George W. Blaine, also known as the “The Decider” has turned markets upside down in New York. “From down here, it all looks very scary” admitted the topsy turvy chief executive.
“Wasn’t it supposed to be David Blaine, the magician doing this?” queried spunky, vivacious, perky presenter Kelly Ripa?
“Well, Kathy, I just felt I had to go on television as soon as possible and rescue something that has been in free fall lately.”
“Your political reputation?”
“Well, Regis, it’s the country. Country first. We need to restore the full faith and then I’ll worry about the credit later. You know, at times like this I take strength from Harry Truman, a great American, A DE-MO-CRAT. He was unpopular, too. He had a sign on his desk: “the buck breaks here.” That’s what I’m focused on.
“So what is it we need, sir?”
“Basically, you know, Montel, it’s a really, really big check, mucho Dee nero, signed off to my friend and a great American, Treasury Secretary Paulson. And it’s got to be fast. That’s why I’m doing this, working hard for the American people as they expect me to.”
“And if this doesn’t work?”
“Well, I may try being shut up in the ice cube again.”
“Thank you sir, and God Help the United States. I’ve got to get down, the blood is really rushing to my head.”
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That headline you’ve been waiting for – slowly now:
ASO is Prime Minister of Japan!
Easy does it Brian, Charles, and Katie. George W. – better leave it for your successor.
It just so happens that JustWordz is a polyglot cosmopolitan who speaks [Badly] the language of Pele and Carmen Miranda. He is not, however, adverse to a little help from the technological cutting edge. Here, then, in abridged and annotated form – so we don’t have to go through all that again, – is the story of Lieutenant John Sidney McCain and the Rio Belle, Maria Gracinda, told by Google.
RIO – “He was gostosinho, loving and romantic.” It was not exactly in these terms that the Republican Party presented last month, Senator John McCain as their candidate for the U.S. presidency this year. But that is how he refers to Gracinda Maria de Jesus Teixeira, who lived a torrid romance with McCain in the 1950s in Rio de Janeiro. The story of the two was told by the senator in his memoir “Faith of My Fathers” (a free translation, “Faith of my parents’, 1999)[McCain may want to get in touch with his book agent in Brazil, or work to get this promoted more in Christian bookstores]. This Friday, the newspaper “Extra” talked with the former model and dancer in Teresopolis
In spite of 77 years, Maria Gracinda still preserves the vanity of the season in which it was Queen of Commerce of Rio de 1949, with only 17 years and candidate for the Federal District Miss Universe of 1954. [An attractive woman, certainly, but vain, too? more like the "air and spirit" of the time]
The meeting with McCain happened three years later, in 1957. The model used on lunching foreign vessels landing in Mauá Square. [She didn't, er, provide "services" as a model, she used to have lunch with the sailors]
- I had a Cadillac Eldorado convertible, turquoise blue. Get John on the ship and left to walk with him. Were going to the bar and got to go to my apartment [wow, what a treat, perhaps they really"wound up" there], on Avenida Rui Barbosa, in Barcelona – her account.
She also has passages of spicy relationship with McCain. [That's "had" in case the National Enquirer is reading]
- He kissed very well. I came to the point of enjoying it so much I bought a book that taught the kiss – says Maria Gracinda, not escaped the question about the two having sex or not done:
- What do you think? Of course, yes … He was not only good for kissing, it was good of all – complete with a laugh. [Hmm, novel and interesting - thought they just smoked cigarettes in those days]
- He was a great love. But there, and traveled over. Otherwise, it could be with him today. Except that our lives were different, I was a dummy [Come on now, don't put yourself down - you were a "model" (manequim) and he, a military that travel very - it is recalled it, with an edge of sadness.
She regrets the fact that McCain be compromised [Yes, indeed he be..in the sense of "married" to Cindy Hensley]
What can I do if he is married? He not recognize me if I saw. And he must be very happy there with his cat. [That is gorgeous Cindy, not purring Tibbles]
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Everybody loves a sailor as the old saying has it and in that respect, at least, John McCain has won himself a modicum of international support. In contrast to Sarah Palin, who, tired of merely viewing Russia from afar, got a passport in 2007, John McCain has been pursuing his US interests a half century and more.
“He was a cutie, loving, and romantic” recounts Maria Gracinda Teixeira de Jesus in an interview with Globo of Brazil. The young lieutenant met the model and ballerina in Rio in 1957, something he recounts in his autobiography, “Faith of my fathers,” although not, fortunately, in the way Ms De Jesus does in her interview with Globo. The spirit of Barbara Walters is abroad. “I used to call him John, but also my darling, and my coconut sweet – a term of confection in Brazil.
And the details: “He used to kiss really well. I got to the point of liking this so much that I got a book on teaching how to kiss. ” But Lieutenant McCain had already read the dummies guide on this and more. Thankfully, Ms De Jesus “did not run away from the question of whether the two had sex” says the journalist. “What do you think, of course. He was not just a good kisser, but good at everything.”
The spy 77-year old has no plans to get on the campaign trail, more’s the pity, and will content herself with a telegram to the White House in the event of a McCain victory. Justwordz wishes he could now write: “and then the fleet went to Argentina…” but there unfortunately, the history trail goes silent.
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Congenital idiocy in the British upper classes generally is the product of centuries of careless inbreeding and cultivated obtuseness, but a current case, that of Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, formerly de New Jersey, seems to present a case of transfer by marriage. In the short time that Justwordz has been posting he has already had occasion to comment on Lady Lynn’s calculated intervention into the tense atmosphere of campaign 2008. Everybody’s favorite former Hillraiser and McCain defector has now expanded on her comments alleging Sen. Obama’s elitism.
“Barack Obama went and called the people who have guns and cling to their religion bitter,” de Rothschild told CNN’s Campbell Brown. “The people out – who are the rednecks or whatever – are bitter.” Lady L and the bitter rednecks….
Her ladyship says she’ll be spending much of her time between now and Election Day campaigning for McCain. If she brings her act and her soapbox away from Nob Hill, Greenwich Conn. and the Upper East Side where McCain might let her loose, Justwordz promises to watch her bring good cheer to the bitter folk of Appalachia and Flyoverville. We know her heart is in the right place and we will show that large inherited wealth, social position and special access need not be a barrier between TRUE and definitely NOT ELITIST and NOT BITTER down home folks. “Toothless Croquet Moms for McCain” Justwordz’s banner will read.
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Detroit (September 19): In these troubled times as we watch venerable financial titans disappear down the S-bend we would do well to remember that the automobile industry is also in the tank. It may well be that we have heard the last of the collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and Structured Investment Vehicles SIVs, and let’s face it, who’s going to miss them – no one I know, that’s for sure. But as for those other vehicles, the 4 wheeled kind, we’re still going to need to get from A to B, assuming the job at B is still there. On the subject of cars Justwordz received the following account of a conversation from a highly placed source in Detroit.
Executive A: "$4 a gallon gas, that’s the end of the F**! You Car Segment. Bye Bye Hummer.
Executive B: "Not so fast. The future is European. Another way to say F**! you is Va te faire F****! if you will pardon my French. I’m talking about the smart car.
Executive A: You must be joking.
Executive A: was probably thinking of the following, in which case Justwordz would tend to agree with him
However, the following tphoto of a top secret concept car undergoing trials in Utah was forwarded. Obviously not just "for fun" but for big profit. You’ve seen the future now, exclusively on Justwordz and it is SMART.
September 17th, 2008 by justwordz in Who, me? · 74 Comments
Although justwordz has yet to make a formal endorsement himself, which he will be doing at Washington’s exclusive Mayflower hotel, or failing that at the US Capitol, he notes with interest the defection of an erstwhile, and it must be said, hitherto tepid, supporter of the junior senator from Illinois reported on CNN.com.
Now trust, as they say, is a two way street, and perhaps Senator Obama can be forgiven for not extending a wholeheartedly warm embrace to her Ladyship. Justwordz has himself experienced social awkwardness with people who have announced in the press that they did not like him and who could not hide that distaste in front of total strangers and reporters.
Her Ladyship’s charge of elitism is an interesting one. For all those wondering if an elitism charge is an appropriate one, a helpful Elitestor (TM) tool is provided after the link article.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN.
The announcement will take place at a news conference on Capitol Hill, just blocks away from the DNC headquarters. Forester will “campaign and help him through the election,” the spokesman said of her plans to help the Republican presidential nominee.
Forester was a major donor for Clinton earning her the title as a Hillraiser for helping to raise at least $100,000 for the New York Democratic senator’s failed presidential bid.
In an interview with CNN this summer, Forester did not hide her distaste for eventual Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
“This is a hard decision for me personally because frankly I don’t like him,” she said of Obama in an interview with CNN’s Joe Johns. “I feel like he is an elitist. I feel like he has not given me reason to trust him.”
Forester is the CEO of EL Rothschild, a holding company with businesses around the world. She is married to international banker Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. Forester is a member of the DNC’s Democrats Abroad chapter and splits her time living in London and New York.
The Elitestor (TM):
You should probably NOT make an elitism charge if:
- Members of your remote family ancestry were involved in financing wars among the great powers on opposite sides.
- The menfolk in your family have names that might be mistaken for the names of womenfolk by the common folk – for example: Leslie, Maria, Evelyn, or Angelina
- Your residence status is signaled by a non-proletarian preposition. For example – I live IN Gary Indiana – OK. I live BETWEEN Monte Carlo and Gstaad – Very likely suspect.
1/3 might get you by the sniff test if you combine the score with ostentatious reticence. Anything else and you’re in for trouble.
Follow Up – It seems her ladyship’s defection has drawn other comment. Pithily – Mickey Kaus on Slate puts it: ” You lost me at ‘de.’“ Olbermann even has her as the worst person in the world. Oh dear, off with their heads.
Now that she is with the Republicans she can learn a thing or two. The Bushes, for example, are masters at the game. George HW Bush (Philips Academy, Yale) very publicly claimed a predilection for pork rinds and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, or as he put it the “Nitty Ditty Nitty Gritty Great Bird.”
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