My fiance and I had a small dinner for ourselves at my cabin tonight. Instead of opting for turkey we stuffed lamb and cornish game hens with garlic, basil, lemons and almonds. We rubbed them with extra light olive oil and then grilled them on the barbeque.

I had lighted candles and the house was bathed in natural light. I started a fire and the logs warmed the air. The cabin smelled of various candles, some garlic and an XM radio channel played New Age in the background. The sun declined to the west, creating shadows and then darkness. My feral cat friends came for their own Thanksgiving feast and they received fresh pieces of game hen and lamb.

My Christmas tree was already set up and festooned with lights from the day before, in preparation for this night. I’d already wrapped some packages and set them next to the tree; packages for my fiance, my father and brother. My Holiday stuffed bears were also set out, and a new wreath adorned my front gate.

I am still alive and for that I am thankful.

Be close to your family and friends, and hold them close.

BZ

The aircraft touched down at Love Field on a beautiful autumn day; skies were blue and clear, the mood was that of much anticipation. The destination was to be the Dallas Trade Mart, where a speech would be made during that luncheon. The motorcade left the airport at 11:50 am.

The vehicles had already stopped twice to greet cititzens; it was now creeping at 11 miles per hour. In a case of serendipity, Agent Rufus Youngblood happened to look up at the clock atop a building and mentally noted: 12:30.

The building? The Texas School Book Depository.

Shots were heard. The entire event lasted roughly six to eight seconds — seconds that were to not only change the world, change the United States, but ultimately to change the way its citizens viewed its government. And the Age Of Conspiracy was born.

Texas Governor John Connally was hit in the wrist, shoulder and leg. President Kennedy’s wounds would be disputed from then until now. What is incontrovertible is that he officially died at Parkland Hospital four miles from Dealey Plaza.

CBS reporter Walter Cronkite, with much emotion, removed his glasses and said:

From Dallas, Texas, a flash, apparently official. President Kennedy died at 1:00 pm central standard time, two o’clock eastern standard time, some thirty-eight minutes ago.”

And a nation sat transfixed and stunned.
Initially, certain frames of the Zapruder Film were never shown — such as the above frame where the bullet strikes President Kennedy’s head. Agent Clint Hill rushed to the presidential Lincoln and pushed Jacqueline Kennedy back into the rear seat, after she had climbed out of the back seat in an attempt to retrieve parts of her husband’s skull which had been sprayed behind. She said to Agent Hill: “I have a piece of his brain in my hand.”

Was this a conspiracy and who was involved? Who profited? Who benefited politically, and who benefited fiscally? Did Johnson benefit and was he involved? Were the Cubans involved? Was our government involved? Was the CIA involved? Was Organized Crime involved?

Why was it that it appeared everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong? What happened to Kennedy’s brain? What happened to his coffin? Why was Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated? What is it that Gerald Ford actually knows? What does Arlen Specter actually know?

It is still remarkably disturbing to people (like myself) who lived during those times that one person or a cabal of individuals could assassinate our President on our own soil, and that so much could go wrong in the ensuing investigation — and that we still hold no suspects.

President Kennedy died that day, as did the national feeling of a “New Frontier.”

Who was responsible?

Why do we not know conclusively?

And why are records, 43 years after the event, still sealed?

BZ

As far as Hezbollah, Syria and Iran are concerned, blood is in the water and ladles of chum are being hurled overboard from the Global Bucket O’ Chum.

Animals, primarily predators, can inherently sense fear in their fellow animals and many humans as well. Sharks, for example, know when to strike via their ampullae of Lorenzini, dark pores in the skin that are capable of detecting minute electro-magnetic fields, temperature variations and the weakness of any given item of prey. Their primeval ganglion, formed millions of years ago, are nothing if but efficient.

Islamists in the Middle East are nothing more than the most base of animals. Make no mistake: animals. But very cunning animals, using our history, our thoughts, our media, our very political climate against us.

And our political climate has most definitely changed.

In the past two days the following events have occurred in the Middle East:

Pierre Gemayel, Lebanon’s Industry Minister and son of a former President, was shot dead yesterday in his car in a Beirut suburb. It was the first assassination of a leading anti-Syrian figure in almost a year.

But please realize: not one attempted assassination, but two; one was unsuccessful:

Three hours before Mr Gemayel’s murder, gunmen opened fire at the offices of Michel Pharaon, the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs. No one was hurt.

At first blush: good for him, but of little consequence — until one realizes:

Under the Lebanese Constitution, a government can continue functioning unless one third of the Cabinet resigns or is incapacitated. The resignations and Mr Gemayel’s murder mean that if another minister is removed the Government will fall.

Resignations, you ask? What is this? Read:

The shooting came a week after six pro-Syrian ministers resigned from the 24-seat Government, plunging the country into turmoil.

This is nothing more than an overt attempted coup of Lebanon by Hezbollah, on behalf of Syria — controlled overtly and covertly by Iran. And Ahmadinnerjacket. Syria and, by logical extension, Hezbollah acts and dances only but upon the behest of Mockmood Ahmadinnerjacket.

Several of the 52 Americans who were held hostage in the US embassy in the months after the revolution say they are certain Mr Ahmadinejad was among those who captured them.

Hugh Hewitt wrote an incredibly nascent sentence today when he printed on his blog:

If Iran/Syria/Hezbollah are misjudging the impact of the elections on President Bush’s ability to conduct the war, the time to communicate such a message is right now, not a week, or a month, or sixth months from now.

Also of GREAT import is this factoid from Yoni Tidi, an Israeli of dual citizenship:

Syrian President Invited to Visit Tehran
00:55 Nov 22, ’06 / 1 Kislev 5767

(IsraelNN.com) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has issued an invitation to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to visit Tehran for talks together with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, according to the Reuters news service.

Al-Assad was invited to join the summit scheduled for the coming weekend between Iraq and Iran. The meeting is expected to focus on how to end Iraqi violence and prevent a civil war.

And so why do you suppose that might be — considering the past two days’ events?

Also today:

Hizbullah Announces $300-million in Support From Iran
02:20 Nov 22, ’06 / 1 Kislev 5767

(IsraelNN.com) The Hizbullah terrorist organization announced Tuesday night it has received $300-million in funding from Iran “for the purpose of rebuilding” its infrastructure.

Senior terror leader Naim Kassam told reporters the organization has received funding from other Arab nations a well, but declined to specify which ones, in a report published Tuesday in the London-based newspaper “A-Sharak Al-Awast.”

Kassam added, “Everyone in Lebanon receives money from other countries, but the question is what the conditions are. Hizbullah’s decisions are not influenced by economic support from Iran.”

Look not at each event in and of itself, but step back and take in the perspective in the form for which it was meant to be viewed:

• The United States are weak;
• Israel is weak;
• There is confusion in Western Europe;

There is chum in the water, dear readers.

And, in the United States, I wonder who helped move the buckets on deck? I would submit: both sides of the aisle.

And is this the match strike to ignite the entire Middle East?

BZ

BZ

The Passion Of The Pelosi:

Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is in the process of making, along with the Democrats themselves, an amazing discovery. It’s like they, akin to the GOP, have to make miraculous discoveries election after election because they appear to:

1) Have no sense of history and
2) Have no memory.

Nancy Pelosi’s “honeymoon” is over; it lasted, what, just a hair over 24 hours?

Then she got slammed by her own kind, kinda like a big ol’ WWF Slapdown.

Hence my title: “Let The Reality Commence.”

Pelosi chose the aging reprobate and ethically-challenged Jack Murtha as her “second in command.” Murtha is a wanking Moonbat, to be kind. Yeah, he served in the military, blah blah blah. I wrote about her choice here.

Then Murtha got voted out as quickly as the Dems voted 175,937 to 0 to axe Mad Jack.

“It was a serious misstep and inexplicable to me,” former Republican leader Dick Armey chortled. “I just hope she does more of it.”

Pelosi wanted to push through lobbying and ethics reforms — but evidently didn’t get the memo stating Murtha thought her reform measures were, quote: “total crap.”

Additionally, as the Pelosi-Hoyer-Murtha battle was boiling, Democratic water-carrier and Major Dem Apologist James Carville and pollster Stan Greenberg — both of whom are close to the Clintons — loudly called on Howard Dean to resign as Democratic chairman, saying the party could have won more House seats if he had spent its money more wisely.

Will she listen? Will she realize what a dead anchor Howard Dean is truly?

She does, in my estimation, have one mindset to make things work on one level. It is a mindset I wholeheartedly wish the GOP had found within itself now, and in the future. Pelosi once said to some Time magazine writers a few months ago:

The Speaker-to-be puts it in more graphic terms. At lunch with a group of TIME correspondents a few months ago, she said Republican attacks on her would not work, because she wouldn’t let them. “If people are ripping your face off,” she said, picking at a chicken salad dressed only with lemon wedges, “you have to rip their face off.”

Good strategy. GOP: ARE YOU LISTENING?

Evidently not.

Heavy sigh.

Then there are more internal politics.

According to NewsMax.com, Hillary Clinton:

. . . fears that the California congresswoman will rival her as the leading woman in her party, a position Hillary held before the Democrats took control of Congress in the midterm elections.

Another concern for Hillary, according to a source, is that if Pelosi is seen as a failure in her role as speaker, that could convince many that a woman isn’t up to handling a top job in Washington. “Hillary loses whether Pelosi succeeds or fails,” the source said.

Others see more problems with the Hillary-Pelosi dynamic. Writing in the New York Post, Deborah Orin-Eilbeck states that Pelosi’s rise “might ruin Clinton’s 2008 dreams.”

According to the columnist, “Pelosi comes across as a shrill anti-military, anti-prayer, sharply partisan super-liberal who angrily insults Republican foes as ‘immoral.’

Here is another Reality Check for Speaker Pelosi:

It is very easy to criticize and kvetch from a distant point whilst those under the gun attempt to make critical decisions. And then, on top of that, offer no alternative decisions whatsoever other than the two letter word:

“NO.”

The Democrats are nothing more than the party of NO. No this, no that, no no no.

Here is the Democratic version of our future:

Speaker Pelosi: you’d best get your best minds together and corral them quickly. Because whilst you bloviate and speak in terms of wildly generic talking points, the best of the best Islamists are still planning and plotting and now looking upon this electoral turnover as only beneficial to them.

Why might that be?

Or are you even asking that question?

There is also this:

The Democrats have gained control of the House of Representatives, but the numbers show that they have a precarious hold on power, according to an analysis by Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform.

The House now has 59 Democrats who were elected in districts that voted for George Bush in 2004. But there are only nine House Republicans elected in districts that went for John Kerry in 2004. Therefore, the 59 Democrats are in more difficult districts than the nine Republicans.

Norquist and his organization calculate that if the Republicans in 2008 won only those districts that voted 58 percent of more for Bush in 2004, they would gain 19 seats. And if they won only those districts that went 55 percent or more for Bush, they would pick up 33 seats.

You are now in a position of Power. You will have to make decisions; critical decisions. Now shoes are on other feet. You will have to provide ideas, alternatives, thoughts, plans.

I remain unconvinced the Dems and the DEM are up to it.

BZ