26% think Sarah Palin would be an effective president

Proving once again that about one-quarter of the U.S. population is nuts.

THE JFK CASE: OSWALD AND HIS TWELVE HANDLERS

Former FBI Agent Says Oswald Didn't Kill Kennedy

AKRON, Ohio - A retired FBI Agent from Summit County is making claims regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy that go beyond conspiracy theories.

Don Adams speaks clearly and concisely when describing the events of November 22, 1963, the day President Kennedy was killed, and he doesn't waiver from his position that Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill President John F. Kennedy in Dallas.

"It is a fact," says Adams, and he says he has the FBI documents to prove it.

At his home in Akron, Ohio, Adams is surrounded by thousands of reports and records from the National Archives and Records Administration. His name appears on many of the papers, but he says other reports have been doctored, or are missing, "Everything I had done is gone. It's all gone," Adams said.

Don Adams' website here

I have some interesting material on Don Adams and Milteer which I may post later.

David Stockman, Reagan's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, describes how the GOP destroyed the American economy

Found here

Update: the whole sordid story here

Whatever happened to Julia Corker?

Winston Churchill was accused of ordering a cover-up of a Second World War encounter between a UFO and a RAF bomber because he feared public "panic" and loss of faith in religion, newly released secret files disclose.

More here: Newly released UFO files from the UK government

Former Mafia hit man talks Kennedy killing

Lee Harvey Oswald was never supposed to make it out of the Texas School Book Depository alive on Nov. 22, 1963, according to a self-proclaimed former Mafia hit man.

“The dummy was supposed to be shot coming out the front door,” David Steece said Friday during an autograph session for his book, “Paradox,” at Hastings Books, Music and Video in Jacksonville.

Steece, a former member of a New Orleans organized crime family, said Oswald was hypnotized and given a clunky old rifle that would make such a noise when fired that everyone would point to the window where he fired from on that fateful day.

Oswald actually hit Kennedy with one shot, Steece claimed, saying he was a “pretty good shot.”

However, the fatal shot came from the front of the motorcade, not the rear, Steece said. The hit squad had set up two .307-caliber sniper rifles on tripods at two different locations. They used 7-grain ammunition and silencers, he said.

The shooters were flown out of town on a private plane, he said. The pilot vanished two days later to South America, and his wife later joined him there. Steece claimed to have visited the wife before she left Dallas.

Mob Experience fuels conspiracies

The Las Vegas Mob Experience will feature some tantalizing organized crime links to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Jay Bloom, managing partner of the attraction that opens at the Tropicana in December, said his group has acquired a videotaped death-bed confession of a 96-year-old mobster who told his family he had information about Kennedy's death in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

"I think the odds are no better than 50/50 that our present civilisation will survive to the end of the present century."