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Yes it is this bad.
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:55:01 -0400, Earl wrote:
X ` Man wrote: On 8/21/12 11:06 AM, wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:34:43 -0400, X ` Man wrote: On 8/21/12 8:08 AM, Wayne.B wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:27:42 -0400, wrote: I live in shallow water land so that doesn't scare me but hitting bottom here is just mud and maybe oysters, not a sunken Buick with Jimmy Hoffa in the trunk. === That's because your water is not deep enough for a Buick. :-) Jimmy Hoffa wouldn't be caught dead in the trunk of a Buick. Jimmy drove a Pontiac at the time of his disappearance. The feds claimed he had been in Chuckie O'Brien's car, a Merc, on the day he disappeared, but that was based on finding a strand of his hair in the car. There was no indication when that hair found its way into the car. I had met Hoffa sometime in 1967 before he went to prison. A friend of mine in DC who was working for the old Washington Star knew that and when Hoffa disappeared, he called me for a quote. It was sort of a joke, since I didn't know Hoffa very well. Fortunately or unfortunately, my quote found its way into the paper and I was kidded about it for years by my labor union friends. I did know several of Hoffa's successors as Teamster president fairly well. Among these were Roy Williams, who I had interviewed several times when he was a "rising thug" within the IBT and worked out of Kansas City, and Jackie Presser. As crooked as these fellows were, however, they were paragons of virtue compared to the thug who is the current governor of Florida. I used to see Hoffa all the time. Presser was the guy that ratted him out to the feds after being a virtual adopted son. He was actually the guy who did most of the things Hoffa went to jail for. Him and Fitz were both crooks, more so than Hoffa. The same weekend an article about Presser appeared in the New York Times, I got a call on a Sunday morning from him. My wife at that time answered, and she had just finished reading the article. She was a tad nervous when she handed me the phone. This was back when the IBT was trying to organize farm workers out from under Cesar Chavez. Presser was not yet IBT president, but he was close. He wanted me to handle the marketing and PR for the campaign. I turned him down. Interestingly, the contract the IBT was negotiating for the farmworkers it represented was much stronger than what Chavez was getting. The IBT had more clout. But Chavez was a favorite of the powers that were at the AFL-CIO and his group was an affiliate, so I wouldn't touch *that* campaign with a 50-foot pole. Sure, Harry. Unreal. That was from the guy who proudly stated, "Self-praise sucks." |
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Yes it is this bad.
On 8/23/12 3:56 PM, JohnH wrote:
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:55:01 -0400, Earl wrote: X ` Man wrote: On 8/21/12 11:06 AM, wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:34:43 -0400, X ` Man wrote: On 8/21/12 8:08 AM, Wayne.B wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:27:42 -0400, wrote: I live in shallow water land so that doesn't scare me but hitting bottom here is just mud and maybe oysters, not a sunken Buick with Jimmy Hoffa in the trunk. === That's because your water is not deep enough for a Buick. :-) Jimmy Hoffa wouldn't be caught dead in the trunk of a Buick. Jimmy drove a Pontiac at the time of his disappearance. The feds claimed he had been in Chuckie O'Brien's car, a Merc, on the day he disappeared, but that was based on finding a strand of his hair in the car. There was no indication when that hair found its way into the car. I had met Hoffa sometime in 1967 before he went to prison. A friend of mine in DC who was working for the old Washington Star knew that and when Hoffa disappeared, he called me for a quote. It was sort of a joke, since I didn't know Hoffa very well. Fortunately or unfortunately, my quote found its way into the paper and I was kidded about it for years by my labor union friends. I did know several of Hoffa's successors as Teamster president fairly well. Among these were Roy Williams, who I had interviewed several times when he was a "rising thug" within the IBT and worked out of Kansas City, and Jackie Presser. As crooked as these fellows were, however, they were paragons of virtue compared to the thug who is the current governor of Florida. I used to see Hoffa all the time. Presser was the guy that ratted him out to the feds after being a virtual adopted son. He was actually the guy who did most of the things Hoffa went to jail for. Him and Fitz were both crooks, more so than Hoffa. The same weekend an article about Presser appeared in the New York Times, I got a call on a Sunday morning from him. My wife at that time answered, and she had just finished reading the article. She was a tad nervous when she handed me the phone. This was back when the IBT was trying to organize farm workers out from under Cesar Chavez. Presser was not yet IBT president, but he was close. He wanted me to handle the marketing and PR for the campaign. I turned him down. Interestingly, the contract the IBT was negotiating for the farmworkers it represented was much stronger than what Chavez was getting. The IBT had more clout. But Chavez was a favorite of the powers that were at the AFL-CIO and his group was an affiliate, so I wouldn't touch *that* campaign with a 50-foot pole. Sure, Harry. Unreal. That was from the guy who proudly stated, "Self-praise sucks." In your next life perhaps you'll find a useful career. -- What do the Republican Party of the United States and the Muslim Brotherhood of the Arab World have in common? They're both faith-based parties, they both deny science, and they both wage war on women. |
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Yes it is this bad.
JohnH wrote:
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:55:01 -0400, Earl wrote: X ` Man wrote: On 8/21/12 11:06 AM, wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:34:43 -0400, X ` Man wrote: On 8/21/12 8:08 AM, Wayne.B wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:27:42 -0400, wrote: I live in shallow water land so that doesn't scare me but hitting bottom here is just mud and maybe oysters, not a sunken Buick with Jimmy Hoffa in the trunk. === That's because your water is not deep enough for a Buick. :-) Jimmy Hoffa wouldn't be caught dead in the trunk of a Buick. Jimmy drove a Pontiac at the time of his disappearance. The feds claimed he had been in Chuckie O'Brien's car, a Merc, on the day he disappeared, but that was based on finding a strand of his hair in the car. There was no indication when that hair found its way into the car. I had met Hoffa sometime in 1967 before he went to prison. A friend of mine in DC who was working for the old Washington Star knew that and when Hoffa disappeared, he called me for a quote. It was sort of a joke, since I didn't know Hoffa very well. Fortunately or unfortunately, my quote found its way into the paper and I was kidded about it for years by my labor union friends. I did know several of Hoffa's successors as Teamster president fairly well. Among these were Roy Williams, who I had interviewed several times when he was a "rising thug" within the IBT and worked out of Kansas City, and Jackie Presser. As crooked as these fellows were, however, they were paragons of virtue compared to the thug who is the current governor of Florida. I used to see Hoffa all the time. Presser was the guy that ratted him out to the feds after being a virtual adopted son. He was actually the guy who did most of the things Hoffa went to jail for. Him and Fitz were both crooks, more so than Hoffa. The same weekend an article about Presser appeared in the New York Times, I got a call on a Sunday morning from him. My wife at that time answered, and she had just finished reading the article. She was a tad nervous when she handed me the phone. This was back when the IBT was trying to organize farm workers out from under Cesar Chavez. Presser was not yet IBT president, but he was close. He wanted me to handle the marketing and PR for the campaign. I turned him down. Interestingly, the contract the IBT was negotiating for the farmworkers it represented was much stronger than what Chavez was getting. The IBT had more clout. But Chavez was a favorite of the powers that were at the AFL-CIO and his group was an affiliate, so I wouldn't touch *that* campaign with a 50-foot pole. Sure, Harry. Unreal. That was from the guy who proudly stated, "Self-praise sucks." Did he really post that? |
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:03:15 -0400, Earl wrote:
JohnH wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:55:01 -0400, Earl wrote: X ` Man wrote: On 8/21/12 11:06 AM, wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:34:43 -0400, X ` Man wrote: On 8/21/12 8:08 AM, Wayne.B wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:27:42 -0400, wrote: I live in shallow water land so that doesn't scare me but hitting bottom here is just mud and maybe oysters, not a sunken Buick with Jimmy Hoffa in the trunk. === That's because your water is not deep enough for a Buick. :-) Jimmy Hoffa wouldn't be caught dead in the trunk of a Buick. Jimmy drove a Pontiac at the time of his disappearance. The feds claimed he had been in Chuckie O'Brien's car, a Merc, on the day he disappeared, but that was based on finding a strand of his hair in the car. There was no indication when that hair found its way into the car. I had met Hoffa sometime in 1967 before he went to prison. A friend of mine in DC who was working for the old Washington Star knew that and when Hoffa disappeared, he called me for a quote. It was sort of a joke, since I didn't know Hoffa very well. Fortunately or unfortunately, my quote found its way into the paper and I was kidded about it for years by my labor union friends. I did know several of Hoffa's successors as Teamster president fairly well. Among these were Roy Williams, who I had interviewed several times when he was a "rising thug" within the IBT and worked out of Kansas City, and Jackie Presser. As crooked as these fellows were, however, they were paragons of virtue compared to the thug who is the current governor of Florida. I used to see Hoffa all the time. Presser was the guy that ratted him out to the feds after being a virtual adopted son. He was actually the guy who did most of the things Hoffa went to jail for. Him and Fitz were both crooks, more so than Hoffa. The same weekend an article about Presser appeared in the New York Times, I got a call on a Sunday morning from him. My wife at that time answered, and she had just finished reading the article. She was a tad nervous when she handed me the phone. This was back when the IBT was trying to organize farm workers out from under Cesar Chavez. Presser was not yet IBT president, but he was close. He wanted me to handle the marketing and PR for the campaign. I turned him down. Interestingly, the contract the IBT was negotiating for the farmworkers it represented was much stronger than what Chavez was getting. The IBT had more clout. But Chavez was a favorite of the powers that were at the AFL-CIO and his group was an affiliate, so I wouldn't touch *that* campaign with a 50-foot pole. Sure, Harry. Unreal. That was from the guy who proudly stated, "Self-praise sucks." Did he really post that? Yup. |
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Yes it is this bad.
JohnH wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:03:15 -0400, Earl wrote: JohnH wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:55:01 -0400, Earl wrote: X ` Man wrote: On 8/21/12 11:06 AM, wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:34:43 -0400, X ` Man wrote: On 8/21/12 8:08 AM, Wayne.B wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:27:42 -0400, wrote: I live in shallow water land so that doesn't scare me but hitting bottom here is just mud and maybe oysters, not a sunken Buick with Jimmy Hoffa in the trunk. === That's because your water is not deep enough for a Buick. :-) Jimmy Hoffa wouldn't be caught dead in the trunk of a Buick. Jimmy drove a Pontiac at the time of his disappearance. The feds claimed he had been in Chuckie O'Brien's car, a Merc, on the day he disappeared, but that was based on finding a strand of his hair in the car. There was no indication when that hair found its way into the car. I had met Hoffa sometime in 1967 before he went to prison. A friend of mine in DC who was working for the old Washington Star knew that and when Hoffa disappeared, he called me for a quote. It was sort of a joke, since I didn't know Hoffa very well. Fortunately or unfortunately, my quote found its way into the paper and I was kidded about it for years by my labor union friends. I did know several of Hoffa's successors as Teamster president fairly well. Among these were Roy Williams, who I had interviewed several times when he was a "rising thug" within the IBT and worked out of Kansas City, and Jackie Presser. As crooked as these fellows were, however, they were paragons of virtue compared to the thug who is the current governor of Florida. I used to see Hoffa all the time. Presser was the guy that ratted him out to the feds after being a virtual adopted son. He was actually the guy who did most of the things Hoffa went to jail for. Him and Fitz were both crooks, more so than Hoffa. The same weekend an article about Presser appeared in the New York Times, I got a call on a Sunday morning from him. My wife at that time answered, and she had just finished reading the article. She was a tad nervous when she handed me the phone. This was back when the IBT was trying to organize farm workers out from under Cesar Chavez. Presser was not yet IBT president, but he was close. He wanted me to handle the marketing and PR for the campaign. I turned him down. Interestingly, the contract the IBT was negotiating for the farmworkers it represented was much stronger than what Chavez was getting. The IBT had more clout. But Chavez was a favorite of the powers that were at the AFL-CIO and his group was an affiliate, so I wouldn't touch *that* campaign with a 50-foot pole. Sure, Harry. Unreal. That was from the guy who proudly stated, "Self-praise sucks." Did he really post that? Yup. He's a freaking narcissist. That doesn't make sense unless he is oblivious to that fact. |
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