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10-14-2007 9:08 PM
jstates1
Interesting stuff. I've actually heard this before (I'm a history major) but it is something fascinating to consider.

In Winston's defense, he slept 'til noon because he squeezed two eight-hour work days into one, so his schedule was a bit off. He did drink like a fish, though.
10-14-2007 10:13 PM
hudgal1
Do fish actually drink water or do they just pass it over their gills to get the oxygen out? I would think actually drinking salt water would explode their little cells due to simple diffusion. I remember injecting potato cells with hypertonic (greater than .09% salt?) solution in some biology or anatomy lab many moons ago and watching them explode. I'm no biologist though, so I really don't know. Do they?

As far as Hitler goes, I guess he had some admirable qualities, but they do not even come close to making up for the hideous ones.
10-15-2007 12:33 AM
sadunpererarules
well, i guess its the thought behind the person
10-15-2007 1:23 AM
pokkets
All you need is to know how to tick a box (People didn't) seem to be able to work punch cards out) Soon all we'll need to know is how to push a button. ( The Red Button, or the Blue Button)
Churchill was particularly fond of brandy, I think it was Armenian. He tasted it once, and made an arrangement to have the brandy delivered regularly to match his acquired tolerance.
While we was an ardent consumer, he needed a bottle a day because war war such a rush.
(That may be stretching the truth,) But i doubt he was worried as much as he was proud of the connections that would, keep his balance liquid
10-15-2007 3:12 AM
skwirlinator
I pick D = None of the above
10-15-2007 7:38 AM
glacier5
A nice commentary on the duality of ethics and morality. Hitler seemed to be trying to perfect himself, and in his self-righteousness, lost his humanity.
10-15-2007 8:30 AM
gwendolyn
Popped for glacier5's comment.
10-15-2007 10:25 AM
cptenaud
I'm not sure we should worry about who we pick. But how we can get rid of them when they go nutty on us.

I think that is our problem now.
10-15-2007 12:12 PM
mmcnatt
glacier5 -- very well said
10-16-2007 12:58 AM
Jorjor
This quote is about 40 years old but still valid:

“It's not the hawks and doves that I'm worried about...it's those cuckoos in Washington that want to make pigeons out of all of us.”

— Barbara Feldon
10-16-2007 2:20 AM
julesandsandy
This is why you should always vote for the guy who can do the job, not because you like the way they look. Just add one policy and it makes sense - this one wants to KILL MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.

Easy, don't vote for the one who talks about war, hate, etc.
4-1-2008 1:59 AM
Gemini11
Perhaps if the profiles of the canditates were accurate it may help us to choose wisely.
Regarding candidate A, Franklin Roosevelt, there is talk among astrologers that he consulted with astrologer Evangeline Adams, but we have not been able to document that.
We don't know how many mistresses Franklin Roosevelt had but he had an affair with his wife's social secretary Lucy Page Mercer. She was with him when he died in 1945 in Warm Springs, Georgia.
He did like his martinis and is credited with having been the first to mix a martini in the White House and was a smoker.

Regarding candidate B, Winston Churchill, according to WinstonChurchill.org, he was known for his drinking,
We could...
4-1-2008 2:00 AM
Gemini11
Further, with regard to Churchill.......

www.winstonchurchill.org

His typical day was: wake at 8 and often spend the morning in bed, dictating letters and reading the papers (he took them all, including the Daily Worker). By noon he’d had a bath and would go down to lunch, where he might hold forth a couple of hours if the company was congenial. He would then stroll around Chartwell, visiting his goldfish, black swans, and perhaps the farm animals. Back for tea, he’d take a nap in pajamas and eyeshade. He would wake refreshed, bathe again, dress for dinner, which could last till 10; then a film. At about 11 or 12 work would begin—dictation of books, articles or speeches until as late a...
4-1-2008 3:43 AM
mickfinn
Never trust those who have never sinned.
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