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IN OMNIBUS CURIOSUS SEMPER
The Odd Behavior of a Husband Arrested for a D.C. Socialite's Murder - National - The Atlantic Wire
Muth was known for strange habits in person and online, where he blogged under the name Sheikh Ali Al-Muthaba. He reportedly told neighbors he was a general in the Iraqi army, a claim the Iraqi embassy denied. According to the Post, “Muth also would sometimes walk around his neighborhood in a military uniform, carrying a swagger stick.” A native of Germany, Muth described his relationship with Drath as “a marriage of convenience.” The Post pointed out: “The union gave Muth… access to Drath’s connections in Washington.” The couple would host parties at which Muth posed as an Iraqi general before the city’s elite.
Interviews with numerous Washington officials and journalists have revealed that Muth built an impressive e-mail list over the past two decades that reached the highest levels of government. Ambassadors and defense attaches attended dinners in the basement of his home under the guise of official Iraqi events. Journalists were lured with promises of hobnobbing with high-ranking members of the Iraqi military.
“You said Huey [Long] was the second most dangerous person, didn’t you?” he [Rex Tugwell] asked Roosevelt. “Did I hear it the way you said it?”
Roosevelt had been waiting for the question. He smiled. “You heard it all right,” he answered. “I meant it. Huey is only second. The first is Doug MacArthur . You saw how he strutted down Pennsylvania Avenue. You saw that picture of him in the Times after the troops chased all those vets out with tear gas and burned their shelters. Did you ever see anyone more self-satisfied? There’s a potential Mussolini for you. Right here at home. The head man in the army. That’s a perfect position if things get disorderly enough and good citizens work up enough anxiety.” Roosevelt explained that he knew MacArthur from the World War. “You’ve never heard him talk, but I have. He has the most portentous style of anyone I know. He talks in a voice that might come from an oracle’s cave. He never doubts and never argues or suggests; he makes pronouncements. What he thinks is final. Besides, he’s intelligent, a brilliant soldier like his father before him. He got to be a brigadier in France.” Now he saw his opportunity in America. “If all this talk comes to anything—about government going to pieces and not being able to stop the spreading disorder—Doug MacArthur is the man. In his way, he’s as much a demagogue as Huey. He has as much ego, too. He thinks he’s infallible—if he’s always right, all people need to do is to take orders. And if some don’t like it, he’ll take care of them in his own way.”
George Carlin could say in a sentence what it took us three and a half minutes to spit out.
Anonymous asked:
<p>Was the 2004 electon stolen?</p>
No. There were some voter irregularities in Ohio that were highly-publicized because Ohio was such a major battleground state, but there’s always voting irregularities on Election Day, and I never felt 2004 was stolen.
The blame for the 2004 loss belongs to the Democrats. They didn’t hit back hard enough after the Swift Boat ads that attacked John Kerry. Plus, Kerry wasn’t a great Presidential candidate. Qualified? Yes. But being qualified for the Presidency doesn’t mean people are going to vote for you. Hillary Clinton would have kicked George W. Bush’s ass in 2004 — and prevented Barack Obama from rising to the Presidency in 2008 — but her timing was bad and she didn’t follow her instincts in 2004.
Second? I’d have thought fourth or fifth.
MINNEAPOLIS/WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - As his campaign for U.S. president fails to take flight, some donors to Republican hopeful Tim Pawlenty are having second thoughts.
At least one hitchhiker got himself across the country on the strength of a scrawled placard warning “Give me a lift or I’ll vote for Hoover.
Eventually Alice [Roosevelt Longsworth] became pregnant. Most of her acquaintances assumed [Senator William] Borah was the father—including Nick [Longsworth], who vetoed Alice’s initial choice of a name for the baby girl. Alice, in perhaps her most brilliantly malicious stroke of humor, wanted to name the child Deborah . Nick drew the line. He would raise the baby, he said, and in the event doted on her far more than Alice did. But he wouldn’t have a child under his roof named “de Borah.” Alice settled for Paulina.
Warren G. Harding on Friendship
“I have no trouble with my enemies,” he told journalist William Allen White. “I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my God-damn friends, White, they’re the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!”
Besides her stern and narrow-minded grandmother, Eleanor had to endure some uncles who were undeniably alcoholic and potentially abusive. For protection—presumably before the fact but possibly after—her grandmother or an aunt installed three heavy locks on Eleanor’s bedroom door. A girlfriend who spent the night asked Eleanor what the locks were for. “To keep my uncles out,” she replied.
