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Still trying to make some sense out of something that appears to be a correlation between number behavior and moon phases.

Here's a history of the high number combos from the last PB and MM draws, plus recurring 11s, during this moon phase:

50/48

11/20/2004 4 29 45 48 50 1
 Sep 23, 2000 11 13 30 39 48 50
11/12/2002 3 28 45 48 50 24

52/51
 Nov 17, 1999 5 13 39 47 51 52
 Mar 12, 2003 3 6 7 29 51 52
 Oct 20, 2004 5 6 11 16 51 52

Recurring 11s
3/22/2005 6 11 27 37 43 34
3/25/2005 11 18 19 45 49 2
2/18/2003 12 22 29 42 50 11
2/14/2003 11 13 19 32 47 21

Make of it what you will.

Jack

 

At the end of Vietnam the US had the best combat army in the history of the world.  It also had a seasoned, triumphant anti-war movement self-trained and baptized by fire.

All over this nation there are a thousands of people who have been here before, who know about mobilizing anti-war movements.  Today, they’re forty years older, but they still remember how it’s done.  Those people are wiping the sleep of four decades out of their eyes and raising their heads in puzzlement that this has happened again during our lifetimes.

This president needs to convene the US Congress and ask for a formal declaration of war against Iraq, defining our reason for being there.  Defining what the other side has to change to make us leave.  Defining what conditions have to exist to bring peace.  Defining what are the conditions of surrender, or capitulation.

Without a Congressional declaration the war is another suppurating wound to carry a president into oblivion and infamy if he doesn’t end it.  Once begun, the slide down the slippery slope of polarization it will be too late for this unlucky president who picked the wrong moment in history to fight another presidential war.

Jack

Thanks to LottoVantage for the link. http://www.1stcavmedic.com/jane_fonda.htm

 

Tom Hayden and Hanoi Jane explaining that American POWs weren't treated badly.

(Edited in after more careful examination:  This is Jane in the gunner's seat.  The crank on front of her is for training the piece.  It isn't the pic I remembered, further away so you could see her in one seat, Joanie on the other, and the entire piece, but it convinces me the pic I remember was a real one.)

(Edited in:  Jane again in the gunner-seat.)

I'd have sworn I remembered a picture of Jane and Joan actually sitting on that gun pointing it at the sky, but can't find the pic.  Maybe it's a hallucinatory residue from all that jade I used to smoke, or maybe it's just six decades of life slipping pictures in of things I never saw.

If there was never a pic of her and Phony Joanie sitting on that gun, blog-reader, there might as well have been.  Those two bitches were on the gun in spirit.

That's good enough for this atrophied brain.

Jack

 

 

 

The problem with democracy of the US variety is that it encourages citizens to believe they ought to have some influence on important decisions, policies and directions involving their country. The framers of the US Constitution believed they’d taken care of the matter by restricting the powers of the Executive Branch, requiring the advice and consent of the US Congress for almost anything the President might take it in his mind to do.

The framers didn’t reckon on half a century of ‘emergency powers’ of the presidency. They also didn’t anticipate a Congress made up of career politicians.

The framers of the Constitution believed any US Congress would be jealous enough of the powers granted to it to be zealous in guarding those powers with any attempt of usurpation of them by the Executive Branch.

Today, war lovers don’t have to concern themselves with an opposition. They know there will never be a national referendum to measure whether a majority of Americans support the direction the country takes on any important matter.

They know the government doesn’t want to know, which is just fine with them.

The political parties offer up their cardboard cutout candidates each election, but there’s really no substantive issue in the choice for voters concerning such matters as foreign policy, the war on drugs, energy policy. There’s just the lineup of all the usual suspects, the character assassination, the empty promises about lower taxes.

The loyal opposition will find an outlet for their views. They’ve been conditioned to believe they should have some say in the running of their country, and though the government turns a deaf ear, those loyal opposition folks will always find a way.

Unfortunately, it always divides the country. They’ll use the fiery rhetoric and the tactics available to them, if they feel strongly enough, and they’ll win if their cause is strong. But in doing so, the nation will be torn further asunder.

The problem with democracy of the US variety is that it encourages citizens to believe they ought to have some influence on important decisions, policies and directions involving their country.

We’ve somehow got to break them of that, somehow convince them it’s none of their affair.

Jack

Incidently, here's an interesting link by a Vietnam vet: http://www.countryjoe.com/vietarchive.htm#5

 

We've got to generate more tax revenues, or think of something else.  Americans probably aren't ready for this:

So a national lottery would be a good place to start.

First game is a clone of Euro Millions, twin sister who walks like it, talks like it, pays off tax-free like it, lump sum only.

Revenues go entirely for a National Disaster Relief Fund, and to the US Veteran Hospitals.

Tickets sold in post offices and at every Federal Office Building in America, Indian Reservations, anywhere the Feds have a toe-hold outside State jurisdiction.

Lots of potential here.

Later games can be provided to allow war lovers to vote with their pocket books to fund whatever war we happen to be fighting at any given time.  When the fund runs out, the troops come home, so the war lovers and patriots can pay for the war themselves, and when they get tired of paying, they'll quit buying tickets.

Gives new meaning to the word, 'fair'.  The people who don't support the war, but haven't been asked, don't have to support it.  Those citizens who just love it to death can have their war and maybe win a big prize, besides.

Remember where you heard it first.

Jack

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is going to seem harsh to some of you blog readers.  You aren't going to like what I'm going to say, and I'll wager you've never considered it because it runs contrary to everything you've been taught to think.

War is a healthy phenomenon for any country not involved in the hostilities.

That's right.  If you aren't involved, war is good.  The nations involved are weakened, they squander their resources and their young men.  The countries not fighting can sell their products to the warring nations, raise the prices on their goods,  produce and enjoy amazing prosperity at the expense of the nations at war.

Consider this.  The Americas are shockingly wealthy in natural resources.  Have you ever asked yourselves why Canada and the US are the only two countries among them not among the 3rd world nations?

Those countries have been constantly at war with themselves from the beginning.  Incessant civil war has bankrupted them.

For half a century Japan hasn't needed to think about war.  Japan's defense has been in the hands of the US.  Coincidently, Japan's enjoyed an economy similar to West Germany, which also had national defense paid for by US taxpayers.

Conversely, the nations at war and cold war for the last half century were the USSR and the US.  What happened to the USSR is history.  But a look at the trillion dollar deficit of Americans suggests we didn't do too well, ourselves.

We've been taught to believe world stability is a positive ideal to strive for.  For nations disinclined to indulge in warfare, it certainly is true. 

The US is not helped by stability in the oil producing nations.  Those countries hate one another, and they'd be warring one another if the US and European powers would let them alone to do it.  They'd be competing to sell us oil so they could buy more weapons to kill one another.  Weapons we produce, paid for by oil they produce.

 

Let the Korean peninsula drown in the blood of Koreans if that's how they choose to handle their problems.  Let anyone who wishes invade Japan.  Let the Muslim countries scatter Muslim flesh all over Persia, Iraq, Syria, Arabia, Israel, if that's their wish.

Let's enjoy some peace and prosperity at their expense, for a change.

Jack

Thanks to libra Dave for providing the charts to allow an easy look for this type of esoterica (https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/118968 ).

This sort of thing would be near-impossible to try to scrutineer if someone didn’t put in an enormous amount of time and energy compiling the information.

Dave did.

I haven’t gotten deeply enough into it to be able to conclude anything decisively, but there does appear to be a correlation between high number combinations and moon phases, based on the results of last night. The 50/48 plus one or another of the numbers that hit last night appear to hit under a New Moon a surprisingly high percentage of the time. Here are those combos from all lotteries in the LP history:

New Moon

9/10/2005 8 10 11 48 50 16
9/9/2005 15 28 43 51 52 11

8/6/2005 1 9 19 36 53 33
8/5/2005 3 5 48 50 53 4

15-Jun-05 4 14 21 33 42 49
Jun 13, 2005 8 29 35 42 48 50
Jun 11, 2005 3 4 15 43 47 52

Aug 10, 2002 2 4 7 17 24 30
Aug 7, 2002 2 16 21 24 48 50
Aug 3, 2002 5 10 18 35 39 43

Aug 6, 1997 6 20 27 31 41 54
Aug 2, 1997 2 15 16 21 48 50
Jul 30, 1997 11 20 45 49 50 54

Oct 16, 2004 13 20 24 34 36 50
Oct 13, 2004 10 26 27 42 48 50
Oct 9, 2004 3 25 28 40 47 49

1-Nov-00 11 21 32 38 39 48
Oct 28, 2000 8 24 47 48 50 53
Oct 25, 2000 13 27 28 34 48 50

Sep 27, 2000 12 16 26 34 40 50
Sep 23, 2000 11 13 30 39 48 50
Sep 20, 2000 1 5 21 33 43 48

Exceptions

3rd Qtr

7/6/2005 2 12 25 30 48 38
7/5/2005 22 38 48 50 55 29

3/13/2004 11 44 45 48 50 2
3/12/2004 4 29 32 35 36 11

5/24/2003 10 42 48 49 50 42
5/23/2003 12 20 31 33 50 17

1ST Phase
11/20/2004 4 29 45 48 50 1
11/19/2004 1 12 24 36 51 38

First QTR
11/13/2002 18 23 31 38 50 20
11/12/2002 3 28 45 48 50 24

Full Moon
1/22/2003 20 28 30 40 43 3
1/21/2003 4 41 48 50 51 23

Make of it what you will.

Jack

Katrina.

Paper this morning asserts the 'costs' will certainly exceed $200 billion, will most probably reach $300 billion.

Cost the first week was $2 Billion daily for emergency relief, shelter, food for victims, but that's dropped to only $1 Billion daily.  MRE's are a lot more expensive than your average pot of beans and cornbread, which hopefully is what's being provided now.  Not so many unhealthy additives, tastes better and is a lot more filling and nutritious.

I suppose the good news is that the various billions per day and ultimate cube-values of that in final costs doesn't exist, except on paper.  Add a few hundred billion deficit to a trillion and the net result barely gets noticed.  The government can just print up a lot of new paper bills and pay it off likkedy-split.

Nature's clever when it teams up with human folly, but not half so clever as accountants and government counterfieters when it comes to shell games with money that doesn't exist. 

Who says you can't fool Mother Nature?

Jack

 

 

 

 

About this time a century ago, Pancho Villa raided the US town of Columbus, New Mexico, and the adjoining US Army camp, and occupied it a few days, killing, burning, robbing the bank.  The dead were mostly US soldiers.

General 'Blackjack' Pershing pursued him all over northern Mexico, fought him in Juarez.  My granddad used to tell me about sitting on a rooftop in El Paso watching the artillery duel and battling on the other side of the border.

But, of course, the wind changed rapidly and all was soon forgotten:

Probably Villa felt more comfortable with a smiling Blackjack Pershing at his side than he did with Zapata not smiling:

Pancho and Lefty.  You have to wonder whether Lefty's the guy in the lower picture, or in the one above it.

Anyway, you might call Villa the father of 20th Century US foreign policy.  The pattern followed us all the way through it.

Jack

"All the Federales say

They could have caught him any day.

They only let him get away

Out of kindness, I suppose."

From "Pancho an Lefty", Townes Van Zandt.

 

 

They broke in without knocking and killed him.  Found two oz of jade in his house after he was dead.

Was it okay?  Two cops argue the issue:

http://www.thisistrue.com/drugs.html

Pic is Pancho Villa mellowing out between acts of heroism.

Jack

 

Las Palomas used to be a sleepy berg, quiet, where US oldsters thronged to buy prescription meds at a tiny fraction of the prices this side of the border.  One paved street, the rest dirt, gravity flow concrete lined sewer ditches you had to watch your step to avoid when the covers were off or broken.

There was a hardware store, a sort of souvineer store, street venders selling leather goods, hats, and trinkets.

There were a number of dental clinics for US Citizens to get cheap, quality dental care, eye clinics for reasonably priced eyeware, and mostly none of the 'border-town rash'.

But for the past five years, things have begun a gradual change.  Sometime around 2001, I began noticing a lot of beggars, probably Tarahumari tribe, from the Sierra Madres, in increasing numbers on the streets.  Concurrently, they began a lot of public works projects, tearing down a lot of the older buildings and building new ones.

And, of course,

For the first time, beginning three, four years ago and increasing, a LOT of hookers on the streets, daytime.  Not hookers of the old-timey Mexico variety, looking to be barely ahead of the wolves at the door.  These women could be in Las Vegas, some of them... no half-starved, poorly dressed hookers for the daytime streets of Palomas.

This trip something else entirely new was happening.  They're pouring six-inch thick concrete slabs for the side-streets. 

Either things are harder than ever deep in Mexico, driving such folks to Palomas, or they're better than ever, prosperity pulling them there.  I haven't a clue which might explain it.

The pharmacies and the rest are still there, oldsters, though fewer, still visiting the pharmacias.... incidently, younger people as well, I noticed, buying viagra, elbowing one another, grinning.

But the meds this time cost a dime for a prilosec that would have cost almost a buck in the Walmart or Costco.

One more of those mysteries in life.

Palomas is six-miles South of Columbus, home of the Villa Raid in 1912.  Lots of ruins of that raid, which I'll be telling more about, but here's one monument.  All that's left of the bank, that vault testifying that some things just have a way of lasting better than others:

Jack

 

Harry Truman  campaign slogan, “The buck stops here.” The Square Deal.

A middling good president who was never intended to be president.  Not a pro-politician, but a haberdasher from Missouri.  One of those pivotal presidents, keys in the chain of events that got us where we are, but a man mostly forgotten.

Truman presided ove the end of WWII after Roosevelt died.  He had a tricky job and he wasn't up to the task, but it's impossible to know anything about Harry Truman without becoming convinced he did the best he could.  Whatever his failings, he was an honest, honorable man.

The decision to drop the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was his.  It's difficult to imagine any president making any other, under the circumstances.  Japan had to be invaded, or bombed.  Probably dropping the bomb saved the lives of a million men lost if we'd had to invade.

The last ten days of the war Joseph Stalin declared war on Japan and sent Soviet troops across Manchuria.  Truman agreed, after the surrender, to allow the USSR to have Sakhalin, the North island of Japan.  A costly decision over the decades, including the Soviet shooting down of Flight 007 during the 80s, with maybe a couple of hundred passengers aboard.

Truman also continued the agreement to give Eastern Europe to the Soviets.  He adopted the Marshall Plan, which was the means by which American taxpayers rebuilt Germany, Japan and Italy, and the industries there.  The consequences were that those nations had newer, better industries than the US, and eventually bankrupted our core industries.

During the Truman Administration the Communists ended the long civil war in China by winning, beginning the Domino Theory, which got us into Vietnam.  The theory assumed Communists forsook nationalism, in favor of Communism, and that they'd work together to Communize the world without attempting to further national interests.  In retrospect, it's difficult to believe any president, any US population would believe such a thing, but mostly we all did.

Fortunately, the Communists didn't.

The protracted, undeclared war in Korea belonged to Truman.  North Koreans pushed Americans into the Pusan Perimeter, a tiny piece of land on the lower end of the penensula.  Then MacArthur did a sea landing at Inchon.  US troops fought North Koreans all the way to the Yalu River, then watched as legions of Chinese came across and drove them back to the 38th parallel, where the war stalled, eventually sort of ended with neither side happy.  US troops still guard the DMZ there.

Truman stood up to his prima-donna general MacArthur, who wanted to lay a 1000 mile wide belt of radioactivity around Manchuria to take care of the problem, wanted to use the Atomic bomb on whomever.  Wanted it REALLY badly, with the enthusiastic support of a lot of hero-worshiping Americans who were afraid of Communism, frustrated by the duration of the war, and who loved war hero MacArthur for his pipe-smoking press conferences island hopping during WWII.  His promise to the Philipinos that he'd return, and his grandstand newsy announcement, "I have returned." when US forces took Manila.  A man, MacArthur, who'd have liked to be prez.

Truman fired him.  Good on him.

Truman presided in the beginning of a time in history when the best thing a poor nation could do was go to war with the US and lose.  The beginning of the period when the US began giving away the abundance they'd won with fire and blood to anyone with a sad story.  A time when Americans  could afford to be generous, short term, at the cost of the future.

But the most tragic thing about Harry Truman involved the Atomic bomb.  He was the first man in the history of humanity who held the power to say to the world, after the surrender of Japan,

"We have the Atomic bomb.  No other country has one.  We've proved our willingness to use it on a human population.

"Beginning August, 1945, the world is going to experience something called 'peace', and something else called 'disarmament'.

"Start gathering your weaponry, all you armed to the teeth nations, everything larger than squad-level weapons.  Pile it in designated central locations.  You are going to disarm, and you are going to go to peace with your neighbors, or you will face the consequences, the wrath of the United States in a way that will leave you a molten layer of green glass."

But, of course, he didn't.  Maybe it wouldn't have worked, anyway. 

But Truman was generally a good man, a not-so-good prez at a time when few could have done it better, though we might wish otherwise.

It surely might have been nice not to have had the Marshall Plan, the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, and it's difficult not to feel a bit miffed at Harry Truman for being the father of it all, after Roosevelt.

Jack

Current 1, 40, 50

Make of it what you will:

Repeated 40 

MM     
6/24/2005 14 43 44 50 56 7
6/21/2005 9 13 40 46 50 30
6/17/2005 16 35 40 49 50 34
6/14/2005 1 10 29 48 49 36
     
5/27/2005 7 17 22 34 50 24
5/24/2005 9 28 39 40 45 24
5/20/2005 3 6 27 40 44 9
5/17/2005 7 9 10 29 44 17
     
3/9/2004 16 23 29 36 51 49
3/5/2004 30 40 47 49 52 3
3/2/2004 25 30 35 40 50 4
2/27/2004 2 9 24 36 52 44

PB     
11/3/2004 11 35 43 45 48 42
10/30/2004 20 27 30 40 48 11
10/27/2004 11 17 40 44 51 21
10/23/2004 15 24 49 50 52 40
10/20/2004 1 11 17 41 46 24
     
9/29/2004 16 28 33 35 37 17
9/25/2004 11 25 40 41 48 3
9/22/2004 6 14 34 37 40 7
9/18/2004 2 14 27 31 36 9
     
8/25/2004 1 30 32 37 50 19
8/21/2004 3 16 27 39 40 3
8/18/2004 31 33 35 40 42 40
8/14/2004 4 10 11 18 43 41

MMPB     
8/13/2003 26 31 35 44 48 32
8/12/2003 8 11 18 35 51 26
8/9/2003 18 23 25 26 40 15
8/8/2003 6 9 35 40 43 42
8/6/2003 11 14 26 31 48 30
8/5/2003 7 32 34 38 44 49
     
6/20/2003 1 2 3 12 37 35
6/18/2003 19 20 21 45 46 20
6/17/2003 27 31 34 40 52 1
6/14/2003 12 26 40 42 50 3
6/13/2003 12 15 16 20 51 33
6/11/2003 12 16 43 44 46 38
     
6/11/2003 12 16 43 44 46 38
6/10/2003 14 15 23 32 52 37
6/7/2003 11 17 26 27 40 6
6/6/2003 10 14 28 39 40 35
6/4/2003 2 14 24 26 53 1
6/3/2003 4 20 25 29 32 20

Repeated 1

PB
12/22/2004 2 7 11 24 31 18
12/18/2004 1 25 29 30 45 12
12/15/2004 1 6 11 38 53 11
12/11/2004 6 7 16 41 53 23
     
12/4/2002 13 20 21 35 40 35
11/30/2002 1 4 19 21 29 8
11/27/2002 1 20 25 40 53 19
11/23/2002 15 16 19 21 49 5
     
6/29/2002 4 33 35 36 45 22
6/26/2002 6 9 17 23 24 14
6/22/2002 1 16 26 37 48 9
6/19/2002 1 3 4 7 11 23
6/15/2002 7 8 16 42 43 15

5/4/2002 6 7 9 12 20 20
5/1/2002 3 26 32 45 48 6
4/27/2002 1 9 12 18 33 14
4/24/2002 1 13 16 33 43 1

10/17/2001 5 7 29 40 46 5
10/13/2001 37 40 41 46 48 20
10/10/2001 1 7 8 16 19 37
10/6/2001 1 5 9 21 31 12

8/18/1999 5 8 9 26 41 19
8/14/1999 1 5 6 39 45 14
8/11/1999 5 7 10 12 43 7
8/7/1999 1 42 44 45 49 1

4/14/1999 10 12 19 25 40 33
4/10/1999 3 24 34 42 45 1
4/7/1999 5 26 31 37 39 42
4/3/1999 1 4 10 17 30 6
3/31/1999 3 15 16 28 39 1

MM     
3/8/2005 8 14 15 22 31 13
3/4/2005 7 10 13 35 39 21
3/1/2005 1 8 18 39 48 1
     
7/22/2003 1 5 31 38 47 3
7/18/2003 29 30 34 38 44 39
7/15/2003 1 26 33 43 48 22
7/11/2003 1 4 10 16 18 10
     
6/27/2003 1 14 20 31 40 43
6/24/2003 2 26 43 44 47 31
6/20/2003 1 2 3 12 37 35
6/17/2003 27 31 34 40 52 1
     
1/29/2002 4 21 30 33 48 34
1/25/2002 9 23 29 32 45 30
1/22/2002 1 12 35 37 49 1
1/18/2002 1 2 9 26 27 6

MMPB

12/22/2004 2 7 11 24 31 18
12/21/2004 7 22 27 31 38 12
12/18/2004 1 25 29 30 45 12
12/17/2004 16 34 38 42 47 1
12/15/2004 1 6 11 38 53 11
12/14/2004 14 27 32 34 40 2
     
11/24/2004 3 19 47 49 53 4
11/23/2004 8 30 32 35 51 17
11/20/2004 4 29 45 48 50 1
11/19/2004 1 12 24 36 51 38
11/17/2004 15 25 31 36 46 37
     
12/31/2003 5 7 18 28 35 1
12/30/2003 12 18 21 32 46 49
12/27/2003 16 17 32 34 43 31
12/26/2003 1 10 17 20 29 36
12/24/2003 1 6 31 34 44 25
12/23/2003 2 13 21 22 49 52

3/4/2005 7 10 13 35 39 21 
3/2/2005 3 10 18 46 48 8 
3/1/2005 1 8 18 39 48 1 
2/26/2005 8 22 30 33 49 6 
       
NY Lotto       
 Jan 17, 2004 15 28 31 49 50 57 45
 Jan 14, 2004 1 4 6 13 14 35 45
 Jan 10, 2004 15 18 39 45 52 53 56
 Jan 7, 2004 13 22 24 26 27 50 21
 Jan 3, 2004 3 13 19 31 32 34 27
 Dec 31, 2003 1 22 28 30 45 49 19
 Dec 27, 2003 1 12 30 37 44 49 59
 Dec 24, 2003 5 8 11 33 48 57 43

Jack

Some of you blog-readers have expressed a severe disinterest in history. For me, that serves as a red flag. If Americans don’t know their own history there’s no way they can learn from the mistakes and misjudgments of the past.

So, for the sake of education, I’m going to go through a brief, non-partisan history of the pros and cons of the US presidents of recent times.

Roosevelt: The New Deal

The Plus side:

 

“Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt

Tell me why you like Roosevelt, poor man's friend

That's why I like Roosevelt, poor man's friend

That's why I like Roosevelt, poor man's friend

Good God almighty, he's the poor man's friend

“Cause in the year of nineteen and thirty-two

We had no idea just what we would do

All our finances had flowed away

Till my dad got a job with the WPA

“That's why I like Roosevelt, poor man's friend

That's why I like Roosevelt, poor man's friend

That's why I like Roosevelt, poor man's friend

Good God almighty that's the poor man's friend

Good God almighty that's the poor man's friend “

From:

©1974 Jesse Winchester

From the LP “Learn To Love It”

The down side:

Fought the ‘Secret War’ from 1939, to 1941, using US military vessels to support foreign convoys supplying munitions to UK and Soviet Union, in contravention of International Law for Neutral Nations and at a time when the US public was distinctly undecided about whether to enter WWII. The only secret of the ‘Secret War’ was the American public. Everyone else on both sides knew.

Cooperated in secret agreement, August, 1941, with UK Prime Minister Churchill cutting off the Japanese Empire oil supply at Singapore, assuring that the Japanese would attack US holdings. September, 1941, Roosevelt issued a classified warning to US forces in Manila to expect an attack there. That mistake of location almost lost the US war in the Pacific before it began with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. It was clear to Roosevelt that the US public would be unwilling to enter the war unless US holding were directly attacked. He arranged for the attack, but underestimated cunning of the enemy.

Allied the US with the Soviet Union for the duration of the war. Put up with Joseph Stalin’s stalls concerning opening a new front into Manchuria, thereby allowing Japanese troops to be used entirely in China, and on the Pacific Islands, extending the war in the Pacific at the cost of thousands of lives of US servicemen. Participated in the pre-post-war agreement to give Eastern Europe to the Soviets, which was the root cause of the Cold War.

The issue here isn’t whether we should, or should not have entered WWII. The issue is the well-documented record of a President of the US and his administration to deceive US citizens to manipulate public opinion in favor of his own agenda by subterfuge.

The worst thing about the Roosevelt Administration, however, was that during his decade in office he stacked the US Supreme Court with lifetime appointments of innovative readers of the US Constitution, so’s to assure his programs stretching the document to the limit weren’t declared unconstitutional by the high court.

Two of the most divisive results of this free and easy reading of the Constitution can be found in the Miranda Decision (got to read’em their rights), Roe v. Wade (the Constitutional right to abortion). Miranda was a matter for Congress to decide and adopt into the Criminal Code, clearly wasn’t a right given by the framers of the Constitution. The ‘right’ to abortion was an issue for State legislators to decide within their areas of jurisdiction, as well as one for the US Congress. Both were usurped by the US Supreme Court in these two of countless decisions since Roosevelt.

Franklin Roosevelt is the father of litigious America. Father to legions of lawyers hoping and trusting the ‘current court’ will read the Constitution in favor of their clients.

Roosevelt had his strengths and his flaws, same as any other president. But he was the beginning of the King Worshiper phase of American political philosophy that’s become a monster in the US today, and has been encouraged increasingly by every president since, except Eisenhower, Ford and Carter.

Before Roosevelt, Americans recognized each president was just a man, same as them, full of mistakes, flaws, and driven by self-interest. After Roosevelt they were in a habit of thinking they could trust politicians.

In a few days I'll give you Harry Truman.

Jack