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The author of the story is anonymous and says nothing about where or how the story was obtained, also typical of made-up tales.

And, from a conservative's point of view, the story is too good to be true. Pelosi supposedly proves her own "mental deficiency" by being stumped when the "psychiatrist" asks, "Captain Cook made three trips around the world and died during one of them. Which one?'' She supposedly replies, "I don't know much about history."

If the story sounds like an old joke, that's because it is. Barbara Mikkelson of Snopes.com found and reprinted a version of the story that was published in 1962. In that version, the butt of the joke is an unnamed dinner-party hostess. Mikkelson says other versions appear in even older humor books dating back to the 1950s. So the gag has been around at least a couple of decades longer than Pelosi has been in Congress.

Furthermore, Mikkelson says that for the past several years the same story has been told in other chain e-mails variously targeting non-political figures including "redheads, blondes, Valley Girls and Scientologists." Only recently has some hoaxster grafted Pelosi's name into the tale.

Other claims now circulating about Pelosi may seem more plausible, and are more pernicious, but are hardly more true.

Hot Air About a "Windfall Tax"
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Windfall Tax on Retirement Income

Adding a tax to your retirement is simply another way of saying to the American people, you're so darn stupid that we're going to keep stealing your money until we drain every cent from you. That's what the Speaker of the House is saying. Read below................

Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income. In other words tax what you have made by investing toward your retirement. This woman is a nut case! You aren't going to believe this.

Democrat speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to put a Windfall Tax on all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K and Mutual Funds)! Alas , it is true - all to help 12 Million Illegal Immigrants and other unemployed Minorities!

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  • Posted By: m.mcc @ 01/17/2009 11:20:40 PM

    ROFLMAO???. Snarly Harley, you're hysterical. I don't see how anyone could take you seriously. It looks like you're getting flustered and testy and having considerable trouble effectively expressing yourself. I'm told this is actually fairly common among two digit IQ narcissists.

    Your profanity and name-calling are great debating skills especially when you stammer and run out of meaningful and intelligent things to say. Of course, that's assuming you have anything meaningful and intelligent to say in the first place and there's scant evidence of that. Your contributions to the discussion thus far have been, shall we charitably say, somewhat shallow.

    BTW, and not that it really matters, but you're once again woefully wrong in your assumption that I'm a Republican and that I'm a Bush lover. Here's a news flash for ya', Snarly. There are a few of us Democrats who have no love for Bush who didn't vote for Obama. I didn't vote for Bush either and have some real problems with some of his actions and policies as well as those of some of his cronies. I would have had no problem with impeachment or other legal action IF there were strong enough legal grounds to make it stick, which I seriously doubt there are. What I wouldn't want to see is an unwinable partisan witch-hunt like the one the Republican's pulled on Bill Clinton. The rancor and distraction that would go along with it would be disastrous. We've got way bigger fish to fry right now.

    Now go on back to your corner and continue sucking your thumb??????..Or what is more likely, some other body appendage that provides you with the same thrill you seem to get from making a total jackass of yourself.

  • Posted By: m.mcc @ 01/17/2009 4:33:38 PM

    READ the post first, you pompous ass!

    The reference made was to some alleged meeting in 2002, well before the invasion of Iraq and LONG before Pelosi was "Madam Speaker"???. and I did make every effort to substantiate this and could not. Which leads me to suspect that this may be yet another false smear, only this time coming from the delusional left rather than the right. So if it's true, prove it and I'll be fine with it.

    If you've even remotely followed Pelosi's career and her politics you'd realize that if she felt she had a winnable case against Bush when she became speaker in 2006 she would have pulled the trigger. I have absolutely no doubts about this because she hates the man and has always been ruthless in her quest for both personal attention and a Democratic stranglehold on government. Add to that the Democratic majority in both houses and there's few other conclusions you can come to other than she didn't feel she had a winnable case for impeachment. With Obama lavishing praise on Bush yesterday, I seriously doubt that he's going to instigate or support any attempt at legal action either. So it's time to give it up and move on.

    Now that he won your vote and your devotion, it must drive you far left whack-jobs crazy to see your messiah moving even ever so slightly toward the right. :D :D

  • Posted By: m.mcc @ 01/16/2009 8:59:34 PM

    I wonder if you could post some references supporting these views and accusations as they apply to Pelosi? I've been unable to find anything on this. Oh, and please don't bother posting if the material can't be substantiated. I'm really not interested in extremist bloggers opinions that can't be independently verified.

    BTW, CNN is reporting this evening that Obama thinks Bush did the best job he could and that he thinks Bush is a "good guy". Looks like the road to trial for Bush got a lot longer today. Hmmm, must be something in the air or water in Washington that make them all stick together, huh?

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