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Sunday Morning Music: Alison Krauss and Robert Plant - The Battle of Evermore

Here is a live performance (amateur video) of Alison Krauss and Robert Plant of the Led Zeppelin song The Battle of Evermore.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Oswald Said What?)

Thirty days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

Lee Harvey Oswald was in police custody from the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, when the President was assassinated, until the morning of Nov. 24, 1963, when he was killed by Jack Ruby.

He was interviewed and interrogated, but there were no formal notes taken and no stenographer to capture his testimony or answers.

Saturday Musings 'Republicans On My TV' Edition

Why are there Republicans? Because of television, I guess.

If people vote their conscience, their pocket book, their health care, their safety… Democrats would be a super majority.

The few folks that vote their prejudices would pull the Republican lever in the voting booth, but that does not send anyone to Washington or a State House.

It must be that the television lies to us… and we watch it and trust it too much.

I wish I could answer the TV back.

But that wish would be un-American.

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I did like the image of President Obama visiting Arlington cemetery and seeming to be taking his own council over the idea of perpetual war. I guess we'll see.

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According to PBS and Elizabeth Warren, the Credit Card companies are going to be sending hit men out to get us all before the February 2010 regulations kick in... so don't answer your phone.

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I chose not to purchase any on line music or books in October or November and I think I am tanking the economy. I am panicking the on line stores and getting flooded with incredible bonus emails... just in time for holiday shopping. Now that is gaming the market. I even went so far as to go into a book store on the way home from work one night... and pay cash.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Where Is Everybody Going?)

Thirty days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

The first part of this video tells the story. Texans are brave people.

Thirty-five witnesses who were present at the shooting thought that shots were fired from in front of the President — from the area of the Grassy Knoll or Triple Underpass — while 56 eyewitnesses thought the shots came from the Depository, or at least in that direction, behind the President, and 5 witnesses thought that the shots came from two directions.

Am I Out Of Touch Or Have Stupak Democrats Just Term-Limited Themelves?

"We are sticking to our principles," Stupak said in defense of his amendment. 

"We won because [the Democrats] need us," says Mr. Stupak. "If they are going to summarily dismiss us by taking the pen to that language, there will be hell to pay. I don't say it as a threat, but if they double-cross us, there will be 40 people who won't vote with them the next time they need us—and that could be the final version of this bill."

And why would any woman vote for any of the 64 Democrats who voted for the Stupak Amendment?

Why would any one vote for any of the fringe Republican candidates in 2010?

America needs to move forward and Democrats who vote conservative need primary challenges.

Time for some Liberal Leadership.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Paging Richard Nixon... It's Just Too Precious)

Thirty days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

These posts needed some humor... and Richard Nixon always delivers.

Nixon's Three Stories of Where He Was on November 22, 1963

In the first place, strange things which could scarcely all be coincidence happened even before JFK was killed. On the morning of November 22, 1963, the day Kennedy was killed the New York Times carried an item on a back page, It was datelined Dallas. And it said that ex-Vice-President Richard M. Nixon had made a speech in Dallas before a group of businessmen,

Not only did the Times carry that story on the very day JFK died, but Nixon was in Dallas the day Kennedy died, and it is very possible that he was still in Dallas at the moment Kennedy died. Despite all other reports to the contrary. And of course the thing that makes this so very important is that Nixon and others have for some reason tried to conceal that fact for more than twelve years.

By itself, this would not be important. Being in Dallas on November 22nd. 1963 does not make just anyone. for example, Nixon, a murderer; but the record of Nixon's visit to Dallas has been deliberately obscured. Let's pick three "official" versions of Nixon's actions that day and see how they compare and then what the differences may signify.

Story One

Not long after Kennedy was shot, Nixon wrote an unusually long article for the Reader's Digest. It appeared in the November 1964 issue under the strange title, "Cuba, Castro, and John F Kennedy." Prepared as it was by Nixon or for his signature and prepared for the massive worldwide audience of the August Reader's Digest, we are asked to believe that this is the factual account of what took place. Nixon says

"I urged, in a statement to the press [ Dallas on November 21 that the President and the vice-president be shown the respect to which their office entitled them."

Nixon added,

"I boarded a plane in Dallas on the morning of November 22 to New York. We arrived on schedule at 12:56. I hailed a cab. We were waiting for a light to change when a man ran over from the street corner and said that the President had just been shot in Dallas. This is the way that I learned the news."

Story Two

Now let's look at another Nixon account of the same day The November 1973 issue of Esquire magazine carried the following Nixon quote;

"I attended the Pepsi Cola convention [ in Dallas ]and left on Friday morning. November 22, from Love Field. Dallas, on a flight back to New York , . . on arrival in New York we caught a cab and headed for the city the cabbie missed a turn somewhere and we were off the highway . . . a woman came out of her house screaming and crying. I rolled down the cab window to ask what the matter was and when she saw my face she turned even paler. She told me that John Kennedy had just been shot in Dallas,"

Story Three

Now let's look at the "official" account from "The Day Kennedy was Shot, by Jim Bishop:"

"At Idlewild Airport now JFK Airport) in New York , reporters and photographers had been waiting for the American Airlines plane among (the passengers) was Nixon. As he got off the plane he thought that he would give 'the boys' basically the same interview he had granted in Dallas . Nixon posed for a few pictures . . . got into a taxi-cab was barely out of the airport when one of the reporters got the message: The President has been shot in Dallas."

Comparison

Now let's compare these. Nixon was in Dallas on November 22. The versions agree that he took some plane out in the morning Bishop says it was American Airlines and that it went into Idlewild. Nixon says that it landed precisely at 12:56 nearly one half-hour after Kennedy had been shot. Certainly the crew would have heard over their radio that the president had been shot and would have told their passengers. Then Bishop says reporters and photographers were there. Certainly they too would have known about Kennedy's murder by then. Everyone else in the world did. Bishop says the photographers took pictures. Where are they?

Nixon says he traveled to New York from Dallas with a friend. Who? And what is his story?

Nixon says he got in a cab, presumably well after 12:56. What cabbie in New York City would have not known the news by then? And then Nixon tells a strange story. The first time a man ran out to the cab with the news, and the second time the cab was "lost" and a woman ran out screaming and crying the news. These different accounts do not hold water.

With all of this very contrived series of accounts it looks as though someone has been fabricating a cover-up of Nixon's actions that day. Why?

The True Story

Actually, Nixon was in Dallas when JFK was shot. On April 2nd 1975 a young man was listening to a talk at his school when he heard the lecturer tell about the Esquire account of Nixon's trip to Dallas, and how and when Nixon had learned about JFK's death. That young man then told the lecturer, "My father was an executive for the Pepsi Cola Company, and he was in Dallas on November 22nd 1963 at that convention. He has told me that Nixon was there in Dallas at the convention when the announcement was heard that JFK had been killed, Nixon left later that afternoon,"

This young man is the son of Mr. Harvey Russel of the Pepsi Cola Company. When Mr. Russel was informed of his son's account, he agreed that his son's story was true. Mr. Russel confirmed that Nixon was attending that meeting at the time the shots were fired. He added Nixon was there representing the Pepsi Cola Company's law firm Mudge, Rose, Nixon et al. The Dallas newspapers stated that Nixon was attending a board meeting.

Mr. Russel confirmed that the session Nixon was attending broke up when the assassination news came through. Nixon then returned to his hotel and later in the afternoon had been driven to the Dallas airport by a Mr. Deluca, also a Pepsi Cola official.

These surprising series of events and the manner in which they unfolded after all these years underscore that there was something unusual about Nixon's visit to Dallas. Telephone calls to Deluca and again to Russel did little more than highlight their growing concern over the inadvertent disclosure of this story.

TV Writer David Lloyd Dies ("We laugh at Death because Death has the Last Laugh on Us." )

One of the great TV writers of all time has passed away. David Lloyd has written some of what are considered everyone's favorite sitcom episodes. His credits are momentous: "Mary Tyler Moore", "Frasier", "The Bob Newhart Show",  "Cheers",  "Wings", and "Taxi."

Here is an obituary from Ken Levine, a collaborator.

And here is a scene from The Mary Tyler Moore episode Chuckles Bites The Dust.

Lou Dobbs Resigns (In Disgrace)

After I finished washing up the soda that I laughed through my nose upon hearing Lou Dobbs' primary defeat resignation speech. I started thinking about the Republican Party Ticket for 2012.

Dobbs/Lieberman

Gingrich/Dobbs

Palin/Dobbs

The ego... it is all too precious.

See ya! Wouldn't want to be ya!

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Paging Ed Lansdale)

Thirty days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

Col. Fletcher L. Prouty spent 9 of his 23 year military career in the Pentagon (1955-1964): 2 years with the Secretary of Defense, 2 years with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and 5 years with Headquarters, U.S. Air Force. In 1955 he was appointed the first "Focal Point" officer between the CIA and the Air Force for Clandestine Operations per National Security Council Directive 5412. He was Briefing Officer for the Secretary of Defense (1960-1961), and for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"What caught my eye right away was the fact that some other person is in the first photo walking in the opposite direction." says Prouty, singling out one particular shot. "Here he is, during one of the most important events in our history, casually walking past two police with guns and the tramps, not even looking at what could've been the killers of the President. This is all within 30 minutes or less after the assassination. It's unbelievable. And note that these tramps have not been handcuffed either, and a civilian is allowed to walk within inches of them."

Then Prouty looked even more closely at the photo. "I was stunned to realize that this unconcerned bystander was none other than my long-time friend and associate Ed Lansdale."

"Right away, since he was there, I just knew that he must be concerned with the cover story. That was his gift…his specialty."

Gen. Edward G. Lansdale was a celebrated CIA man who masterminded various assassination plots for the CIA and was heavily involved in Vietnam. He was CIA, but worked under the cover of an air force colonel. He and Prouty had worked closely together for several years before his resignation ("a paper resignation to comply with his CIA 'cover' assignment") in October 1963. At the time of the assassination, Lansdale was supposed to be visiting his son in San Antonio, but a claim check found in his personal papers places him at a hotel used by the presidential entourage the night before the assassination.

"I personally have no doubt that the photo is of Lansdale," affirms Prouty. "I knew him from 1952 in the Philippines to the time of his death. He was one of my neighbors."

Prouty sent copies of the photos to a friend - another high-ranking Kennedy-era officer who also knew Lansdale.

"The two policemen are carrying shotguns, not rifles," the friend wrote back. "Their caps are different (one a white chinstrap, one black). One has a Dallas Police shoulder patch, one does not, and their caps differ from that of another police officer in photo four. Reasonable conclusion -- they are either reservists or phoneys. And as you know, city cops don't have anything to do with sheriff's offices."

"And as to photo No. 1 - That is a picture of Ed Lansdale! The haircut, the stoop, the twisted left hand, the large class ring. It's Lansdale. What in the world was he doing there? Has anyone asked him?"

Prouty says he wasn't surprised when he realized Lansdale was in Dallas for the assassination -- he was there to make sure nothing went wrong.

"He was there like the orchestra leader, coordinating these things." Prouty says Lansdale "He's a 'producer' and the best one there was."

A Strange and Bitter Veterans Day: Only The Dead See An End To War

 

When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East
'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast,
An' 'e wonders because 'e is frequent deceased
   Ere 'e's fit for to serve as a soldier.

A strange congregation of war stories are wrapped around this Veterans Day.

A veteran was executed for shooting ten people in the Washington, DC area.

The President spoke at a memorial for the 13 slain soldiers at Fort Hood.

The suicide rate among the military is at record high levels.

The President, as Commander–in-Chief has to decide soon whether to send more troops into the sand storm that is Afghanistan.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Governor Connally)

Thirty days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

Governor Connally would testify to the Warren Commission: "I do not believe, nor will I ever believe, that I was hit with the first bullet. I don't believe that. I heard the first shot. I reacted to the first shot and I was not hit with that bullet."

The Warren Report will eventually state that "it is not necessary to any essential findings of the Commission to determine just which shot hit Governor Connally.” WR 19

Don't Fuck With Oracles

Meanwhile, in the history of empires far more interesting than our own...

The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology's biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.

According to Herodotus (484-425 B.C.), Cambyses, the son of Cyrus the Great, sent 50,000 soldiers from Thebes to attack the Oasis of Siwa and destroy the oracle at the Temple of Amun after the priests there refused to legitimize his claim to Egypt.

After walking for seven days in the desert, the army got to an "oasis," which historians believe was El-Kharga. After they left, they were never seen again.

"A wind arose from the south, strong and deadly, bringing with it vast columns of whirling sand, which entirely covered up the troops and caused them wholly to disappear," wrote Herodotus.

A century after Herodotus wrote his account, Alexander the Great made his own pilgrimage to the oracle of Amun, and in 332 B.C. he won the oracle's confirmation that he was the divine son of Zeus, the Greek god equated with Amun.

The tale of Cambyses' lost army, however, faded into antiquity. As no trace of the hapless warriors was ever found, scholars began to dismiss the story as a fanciful tale.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Umbrellas and Walkie-Talkies)

Thirty days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

 
Next to the Stemmons Freeway sign, at the curbside, stands a man holding and open umbrella; The only umbrella in the area. After the first shot, the 'umbrella man' pumps the umbrella up and down. This action is filmed by Abraham Zapruder and appears in all pictures of the freeway sign.

There is another man with him and he raises his arm and waves and makes a fist while the umbrella is held up. This man has a walkie-talkie.

White Flight... To Mars

The US and European space agencies have signed the "letter of intent" that ties together their Mars programmes.

The agreement, which was penned in Washington DC, gives the green light to scientists and engineers to begin the joint planning of Red Planet missions.

The union will start with a European-led orbiter in 2016, and continue with surface rovers in 2018, and then perhaps a network of landers in 2018.

The ultimate aim is a mission to return Mars rock and soils to Earth labs.

Their broad vision would encompass the following launch opportunities:

In 2016: A European-led orbiter to study trace gases, including methane, in Mars' atmosphere. The mission would also put a static meteorological station on the surface. Critically, Europe would handle the entry, descent and landing (EDL) of this station - a capability it has yet to demonstrate.

In 2018: European and American rovers would be dispatched to Mars. The US would do the EDL.

In 2020: "Under consideration" is a network of landers focused on geophysics and the environment. 

The U.S. Congress wants an amendment to the 'Letter Of Intent' that states no American funding for these space flights will be used on aborted missions.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Windows and Witnesses)

Thirty Days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

TIME LINE: 12:15

November 22, 1963

Arnold Rowland, a bystander in the Plaza, asks his wife if she would like to see a Secret Service agent. He points to a window on the sixth floor where he has noticed “a man back from the window -- he was standing and holding a rifle ... we thought momentarily that maybe we should tell someone, but then the thought came to us that it is a security agent.”

The man Rowland sees in NOT stationed in the now famous sixth floor window, but in the far left-hand window. Rowland also spots a second figure at the famous right-hand window. This second man is dark complexioned, and Rowland thinks he is a Negro.

Mrs. R. E. (Carolyn) Arnold, secretary to the vice-president of the Book Depository, goes into the lunchroom on the second floor and sees Oswald sitting in one of the booth seats on the right hand side of the room. He is alone and appears to be having lunch. The motorcade will pass the building in just fifteen minutes. The FBI will alter Arnold’s report to say that she merely glimpsed LHO in the hallway. If Carolyn Arnold is correct, LHO is obviously not the man holding a rifle in the sixth floor window - seen at precisely this same time by Arnold Rowland.

John Powell, one of many inmates housed on the sixth floor of the Dallas County Jail, watches two men with a gun in the sixth floor window of the Book Depository Building. He claims he can see them so clearly that he even recalls them “fooling with the scope” on the gun. Powell says, “Quite a few of us saw ‘em. Everybody was trying to watch the parade and all that. We were looking across the street because it was directly straight across. The first thing I thought is, it was security guards ... I remember the guys.”
 
Mrs. Carolyn Walther notices two men with a gun in an open window at the extreme right-hand end of the Depository on the fifth floor. One of the men is wearing a brown suit coat. “It startled me, then I thought, ‘Well, they probably have guards, possibly in all the buildings,’ so I didn’t say anything.”
 
Ruby Henderson sees two men standing back from a window on one of the upper floors of the Book Depository. She particularly notices that one of the men “had dark hair ... a darker complexion than the other.”

Tom Dillard, the chief news photographer of the Dallas Morning News, sees two men in the arched windows (6th floor) of the TSBD as the car he is riding in turns the corner from Main onto Houston.

Seven eyewitnesses report seeing a man wearing a white or light-colored shirt; Six witnesses see TWO men on the 6th floor of the TSBD. Four witnesses say the second man is wearing dark clothing or a brown coat. Most of the witnesses say the man wearing the white shirt looks like LHO. When LHO is confronted by Marion Baker in the 2nd floor lunchroom of the TSBD - moments after the shooting - LHO will be wearing a long-sleeved brown shirt.

Dreaming Small. The Democrats Pass A Health Care Bill

The Stupak anti-abortion amendment to the Affordable Health Care for America Act ruined the evening for me as I watched Congress debate and vote on Health Care.

The Amendment passed 240 to 194 with one member voting present. 64 Democrats votes YES on the Stupak amendment.

The Stupak amendment would effectively ban insurance companies from selling insurance plans that cover elective abortion on the individual and small group market.

Abortion would be the only legal medical procedure that the bill would ban insurance companies from covering.

Let's hope the Senate has more sense and a woman's right to choose is upheld in the United States.

Here is a list of the names of the Democrats who voted to prevent our health care bill from covering abortions. Have at 'em.

Altmire, Jason	PA-4
Baca, Joe	CA-43
Barrow, John	GA-12
Berry, Marion	AR-1
Bishop, Sanford	GA-2
Boccieri, John	OH-16
Boren, Dan	OK-2
Bright, Bobby	AL-2
Cardoza, Dennis	CA-18
Carney, Christopher	PA-10
Chandler, Ben	KY-6
Childers, Travis	MS-1
Cooper, Jim	TN-5
Costa, Jim	CA-20
Costello, Jerry	IL-12
Cuellar, Henry	TX-28
Dahlkemper, Kathleen	PA-3
Davis, Artur	AL-7
Davis, Lincoln	TN-4
Donnelly, Joe	IN-2
Doyle, Mike	PA-14
Driehaus, Steve	OH-1
Ellsworth, Brad	IN-8
Etheridge, Bob	NC-2
Gordon, Bart	TN-6
Griffith, Parker	AL-5
Hill, Baron	IN-9
Holden, Tim	PA-17
Kanjorski, Paul	PA-11
Kaptur, Marcy	OH-9
Kildee, Dale	MI-5
Langevin, Jim	RI-2
Lipinski, Daniel	IL-3
Lynch, Stephen	MA-9
Marshall, Jim	GA-8
Matheson, Jim	UT-2
McIntyre, Mike	NC-7
Melancon, Charles	LA-3
Michaud, Michael	ME-2
Mollohan, Alan	WV-1
Murtha, John	PA-12
Neal, Richard	MA-2
Oberstar, James	MN-8
Obey, Dave	WI-7
Ortiz, Solomon	TX-27
Perriello, Thomas	VA-5
Peterson, Collin	MN-7
Pomeroy, Earl	ND-AL
Rahall, Nick	WV-3
Reyes, Silvestre	TX-16
Rodriguez, Ciro	TX-23
Ross, Mike	AR-4
Ryan, Timothy	OH-17
Salazar, John	CO-3
Shuler, Heath	NC-11
Skelton, Ike	MO-4
Snyder, Vic	AR-2
Space, Zack	OH-18
Spratt, John	SC-5
Stupak, Bart	MI-1
Tanner, John	TN-8
Taylor, Gene	MS-4
Teague, Harry	NM-2
Wilson, Charles	OH-6

Sunday Morning Music: Donna Summer - The State Of Independence

Here is an early 80's video of Donna Summer performing the State Of Independence.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Backyard Photos)

Thirty Days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

A Dartmouth Professor has put the JFK Assassination back in the headlines with his analysis of the cover photo of Life Magazine showing Lee Harvey Oswald holding a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle and some communist newspapers. Professor Hany Farid created a 3D model of the body of Oswald and set lights in his 3D software to see where the shadows fell on the face and body.

Based on this, he declares the photo (Warren Commission Exhibit 133-A) as authentic. But that is not really the issue…there were also Exhibits 133-B and 133-C… and the shadows of Oswald’s body and face are the least of this one image's problems.

Farid ignores these other images and does not go into any analysis of the body size discrepancies, the hands discrepancies, the rifle size discrepancies, and the lack of any discrepancies of background images (the back yard) between each photo and face of Lee Harvey Oswald in each photo... the face from the mouth up that is... that does not change perspective at all from photo to photo.

The consistencies of the shadows that Farid is so proud of are part of what is so damning. How could the facial shadow be the same on each photo? Oswald moved. The camera moved… but the face and background do not move… even by one pixel… from photo to photo.

The conspiracy isn’t in the shadows of one image of Oswald in the backyard … it is in the overall package of all the images discovered, that are obviously faked, and the media hype machine that keeps churning the lone-gunman theory decade after decade.

Here is a video reviewing the Exhibits 133A, 133B and 133C and their forgery. (It's a long video, jump in at 21:00 for photo analysis.)

Saturday Musings: 'What's A President To Do' Edition

The story of Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan (D-Kenya) is a horrific one. What would lead a man to such an outburst?

Well, he lives in a nation where guns are worn to Presidential events. He lives in a nation of serial-killer TV junkies. He lives in a nation where the TV news spews hatred of politicians that work for the common good. He lives in a nation where the TV news covers and condemns shootings by someone like Hasan, but not by acts of violence against doctors and patients at abortion clinics.

Maj. Hasan has been delving into the minds of modern American soldiers… what do you think he found there?

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The stupidity of the modern Republican is astounding. The latest Tea-Party against healthcare parades the crazies out in front of the nation and is proudly covered by the national media. I trust the American people, despite the assault on their reason over the last 30 years, to purge the scourge.

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2010 is going to be an election year in which the media takes the gloves off and tries to put the blindfolds on the America people. Does America really want to be run by the Michele Bachmanns of this country? Do we really want leaders who will do anything to let the financial giants raid the U.S. Treasury over and over again? I don’t think so.

And President Obama needs to look around the Oval Office and re-think some of his financial advisors. Voters may not switch Parties because of Afghanistan, we have grown numb to our small foreign wars,  but they sure as hell will vote based on being unemployed and seeing a gang in the White House who really doesn’t seem to care.

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The United States needs to pull out of Afghanistan and fight the war on terror, or whatever we need to call it, Homeland Security or world peace… on a much different battlefield... see Dean Acheson.

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The black ash of the Bush, Jr./Cheney administration is still raining down on our heads with the U.S. unemployment rate hitting double digits. The solution is in the voting booth folks. Liberal politicians will solve our problems. Conservative and moderate politicians will not.

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A note to President Obama and the Democratic Party Leadership: If all your momentum is in the health care bill to carry you into the 2010 elections… you better have Plan B or Mariano Rivera ready to go.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Motorcade Route)

Thirty Days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

So, was the JFK motorcade route changed at the last minute? We are not so sure about this one.

The motorcade route was certainly a bad idea, taking the President into a shooting gallery in Dealey Plaza, but it seems that the route was actually printed both in the Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Times-Herald on November 19, 1963.

The question is why this route?

Half-Assed Democrats Clutch Their Pearls As The Democrats Pick Up Two More Congressional Seats

Of course the Republican News Media cheers the election of an asshole like Chris Chiristie in New Jersey and a Republican Governor in... surprise... Virginia.

The really big news is the Democratic victory Tuesday in New York's 23rd Congressional District.

"We won a congressional seat that's been in Republican hands since Ulysses S. Grant was president, in part because of the disunity in the Republican Party," Axelrod said. "That was the only truly national contest on the ballot." 

Look, Americans are going to the polls in 2010 and continue the fumigation of Congress.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Paging Curtis LeMay)

Thirty Days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

General Curtis LeMay says he was on a hunting trip in Michigan on November 22, 1963. The navy personal at Bethesda Naval Hospital who performed the autopsy of President Kennedy claim General LeMay was at the autopsy, smoking his ever-present cigar and laughing it up as if the autopsy was a party.

One of many men who seem to have been in two places at once on that fateful day.

A Treasonously Good Cake

Guy Fawkes Day: November 5th marks the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, a conspiracy to blow up the English Parliament and King James I in 1605, the day set for the king to open Parliament. The anniversary was named after Guy Fawkes, the most famous of the conspirators.

The day is celebrated like Halloween. A cake is part of the tradition.

Here is a modern interpretation of a very old cake.

Guy Fawkes Day Cake

(recipe inspired by Le Cordon Bleu)

Ingredients:
1/4 cup molasses
1/3 cup unsalted butter
1/4 cup dark corn syrup
1/2 cup soft light brown sugar
2/3 cup milk
1/3 cup rolled oats, blitzed to powder in coffee grinder
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 eggs

Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line an 8 inch cake pan with waxed paper. Grease the paper with butter and dust with flour.
2. Melt the molasses, butter, corn syrup, brown sugar and milk in a saucepan. Remove from heat and cool.
3. Put dry ingredients into a separate bowl: oat powder, flour, spices and baking soda. Pour in the butter mixture and beat. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Continue beating until mixture becomes a smooth paste.
4. Pour the mixture into the prepared cake pan and bake for 35 minutes. Poke the center with a tooth pick. If it comes out clean, it is done. Leave in pan to cool for 5 minutes.
5. Turn the cake out onto a cooling wire rack, peel off the waxed paper and leave to cool.
6. Frost with ready-made dark chocolate icing. Cut cake into squares and serve.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (The Magic Bullet)

Thirty Days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

"Get me one bullet in one case, just one from hundreds of thousands of cases ... that has done this. Nobody has ever produced one." - Cyril Wecht

According to the single-bullet theory, a one-inch-long copper-jacketed lead-core 6.5-millimeter rifle bullet fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository passed through President Kennedy’s neck and Governor Connally’s chest and wrist and embedded itself in the Governor’s thigh.

If so, this bullet traversed 15 layers of clothing, 7 layers of skin, and approximately 15 inches of tissue, struck a necktie knot, removed 4 inches of rib, and shattered a radius bone. The bullet that is supposed to have done all this damage was found on a stretcher in the corridor at the Parkland Memorial Hospital, in Dallas, after the assassination.

The Warren Commission found that this stretcher was the one that had borne Governor Connally.

This bullet became a key Commission exhibit, identified as CE399. Its copper jacket was completely intact. While the bullet's nose appeared normal, the tail was compressed laterally on one side.

One bullet missed.

One bullet shot President Kennedy in the back and out the throat and through John Connally's body and through his wrist and into his leg. (see actual bullet pictured.)

One bullet shot the President in the head.

New Jersey Is A Strange State

Remember Governor Jim Florio?

New Jersey voters don't like taxes, especially property taxes.

Somehow, Democratic Governors get into a fiscal jam and the only option open to them is to raise property taxes. God forbid they raise corporate taxes... and then they go down in defeat and the State gets a Republican, asshole governor.

Well it happened again. Democratic Governors are like Charlie Brown kicking Lucy's football over and over again. They make the people of the State of New Jersey hate them... hate them so much they vote against their own self interest.

Chris Christie is bad for New Jersey. He is a corrupt and dishonest Republican.

Chris Christie is the next Governor of New Jersey? Pathetic.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Two Caskets)

Thirty Days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

The medical team at Parkland Hospital in Dallas claim to have put the body of the slain President in an ornamental casket after wrapping the body in white silk.

The medical team at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland reported that JFK's body arrived in a gray metal casket inside a plastic body bag.

Both hospitals' medical staffs from that day have gone on record with their eye-witness testimony.

Could The Average American Translate This First Paragraph?

ISLAMABAD/SHERAWANGI: Troops fought deadly street battles in a Taliban stronghold and a den of Uzbek fighters on Sunday, pressing their operation in South Waziristan into a third week and killing nine militants.

Bring the troops home. The 21st century Guns of August are about to explode all over the region.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Three Rifles)

Thirty Days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

 
"We never could place Oswald in that window with a gun in his hand." -Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry

According to the Warren Commission Report, Lee Harvey Oswald  killed President Kennedy with three shots from a mail-order Mannlicher-Carcano rifle with a badly misaligned sight.

The rifle found hidden near the 'sniper's nest' on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository on November 22, 1963, according to Officer Seymour Weitzman, part of the Dallas police search team, had been so well hidden under boxes of books that the officers stumbled over it many times before they found it...

Officer Weitzmann, who had an engineering degree and also operated a sporting goods store, was recognized as an authority on weapons. Consequently, Dallas Homicide Chief Will Fritz, who was on the scene, asked him the make of the rifle. Weitzman identified it as a 7.65 Mauser, a highly accurate German-made weapon.

Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig was also there and later recalled the word "Mauser" inscribed in the metal of the gun. And Deputy Sheriff Eugene Boone executed a sworn affidavit in which he described the rifle as a Mauser. As late as midnight November 22, Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade told the media that the weapon found was a Mauser.

A third rifle seen in a film taken by Dallas Cinema Associates, an independent film company, showed a scene of the Book Depository shortly after the assassination: Police officers on the fire escape were bringing down a rifle from the roof above the sixth floor. When the policemen reached the ground, an officer held the rifle high for everyone to see. The camera zoomed in for a close-up. This third rifle had no sight mounted on it. Thus it could not have been either a Carcano or the Mauser, both of which had sights.

Ask Not For Whom The Bell Tolls, It Tolls For Lou

So someone took a shot a Lou Dobbs. I'm surprised that more celebrity conservative pundits have not been shot at... or at least attacked with pitch forks. The American left is so passive-aggressive.

How many Americans own guns? How many of them are liberals?

"I now - it's become part of a way of life - the anger, the hate, the vitriol, but it's taken a different tone where they've threatened my wife," Dobbs said on the radio show earlier this week.

"They've now fired a shot at my house while my wife was standing next to the car. It's become something else."

Yes Lou, actions have consequences.

You are lucky they didn't just beat the shit out of you and make your wife watch.

More like this please.

30 Days of JFK Assassination Facts (Oswald In Minsk)

Thirty Days has November... and DeRosaWorld is going to bring you a JFK Assassination fact for each day.

Lee Harvey Oswald spoke Russian and lived in Moscow and in Minsk in the USSR from 1959 to 1962, claiming during a radio interview on August 21, 1963 that he lived there and was in touch with the American Embassy.

"...at no time was I out of contact with the American Embassy."