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Same As It Ever Was

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In a lively guest post over at Pete’s jernt, Emma Span explains how things have never been kosher when sports and politics mix.

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3 comments

1 Chyll Will   ~  Jan 20, 2009 5:42 pm

Way to go, Emma! Leave 'em begging for more! >;)

2 Chyll Will   ~  Jan 20, 2009 6:08 pm

From the fat man's wiki -

"Tweed was convicted for stealing between 40 million and 200 million dollars (based on the inflation or devaluation rate of the dollar since 1870 of 2.7%, this is between 1.5 Billion and 8.0 Billion 2009 dollars) from New York City taxpayers through political corruption. He died in prison.

I would say he has nothing on Barry Madoff, but how much more was the political influence worth to Tweed; even into this century, while Madoff was just stacking cake (or souffle as the case may be?)

My thinking is that New York is the 18th most corrupt state in the union because we're better at getting away with it, ha! >;)

3 The Hawk   ~  Jan 20, 2009 10:41 pm

I think the difference between Black Sheep's first and second albums is the biggest I've ever experienced. From classic to crap. What a fall

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