There are not many American authors whom I consider to be in the ‘great’ category. Mark Twain is one of the few I would love to come close to, but know I cannot. This blog was a fine tribute to that great man and writer. Thank you, Abbie Lu.
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Source: Tribute to Twain
Based on compel
ling evidence, Lee Harvey Oswald did not want to kill President Kennedy–he intended to shoot Texas Governor John Connally. Yet the critical page was ripped from his personal diary by an FBI agent, and the story only really came out years after Oswald’s widow testified that this was actually the case.
Do I personally think J. Edgar Hoover was capable of such a deception? Absolutely. Not only did he not want to disgrace the FBI, he hated both John and Robert Kennedy, who flouted their power over his bureau. They knew he was gay. He knew they invited women (including Marilyn Monroe) into the Oval Office for sex. Not a happy relationship.
Read the article below and decide for yourself.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-reston-jfk-assassination-target-20161122-story.html
I wish I could take credit for the below joke, but it was lifted from the Facebook page of a friend.
An airplane was about to crash. There were 4 passengers on board, but only 3 parachutes.
The 1st passenger said, “I am Steph Curry, the best NBA basketball player. The Warriors and my millions of fans need me, and I can’t afford to die.” So he took the 1st pack and left the plane.
The 2nd passenger, Donald Trump, said, “I am the newly-elected U.S. President, and I am the smartest President in American history, so my people don’t want me to die.” He took the 2nd pack and jumped out of the plane.
The 3rd passenger, the Pope, said to the 4th passenger, a 10 year old schoolboy, “My son, I am old and don’t have many years left, you have more years ahead so I will sacrifice my life and let you have the last parachute.”
The little boy said, “That’s okay, Your Holiness, there’s a parachute left for you. America ‘s smartest President took my school backpack.”
When Adolph Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany in 1933, many human ideals died. His reign of terror lasted for less than 12 years, yet many millions of lives were lost and the humanistic and political repercussions still echo today. Although Germany has recovered much of its former luster as a nation of strength and intelligence, there still remains the taint of the Third Reich.
Hitler had his Brown Shirts and the support of many German citizens who made hate their primary agendas. Donald Trump has the white supremacist groups, including the KKK and American Nazi Party, who support his election. While it is doubtful that he can do the same damage to the world, the essential principles remain the same.
Make no mistake: I believe that Hillary Clinton was also a potential presidential disgrace. She is a privileged, smug, self-entitled, corrupt, cynical representative of a “business as usual” governmental process. But she is not a maniac who would deliberately lead her country into a battle of religious and ethnic bigotry that could lead to another world war—one that could involve nuclear weapons.
There are many ideals that died today. Religious, racial and sexual tolerance. Human equality. The quest for a peaceful solution to human problems rather than the radical methods that Trump has espoused during his campaign. And more.
Throughout the world, this will be seen as a very similar disgrace as to what Germany experienced during and after the Hitler regime. I can only hope that the following decades do not bewail the same aftermaths in America with the rise to power of Donald Trump.
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