How much of an issue is Skull and Bones to you?

[ButterflyBlood]

just want a tally

[a_random_joel]

1. Stamp collectors

Are far more insdious. We need to find out who was a stamp collector as a child.

[Minstrel Boy]

4. Stamp collectors...

wouldn't collect this man's skull.

[corporatewhore]

2. S&B a non issue NAFTA/GATT/WTO/FTAA IWR PATRIOT ACT are not

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. I'm more concerned about people who belong to AEI.

I can trace their influence on the halls of justice far more easily than the boogey man of the day.

[RobertSeattle]

5. We had basically the same question yesterday - is this a test?

[cyclezealot]

6. It bothers me a lot.

But I might vote for Kerry.That would be my reply to this poll.

[gonefishing]

7. It matters because

it maps the early foundation of this mans DNA. It's an early clue of how his life has been one of carelessness and privilege.

[BigDaddyLove]

9. Hopefully he left that carelessness and privilege at home....

when he was in Vietnam.

[gonefishing]

13. opps!

I thought we were talking about Dubya!

[Cocoa]

8. makes me like Kerry better

these rumors started way back when, back when Kerry was seen as the greatest threat to Bush. Combined with the fact that Nixon had it in for him, this makes me think he terrifies Karl Rove.

[Minstrel Boy]

10. S&B isn't a youthful indiscretion for Kerry. In 1986

he surprised Yale junior Jacob Weisberg, now editor of Slate, with a "tap" to join Skull and Bones.

Weisberg had been interning at the New Republic, and received a call from Kerry's secretary to come to his office. Weisberg asked what it was about, and she said Kerry wouldn't tell her. Just that he wanted to see Weisberg the next morning.

Weisberg was stunned to learn Kerry wanted to invite him to join Skull and Bones.

They argued for a while - Weisberg was surprised that someone supposedly liberal would associate with S&B - and after Weisberg made it clear he wasn't interested, Kerry wouldn't accept No. He asked that Weisberg promise to think about it further.

Weisberg called Kerry's office later and was put straight through, and told him flatly he was rejecting the offer. Kerry expressed his disappointment.

Info from Alexandra Robbins' Secrets of the Tomb.

You needn't believe Skull and Bones is an order of the Illuminati to think there's something unhealthy about its web of influence.

[blondeatlast]

16. Yeah, a real classy case of muckraking

FICTION. The book has been largely discredited. I'm a librarian, and we don't consider Robbins credible in the least.

[KFC]

11. I just hope Kerry was not in the Boy Scouts.

That is a cult that worries me to no end.

[Algorem]

12. Mike Malloy talked about it...

http://69.28.73.17/thornarticles/bloodbrothers.html http://www.mikemalloy.com http://69.28.73.17/index.html

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. Kerry's lack of backbone is the issue.

I could care less about him romping around with the other frat boys.

[SeattleRob]

15. the issue is elitism

it's a continuation of the "ruling elite class" Read history about how royalty believed they were "endowed" by God to rule the masses. What is going on is a continuation of that.

[mb7588a]

17. SB? *yawn*

:boring: