President Bush pardons eight, including convicted bootlegger

WBAY.com ^ | 3/04/05

[upchuck]

You should be locked in stocks and whipped.

Nooooooooo. Please, anything but that.

Now, if you'd like to try some chains and whips... Yeah, now we're talking! :)

[cyncooper]

The terrorist was Orlando Bosch, then in jail for entering the US illegally. He wasn't allowed in because he was a known terrorist and advocate of violence, suspected of bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976, killing 76 people

But you forgot to add the part about being cleared. Let's see...do I believe Castro or anti-Castro forces? Easy. Next.

Bush also freed Aslam Adam, a Pakistani serving a 55 year sentence for importing $1.5 million of heroin into the United States.

First, I notice you amended your initial error by changing "pardoned", since his sentence was commuted. There is a difference. Unlike with the many Clinton pardons that even his closest associates found inexplicable (I'm sure they'd get it if they really tried), George H. W. Bush's decisions were not made against the advice of others.

Thanks for playing.

[sergeantdave]

I didn't wear JUST a green leisure suit. I also wore a purple silk shirt with emblazoned yellow flowers. Now that may hurt your eyeballs a bit, and I can understand that, but imagine the pain I caused to citizens nearby who looked my way.

Fortunately we weren't affected because we all wore sunglasses the size of TV screens. That's how we survived the 1970s,

[upchuck]

I remember those sunglasses!! Way cool!

Yeah, baby!

[antiRepublicrat]

But you forgot to add the part about being cleared. Let's see...do I believe Castro or anti-Castro forces?

How about the Justice Department and the FBI, who wanted him deported because he was a known terrorist? Yet Bush let him go free to live in Florida.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Happened to me on the old Texas Zephyr. I was in the bar car and had successfully passed myself off as over 21 when the bartender came round and picked up everyone's drinks. "Passing through a dry county," was his explanation...

[CarolinaKid]

Maybe so... or maybe he was just paying the bills for a couple kids...Who Knows? Back then a RC Cola, Moonpie and a bag of salted peanuts was all one needed for Sunday conversation. But when the sun went down the SHINE came out and the Old Southern City awoke to a different way of life...