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Why yes, I wear a Timex

Posted on March 11, 2013 | Comments Off on Why yes, I wear a Timex

You might think only the little people wear Timex watches. After all, they are pretty cheap. Indeed, What Kind of Man Wears A Timex, Richard Fernandez at Belmont Club asks.

Well, George W. Bush, for one. And, uh, me. Mine’s a plastic case analog with a sweep second hand and 24-hour numbers inside the usual 12. The Groper also wears one. Grrr. A plastic Ironman LCD model, a digital, according to Richard. Ironman for a fatso. Figures.

So who is most likely to wear the Rolexes and other expensive brands? Thugs, for one. Hugo Chavez (I wonder who inherited his Rolex, or will it forever be on his wrist in his Stalinesque glass tomb?) and, of course, Hugo’s best buddy Fidel. Also crooks like Jesse Jackson Jr.

Truth is I bought a Rolex in Vietnam, but it was stolen. I was only 25. Richard says Marilyn Monroe sent JFK a gold one. He got rid of it. Smart man. I’ll stick with Timex. It works. It’s cheap. What can I tell you? Besides I always liked George W. Pity about the Groper Slick Willie though.

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Moral models at the, uh, CIA

Posted on November 15, 2012 | Comments Off on Moral models at the, uh, CIA

“A lady said to me yesterday wasn’t it terrible that the Director of Central Intelligence should provide such a poor moral model for the CIA?

“’Wouldn’t you think,’ I said, “that an agency whose business is to spy, steal, cheat, lie and probably kill dozens of people each month would be somewhat less than shocked at something like marital infidelity.

“That how curious it was that an agency like the FBI should find the time to investigate threatening emails? How passingly strange it is that the FBI should authorize any kind of investigation of its rival the CIA unless it was a big deal?’”   —-Richard Fernandez

Well, it’s a big deal for some people. Barry and Hillary, for certain. Probably the FBI, as well.

But most Americans? I doubt it. If they couldn’t be bothered to vote last week, and more than seven million of them couldn’t, then why would they get exercised about whatever it is that’s really going on behind the Petraeus-Allen-Broadwell-Kelly sexual smoke screen? Especially when the Democrat media is still struggling to keep Benghazi buried and, so far, most of the Republicans in Congress are cooperating.

With the notable exceptions, at least in words, of Lindsay Graham and John McCain.

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