Saturday Tin Foil Hat Memory Hole Diary

7 Comments

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   BooMan on August 8, 2005 at 8:57 pm

   anyone needs topics, Soj can probably supply enough leads for a decade of Saturdays.

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   Man Eegee on August 8, 2005 at 8:58 pm

   Interesting.  I like the collaborative aspect of this idea.  I’m game but not willing to volunteer to take the lead because I don’t have the time.  Do I have to sign up in blood?

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     BooMan on August 8, 2005 at 8:59 pm

     I chose a doozy, but I really want to get to the bottom of this scandal, and I can’t spend anymore time on it.

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     kansas on August 8, 2005 at 9:27 pm

     What ManEegee said, kind of.

     I do think the idea is dynamite, I really do. Original and exciting. Surely it would be a heck of a traffic builder, plus it could be great fun and fun is my theme today.

     But. . .I’m hesitant to get too cheerleadery because I’m not sure I would want to do much of the work, myself. Maybe there will be a lot of hands waving, but for now I feel as if it’s too easy for me to say, “Great idea!  You do it!”

     Maybe we could start with an easier one?  Not that I know what that would be.

     On the other hand. . .your idea for this might attract more of the very kinds of people who really would want to dig in.  

     Dither, dither.  Makes me glad I’m not dictator.  

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   alohaleezy on August 8, 2005 at 10:25 pm

   I might be tempted to google for ya!

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   Dean Pajevic on August 9, 2005 at 4:26 pm

   whenever — we could feature one of my friend Lisa Pease’s articles on the assassinations.  This is what she blogged yesterday about the death of Peter Jennings:

   Peter Jennings and American Broadcasting
   I feel sorry for the children of Peter Jennings today, and his wife (wives) who loved him. I have nothing but sympathy for them and their loss.

   As to the country’s loss, my own feelings are mixed. Peter Jennings had great style, solid contacts, and he was very serious about his profession. He wrote his own stories – he was not, as they are called in Europe, a “newsreader.”

   But for all the stories he reported well, there is one which he reported absolutely horribly. He produced one of the worst specials ever on the JFK assassination on the 40th anniversary of that tragic event. He used Gerald Posner, whose book is, according to respected historian David Wrone, one of the most “irresponsible” (I would have called it “dishonest”) books on the case. The special also featured a computer “re-enactment” (read: fictional display) of how the shots went down. Funny how CBS and others have tried to line up the shots in such as a way as to make the ridiculous “magic bullet” scenario work. There were seven wounds from three bullets, one of which, at least, entered Kennedy from the front. But the government in general and Arlen Specter in particular told us that one bullet made all the wounds in Kennedy and Governor Connally, despite the bullet having to bob and weave and turn in mid-air to make that scenario true. Enter computers. With computers, you can just move the bodies around, line up the Texas School Book Depository any way you want, and claim victory. But how someone as intelligent as Peter Jennings fell for that is utterly beyond me.

   Keep reading

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   rba on August 9, 2005 at 6:05 pm

   USA v FUCHS, #9810173.  Convictions in district court were overturned on “technical” grounds

   Reagan contends that Supreme Court precedent requires us to set aside the jury’s general verdict because only some of the overt acts alleged in the indictment could have occurred within the applicable statute of limitations, [see Appendix to the Opinion], and the jury could have convicted on a legally inadequate ground. We agree.

   Odd:

   Argued June 14, 1999
   Submitted July 2, 1999
   Submission Vacated December 22, 1999
   Resubmitted June 26, 2000
   San Francisco, California

   Filed July 6, 2000