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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (44893)	1/20/2006 5:01:45 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Mike, they don't need no stinkin' evidence! Remember, if there's no evidence, they just ship you overseas. And then you get the added charge of travelling overseas without your biometric passport.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (44893)	1/21/2006 6:43:00 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Keating of the infamous keating five was against Porno - that makes you a good person right? What fuggin hypocrite - pathetic. azcentral.com It all started in March 1987. Charles H Keating Jr., the flamboyant developer and anti-porn crusader, needed help. The government was poised to seize Lincoln Savings and Loan, a freewheeling subsidiary of Keating's American Continental Corp. Now Keating had a job for DeConcini. He wanted him to organize a meeting with the regulators. The message: Get off Lincoln's back. Eventually, DeConcini would set up a meeting between five senators and the regulators. One of them was John McCain. McCain had also carried a little water for Keating in Washington. While in the House, McCain, along with a majority of representatives, co-sponsored a resolution to delay new regulations designed to curb risky investments by thrifts like Lincoln. KNIGHTY - doesn't that sound familiar with what they are trying to do in congress now? Message 22081042 .....Someone hurled a computer from the second floor, shattering a window. Keating, all 6-feet-5 of him, struck a Superman pose and ripped open his shirt to display a hand-drawn skull and crossbones over the letters FHLBB - the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. A secretary climbed onto a desk to take photos, and American Continental executive Robert Kielty joined her. Keating grabbed a roll of tape and lashed their legs together. Potted plants were knocked over. Beer and champagne were spilled on the carved wood desks. Kielty took a bottle of champagne and poured it down another secretary's blouse. ''Get this champagne colder,'' Keating yelled. Back in San Francisco, Black was fuming. ''Clearly, we were shot in the back,'' he would say later. Lincoln's losses eventually were set at $3.4 billion, the most expensive failure in the national S&L scandal. On Oct. 8, 1989, The Republic revealed that McCain's wife and her father had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators. ...McCain also belittled the reporters when they asked about his wife's ties to Keating. ''It's up to you to find that out, kids.'' And then he played the POW card. ''Even the Vietnamese didn't question my ethics,'' McCain said. BWAHAHA!