53 Brentwood Blog

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Hannibal the Cannibal

"A census taker once tried to test me.
I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."


Among the best lines of 'The Silence of the Lambs'.

Monday, March 28, 2016

Am I missing something?

The unfolding story of Clinton’s basement server has outraged advocates of government transparency and mystified political supporters and adversaries alike. Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., who is presiding over one of the FOIA lawsuits, has expressed puzzlement over the affair. He noted that Clinton put the State Department in the position of having to ask her to return thousands of government records — her work email.

“Am I missing something?” Sullivan asked during a Feb. 23 hearing. “How in the world could this happen?”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Andris Grof

Andy Grove (Andris Grof),  refugee from Hungary, former CEO of Intel Corp. died Monday.
 “Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Argue

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Mark Twain

Sunday, March 06, 2016

Ted Cruise wins Kansas!!




Ted Cruise, Ted Cruz or Tom Cruise??

Thursday, March 03, 2016

fiery

At 09.12am on Wednesday morning Aubrey McClendon, billionaire sports team owner, oil executive and “visionary” pioneer of the US fracking revolution, “pretty much drove straight into” a bridge on a quiet country road in Oklahoma. His 2013 Chevrolet Tahoe burst into flames instantly killing the 56-year-old executive, who was not wearing a seatbelt.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/03/fiery-car-crash-kills-billionaire-oil-executive-aubrey-mcclendon