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THE ABSURD TIMES

Carlos seems to have hit on a topic of general consideration – not simply the Zionist entity. Still, the new Boss of Israel bombed Gaza because of balloons.  (Don't ask me.)

Starting Off

Now, one of the last things I want to think about, and I have this in common with Donald, is the nature of the Republican Base, no pun intended. They are for the most part the sort of people who believe that Professional Wrestling, the WWE, is for real, not programmed. This is the level of their reasoning ability or intellectual acuity.

Now, of course there are some that are able to see above that, so the attributes ofr a cult are imposed on it as well. Wearing a mask during an epidemic is akin to Hester Prynne's Scarlet letter – if anyone dares to utter the blasphemy of reason, they will be shunned by those around them. This explains why people such as Lamar Alexander, who will retire, will not mention things such as the contradiction of insisting that the leader be credited with inventing the vaccine and at the same time maintain there is no real danger. Upon return to home, they would be shuned by neighbors.

Wire Tap

The latest qtoid attributes the Jan 6, 2021 insurrection to the FBI. Is it possible that the FBI could be involved? Well, it has been last century.

Few even thought it was possible. After all, J. Edgar Hoover put Al Capone in jail and even fewer ever knew that Capone played the banjo. So, strange things can happen.

It was the 60s, JFK had been eliminated and LBJ began to practice escaladio on the Vietnamese. Young people on the whole found this most convenient and were very much against it. In fact, organizations such as the Students for a Democratic Society were formed. Hoover, whose habit of chasing around his male secretary while he wore his mother's underthing was known to organized crime alone, so he had to find other targets. "Subversive" groups were targeted. He began to have their phones tapped.

Most people thought this was a paranoid fantasy on the part of the resistance, but it did exist across the nation. A friend of mine was the local leader of the SDS and I told him that his phone was being tapped. He thought I was making it up, so I told him to meet me at the "Union", a common lunch spot, and we would talk.

I told him my plan which was, in fact, workable. In this town, DeKalb Illinois, there were only two routes from north to south, and the only viable one was at the main intersection. The other was at a viaduct and only smaller vehicles could get through. Now, at midnight on Thursday mornings a lang, slow train stopped and waited for up to a few hours at that passageway. The fire department was of the north side and the rest of the town, the high school, the lodges, etc, were on the south. I told him about what would happen in case of an explosion and told him to call me that evening and we would lay out this insane idea and then test to see if the FBI was indeed listening to his or my phone. The bet was $15.

He made the phone call and I could not help embellishing the plan to include the names of others involved, specific targets, explosives, and so on. We were to meet at my flat at 11;30 to signal the others to begin, involving the high school, some lodge buildings, and someone scouting for vulnerable domestic housing spots, with the violent explosives. We acted as if nobody else was aware of the entire plan.

Well, at midnight we drove past the viaduct after having plotted mass explosions on the south side. There, wearing plainclothes, wearing fedoras, suits and ties, sunglasses, all dressed like Eliot Ness in the Untouchables (even I was surprised at that) were two guys waiting and watching. My friend Gary, took out $15, laid it on the seat next to me, and off we went.

That proved my point and led him to apply for PO status at his draft board. They said "You mean CO?" and he said 'No, PO. I will join their army.' They gave him a psychiatric 4-f.

Well, Hoover is no longer there. LBJ was once asked why he didn't fire him and the answer was "Ah'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in."

Still, it took until this year or last to show that the murder of Fred Hampton of the Black Panthers was indeed carried out at the order of Hoover. Since RFK insisted the he report directly to him and not the President (as is correct) RFK's death can be explained the same way as JFK had fired him exactly one year before his own Assassination. But enough nostalgia.

THE PRESENT DANGER

Online theft by trusted sources.

The WEB: more like a web with multiple spiders. Every so often, I had been lucky buying things online, but Spotify taught me better. Now, I buy nothing online.

From time to time, they offer a 3 month trial membership for only $!/month. Quit if not satisfied. That sounds like a good deal, but what they really want is the ability to withdraw cash from your account. Before the trial begins, you give them all the information needed to withdraw money from your account.

Well, during the first month and into the second, I became certain that I did not want to continue, and I tried to withdraw from the charges. I worked at it earnestly for another month or so, but they continued to withdraw from the account every month. I finally became so frustrated that I called my bank and tried to withdraw or block those charges.

I had tried first to get our federal and state agencies to act, but the company is BASED IN DAMN AMSTERDAM! No jurisdiction.

So, it seems the bank was not programmed to block an incoming account, even if I mentioned a specific, exact amount. What I finally had to do was close the account, open another one, in another bank, and go through the entire process.

Spotify has yet to answer my complaints, inquires, or make a statement. That was 3 years ago, at least.

So, no, don't ask me to answer a survey and to ask for contributions, don't offer me any free trials, and so on. The chances are that the real proce is access to my banking information, and you ain't getting it.

Scattered Observations.

While the retarded RBASE was overjoyed to pack the supreme court with conservative judges (and it is not really a good thing), that base is becoming confused by some of the recent decisions, even outraged, flabbergasted. Their problem is that they have not drawn the necessary distinction between Judicial conservatism and ideological conservatism.

Something else: Bill Barr now says that Donald's claim that the election was stolen was "bullshit," total bullshit and he knew it all along. This raises even more questions than it could answer – ever. They pile up over time. We remember his many statements defending the idea of a stolen election and there are too many to list. I just can't type that much. They also extend now to his role during his last tenure as Attorney General involving the so-called Iran-Contra activity. If he can lie so boldly now, why not back then? After all, Danile Ortega took his case to the international court and it ruled in favor of his party, the Saninistas. Since we did not join that system, it didn't change anything, but it does explain much of what we did in the "Northern Triangle". It still haunts us today. As history, we can always wonder why the name of Dan Quayle has not come up yet.

Other things persist. We went to Afghanistan to capture Bin Laden. We killed him over decades ago. We went to Iraq to punish Saddam for conspiring with Bin Laden, even though they despised one another. Our own congress was idiotic enough to join in. Yet we are still bombing parts of Iraq. Wasn't the twin towers attack in 2001? Do we need Bill Barr to let us know that there is no objective or justification left?

To be complete, Trump left one favor to Barr by calling him one of the "swamp" whom he has hated since 2020. (That could have been New Year's Eve," however.) Soon, Trump will be involved with New York, but not in the very near future. Soon.