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Posted by Steve White 2006-01-13 00:32|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 This guy had his day, now he's just an old man that does not have the US's best interest at heart. It's time Mass votes him out and gets with the program.
Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan  2006-01-13 07:28||   2006-01-13 07:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Not gonna happen unfortunately. In this loony tune state he's been getting away with his "do as I say, not as I do" act for 40+ years and will continue to do so. He'll die in that job.
Posted by tu3031 2006-01-13 07:44||   2006-01-13 07:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Tu, For Americas sake I hope your wrong. Unfortunately You are probably right.
Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan  2006-01-13 07:48||   2006-01-13 07:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Ted came by it honestly. A bit on papa Joe and the theater business:

-On August 9,1929 in Pantages's flagship theater, the Beaux Arts in downtown Los Angeles, an hysterical lady in red emerged from the janitor's broom closet on the mezzanine screaming: "There he is, the Beast! Don't let him get at me!" She pointed to the silver-haired Greek owner, Alexander Pantages in the office next to the broom closet.

- The girl, Eunice Pringle of Garden Grove, California, told police that she had come to Pantages looking for work as a dancer. Instead of offering her a job, he had pushed her into the broom closet, wrenched her underwear loose and raped her. Pantages insisted that he was being framed, and that the young woman had torn and ripped her own clothing.

- Poor Pantages was convicted and sentenced to fifty years, but the verdict was overturned on appeal, on the basis that it was prejudicial to Pantages to exclude testimony about the morals of the plaintiff. The court found her testimony "so improbable as to challenge credulity."
-At the new trial, Pantages' lawyers reenacted the alleged rape and showed that it could not have occurred in the small broom closet the way Pringle had described it. The jury was also shown how athletic Pringle was, casting doubt on her claim that she could not fight off advances by the slightly built Pantages.

- The second jury acquitted Pantages, but because of the notoriety, his business had plummeted. After numerous refusals to sell to Kennedy, a few months after Kennedy's final offer of $8 million, Pantages was forced to sell out to Joe's RKO for $3.5 million.
Posted by Besoeker 2006-01-13 09:02||   2006-01-13 09:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, the old man could've been one of the most despicable people this country's ever produced. He makes Teddy look like a chiorboy.
Posted by tu3031 2006-01-13 10:59||   2006-01-13 10:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Chamberlains coat holder as well.
Posted by Crease Slolung3988 2006-01-13 11:09||   2006-01-13 11:09|| Front Page Top

#7 I think that in future history books, the Kennedy Family will replace Benedict Arnold as the most known traitors in American History.
Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick  2006-01-13 13:10||   2006-01-13 13:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah, Ted Kennedy makes me want to spit.
Posted by Ray Gunn 2006-01-13 13:15||   2006-01-13 13:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Sorry. Try again...
Posted by tu3031 2006-01-13 13:43||   2006-01-13 13:43|| Front Page Top

#10 How long do we have to endure the Kennedys? The only thing that they have ever had going for them is dishonest ruthlessness and a great PR firm that can make the stink on their poop smell like a cross between apple pie and Camelot's perfume. Personally - that smell makes me gag.
Posted by 2b 2006-01-13 13:48||   2006-01-13 13:48|| Front Page Top

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