For a conspiracy so large, entailing huge numbers of people acting with the precision of a space launch, beginning before the assassination and enabled by an enormous, complicated cover-up that must continue today, there's nothing left behind. No proof, no footprints or documentation of any kind that wouldn't be laughed out of a courtroom or laboratory. Yet believers cling to this phantom plot with pseudo-religious faith, simply because... they want it to be true.

There was a time when anyone who didn't buy the conspiracy hogwash was shamed into silence, their very intelligence questioned. Conspiracy believers wink-wink themselves to delusion: They are imbued with the smarts required to see through the smoke, access secret knowlege, accept our bottomless evil for what it is, and are sophisticated enough to cope with what can only be seen now, 46 years later, as a ridiculous fairy tale.

Thankfully, that's changing.

Please. "Want to" a little more. About 99.9 percent of this woman's political heft is conjured out of thin air by the alchemy of media attention. Nothing more. A lapsed, quitter governor of a boondock state is suddenly a standard-bearer of American conservativism because this country's news industry evidently is dazzled by purty colors and sparkly beads. Face it, dammit: She's a far-Right refrigerator magnet. If the media gave her the attention she deserves, by now she'd be dumped on the same heap as Tara Reid and Vanilla Ice - 14 minutes of fame and GONE!

Our healthcare is in shambles and the big industry players are running the show, our stock market churns profit out of employee pink ships and the rest of us slip into peonage. We are looted from the top, by a system that strips us of meager resources by fiat bank fees and loanshark credit. Our children could end up living in America, The Crumbling Pesthole.

But, by all means, continue propping up the dodgy celebrity of this airhead shill. Rome's burning, and she's a mighty curvy fiddle.

Who knew what beforehand? Not just here, but in Israel, as well. The 9/11 attacks were hijacked as the pretext for the Iraq War. We now have active combat bases strung from the Mideast to South Asia, securing the oil fields and Israel. For those pursuing those empire-building goals, 9/11 was a boon.

Unfettered, illegal immigration is disastrous to our domestic workforce; it's impossible to improve working conditions or unionize when cheaper labor is available and ready. The illegal immigrants themselves are the biggest losers, since the set-up allows them to be worked long days at peanut wages. Occasionally, there are reports of such abuses at "big box" stores and in rural factories. Then the dust settles - and nothing. Employers go right on exploiting. Meanwhile, the Left, yapping endlessly to itself, does everything it can to maintain this ugly status quo.

Thanks, but no thanks.

It's federal law: All seriously injured emergency and trauma patients must be given equal lifesaving care, whether or not they can pay for it. But that's not happening, according to a new report. The study, conducted by Children's Hospital Boston research fellow Dr. Heather Rosen and colleagues from three other hospitals, found that uninsured trauma victims ages 18 to 30 are dying at an annual rate 89 percent higher than insured victims with identically severe injuries.

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