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My, my, my, what have we here?

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/McKnight%20Working%20Folders/Part%203/HSCA%20-%20Captain%20John%20H%20Stover%20Interview/HSCA%20-%20Captain%20John%20H%20Stover%20Interview%2001.pdf

MTG has repeatedly said throughout this thread that Captain John Stover corroborated Dr. James Young's claim that a whole bullet was delivered to Bethesda during JFK's autopsy. Despite my requests for MTG to cite a source for his claim, he failed to do so. I decided to look for the documentation myself and the above link is what I found. It is an HSCA Outside Contact Report which summarizes the interview with Captain Stover. I point to item 5 in the report which states the following:

"Stover cannot recall ever seeing an intact missile in the autopsy room."

My question to MTG is whether this was a gaffe on your part or did you just outright lie about Stover's statement.
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You know, most forums do not allow members to start threads that name other members in the title and that ridicule them in the OP. It's considered rude and inappropriate.

Anyway, I can tell one thing I have in common with other WC critics named in the thread title: We are all part of the 2/3 to 3/4 majority of Westerners who believe JFK was killed by a conspiracy.

well you’re all wrong, at least on the analysis/interpretation side.  just like mssr. Marsh may he rest in peace+
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Huh?! Objective people who read this thread are going to conclude that either you can't read or that you are knowingly making a false claim here.

Once again, objective people who read this thread are going to conclude that either you can't read or that you are knowingly making a false claim here. 

I based that statement on the following:

https://archive.org/stream/WhatPriceARoseANavyPhysicianRemembersNov.221963NavyMedicine/What%20Price%20A%20Rose_%20A%20Navy%20Physician%20Remembers%20Nov.%2022%2C%201963%C2%A0_%C2%A0Navy%20Medicine_djvu.txt

It states from the top that it is the full text of "What Price a Rose" and it contains no reference to a bullet or I slug. This morning, I found another version of "What Price a Rose" which does contain a reference to a slug. It appears that despite the article saying it was the full text of Dr. Young's essay, it appears to be a slightly abridged version so I had been misled. When I discovered the more complete version, I deleted the statement I had already typed which said the essay contained no reference to the slug.

What hasn't changed is the fact that there is no corroboration for Dr. Young's statement that the envelope with the bone fragments also contained a bullet. Contrary to what you have stated repeatedly, Chief Mills did not corroborate Young's claims. He only stated that he had a conversation about "the event" but gave no other details. That is not a corroboration of Young's account.

You have also made the claim that someone named Stover corroborates Young but despite having been asked, you have yet to provide a citation that backs up your claim. You have only given us your spin on what Stover saw.
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Then you are saying that Dr. Young was either lying or hallucinating, starting less than 24 hours after the autopsy, and that he was so dishonest or delusional that when he came across the reference to the bullet in his 11/23/63 essay years later, when he was making copies of the essay for his children, that he then repeated the lie/delusion in a letter to President Gerald Ford, that he repeated the lie/delusion again when he spoke with Arlen Specter, and that he repeated the lie/delusion yet again when he gave his Navy oral history interviews!

I neither said Dr. Young was lying or hallucinating. Those are your words. I indicated Dr. Young apparently had a misconception about what was in the envelope. He might have just assumed that based on the report he got from the Secret Service from the White House garage. They informed him they had found some bone fragments and might have also told him about the bullet fragments found. Young might have just assumed they were referring to a whole bullet and not a fragment. There is no record of a whole bullet having been found in the limo. Not from the Secret Service and not from Mills. The reason for doubting Young's account is that it would make no sense for them to have sent a whole bullet to Bethesda. The record shows that the bullet fragments found in the limo were turned over to the FBI. What sense would it make for them to turn the fragments over to the FBI but send a whole bullet to Bethesda. I have yet to see you address this conundrum.
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Let me guess: that scenario "makes sense" to you, right?!

Again. I did not use the word lie.. I used the word confused.
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Even here you can't be honest or accurate. The cover story that you are peddling demands that only two very small fragments were found, not "several," and that Sibert and O'Neill signed a receipt that described them as a "missile" even though they constituted less than 2% of the mass of a bullet. That's the story you're stuck with if you can't admit that the receipt was for a missile and not two very small fragments. 

Now you try your trick of trying to redirect the conversation. The issue of whether a whole bullet was sent to Bethesda from the White House garage has nothing to do with what Sibert and O'Neill RECEIVED from the autopsy team at Bethesda.
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Ah, but you know that Boyers and Sibert said there were more than two fragments in the evidence bottle, that Dennis David typed a memo for four bullet fragments removed from the skull, and that mortician Tom Robinson saw Humes remove about 10 fragments from the skull. '

The question of how many fragments Sibert and O'Neill received at Bethesda has nothing to do with your claim that Bethesda had received a whole bullet from the White House garage. The premise of the thread as stated in your OP is that a whole bullet being found in the limo is inconsistent with the finding that a lone gunman did the shooting. Your sole basis for claiming such a bullet was found is Dr. Young and nobody corroborates his story and the story makes no sense. Are you ever going to even attempt to explain why the Secret Service would have sent a whole bullet they found in the limo to Bethesda when they had turned all the fragments that were found, including the one found by Mills, over to the FBI?
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You also know that O'Neill said he saw Humes remove a bullet fragment from the back of the head and that it was one of the two fragments in the evidence bottle, a bombshell that you know decimates the cover story you're peddling and proves Humes was lying about the fragments he removed.

Try to focus. The issue is whether whole bullet was found in the limo and sent to Bethesda.
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Once again, objective people who read this thread are going to conclude that either you can't read or that you are knowingly making a false claim here.

Once again, objective people who read this thread are going to conclude that either you can't read or that you are knowingly making a false claim here.

Objective people will see you are trying to bluster your way through the discussion by trying to redirect the conversation to the fragments that were turned over to the FBI and away from Young's claim that a whole bullet was delivered to Bethesda.
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The only "confusion" is in your silly, deceitful argument. Dr. Young never exhibited the slightest degree of "confusion" about the bullet. From his 11/23/63 essay, to his December 2000 letter to Ford, to his summer 2001 conversation with Specter, to his December 2001 Navy oral history interviews, he repeatedly made it clear that he saw the bullet, noting that it was brass in color, half a centimeter in diameter, and deformed. When he was asked in his third 2001 interview if the bullet was a copper-jacketed bullet, he said he didn't think so because it didn't "look like" that.

Yes, Young did exhibit confusion when he claimed to have seen a bullet that nobody else knows anything about. Not the Secret Service agents who searched the limo. Not Mills nor Martinell. Not Admiral Burkey. Not Humes, Boswell, nor Finck. Not Gerald Ford nor Arlen Specter. Nobody by Young.
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What truly makes no sense is that you would pretend to have any clue about what makes sense. Earlier in this thread, you said that for Dr. Young's account to make sense, we'd have to believe that JFK's limo was driven to Bethesda. You said it made no sense that SS agents would turn over a whole bullet to Mills and Martinell, when no one has ever claimed any such thing. You said it made no sense that SS agents would keep the "fragmented bullet," when there was no "fragmented bullet" found in the limo and when no one has ever even claimed there was. You said it made no sense that Dr. Young would have verified the envelope's contents before handing it over to Dr. Humes in the autopsy of a U.S. president in the crime of the century. Over and over you said it made no sense that SS agents would let Mill and Martinell search the limo.

I got that impression from what you wrote in the OP. You only said that Mills and Martinell had found a bullet in the limo. You failed to mention that they had been sent to the White House garage to search the limo. Silly me for thinking you had told us the whole story.
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So you have no credibility to be telling anyone what makes sense and what does not.

You apparently have no sensible explanation for why the Secret Service would give the bullet fragments to the FBI but send a whole bullet to Bethesda. Does that make sense to you?
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Once again, objective people who read this thread are going to conclude that either you can't read or that you are knowingly making a false claim here.

Just to remind everyone, one of the reasons that Navy historian Jan Herman called Chief Mills was that Dr. Young had said that he phoned Chief Mills to verify his recollection about the finding of the bullet and bringing of the bullet to him at the autopsy, and that Chief Mills confirmed his recollection.

Again you are telling a flat out lie. Mills only told Herman that he had a conversation with Young. He refused to tell Herman what was discussed. There is no record of Mills confirming Young's claim that a bullet was found in the limo and sent to Bethesda. If you had any evidence of that, you would have posted it by now.
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The fact that Mills did not repudiate Dr. Young's account and confirmed that Dr. Young called him to verify his recollection is powerful evidence in support of the account.

Oh, because Mills did not repudiate what his former commanding officer had claimed, you took that as confirmation. One more example of the illogical way your mind works. Any unknowns are treated as evidence that supports the narrative you are pushing.
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If Mills had not found a bullet and had not brought it to Dr. Young at the autopsy, he certainly would have immediately made this clear to Herman, especially since he was reluctant to discuss the matter further. The conversation would have gone something like this if Dr. Young had been wrong about the finding and delivery of the bullet:

Herman: Dr. Young says he called you to verify his recollection that you and Martinell found a bullet in the limo and that you brought the bullet in an envelope to him at the autopsy. Is this true?

Mills: He called me, but he totally got his facts mixed up. We didn't find any bullet and did not bring any bullet to him at the autopsy. So, no, I did not verify his recollection.

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That was worthy of six BS emotes. You have no idea what Mills would have said or why. I don't suppose you ever considered that maybe Mills didn't want to talk about it to Herman because he didn't want to embarrass his former CO. I could just as easily posted an imaginary conversation between the two based on that premise and it would carry the same weight as your imaginary conversation which is none at all. All we know is that Mills refused to go into detail with Herman without giving a reason.
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I think it would be worthwhile to review some of your other gaffes in this read, just to show readers that you have no business even posting in this forum:

-- You said Dr. Young wrote the 2013 V.K. Remer article for himself. Young died in 2008, and the article's byline identified Remer as the author and Andre Sobocinski as the editor.

-- You declared with great excitement that V.K. Remer's 3-page 2013 article on Dr. Young's account did not mention the finding of a bullet in the limo. You didn't realize that Remer's 2013 article was a highly condensed version of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery's earlier 12-page 2013 article, which does mention the finding of the bullet.

So you acknowledge what I wrote at the beginning of this post that there was an abridged version of Young's essay which didn't mention a bullet. That is not a gaffe by me. Am I supposed to know that a longer version of that essay was available, especially since the version I referenced stated it was a FULL TEXT.
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-- You said Captain Osborne was never interviewed by the HSCA, when in fact his HSCA interview is a matter of record and has been discussed in literally dozens of books on the JFK assassination -- proving, once again, that you have no business posting in this forum under the pretension that you know anything about the JFK case.

Again, I made that on the basis of an internet source that listed witnesses who testified before the WC, the HSCA, and the ARRB as well as those who gave affidavits. I was unaware that the list is incomplete and in the future I will take that into account.
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-- You said it doesn't matter if the autopsy doctors or the HSCA FPP got the rear head entry wound's location wrong by 4 inches because either way the shot aligns with the sixth-floor window! Did you just not get to take a basic geometry course in high school?

The effect of the geometry would be negligible given that a 4 inch difference at a range of 88 yards would have little change on the angle of the trajectory and either entry point is possible with Oswald as the shooter. There is ample other evidence that establishes Oswald was the shooter who fired that shot. Most notably, the fragmented bullet found in the limo which had two fragments which were positively matched to Oswald's rifle which was found on the 6ht floor.
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-- You claimed that you can accept the EOP entry site without rejecting the autopsy brain photos, even though the HSCA FPP correctly pointed out that the brain photos categorically disprove the EOP site. Of course, we both know that the all-important caveat here is that this is assuming the brain photos are authentic.

I can accept that because unlike you, I haven't deluded myself into believing I am an expert in forensic medicine and am in no position to conclude which group correctly placed the entry wound. What matters to me is where that bullet was fired from and both groups agreed JFK was shot in the back of the head which is consistent with the finding that Oswald fired the shot.
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We both also know that even pro-WC Dr. Robert Artwohl was honest enough to confirm that the autopsy photos at the National Archives show undamaged cerebral cortex in the very spot of the alternative rear head entry wound site, i.e., the cowlick site, just as neuroanatomist Dr. Joseph Riley noted, and just as Dr. David Mantik has confirmed at the National Archives.

All this crap you are bringing up is just another example of you trying to redirect the conversation away from your original premise that an extra bullet was found in the limo, a claim you made on the weakest of evidence.
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I suspect you just don't the character to admit it, but your only two choices are a rear head entry site that proves the brain photos are fraudulent or a site that is refuted by the autopsy photos of the head (as well as by the fact that the phantom site was conjured up in the first place in an attempt to explain what appeared to be a 6.5 mm bullet fragment on the AP x-ray, a "fragment" that was not mentioned in the autopsy report and that turned out to be a ghosted image that was superimposed over the image of a smaller and much thinner genuine fragment visible on the lateral x-rays).

I know you don't have the character to admit you are wrong even though you are almost all the time with your FUBAR analysis of the evidence. I also know that if I had left out an important word like you did in the first sentence of the above paragraph, you would have made a big deal about it.
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-- You said we can't know what Sibert and O'Neill meant by the term "missile" on the receipt, when (1) they did not draft the receipt, and (2) in every other document and statement they always distinguished between a missile/bullet and missile/bullet fragments. This is not to mention the fact that Sibert clearly expressed misgivings about having signed the receipt in his HSCA interview, and that O'Neill dropped the bombshell in his HSCA statement that one of the fragments in the evidence bottle was a fragment from the back of the head.

Didn't they sign the receipt?
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-- You claimed that I have denied there was a shot to the back of the head, when I have spent literally dozens of replies in numerous threads arguing for the veracity of the autopsy report's description of the rear head entry wound.

-- You said that I think Sibert and O'Neill were "qualified radiologists," a truly bizarre claim whose origin I cannot fathom, since I have never once even remotely implied that they tried to read x-rays at the autopsy (they merely reported what they heard the autopsy doctors say).

I intended that as a question. I was asking you if that's what you thought. I neglected to finish the sentence with a "?" which does change the meaning. My bad.
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-- You asked me if Captain Osborne said "he and Sibert received whole bullets at the autopsy," apparently forgetting that Osborne insisted he saw and handled a bullet at the autopsy, and that Captain Stover said he recalled that a bullet arrived at the autopsy in an envelope.

You keep claiming this but never provide a quote or a source for this claim.
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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Re: The bones of the skull
« Last post by Michael T. Griffith on Yesterday at 08:24:10 PM »
Oh my goodness. You are worse than a teenager. Do you really think readers won't see through this silly, dishonest dodge?

I've stated several times now that the FPP did not touch the issue of missing frontal bone in the text of their report, but that they (1) produced several wound diagrams that show no missing frontal bone, (2) ignored McDonnel's and Angel's analyses of the skull x-rays regarding missing frontal bone, (3) ignored Angel's placement of the triangular fragment in the frontal bone, and (4) ludicrously placed the triangular fragment in the parietal bone in order to avoid having to admit that substantial frontal bone was missing.

And your teenage response is to cry "but they didn't say in their text that there was no missing frontal bone!" Producing bogus, misleading wound diagrams showing no missing frontal bone is every bit as much of an act of making a false claim as falsely saying in text that there was no missing frontal bone. Producing misleading diagrams is a form of misleading communication, especially if you purposely avoided saying that the diagrams are misleading.

If you bought a house remotely based on photos that a realtor sent you and then you found out that the photos had been photoshopped to conceal damage to the house, imagine what you would think if you confronted that realtor and they said, "Oh, hey, I never said there was no damage to the house!" Yeah, I'm sure you'd be just fine and dandy with that nonsense, right?

I would just again note that you still have not acknowledged your undeniable blunder of claiming that the FPP identified one of the skull fragments as frontal bone. There were only four skull fragments, and the FPP said in writing that they constituted the entire exit wound. They did not identify any of the fragments as frontal bone, even though the triangular fragment was "clearly frontal bone," as Dr. Angel told them and as Dr. Mantik, Dr. Chesser, and others have confirmed.

Finally, if you want to read about the FPP's conflicts with Angel and McDonnel over missing frontal bone and the placement of the triangular fragment and the Harper fragment, I again suggest that you break down and read John Hunt's famous article on the subject. Here's the link again, for your convenience:

https://www.history-matters.com/essays/jfkmed/ADemonstrableImpossibility/ADemonstrableImpossibility.htm

Come to think of it, I should add 

-- that the FPP "said" that the triangular skull fragment was in the parietal bone (they also put it in the parietal bone in their diagrams);

-- that the FPP "said" that the triangular fragment was bordered by the Harper fragment below it, and that the two fragments adjoined and completed a single bullet exit hole ("circular perforation");

-- that the FPP "said" that the four fragments constituted the exit wound and that the fragments left "no additional pieces of bone missing" (which is the same thing they depicted in their diagrams);

-- that the FPP "said" that the four fragments all came from the large defect illustrated in HSCA JFK Exhibit F-66, which shows no bone missing from the frontal bone;

-- and that the FPP "said" that the exit wound was located only in the parietal bone (7 HSCA 80, 120, 124; HSCA RN 180-10100-10232, p. 57; HSCA RN 180-10120-10023, p. 2; 1 HSCA 252-254).

So, it is certainly fair to say that the FPP "said" there was no missing frontal bone. To put it another way, their statements about the placement of the four skull fragments and the large exit wound, especially the triangular fragment and the Harper fragment, make it impossible to conclude that the FPP even hinted that any frontal bone was missing.

This fact is confirmed in their wound diagrams, which depict no missing frontal bone and which show all the skull fragments as coming from the parietal bone (e.g., HSCA JFK Exhibit F-66 in 1 HSCA 252).

Yet, Dr. Boswell drew a diagram that depicted a substantial amount of missing frontal bone. Dr. Finck said there was missing frontal bone. Dr. McDonnel said a substantial amount of frontal bone was missing. Dr. Angel said the triangular skull fragment, the largest of the fragments, was frontal bone. Dr. Canning said the skull x-rays show missing frontal bone. Dr. Fitzpatrick told the ARRB, albeit in very guarded language, that the skull x-rays show a sizable amount of missing frontal bone. And, Dr. Mantik has confirmed with optical-density measurements of the skull x-rays that a large amount of frontal bone is missing.

So why did Baden and Weston, the main authors of the FPP's report, so doggedly refuse to acknowledge that the skull x-rays show a substantial amount of missing frontal bone?

One, they were trying to sustain the revised entry wound location, i.e., the phantom cowlick entry site, and any appreciable amount of missing frontal bone would wreak havoc with the trajectory from the cowlick entry site.

Two, they needed to shrink the size of the exit wound to make it at least theoretically compatible with an exit wound caused by an FMJ bullet striking the back of the head straight on at a downward angle. One of their radiology consultants had already told them that the wound seen in the x-rays was not what he would expect to see from an FMJ bullet striking straight on.

This was Dr. Norman Chase, the chairman of the Department of Radiology at the New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Chase informed the HSCA that the large head wound was "not" what he would expect "from a single, jacketed bullet hitting straight on," and then he suggested the bullet may have been tumbling or may have hit at an angle--which of course was not at all consistent with a bullet fired from the sixth-floor window at Z311-312.

Three, the autopsy photos of the head show no loss of structure whatsoever in the top of the forehead and in the area behind the hairline. One would logically think that there should be at least a modest indentation/loss of structure behind the hairline, if not also at the very top of the forehead. Dr. Ubelaker told the ARRB that "the apparent absence of bone in much of the anterior portion of these x-rays seems inconsistent with the intact appearance of the right forehead in the photos."
 
Obviously, John Corbett doesn't have the maturity or the character to admit that he blundered. I know he knows he was wrong in saying that the FPP identified one of the skull fragments as frontal bone, and everyone reading this thread knows it as well. I see no point in wasting more time trying to get him to acknowledge his obvious error. He's never going to admit it.

Just bumping this thread to alert any recent newcomers to the fact that John Corbett will never admit when he blunders, even when the blunder is so obvious and clear as to be undeniable. In the OP of this thread, he made the astonishing claim that the FPP identified one of the skull fragments as coming from the frontal bone ("the FPP also identified a piece missing from the posterior of the frontal bone"). Anyone who has even just a basic understanding of the FPP's report and claims knows the FPP did no such thing, that in fact the FPP denied that any frontal bone was missing.

As you can see, when I confronted Corbett with this documented, undeniable fact, he refused to admit his blunder and came up with excuses that you would only expect from a spoiled teenager who didn't want to admit he was wrong. Keep this in mind when you read Corbett's replies in other threads.

 
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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Re: Acoustic Evidence
« Last post by Michael T. Griffith on Yesterday at 08:10:25 PM »
Thompson is now 91 yrs old. He wrote his final book 5 yrs ago. Do the math. The man is and has been incapable of coherently defending his long held JFK Assassination positions for a while now. He more than merits being left alone at this point in his life.

When I talked with Thompson in 2022, he seemed quite lucid and in full possession of his faculties.
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You know, most forums do not allow members to start threads that name other members in the title and that ridicule them in the OP. It's considered rude and inappropriate.

Anyway, I can tell one thing I have in common with other WC critics named in the thread title: We are all part of the 2/3 to 3/4 majority of Westerners who believe JFK was killed by a conspiracy.
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    You are dodging the question. 62+ years after the assassination and the ORIGINAL Darnell and Wiegman Films remain under lock-n-key. Why?

Nobody cares.
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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Re: Deep Politics Forum
« Last post by Mark A. Oblazney on Yesterday at 07:19:36 PM »
anything to help the sage of sanibel move his agenda in the white direction
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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Deep Politics Forum
« Last post by Brian Doyle on Yesterday at 07:15:55 PM »


      I appreciate the help Mark...


       Class guy...
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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Re: Deep Politics Forum
« Last post by Mark A. Oblazney on Yesterday at 07:14:11 PM »

I get "MyBB Internal Error" and cannot access...

yes, Albert……. your Bibi definitely has an internal error, part of the issue over there lol.

Ok, brian, I’ll do you a solid.  type in ‘deep politics forum’ in your google. don’t hit what comes up first, that’s what you got. You’ll figure it out, you case cracker you.
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