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

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (124504)	9/21/2010 7:14:53 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

As a Catholic, I have to demand why you besmirch the good name of the Borgias. Like any family with ambitions to high office and public service, they had their critics, and some bad press ensued. entertainment.timesonline.co.uk The pope dropped by Scotland recently, just a few kilometers from where I work, but my diary was already full that day and I have grown an aversion to large crowds, especially of the dedicated religious variety. I still give generously to the nuns who frequent the mall on behalf of charities, they never did me any harm, even though I went to one of their schools as a youngster. Regarding Wall St, people say Stalin was a bad guy but he was only responsible for 60 million deaths. These days even being moderately incompetent you could match those numbers too easily without actually being particularly evil in any way. The point is we could end up being the laughing stock of both Stalin and the Borgias in the "who are the worst evil doers" stakes, and Wall St might already be on it's way. Stalin pips the post on the Spanish Flue, we are just one 98% survival rate pandemic from a record breaker. Just one of those facts that stops me from thinking too complacently -g-