Author: Mark Tokarski

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

The Memoirs of Billy Shears, Part II

I am reading this book on the presumption that no one else I know will do so. I’ve worked my way up to page 150, and when i say “worked” I mean less than that, as it is both interesting and annoying. It covers the history of the Beatles from a fan’s perspective, one that idolized them and believed in certain aspects of the group that I’ll list below. It’s annoying in that in order for me to believe every word of it, I would have to be quite stupid or, as with a good movie, offer up willing suspension of disbelief. There is no “Billy Shears,” there was no death of the original Paul, and no replacement. There were two Paul’s, identical twins, from the beginning.

In the fall of 1969 radio disc jockey Russell Gibb, WKNR-FM in Detroit, received a phone call from “Tom,” who told him that Paul McCartney had died and had been replaced in 1966 by a lookalike. Thus began a cottage industry that continues to this day, now called “PID”, or Paul is Dead. It is continually churned, new clues added now and then.

It is misdirection, designed to get us asking the wrong question. Paul McCartney was indeed replaced by a virtual lookalike, and I know who the replacement is. It was not hard to discover. If I could do it, so too could all of the sleuths (including Mike Williams, the “Sage of Quay”) who make those PID YouTubes and run those PID web pages.  Why don’t they? It is, I suspect, because they are tasked with keeping the mythology alive. They are disinformation agents.

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Seven dead in tragic crash near Yellowstone

Note to readers: Fool me once, and on and on we go. Our friend Petra immediately saw this accident as a fake event, based on misspelling of names and failure to get the location right. It looked real to me, and more so, looked as though they were deliberately concealing a massive death scene caused by lithium-ion batteries. They led me to where I would go anyway. I disagreed with Petra, and was sure I was right and she was wrong, and then in one story saw the the accident happened at “mile marker 399” in Idaho. Mile markers begin and end at the beginning and end of a road within a state, and Idaho does not have 399 miles to use. I went to the road department and looked up mile markers on US highway 20. There are 47 of them total. “399”, which can be read as 33333, or a Masonic reference, is meant to indicate to Freemasons everywhere that the event is fake. The scene below was staged. Nobody died, including Isaiah.

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Out of respect for sensibilities, I ask only the curious to go to the NBC website that reports on this crash, near Henry’s Lake in Idaho, and 20 miles away from Yellowstone National Park. Seven died, eight were injured, and no doubt burn units all over Idaho and Wyoming are on call and extremely busy. (Note, the caption to the photo says that the accident happened in Idaho near Henry’s Fork, east of Yellowstone. Geographically, it can only be west.)

Very often in movies and TV shows, vehicles in accidents burst into flames, sometimes for no good reason. In real life, such fires are not the ordinary outcome of collisions. That is done for dramatic effect. How many times have you seen a car rolling down a hillside after an accident, and then Gadzooks! It bursts into flames.

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Paul McCartney/Billy Shears: Some preliminary work

I ask the readers’ indulgence as I work on some aspects of Mike Williams’ work concerning the fictitious person he calls “Billy Shears”, also known as “Bill Shepherd” or “Vivian Stanshall”. The work below is based on the book The Memoirs of Billy Shears, by Thomas E. Uharriet, said to have been born in about 1960 (Ancestry does not give a precise date) and living in Los Angeles. Uharriet has quite a list of books on the market, seen here. Amazon returns a similar list. From this I open the possibility, and only that, that Uharriet is a real person. However, I am skeptical.

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Mike Williams, Sage of Quay, and the Memoirs of Billy Shears

Below the fold here is a video that is between Mike Williams, Jay Weidner, James Delingpole and Williams Ramsey, on the “Beatles Conspiracy”. The video is 4:35, that is, four hours and thirty-five minutes. Nonetheless, I expect all of you to drop everything and take half your day and watch it.

Actually, for my purposes here, you can go to 2:02:47, where Mike Williams begins to talk about the changes that “Paul” underwent from 1966 to 1968 or 69, which is why I am bringing the video and Williams to light here. In the brief interval after 2:02:47, Mike will hold up pictures of “Paul” McCartney claiming that the pictures are of a different person than the original.

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Anderson Cooper: Two men and a funeral

The work below this opening paragraph is from 2016, and I have edited it to remove some outside references that seemed appropriate at the time but do not now. The short shrift of it is that socialite Gloria Vanderbilt was said to have had two sons, last names taken from their father, Wyatt Cooper. They were Anderson, and Carter. The latter was said to have jumped off the balcony of their 14th floor Manhattan apartment in 1988, leaving but one.

I was listening to an interview with Anderson the other day, and I don’t know with whom. He’s a very smooth man, a good interview, but I was taken aback when asked about the Mom, Gloria. He was blunt to a fault about her, talking about her boyfriends as she aged, one having perfected the skill of cunnilingus. That was gross, as anyone can imagine the man performing the act as raising his head and being covered in cobwebs. Gloria (2024-2019) was the son of Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt (1880-1925), whose primary occupation was listed as “equestrian”. These people, including the two sons, were indeed to the manor born.

I am convinced that there are, to this day, two Anderson Coopers, one of whom I call “serious”. the other “Fredo”. I’ll explain all of that below. Just know that if you are watching Jeopardy on TV, and they are having their annual journalists contest, and if there is a Cooper there, it is Fredo.

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Two Books: “Unreliable” by Csaba Szabo, and “Unreadable” by Dr. Mark Bailey

The following is taken from Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell address to the nation, the one in which he warned us of the “military-industrial complex” that has long since engulfed us. These words are about science.

Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

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On Boys Don’t Cry, and a royal Miles Mathis f-bomb rant

Back in March I received an email from a person asking to be kept anonymous. In it he was inquisitive of a piece written by Fauxlex called Framing John Lotter: The Fake Murder of Brandon Teena. It was based on the 1999 movie Boys Don’t Cry starring Hillary Swank (pictured above with her doppelgänger, Matt Damon), Chloë Sevigny and Peter Sarsgaard and others. Swank played Teena Brandon, who in the movie is Brandon Teena, a transvestite, or woman passing as a man. In 1993 Brandon is murdered by John Lotter (Sarsgaard) and Tom Nissen (played by Brandon Sexton III). Lotter was accused of the murder of Brandon and two others, Lisa Lambert, and Phillip DeVine, and is sentenced to death, in large part based on the testimony of Nissen, who would later confess that he, and not Lotter, had killed the three victims.

At the time I suggested to Fauxlex that even as we agreed that the murders were fake, and that Brandon (played in the movie by Swank) was played in real life by a woman, Barbra Kramer, still living in a town in Nebraska, that Lotter and Nissen could not possibly be in jail. I was able to match the real-life Brandon Teena photo to a to the living woman who in real life was supposed to be Brandon Teena. (Fauxlex made this connection before I did.) So much time has passed, and I do not have the private emails, but I never said publicly to Fauxlex that I doubted that Lotter and Nissen were in jail. He went after me in public for disagreeing with him, as is his wont.

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33 reasons to be happy, the climate movement is dying

I meant to include this with the last post, but forgot. It is a list of 33 reasons to rejoice that the Climate Change movement is on the ropes. Some of them strike me as significant, such as 1,6,9,11,16,19 and 32. The rest are marginal. The Mann v. Steyn outcome is cause for celebration, even schadenfreude, but is not over yet. Greta Thunberg is really just growing up some, moving on to new targets for her angst. Maybe someday she’ll be a conservative. The rest could be said to be retrenching, I fear. This ain’t over, not with all the money and power behind it, and we all know, here at least, that Trump is just a sock puppet. I like what I see coming from him on climate and energy, don’t understand tariffs or why he is moving on them, and deportations seemed designed to enrage the left. I know in my heart of hearts that he is as phony as Al Gore’s climate angst.

Each of the 33 is linked, so have fun if you have time.

Over 30 items here: Evidence that the climate scam is collapsing

Skip the sunscreen. Wear blinders.

Below the fold you will find what was said to be Kurt Vonnegut’s 1997 commencement address to undergrads at MIT. It begins, after an opening quote, with the words “Wear sunscreen.” It closes with “But trust me on the sunscreen.” It is clever and even contains good advice, like “Do one thing every day that scares you” and “Keep your old love letters, throw away your bank statements.”

The original piece, published in June of 1997 in the Chicago Tribune, was unsigned. Mary Schmich of the Tribune later claimed authorship. The whole thing was weird, as the piece went viral as a real Vonnegut commencement address. It seemed unprofessional to allow it to go unsigned and to print it without Vonnegut’s approval. The Tribune is a high profile outlet, so that practical jokes are beneath it. But only later did we learn that Vonnegut had never spoken at MIT. Schmich then tried to contact him to explain the situation, and when they finally spoke he said it was “spooky.”

“Two questions: Why use Vonnegut? And why sunscreen?

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