Conservative Donnybrook

Here are two stories that, somehow, go together. The bottom line, or course, is that if someone has their hand stuck out looking for your largesse, chances are they are scamming you. What’s a Christian to do?

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I don’t mind buying my congressman a stamp now and then (I mean, after all, how is he going to send me updates about all the screwed up stuff he’s trying to push in Congress or solicit money from me?), but I’ll be danged if I want to pick up the bill for Andre Carson’s ride. I don’t know what he’s sporting, but I imagine he’s a Hummer type of guy. With big oversized spinner wheels.

Charlie Rangel leases a Cadillac DeVille for $777 a month. But, he justifies it by asserting that his constituents want him to ride in style. Of the New York congressional delegation, Gregory Meeks of Queens takes the cake. He drives around in a Lexus LS460 which costs the taxpayers $998 per month.

On the bright side, the apparently far more ethical Senate forbids its members from milking their constituents for smart rides.

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The Daily Mail reports that Vladimir Putin is leaving his wife for a 24 year old ex-gymnast and member of Russian Parliament.  Vlad is 56.

Eye candy here.

(HT: The Corner)

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Well, not like we’re used to when it comes to the Clintons - figuratively.

Renowned and inveterate Hillary-hater, Dick Morris, has written an interesting opinion piece on Fox News where he insinuates that Hill and Bill have used a “business partnership” as a vehicle for laundering campaign funds in order to circumvent campaign finance laws. He calls for the Clintons to release copies of their income tax statements (which, I suppose would be one tactic that would be eliminated under the Fair Tax - so the Clintons should be supporters) to clear the air.

You see, it wasn’t long ago that Bill and Hill were broke and panhandling funds to pay for Bill’s legal fees as a result of his many peccadilloes. It would seem now that they are flush and that the Emir of Dubai figures largely into this picture. Morris raises the question of whether there in’t a little something-something in it for the Emir, since the other side of the aisle nixed his little port deal. Could there be a little tit-for-tat quid pro quo action going on here? Salacious stuff indeed.

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These are a few days late, but they are both priceless. Unless you’re one of those New England Patsy/Boston Red Sox whiners. I received both of these in my email and wanted to share them with our legions of readers.

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If you follow this link to the Trademark and Patent Office’s search tool, you’ll find a rather interesting trademark application submitted by Kraft Group, LLC.

Beautiful. Maybe they should consider trademarking 18-1. Nobody’s done that before.

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Brady’s been drawing comparisons to Bradshaw and Montana for awhile now, and if he leads the undefeated Pats to victory tonight, he will join their ranks as the only QBs to possess four Super Bowl rings.

If you were judging the greatest quarterback of all time based on Super Bowl rings alone, then, Brady would have a 1/3 shot at taking the title. But actual stats always eclipse Super Bowl rings. Otherwise, Dan Marino wouldn’t even be in the conversation. But clearly he has to be: In 242 regular season games he completed an astonishing 4,967 passes for 61,361 yeards and 420 touchdown passes. He won the MVP in 1984 and made the trip to Honolulu 9 times. Compare that with Brady’s (thus far) 112, 2,294, 26,370, 197 career line, and one quickly sees that Brady needs a few more snaps from under center before the “greatest ever” talk begins.

And if one considers Super Bowl wins to be the most reliable adjudicator of QB greatness, what Super Bowl win was greater than Joseph William Namath’s guarantee in Super Bowl III: “We’ll win the game. I guarantee you.” Not only did he and the Jets take down a Colts team that was touted as “the greatest football team in history,” but his performance solidified the AFL’s legitimacy. Namath took home the MVP, and the win made him the only QB to start and win a national championship in college and start and win the Super Bowl.

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