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Down memory lane DU 2005 - OP from our old friend Octafish on JFK assassination (Original Post) Grasswire2 Feb 2022 OP
Octofish is not gone dweller Feb 2022 #1
jaw drop Grasswire2 Feb 2022 #2
It's in his profile dweller Feb 2022 #6
He was gone for awhile, Grass blm Feb 2022 #9
Ahem. I'll settle for the "us". UTUSN Feb 2022 #26
Heheh blm Feb 2022 #29
Still loved and beloved malaise Feb 2022 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author malaise Feb 2022 #14
I miss TVmitch... n/t gay texan Feb 2022 #3
I miss our Hawaiian friend who always signed off with "Come, we go hukilau"... Grasswire2 Feb 2022 #4
He IS gone. :-( RIP MuseRider Feb 2022 #5
Opihimoimoi? n/t Blaukraut Feb 2022 #12
yes nt Grasswire2 Feb 2022 #15
Bummer. DU had some incredible posters gldstwmn Feb 2022 #19
BigMcLargeHuge A HERETIC I AM Feb 2022 #21
I remember them! gldstwmn Feb 2022 #22
Opihimoimoi. I always meant to ask him the translation of his name; the best I could come up with... Hekate Feb 2022 #36
🥲 blm Feb 2022 #41
😢 blm Feb 2022 #10
at least two old friends are still available on FB. Grasswire2 Feb 2022 #7
The ACLU "Free Speech Zone" was probably the first place I engaged politically, online Spider Jerusalem Feb 2022 #23
what was your user name? Grasswire2 Feb 2022 #25
I don't even remember, I cycled through a half dozen using up free hours... Spider Jerusalem Feb 2022 #28
I just remembered that the male hosts were always hitting on me. Grasswire2 Feb 2022 #31
Lololol blm Feb 2022 #42
I miss kephra I_UndergroundPanther Feb 2022 #8
😢 blm Feb 2022 #11
Kephra was absolutely invaluable for Latest Breaking News. I miss him to this day. nt Hekate Feb 2022 #37
At first, I thought you were talking about Demofish. Aristus Feb 2022 #16
gbnc 😢 blm Feb 2022 #30
You are incorrectly using the link button to post a simple URL Celerity Feb 2022 #17
wow, and you've only been here for four years! Grasswire2 Feb 2022 #20
That guy went heavy on the "creative speculation." nt Tommy Carcetti Feb 2022 #18
Tombstone me right the fuck now, Skinner... madinmaryland Feb 2022 #24
CLASSIC DU MOMENT Skittles Feb 2022 #27
Kicking....nt Hotler Feb 2022 #32
Great thread for this old timer blm Feb 2022 #33
haha nt Grasswire2 Feb 2022 #34
That's wild. And true. And thanks for remembering, Grasswire! Kid Berwyn Feb 2022 #35
That's our O'fish! blm Feb 2022 #38
An interesting tidbit from the Olympics Figure Skating lead me to JFK MagickMuffin Feb 2022 #39
Okay, but why? Tommy Carcetti Feb 2022 #40

Response to dweller (Reply #1)

Grasswire2

(13,564 posts)
4. I miss our Hawaiian friend who always signed off with "Come, we go hukilau"...
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 08:07 PM
Feb 2022

...or something similar.

gldstwmn

(4,575 posts)
22. I remember them!
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 11:05 PM
Feb 2022

This place was hopping then. Watching Freepers get tombstones was a blast. I learned so much about the BFEE and PNAC. I can't remember all the names there were so many.

Hekate

(90,202 posts)
36. Opihimoimoi. I always meant to ask him the translation of his name; the best I could come up with...
Tue Feb 8, 2022, 04:40 AM
Feb 2022

… was Sleepy Limpet. Opihi is a limpet. I think Moimoi is sleep — at least that’s what our cat’s name was supposed to mean.

Rest in peace, hoaloha. You are still missed.

Grasswire2

(13,564 posts)
7. at least two old friends are still available on FB.
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 08:15 PM
Feb 2022

99th Monkey

and

Oeditpus Rex.

Oeditpus Rex is my oldest social media friend -- dating back to about 1996. The ACLU had a chat room (uncensored) on AOL.

He was here, mostly in the lounge, later.

 

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
23. The ACLU "Free Speech Zone" was probably the first place I engaged politically, online
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 11:44 PM
Feb 2022

I was 18 or so, I think, this would've been about 1995.

Grasswire2

(13,564 posts)
25. what was your user name?
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 01:27 AM
Feb 2022

It was a wild and crazy place. The first time I ever saw CHAT appear on my computer screen.
 

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
28. I don't even remember, I cycled through a half dozen using up free hours...
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 01:47 AM
Feb 2022

before they closed the loophole that let you do it.

Grasswire2

(13,564 posts)
31. I just remembered that the male hosts were always hitting on me.
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 02:07 AM
Feb 2022

It was a little annoying. I was there for the rock-em sock-em politics.

Aristus

(66,096 posts)
16. At first, I thought you were talking about Demofish.
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 09:27 PM
Feb 2022

Who made a lot of enemies in a very short time, and then was tombstoned.

I miss keph.

And God_Bush_&_Cheney. I was robbed of a chance to meet him IRL, but I got to hear him once on a local radio show that was featuring DU as a prominent Democratic site in teh 2004 election.

Celerity

(42,672 posts)
17. You are incorrectly using the link button to post a simple URL
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 09:34 PM
Feb 2022

Just paste the link directly.

The link button is for inserting a URL into text.

Like this.

Cheers

blm

(112,920 posts)
33. Great thread for this old timer
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 10:56 PM
Feb 2022

Easy to share hearts with other old timers so I don’t have to search them out.
😉😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘

Kid Berwyn

(14,651 posts)
35. That's wild. And true. And thanks for remembering, Grasswire!
Tue Feb 8, 2022, 01:47 AM
Feb 2022

The great Russ Baker verified the documents and uncovered more information about George H. W. Bush, Agent of the CIA, and his connections to Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/family-of-secrets-9781608190065/

MagickMuffin

(15,893 posts)
39. An interesting tidbit from the Olympics Figure Skating lead me to JFK
Tue Feb 8, 2022, 12:03 PM
Feb 2022


So during the team Figure Skating events, a couple skated to a song by Shawn Phillips. I remembered Shawn from the 70's and he was from Fort Worth my hometown.

I was curious if it was the same Shawn Phillips (indeed it is) but what caught my attention is this: Shawn is the nephew of CIA officer David Atlee Phillips.


From David's wiki:

House Select Committee on Assassinations
While investigating Lee Harvey Oswald's possible ties to certain pro- and anti-Castro radical groups around the time of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the HSCA obtained statements from then virulently anti-Castro paramilitary organization Alpha 66 founder Antonio Veciana that Oswald had met on several occasions with a CIA operative known as "Maurice Bishop".

After one former CIA case officer (who had been assigned to the JM/WAVE station in Miami) stated to investigators that Phillips had been known to use the alias, the commission attempted to see if Veciana could identify Phillips as being "Bishop". Veciana insisted that he was not the same person and moreover that he had never met Phillips before either. Some committee members (and also lead investigator Gaeton Fonzi) doubted Veciana, reasoning that he should have at least recognized Phillips, a high-profile officer so heavily involved in Cuban operations.

In 2014, at a conference named The Warren Report and the JFK Assassination: Five Decades of Significant Disclosures, Veciana reversed his previous statements, asserting unequivocally that he believed that the agent he knew as Bishop had in fact been David Atlee Phillips.



Tommy Carcetti

(43,085 posts)
40. Okay, but why?
Tue Feb 8, 2022, 12:11 PM
Feb 2022

I mean, if we're going back to old Octafish posts and want to be relevant, we can bring back him posting Russian disinformation about Ukraine from 2015:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10026510415

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