There is just too much weirdness in the years leading up to November 1963 to think Oswald was just some guy.

I think that the CIA knew that some attacks were coming but assumed that law enforcement would be able to stop them and didn't inform anyone out of a desire to put a mole in Al Qaeda.

100% agree. They didn't want a repeat of the Fort Smith sedition trial.

Plus I believe that a trial would have revealed that the network was full of federal informants.

The Oklahoma City Bombing was committed by a much larger group of militia freaks but the Clinton Administration went with the three man plot because (1) It was a slam dunk case and (2) Would have had to besiege a dozen compounds with national guard troops to get everyone.

Looking at the US-born-and-raised kids of immigrants from "short" countries really drives this home.

I'm also partial to the idea that he was an intelligence guy who went nuts and shot the president.

I think it's most likely that he was the only shooter, but I don't think he necessarily got to Dealey Plaza on his own. The before and after of the assassination are where all the weird stuff is, especially his time in New Orleans and his trip to Mexico.

The problem with the CIA theory is that the CIA has always just been daddy’s special club for wacky Yale boys. It’s a place you could go get government funding to be drunk all day and come up with the idea of having prostitutes give LSD to randos. If they’d tried to kill JFK it wouldn’t have worked

And at the time the aging White Russians were still plugged in to the also-ran parts of the US intelligence apparatus.

The other unproveable theory that I nonetheless believe is that the government encouraged the more outlandish 9/11 conspiracy theories (controlled demolition, no-planers, etc) to make people with more mundane questions about 9/11 (especially the Saudi government's role) look crazy by association.

some people really seem to feel a bizarre need to demand that people who sacrificed for others by staying home during Covid perform pretending that they loved it and it was a fun and rewarding experience

But the recruiting an unstable teenager as a false defector and then dumping him in Texas to stew over his failures is exactly the kind of thing the 1950s and 1960s CIA would do.

Yeah I think that any organized anti-Kennedy conspiracy from the CIA or Cuba lobby would have looked more like the October Surprise than anything else.

Yeah I can totally accept that he was the only shooter and that he decided to do the shooting on his own. I think this is the most likely scenario.

Lee Harvey Oswald was somehow connected to the CIA before the assassination.

Oh?

Along with Border Patrol's union endorsing him starting in March 2016, in the middle of the Republican primaries.

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

I wear a size 15 lol, there's no way I'm just packing a carry-on.

John Woo's STAR/TREK

My reflection on COVID is that it sucked for everyone, but it sucked for everyone differently, and a lot of broken friendships and family strife are the result of people assuming that everyone else had the exact same COVID experience they did.

I have done a very good job of excising most of what I know about Alex Jones from my mind but at least once a day I think about that time where he, unprompted, blurted out "I would eat my neighbors." and then justified it with "For my daughter."

If I'm bringing more than one pair of shoes I am absolutely checking baggage.

Friends,

The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this realm.

Apparently the notorious "somehow Palpatine returned" moment was a reshoot.

I don't know what's worse: that it replaced something maybe even worse, or that they came back with a line that lazy and embarrassing.

For rather understandable reasons, social media perspectives on peak Covid tend to get skewed towards people who don’t like leaving the house all that much, so figure I should represent the “leaving the house and having parties is my favorite thing to do” perspective

My wife and I missed out on a lot of the "Young married couple with stable jobs and no kids" part of life because of it. In the big scheme of things it's minor, but it's still disappointing that we had this part of our life that we're never getting back.

Perfect quote from and HHS employee: “There exists a clear throughline of transgressive delight in violating the separation of church and state, of a similar corruptive mindset as the joy they take in forcing our agency to reduce services to the public whose mission it is for us to serve.”

Israeli police block Catholic figures from Palm Sunday Mass at Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre The incident marks "the first time in centuries" Palm Sunday Mass couldn't be celebrated where many believe Jesus was crucified, according to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

Which explains why they prevented Cardinal Pizzaballa from celebrating Palm Sunday Mass:

www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...

CAIR Condemns Israeli Soldiers’ Desecration of Lebanese Church, Call by Top Israeli Official for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza, West Bank The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned the reported desecration of a church in Lebanon by invading Israel...

Yeah there wasn't as much of an outcry when the IDF did this in an Orthodox church in Lebanon last year, but smashing Jesus in the head with a hammer is pretty hard to avoid.

www.cair.com/press_releas...