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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (569910)	6/3/2010 1:14:28 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1583406

Somethin' in the Water Down There Second GOP operative comes forward to say he had affair with Nikki Haley, leading candidate to become the Republican nominee for governor of South Carolina. Again, Haley's campaign vehemently denies the charge. And the accuser has offered no proof -- though I'm not sure I'd want to know what would constitute proof. In fact, what the accuser, lobbyist Larry Marchant, alleges is what I think folks nowadays call 'hooking up' rather than an 'affair', though I guess maybe one really great hook up can count as an affair. And to make it more bizarre, Marchant made the allegations shortly after resigning from the campaign of another candidate for governor, Andre Bauer, the state's current lieutenant governor. Remember, yesterday, current governor and confessed adulterer Mark Sanford came forward to vouch for Haley's character. They've got their own way of doing things down there. Late Update: I'm not sure which would make for a more colorful and entertaining story: Haley exposed as an inveterate ... what I guess you'd call, man-izer or the idea that a series of different GOP operatives, each of whom is currently married, conspiring to publicly allege phony affairs with Haley. What say you? Later Update: Here's Larry Marchant's page on his lobbying firm's website, the Palmetto Policy Group. talkingpointsmemo.com

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (569910)	6/3/2010 1:15:49 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583406

You're talking graphs with less? ROTFLMAO!

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (569910)	6/3/2010 1:16:51 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583406

I didn't look at the graph but if it helped the American Auto industry survive a catastrophic period then the C for C program seems like a good thing, even if Cash for Clunkers did not ultimately improve the economic picture. Graphs can be very misleading when any particular context is not considered in the interpretation. One of the things which seems to be in short supply these days is the spirit of pioneerism which at one time built a powerful society from undeveloped wilderness. There will always be undeveloped opportunities which require a strong spirit of struggling to develop and create value for society where none has existed before. And that is where each of us should be putting our confidence to develop new opportunities and to increase value "The basic thought that guides these specific means of national recovery is not narrowly nationalistic. It is the insistence, as a first consideration, upon the interdependence of the various elements in all parts of the United States—a recognition of the old and permanently important manifestation of the American spirit of the pioneer. It is the way to recovery. It is the immediate way. It is the strongest assurance that the recovery will endure." (FDR 1933) bartleby.com