Graduate of Harvard and Yale:
Do you think he would have been admitted if not for his family?
How do I know? Maybe like Jack Kennedy's grades at Choate got him in to Harvard?
You believe that GWB and JFK are intellectual equals?
Al Gore was a worst student than Bush. Somehow the press doesn't like mentioning that.
I never heard that. (a worst student?) I do find it difficult to believe. But I take your word for it. However, I did watch the debates. Bush could be 10 times more intelligent than Gore, but that would not change the fact that the man was not half as informed about anything relevant to the job at the time of the election. Obviously almost as many people didn't care as did.
I don't know the "odds" of being accepted into the ANG during Nam. All I know is he became an accredited pilot. That is not a cake walk. Landing a Fighter Jet is not like parking a pick-up truck.
Well I have a pretty good idea what the odds were. Pretty much zero. And yes, I give the military a lot of credit. They can and do teach educated and physically fit men to land (and take off, and fly) fighter jets. Bush flew the F-102 (I think...maybe 104 or 105?), certainly not a Piper cub. A tough airplane to fly. I know that. But he never had enough flight time to see combat. He dropped out before he did. So he never truly earned his wings. And that was a guaranteed way to stay out of Vietnam. (Wish I could have done the same deal).
And his publicity stunt of "landing" on an aircraft carrier ("Mission Accomplished") was just that. NO WAY could he ever have been permitted to land any jet on the deck of a carrier. Even if he had truly earned his wings. Landing on a carrier is a very special qualification. Read "The Right Stuff". A lot about that. Read what John Glenn did.
Yes all who immigrate here speak a native tongue. I'm not impressed at how well most of them are picking up English.
Somehow that doesn't surprise me.
You had trouble with French? (Me too). But a whole lot easier to learn than English.
Except for the Marlins has any team NOT gotten a stadium deal? He had the khutspe to insert himself in as Managing Partner and get rich.
Gee, Pabst, I don't really know how many teams other than the Marlins haven't gotten a stadium deal. But we won't count the Expos, so without researching it, I will just go with the one team I do know can't get a new stadium funded. That would be the NY Mets. Could be others. But your question was has ANY team NOT gotten a deal. Well I guess the answer is YES.
(sorry to re-post this...just did a day or so ago for AAA)
"Usually parked in a front-row seat by the dugout, with his (GWB) feet up and a bag of peanuts perched in his lap, Bush put a congenial face on a crooked deal, at the heart of which lay a complicated land play.
When they bought the team, the Rangers were playing in an old minor-league stadium. It didn't have the fancy sky boxes and other amenities that helped make other franchises much more profitable. As a result, the team couldn't compete with other big-city teams for good players. But the new owners weren't willing to finance the construction of a new ballpark . They decided to hit up taxpayers for the money."
"Texas taxpayers handed the privately owned Rangers more than $200 million in public subsidies. Taxpayers didn't get a return from the stadiumâs surging new revenues, either. The profits went almost exclusively to the teamâs already wealthy owners."
Bet that Clinton victory in 1992 with a 42% mandate got you riled up too.
No Pabst, I am not riled. Not at all. That is how the system works. (I don't believe that Bush legitimately carried Florida, but that is a whole different issue). But while Clinton may have only gotten 42% of the vote, it was more than his opponents. Still, as I said, I am not in the least riled. Bush won (whether fairly or not....certainly HE HIMSELF had no part of any shenanigans if there were any in Florida), and was given the chance to BE President. Now the electorate will determine if he earned a second term. At this moment, it looks like he hasn't. But still, he has six months or so to make things better. And despite what you probably believe, I hope he does.
BTW, I looked at the betting site you referenced. I could not understand the betting line layout. I understand that you will have to lay odds on a 50/50 bet anywhere. What do you have to lay to bet on Kerry (or against Bush)?
Peace,
RS
