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There are three possible reasons why President Kennedy was assassinated
1 As a result of the Cuban missile crisis. Embarrassment to Kruschev resulting from Russia's climb down from installing missiles in Cuba and the threat this posed to USA.
2 Kennedy's attempts to tackle the Mafia's criminal presence in USA.
3 Kennedy's requests for the CIA to supply info to Russia regarding the knowledge held regarding UFOs. Kennedy apparently sent a request to the CIA to release details of extra terrestrial craft experiences recorded. He possibly thought that such craft if passing over Russia's nuclear silos could be thought to be from USA and may lead to reprisals. The CIA ignored his request apparently.
Three reasons here. Russia, Mafia, CIA.
Any other suggestions?

This is not a complaint blog. It's an observation and a question. I live near Pittsburgh, PA. On the 4th of July my son went to the store to pick up a few dinner items. I rarely have a craving for hotdogs, but that's what I wanted to make for our Independence day dinner. As my son was in town I asked him to pick up a few things, including hot dog relish which is like a finely diced sweet pickle with mustard. No hot dog relish to be found. In fact he'd never heard of it. As I said we rarely dine on hotdogs. They had regular sweet relish. That's it. I thought surely he must have failed to look properly. After the holiday I went to the store and no hot dog relish to be found. Apparently it's not a thing in the Pittsburgh area. Days later I still can't get over it. Yes, absolutely there are far greater (and real) problems in the world than the fact that people where I live fail to recognize the awesomeness of hot dog relish. To be honest, I usually prefer to drown my dogs with yellow mustard and diced raw onions.

Anywhoo...that got me thinking. In the hotdog-eating world, what is the standard of excellence of toppings? Anyone who mentions ketchup gets ignored.

Confucius said, it's not that he blogs too much. It's that the others blog too little.
As a matter of perspective. If one person blogs daily and others feel like they only want to blog weekly or monthly, is it the fault of the person who blogs daily that his/her blogs often appear on the main page?

If the website had more member participation there would be more blogs and no reason to complain about the bloggers who 'keep the place alive' and frequently appear on the main page.

Blog more people... Be an active part of the blogging community in a good way and not a bad way.

Maybe the solution is to blog about giving money to scammers or why it's so hard to find someone using online dating.

Those topics rarely get talked about!

According to some investigators on the pandemic, work at the Wuhan laboratory in China involved the genetic manipulation of a SARS virus at the request of the military, in order for it to be used as a bio weapon. It is also believed that a vaccine was being developed to possibly immunise the Chinese population against the produced virus. The COVID virus was not found naturally, but was completely new, which supports the possibility that it was deliberately produced and a leak resulted due to inadequate precautions. Staff wore a mask and white coat only in the lab.
This is just speculation, but many people still believe the virus was due to a leak.

In ancient Egypt, wine was used as an offering to the gods to symbolise power to revitalise and rebirth. They saw a connection between wines red colour and the blood of Osiris, the God of the afterlife.
So, red wine was not something unique to the biblical story of the last supper and Jesus's comparison of blood and wine, it was a ritual that already existed many years before.

Zeus the number one God in Greek Mythology gave his daughter Pandora, a present. It was a vase, not a box as commonly described. It had a lid. He told his daughter to display the object wherever she wanted, but she must never remove the lid.
The temptation was too great for Pandora and she removed the top. As a result, all the troubles that would face the world were released, except for hope.
Does this sound similar to the story of Adam and Eve and the instruction not to eat the forbidden fruit?
The biblical story is not unique and there are many stories that exist around the world that are similar.

At the test match yesterday at Lord's cricket ground, an England batsman was stumped by the Australian wicket keeper for wandering outside his crease. The batsman, Bairstow assumed beforehand that it was the end of the over, so the ball was dead. But the Australian team jumped with delight at seeing him out. The umpire hadn't officially declared that it was the end of the over so technically the ball was still live and the player must be deemed out. A mass protest ensued and the Australian team were booed by the crowd and called cheats.
This brings into question the right spirit of the game and the Australians capitalised on the situation when, if they showed the right sporting attitude, they should not have stumped the England player as he assumed the ball was dead and the Australian player knew that, but took the opportunity to gain a crucial wicket without showing the right sporting spirit.
Is it important in any sport to show the right sporting attitude, or is winning at any cost the only objective.

Upgrades come under a few headings. Do them or ignore them as it's not broke so I don't have to fix it. At some point in time I have to do an upgrade or two and the time is nearing.

I bought a few refurbished computers over the years and they appear to be okay for my normal use. My business computer was purchased new years ago with an older system using Windows 7 and some of the software I'm using requires Windows 10 to get all the features out of them.

The latest version of Google Chrome is like the kiss of death and email drags, times out and sometimes requires a refresh to function.

Time for an upgrade I've been putting off for a while. I bought a refurb and I'm busy migrating all my data and programs from the older computer to the new one. One main program that handles my PDF documents similar to Adobe cannot be moved. The company offered an upgrade that was half price, so I'm in the process of installing and setting up the environment that will take a few hours to accomplish.

Upgrades, sometimes you've got to do them!

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Sorry Merlot & Oz ....
can't babysit this blog at the moment and the only way to keep comments out, is not allow any at all...
forgot that when I opened my mouth for the second time

No hard feelings lads for being temporarily banished lol

The kiwi is a creature native to New Zealand. The Blue Kiwi is extremely rare, possibly due to its shy nature, and has a tendency to run away and hide it's face. It is the size of a chicken with a bald head, and if you ever see one, make sure you take a photo and post it on this site. There are no photos of this creature at present.