JULY 30th - Advice to Live By

On this day in 1975 Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, last seen in Detroit, Michigan. He was officially declared dead 7 years later. His disappearance continues to be one of the great American mysteries/conspiracies in our history. And our country is full of mysteries and conspiracies. Our Founding Fathers being linked to the Freemasons. The JFK Assassination. The birth of the CIA and FBI. Area 51. All of the assassins that read The Catcher in the Rye. There are a bunch of mysteries. Just ask Nic Cage. They've kept him from going completely bankrupt over the last decade. How about this for a movie idea--National Treasure 3: Hoffa’s in da Heezy, starring Nicolas Cage and Snoop Lion. Okay, the title might need a little work, but it would be pretty interesting watching Nic Cage try to unravel the mystery of Jimmy Hoffa’s vanishing act. There could be a confusing map hidden in one of Richard Nixon’s journals that Nic would have to steal before enlisting the help of Jon Voight to decipher that map to find a clue that would lead to a different clue that would point them to the final resting place of the original Hof. So entertaining. Of course, it would be a twisting search. Especially because there are numerous stories as to what happened to Jimmy with multiple persons of interest. Even the Iceman, Richard Kuklinski, claimed to have killed Hoffa. Actually he claimed to have stabbed him, burned him, and placed him in a 55 gallon steel drum that he welded shut and buried in a junkyard until he later dug the drum up and placed it in a car that was compacted for scrap metal. Sounds a little far-fetched, but I wouldn’t have told him otherwise. You ever watch those HBO specials--The Iceman and the Psychiatrist? Well if you had, you’d realize that when a sociopathic, psychopathic, mafia hit-man tells you that he killed somebody, even somebody famous, you agree with him. You say, yes sir, Mr. Iceman. That’s advice to live by. Or you could just stop talking to sociopathic, psychopathic, mafia hit-men. That is better advice to live by.

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