Author: Mark Tokarski

Just a man who likes to read, argue, and occasionally be surprised.

Amazing BB King Interview

Channel 74 on SXM Satellite Radio is BB King Bluesville. I’ve been listening quite a bit lately, as I find the music to be pleasant background for just about any mood. This morning as I was driving to the gym BB King (1925-2015) was interviewed. He said, oh by the way, “I am a Mason”.

He said he had been one since his youth, and matter of factly stated that all judges and police officers were Masons. He then told a story about his youth, where he was to perform one evening but accidentally ended up in a building that housed illegal card games and alcohol and God only knows what else. The place was busted by police, and he was about to be arrested. Continue reading “Amazing BB King Interview” →

Fun with photos: John Lennon and family

I’ve been on hiatus with visitors aboard, and so only glanced occasionally at the blog. Not much going on. Today I want to wrap up my trip down memory lane with the subject of John Lennon. I left this subject long ago having given up, simply not enough evidence to draw far-fetched conclusions.

John was said to be the son of Julia Stanley. As far as I know there is only one photo of the two of them together.

It’s fake. Check out the lighting on the faces, the unusual straight line down her left side dress, the fact that the young boy’s head is bigger than hers.

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Some things I might (but probably don’t) understand, Part 3

I have on hand a treasure trove of photos and face comparisons, as I’ve been doing this for years. Most of the face chops turn up negative, showing two people to be different individuals, and that does not draw a lot of interest. But it is the primary use of face chops, to show differences.

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I think the photo to the left started the OWT that anorexia nervosa causes distortion of the skull shape. That is Karen Carpenter with her head stretched in a darkroom, done to make her look grotesque and seal her fake death as a real thing.

In fact, the only distorted skull shape I have ever seen is to the right here, Stephen Hawking suffering from ALS. Look at the bulbous protrusion of the back of his head. I agree with Mr. Mathis that Hawking indeed died in 1985 in Switzerland, and was replaced with an actor. They apparently had things left to accomplish with the Hawking character, including A Brief History of  Time.  That is, I think, a distortion of astrophysics, done with purpose. I should understand better why they did it.

[After posting this, I realized that the real Hawking who died 1985 and was replaced by an actor who then fake died in 2018 … it was 33 years later. Maybe, just maybe, it was not Mr. M who brought him down. Can it be?]

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Some things I do not understand, Part 2

Steven Parent is said to have been a random victim of the Manson Family on the night of August 9th, 1969. He had no connection to anyone there, and had merely driven to the property said to be the scene of the nightmarish murders to visit William Garretson, a caretaker who lived in a cottage behind the Roman Polansky/Sharon Tate house where the murders were staged.

I think it is pretty well established in our circles here that there were no murders that night, that Sharon Tate was not pregnant, that the Manson family was put in show trial, and that Sharon Tate disappeared, reappearing as her newly created younger sister Patty. None of them ever spent a night in jail. That being the case, it is unlikely that Steven Parent was killed that night. But he did disappear.

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Some things I do not understand

Note: This post was published by accident. I had many more topics to cover. I will continue with this in “Some things I do not understand, Part II.

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Face chops might be fatally flawed in that I am not in the room with the people I am studying. It could be, for instance, that Matt Damon has a head the size of a watermelon, while Tom Brady is more a cantaloupe.

Still, I get this:

It is not a perfect match in that the ears don’t align, but everything else does, and perfectly. The eyes and eyebrows, the noses, nose shape, mouth, lips, head shape and hairline. People are like snowflakes in that no two align, but these two do.

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Deniers

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would still be an evil. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. (John Stuart Mill)*

I was raised Catholic and maintained that faith until age 38, that is, 1988. You may think me a fool for holding on that long, but they got me when I was a kid. As the old priest said, give him to me as a child, I will have him for life. My first twelve years of education were Catholic.

We were taught about papal infallibility, that is, when the Pope speaks on matters of faith and morals, he is guided by the Holy Spirit, therefore cannot be wrong. He is said to be speaking ex cathedra.** 

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Maybe fossil fuels are our lifeboat

“Most glaciers in the NH [Northern Hemisphere] have only formed in the last 4,000 years. While these new glaciers are often used as evidence of global warming, that these new glaciers have formed in the past few thousand years is actually evidence that the Earth and Northern Hemisphere specifically are cooler now than they were in the past few thousand years.” (John Kehr, The Inconvenient Skeptic: The Comprehensive Guide to the Earth’s Climate, page 116.)

Mr. Kehr seemingly wrote this book (2011) and then walked off the face of the earth. He’s not on YouTube, makes no public appearances, doesn’t Google well. Maybe (guessing) he opted not to engage the propaganda and madness that is the Climate Change movement. Maybe he did not want to endure personal attacks from people less knowledgeable than him. Maybe he just doesn’t suffer fools well.

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Drive by, glance and shoot no more

One of my pet peeves, as they say, or most annoying facets of human behavior, is what I call the “drive-by”, or instant expert. It is, frankly, infuriating to spend hours trying to understand photo trickery, as seen above, and then to be told by someone only glancing at the same photo that I am all wrong about it. Karen Carpenter is an amazing drummer/singer who supposedly died in 1983 after having run, with her brother, an amazing string of hits. In this photo I suggested she had her head placed on the body of a marathon runner or some such thing. I thought the red and white top looked like a jersey, and anyway, why the placard saying “1”?

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