phdave wrote:

pacino wrote:He wants us to go back to the glory days of Galveston, TX in 1900 (his home district). This guy is beyond a satire.

Galveston 1900

traderdave wrote:The fact that Michele Bachmann is even a candidate for POTUS scares the #$&! out of me:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/bach ... 51199.html

Are these people really the best that our great country has to offer?

In June 2002, defendant entered into a contract with plaintiff pursuant to which plaintiff would provide exclusive use of a single Gulfstream IV aircraft to the United States Government in transactions brokered by defendant for a term to expire on November 6, 2002. An appendix to the contract provided that defendant would guarantee 250 flight time hours within six months[*] "and the option to do fifty (50) hours per month thereafter." It is undisputed that the charter price was significantly lower than the market rate. Defendant continued to broker flights between the Government and plaintiff until 2005. In 2006, plaintiff submitted an invoice to defendant requesting payment for unused flight time allegedly guaranteed to it by defendant. Defendant rejected the invoice and plaintiff thereafter commenced this action for, among other things, damages.

Richmor was providing the aircraft for DynCorp, a private military company, which was acting on behalf of the CIA. The bills for the operation passed through Sportsflight and a second aircraft broker, Capital Aviation. Portions of DynCorp were sold by its parent company in 2005. The entity that was sold became known as DynCorp International.

The aircraft's ultimate owner was Phillip Morse, an American businessman with substantial sporting interests who was subsequently appointed vice-chairman of Fenway Sports Group, the company that owns Liverpool FC. In between rendition flights the aircraft was used to fly the Boston Red Sox baseball team.

Invoices submitted to the court as evidence tally with flights suspected of ferrying around individuals who were captured and delivered into the CIA's network of secret jails around the world. Some of the invoices present in stark detail the expense claims that crew members were submitting on their secret journeys, down to £3 biscuits and £30 bottles of wine.

Wizlah wrote:

In between rendition flights the aircraft was used to fly the Boston Red Sox baseball team.

drsmooth wrote:

Wizlah wrote:

In between rendition flights the aircraft was used to fly the Boston Red Sox baseball team.

sorry Wiz, I know you were frying bigger fish, but the superficial part of me, which is also the most assertive part, read only this

I had always wondered what became of Oil Can Boyd

jerseyhoya wrote:Finally an LFC political tie I can get behind

/kidding
//kind of

GrizzledVeteran wrote:I thought it was a real ballsy move by Obama to call for a joint session of Congress on the same night as a GOP debate to talk about jobs. But then Boehner whined and Obama pussed out. Completely gutless. How very disappointing.

thephan wrote:I think if it were me, I would set the speech for Tuesday and do it on the capital steps. I would spend about 90 second explaining that Boehner and Reed are busy on vacation and would not open the doors a minute before they are scheduled to return to work to discuss jobs and the economy, in the name of serving process, not the people.