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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (117338)	12/19/2008 9:08:45 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 132070

keating 5 ...4 dems one rep. House banking/postal scandal 19 dems 3 reps. now who is the party of crooks

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (117338)	12/20/2008 12:06:54 PM
From: Knighty Tin	1 Recommendation Respond to of 132070

Interesting "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" last night. They had a 5th grade teacher as a contestant and introduced her husband from the audience. The hubby was none other than Carlos Palomino, former Welterweight boxing champion. I used to love to watch Carlos fight. He beat John H. Stracey for the title, an English fighter I didn't like when I lived in England. However, it was out of the ring stuff that made him more famous. One was a role on "Taxi", when sparring partner Tony Danza knocked him down. It was all a trick to hype his next fight, and when Tony started mouthing off, Carlos flattened him. It was a great episode. The other was after he was washed up and he fought Roberto Duran. Roberto won the decision and his manager was asked if Roberto was losing it because he couldn't knock out Palomino. "Who the hell ever knocks out Carlos Palomino?" The manager answered. Anyway, his wife is at least 50 LBS overweight, but has a beautiful face. She is dumber than a turnip, though. She won $50,000 because she was smart enough to drop out when she no longer had help from 5th graders.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (117338)	12/20/2008 10:02:13 PM
From: GuinnessGuy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Hi Mike, I guess I meant to say that no one really dwelled on the Blago thing here as it wasn't something that lead to a big event like the financial market meltdown. Speaking of Cheney... I finished that book, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman. He was a sneaky son of a gun...more so than I realized. The guy had all the skill sets of a virtual puppet master...not just the people skills, which were good, but his ability to manipulate a group or bureaucracy was incredible. And he knew how to do it from the 'dark side', which is term he favored. Specifically, on WDM, the part about how he hoodwinked Dick Armey, the majority leader of the house, who was NOT going to vote for going to war in Iraq, was worth the price of the book alone. What was particularly insidious is that after U.S. inspectors discovered the real reason for those aluminum tubes(they were for missiles, not nukes. The Iraqis had copied an italian design which used the exact same tubes.) just months before the big vote, Cheney neglected to inform Armey of the fact. And the aluminum tubes, of course, was the one thing that had everyone so nervous. Just how many times did we hear, "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud"? Had Armey stayed the course, we'd never gone off on that misadventure. It was Dick Cheney's greatest performance as president...er, vice-president. <g> craig