JFK Conspiracy Solved... It Was Us.

50 years ago today John Kennedy was shot.

Many still believe in an assassination plot:

L.B.J., the CIA, or Castro, or the mob.

Presidents could not be killed by one pathetic slob.

Looking back we all remember it as Camelot;

Dreaming of our glory days, but maybe we forgot

We were simply not a most congenial spot back then.

My mom is a Northerner who lived down South and when

She was at the Commissary they announced the news;

People started cheering and expressing racist views.

Toxic atmospheres build up and then some loser acts.

Let's not try to kid ourselves; we have to face the facts...

No one fled the grassy knoll; Lee Oswald was alone.

He was not the patsy here.  He acted on his own.

But the ugly politics and scandals of the day

Also had a passive, but important, part to play.

Maybe we should think about that as we're looking back

From our current, constant state of partisan attack.

This new generation of Americans must change...

Who knows which new lunatic is at the target range.

Across the Pond - Afghanistan: The Karzai Conspiracy Theory

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is pointing fingers. (Photo/Telegraph.Co.UK)

Karzai said the U.S. plays an underhanded role;

Working with the Taliban (behind the grassy knoll?)

Offering assistance to extremists 'cause our plan

Is to make them beg us to stay in Afghanistan.

Karzai thinks in areas (as much as 51?)

His men would already have the bad guys on the run

If it weren't for secret plans to make police look bad.

Recently he told the Afghans they were being had.

Maybe I am crazy but I don't believe a word.

It's the most ridiculous conspiracy I've heard.

They were, once, strategically important...  Times have changed.

Nowadays, 'most anywhere's more easily arranged.

Maybe if Chuck Hagel had been killed, the way they tried,

Karzai would believe that NATO leaders haven't lied.

Taliban is no-one's friend and, lest Karzai's forgot,

There's a lot of  U.S. forces out there getting shot.