Nadine is one of the more intelligent, considered members. That she can be banned, even temporarily, says it all for the forum. The conversation and quality of original posting have deteriorated recently into name-calling and ad hominem attacks from both sides. I'm sure I won't be missed, inasmuch as I was considered a woo-peddler by some, apparently because I believe physical replication of results predicted by a theory, tend to prove the theory, no matter how much the theory is denigrated by the "establishment."

brought in by that aide from Denver. (The only way I can reconcile this.)

Apparently, there is a smartphone app that reads barcodes and identifies the products of Koch owned companies, specifically to facilitate a boycott.

was assassinated in a basement corridor of the Louisiana Capitol Building. When I was a toddler, my father raised me up to put my thumb in the hole in the granite wall the bullet made after it passed through him.
"Everybody in Louisiana knew" that the Federal Government had him killed, so that he couldn't "have himself made King after his two terms as President." "The People would have done well with him as King, but who would be the next King?", was a rationale that was bandied about a lot at the time
If the PTB feel sufficiently threatened by Obama, not that that's likely, he will be taken out.
IMO, the second clip is the reason he was assassinated. It can't become common knowledge that this country produces many times enough wealth to provide all of us with an incredible bounty, and the vast majority of it's been extorted, expropriated and outright stolen by the rentiers.

and lived in Austin, where I drove Cab. I picked her up at the airport one evening and couldn't help myself. I asked her if she had ever been threatened in an official capacity. She said she'd "rather not talk about it". Not no, I'd rather not talk about it.