76003.1414: 5/20/18

5.24.2018

Curious, these earthlings

Russia will try again this fall. Congress doesn't seem to care. - The Washington Post

Russia will try again this fall. Congress doesn't seem to care. - The Washington Post

When top intelligence officials went to Capitol Hill one morning this week to give House members a classified briefing on the security of the upcoming elections, only 40 or so bothered to show up.

https://wapo.st/2xbN97M

It’s a wonder we haven’t blown ourselves up already

Security troops on US nuclear missile base took LSD

WASHINGTON (AP) — One airman said he felt paranoia. Another marveled at the vibrant colors. A third admitted, "I absolutely just loved altering my mind."

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Or, assuming the troops elsewhere or not much different from our own, it's a wonder somebody hasn't done it for us.

5.23.2018

A letter from the FBI (oh yes)

“No person can overcome the facts, not even a fraud like yourself. Lend your sexually psychotic ear to the enclosure. You will find yourself and in all your dirt, filth, evil and moronic talk exposed on the record for all time. . . . Listen to yourself, you filthy, abnormal animal. You are on the record.”

That paragraph was just one in a letter sent by FBI operatives to Martin Luther King in an effort to drive him to suicide. You can read a lot more about it here.

In its ongoing effort to save the American public from evil, FBI agents and (ahem) informants infiltrated the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-(Vietnam) war movement of the ‘70s and, in a spirit of bipartisanship, a raft of right-wing organizations as well. Some say there are still so many FBI agents and informants in the KKK that the entire Klan observes federal holidays.

Now comes the FBI’s selfless effort to prevent the Russians from diddling the 2016 Trump campaign, or to prevent the 2016 Trump campaign, or simply to extend its (the FBI’s) run.

As Faulkner wrote in Requiem for a Nun, “The past is never dead. It's not even past.”

If making America great again…

…means bringing back No. 2 pencils I’m all for it. I picked up a couple of them at the drugstore the other day and they beat those wimpy mechanical jobs all to Toledo. And when they wear down you can get them sharpened here.