Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Fri, Feb 13 2004
Put Down The Tom Clancy Novel And Read This
I'm doing some research for a story, and was led to a couple of web sites with material that caused a few flutters in the old solar plexus. I was a pre-pubescent girl when all this was happening. I do remember being very confused and upset when I saw and heard news reports of growing trouble--particularly since the name of the Missouri town I grew up in was also named Cuba. We were about to make this relatively small island (and its people) off the coast of Florida a political casualty of the Cold War. We were so close to doing deceitful things--things for which we might now attack a country for doing to deceive us. Maybe you've read this material before, but I hadn't. Take special note of the specifics beginning on page 10 of this .pdf document (which is now declassified). If you love to laugh at conspiracy theories of any size or shape, you may come away with a new sense of uneasiness that will give you some solar plexus flutters of your own. This is the stuff that action movies are made of. But this "stuff" was real.
posted at: 06:52 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
I'm doing some research for a story, and was led to a couple of web sites with material that caused a few flutters in the old solar plexus. I was a pre-pubescent girl when all this was happening. I do remember being very confused and upset when I saw and heard news reports of growing trouble--particularly since the name of the Missouri town I grew up in was also named Cuba. We were about to make this relatively small island (and its people) off the coast of Florida a political casualty of the Cold War. We were so close to doing deceitful things--things for which we might now attack a country for doing to deceive us. Maybe you've read this material before, but I hadn't. Take special note of the specifics beginning on page 10 of this .pdf document (which is now declassified). If you love to laugh at conspiracy theories of any size or shape, you may come away with a new sense of uneasiness that will give you some solar plexus flutters of your own. This is the stuff that action movies are made of. But this "stuff" was real.
posted at: 06:52 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
