Lit_200 April 15, 2008 at 10:09 p.m.

Seems Bone has just bid four no trump to Bell's one spade.

January April 16, 2008 at 9:25 a.m.

Lit, I know you're talking about bridge. I don't know very much about that game. What is the difference between the hand that produces a four no trump bid and the hand that produces a one spade bid? (I know the four no trump is stronger, but that's all I know.)

Lit_200 April 16, 2008 at 12:08 p.m.

Well, I am nothing as a bridge player but the order of suits is clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades as the strongest suit. What I meant was, a bid of one spade means his opponent has to bid two of some other suit. But Bone did such a great investigative job on the Obama house story that he overwhelmed Doug Bell's opening criticism. Four no trump means that none of the suits are stronger than any other and that the bidder has a lot of powerful cards... (This is kind of convoluted, I know, and I apologize for being obscure. I am sure a REAL bridge player is going to call me on it).

In a previous contretemps between Bone and Bell, they used a bridge analogy, as I recall, to snipe at each other.

January April 16, 2008 at 2:10 p.m.

Thanks Lit, that's interesting info. I like how you used a bridge analogy to comment on a story in which writers were using a bridge analogy. That's funny. By the way, I met a "Life Master" once, who told me that when the bidding is finished a good player will know what cards the other players have.

charley April 16, 2008 at 11:26 p.m.

Do people still play bridge? I and my confreres in the smart social set only play whist.

Fintan April 17, 2008 at 3:26 a.m.

January, I'm back. What I expected to happen on 8 April was postponed until June/July. Maybe I'll get another trip, although the monsoon season is not the best time to be there.

Cory the racist takes an old story and blows it all out of proportion. So, an infectious disease kills 100 people in a country of 1.140 billion in six months, and tourists should avoid the place! To put it back into proportion: should people not go to Canada because meningitis has claimed five or six lives there in the past half year?

Lit, you know nothing about bridge or whist. Those are games that would require you to be in the company of and interacting with real living people, not just surfing the 'net and waxing expert about everything.

I think the five best card games are find the lady, patience and poker ...

And there is less and less about His Lardship or Morticia in the media. They are slowly fading into well-deserved obscurity.

Karma be praised.

Casey April 17, 2008 at 7:16 a.m.

Welcome back, Fintan. Same old leaf, Cory, Family_Guy crapola making its way through the blog and your well chosen words for and about them were missed. I'm not even certain that what these morons type can even be referred to as " language " that we are familiar with - their contributions to the blogosphere are basically trash - both opinions and words that describe same.

January April 17, 2008 at 8:55 a.m.

Welcome back Fintan!

This crazy blog is not the same without you. PCLG did a good job of using your style to slam Leaf et. al., but I missed the little slices of life you always include in your posts.

Lit_200 April 17, 2008 at 10:49 a.m.

Typically, PCLG under the name Fintan, ignores the subject of the blog in order to endlessly repeat insult and invective. Let's try, something:

What do you think of Obama's housing deal and, apparently, forgetting a garden party meeting with Rezko? Any ideas? Any thoughts?

It's interesting that a man/woman/person who surmises that others have no social life, would count patience, which is played alone, as one of the best card games in the world.

I doubt very much that PCLG actually plays poker, and if she, he or it does so, is singularly unsuccessful. The game takes wit, stamina and skill - none of which the GBA from Finland has so far demonstrated on this blog.

Off to sell some government bonds, which I advise all my friends to do too.

Fintan April 17, 2008 at 2:49 p.m.

Poor Lit reminds me of the anecdote about the proud mother who watches as the regiment of soldiers that includes her son marches past. She turns to the lady beside her and remarks: "Look, they're all out of step except my Johnny!"

I have to admit I'm not too familiar with the details of the Rezko affair, but it is clear that someone like Senator O'Bama knows and meets an awful lot of people - as does everyone else in his position. Inevitably, some of them may not be quite kosher. You could say the same about many Conservative politicians in the UK - and some from other parties as well - who have at some time or another met His lardship and his egregious wife.

That does not make them crooks. They just happen to have associated with someone whom we now KNOW (rather than just suspect) to be a crook.

Let's give Senator O'Bama the same benefit of the doubt. However, it is clear that the neocons and their running dogs will do everything they can to smear O'Bama - and Senator Clinton as well, if she manages to get the nomination.

My favourite is O'Bama, because he was against the disastrous war in Iraq from the beginning.

Another thing that poor Lit doesn't understand is the strength of a close-knit family, something that a loner like her lacks and is probably jealous of me for having. One day I'll enlighten her about what PCLG really stands for. Hint: it's two persons, very close to me, who act either separately or together, and who take it very personally when the stalkers leaf/cory - with Lit's wholehearted support - try to smear and silence me.

Dream on losers!

Poor leaf has been thwarted and now knows that her calls to my spare number are diverted straight to the Canadian authorities, who have been told in effect: "This is a Canadian nuisance, I'm bouncing the ball back into your court. Sort it out, and if that doesn't suit you, sue me."

ROFLMAO

Fintan April 17, 2008 at 2:52 p.m.

Poor leaf, having paroxysm of pique imagining me having my way with nubile Tamil maidens, but I was only very briefly in Tamil Nadu. This time I was in parts where the people speak Kannada (yes!) and Telugu. They are every bit as attractive as the Tamils.

For all poor leaf knows, I may have met the person in Bangalore to whom she lost her job. LOL

Thanks to Casey for her excellent lambasting of those losers while I was away.

January, if you are partial to honeydew melons, this is the peak season for them in India; huge piles of them in the streets, and you can buy one the size of a medicine ball and squeeze a couple of litres of excellent, thirst-quenching juice from it.

The only disappointment was the postponement of the event I was sent to write about. But Chandrayaan's day will come within a couple of months.

Cory, leaf, Lit - in your collective ear.

ROFL @ the idiocies you wrote while I was away.

Leafie, you still haven't provided any proof or told us who it was 'wot did it to u. I'm still betting it was Daddy - a real swine.

SML

January April 17, 2008 at 5:39 p.m.

Fintan! You're involved with Chandrayaan? How exciting.... I'm full to the brim with envy. Is there anything else you can say about that? I hope the next attempt goes off well.

As for honeydew melons, I don't think there is any food I have ever tasted in India that didn't taste quite different from its North American counterpart. Carrots made the biggest impact on me. I never imagined that red carrots could exist or taste so yummy good.

Barbara_in_BC April 24, 2008 at 2:51 p.m.

“Rezko Trial Providing Bombshell Information”

By: Nicole Belle on Thursday, April 24th, 2008 at 9:50 AM - PDT
“But not the kind the Republican party was probably hoping for, especially since it doesn’t embarrass Democratic candidate Barack Obama, but reveals that Illinois Republican National Committee member Bob Kjellander and Denny Hastert were trying to get Patrick Fitzgerald fired during that U.S. Attorneys shake up, but his work on the Plame investigation protected him. “

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/04/24...