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From the Trib Archives: Keating 1991

October 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses, Mini-Posts, Politics, Schmolitics

Senate ethics panel cites Cranston in Keating Five case — chicagotribune.com
Interesting to read this now… and McCain was the only Republican involved, at a time when the Democrats ruled the Senate (and the House, I believe).

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McCain: One of the Keating Five, Remember?

October 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Hot Off The Presses, Politics, Schmolitics

The Obama campaign is coming out with some attack ads of their own… they went back to the archives for some footage from the Keating Five hearing. McCain got off that one with a reprimand for exercising poor judgement. Oh, and this is the guy we want in charge of our economy, and the world’s? [...]

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Tongue Jutting: McCain’s Tell

October 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Hot Off The Presses, Politics, Schmolitics

Back about a week or so, I ran across an interesting item in my feed that was shared by ***Dave. It was a funny little detail Stephen Colbert lampooned: McCain’s weirdly reptilian tongue flicking gesture that was picked up by someone as a classic “poker tell.”
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: The Tongue Jut
Tongue-jutting behavior [...]

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Wot’s ‘E Doin’ Theah? What Are YOU doing theah?

October 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Clan: McTiVo, SciFi/Fantasy

As noted in ***Dave’s post, if a show has been on TV for 3 or 4 decades, there are bound to be… discernable patterns. And it’s odd that they didn’t call the show “Doctor What’s He Doing There?”


Via ***Dave :: “What are you doing here?”

Technorati Tags: Doctor Who

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