Extras

Kristen Davis up front and Roger “Socks” Stone behind the curtain again.

Does Davis have a 21st Century view and can she make take NYC to it’s next level ?

Before there was the “Oracle of Delphi” there was Count Vampire J. Machiavelli

VJ Machiavelli
http://www.VJMachiavelli.blogspot.com
To The Moon, Mars, and Beyond

I oppose the ban on 16 oz. sodas and will break the law drinking one in
my announcement press conference. This is the Nanny State taken to the
extreme. Mayor Bloomberg should not decide what we eat and drink or
subject us to a body search without probable cause, a sad erosion of our
civil liberties. Big Brother is upon us….

As someone who worked as the Vice President of Operations a $2 Billion
Hedge Fund, I made a nice living on Wall Street before opening the
escort agency that supplied high-end call girls for Attorney general and
Governor Eliot Spitzer. I know how the economy works. I’ve read Von
Mises, Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek. I understand the barriers
to growth and what creates wealth. I think economic growth is
paramount. I believe a rising tide lifts all boats….”
Kristen Davis, website announcement of Mayoral candidacy .

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You can’t make this stuff up.

Will she be drinking Coke or Pepsi?

Bloomberg has announced that having pot will be considered a violation, not a misdemeanor or felony…and that is progress.

Davis’ libertarian call for pot legalization will eventually see fruition.

The Bloomberg/Kelly preemptive policing, the stop-and-frisk policy is more complex.

Bloomberg makes the case that this policy has lowered the violent crime in the city.

And the stop-and-frisk has been made less rigorous…i.e. the pot possession change.

Davis’ advocacy of legalizing prostitution also has strong positive arguments, but will not become reality in most of our lifetimes.

Davis’ says she has read Von Mises, Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek.
I’ve also read these libertarian true believers.
But that doesn’t mean I agree with them.

Davis should also read Keynes , J.Kenneth Galbraith, and his son’s James (U.of Texas economist), Robert Reich, and other liberal economists.

It’s good to be well-rounded, informed and educated in these matters.

The 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination.
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This year is the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination.

Properly, there will be increased discussion, cable movies on this important event.

The JFK assassination is a cold case that should be of interest to all us.

It’s important to understand why he died; and why his death should still resonate.

Fox’s Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot has been in the top five book sellers for months.

People are reading this book; and many, unfortunately, are accepting the premises that O’Reilly promotes.

O’Reilly states that the book is to make “history fun to read”.

His Killing Kennedy also is a dangerous distortion that misleads, misinforms millions on the JFK murder.

The first half of the book covers the personal life of the Kennedys; and a cursory review of the events of the JFK administration.

Much of this portion of the book not only attempts to make “history fun”, but also reads like a cheap romance paperback.

O’Reilly recounts the adulterous affairs of JFK, an account that most of us already are familiar with.

But to serious students of the JFK assassination, their are likely only 4 women that should be considered important.

First, of course, is Jackie.

Jackie was 32 when sitting in the Dallas limo., and watched as JFK’s head was brutally destroyed.

For that reason alone, Jackie is an important woman.

But she was also an enigma.

In recent interviews with Jackie released by Caroline and the Kennedys, Jackie states that she believed that LBJ was behind (the plotter) the murder of JFK.

But yet, in the LBJ White House tapes, LBJ and Jackie,
post-assassination, sound like they are engaged in phone sex…very
romantic talk.

Perhaps both Jackie and LBJ were playing games with each other.

The second woman is Marilyn Monroe.

Celebrity writer Darwin Porter , in his new biography of MM, actually
tells us who the Chicago Mob Giancana killers of MM were, including
photos of the hit team.

MM was murdered.

She was deeply involved with JFK and RFK ; and was considered a national security risk by the brothers, and the national security state actors involved in the Castro assassination program.

The third woman is Mary Pinchot Meyer, the Georgetown free-thinking, bohemian flower child former wife of CIA honcho Cord Meyer.

She perhaps was one of the few females that JFK connected with on a cerebral level.

And relative Peter Janney claims she was murdered by the CIA because she knew too much about the JFK assassination. (see Janney’s Mary Mosaic).

The fourth woman is Judy Campbell, the link between JFK and the Mob’s Sam Giancana.

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But it is the second half of O’Reilly’ s fun history that deals with
Dallas; and is the dangerous distortion that misleads, misinforms
millions on the JFK murder

O’Reilly travels down the rabbit hole, following Oswald, and concludes that he fired shots in Dealy Plaza and that he was a left-winger, a communist.

Thereis substantial documentation that Oswald was a CIA contract employee; adouble- or triple-agent; and a kid who was deeply involved in the political right-wing groups in New Orleans and Dallas.

Oswald was sent to Russia by the CIA; and likely provided the Soviets with information on the U2 spy plane. He provided this information as a CIA agent because the CIA wanted the U2, flown by Powers, to be shot down in order to sabotage the Ike summit with Khrushchev.

O’Reilly describes Oswald’s attempt to get into Cuba, and his trip to Mexico City and the Cuban Embassy.
To O’Reilly, this confirms Oswald’s communist bona fides.

This is so wrong on so many levels.

The real story, vividly described by Judyth Baker (in Me and Lee) is that Lee worked with her in New Orleans during the Summer, 1963.
She,Lee, and David Farrie got involved in a CIA financed research project with cancer researchers at Tulane U.
The project took a bizarre turn as they worked on developing a bio-weapon of mice/monkey virus that could be transferred to humans to cause rapid spreading cancer.
Oswald’s visit to Mexico City was to deliver this bio-weapon virus to someone who would get it into Cuba, to assassinate Castro.

Judyth Baker is a creditable, important person in the JFK assassination/conspiracy.

She describes how Oswald, this mixed up kid who was controlled by the CIA,actually tried to stop the JFK assassination; and knew he was going to die. (see her Me and Lee).

Perhaps the best written, and documented, book to read on the JFK assassination is James
Douglass,JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters.

I guess you believe in the “Liberal Economists” and reject the others after being informed and well-rounded (LOL)

Before there was the “Oracle of Delphi” there was Count Vampire J. Machiavelli

VJ Machiavelli
http://www.VJMachiavelli.blogspot.com
To The Moon, Mars, and Beyond

The HuffPost is pushing for a minimum wage of $21.72/hr., which a study by a liberal think-tank, CEPR, suggested it would be if the minimum kept pace with work productivity increases.

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I fell to the floor, convulsed in laughter when I read the blog.

The POTUS’s call for a minimum of $9 is DOA in the GOP House.

The GOP and right-wing think tanks argue that any increase in the minimum will cost jobs..it will counter productive.

This loss of jobs has little, or no, empirical evidence to support the argument.

The HuffPost blog can be found at :

http://www.huffingtonpost dot com/2013/02/13/minimum-wage-productivity_n_2680639.html

The HuffPost is pushing for a minimum wage of $21.72/hr.,
which a study by a liberal think-tank, CEPR, suggested it would be if the
minimum kept pace with work productivity increases.

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I fell to the floor, convulsed in laughter when I read the blog.

The POTUS’s call for a minimum of $9 is DOA in the GOP House.

The GOP and right-wing think tanks argue that any increase in the minimum will
cost jobs..it will counter productive.

This loss of jobs has little, or no, empirical evidence to support the
argument.