Highlights of this day in history: The Federalist Papers are published in New York City; President Theodore Roosevelt is born; Egypian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin win Nobel Peace Prize; John Cleese is born; Boston Red Sox win their first World Series since 1918.
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Other notable October 27th events include:
312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens.
1954 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers his "A Time for Choosing" speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater.
1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmates for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
1997 – October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown.
Wherever you go...there you are!
ReplyDeleteIs that you Buckaroo Banzai?
ReplyDeleteI am back littleoldlady. :)
It's not my goddamn planet, understand, monkey boy?
ReplyDeleteOh...hiya, Phil!
;-)
Morning.
ReplyDelete"I'm a cold Italian Pizza / I could use a lemon squeezer / what'd do you?"
ReplyDeleteor something ... speaking of "monkey boy [man]"
Howdy, Centaur! :-)
ReplyDeleteMorning Centaur. If I am not commenting it's because I am doing a bunch of stuff. Like working and writing my daily blog post. I was exhausted last night and went to bed earlier then normal.
ReplyDelete"Big Boo-TAY!"
ReplyDeleteJohn Cleese ... did he play Brave Sir Robin in the Holt Grail? Funny.
ReplyDelete"Holy"
ReplyDeleteThey're reporting now on the long lines of frustrated citizens not getting the swine flu vaccine that the government is supposed to provide for this "epidemic."
ReplyDeleteOne caller: "How smart is it, in the height of flu season, to stand for three hours out in the cold with a bunch of strangers?"
Hah!
And the larger point, relating to government provide health care -- do you think they grasp it?
1806 – The French Army enters Berlin.
ReplyDeleteI was sure that was a typo. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?
1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
The rest of the country regrets adding Florida to this day...
1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
Day-um.
1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as Big Bang.
Repeat in the USA in 2013?
2005 – Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
"Youths".
Born today:
1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
And the only president who got one and deserved it.
1873 – Emily Post, American etiquette author (d. 1960)
If I say anything rude about her, she'll haunt me.
1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
And she regretted it for the next thirty years.
1941 – Dick Trickle, American auto racer
*snort*
1966 – Matt Drudge, American blogger
Centaur: John Cleese ... did he play Brave Sir Robin in the Holt Grail? Funny.
ReplyDeleteJohn Cleese was Sir Lancelot. Eric Idle played Sir Robin.
Good morning. I'll have a dry gin martini please.
ReplyDeleteOh ... wrong thread.
I can see what sort of day this is going to be.
JTK, "932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
ReplyDeleteAnd she regretted it for the next thirty years."
Ha.
No, no, no problem, here's a gin martini, ultra-arid.
ReplyDeleteMorning, all. The H1N1 has come and will be gone leaving a wake of lost productivity, hundreds of school closings and much misery (although not a lot of deaths) before the first vaccine shows up locally.
ReplyDeleteDone, I should do more writing for my posts so I don't have to panic each morning. :p
ReplyDelete/I blame my new camera...
"Hey Sylvia -- could you check on the pie that's in the oven ..."
ReplyDeleteSpenser -- it may be the key to my kid's team winning in the first round of the playoffs. The other team was hit hard by it and only just got back three of their key players.
ReplyDeleteThanks cap'n.
ReplyDeleteDunno what it is, but those 8:00 AM martinis make the world seem like a better place.
"Sure, Sylvia, I can lend you some rope, what do you need it for?"
ReplyDeleteHat trick.
ReplyDeleteThat's cool, Lucius. How old?
ReplyDeleteLucius Septimius: Thanks cap'n. Dunno what it is, but those 8:00 AM martinis make the world seem like a better place.
ReplyDeleteThey say that you're only supposed to drink when the sun is above the yardarm; so the key, as I've said before, is to have a really low yardarm. Mine is on the ground. I'm thinking of burying it to get it even lower.
Spencer -- he's ten. He's been playing now for five years. They start 'em young 'round these parts.
ReplyDeleteHey Spenser -- I fished Cornwell's Agincourt. Next up, his Holy Grail series (speaking of Monty Python) ... or may Saxon series, since the new one comes out in the US in January and by that time I'll have finished the first 4.
ReplyDeleteKirk.
ReplyDeleteAs I tell my students, you should never drink alone, which is why you always should put a mirror above the bar.
Way to go Lucius. Does he play lacrosse in the spring?
ReplyDeleteAs I tell my students, you should never drink alone, which is why you always should put a mirror above the bar.
ReplyDeleteThe buddy system is an important part of drinking as well as swimming (and if you're a Kennedy, you can do both at the same time). You can cause far more damage with a willing accomplice.
I promised myself I would not start drinking until noon today ...
ReplyDeleteHow long till he's out of office again? Here's Obama's latest speech. And if he's skinny, I am an obese pig.
ReplyDeleteGood morning - Get yer flu shots!
ReplyDeleteThe whole bunny house is recovering from the flu, hubby and the three year old grandson had their flu shots. My daughter and I had not gotten ours. It was miserable.
Centaur, very cool. I have a bit of a drive and I love audiobooks, too. They help me get through longer novels that I wouldn't have time to do with a library book.
ReplyDeleteJTK: ROFLMAO. Yeah, most trouble I have gotten into while drinking always seems to involve the buddy system. When I am alone? Not so much. :D
ReplyDeleteI the spring he usually plays baseball. There isn't a lot of lacrosse here, though it's getting bigger.
ReplyDeleteFluffy Bunny: ...The whole bunny house is recovering from the flu...
ReplyDeleteSeasonal or H1N1?
PaladinPhil: Yeah, most trouble I have gotten into while drinking always seems to involve the buddy system.
ReplyDeleteWhich shows that you've made the right choice in buddies.
Mornin JTK - our doc did not test us, we were treated for H1N1 due to the large outbreak in our area.
ReplyDeleteAlso, our grandson has asthma so he erred on the side of caution.
Hmmm, I think I may have found a province to move to if things get a little squirrelly here. :)
ReplyDeleteSo far, I'm the only one who's gotten a flu shot, and it's just for seasonal. I haven't seen any H1N1 shots available yet.
ReplyDeleteWhich shows that you've made the right choice in buddies.
ReplyDeleteTrue enough most times. Most have been rather tame though. Have never woken up in a police cruiser or a drunk tank. Now I am too old to do stuff like that. :)
"Muslims pray five times day. Back home, the mosques are schools at the same time. That's the place where you get your Arabic language because that's the language of Koran. The mosque is everything for Muslims," said Sefa.
ReplyDeleteChurch, school, ammunition dump, sniper post, etc.
(I'm not sure why they don't just get the money for the mosque from the House of Saud...)
ReplyDeletePEI sounds like the place to be.
ReplyDeleteI can tell you that my husband had the shortest duration and mildest symptoms - he is convinced it is due to the flu shot.
ReplyDeleteOur school district is administering the H1N1 vaccine starting today. We appear to have an adequate supply here in Florida.
Non partisan my ass. Demonstrators briefly disrupte Question Period. Any group that talks about social justice is far to the left in my books.
ReplyDeleteKim Strassel The Chicago Way
ReplyDeleteWhat makes these efforts notable is that they are not the lashing out of a frustrated political operation. They are calculated campaigns, designed to create bogeymen, to divide the opposition, to frighten players into compliance. The White House sees a once-in-a-generation opportunity on health care and climate. It is obsessed with winning these near-term battles, and will take no prisoners. It knows that CEOs are easily intimidated and (Fox News ratings aside) it is getting some of its way. Besides, roughing up conservatives gives the liberal blogosphere something to write about besides Guantanamo.
The Oval Office might be more concerned with the long term. It is 10 months in; more than three long years to go. The strategy to play dirty now and triangulate later is risky. One day, say when immigration reform comes due, the Chamber might come in handy. That is if the Chamber isn't too far gone.
White House targets also aren't dopes. The corporate community is realizing that playing nice doesn't guarantee safety. The health executives signed up for reform, only to remain the president's political piñatas. It surely grates that the unions—now running their own ads against ObamaCare—haven't been targeted. If the choice is cooperate and get nailed, or oppose and possibly win, some might take that bet.
There's also the little fact that many Americans voted for this president in thrall to his vow to bring the country together. It's hard to do that amid gunfire, and voters might just notice.
("I do not approve of your methods! Yeah, well . . . You're not from Chicago.")
"There isn't a lot of lacrosse here, though it's getting bigger."
ReplyDeleteIt'll be everywhere soon. Best sport ever. I still play a little -- not very well -- but I try.
Okay -- off to work. Great day all.
PEI is a great place. Lots of potato farms, right in the Gulf of St. Lawrence for all sorts of tasty sea kittehs, it can be easily isolated from the mainland, also the home to "Anne of Green Gables". :)
ReplyDeletePP -- well they did build a bridge to the mainland didn't they?
ReplyDeleteLucius: Yes they did. It's only a small problem though. And all problems can be solved with a well placed piece of plastic explosive. :)
ReplyDelete/looking ahead to the future.
And all problems can be solved with a well placed piece of plastic explosive. :)
ReplyDeleteI was reading a story recently where one character had named his sword "Occam's Razor" -- because stabbing was usually the simplest solution.
William McGurn has fun with the "post-gracious" president.
ReplyDeleteMr. Obama's ongoing snipes against a predecessor who is no longer involved in setting policy are extraordinary. They are more extraordinary still issuing from a president who campaigned on a promise to transcend the political divisions of the past.
Barack Obama may believe that his incessant whining about all the challenges his predecessor left him lets America know how tough he has it. The danger to his presidency is that it can sound awfully like "I'm not up to the job."
Why the hell was ANYONE surprised? Why did anyone think this corrupt product of the most craven political machine in the country was anything but a street huckster? A mack daddy?
I heard Rev. Manning (oh poop -- I'll get banned for that) on the radio yesterday talking about Obama's incredible skill at conning the public. His argument (and this was not one of his usual taped rants -- it was quite measured) was that Obama was trying to coopt Fox and succeeding by getting Glen Beck et. al. to talk about Obama 24/7. He has a point -- the White House is still to some degree controlling the debate. But his larger verdict is also worth noting -- what any inner-city operator would have recognized as the big con was mistaken by hordes of dim, idealistic, morally insecure white folk as "hope" and "change" and a promise of redemption.
How do you know a con? Anything that appeals simultaneously to to your pocketbook and your vanity. And in the end, they'll keep on smiling and stoking your ego while they electrolux your pockets until even the lint is gone.
And Obama goes on strutting, while his posse finger their Glocks.
As my daddy the frogman used to say:
ReplyDeleteThere is no problem great or small
That plastic explosives cannot solve.
Oh, Link to the McGurn oped
ReplyDeleteOh, Link to the McGurn oped
ReplyDeleteThat's good readin'.
Hey Phil!
ReplyDeleteA great old song about PEI:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNEg65rlnu4
Lucius,
ReplyDeleteA good essay you linked there. This phrase is a keeper:
"the president's political piñatas"
We're going to be seeing quite a lot of that the next 3 years.
Let's hope the pinatas start hitting back soon.
ReplyDeleteMornin' C2.
ReplyDeleteWhat's everyone going to be for Halloween ?
Mini-Me picked out his Zombie outfit and wore it for an hour at home last night. Zombie is a good outfit this year.
Anyone who objects to being a "political piñata" will be branded a "hispanophobe"...
ReplyDeleteZombie is a good outfit this year.
ReplyDeleteKeep Mini-Me away from Folsom Street...
I'm not sure who gives me bigger heebie jeebies - Rahm, Barry, Nancy or Harry.
ReplyDeleteSadly, those are just the ones at the top of the totem pole.
Snakes all the way down!
Which song is it Kenneth? I can't get Youtube here at work. Oh, and good morning. :)
ReplyDeleteKeep Mini-Me away from Folsom Street...
ReplyDeleteNot a chance in hell.
What's everyone going to be for Halloween?
ReplyDeleteI dunno, BTW. Haven't had the time to buy or put together anything new and interesting, so I'll probably just throw on something I already have.
Phil,
ReplyDeleteStompin' Tom Conners singing Bud the Spud, of course!
Now this is way cool:
"DND is looking into a future where section commanders will carry a Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) or Nokia Internet Tablet to get information from their own tiny unmanned aerial vehicle."
http://milnewsca.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/merx-uav-swarm-muav/
And here from the "well, duhhh" file. Life expectancy lower for homeless, study says.
ReplyDeleteFrom Tom Donahue of the Chamber of Commerce:
ReplyDelete"I did an interview a couple of weeks ago, and somebody said, 'Well, the White House says that you've become Dr. No and you are going to lose your seat at the table.' And I said, 'The White House doesn't give out the seats at the table. The seats at the table go to the people who have a rational policy, who have strong people to advance that policy, that have a strong grass-roots system, that have the assets to support their program, and that are willing to play in the political process," Mr. Donohue remarks, sitting in his office, which looks across Lafayette Park to the White House.
"The bottom line is you can't do this job if you are squeaky about all that stuff. My job is to represent the American business community in an honorable way, to present their interests in a way that I really think is good for them and good for this country. And," he adds with a pointed look, "I plan to keep doing it."
Here's the whole interview
I was just thinking I could put on a Star Trek red shirt, dress my son up in an orange hooded jacket (Kenny McCormick, "South Park"), and find something similar for my wife (any suggestions?)
ReplyDeleteWe could call our group "Targets" or "Tempting Fate"...
And here from the "well, duhhh" file. Life expectancy lower for homeless, study says.
ReplyDeleteHow much money did they waste on that ten-year study in obviousness?
My son is going out as a T-Rex (the dinosaur, the '70's the glitter rock act). My granddaughter wants to go as Bill Nye Science Guy. That was her choice.
ReplyDeleteKenneth, todays modern soldier is no longer a dim witted brute that just kills people. The amount of knowledge that just a typical rifleman needs to do his job is light years ahead of what he needed to know almost a hundred years ago. In fact most recruiting offices won't look at you now if you have less then a college diploma.
ReplyDeleteUSS Enterprise
ReplyDelete/alcohol, dogs, and cardboard don't mix
Eff it,I say.
ReplyDeleteI'm going as Rick James.
James Frankish, director of the Centre for Population Health Promotion Research at the University of British Columbia, called the study "interesting and important."
ReplyDelete"It raises very interesting questions about this Pandora's box of chronic disease in low-income, marginalized people," he said from Vancouver. "It's not just being poor, it's something about their social conditions, the actual physical environment in which they live."
Notice that they won't say what sort of "chronic illnesses" and how those might be linked to "social conditions."
The vast majority of the genuinely homeless are not there by misadventure or economic oppression -- they are usually mentally ill and very often have serious substance abuse problems. The causes of "premature death" are frequently linked to those conditions.
Regardless, is it just me or was there something creepy about the good doctor's use of "interesting" in the quoted passage?
I'm going as Rick James.
ReplyDeleteI won't be bringing you home to mother.
I hear you, Phil. What I find interesting is that the DND is using an off the shelf product, the Sony PSP to communicate with the micro-drone. My kids play with PSPs. This is very smart of the planners to avoid all the upfront costs for development. All they need is to build their own app and a more rugged chassis for the unit.
ReplyDeleteOur kids are going as (in order of age) a Clone trooper, a ninja, a princess (as always) and a tiger.
ReplyDeleteOur grandson is a dragon this year - T-Rex was his first choice but the costumes headpiece dwarfed his head.
ReplyDeleteIt is supposed to be 90 degrees here on Saturday, the poor kids are going to melt!
I think I may go out as a member of the press. Just need a fedora and make up an old style press badge to stick in the band. Got a camera, wear my suit, and I am good to go.
ReplyDeleteI won't be bringing you home to mother.
ReplyDeleteTrying to talk my wife into going as a Brick House.
OK, time to get to my homeschooling duties.
ReplyDeletelater, all.
Later Lucius.
ReplyDeleteLucius,
ReplyDelete"It's not just being poor, it's something about their social conditions, the actual physical environment in which they live."
Homeless people live in dirty environments, in crowded shelters or squats. Close contact and low hygiene are perfect for spreading diseases. That study was done in Vancouver, where there is a huge heroin problem, which would again lower life expectancy.
Off to my first Guardian Ad Litem class - have a good one {all}.
ReplyDeletePaladinPhil: I think I may go out as a member of the press.
ReplyDeleteCareful. You're more likely to get shot in that costume than I am to get shot in a red shirt.
Squatch: Trying to talk my wife into going as a Brick House.
Not a Super Freak?
I think I may go out as a member of the press.
ReplyDeleteIf you can find a full sized figure of Obama and stick yer head up it's ass, it would be more convincing. :P
Phil,
ReplyDeleteAdd knee pads and you could be member of the Washington press corp!
Cooling or warming? Depends on who massages the data I guess. Global cooling? Statiscians reject claims that the climate trend is shifting.
ReplyDeleteI like this quote in the article:
That led to a sharp rebuke from the Union of Concern Scientists, which said the book mischaracterizes climate science with "distorted statistics."
Followed with this "fact" about over all climate change.
"To talk about global cooling at the end of the hottest decade the planet has experienced in many thousands of years is ridiculous," said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution at Stanford.
I guess the Medieval Warming period wasn't that hot, eh?
/morons, all of them...
Squatch: If you can find a full sized figure of Obama and stick yer head up it's ass, it would be more convincing. :P
ReplyDeleteOr just carry it around and paint your nose brown.
Squatch... (Spew) you owe me a new keyboard, dude!
ReplyDeleteNot a Super Freak?
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's better.
If you can find a full sized figure of Obama and stick yer head up it's ass, it would be more convincing. :P
ReplyDeleteNot a bad idea, except it would get in the way of my drinking. :)
Sorry 'bout that Kenneth. Heh.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is precious.
Obama to troops: “I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm’s way”
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, the troops are already in harm's way. The decision Obama must make is whether or not to provide them with the resources & reinforcements which he already promised to send several times now.
Only in Japan? This will bring a tear to your eye
ReplyDelete/what will they think of next?
PaladinPhil said...
ReplyDeleteNot a bad idea, except it would get in the way of my drinking. :)
/ADULT CONTENT WARNING
Put a fly in his pants and stick a straw through it.
link: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/26/obama-to-troops-i-will-never-rush-the-solemn-decision-of-sending-you-into-harms-way/
ReplyDeleteOr just carry it around and paint your nose brown.
ReplyDeleteNot a bad idea, except it would get in the way of my drinking. :)
Maybe just put an Obama bumper sticker on your back. And get a tingly leg every once in a while.
Good morning y'all - from a cool (54 degrees going ALL THE WAY UP to 57 dgrees) overcast with Heavy rain forecasted Charlotte!
ReplyDeleteHope everyone is doing well this morning!
I'm off in a about half an hour for an emergency dental appointment! Great way to start the day!
Hey real! Have fun at the dentist... ok, not likely, but I hope it ain't too unpleasant.
ReplyDeleteMornin' Real.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear that. May you feel better soon.
Good morning Realwest, sorry to hear about the dental appointment. I hope it's as painless as possible.
ReplyDeleteOh and btw, our old friend Yma o Hyd from Wales says hello! She had to get eye surgery - hadda go outside the British NHS to get it in time - and she's recovering but came down with a diagnosed-over-the-phone case of Swine Flu! NHS told her NOT TO GO to any hospitals or ER's as few NHS workers have been immunized against H1N1 Virus - and Yma is not a kid or youngster - she's over 30 years of age. She's feeling poorly and has been for days, but feels she's getting better and wanted me to say hi to y'all from her!
ReplyDeleteThose glasses sound awfully distracting. Not the thing you want when you're playing video games.
ReplyDeletemorning everyone - quick driveby to post this. IBD has a good editorial up about the admin's demonization of health care companies.
ReplyDeleteInsuring Doom
The latest villain in the politicians' demagogic fantasyland is private health insurance. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused private insurers of making "immoral profits." And they're a prime target for taxes to pay for the health care revolution Congress and the White House have planned.
"immoral profits"?
WTF? Hey, Nancy, how much is your husband worth again?
(and speaking of swine flu, just heard from yma o hyd - she's been down with it for 2 solid weeks!)
Hey Kenneth, Squatch and PaladinPhil - thank y'all very much but dentist only has time to look at it today (he thinks it's a bridge I have on my lower right teeth) and to give me a cost/time estimate!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the update on Yma Realwest. I was wondering what she was up to. Full and complete healing to her. If you can please pass that on for us?
ReplyDeleteMy prayers & best wishes for yma. I hope to see her back here soon.
ReplyDeleteGood morning (or whatever, as the case may be for you). Posting will be light today, due to this "work" stuff they keep insisting I do, but I did want to post this rather odd story--
ReplyDeleteFidel Castro's younger sister claims she worked for the CIA during the 1960s:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/27/castro.sister.cia/index.html
"immoral profits"?
ReplyDeleteWTF? Hey, Nancy, how much is your husband worth again?
Those are probably moral profits. It's just when the rest of us make a profit that it's immoral. Kind of like frequent-flyer Al Gore lecturing the rest of us on energy conservation, Ted Kennedy coming out against waterboarding, etc.
"immoral profits"?
ReplyDeleteWhat do they make, something like 3 percent I think ?
How much does The Most Ethical Congress Evah make on a gallon of gasoline ?
Talk about immoral profits...
Thanks PaladinPhil - I already passed on "our" best wishes to her and thank you Kenneth, as well.
ReplyDeleteWhat a mess for her - she can barely stand to look at the computer screen for long enough to do e-mails or her "surgically repaired" eye starts to really hurt.
Prayers and best wishes are definitely called for here!
Realwest, thanks for the news, please give yma our best. I'm happy to see that socialized medicine is working so spectacularly well...
ReplyDeleteBest of luck to Yma, even though "over 30 years of age" is still "a kid or youngster" to some people.
ReplyDeleteGood morning, Squares!
ReplyDeleteMorning {real} Never be shy about asking for more novacaine if you need it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the update about Yma. Give her a {hug} for me.
Hi everyone!
Real, if you have time later on, please tell yma to get better soon !
ReplyDeleteThx for the update.
BDVM, if we're "squares", you're Charles Nelson Reilly.
ReplyDeleteBeer Drinking Victory Monkey said...
ReplyDeleteGood morning, Squares!
POLYGONIST!!!!
Good morning BDVM. :)
OR,
ReplyDeleteand that would make you Paul Lynde...
New thread ---->
ReplyDeleteHey O.R. - she saved her pennies and dimes (or whatever the hell the currency is in GB) and went OUTSIDE the NHS to see an eye surgeon some four months sooner than she otherwise could have and the NHS eye doctor who did see her said she'd be losing more and more of her vision if she didn't get quick surgery on the eye; then he made an appoitnment for her some six months later on (first appointment he could get for her!).
ReplyDeleteYeah the LEFT in this country is RUSHING this and Cap and Trade before EVEN MORE Americans oppose it - right now, iirc, over 55% of Americans oppose both Health Care Reform and Cap and Trade.
And Obama has been LYING TO US - as noted above, the average profit margin for health insurance companies in the US is about 6%; it's not about Health Insurance for the uninsured, nor about Global Warming or Climate Change, it's all about CENTRALIZED POWER that the LEFT want.
It's my fervent hope that the LEFT PAYS FOR THIS SHIT in November 2010.
Apparently, the Pelosis' son, Paul Jr. is an executive with and registered lobbyist for - wait for it
ReplyDeleteCountrywide Mortgage