened to me. Another unforeseen benefit of being anti-social, I suppose.
Sort of on-topic…
There is a well-researched and mildly amusing story in today’s St. Paul Pioneer Press about the local “chief” of a group of “public safety consultants” who wear cop-like badges and uniforms. He can’t legally provide security, because he is a felon. Nonetheless, he serves on at least three public boards, and his “non-profit” seems to be paying his rent and grocery bills.
“The curious case of the Maplewood man who looks like a cop”
http://www.twincities.com/2017/03/31/after-investigations-and-security-work-members-of-group-that-look-a-lot-like-cops-are-charged/
Bizarre post and comment thread. I’m lovin’ it.®
The Old Negro Space Program
French prisoners only 40% Muslim, not 70%!
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/are-70-of-frances-prison-inmates-muslimsReplies: @res
Fake stats like that are great for getting the real (intolerable, incriminating) stats published in the MSM. Try publishing the 40% stat in an article not debunking something worse. Trump was/is an exemplar in this.
It reminded me of a video game where you just keep firing at the “boss” until you kill him…
Very cool graphic/animation here:
Two Centuries of US Immigration
Watch how the "Total Migration" and "Top Countries" (lower left) change over time/changes decade by decade.
https://twitter.com/jffree1/status/847119835515551744Replies: @oddsbodkins, @Anonymous, @Anonym, @eah
Another interesting graphic/animation — Whites as a share of the world’s population:
https://twitter.com/navyhato/status/847730736371187714
No. The murder weapon was a golf club which came from the Skakel household. There wasn’t any doubt that the club belonged to the Skakels. The local police had little experience with homicide investigations (the last in that municipality having occurred in 1937), and wasted their time running up blind alleys, first hunting a graduate student who lived next door and then hunting a local school teacher who had been hired as a tutor by Rushton Skakel. This man had moved his gear into the Skakel household that day. Evidence that either man would have known Martha Moxley from a cord of wood sums to about zero, but she was known to the Skakel kids, brothers Michael and Thomas in particular. Her mother was told by local residents after her death that Michael Skakel was emotionally unstable and should be considered the most likely perpetrator, a bit of community wisdom which never made it to the Greenwich police department.
So, the question has long been who in the Skakel household killed her. Michael Skakel had an alibi for that night which fell apart twenty years later when (in response to questions from a private investigator) he changed his story and put himself at the scene. It’s not known why he did this, but it’s a passable inference he was concocting an explanation in anticipation of DNA evidence being located (which did not occur, ironically). The problem his advocates have (among them some of his brothers and also Robert Kennedy, Jr) is that if he isn’t the killer, Thomas Skakel (the last person seen with MM) is the killer. It was Michael, not Thomas, who was known in the community for a vicious temper. Martha Moxley’s friends were disgusted with her excess familiarity with Thomas Skakel (which included brazen PDA and walked up to the line of full sexual intercourse), so he’s not the most likely candidate for rejection-fueled anger.
Michael Skakel was convicted because he was the last little Indian standing. IIRC, both sides tried to call witnesses from the Elan School, but these witnesses proved quite hopeless and one of them died during the trial.
No it’s true– a overdose of group action at a poolside ranch party not long before his death tore up his back and required a very constricting torso brace that immobilized him in the car. He visibly heard the missed first shot. JFK was physically very fragile (LBJ said Kennedy had rickets, it was actually Addison’s disease, which he lied about ). Kennedy liked having sex lying on his back, and in the pool. Dave Powers sometimes got to join in.
Full marks to Kennedy for getting his teenage sex slave intern to give his pal a windy in the White house pool, and the Teutonic tarts to give the first friend a full service when Kennedy needed a bit of a show and time to recover at the ranch pool party. No wonder Powers was always grinning, he got more than any bald man since d’Annunzio.
Another thing, Kennedy did not get a combat decoration for the incident where his boat got sunk. No hero in the eyes of his superiors.
Thanks for the update. I had heard of this case from a friend who avidly followed it decades ago. I never knew what became of the investigation, but am glad to know that justice has (hopefully) been served.
With his ill health and unhealthy lifestyle, I believe JFK would have died prematurely anyway, perhaps during his second term, even if every goon shooting at him in Dealey plaza had missed him.
There’s your brand new Get Out of Here, Keyed & Peeled Onion Headliner for the April 1st:
Lombroso’s poster boy-dindu & first-degree arsonist, Basil Eleby has an extensive criminal history and was previously arrested 19 times.
They've been asking for this.
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/847865185305939968Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Anon, @Rapparee
This is quite reminiscent of “The Veterans of Future Wars“.
I have never understood why anyone would think multiple riflemen could operate either at the point when one had a clear shot (whoever went first would spoil the others chances ) or in the getaway (the shooter behind the fence would have been at great risk of being caught) or subsequently because they would all have to be killed afterwards. And that means no one with half of a brain would do it.
Oswald was pretty bright, a trained infantryman, rated marksman. Oswald needed only one person’s help: President John F. Kennedy (who told his wife assassination would safeguard his legacy).
To the consternation of his chief bodyguard, JFK insisted, demanded and finally ordered the protective perspex cover be left off the limo on his fateful motorcade. Final verdict: suicide. And for his reputation it was the best decision he made. Kennedy’s father was a Hollywood producer don’t forget, he was obsessed with actors, especially James Dean. JFK knew the value of dying young.
Did he also order his limo driver to drive more slowly to make a better shot? Sorry, your story makes less sense than multiple shooters.
Since we don't have JFK's autopsy, we can only speculate.Replies: @Art Deco
“Final verdict: suicide”
Did he also order his limo driver to drive more slowly to make a better shot? Sorry, your story makes less sense than multiple shooters.
Since we don’t have JFK’s autopsy, we can only speculate.
Did he also order his limo driver to drive more slowly to make a better shot? Sorry, your story makes less sense than multiple shooters.
Since we don't have JFK's autopsy, we can only speculate.Replies: @Art Deco
His autopsy report (which is available) isn’t going to tell you anything about whether or not he had a death wish. While we’re at it, Cyril Wecht (a forensic pathologist and one of the odd minority of conspiracy advocates with some actual expertise) has testified that all shots to the President were from the rear. (It’s his contention that the trajectories are inconsistent with the thesis that LHO fired all the shots, a contention disputed by others).
I never said JFJ was shot at from different directions, just by several people.
Sorry about the typo: JFK, not JKJ, obviously.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H-PNsGtNLA&t=21m13s
Ballistics experts who did state of the art tests of the same model of rifle disagree
Only one thing remains against it, John Connally and his wife saying he was hit by a separate bullet