So we are not surprised that the man used a psychic to find a downed airplane?
Even the best psychic cannot make his presidency a high point of our history.
From The Weekly Standard Scrapbook:
Jimmy Carter's Psychic Connection
Former President Jimmy Carter reveals that he once used a psychic in a trance to do what the United States' satellite surveillance system couldn't - find a downed American plane.
In an interview for GQ magazine excerpted in The Weekly Standard's Scrapbook section, Carter recalls:
"We had a plane go down in the Central African Republic - a twin-engine plane, small plane. And we couldn't find it."So we oriented satellites that were going around the earth every 90 minutes to fly over that spot where we thought it might be and take photographs. We couldn't find it.
"So the director of the CIA (Stansfield Turner) came and told me that he had contacted a woman in California that claimed to have supernatural capabilities. And she went into a trance, and she wrote down latitudes and longitudes, and we sent our satellites over that latitude and longitude, and there was the plane."
The Weekly Standard comments: "The Scrapbook figures this woman is probably no longer alive. Otherwise they'd have found bin Laden by now."
Check Your Wallets
If you find any twenty dollar bills with fruit on them, send them to me. As reported by ABC News, these bills are worth way more than their face value.
DALLAS - An ordinary fruit sticker that mysteriously ended up on a $20 bill could spur currency collectors to bid up to 1,000 times the bill's face value at an auction Friday.
The flawed bill bears a red, green and yellow Del Monte sticker next to Andrew Jackson's portrait. The bill originated at a U.S. Treasury Department printing facility in Fort Worth, but how the fruit tag found its way onto the greenback is unknown.
"I've collected for probably seven years now and nothing comes close to the way people react to it - their eyes pop out," said Daniel Wishnatsky, a Phoenix currency collector who bought the bill in 2003 on the eBay auction Web site for $10,100.
Heritage Galleries and Auctioneers was auctioning the bill for Wishnatsky in Orlando, Fla. The auction company and Wishnatsky, a member of the Society of Paper Money Collectors, think the bill could fetch two to three times his investment.
The Donald for Governor?
Newsmax's Carl Limbacher reports that:
Donald Trump is considering asking New York State voters in next year's gubernatorial race to tell him: You're hired!
Article comments
1 - Michael J. West
re Dick Clark:
If it's not about the money than what is it about?
My guess? That he loved doing it.
The reason I don't think it was about the money is that, even if he DIDN'T appear, he was going to rake in the cash. He is the executive producer of the thing anyway--he was even the executive producer last year while recovering from the stroke, because New Year's Rockin' Eve is handled by Dick Clark Productions.
So if he hadn't appeared, he wasn't going to be stiffed out of any money. I think he simply enjoys doing it, really missed it last year, and wanted very badly to do it again.
2 - Lisa McKay
I agree that Clark's appearance was scary and depressing, but like Michael, I don't think money had anything to do with it. I think that there are some people who, regardless of their success or their financial status, feel dead if they're not working. In this case, he looked dead while working, but I'd hazard a guess that the prospect of doing nothing terrifies him more than the prospect of the grave.
3 - Mark Saleski
He was only the worst President ever and don't tell me not.
he not.
was that a sentence?
4 - Pat Fish
Michael and Lisa,
You could be right about Dick Clark. Re that money thing. But like Lisa I thought his performance was scary and depressing. Which makes me sound like I'm a bit cruel but I'm thinking a bunch of people are just afraid to say it. Maybe he'll recover more over the coming year and will be up to snuff next year. Maybe it was anticipation of getting better that propelled him to do the 2006 show. I'd accept that as a reason. If he goes on to 2007 in the same state, I'm sticking with the money logic.
If he doesn't then he should think about staying home.
5 - Michael J. West
He was only the worst President ever and don't tell me not.
I presume you lived through Nixon, too? Jimmy Carter may not have been a particularly effective president but he has the virtue of not having been a presidential criminal.