3/22/05 – 3/31/05
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3/31/05
7:12 pm CST
I’ve been sick with some kind of hellacious virus the past 24 hours-plus, but feeling good enough tonight to post a few headlines that caught my attention …
Pedophilia Meme Percolates Across the Net, Texas and now Austin
Draft may be needed in a year, military analysts warn
Terri Schiavo Dies, Michael Schiavo Prevents "Begging Parents" From Seeing Her Last Moments
Mel Gibson on Schiavo: It's modern crucifixion
3/29/05
6:04 pm CST
Taser Report
Family claims baby injured in Taser incident
6:02 pm CST
Franklin Coverup II Continues:
Tom Flocco: Witness Says 20-30 Legislators Sexually Abused Children
Catherine Austin Fitts [former Bush 41 HUD Asst. Secretary]: Government Pedophilia Steals Our Money and Children
3/28/05
6:01 pm CST
GannonGuckertGoschGate
Todd Brendan Fahey: Why the ''Mainstream Media'' Ain't Touching ''Jeff Gannon'' (Pt. 1)
5:58 pm CST
Pedophilia, Inc.
Jessica Lunsford Killer Tied to GOP-Connected Child Sex Business in Georgia
5:56 pm CST
The American Stasi
Police add unmarked citizen patrols to crime-fighting arsenal
3/27/05
1:28 pm CST
RADIO MACK HAS BEEN UPDATED … At long last, Radio MACK is up and running on a regular basis. My first weekly show, a 2-hour continuous loop containing music and news commentary, can be heard on your computer HERE. This week’s musical selections include great movie soundtracks, Zydeco, Dixieland, Soul, and good ol’ Rock-n-Roll. This show will also be available by Podcast soon. Right now on Podcast you can hear a selection of my interviews on Jack Blood’s Deadline Live, SMiles Lewis’ Radio Elfis, and Robert Larson’s Cartoon Pleroma. Hear the Podcast HERE …
Other great Podcasts from the Elfis Network:
PrisonPlanet PodCast ……
LiberatedSpace PodCast ……
Anomaly Archives PodCast ……
1:28 pm CST
Above image from The Devil’s Web Gallery.
1:25 pm CST
If you haven’t already seen this C-SPAN video, don’t miss it:
Rep. Cynthia McKinney Grills Rumsfeld on Dyncorp Sex Rings, Missing Pentagon Trillions & 9/11 Wargames
1:22 pm CST
Interesting Commentaries
Murdering the messengers, fabricating the news
Death of the Dollar
1:20 pm CST
GannonGuckertGoschGate
The other day LibertyThink was contacted by a reporter from the Des Moines Register asking about interest in the theory that Jeff Gannon/James Guckert is in reality Johnny Gosch, the newspaper boy who was kidnapped in Des Moines in the 80s. LibertyThink published its response. Another news blog, TRUNews, has also been contacted, and has published its response as well.
3/24/05
9:32 pm CST
Gore Vidal: The Undoing of America
Report: Accused School Shooter Was on Prozac
Total411.info Responds to a Des Moines Register Reporter re: Gosch, Gannon
8:22 pm
CST
The
Mysterious Death of the Gonzo Doctor:
Summarizing the Questions So Far
Part 2
HUNTER S. THOMPSON (from a January 2003 Democracy Now interview): "… Bush, he's really the evil one in here. Well, more than just him. We're the Nazis in this game, and I don't like it. I'm embarrassed and I'm pissed off. Yeah. I mean to say something and I think a lot of people in this country agree with me. A lot more never say anything. We'll see what happens to me if I get my head cut off in the next week by - it's always unknown Bush [inaudible] strangers who commit suicide right afterward. No witnesses. They have a new kind of crime."
"No witnesses." As it happens, there were no witnesses to Thompson's apparent
suicide.
No eyewitnesses, that is. There were, however, earwitnesses: Thompson's wife, Anita, and his son, Juan.
Anita Thompson described that, prior to his death, they had had a small tiff. (The cause of their disagreement has not been disclosed, however she says that for a few months he had been discussing suicide and this had put a strain on their relationship.) At one point, she says, Thompson did something "uncharacteristic": he told her to leave the room and go to his kitchen/office with his son; he also told her not to leave the house. He did not explain himself, therefore the reason for these instructions is unknown.
Anita left the room, but she did not follow the rest of the instructions; she left the house and went to the gym. While she was there, she received a phone call from Thompson. It
was a "good talk" that lasted 10 minutes. Thompson said, "I want you to come home after you work out. Come home and we'll work on a column." LINK Then he abruptly stopped talking; she heard clicking noises and thought he had set down the phone and begun typing.
At this point her story becomes inconsistent; she has alternately said that she heard only clicking, yet has also said she heard a loud, muffled noise. Why two different accounts? LINK
The other earwitness, Juan, was in the living room with his wife and son next to Thompson's kitchen/office. According to the police
report, Juan heard "a dull sound, not a short crack typical of a gunshot." Later, both Juan and his wife would describe the sound as being like a book falling to the floor. Presumably, as the son of a man with a legendary fondness for guns, Juan knew the sound of a gunshot, therefore it is odd that he was could not identify the sound as such; this has led some to suggest that a silencer may have been used to kill Thompson.
At any rate, the sound was sufficiently un-alarming that Juan did not rush into the kitchen/office, but waited a few minutes before entering the room and discovering his father's body. LINK
He called his father's friend, Sheriff Braudis. Twenty minutes later the police arrived. As they approached the house, they heard three gunshots. Then Juan appeared, walking towards them; he stated that he had fired the shots in tribute to his father. Later, the police allowed Juan to enter the room alone to drape a scarf over his father's body. As the NewYork Post article points out, Juan's behavior was unusual, and it was a departure from normal police procedure to allow Juan to be alone with the body.
Of greater concern than the behavior of Juan or the police is the unusual condition of Thompson's gun. Lying next to his body was a semi-automatic Smith & Wesson 645 and a spent shell casing. There were six bullets left in the gun's clip, but no bullet in the firing chamber. As DiSalvo noted, "I think a bullet from the magazine should have cycled into the chamber unless there was a 'malfunction.'" He added that the weapon may have been on a manual cycle that would have prevented the other bullets from going into the chamber.
However, as WhatReallyHappened.com noted: "For you 'Miami Vice' fans, the model 645 is the gun Don Johnson used in the final season of the show. There is no 'manual cycle' to keep the autoloader from operating when the gun is fired. The only slide lock on the gun is used to lock the slide in the open (unfiring) position to facilitate inserting a new magazine ..."
(to be continued)
3/23/05
4:44 pm CST
If the shoe fits, Israel should wear it …
Israel: Call Somebody a Nazi - Go to Jail for 7 Years
Israel Expects to Murder at least 100 people in Jewish Expulsion
4:38 pm CST
War Crimes
U.S. bars Italians from examining victim’s car
Torture chicks gone wild
4:37 pm CST
Terry Schiavo
The “left” is being manipulated to think the killing of Terry Schiavo is a caring thing to do; meanwhile, the “right” is being manipulated to think Bush has nothing to do with it and is on their side …
Schiavo Hypocrites
In Texas, Critics Question Bush's 'Life' Culture
Shocking Affidavit from Terri's Nurse
Second, Third Nurse Accuse Michael Schiavo
Media Bias in Terri Schiavo Case at Extreme Levels in AP, Reuters Reports
4:33 pm CST
Police State Thugs of the Week
A couple of weeks ago cops Tasered a 17-year-old boy who was suffering the after-effects of choking a hamburger. This week, cops beat 17-year-old autistic boy who was mistaken for a prowler.
3/22/05
8:38 pm
CST
The
Mysterious Death of the Gonzo Doctor:
Summarizing the Questions So Far
Part 1
Over a month has passed since Hunter S. Thompson’s death by apparent suicide,
and still the questions linger.
The first question is why. Why would Thompson commit suicide? Usually, when a
person commits suicide, they are depressed, but, in Thompson’s case, we are
told he was he not depressed.
Quoting his son, Juan Thompson: "I think a lot of people, when they see the word
'suicide,' think that he must have been very unhappy or in despair, but I really
believe it was nothing of the kind. ... He was not unhappy, he was not
depressed, none of the things you would associate with someone who took his own
life." LINK
His wife, Anita, explained his suicide this way: "He feels at the peak of his
life right now, has a very successful career, has a network of perfect friends.
If he quit now, he would feel he was a champion." LINK
Not unhappy, not depressed, at the peak of his life—these words paint the
picture of a happy man. And yet, while talking to his wife on the phone and
preparing to write his column, this happy guy suddenly decided to kill himself
so he could go out like a “champion.”
This is an odd motive for suicide, and the timing is equally odd. If he wanted
to go out like a champion, wouldn’t it make more sense for him to finish his
column first? After all, writing was the great passion of Thompson’s life.
It has been suggested that physical pain was a factor in Thompson’s decision to
kill himself. And yet, not only does his family say pain was not a factor, his
physical therapist B. J. Williams, says that Thompson had recovered quite well
from the numerous injuries and ailments he had suffered over the past few
years.
Quoting Williams: "Hunter had a lot of things thrown at him physically. He had a
fractured leg and back surgery but he took it all in stride and fought back. He
never gave up. I am just shocked by this." LINK
Williams is not the only person who was shocked. For every friend of Thompson’s
who says they had expected him to commit suicide, there are even more friends
who say the opposite.
Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis (described by Juan Thompson as the man who
knew Thompson best LINK) said
that when he learned of Thompson’s death, he “was totally floored." LINK
Another friend of Thompson’s in the sheriff’s department, Joe DiSalvo, said:
"This was not the way I expected Hunter to die." LINK
Long-time friend and neighbor Mike Cleverly, who spent the previous Friday
evening watching a basketball game on television with Thompson, said he was
“the last person in the world I would have expected to kill himself." LINK
Another close friend, Jeanette Etheredge, said: "I spoke to him a few weeks ago
and he sounded good. The one person I would never think would do something like
that goes and does it." LINK
That is what a good many of Thompson’s friends say. However, conventional
wisdom tells us that no one knows a man better than his family, therefore we must give greater weight to what Thompson’s wife and son have to say about the matter.
They say he had been talking about suicide for a long time, therefore they had expected it to happen someday. However, they too were shocked. What shocked them was not the act, but the timing—in the middle of the day, in the middle of a friendly phone conversation with his wife, with his grandchild in the house, and with a column to write. The last thing he said was to suggest his wife come home to help him write his column. Then, inexplicably, moments later he kills himself?
It is certainly possible it happened that way—anything is possible—and yet, it
is troublesome.
It becomes even more troublesome when we consider what the New York Post termed “serious irregularities” surrounding the demise of the gonzo doctor …
(to be continued)
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