Top Gun CUNNINGHAM: I broke the law, concealed my conduct and disgraced my office.

Larry Dighera wrote in
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On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 10:30:57 -0500, Ian MacLure wrote
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[snip]

Did the bribers actually deliver what they were supposed to?

The CNN new account mentions Cunningham's mansions and yachts:

His corruption is stunning in its scope and in its sheer
audacity: $2.4 million in bribes, at least. Private jets for
resort getaways. A California mansion. A Rolls Royce. A lifestyle
well beyond his means and a thirst for more.

It would seem they did.

No, did they actually deliver whatever it was they were contracted
to supply to DOD. Some sort of document management system wasn't it?

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:15:25 GMT, Ed Rasimus
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On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 18:56:52 -0500, "Dan Luke"
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"Duke" Cunningham is living proof that a profoundly stupid man can be a
fighter pilot and get elected to high office.

That's news?

Lemme see, is that a reference to the incumbent president? The one who
spent three times as long in military service and qualified to fly
single-seat, single-engine jets? The one with the Yale degree and the
Harvard MBA?


Word is he was a 'C' average student. Despite his Harvard MBA, baby
Bush's Arab funded oil exploration company was a failure. Word is
that he ran all his business ventures into the ground* at some point.
While he may have been privileged enough to qualify to fly a jet
fighter, he saw no combat in the TANG, and apparently left his duty
early to campaign for a politician. And while he may be an incumbent
president, he wasn't elected to both terms.

* http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capit...s?bid=3&pid=21

Larry Dighera wrote in
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On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 10:17:40 -0500, Ian MacLure wrote
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"Dan Luke" wrote in
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"Duke" Cunningham is living proof that a profoundly stupid man can be a
fighter pilot and get elected to high office.

That's news?

And its equal opportunity stupidity. Look at Buh'wheat McKinney
and Marxine Waters.

IBM

Were McKinney and Waters revered former Top Gun aces who toured the US
as heroes and as shining examples of military can-do also? I had no
idea. :-)

Don't know about the pilot bit but they are clearly cruising above
FL450 on something.

IBM

In article ,
Larry Dighera wrote:

And while he may be an incumbent
president, he wasn't elected to both terms.

get over it.

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:25:42 GMT, Yeff wrote:

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:06:14 GMT, Ed Rasimus wrote:

No. Unlike you, I don't have any experience being profoundly stupid.

We might get some objective evaluators here in the news group to
validate that now. I think you don't give your experience enough
credit.

Aren't you supposed to make some type of "fox" call before releasing
live ordnance?...


LOL! 'Tally Ho' it is then.
--
If you want venality, if you want ignorance, if you want drunkenness,
and facility for being intimidated; or if, on the other hand, you
want impulsive, unreflecting, and violent people, where do you look
Do you go to the top or to the bottom?

Larry Dighera wrote:
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 10:17:40 -0500, Ian MacLure wrote
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"Dan Luke" wrote in
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"Duke" Cunningham is living proof that a profoundly stupid man can be a
fighter pilot and get elected to high office.

That's news?

And its equal opportunity stupidity. Look at Buh'wheat McKinney
and Marxine Waters.

IBM

Were McKinney and Waters revered former Top Gun aces who toured the US
as heroes and as shining examples of military can-do also? I had no
idea. :-)

Okay, let's set the record straight - Duke hasn't been revered as a
shining hero for years. While he's earned his place in fighter-driver
Valhalla, no word of the man that I've seen or heard in the past ten
years excludes his more recent escapades - Capitol Hill loudmouth,
self-righteous Republican, congressional-floor bully. I'm still amazed
that a guy whose behavior practically screams for attack managed to
conduct so much misconduct. The old "living in glass houses" warning
doesn't begin to cut it. Duke's legendary status came about decades
ago, and from a war that will likely remain one we'd like to put behind
us, and from what I've read, was a shining moment in what was gradually
becoming a non-starter of a career. In short, it's time to give the
whole "Fallen 'Top Gun'" tag a rest.

("Larry Dighera" wrote)
And while he may be an incumbent president, he wasn't elected to both
terms.


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NAC (Necessary Aviation Content)
I ordered a (Free) Jolly Green Giant kite when I was a kid - late '60's.
IIRC, the thing was huge ...to an eight year old.

On 8-Jul-2006, Ian MacLure wrote:

Not to mention Jimmy and Tammy Faye Bakkers bravura performance.

Back in the mid-70s my high school friends and I used to watch the PTL club
for its comedic value. We called it the "Pocket The Loot Club".
Scott Wilson

wrote in :

On 8-Jul-2006, Ian MacLure wrote:

Not to mention Jimmy and Tammy Faye Bakkers bravura performance.

Back in the mid-70s my high school friends and I used to watch the PTL club
for its comedic value. We called it the "Pocket The Loot Club".
Scott Wilson

I dare say you weren't alone in that.

IBM

On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 23:59:27 GMT, wrote in
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On 8-Jul-2006, Ian MacLure wrote:

Not to mention Jimmy and Tammy Faye Bakkers bravura performance.

Back in the mid-70s my high school friends and I used to watch the PTL club
for its comedic value. We called it the "Pocket The Loot Club".
Scott Wilson

It's still going on under a different name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity...work#Criticism
Criticism
The network has attracted criticism for its continuous fundraising
activities, including the "prosperity gospel," an offshoot of the
Word of faith doctrine that appears to promise donors, including
impecunious ones, that God will make them rich as long as they
have faith and give to TBN. Paul Crouch has made statements to his
viewers such as, "Have you got something that you have been
praying about ten, fifteen, twenty years? You have been praying
for it and haven't gotten it...," and that people haven't received
it because they haven't given their ten percent. During a 1997
program, he conversely said, "If you have been healed or saved or
blessed through TBN and have not contributed...you are robbing God
and will lose your reward in heaven." The network reports that
seventy percent of its donations are in amounts under fifty
dollars. Some viewers consider Crouch's prosperity as a positive
demonstration of the success of their prosperity gospel
message.[citation needed] A group of critical Christians has
banded together to attempt to jam the TBN phones during its
telethons as a protest against its fundraising, which the group's
organizer, a retired pastor, likens to robbery.

The network cancelled its November 2004 "Praise-a-thon"
fundraising telethon in favor of showing forty hours of reruns
from past telethons. Network officials blamed the cancellation
mostly on health concerns for both Paul and Jan Crouch, the latter
of whom had gall bladder surgery at the time. The Associated Press
reported those officials also noted however, that the cancellation
would take pressure off other religious figures who would have
appeared on the live telethon. In the wake of recent revelations
that Paul Crouch paid $425,000 in 1998 to a male former employee
to keep him quiet about claims of a homosexual tryst with Crouch,
and the AP also cited the recent newspaper reports about the
Crouchs' "lavish lifestyle" as well as ongoing rumors of marital
strife between Paul Sr. and Jan.

Paul Crouch Jr. voiced his belief that other ministries were
concerned "they are going to be next on the hit list." R. Marie
Griffith, a Princeton University scholar studying evangelical
Christianity and the media, said that "to take the live
broadcasting off...suggests...the chaos" at TBN.

If you thought Tammy Fay was a bizarre sight, wait until you see Jan
Crouch.

And then there's the son:

http://www.rickross.com/reference/tbn/tbn6.html
Televangelists settle $40 million plagiarism suit

These folks built a Taj Mahal on land that backs to the 405 freeway in
Orange County, California. They then illegally removed the CalTrans
landscaping that shielded motorists from the sight of their edifice.

It's evident, that folks are laughable crooks.