Top Ten Cloves: Other Things Ben Carson Believes About Pyramids

News Item: [Deep, Exhausted Sigh] Ben Carson Thinks Joseph From the Bible Built the Pyramids

10.  Archaeologists Wrong - Pharaohs’ only took pyramids as their graves by Eminent Domain

​9. In building pyramids, Joseph invented the Lunch Break

8. Pyramids site where Egyptian Students held Keggers 

7. Building of the pyramids really increased real estate value of neighboring tents

6. Joseph died Intestate - Sons thought they would inherit the pyramids

5. Alien beings were only used for interior decorating of the pyramids

4. Because of their height, Joseph had to bring in Mohawk Indians to build pyramids

3.  Seven-year famine a hoax - Each pyramid had a food court for visitors

2.  Near the pyramids is early version of Home Depot, where Joseph bought the materials

1.  Because of accidents, pyramids gave birth to game Jenga

Bonus Links

Ben Carson: Archaeologists Are Wrong, The Pyramids Were Built To Store Grain

Ben Carson: I’m not saying it’s aliens — but scientists are totally wrong about the pyramids

Ben Carson believes Joseph built Egypt’s pyramids to store grain — and it just might get him some votes

Carson: Archeologists Are Wrong — Biblical Joseph Built The Pyramids To Store Grain

Surprise, Dr. Ben Carson’s Latest Pyramid Scheme Involves Actual Pyramids

Top Ten Cloves: Other Slogans Jeb! Considered To Reboot Campaign

News Item:  Jeb Can’t Fix It: Bush’s campaign reboot flops as Twitter demolishes his dopey new slogan

10.  Jeb! - The Other White Meat.

9.  When it absolutely, positively has to be Jeb! overnight.

8.  Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz, Oh What A Relief Jeb! Is

7.  Save Jeb!. Live Better

6.  Jeb! Tries Harder

5.  Sometimes you feel like a Jeb!, sometimes you don't.

4.  Things Go Better with Jeb!

3.  A Jeb! a day helps you work, rest and play

2.  A little Jeb'll! do ya.

1.  I'm The Bush That Hasn't Started A War (yet)

Bonus Links

Jeb 2.0: Bush relaunches campaign with e-book, tour

Jeb Bush Invokes President Lincoln Amid 'Jeb Can Fix It' Tour

Jeb Swears He's Tough: 'I Eat Nails When I Wake Up' (VIDEO)

Top Ten Cloves: Other Demands Paul Ryan's Making To Become House Speaker

News Item:  Potential Speaker Paul Ryan Just Issued A List Of Demands To Republicans ...

10.  Though not elected, wants Kim Davis to be new House Whip

9.  Only reservation is that the Indianapolis Colts don't do another trick play this season

8.  Wants a role in next season's 'True Detective'

7.  Only if he can enact his "Roadmap for America’s Future"

6.  Needs to get Netanyahu to now blame Palestinians for killing America Indians

5.  Since leak last week, wants to be able to fly drones from his Speaker Seat

4.  Wants Tom Brady to admit he deflated the footballs

3.  Will only take position if Ronda Rousey is his bodyguard

2.  Donald Trump has to promise not to make fun of him

1.  Get Jeb! Bush to say Paul Ryan will keep country safe

Bonus Links

Ryan: No Immigration Reform If He's Speaker

Paul Ryan is an arrogant clown drunk on years of flatterers lying about how smart he is

Conservative media mocks 'Emperor Ryan'

No Drone's Lost, Mr. Christian!

This title could come from a future movie 'Mutiny On The Constitution'.

Well, maybe not the Constitution, but there are laws on the books, prohibiting the United States Government from conducting assassinations.

And, Jesus, President Obama's escalation of using Drones makes it look like the Cheney-Bush Regime was flying kites.

In case you were caught up with the Democrats' Debate (Anyone else think they put Jim Webb's head on an ill-fitting body, almost like Edgar the cockroach in MIB?), you missed the major news yesterday, a new whistle-blower has leaked classified documents detailing - and I mean detailing - the Obama Administrations Drone program.

Or, as 'The Intercept' has appropriately labeled it;

THE Assassination Complex: Secret Military Documents Expose The Inner Workings of Obama's Drone Wars

"DRONES ARE A TOOL, not a policy. The policy is assassination. While every president since Gerald Ford has upheld an executive order banning assassinations by U.S. personnel, Congress has avoided legislating the issue or even defining the word “assassination.” This has allowed proponents of the drone wars to rebrand assassinations with more palatable characterizations, such as the term du jour, “targeted killings.”

Nice euphemism "targeted killings", kinda puts to rest the previous one of choice - "Collateral Damage". 

And, is there concern for innocent civilians who just happen to get a drone rocket to the face?

 The Obama Administration doesn't account for that, and has seemingly ordered an extra helping of evil;

The documents show that the military designated people it killed in targeted strikes as EKIA — “enemy killed in action” — even if they were not the intended targets of the strike. Unless evidence posthumously emerged to prove the males killed were not terrorists or “unlawful enemy combatants,” EKIA remained their designation, according to the source. That process, he said, “is insane. But we’ve made ourselves comfortable with that. The intelligence community, JSOC, the CIA, and everybody that helps support and prop up these programs, they’re comfortable with that idea.”

Get it - If we're aiming drones at them, everyone's a terrorist.

Digby offers today that there is, at least, one call for a Congressional Investigation, but don't bet your Fantasy Football winnings on that happening.

It's taken a few decades, but the Military Industrial Complex finally has what they have wanted - Perpetual War.

I'm sure there are bigger, faster, longer-flying, more powerful drones are already on the drawing board, if not, the production line

With Guantanamo still open, and Obama extending the military in Afghanistan another few years, he's an hero to these guys.

So, Paging the Nobel Committee!, the group that awarded Obama the Nobel Peace Prize.

They should rescind it, take it back, take it away.

And after that is done, they should all resign.

Top Ten Cloves: Things Said Between Pope and Kim Davis

News Item:  Why Pope Francis’ Meeting With Kim Davis Is Such a Disaster

10.  Pope asked Davis if she could arrange meeting with Ronda Rousey for him

9.  Pope wanted to know how the food was in jail

8.  Argued about Deflategate (Davis saying Brady Cheated, Pope saying no he didn't)

7.  Compromise - Kim Davis told Pope she's willing to sign Alabama Driver's Licenses

6.  Pope curious if he's mentioned in any of Hillary Clinton's emails

5.  Pope to Davis: Who are you and how'd you get in here?

4.  Pope asked her how she got 4 marriage licenses

3.  True Detective - both agreed new season sucks

2.  Pope asked if any gay priests applied for marriage licenses

1.  Kim Davis offered Pope cake from anti-gay Oregon bakers

Her Lips Are Moving

If we were playing 'Jeopardy' today, the correct response to the title of this post, would be the question "How can you tell when Carli Fiorina is lying?"

Arguing during the Sept. 16 GOP debate to defund Planned Parenthood, Ms. Fiorina offered this description of a disturbing scene that was supposedly captured on controversial undercover videos of the organization: “Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.” No such scene exists, as even some of her defenders have had to admit. Ms. Fiorina was challenged by Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace to acknowledge “what every fact checker has found”: that the scene was only described by someone who claimed to have witnessed it but was not shown in the video.

[snip]

Instead she insisted: “No, I don’t accept that at all. I’ve seen the footage.” She went on the attack against the mainstream media, and her supporters concocted a video that splices video and audio from different places in an effort to buttress her claims. Most deceptive in the CARLY for America video is use of an image (also used in the videos produced by the Center for Medical Progress) of a fetus born prematurely, not aborted, at 19 weeks of development. The premature birth by a Pennsylvania woman had no connection to Planned Parenthood or to abortion. That, though, didn’t stop Ms. Fiorina’s supporters from using it — with the voice-over and caption of “Here’s a stomach, heart, kidney, and adrenal” — to support specious allegations of Planned Parenthood selling fetal tissue for profit.

She's been doubling down on this so much for a few weeks now, she could probably campaign walking on HP printers stretched from coast-to-coast, and, yesterday, on 'Meet The Lapdog' she must be entering into Pi on how often she sputters this garbage.

Why Isn't Ted Cruz Arrested For Threatening To Kill A World Leader?

Simply astonishing.

If elected (bet on the snowball in hell beating him) the Joe-McCarthy-look-alike-Teabagger Wingnut Senator Ted Cruz will be stepping into arrestable grounds.

From Juan Cole, and the always-excellent site, 'Informed Comment';

Ted Cruz said Friday at the Value Voters Summit conference in Washington, D.C., “If you vote for me, under no circumstances will Iran be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. And if the ayatollah doesn’t understand that, we may have to help introduce him to his 72 virgins.”

We'll skip the irony of this gathering of PartyofNoicans being labeled "Value Voters".

It would appear the rabble-rousing Senator is ignorant of the 1978 law, banning political assassinations.

Executive Order 11905

Executive Order 11905 is a United States Presidential Executive Order signed on February 18, 1976, by President Gerald R. Ford as an attempt to reform the United States Intelligence Community, improve oversight on foreign intelligence activities, and ban political assassination.[1][2] Much of this EO would be changed or strengthened by Jimmy Carter's Executive Order 12036 in 1978.

This came about from the post-Watergate mop up of National Criminal President Richard M. Nixon's enterprise, led by the Church Committee, of Senator Frank Church (D-ID), or the  United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.

If the Idiot Senator was only joking ...

Well, considering the United States' history of assassinating World Leaders, and the need of Executive Order 11905 (which was reaffirmed by both Presidents, Carter and Reagan), it's not something to boast about as your qualifications for the Office of President.

Best advise I can offer to the threatened Ayatollah Khamenei is to Google Senator Ted Cruz, and have yourself a good laugh.

Drippings From The Drool Cup

Last night, the PartyofNoicans parked their clown car in the Ronald Reagan Drool Cup Shrine, and more than a few of the candidates channeled the former Union-busting President, rather awkwardly.

But the #GOPDebate, despite the calls to do so, didn't wipe the grease paint of Numero Uno clown, Donald Chump.

He's still standing, and holding down the three-rings, waiting to crack his whip at the next pail of confetti thrown at him.

Rather than wade into the nauseating details, we'll just offer some observational riffs.

Somebody in the Jeb! Bush! crew needs to sit the boy down and advise him to get as far away from his War Criminal brother as possible, rather then continuing to embrace and defend him.

In the back-and-forth over the Middle East, going into Iraq, Jeb! strenuously and vehemently shot back at The Donald, who was dissing his War Criminal brother that "He kept us safe ..."

Really?

Anyone can go to the Internets and find the War Criminal Brother ignoring the PDB about possible attacks, and on the day of attack, he was giving the most famous reading of "My Pet Goat".

But Jeb! wasn't the only one trying to milk Sept. 11th, Portly Chris Christie continued his exploitation of it, in a fighting-stance reply that he was a "tough Federal Prosecutor".

And Dr. Ben didn't do himself any favors by (rightly) defending the practice of Vaccines, and that they don't cause Autism, since the red-meat-eating, teabagging wing of the PartyofNoicans (who Dr. Ben ordinarily plays to) have that misfact carved in stone.

Ted Cruz should be disqualified from both the debates, and public office in general, just for the fact that he too-eerily resembles former pig-headed Senator Joe McCarthy, in looks and in policies.

Aside from Donald Chump, I suspect, as the day wears on, the ink barrels will be drained, declaring Carly Fiorina and Marco Rubio as gaining points last evening.

Carly, to be fair, likely got off the best single line of the night, taking a swipe at The Donald's riff about her falling off the Ugly Tree and hitting every branch, but, she's pissing up a rope if she's going to try to counter her business experience is better than his.

During her tenure, HP stood for "Help, Please", and the only one who got rich during that time was herself - for getting fired.

And Marco Rubio's family immigration story is beginning to resemble TBS on Christmas Day, and, if he happens to be the last clown in the car, and actually gets elected, he'll make Keyser Sozo look like a piker.

Winners of the Thanks For Coming/Bronzed Reagan Drool Cup go to Mike Huckabee (Onward Christian Soldiers, where do we sign up for the Crusades, Mike?), Scott Walker (the loser asshole Frat President who thinks everyone thinks he's cool and smart), Rand Paul ("Hey, over here ... Me. Me, ... I had my hand raised!") and John Kasich ("Can't we all just get along?")

The PartyofNoican Clown Car now heads to Colorado, three days before Halloween, and, about the only way it could be more fun, is if the candidates indulge themselves in some of that legal Colorado marijuana.

Wrong Battle, Nitwits!

This is been said by many over the past few days, and, I'm confident there are thousand-and-thousand of scores of people out there that understand it as well.

Gods' Rebel Kim Davis is not in jail over her "Religious Freedom".

Religous Freedom is not under attack here.

No one is telling her she can't believe in what she believes ... No one is telling her what to believe in ... No one is forcing their "Religious Beliefs" on her.

If any of us, in whatever jobs we held, whatever beliefs we had, took the similar action (being, refusing to do our job, the job we accepted) we would surely be reprimanded, or disciplined, perhaps suspended or, even terminated.

She has a particular job that carrys with it certain tasks, duties and policies.

She chose - refused - to perform those tasks and duties, and the consequences she faces now are of her own doing, no one else.

What happened to the monolithic Conservative principle of "Personal Responsiblity"?

The Rowan County Board, or Supervisors, whoever oversees the employees of Rown County have some explaining to do ...

What happens if others in civic and/or government jobs took the same action as God's Rebel?

Does a fireman's "Religious Beliefs" allow him/her to stand there and watch a gay couple's (or pick the target of your "Religious Beliefs") house to burn down?

Does a policeman's "Religious Beliefs" allow him to stand by and watch a group of thugs beat up a gay couple?

The more rational out there need to prevent the Religious Conservatives, the Jesus Freaks, and the PartyofNoicans from hijacking this incident into making it a Cause it is not.

God's Rebel Kim Davis is in jail because she chose to defy a Court Order pertaining to her performing her tasks and duties.

That's what this is about.

No one is telling God's Rebel she can't believe in what she believes ... No one is telling her what to believe in ... No one is forcing God's Rebel their "Religious Beliefs" on her.

She chose not to perform her job, as she accepted when she was elected, and, following a court order to do so.

Let's turn the page on this quickly, before it gets to the point we have to call out:

"Help Me, Mister Wizard!"

Bonus Riffs

Attorneys For Kim Davis: Marriage Licenses Issued Friday Are 'Void'

Kim Davis: Married To Bad Reasoning

Kim Davis Is Not a Christian Martyr: The Kentucky Court Clerk Deserves to Be in the Clink

#GodHatesAdultery: Westboro Baptist church turns on Kim Davis for causing ‘F*g marriage’

To Fox News, KY Clerk Kim Davis Is A Bigger Martyr Than Martin Luther King.

Opinion: Why 'God's authority' can't keep Kim Davis out of jail

Kim Davis' Lawyer Says She's Just Like A Jew Living In Nazi Germany

KENTUCKY: Hundreds Rally Outside Jail Holding Kim Davis, ‘Satan Is Using Judge Bunning’

Top Ten Cloves: Things Roger Goodell Did After Losing Case To Tom Brady

News Item:  This Is Roger Goodell's Defining Defeat, And The One He Deserves

10.  Called Adrian Peterson, asking him to take that tree branch to Judge Berman's behind

9.  Emailed Netanyahu, trying to lump Brady into all this Iran Deal hoopla

8.  Starting Hastag movement: #NFLComissionersPowerMatters

7.  Hoping to get Donald Trump to toss a few insults at Tom Brady

6.  Looking closely at that woman in Kentucky, maybe can win appeal on "Religious Freedom" grounds

5.  Offer to New Orleans Saints: No penalties if they put bounty on Brady

4.  Called Ray Lewis, see if he and his crew were up for some work

3.  Ripped Ted Wells for not fabricating more evidence

2.  Went into deep funk - Lied about NFL Concussion problem so good, how'd he lose this one?

1.  Called Ray Rice, asked him to get Judge Berman in an elevator

Top Ten Cloves: Things You Have Time To Do During A Ronda Rousey Fight

News Item: UFC 190: Ronda Rousey knocks out Bethe Correia in 34 seconds

10.  Only enough time to reach into the popcorn bowl

 9.  Name about a third of the Presidents

 8.  Take but one, or two, swigs of your beer

 7.  Maybe enough time to think about judging a book by it's cover

 6.  Time to paint only one or two nails

 5.  Sit back, and if your are quick, get your feet up

 4.  Sing only half of the Alphabet Song

 3.  Put on one shoe

  

 2.  Spell Ronda Rousey

 1.  Write half of a Tweet

This Is Why You Should Buy Antique Furniture!

It's been a grumble among Antique Dealers that the younger generation today doesn't like, doesn't appreciate Antique Furniture, for various reasons beyond price - they have small apartments, they move around frequently, they want to change their decor every few years ...

The reasons go on-and-on ...

Here at 13909 Antiques, we've been fortunate that a score, or two, of young people have indicated they prefer Antique Furniture over Ikea Furniture, or other modern furniture found in the big box stores.

Along with the craftsmanship, the beauty, Antique Furniture isn't going to fall apart in a year, or two, or, the first time you move (we know of at least one Moving Company that will not insure Ikea Furniture when moving it).

Well, sadly, here's another reason;

IKEA Offers Free Wall Anchoring Repair Kit for Chests and Dressers Due to Tip-over Hazard After Two Children Died

"WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with IKEA North America, of Conshohocken, Pa, is announcing a repair program that includes a free wall anchoring kit, for their MALM 3- and 4-drawer chests and two styles of MALM 6- drawer chests, and other chests and dressers.  The chests and dressers can pose a tip-over hazard if not securely anchored to the wall.

IKEA received reports of two children who died after MALM chests tipped over and fell on them.  Consumers should immediately stop using all IKEA children’s chests and dressers taller than 23 ½ inches and adult chests and dressers taller than 29 ½ inches, unless they are securely anchored to the wall.  The free wall anchoring kit should be used to secure MALM and other IKEA chests and dressers to the wall ..."

Very sad, tragic news indeed.

But to this point, unless your child happened to be born on the planet Krypton, he or she isn't going to pull down an Early Century Oak Hutch, or a 1930's Mahogany Dresser.

In fact, it's very likely, with such a piece, your children's grandchildren will be able to pass down that  Early Century Oak Hutch, or a 1930's Mahogany Dresser, to their grandchilden, thanks to the craftsmanship, that it is solidly built.

So, next time you need such a piece of furniture, skip the box stores and malls, and visit 13909 Antiques, or, depending where you are reading this from, your local Antique Dealer.


13909 Antiques
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Waltham MA 02453
http://13909antiques.blogspot.com/

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Monday:  ​ Off - By Appointment
Tuesday:  Off - By Appointment
Wednesday:  11AM - 7PM
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Friday: 10AM - 6PM
Saturday:  9AM - 5PM
Sunday: 11AM - 4PM

Come by, 13909 Antiques ... Everywhere you look, you'll find a gem, a unique item, or that long-sought piece you were lookling for ... Some say we remind them of their Grandparents house ... We have a bevy of Antique and Vintage furnishing, lamps, knic knacs, costume jewlery, old magazines ​, Vintage Glass and​  much, much more​ ... If you like to rummage, 13909 Antiques is the place for you ...​ Open until 8PM on Thursdays, and we now offer Gift Certificates! 

Store Policy - Don't be shy ... You won't insult us by making an offer, we, graciously ​,​​ listen to all offers

(Cross-posted from 13909 Antiques)

#JeSuisCharlie

Retro Garlic: Governor Gaucho Riding Off Into The Sunset

"Oh woe is me ..."

That about sums up the lenghty outpouring today of the former Governor Gaucho, the Appalachian-Hiking, Secret-Brazilian-Lover Mark Sanford of South Carolina.

He took to Facebook to annouce calling off his pending wedding to that Secret Brazilian Lover, fiancée María Belén Chapur, and rambles through the Fields of Elysia, giving a H/T to God in airing the dirty laundry of his divorce proceedings.

A snippet from his Appalachian-long Facebook post;

"...She wanted full control of their custodial accounts which were very significant in size, I gave it. I did these things for two reasons. One, because my good friend Cubby Culbertson had reminded me that it was all God's - and if he wanted you to have more, you would…and if he wanted you to have less, you would have less. He accordingly strongly advised against spending money and time and controversy fighting over things that God ultimately controlled ... "

To which the kids over on Gawker have some advise for Sanford;

"Lawyers, alas, may actually be more powerful than God."

He tells of his ex-wife putting demands on him, like drug and alcohol testing and this;

" ...Finally, Jenny and her lawyer also go on to ask me to undertake an array of programs and evaluations, each one more riveting than the next ..."

Without using the actual word, acting as a martyred Eddie Haskell, our former Governor Gaucho is actually calling his ex-wife a bitch

With a woe-is-me-smile, and heavy heart.

And, he seems to disengage himself, that all these troubles he's blaming on God, are actually the result of him lying, taking on a Secret Brazilian Lover, and putting on he was hiking the Appalachian Trail, when, in fact, he was flying down, to Rio.


Typical corrupt Republican - it's always someone else's fault.

You can read more about it;

TPM:  Mark Sanford Unloads Custody Battle Details In Agonizing Facebook Post About Breaking Up With His Fiancée

Wonkette:  Mark Sanford Leaves The Appalachian Trail; Also, That Chick He Was Banging   The end of the affair

Oh, the Retro Part;

Governor Gaucho!

Like A Lover

Paging Rollo Tomasi

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive

Even if you have been paying minor attention, over the past weeks, and months, to the know-famous NFL-Ray Rice Domestic Abuse Scandal - let's get in the vernacular - NFL-RayRicegate is what we can start calling this - Rollo Tomasi is now entering, center stage.

TMZ released a video yesterday, showing for all, the 1-2-combo punches of the now unemployed NFL running back, his then-girlfriend-now-wife, dropping like a sack of potatoes.

It's eeire and heartsicking.

And, when it happened, Rice's then-girlfriend-now-wife made statements about "mutual combat' and was at Rice's side, apparently during the interview with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, and, at a press conference.

I don't know if even the most ignorant and terrible police department would interview a wife beater, with the victim in the room

Rice received, to the outrage of the world, a paltry 2-game suspension, and, actually, no discipline from the NFL team that employed him, the Baltimore Ravens (who were formerly the Cleveland Brown, who then-owner Art Modell moved them in the dead of night to Baltimore).

So, up until yesterday, the NFL, and Roger Goodell, and the Baltimore Ravens all thought they could get away with it.

But TMZ's video, which, according to hotel people where the abuse occured, the NFL never asked for it, has exposed the NFL, Roger Goodell, and the Baltimore Ravens as a gaggle of Roland Tomasi's.

They're not getting away with it.

And, now that we have an NFL-RayRicegate bubbling up, a classic Nixonian "who knew what and when", the weight of their deception is only buidling.

Charlie Pierce has a good take;

" ...The National Football League was exposed as either mendacious or shockingly unempathetic. Commissioner Roger Goodell was exposed as either a liar, or as someone who should not be allowed to count his own money. (Olbermann's right. He's got to go, but he won't, because most of the NFL owners think he's handled the whole thing splendidly.) The Ravens organization was exposed as a rat's nest of soulless, profit-driven drones. (And I hope nobody in the head offices of either the NFL or the Ravens misled the local prosecutors, who now also look like idiots on the national stage, and very likely are looking for someone to blame.) And, finally, Ray Rice is out of a job ..."

Keith Olbermann has called for a bevy of heads


Eric Wilber of Boston.Com has said "Goodell Needs to Go"


Chadd Fin of 'The Boston Globe' offers - No One Looks as Horrible as Ray Rice, but NFL, Ravens Sure Did Try.

When you look at this scandal, and, perhaps, Major League Baseball's plunging it's head in the sand over the steriod abuse, it's blatent how the greed over the billions these sports produce takes priority over the "right thing" to do.

Once in professional sports, there was a man, the first commissioner of Major League Baseball, Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who was faced with a scandal, and, didn't hesitate what to do, didn't concern himself with the greed of the game, and took definitive, and swift action - For gambling, and changing outcomes of games, he banned eight Chicago White Sox players (many say Shoeless Joe Jackson didn't deserve it), for life, the infamous Chicago Black Sox Scandal.


Instead, now, we have a gaggle of Rollo Tomasi's.