Robert McNamara: "Jesus. The Bay of Pigs was a better run operation."
It will open in April, but you can read the script here. Stunning, and less so for how it portrays Ted Kennedy, at whose behavior most people have long since guessed, than for the amoral political rescue mission undertaken by the JFK White House bigwigs who came at old Joe Kennedy's call and did whatever was necessary to make that callous manslaughter go away.
The script writers used the extensive inquest transcripts, which were made publicly available many years later, to reconstruct events. Much, of course, they had to imagine.
This movie might be the capper to a year of exposés about powerful men and the young women they used. But the bigger scandal, really, ought to be the 50 years of adulation that Ted Kennedy got in Washington after he slunk away from his sunken car.
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Merry Christmas Skep, GWB, and other commenters here!
Merry Christmas TSB, James and to All TSB fans for 7 great years!!. And may the Dallas Cowboys knock the Seahawks out of the playoffs this afternoon. gwb
Have a very Merry Christmas yourselves. Or, in the words of Krusty the Clown's non-denominational holiday fun fest: have a Merry Christmas, a Happy Chanukah, a Kwazy Kwanzaa, a Tip-Top Tet, and a Rockin' Ramadan!
TSB: And let's not forget what a great year it has been in the first year of the "MAGA" era! gwb
BEN GARRISON'S 12 DAYS OF TRUMPMAS
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-24/ben-garrisons-12-days-trumpmas
TSB;James: James! Did you hear about this back in October? A giant THUNDERBIRD flew over the grand prix race in Austin and somebody filmed it by accident off their tv screen.
https://youtu.be/VH7nlyxUymc The last time one of these was sighted was in 2007 in Massachusetts. The majority of sightings have been in Texas. The Thunderbird was the inspiration for the indigenous Indians to create the Totem Pole. "Look, up in the sky!, It's a
Skep, GWB,
A little New Years music:
https://youtu.be/necmhMW09gg
Happy New Year TSB! and James : Captain Jack Sparrow? Delta plane rerouted to Detroit due to a bird in a cockpit
Published time: 31 Dec, 2017 12:08 actually it had to return to Detroit TWICE because humming birds know how to hide good!
https://www.rt.com/usa/414689-delta-flight-bird-land/
Those well coifed 1st class passengers weren't quite so calm
the second time they had to return to Detroit cause they all missed their connecting flights. The bird filed a complaint because she says her luggage was missing and it's too cold in Detroit! gwb
James: Nice. We'll keep on bopping in 2018!
Skep,
Love the Cooder man's music, his politics suck, but not his music.
TSB: In Bizarre Tweetstorm, Trump Defends His Sanity: "I Am A Very Stable Genius" "...my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart... I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius....and a very stable genius at that!"
Well, I guess DC is still populated by: more than its proportion of insane persons." - Washington DC newspaper The Intelligencer, April 21, 1835... So, this week we have a Yale psychiatrist testifying behind closed doors that the President is "totally un-tethered from reality" and could have Alzheimers based on hearsay. gwb
TSB: Plus we had Zuckerberg saying he is thinking of bringing cryptocoins to Facebook which helped my Etherium and Bitcoin go up 50% in 1 day. (After the Chi-Coms banned bitcoin earlier in the week which cause them to crash 30% and 50% respectively.) And the average American added $1035 in credit card debt for Christmas taking that category to all time highs. gwb Did I mention it was colder in N.Carolina last night than Moscow, Russia? Brrrrr!
TSB: WikiLeaks just published "Fire and the Fury"
as a PDF!! I'm on page 13. Pretty good read so far. gwb GO WikiLeaksgwb!!
TSB: Huge oil tanker at risk of exploding after collision; 1 body found
By Serenitie Wang, Tim Schwarz and Nanlin Fang, CNN
Updated 9:26 AM ET, Mon January 8, 2018
Not too much mystery here... the ship tracking system shows the Crystal turned off it's transponder a couple hour before the collision. With a Chinese crew who knew where the other ship was going and it's cargo, not hard to figure out how they pulled this off as reported by FM and USN4. ... Just want to remind of a point I made on the last video. That being that vesselfinder.com and marinetraffic.com each report different AIS TRACK Data for the ships for which we are looking . Some of the locations and dates are significantly different supposedly utilizing the same base AIS data from each ship. At least one,possibly both of the sites has to be wrong/incompetent. OR the ships are sending differing data inadvertently OR deliberately. gwb
TSB: On the same day it was reported that the second of the 3 guys who created WikiLeaks committed suicide, (the first one was the day after Christmas) it is now being reported that Julian Assange has been given Ecuadorean citizenship! This paves the way for him to be given diplomatic status and travel to Ecuador!!
https://www.rt.com/news/415521-assange-ecuadorian-embassy/ Yesterday US fake news was reporting Ecuador was threatening to kick him out of the embassy. 1 out of 3 ain't bad!
gwb
TSB: In the last day Tarek El Aissemi has assembled his council of ministers in the Venezuelan Palace to inform them of coming events while ELN fighters in Colombia have blown up a pipeline and attacked the Columbian military. The US State Dept has issued max travel warnings for Mexico, northern S America, (and pretty soon for Costa Rica and Panama.) Maduro will be stepping down before long and that's when things will really get going as the Commies
make their move. gwb according to FM https://youtu.be/Yf_QRubWhEA I wonder what is going to
happen with NAFTA??
TSB: US elections no longer meet the international standard for democratic elections. Great interview by Jimmy Dore. gwb https://youtu.be/zHLGgKuuQbE
TSB: US Ambassador to Panama resigns https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-ambassador-panama-resigns-donald-trump-john-feeley-not-work-president-a8156116.html gwb How long until US is evacuating citizens from Panama?? Police not getting paid in Panma as murder rate doubles.
TSB: I hope they shut the government down because I don't think any of these congressional clowns have the slightest concern for honest government and they all would be happy if they could get rid of the President and get the VP in there so the corporate agenda could run more smoothly. He's a real creep as far as I'm concerned. gwb
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