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Post by pat on Aug 4, 2023 15:52:42 GMT -5
I just read an article about a book that came out today in which the author claims that Marilyn called the private bedroom phone at the Kennedy compound in March of 1962. He also claims that Jackie Kennedy, who answered the call, was "haunted" by it for the rest of her life, although she was never sure the caller was Marilyn or someone playing a joke on her. As usual in books like this, everyone the author names as a source is dead, so there's no way to check if he's telling the truth. He also says that Marilyn and JFK spent just one weekend together, and he denies that Bobby Kennedy had an affair with her. The book is Jackie: Public, Private, Secret by J. Randy Taraborrelli.
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Post by pat on Aug 3, 2023 20:35:28 GMT -5
I agree with some of what Kennedy says, like the school shooter psyho-drug connection, but I'd rather see him as Trump's running mate. And before any of you ask, no, the president and vice president do not have to belong to the same party. He could remain a Democrat and still run on the Republican ticket. But if he doesn't join the Trump ticket, he should choose Billy Joel's "You May Be Right" as his campaign theme song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo9t5XK0FhA LOL! If he does join Trump, I think he would switch parties. The Democrats consider him an embarrassment and obviously don't want him, and there are Republicans who like some of what he's saying, so I think he'd have a much better chance as a Republican.
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Post by pat on Aug 3, 2023 14:57:27 GMT -5
I haven't been to Williamsburg in years. I'd like to go in the fall when the trees are turning: the top photo of the Peyton Randolph House with that magnificent orange tree is beautiful. Also, I think people are more likely to see ghosts in the fall.
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Post by pat on Jul 27, 2023 9:00:35 GMT -5
I seriously doubt she had a lobotomy, but if one was performed, it would have been for the pain, not because Peron -- even though he was a selfish bastard -- wanted to control her speech. She was more popular than he was, he was still benefiting from her popularity, and I don't think he would have risked killing her when he could have had the doctors achieve the same thing with drugs. Also, she had a mother, a brother and several sisters who were always around, so if Peron was doing something like having a secret lobotomy performed, they would have known and either told Evita or broadcast what he was doing to the public. Didn't her brother commit suicide a few months after she died?
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Post by pat on Jul 26, 2023 12:29:18 GMT -5
I saw something online a few years ago about her having a lobotomy but I didn't pay any attention to it because I thought it was just some far out theory. But if Peron was the one who made the decision, I'm sure he did it to help with her pain rather than for any other reason. There was morphine and all sorts of drugs available in the 50s that could have kept her doped up if she was saying things he didn't want her to say.
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Post by pat on Jul 26, 2023 12:24:58 GMT -5
Even though Cruz was guilty and everyone knew it, the judge did show a lot of favoritism toward the prosecution. If she didn't have the ability to be objective, she should never have run for the position of circuit judge. She resigned after the defense lawyer objected to her serving as judge because she knew that's what every defense attorney would do.
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Post by pat on Jul 25, 2023 6:44:10 GMT -5
I'm going to make a guess and say this is 2112 Sultan Circle, Chuluota, Florida. On the afternoon of January 24, 2019, Grant Amato, age 30, shot and killed his mother and father, then he waited in the house with their bodies for several hours until his brother got home and shot and killed him. He killed everyone because he lived in an online fantasy world and had fallen in love with a Bulgarian Webcam model who called herself "Silvie." He had spent around $200,000 he stole from his parents paying to watch her site. They had sent him to rehab for sex and internet addiction and told him he had to get a job, but as soon he got home, he returned to his old habits. When his parents found out he was again watching Silvie online, they told him he had to leave the home. He was tried and convicted of first-degree murder and is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. The sovereign of an Islamic country is called a "sultan."
Chuluota is in Seminole County, which is named for the Seminole Indians, who were renegades.
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Post by pat on Jul 23, 2023 17:30:40 GMT -5
There was some program on TV recently about Pluckley and how haunted it is. In my opinion, though, it's more hype than haunt. We were there in October, when you would expect everything to be spookier than usual, but it was just an ordinary place with a few ghost stories, no different from countless other towns and villages in England.
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Post by pat on Jul 21, 2023 7:06:00 GMT -5
I have a friend whose granddaughter worked at this hotel during the summer when she was in college. She said that guests staying on the 7th floor sometimes asked if the place was haunted and a man who left his room late one night to get something he left in his car swore that he saw a woman in the hall who vanished before his eyes. Because he had been drinking, no one really believed him, but she said the 7th floor was very spooky, especially at night. We stayed there a couple of nights right after the hotel was renovated. I recall the rooms and halls were very dark, but we didn't see any ghosts.
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Post by pat on Jul 18, 2023 5:12:11 GMT -5
In no way am I trying to defend this fiend, but he had a wife, and although it's not politically correct to say, the home is usually the domain of the woman of the house, so why did she choose to live in a place that was falling apart?
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Post by pat on Jul 11, 2023 17:45:21 GMT -5
I suppose she's no longer a danger to others, but she took part in killing two people simply because Charles Manson told her to, and someone who does something that stupid doesn't belong in society.
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Post by pat on Jul 10, 2023 15:04:24 GMT -5
I emailed a link to this article to a friend of mine and she was quick to blame Stephanie Boller's mother because she allowed her child to walk to a neighbor's house alone. I told her that if a man sets out to snatch a child, he's going to find one, no matter how closely parents watch their children. In the case of Polly Klass, she was taken from her parents' home during a slumber party. Ann Marie Burr, who lived in Tacoma, where I live and lived at that time, was taken from her home on a dark, stormy night. I'm not saying people shouldn't watch their children closely, but things can happen no matter how closely you watch them. When I was a kid, my parents thought nothing of allowing us to walk to the homes of nearby friends alone, and our friends walked to our home alone. You're right, you can't prevent everything, no matter how closely you watch kids. Also, if you don't give them a little freedom, they'll become too dependent and won't be able to make reasonable decisions on their own. I think the reason a lot of children today aren't capable of making the right decision is because their parents watch them too closely. Of course, kids don't walk to anyone's house these days, they just call or text on their cell phones, which is another reason they lack decision-making skills.
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Post by pat on Jul 9, 2023 8:53:12 GMT -5
Are there others who hate all the CSI and NCIS shows on TV now? There must be at least a half-dozen CSI spinoffs and there are 3 or 4 NCIS shows on ION, ION Mystery, Charge and and other stations. I didn't like the original CSI and NCIS (after the first woman agent was killed off) and I absolutely despise all the others. Two other shows I can't stand that are shown too much are Bones and Monk.
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Post by pat on Jul 7, 2023 19:45:11 GMT -5
The guides at Newstead Abbey really do a whitewash job when it comes to Lord Byron. I don't know all the particulars, but I've read here and there that he mistreated women in general, tried to rape the young daughter of his mistress, and had several young male lovers, and by young, I mean children.
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Post by pat on Jul 7, 2023 19:10:16 GMT -5
This is a very good article and I'd like to see more about murders of the past. There's something about murders before the days of television when photos were in black and white that makes them seem more mysterious. I like the older murder stories, too. The more recent cases are often on Dateline, 48 Hours and other documentary shows, so there's a lot of information about them. With cases like this one, there's nothing on TV, and I had never even heard of it until I read this article.
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