But, it was Kennedy who approved the Bay of Pigs and was
obssessed with the Cuban leader, Casto, and who was also a
devout opponent of communism. If anything he helped to escalate the
events of the Cold War towards the brink of nuclear destruction,
that is when he wasn't busy banging Marilyn in his spare time.
Thomas Keske" <TKeske@Comcast.net> wrote in message
news:8JCdnQ81tbv_WXbfRVn-2w@comcast.com...
> An optimist thinks that every mushroom cloud has
> a silver lining.
>
> I would say that it has been imminent for the last 50 years.
>
> The only mystery is how we managed to avoid it for so long.
>
> If George W. had been President during the Cuban Missile Crisis,
> with his style, it probably would have ballooned into total war,
> and it all would have been over in the 1960s.
>
> JFK bought us 50 years of borrowed time. Unfortunately after the right-wing
> fascists, the Nixons and Bushes and their ilk, conspired to murder Kennedy, we
> don't have him to save our sorry selves, anymore.
>
> Let's see, where I can find a Message of Hope, so I be a
> saint like the Pope? Somebody please find me a box to stand on:
>
> "The unbearable pain of the unspeakable tragedy of life is relieved somewhat by
> the realization that in the final
> analysis, nothing really matters. Life is only a short
> eyeblink of conscious awareness of pain, sandwiched in between two eternal
> oblivions, like
> a sandwich with too much bread and too little filling.
>
> Oblivion will dull the pain of the grain of sand of Time
> that you have, briefly, in your eye. Let us drink a toast
> to the Void, that we cannot for long avoid".
>
> Prophets of doom are never wrong. They can only be premature.
>
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