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I’ve never participated in NaNoWriMo before and I  think if  I  do it should be called Internanowrimo, because the word National is  a symptom of a disease, the imperialism of the internet, the Americentric view  of the world.

I suppose the reason (the excuse is that I don’t want to write that way,  I am independent, I go  at my  own speed, but that’s all an excuse) I’ve never participated before is the  fear  that I  don’t have  a good enough idea, the fear that my  writing will be crap, and even the fear that I won’t be able to meet the targets.  50,000 words in a month is just a bit under 2,000 words in a day and my blogs average about 300.

I guess the idea is you reach a state of fluid consciousness.  If you’re writing in a stream of consciousness style, sooner or later you’ll get into the flow, be in the groove; you’ll get to a point were you’re typing as fast as you think, you’re thinking as fast as you type, and the words will jump from your fingertips like fleas from a cat in a bath.
Of course there’s the fear that it’s all crap, but that can be ignored, since you can just throw it away in the end if it’s crap.  You don’t need to show  it to everybody.  On the other hand, showing you’re work  in progress  to other writers might be beneficial.  One of them might say something intelligent.

So, I haven’t decided yet, and it’s only a couple of days to start time.  So, I’ll  let you know  in a couple  of  weeks.

I unfriended  somebody today.  She wasn’t even being particularly  horrible, but I  still  feel good about  it.  One less person  cluttering up the  feed, and she brought it on  herself.

I’m  not being vindictive.  She might be a very nice person  in real  life, but she’s not  somebody I need  to communicate with on Facebook.  She’s not interested in having the same kind of conversation I’m interested in having.
What it was, she wrote one of those kinds of posts that so many thin skinned people on Facebook seem to make, complaining about leaving ‘hateful’ comments on her post, i.e. disagreeing with her.  “I often post about music, and films, and cats.  If you’ve never left a positive comment on one of my other posts, why do  you have to come here and pick a fight.”
So, I went through my usual checklist.  Looked at her profile, verified she wasn’t somebody I  know  in real life or  am related to, and none of the friends we have in common are people I know  in real  life, so I unfriended her and she probably won’t  even  realize.

Two things:  If I agree with someone, there’s no real  reason  to post a comment, is there?  Certainly, it’s rare  that I comment on cat posts at all.

Secondly, if you post a political  opinion, it’s open season.  You have the right to say whatever you want and  people have the right to respond however they want.

If you don’t want to deal  with  that, fine.  I’m gone.

It will  take time, a lot  of time, to sort through the 2,800 documents released today.  Historians will be going through them for decades, perhaps centuries.  After all, archaelogist look at teeth that  are thousands  of  years old  and can tell if the corpse grew  up in England or in Norway, and this is a lot more substantial information regarding the death of a president.   A popular president.

What I don’t understand was why this stuff had to be secret so long.  Here is a partial list, sent by an internet friend, from the Washington Post but I couldn’t actually access the article without a subscription and, since Jeff Bezos already has  more money than me, by several billion dollars, so I decided to pass.

-25 minutes before the assassination, a British newspaper was told that “there would be big news” in an anonymous phone call.

(reminiscent of building 7, but doesn’t prove anything.  ‘Anonymous’ could have meant Oswald.)
– Lee Harvey Oswald was a CIA asset in the Soviet Union who was involved in secret surveillance flights over Communist China!! (what?  Did anybody think he was there as a tourist?)
– JFK was into wild sex parties.

(yeah, I  don’t think anybody’s surprised by that one)
– LBJ was KKK in Texas.

(this one surprises me, because Johnson was so good on civil rights.  Still, as a politician it doesn’t surprise me that he wore one hat in Texas  and another in D.C.  He’s been dead for years, so damaging info on him is hardly damaging to National Security.)
– A New Orleans stripper, an associate of Jack Ruby’s, comitted suicide in New Orleans in August-September 1963.

(strippers probably commit suicide at at least the same rate as the general population, , and that’s 2-3 months before the assassination)
– Jack Ruby and Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippitt reportedly met at Ruby’s club sometime prior to the assassination.

(Yeah, Ruby  knew all the cops.  No surprise there)
– The Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista, plotted to bribe a US congressman.

(when?  Because he’d already been  out of power for about  4 years.)
– The CIA REALLY WANTED to kill Fidel Castro.

(well, of course they did.  never managed it, though.)
– The FBI tried to spy on the Hollywood screenwriter, John Howard Lawson.

(who?)
– The FBI and the CIA feud a lot.

(well, what do you know?  A film and TV cliche that’s based on fact.)
– The US Communist Party was pitifully small. Its real membership was made up mostly of FBI informants.

(most people don’t even know they exist)
– The CIA knew Castro didn’t kill Kennedy.

(the history of Castro v. the U.S. is over.  Castro won.)

In light of the fact that most of these items are mundane, some have nothing to do with the assassination at all, and most of the people involved have been dead for a while, how were these documents still considered a risk to national security?

I’m not a lawyer and don’t know if the two are directly connected or if this could be considered ‘precedent,’ but I’m wondering if the admission by the New York City Board of Elections, that they removed 200,000 people from the voter rolls in Brooklyn illegally, will have any impact on Beck et alii v. the DNC lawsuit, which is currently being appealed.

It should, because it is one more piece of proof, piled on all the other pieces of proof,  that the primary was rigged, that Democrats were cheated out of a fair contest,  and the strongest possible candidate.

Probably won’t, though.  No jail time (which  I suspect was part of the deal.  “We’ll admit we did it and promise some reforms, which we will probably try to weasel out on at a later date, as long as nobody  goes to jail.”) means it will  have dropped out  of the public consciousness by next week, if it’s even a part of it now, outside of the Bernie boards.

Still,  it’s important.  While nobody has gone to jail, we still have one more  argument to add to our case, one more way in which to respond to those who say “She won the nomination, it’s just  sour grapes, a little bit of dirty politics is just normal.”
Sure, they might be able to brush off the deliberately sparse  debate schedule, irregularities at  the Nevada  convention, screen  grabs proving vote switching in Delaware, the moles inside  Sanders North Carolina campaign, the closing and shortening of hours of polling places in the Arizona primary, the whiting out of Bernies’s ballots in California, the collusion of the mainstream media (the crushing of the Onion and Colbert actually giving team Hillary content approval authority), Bill’s meeting with Loretta Lynch on a private plane at Phoenix airport, and much, much more, but they’ll have a hard time brushing this off.

200,000 people were denied their right to vote, the New York City board of elections has admitted it, and that’s that.  And that’s not right.

First of all, pet peeve: people who use the phrase “Wake up!” in their posts.  Especially ‘Wake up, people!”  You are not a damned alarm clock.

Did you think everybody was unaware that both political parties serve the rich? (that was  the particular context)  When you use the phrase, it’s like saying “I know what’s going on and nobody else does!”  It’s a  dumb phrase and everybody should drop it.

Jeff Flake is drawing praise from liberals with short attention spans because in his announcement not  to seek re-election, he said Trump is a crazy person who just lies all the time.  I say short attention  spans because Flake has  been a total weasel  throughout his term and supported Trump wholeheartedly until now.  I suspect he’s cut some sort of a deal, and the deal involved him bowing  out of politics.  Or, could be he didn’t think he’d win.  Politicians don’t quit lightly.

Apparently, Trump gave the contract for restoring Puerto Rico’s power to some friends of his, in a no bid deal, and they are total cowboys who will take the money and do the most half-assed, shoddy job imaginable, and after a couple more years  of  not doing enough to  help Puerto Rico, Trump will declare Puerto  Rico ‘fixed,’ and that will be that.
Also, it’s looking like Hillary commissioned the Russian dossier, from  which she  ‘knows’ that  Russia hacked the election.  So, evidence manufacturing, at the very least.

In more Hillary Clinton news, the New York City  Board of Elections has admitted they threw about 200,000 voters off the rolls, mostly in heavy Sanders districts.  So, when we said there was fraud in New York, there was fraud  in  New York.