Yes, ofcourse!!

Its December 7th. Ofcourse there will be a post today on the blog.

We think of the Germans marching along with that ridiculous goose-step, but America marched even more foolishly into world war two. The President wanted us in the European War, Churchill wanted us in the war and the Jews wanted us in the war. Warner Brothers had been on a war footing for years. All those patriotic movies while we were officially at peace. Even the Sergeant York story about World War One depicted the Germans as militaristic and dishonorable and Americans who fought them as simple, noble people doing their duty. Ofcourse York was destitute at the time and the calls for a Congressional investigation into the propaganda emanating from Hollywood fell on deaf ears once Pearl Harbor took place. Then there were no more investigations, no more comments about why FDR had shifted the fleet out there in the first place and relieved of command the admiral who objected to it. Or why the oldest and most frail admiral in the Navy took his place. FDR wanted something, it had to be big and it had to come from the Japanese. Ending the Japanese access to scrap steel was just a perfect way to prod the Japanese into action.

September 11th? Same thing pretty much. It had to be big. It couldn't be some gunboat incident in a far off place. And all the Islamic militants needed was a little proding.

The Seattle information specialist suffered horribly from sleep apnea and apparently a few other medical conditions. Just think what some decent treatment from Seattle doctors would have meant. The calls would have been made. The thinking would have been more clear. The worry about an anonymous call to NYC or a call to a local police barracks in Seattle would have been made rather than contemplated. The two email contacts that had been pre-selected (a former White House official and a professor with contacts in the Intelligence Community) would have received alarming emails. And the search for the name Mohammed Atta on an early morning Boston to LAX flight would have been performed. He said he became convinced that it would happen when he was seated in a lounge at 2:00pm that afternoon of the 10th. He again felt an awful sense of dread in the late afternoon and early evening but was always stopped by the utter lack of any evidence and fears of a prosecution for making terroristic threats. He turned in for the night at 8:00pm and took one last look at his computer that was then in sleep mode and wanted to haul himself out of bed instead lay down and turned on his sleep apnea equipment. He became immediately convinced he should get out of bed and call despite the risks to himself but his oxygen deprived brain was in sleep mode as well and he was unable to rouse himself. After an unusually long sleep that night, he awoke the next morning, instantly ran to the TV and tuned it in to CNN. From that moment on, the horror has never stopped.