His famous tendency to stand on one leg while playing the flute came about by accident. As related in the "Isle of Wight" video, he had been inclined to stand on one leg while playing the harmonica, holding the microphone stand for balance. During the long stint at the Marquee Club, a journalist described him, wrongly, as standing on one leg to play the flute. He decided to live up to the reputation, albeit with some difficulty. His early attempts are visible in The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus film appearance of Jethro Tull. In later life he was surprised to learn of iconic portrayals of various flute playing divinities, particularly Krishna and Kokopelli, which show them standing on one leg.

What I don't get is how current laws don't cover it.  If you say you are going to die and take donations, there are fraud laws, people get convicted all the time.  Seems like those would work just fine.

I think there should be penalties about lying about another service as well.  The Kerry distractors should have never been able to walk away from their shame with a victory.  Even labeled heroes by some.  You should not be able to tarnish a service record, politics or not.

Valor is relative.  I am a Veteran of a war, in title, but what I did is nothing compared to folks like your husband, people who actually are/were on the front line.  It sucked for me, but not because bombs and bullets were flying around, it just wasn't my cup of tea.  And I never consider myself to be in that class even though we hold the same label.  My point is to most we are the same, with relatively the same valor.  When in fact my service is miniscule in comparison to folks like your husband.  And in terms of valor, I am not even close to the same class as the men and women risking life and limb.  Those people, in my mind, are real Veterans and the service itself should not label every slap d1ck, like myself, a Veteran just because they were on a boat a couple hundred miles away from the skirmish.

So if some idiots want to brag about what they did, I say who cares, but when they use it to enrich themselves there has to be a penalty.

And as much as I agree with kdog, let's be real, con-men exist because they fly way below the BS meter and plenty of street smart folks get taken everyday by people who misrepresent the truth.  Being fooled is one thing, being fooled and taken for a financial ride is quite another.

I am surprised no mention of Clinton or MLK.
I always though TR was an odd choice.

For me, FDR for sure, and I really think it should be more than Presidents, it should include Franklin without a doubt.

The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) was essentially unchanged at 8.2 million. These individuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job.

In June, 2.5 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, down from 2.7 million a year earlier. (These data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched
for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.

Among the marginally attached, there were 821,000 discouraged workers in June, a decline of 161,000 from a year earlier. (These data are not
seasonally adjusted.) Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them.
The remaining 1.7 million persons marginally attached to the labor force in June had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the
survey for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities.

Cops raided MM dispensary heavy handily and do what they always do, tore the place up.  They destroyed the video surveillance, but not before getting their mugs on the camera.

The article is pretty unclear about what was taken into evidence.  But what is odd to me is this is city cops busting a business that is legal in the state, w/o a city permit.  Isn't this citation territory ?

And the money quote:

This is a personnel matter and we are unable to discuss any further details," Lisa Massacani, with LB police, wrote in a statement.

No problem, just an HR issue.

What absolutely astonishes me is the boldness of it all, they know there is a camera and I assume they know about the internet.  There is about a 5% chance, IMO, that this doesn't get back to them.  Even stooopid criminals have the common sense to look for a camera, and if there is one, they at least try and hide from.  Not these idiots.

He's not getting rid of Geithner, and even if he did, there's just nothing that indicates Obama wouldn't replace him with someone who will just pick up where Geithner left off.  There's a reason Obama picked the people he picked, and it wasn't because he wanted to change their philosophy and approach, it was because he is a proponent of their philosophy and approach.

As for the banks causing the problems with the economy, it's going to be tough to sell that statement of the obvious, four years and no accountability later, don't you think?  He can say it, but the counter is, "everybody and their grandmother knows this - what did you do about it?  Nothing, except continue to look the other way while consulting them at every turn, filling your administration with them, keeping your door open to them so they would keep writing checks, lobbying hard for a settlement that wouldn't even rise to a slap on the wrist, and ensure that they could keep doing what they did that got us here and is keeping us here."

He'll either win or he'll lose - but nothing he "says" and no strategy he uses will be in service of anything but winning; once he's got the win in the bag, he's who he's always been: more conservative than liberal, frighteningly authoritarian, way too fond of big money, willing to deny people much-needed help lest someone "undeserving" end up benefiting, an Erskine Bowles/Alan Simpson fan, devoted to secrecy and in love with power, highly judgmental.

Some will say that this is what politicians do, and that the politician on the other side of the aisle will be worse; to me, they are more the same than they are different on issue after issue - the only thing that really separates them is the speed at which they want to take the country where they want it to go.