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Car shopping should be something you are excited about, not stressed to the max over. When you shop for a car, you do need a little knowledge and some determination and you can come out on top. Read the following article and it will share some things you can do to make the most out of your car shopping experience.
Go car shopping online before going to the dealership. You really ought to set foot on a dealer's lot after you have made the determination regarding the vehicle you intend to purchase. Some online research can be great for narrowing your list of possible makes and models and for learning things that the salespeople may not tell you. When shopping for a new vehicle, consider all of your options. There are many used cars that have extremely low miles and rock bottom prices. The ones to look for are the ones that have been leased and returned. These cars have been serviced at the dealership and usually have plenty of factory warranty protection left. If you are in the market for a used car, you should always get a CarFax report. The CarFax report will let you know if the Driving school car has been in an accident. If the car has been in an accident, you probably want to keep searching and not buy that car. Use the Internet to shop. Almost every
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Skip to comments.Heads Up - Multiple COLBS Warning [someone swapped out the Kenya BC AFTER it was posted]
Posted on 08/03/2009 2:12:53 PM PDT by Calpernia
There are now modified photos of the COLB that broke here yesterday. The changes are so slight, that no one is noticing them.
The original one posted in breaking news:
One of the modified ones:
The changes are so subtle, you can barely tell which one you are looking at.
This modified one is showing jokes like: The Font of the Certificate=Schmutz (A Schmutz is a chump, as in you are a chump) #5733=The number of the Certificate, is code for : "Problem with Windows REGISTRY", a sly reference to your claim that Obama does not appear on the Hawaii Live Birth Registry. 47O44=Easiest of all. BOH's age=47 0=O (if you look close you can tell that that is a Schmutz Font "Oh" not "Zero") EF Lavender is ORGANIC DISH SOAP
The original one does not say EF Lavender, it says KF Lavender. The original one shows the number is: 47,644.
That funny numbering you pointed out on the other thread isn't on the original photo.
This shows they cannot prove it was a forgery and so they are rapidly putting out modified photos to muddy the waters.
Remember when this was a "dead story"? LOL.
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You are right. Good catch.
I kind of expected this tactic.
They aren't very bright, are they...?
Knowingly submitting a fake document to a US court is a crime?
I would say the document is real until Obama shows proof otherwise.
Your original doesn't show that clearly at all. That original was on a very long thread yesterday with multiple discussion of the 47,044 # and the "E.F." I don't think there's any difference between the two you're showing here. The top one is just lower resolution.
The one on Orly Taitz's site has E.F. Lavender and 47044 and she is the one claiming to have the Kenyan BC
sigh. when did the world get taken over by drunken, spoiled frat boys?
Good work. The gaywads at SomethingAwful no doubt.
Funny how the left instinctively throw a thousand lies at everything that threatens them.
Now we don't know if Orly's B/C is indeed true. But if it is, then history will take a dim view of these hysterical attempts to conceal the truth.
Freom Calpernia:
There are now modified photos of the COLB that broke here yesterday. The changes are so slight, that no one is noticing them.
The changes are so subtle, you can barely tell which one you are looking at.
The original one does not say EF Lavender, it says KF Lavender. The original one shows the number is: 47,644.
If he were really a natural-born citizen, do you think he and his minions would be spending so much time, money, and energy trying to stop those who think that he might not be?
I doubt it...
Heads Up - Multiple COLBS Warning
I hear that this kind of thing was done on the "Majestic" papers, regarding UFOs and the government's involvement in it. It was debunked as false, because the government put out forged papers to cover up the *real papers* and then the "UFO group" did the debunking for the U.S. Government, regarding the government's involvement and cover up of the UFO issue...
So, it apparently has been done before on the UFO issue...
[And a little disqualifier here (or qualifier, if you will) — that I don't support the UFO theory or idea, but have been in enough discussions about it and see what was written to know that's what they "say" about "Majestic" papers and one group fighting against another group, as to whether it's valid or not... LOL... ]
very good
Kenyan grandmother remembers Kenyan birth.
NOBODY remembers Hawaiian birth.
More people witnessed the Roswell crash and space alien rodeo than witnessed ali Hussein's Hawaiian birth.
The COLB is a forgery in both its "scan" and "photo" forms.
Then how did you reach earth?
Obama ...King of the Liars
Muddying the water rather than refute the charge. And torrents of invective, again, rather than refute the charge.
Speaks volumes.
Bump. Good to see you, Cal.
We should also let Farah know about this.
Because jpgs are lossy, it ought to be trivial to work out which photo jpg is the original.
Not that it's necessarily a useful exercise however. The paper B/C is the important thing, and the corresponding entry in the Registry.
The mother of all misdirection plays perhaps???
Thanks, good work, good eye.
hmmmm....I noticed this morning that Orly had put her web addy on the copy of the BC on her website.Perhaps for this very reason. Thanks for the head's up.
So did the original, which I saved when the monster thread first broke out. This doesn't make sense.
I think the criteria for real or fake for many is this; "real" if I want what it says to be true, "fake" if I don't want what it says to be true. Evidence be damned.
The same people that say 0's short form was a fake (despite it being vouched for by the Republican Gov of Hawaii) will (if we ever get to see it) say the long form is a fake also; based upon exactly that criteria.
Get some new glasses dude. the "k" is quite clear.
they also have an entry for "Christian Name" (as if!)
Yep. The DUmmies have been instructed to 'shoop' fake birth certificates.
there is a question about the 7S 6d at the top which indicates 7 shillings 6 pence (1/2 shilling) but Kenya used
shillings and cents 100 so it should be 7 s 50c...we need to see an original as of now it looks bad.
Hmmm .. I think it would depend what sites the others are from.
I can see saving it and putting the title differently from the original .. it's like me saving pics for my photo account .. I label the pic.
Is that nub of the differences .. the titles/labeling ?
Or am I being my non-techie self and unaware of the deeper
tech complexities ?
That was a great catch on the BC. I was up early yesterday and did remember K. F. on the document.
Yes, I believe it was submitted to the Fed Court in CA.
"Exhibit A" on page 8 of 8.
My viewing is limited to telescopes and computer programs... LOL...
[... I know... it's so ordinary, isn't it... :-) ... ]
I posted how ANYONE can get a login into the official federal court case filing system and download the filed doc THEMSELVES.
See #259 in the main thread for details.
Well, I'll be darned. The copy I saved after it was first posted definitely has the "K. F. Lavender" and the number is "47,644."
Someone's working overtime.
We need to go through the long thread with the moderators and have all the false copies removed and names taken of those who posted them put on a watch list.
With a minimum of two black helicopters.
Those KosKiddies are hard at work.
I see the "K" too in the first photo. I saved it as a JPEG and zoomed in. The "K" is there, no doubt about it. The second one has an "E".
So that says Orly's site HAS BEEN hacked, so the doc can be replaced.
You are amazing, m'Lady! Thank you for posting this ... our FR obamanoids are hitting the number trick hard, and the Lavender name. Oh how many trolls are being outed this time!
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Purple Dots: A Novelby Jim Lehrer
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Washington, D.C., is a town full of powerful people with powerful, often conflicting agendas, and no one knows this better than Jim Lehrer, the preeminent capital newscaster and novelist. His new book is a witty, provocative political mystery about power play and favor swapping at the highest levels of government, written with his own unique blend of political savvy and irreverent humor.
Joshua Bennett has just been nominated by the president to be the new director of the CIA. He's the ideal candidate, and everyone agrees his confirmation hearing should be a mere formality. But this is Washington, where nothing as straightforward as choosing the most qualified person for a crucial job can be counted upon. Unfortunately for Bennett, someone's political agenda hinges on his confirmation being vetoed, but he's damned if he can find out whose. In need of good covert help he can trust, Bennett turns to a little known but highly efficient cadre of former CIA spies living in semiretirement in nearby West Virginia. This odd team of sixty-plus-year-old spooks, boasting a combined array of exceptional if eccentric and largely illegal talents, embarks upon a wildly unorthodox Washington power struggle that is no less earnest for being conducted in absolute secrecy. And most secret of all is the highly coveted purple dot--the ultimate national perk.
Following the enormous breakout success of Lehrer's bestselling previous novel, White Widow, Purple Dots will fascinate and amuse even more readers, while confirming their worst fears about how our government really operates.
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At livid Bushong's vowing revenge, Lehrer (White Widow) abruptly switches from Charlie's to Marty's point of view, revealing a comically sinister side to the witch-hunt against Josh, broadening the satire (much hearty laughter about Marty's inability to keep his mind on the diffident liberal counsel he's determined to make his bride) but focusing on an evergreen target: the eternal Washington culture of lying, which makes every citizen inside the Beltway prevaricate reflexively about every subject under the sun, even though precious few are ever fooled by one another's whoppers. The whole courtly farce is so gentlemanly and understated, right down to the final twist, that most readers will be inoculated before they even feel the sting.
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- 08/22/2012
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Charlie had not been enjoying The Washington Post much lately. The screwups of the new president and his administration had made for either embarrassing or infuriating reading. But, finally, there in the top left-hand corner of the front page, was some really good news. It came with the two-column headline:
Bennett Picked To Head CIA Aimed At Jackson Damage Control
A presidential crony and Wall Street millionaire, Joe Phillip Jackson, had been nominated for director of Central Intelligence. He withdrew after taking many hits about his obvious lack of qualifications to run the largest and most important intelligence agency in the world. Charlie had seen Jackson's nomination as some idiots' idea for dealing with the fallout from the Aldrich Ames treachery: What about having a director who not only knows nothing about the Agency or intelligence but also knows nothing about anything else except making money?
But now the idiots had come to their senses. Joshua Eugene Bennett was the current deputy director of Central Intelligence and a friend of Charlie's. They had shared many hairy and satisfying moments in the Agency and had remained friends since Charlie's retirement. Josh, fifteen years younger than Charlie, had continued to rise through the ranks because he was one of the few good ones who had managed to escape damage from both the Iran-Contra and the Ames debacles.
Charlie--Charles Avenue Henderson--was sitting at the breakfast table at Hillmont, the eighteenth-century West Virginia manse he and his wife, Mary Jane, operated as an upscale bed-and-breakfast. He was reading the Post as slowly and deliberately as he pleased, which was one of the daily joys of his retirement.
Another was acting silly whenever the spirit so moved him. That spirit was about to so move him again.
Charlie and Mary Jane Henderson may have had birth dates that proclaimed them to be in their late sixties but nothing else about them did. Both maintained a spring in their steps and voices and states of mind--they could pass for early fifties, maybe even younger. Mary Jane, five feet five, with a compact figure and short gray hair, was in trim, in motion and always at the ready. Charlie, who was six feet tall, generated the same let's-go feeling. He had no paunch and no extra chins; only the thinness of his graying brown hair showed any signs of his proper age.
Charlie, also, was a Po Chü-i believer. The ninth-century Chinese poet had written some words, passed on to Charlie on his sixtieth birthday, that had become the creed for his retirement life. Po said in his poem that during a man's thirties and forties he is distracted by various lusts, and between seventy and eighty there come the ailments and ills. He ignored the fifties altogether and thus declared the good time to be between sixty and seventy.
Wrote the poet: "I have put behind me Love and Greed. I have done with Profit and Fame. I am still short of illness and decay and far from decrepit age. Strength of limb I still possess to see the rivers and hills. Still my heart has spirit enough to listen to flutes and strings. At leisure I open new wine and taste several cups; drunken I recall old poems and sing a whole volume."
Mary Jane sometimes saw Charlie's fondness for the words less as belief in a poetic creed than as proof that he had simply moved into his second childhood. Charlie claimed he had been lucky enough never to have had to end his first, having gone directly from high school to college to the U.S. Navy and then to the Central Intelligence Agency without missing a beat or being forced to do anything other than little-boy work.
"This is little-boy work, you know," he had said, for instance, to Josh Bennett one sunny day in Nice, France. They were sitting in an old town street café, posing as two American insurance salesmen attending a real event, New York Life's Salesmen-of-the-Year Week on the Riviera. There were two major international meetings going on in Nice then, and Langley had given them a choice of which one they wanted as cover. The other was a meeting of charismatic Catholics. No thanks to that, said Charlie and Josh. They chose the insurance group even though it meant wearing plastic name tags pinned on their loud sports shirts. Josh added his own touch by wearing a blue baseball cap with the red-and-white letter B of the Boston Red Sox on it.
"Hush," said Josh. "Our lives may be in danger."
"That is my point, little boy."
They were watching a man at the outdoor café next door, who had been identified by French intelligence as Vladimir Aronsky, a KGB dirty-works man. There was fear at Langley that Aronsky had come to Nice, where there was a large Russian émigré colony, to do harm to an elderly Russian woman who was working the émigré side of the street for the CIA.
"Look!" Charlie said to Josh.
"What should we do?"
So they watched while a husky man with a beard and the dress of a dockworker inserted and removed the thin blade of a knife from Aronsky's back and then disappeared into the crowd on the street.
The Russian woman had apparently seen to her own protection. Or so it seemed.
But it was in fact something very different. It turned out Aronsky had wanted to defect to the West. A French intelligence officer in Moscow, intentionally or otherwise, got Aronsky's defection offer all screwed up and the result was a KGB setup in that Nice café. Aronsky, who thought he had been sent to Nice on a routine KGB courier mission, was waiting for somebody French who would speed him on his way to freedom and a new life. Instead, he got a knife in the back from one of his own. The old woman had nothing to do with it.
Charlie and Josh were held officially blameless and they went on quickly to other assignments for what was then called the Soviet Russia Division of the Agency. But neither ever forgot bearing joint witness to the assassination in broad daylight of a man who wanted to come over to their side. Charlie in particular never forgot. He was the senior man present, he was the one who said, "Nothing." They should do nothing but watch.
All of this serious stuff was right there in his head twenty-five years later as he drove the two miles into town. He parked the Wagoneer at a meter on Washington Street, the main street of Charles Town, West Virginia, which was also Charlie's town. It was an unpretentious place of thirty-two hundred people, with a low-key race track and much John Brown history; Charlie felt comfortable and at home there. Today he had to pick up a new bicycle pump at Western Auto, only a block from the old courthouse where in 1859 John Brown was sentenced to hang for leading his unsuccessful antislavery insurrection at nearby Harpers Ferry. Two of the guests coming this weekend had said they wanted to ride bicycles over by the C&O Canal. The old pump had had it.
Something else that happened on that Nice assignment had also popped into his mind. Something not so serious that happened at the Nice airport as they were on their way out of town.
A bald-headed elderly woman in blue jeans and a white T-shirt with "Jesus Was a Freak, Too" written across the front in red had come running toward Charlie and Josh.
"Jesus! Jesus!" she screamed at Josh. "You said you would come again, and you did!"
She flung herself down at Josh's feet. "Praise God! Praise God! You came again! Here you are!"
Charlie moved aside to watch his friend, his fellow well-trained undercover agent for the intelligence service of the United States of America, deal with what they called in training an "unexpected event."
The woman wrapped her arms around Josh's right leg. "I came from Milwaukee! I came to find Jesus! I did! I did!"
Josh looked over at Charlie. Help me, you bastard! screamed his eyes.
Charlie shrugged. And tried his best to keep from laughing.
"I have a plane to catch," Josh said to the woman. "Please, now. I have to go."
Charlie wasn't the only one looking on. A circle of people, some fifteen or twenty travelers, taxi drivers, porters and others, had gathered for the show.
"No! No! Now I have you! I can't let you go! Jesus! Jesus! I love you, Jesus!"
Josh, a big man in good physical condition, took a large step with his left foot and attempted to pull his right foot free from the woman's tight grasp. All he managed to do was drag her a couple of feet.
"Give me something! Give me something of yours! Something sacred!"
Josh grabbed the Boston Red Sox cap off his head. He kissed the B-for-Boston and stuck the cap down firmly on the woman's bald head.
"Here, my daughter," he said in a voice worthy of a Vatican chapel. "Take this in my name. Wear it proudly."
The woman leaped to her feet, grabbed her head and the hat with both hands and ran away screaming, "Jesus gave me his hat! Look at me! Jesus gave me his hat! Praise God, praise God. Jesus gave me his hat!"
Josh and Charlie trotted ever so quickly to the Air France gate for their flight to Paris.
"We should have done the charismatic Catholics instead of the insurance thing," Charlie said ever so quietly to Josh as they boarded the plane. "You're a natural charismatic."
"You are a natural bastard," said Josh.
Charlie was given a special kick to remember this additional story on that Charles Town sidewalk twenty-five years later because he had to pass Messages from the Messiah, the local Bible-and-Christian-equipment store, on the way to Western Auto. He had walked by it hundreds of times before without giving it or the merchandise displayed in its windows even a glance. But this time a baseball cap caught his eye.
It was a white baseball cap with the red-and-blue waving-ribbon emblem of the Pepsi-Cola Company embroidered like a badge on the front. Written on the emblem in white, instead of the word "Pepsi," was the word "Jesus." Jesus, apparently, was the real real thing? Or was that Coke?
Charlie was very pleased with himself when he finally got back into the Wagoneer twenty minutes later. He had not only bought his bicycle pump, he had also sent by overnight Federal Express a $12.75 gift-wrapped PepsiJesus hat to Joshua Eugene Bennett. The enclosed card said: "Congratulations, Natural. Take this in my name. Wear it proudly."
It was a silly thing to do. Little-boy stuff.
Charlie was looking for nothing so he saw nothing. He had no antennae extended, and no suspicions, apprehensions, hints or hunches were at play. That was why he failed to pick up as soon as he should have on the handsome young man named Marty Madigan.
Madigan hadn't called until just after three o'clock Friday afternoon. Did there by chance happen to be room for one more this weekend? he had asked Mary Jane. He said he had read an article in the Baltimore Sun travel section several months ago that had called a Hillmont weekend "a magical experience of superb elegance and time-machine history that is more than worth its pricey $450 price."
Mary Jane sometimes turned down such last-minute requests because she wanted to encourage people to think of Hillmont as a place for which you had to plan and reserve way ahead of time. We're not running a Holiday Inn here, you know, she explained to Charlie, who believed it was simply nuts to turn down any business.
"He had a good solid sound in his voice," Mary Jane said to Charlie in explaining why she violated her own rule this time.
Martin V. Madigan turned out to look as good and solid as he sounded. Tall as Charlie, lean, early thirties, athletic, blue-eyed, dark-brown hair worn slightly over the ears, at ease, in command, warm smile. He arrived in a four-year-old BMW 325i just before seven-thirty, and after showing him his room on the third floor, Mary Jane took him to the living room to meet Charlie and the ten other guests. They werealready on their second drink. Madigan asked the waiter for some soda water over ice with a slice of lemon.
Why come to this weekend, spend all of that money, and only drink soda water? Charlie wondered. Maybe this young man is a recovering alcoholic. A religious teetotaler? Not likely. He seems too urbane, too East Coast for any of that.
Charlie was dressed in full Colonial--a burgundy frock coat, beige breeches, white leggings, a white ruffled shirt and a powdered wig with ponytail. Mary Jane, who was also wearing an eighteenth-century outfit, had ragged Charlie until he reluctantly agreed to attend all Hillmont weekend evening events in costume. You spent your whole adult life being other people for the CIA so what's the problem doing it now for your wife? was her argument. Charlie felt like a fool at first, but he had gradually grown comfortable being a Founding Father every Friday and Saturday night for cocktails and dinner.
Wes and Paul, the two young chef-caterers who did all of the Hillmont cooking and serving, had laid out one of their typically lavish Friday-night dinners. Friday night was only coat and tie, less elegant than the big Saturday-night dinner, which was black tie, with string music in the background. But Friday night wasn't bad.
"I have never eaten anything quite so fine," said Madigan to the table. He was talking about the turtle soup amontillado. Mary Jane accepted his praise with a smile and the other people took the cue and spoke or grunted their agreement.
Mary Jane had put Madigan between two women guests, both of them there with their husbands, both of them in their late fifties or early sixties, both of them delighted to be chatted up by this attractive younger man. Charlie was seated next to one of those women, and occasionally he picked up a fragment of talk about the problems of the new administration, everyone's favorite topic of conversation even here,an hour and a half from Washington in the West Virginia Panhandle.
"Mr. Henderson, I assume you are pleased with the Bennett appointment," Madigan suddenly said to Charlie, who was sitting one woman away.
"Bennett?" Charlie said.
"The new choice for the Agency," Madigan said.
The Agency? thought Charlie. Who is this guy?
Charlie had a job to do at the end of the soup course, which was right now. He stood and tapped a fork against a glass.
Saved by the turtle soup!
"Good evening, one and all," he said. "I may look like George Washington but I'm not. I am one of the two proprietors of this home and enterprise. The other, as you surely know by now, is the attractive woman who sits across from me. She is not George Washington either. Who we are is Mary Jane and Charlie. What we are are your host and hostess for this weekend. And in that capacity I hereby welcome you, one and all."
Charlie raised his glass of wine, a 1990 chardonnay from the nearby Piedmont Vineyard, and so did everyone else. "To a great weekend at Hillmont," he said. Everyone else, including Madigan, joined in the toast.
"And speaking of George Washington," Charlie continued, "he did actually have a meal in this very room. It was
on March 10, 1791. He stopped here to have dinner with an old friend before proceeding on down the road another two miles to spend the night at Harewood, his brother Samuel's home. We have a blown-up facsimile from Mr. Washington's diary entry for the evening that proves it happened. It's framed and on the wall of the library, where we'll be going after dinner. Charles Town, the town two miles back the other way, is named for another George brother. So we are in the middle of Washington country and we are all better off for it."
"Hear, hear," said the husband of one of two older women.
"Eat and drink well tonight, as George did before you," Charlie said before sitting down. "And again, welcome to Hillmont."
There was a quiet round of applause and waiters swept in the fish course--pan roast of Rappahannock oysters with sweet potatoes allumettes.
The Agency? Who is this guy?
Is he Agency? Charlie, in his thirty-seven years of doing all kinds of jobs, had found answering that question to be among the most difficult. Two agents in deep cover cross paths by accident; a dangerous situation arises. How do they establish quickly and believably that they are not only on the same side, they are drawing paychecks from the same employer? There were many frightening stories about missed signals and close calls. Charlie even had a couple of his own to contribute.
Charlie turned immediately to the woman on his left, a Pittsburgh attorney in her forties, and answered her questions about this particular part of West Virginia and its role in the Civil War, as well as in the Revolutionary War and the Colonial period.
If he is Agency what is he doing here?
Charlie kept up the history conversation through the end of the oysters. Simple courtesy and good manners required him then to turn back to the woman on his right, and therefore in the direction of Madigan.
Charlie said only a few words to the woman between them before Madigan struck again.
"You and Bennett have known each other a long time, haven't you?" Madigan said.
"What is your interest in all of this?" Charlie asked.
"Yes, yes. Yes, indeed," said the woman between them.
"It's an occupational one," Madigan said.
The main course, venison noisettes with a sauce of pinot noir and lingonberries, Spätzle and glazed spring vegetables, was now before everyone.
"This is about as close as it is possible to get to authentic eighteenth-century food, to what George might actually have eaten here in 1791," Charlie said to the woman, in a voice loud enough to be heard around the table. Everyone quieted down and Charlie said to Mary Jane, "Why don't you explain?"
This was not part of their regular routine but Mary Jane loved this kind of spontaneity. So she picked up the cue and explained to all how Wes and Paul had gone to Mount Vernon and to the Library of Congress, as well as to the Jefferson County Historical Society and other local places, in search of menus and recipes from the period.
Charlie faked rapt attention.
When Mary Jane began to wind down her story, he said, "Tell them about the wines."
"Oh, yes, the wines," Mary Jane said. And she told everyone about the many high-quality vineyards in the area, particularly down the road in Loudoun County, Virginia, near Middleburg and Leesburg, where they bought the wines they would be drinking all weekend.
A couple of the guests had a few questions and the conversations stayed mostly tablewide and general throughout the main course.
It was not until the middle of the salad--field greens with Stilton cheese under a raspberry-walnut vinaigrette dressing--that the conversations went small again.
And it wasn't but a few counts later that the woman on Charlie's right asked Madigan the right question. "What is your occupation?" she said. Charlie wanted to hug her.
"You might say I work for the government," Madigan replied, a slight hint of mystery in his voice.
So. He definitely is not Agency. No Agency person would ever say anything so stupid and say it so stupidly. Real Agency overts say cleanly what they are and the coverts go cleanly to their cover identity and occupation.
"Which government?" said the woman. "Ours, I hope."
She laughed and Madigan laughed.
"I understand you and Bennett share a special interest in Jesus hats," Madigan then said to Charlie.
It hit Charlie like a rifle shot.
Without even a glance at Mary Jane, he stood up and announced: "Coffee and an ever-so-light Shenandoah Valley apple soufflé follow now in the library--we call it the Washington Room."
As Wes and Paul's waiters saw to the other guests, Charlie asked Madigan to join him for "a breath of fresh air" outside.
It was a stunningly quiet October evening. A three-quarter moon lit up the sky and the light came down through the trees like beams from many soft spotlights. This time of year--deep autumn, as it was called in West Virginia--was Charlie's favorite. He often told people that they would know he had been appointed God when all of the other eleven months became just like October.
Charlie led the way toward the barn some fifty yards behind the house.
"Who are you and what are you up to?" Charlie said to Madigan as they walked.
"I am who I said I was. Marty Madigan. I'm the chief minority counsel of the Senate Intelligence Committee."
Charlie stopped. Madigan stopped.
"Keep talking," Charlie said. "And talk fast, please."
"We are beginning our inquiries about Joshua Bennett in preparation for his confirmation hearings as director of Central Intelligence--"
"He's a great man, a great intelligence officer, right up there with Dick Helms, Leo Spivey and the other great ones. He will make a terrific DCI."
"We've been told that he almost cost you your life in West Berlin in 1971."
"You've been told a goddamn lie!"
"Would you mind telling me what happened?"
"Yes, I would mind."
"We can subpoena you, Mr. Henderson."
Charlie's heart was beating like a hammer.
It had been a long time since Charles Avenue Henderson had done physical violence to another human being with his bare hands. Had the time finally come to use the one technique he had never had occasion to use in the line of duty? Should he utilize the easiest, fastest and surest way to kill Martin V. Madigan? Should he crack the top of this man's nose with a karate chop and then, using the same hand in a quick follow-up move, push the nose-bone fragments up into his brain?
Or should you calm down, Henderson?
He said to Madigan, "You are now going to march back into that house, go right up to your room, gather up your belongings, come right back down, tell my wife you have a bad case of the stomach flu, climb into your Republican car and drive your filthy young butt out of here and out of my sight before I do something that will make both of us sorry."
Madigan shrugged. "We will meet again, Mr. Henderson."
"You can count on it, friend," Charlie said with a bravado that exhilarated him.
"You make that sound like a threat."
"Take it any way it fits, Mr. Madigan."
Charlie decided to call Josh from the pay phone at the Handi-Mart down the road from Hillmont. In addition to having security concerns, he did not want to alarm Mary Jane, who was already upset enough about Madigan's sudden departure. She had not bought the story about a stomach flu. Wes and Paul had prepared one of Charlie's favorite breakfast feasts--yellow grits with white cheddar cheese, pheasant sausages, homemade cinnamon buns that were out of this world and three kinds of fresh fruit juices.
Josh was already at his office at Langley when Charlie got him on the phone. Saturday morning was just another work morning for most of the higher officials of the Agency. It was part of the culture.
"Let's do this on the egg machine," Charlie said.
"Hey, Charlie, come on. Ain't nobody here but us
"Goddamn it, Josh, put us on the egg machine!"
The "egg machine" was the secure-communications
system that scrambled telephone conversations for everyone except the two parties doing the talking.
It took Josh only a few seconds to get the call switched over.
Charlie told him about Madigan.
"I know him," Josh said. "He's harmless."
"Why, then, are the Republicans fishing for dirt, Josh?"
"Let 'em fish. There is none."
"Yes, but why are they looking?"
"I'm in great shape with all of the Republican senators on the committee. Madigan is freelancing or something. He's nothing. I promise, Charlie."
"He knew about our Jesus thing, Josh."
"I loved the hat, by the way. I should have mentioned that earlier . . ."
"Did you tell a lot of people about the hat and what it all meant, the stuff in Nice and all of that?"
There were a couple beats of silence. Then Josh said, "No. The hat just came yesterday."
"Think about it, Josh. Think about how Madigan knew about it."
"Charlie, your imagination is on the loose."
"Somebody right there on the seventh floor is feeding information to somebody on the outside."
"Not necessarily."
"He also knew about West Berlin and the Czech."
"Nobody should know about that."
"Exactly. Nobody but somebody with access to a lot of our old secrets. Nobody but somebody with harming you on his mind."
That drew another couple of beats of silence.
"Charlie, every source, private and public, tells me there are no nobodies or somebodies on the committee who are opposed to my nomination. They have all concluded that a clean career man is better than an outsider after all. Everything we have points to a unanimous vote for confirmation. They're even talking about a unanimous voice vote when it goes to the full Senate."
"Then how do you explain Madigan?"
"I can't. But I will look into it. It's got to be absolutely nothing."
"It doesn't have to be anything of the kind, Josh, and you know it."
Meet the Author
This is Jim Lehrer's eleventh novel. He has also written two books of nonfiction and three plays. He is the executive editor and anchor of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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- May 19, 1934
- Place of Birth:
- Wichita, Kansas
- Education:
- A.A., Victoria College; B.J., University of Missouri, 1956
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Love Affair With Junk Resumes With Biggest Inflows of '14
U.S. high-yield bond funds recorded the biggest weekly inflow of 2014 as investors returned to the riskiest corporate debt following an unprecedented withdrawal at the start of August.
Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that buy junk bonds attracted $2.2 billion in the week ended Aug. 20, according to data provider Lipper. That's the second straight week of inflows after investors pulled $7.1 billion in the five days ended Aug. 6, extending redemptions to as much as $12.6 billion over a four-week period.
Demand is soaring for the debt as buyers purchase bonds with yields that reached the highest in more than eight months, banking on the Federal Reserve to keep suppressing interest-rate targets it has held near zero since 2008. Money managers including Pacific Investment Management Co. have snapped up higher-rated junk bonds dumped by debt managers amid the recent exodus.
"Every time the market has sold-off over the past couple of years, it's come back quickly," Michael Anderson, a New York-based credit analyst at Citigroup Inc., said in a telephone interview. "Investors are being conditioned that they are going to be rewarded if they buy on weakness."
Yields Drop
Exchange-traded funds that purchase debt rated below investment-grade in the U.S. reported $573 million in inflows in the last week, according to 30 such funds tracked by Bloomberg. The funds, which manage about $36 billion in assets, gained 0.7 percent in the same period.
The effective yield on the bonds has dropped to 5.54 percent after increasing to 6.04 percent on Aug. 1, the most since November, Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data show.
"This is a starting-gun problem," William Larkin, a money manager who oversees more than $500 million at Cabot Money Management, said in a telephone interview from his office in Salem, Massachusetts. "There's reason to be worried about high yield but there are those that believe that there is still more returns left in this asset class before the Fed changes policy and you need to flee."
The extra yield investors demand to own the debt instead of similar-maturity Treasuries has retraced half the amount it increased during the sell-off, narrowing 44 basis points since Aug. 1 to 381 basis points, Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data show. They were as low as 335 basis points on June 23.
Risk Gauge
The risk premium on the Markit CDX North American High Yield Index, a barometer of risk tied to the debt of 100 speculative-grade companies, dropped yesterday to the lowest level in more than a month and is poised for the biggest monthly decline since February.
"Credit risk premium had widened dramatically and that was an entry point for most of the market participants," said Gary Herbert, a fund manager at Brandywine Global Investment Management LLC, which oversees about $45 billion in fixed-income assets. "We've been using the opportunity to add exposure across our high yield accounts. It's a relatively benign environment in credit and there's some money to be made."
The Markit CDX index, a benchmark for the credit-default swaps market, has dropped 42 basis points to 312 basis points after reaching a six-month high of 354 at the start of the month, according to prices compiled by Bloomberg. The index typically falls as investor confidence improves and rises as it deteriorates.
'Quite Attractive'
Junk bonds in the U.S. have gained 1.32 percent this month, erasing a loss in July of the same amount. That has extended returns for the year to 5.6 percent, the index data show.
In their rush to meet redemptions, high-yield money managers picked the wrong assets to sell and created pricing that's "quite attractive" for some instruments rated just below investment grade, Mark Kiesel, Pimco's global head of corporate bond portfolio management, said at a media briefing in Sydney earlier this week.
Investors are also returning to high-yield debt in Europe where the region's biggest junk bond exchange-traded fund saw the largest daily inflow on Aug. 20 since May, which almost erased the week's withdrawals. They placed 61.3 million euros in the iShares Euro High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, paring the week's withdrawals to 4.8 million euros, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Market Revival
The debt handed investors 0.5 percent this week in the second consecutive week of returns, Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes show. Demand for the securities has pushed average yields down 40 basis points to 3.9 percent from a six-month high of 4.3 percent on Aug. 8.
The revival in the high-yield bond market contrasted with continued redemptions in the market for leveraged loans, which have floating rates and are typically rated speculative-grade, or below BBB- by Standard & Poor's and lower than Baa3 at Moody's Investors Service.
Investors withdrew $540 million from U.S. funds that buy leveraged loans in the week ended yesterday, increasing net outflows for the year to $3.7 billion, Lipper data show.
The loans have dropped 0.1 percent this month, following a 0.25 percent loss in July, according to the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan 100 index.
Increased Rates
At least 15 borrowers last week had to increase the rate on loans they were seeking amid the weakened demand, Bloomberg data show. More deals were forced to boost yields to investors in the five days ended Aug. 15 than any week this year.
Golden State Medical Supply Inc., a generic drugs supplier owned by LKCM Headwater Investments, pulled a $145 million loan that was to refinance debt and fund a shareholder dividend because pricing became less favorable, Bradley Wallace, a partner at LKCM, said in a telephone interview this week.
The cost of leveraged loans sold to institutional investors rose to 4.22 percentage points more than lending benchmarks as of Aug. 14, from 4.03 percentage points in July, according to S&P Capital IQ Leveraged Commentary & Data.
"We've had this slow leak of outflows" in the loan market as people have given up on the prospect of long-term Treasury rates rising, Anderson said.
The yield on 10-year Treasuries has fallen to 2.41 percent from 3.03 percent at the start of the year. That still marks a 7 basis-point rebound after dropping to the year's low amid a flight to the safest asset prompted by heightened geopolitical concern from Ukraine to Gaza.
"There was overarching political risk that worried people," Brandywine's Herbert said. "Now there's a recognition that people can see through some of these conflicts, and we are still expecting moderate economic growth here in the U.S."


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Publication Acceptance Date: February 15, 2008
Publication Date: May 4, 2008
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Citation: Wong, W.W., Abrams, S.H., Mikhail, C., Terrazas, N., Wilson, T.A., Areco, D., Mrowczynski, P.K., King, K.L., Stansel, A., Albright, A.N., Barlow, S.E., Klish, W.J. 2008. An innovative summer camp program improves weight and self-esteem in obese children [abstract]. Electronic-Pediatric Academic Societies. Abstract No. 4474.9. Available: http://www.abstracts2view.com/pas/view.php?nu=PAS08L1_190. Technical Abstract: Obese children benefit from structured life-style changes and need help with self-esteem, which is lower when compared to normal-weight children. Summer camp might offer an opportunity to achieve a healthy lifestyle and to improve weight and self-esteem. he objective is to determine the effectiveness of Kamp Kaana, a multi-disciplinary, residential summer camp, designed to promote diet and behavior skills for weight control. We hypothesize the program will improve self-esteem, body weight, BMI, physical activity performance, and cardiorespiratory fitness among obese children. Twenty-one obese children (4 males/17 females) between 10 and 14 y of age were enrolled in the 2-wk program between July 15 and 29 of 2007 in Livingston, Texas. In addition to the summer camp activities that enhance physical performance and promote self-esteem, the children were introduced to an 1800 kcal/day Traffic Light diet and received nutrition and behavioral lessons. Changes in self-esteem, body weight, BMI, physical activity performance, and cardiorespiratory fitness were measured before and after the 2-wk program. The campers had an average age of 11.4 +/- 1.4 y, initial body weight of 76.7 +/- 15.7 kg, BMI of 32.4 +/- 4.7 kg/m2, BMI percentile 98.5 +/- 1.4, BMI z-score 2.30 +/- 0.33, and an ethnic composition of 12 Hispanics, 8 Caucasians, and 1 African American. Significant improvements were observed in self-esteem (+0.27 +/- 0.33 point by the Self-Perception Profile for Children, p<0.01), body weight (-3.7 +/- 1.2 kg, p<0.01), BMI (-1.6 +/- 0.48 kg/m2, p<0.01), BMI z-score (-0.12 +/- 0.06, p<0.01), number of curl ups (+10.9 +/- 21.5, p<0.04), systolic and diastolic blood pressure (-10.8 +/- 13.4 and -9.4 +/- 5.5 mmHg, respectively, p<0.01), and heart rate (-8.2 +/- 12.7 bpm, p<0.01). The preliminary results indicate that a multi-disciplinary, skill-learning, and fun summer camp program is effective in improving self-esteem, body weight, BMI, physical performance, and cardiovascular risk factors among obese children. Follow-up assessments are being carried out to determine the long-term effectiveness of the summer camp program for the treatment of childhood obesity.


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Elegant Wedding Album
When my brother-in-law got married I was asked to preserve his wedding day in a scrapbook album. As I gathered photographs and planned the design of the album, I tried to imagine what type of design would match my new sister-in-law's classic, elegant style. The simple, uniform design that I used was a big hit and was very easy to complete. Here's how I approached creating this elegant 8" x 8" wedding album.
Start with an outline. Jot down an outline of the pages you want to include in the album. Keep in mind the photographs available as you organize the album into a story that will unfold with each turn of the page. Include photographs of key *players* in the wedding ceremony and the major events of the day. Here is a sample outline of a wedding album:
Cover Page - couple together
The Dress - wedding dress on a hanger, bride getting ready
The Bride
The Groom
Ring Bearer
The Mothers - bride with her mother, groom with his mother
The Fathers - bride with her father, groom with his father
Our Guests - guests signing the guestbook
Our Wedding Vows
Husband and Wife - bride and groom candid just after the ceremony
First Dance
The Reception - decorations and reception room
Cutting the Cake
Tossing the Bouquet
Tossing the Garter
Decorating the Car
The Getaway
The Beginning - bride and groom kissing
Choose photographs. Choose photos that support the theme of each page in your outline. Limit yourself to one photo per page and choose the one photograph that best represents the theme. While it's tempting to include several similar photos, a single photo has a huge impact.
Sketch a layout design. For this elegant design, simple is key. I used the same format for every page: a black background, a square photo in black and white, a red photo mat, a vellum border backed in gray cardstock, and a title created in gray and white lettering. A uniform design will allow the photographs to be the main attraction on each page.
Choose a color scheme. In a wedding album, you will typically want to use a color scheme that complements the colors of the wedding. Most weddings have one or two main colors in their color scheme. For this album, I used black and white as the basic colors and then added red and silver accents to match the wedding party. Even though the photographs are black and white, the album still fits the color scheme from their wedding, making it match their memories of the day.
Create the page elements. Once you have an outline, sketch and color scheme, you're ready to begin creating the page elements. Since each page is nearly identical, you can easily use an assembly-line style of creation. For instance, crop all of the photos to the same size first. Next cut photo mats for each photograph. Then cut each border. Finally, begin assembling the titles. In this case, the letters are die cuts, so all of the letters for the album had to be cut ahead of time. If you're using a font instead, you'll want to print all of your titles in this phase of creating the album.
Assemble the album. All that's left now is to assemble the pieces to create your elegant wedding album. Using your sketch as a guide, simply glue the elements to the page to complete the album.
This style of album makes a wonderful gift, but is also a beautiful way to display your own wedding photos in an elegant album fit for display.


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Ignore W.C. Fields: Children, Dogs Are Great to Work With
Musical Adaptation of 'A Christmas Story,' Has Two Dogs and 13 Children in Its Cast
There's a famous morsel of showbiz wisdom attributed to W.C. Fields: "Never work with animals or children."
It isn't one that John Rando paid much mind to when he came on board to direct the musical adaptation of "A Christmas Story," which has two dogs and 13 children in its cast.
"It was one of the great pleasures of working on the show," Mr. Rando said. "It's really remarkable how professional [the children] can be. We even have some 7- and 9-year-olds, and they come to rehearsal completely focused."
The story features Ralphie (Jake Lucas), a 9-year-old boy who wants a BB gun for Christmas. Jake, and most of the children in the ensemble, are new to the production. But one outstanding performer returns, the 10-year-old tap-dancing wunderkind Luke Spring, who, dressed in a gangster suit, performs a solo inside of a fantasy sequence in Act Two that brings down the house.
If you can't quite remember a tap-dancing prodigy in the 1983 film, that's because there wasn't one. Mr. Rando hadn't grown up watching the movie and opted not to see it until he'd familiarized himself with the music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
"I'm glad that I came to it the way that I did," Mr. Rando said, "just by the musical itself."
Turning the movie into a musical also meant that Mr. Rando could heighten the story's more poignant scenes, he said.
"We can savor and relish the heartfelt moments."
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Two recessions in a decade, financial austerity, and unprecedented pressure to prove product value to all stakeholders. There is no question that the pharma game has changed in the new "Outcomes Era", in which health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) departments have moved from the background to the driver's seat.
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In a rare and comprehensive insight into thriving in the "Outcomes Era", Value-driven Pharma: Integrating health outcomes across the product lifecycle tackles the issues that have not been publicly addressed in full. The report first looks at the current relationship between pharma and stakeholders, against a backdrop of economic recession. It also examines the disconnect between pharma's pledge to build value-driven products whilst failing to instil health outcome values at the critical early development stages. Filled with invaluable information from key industry insiders, the dossier is essential reading for R&D or medical directors, CEOs, heads of managed markets and anyone else interested in steering towards success in a tumultuous economic age.
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Fortunately for most people, Batman: Arkham Asylum is only two weeks away now. Unfortunately for myself, I'm going to have to wait to play it though, what with GamesCom and PAX just around the corner. So if like me, you're going to need something more to tide you over till you can pick it up - other than the fantastic demo of course - why not check out the latest "Gadgets" trailer where the caped crusader pulls off some seriously impressive moves. If you're getting it in two weeks (less if you're in the US of course), watch it anyway ... it won't disappoint.


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Dutch Elm diseased trees transformed into art in Sussex
A couple from East Sussex have had diseased trees in their garden transformed into works of art.
Teresa and Barry Taylor, from Wilmington, had eight trees in their garden condemned with Dutch Elm disease. Rather than getting them cut down, taken away and burnt, they asked friend and professional wood carver, Christine Kowal Post, to make three of them into 8ft (2.4m) high sculptures.


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Credit should go to director Cash Markman for making the best of what he has to work with, but this title will probably only appeal to die-hard Carey fans.
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