Well, I'm suffering unduly again, both from some sort of latissimus dorsi aggravation and the pestering to increase my opiate dosage from the people who have to live with my gasps and groans on a day-to-day basis. I'm genuinely concerned about addiction, so I'm hoping that grunting through the unhappiness in the short term will lead to a most positive state of affairs in the long term.
Just to get it out of the way, here is my song list from my last shower. Whether there is any relevance between the minutiae of this stochastic agglutination of informational data and the current state of anything in general or particular is up to any individual's create ability to infer and create connections to form patterns.
Musical Medley
- Deliwe, by Johnny Clegg and Juluka
- Fun Fun Fun, by the Beach Boys
- Happy Nation, by Ace of Base
- Get a Job/Stand Down Margaret, by the English Beat
- Take Five, by the Dave Brubeck Quartet
Idle Ramblings
Also of note recently is the Trump Administration's fumbling with the release of the JFK assassination files. Here are the important bits.- JFK was killed in November, 1963.
- The Warren Commission says he was killed by a lone gunman in 1964.
- A congressional probe in 1979 confirmed the Warren Commission's findings.
- Oliver Stone releases "JFK" in 1991; the film advances several conspiracy theories.
- The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 sets October 26, 2017 as the legally binding date at which point all of the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. files must be made publicly available.
- On 23rd October 2017, President Trump announces that he will be releasing the JFK files, implying that it is his personal directive, and that he should receive all responsibility and recognition.
- On 26th October 2017, President Trump announces the release of 2,891 documents, but, because of a loophole in the 1992 law, admits that approximately 400 documents will be withheld for a period not exceeding six months while the contents are redacted (i.e., certain names, dates, places are going to be blotted out.)
JFK was assassinated 54 years ago. I'm relatively certain that any experienced spymaster or military specialist that was operating at the time is now defunct in one way or another. The risks to national security at this point must be considered trivial, or else one must consider the possibility that the agencies involved are so thoroughly incompetent that a 54 year-old reveal of one piece of information will make their entire kingdom crumble.
In any event, the president's boisterous blustering once again makes the cynics wonder - where is the real news item, since this sort of idiotic bumbling on the world stage is invariably tied to the de-emphasis of something very politically distasteful.
And so we wait for the other shoe to drop and crush something dignified and authentic.
Thanks very much for wading through my rambling and turgid text.
Until next time, good night England and the colonies.
—mARKUS

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