If You Have a Spare Toast Tonight: Beckley

[CorpGovActivist]

Tonight, if you're celebration-minded, and if you run out of people to toast, please raise your glasses to John Beckley.

Beckley was:

1. The first Clerk of the House of Representatives (setting many of the standards for keeping official records): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerk_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives

2. The first Librarian of Congress (nurturing an institution that has played a vital role in uncovering some of the more arcane threads of the Halliburton matters): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librarian_of_Congress

3. The first "professional" campaign manager (for Thomas Jefferson; he'd be glad to see KKKarl go down in flames tonight, I bet): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Beckley

4. Jefferson's confidante, and the keeper of certain materials that were *not* sold or donated to the Library of Congress, but rather, were safeguarded. (<--------Dan Brown, eat your heart out)

5. The namesake of Beckley, West Virginia, where - on July 9, 2004 - a fateful conversation took place at the Raleigh County Memorial Airport, during the Kerry/Edwards campaign stop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckley%2C_West_Virginia

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- David A. Smith, Editor of www.HALwhistleblowers.org and www.BushBunglesBrigade.org
(wondering what David R. Smith, the as-yet-unindicted VP of Tax at Halliburton, must be thinking on this Election Night)

[IdesOfOctober]

1. Slainte!!!

And of course we'll be drinkin' ta: http://www.cormorantsfancy.com/NineIrishmen.htm

Ides

[CorpGovActivist]

2. Salud! n/t