Warren Buffett: Put Clinton, Obama In Charge of A Business, Just Not Mine

Billionaire Warren Buffett said yesterday that the idea of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama running a company is okay with him--just not his company.

Warren Buffett said on Monday that he would be comfortable putting Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in charge of running a business, though not his Berkshire Hathaway Inc insurance and investment company.

Buffett has said that he plans to back the Democrat in the 2008 elections--perhaps, because Buffett has enough money to see him through any new taxes that may be imposed during a possible Democrat administration.

He has not endorsed Clinton or Obama for the presidency, but said on CNBC television: "I would put either one of them in charge of a business."

Again, just not his business.

Another case of a billionaire supporting a Democrat because he has the money to see him through whatever harm may befall the economy during their stay in the White House.

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WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, LEVIATHAN, BUSINESS, PATENTS, COMMIES, ACTIVIST COURT, SPORTS, RUN, SPEECH, EXECUTED, GUILLOTINED, LYNCHED, EXCOMMUNICATION, MONKEYS, E PLURIBUS PLURIBUS, RECORDS, GREENBACKS, CONDEMNED, DALI LAMA, TAXES, INFLATION, NAZIS, JEWS, MOONIES, SERIAL KILLERS, BICYCLES, AH ONE AND AH TWO, FAST, TV BREAKDOWNS, HOOKERS, WHEN HE'S DOWN, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH

LEVIATHAN

1913 the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, was declared in effect by Secretary of State Philander Chase Knox.

WAR!

1779 American forces led by George Rogers Clark routed the British from Fort Sackville in the Revolutionary War Battle of Vincennes in present-day Indiana.

1991 During the Persian Gulf War, 28 Americans were killed when an Iraqi Scud missile hit a U.S. barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

2003 Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said Iraq was showing new signs of real cooperation, but President Bush was dismissive, predicting Saddam Hussein would try to "fool the world one more time."

TERRORISM

1995 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed).

1995 Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead.

2007 A female suicide bomber triggered a ball bearing-packed charge, killing at least 41 people at a mostly Shiite college in Baghdad.

DISASTERS

1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons.

1984 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500.

1994 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31.

MONKEYS

1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1¢).

RECORDS

1838 London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours.

CONDEMNED

1885 US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds.

PATENTS

1836 inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver.

TV BREAKDOWNS

1990 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long.

DALI LAMA

1910 Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies.

WHEN HE'S DOWN

1995 British heavyweight Nigel Benn hits Gerard McClellan in hospital.

HOOKERS

1998 Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich.

INFLATION

1923 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark.

AH ONE AND AH TWO

1982 Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs.

GUILLOTINED

1922 Henri-Désiré Landru French sex murderer, guillotined at 52.

TAXES

1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1¢ per gallon).

GREENBACKS

1862 Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln.

EXCOMMUNICATION

1570 Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance.

NAZIS

1932 Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship.

CHOKED

1983 Tennessee Williams writer (Streetcar Named Desire), reportedly chokes to death on a bottle cap at 71.

SERIAL KILLERS

1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders.

E PLURIBUS PLURIBUS

1803 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states.

LYNCHED

1994 Baruch Goldstein physician/murderer (53 in mosque), lynched at 42.

BICYCLES

1974 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975.

FAST

1982 Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph).

BUSINESS

1901 U.S. Steel Corp. was incorporated by J.P. Morgan.

JEWS

1941 February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam.

MOONIES

1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea.

COMMIES

1948 Communists seized power in Czechoslovakia.

ACTIVIST COURT

1957 The Supreme Court, in Butler v. Michigan, overturned a Michigan statute making it a misdemeanor to sell books containing obscene language that would tend to corrupt "the morals of youth."

SPEECH

2007 In Detroit, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan stressed religious unity during what was billed as his final major speech, saying the world was at war because Christians and Muslims were divided.

EXECUTED

1601 Robert Devereux Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth.

SPORTS

1964 Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali), a 7-1 underdog, became world heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Fla.

1989 Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career.

RUN!

In 1986, President Ferdinand Marcos fled the Philippines after 20 years of rule in the wake of a tainted election; Corazon Aquino assumed the presidency.

BORN

1841 Pierre Auguste Renoir Limoges France, Impressionist painter/sculptor.

1901 [Herbert] Zeppo Marx New York NY, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers).

1906 Domingo Ortega Spanish bullfighter.

BIRTHDAYS

Country singer Ralph Stanley is 81. TV writer-producer Larry Gelbart is 80. Actor Tom Courtenay is 71. CBS newsman Bob Schieffer is 71. Actress Diane Baker is 70. Actress Karen Grassle is 64. Movie director Neil Jordan is 58. Rock musician Dennis Diken (The Smithereens) is 51. Rock singer-musician Mike Peters (The Alarm) is 49. Actress Veronica Webb is 43. Actor Alexis Denisof is 42. Actress Tea Leoni is 42. Comedian Carrot Top is 41. Actress Lesley Boone is 40. Actor Sean Astin is 37. Singer Daniel Powter is 37. Latin singer Julio Iglesias Jr. is 35. Rhythm-and-blues singer Justin Jeffre is 35. Rock musician Richard Liles is 35. Actor Anson Mount is 35. Actress Rashida Jones is 32. Actor Justin Berfield is 22. Actors Oliver and James Phelps ("Harry Potter" movies) are 22.

DEATH

1994 Jersey Joe Walcott boxer, dies at 80.

February 25, the 56th day of 2008. There are 310 days left in the year.

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Today in History: January 8, 2008

THE KING, WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTER, NANNY STATE, DIPLOMACY, LABOR, DIVORCE, JEWS, CRIME, BUSINESS, FINANCE, SCIENCE, POLITICS, SENSATIONS, WHALES, REVOLTS, EDUCATION, PROGRESS, STATUES, CIVIL RIGHTS, PATENTS, POPES, WOMEN, RATIONING, DEATH PENALTY, COMEBACKS, MUSIC, SPORTS, CULTURE, FLOWERS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, MONSTERS, WATERGATE, CLIMATE, BORN, DEATH

THE KING

1993 Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale.

WAR

1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling.

1815 Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew.

1973 Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris.

1979 Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom Penh.

TERRORISM

1926 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia.

1986 President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in the US.

1998 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer.

1998 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life.

DISASTER

1894 Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire.

1962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 91 die (Netherlands).

1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up.

1989 Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die.

NANNY STATE

1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition).

1964 President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty".

1982 Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM, pending since 1969.

DIPLOMACY

1992 US President George Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap during Japanese tour.

LABOR

1923 Typography strike in Amsterdam.

DIVORCE

1998 Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas.

JEWS

1598 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy.

1978 Israel's Cabinet votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai.

CRIME

1716 Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested.

BUSINESS & FINANCE

1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (New York Fishing Co).

1870 US mint at Carson City NV begins issuing coins.

1974 Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London.

1974 Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York.

1987 Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25).

1988 Dow Jones down 140.58 points.

SCIENCE

1760 Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth.

1973 USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing.

POLITICS

1790 George Washington delivers 1st "State of the Union" address.

1798 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed.

1806 Cape colony becomes English colony.

1830 Dutch King Willem I fires him displeasing parliament members.

1947 General George Marshall becomes Secretary of State.

1959 Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as President of France's 5th Republic.

SENSATIONS

1800 Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France.

WHALES

1806 Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon.

1971 29 pilot whales beach themselves & die at San Clemente Island CA.

REVOLTS

1811 Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes at German Coast.

1838 Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out.

1848 Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia.

1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana.

EDUCATION

1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established.

PROGRESS

1838 1st telegraph message sent using dots & dashes, New Jersey.

1856 Dr John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs CA.

1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies.

1982 Johnny Cash Parkway opens in Hendersonville Tennessee.

1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces the HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator.

STATUES

1853 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Washington.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1867 Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto.

1995 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000.

PATENTS

1884 Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz.

1889 Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a tabulating machine (1st Computer).

1935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy.

POPES

1904 Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen.

WOMEN

1925 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas.

1980 NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports.

RATIONING

1940 Britain's 1st WWII rationing (bacon, butter & sugar

DEATH PENALTY

1948 Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treaso

COMEBACKS

1951 Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda.

MUSIC

1954 Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio & records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" & "I'll Never Stand in Your Way".

1956 Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" single goes to #1 & stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single).

1966 Beatles' "Rubber Soul" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks.

1966 Beatles' "We Can Work It Out" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks.

SPORTS

1955 Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak.

1962 Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th.

1972 NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall.

1984 NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams.

1993 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point.

1996 For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.

CULTURE

1963 "Mona Lisa", on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art.

FLOWERS

1965 Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the national flower (didn't pass).

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1656 Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands).

1966 Who & the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC.

1968 Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on US network TV.

1979 Today Show gets a new theme song.

1993 NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman.

MONSTERS

1974 Loch Ness Monster photographed.

WATERGATE

1975 Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison.

CLIMATE

1996 Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths.

BORN

1814 Thomas Green Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1821 James Longstreet Confederate General (1st Corps, ANV)
1823 Alfred Russel Wallace British zoologist/co-discoverer (evolution)
1836 Fannie M Jackson pioneer & educator, 1st US Black woman college grad
1862 Frank Nelson Doubleday publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co)
1886 Noble Drew Ali [Timothy Drew], North Carolina, prophet (Moorish Science Temple)
1902 Georgy M Malenkov Stalin's successor as head of CPSU, PM (1953-55)
1904 Peter Arno New York City NY, cartoonist (New Yorker)
1923 Larry Storch New York City NY, comedian (F Troop, Larry Storch Show)
1926 Soupy Sales [Milton Hines], North Carolina, comedian (Soupy Sales Show)
1928 Sander Vanocur Cleveland OH, news anchor (NBC Weekend News)
1931 Bill Graham Germany, rock promoter (Fillmore)
1933 Charles Osgood New York City NY, news anchor (CBS Weekend News)
1935 Elvis Aaron Presley Tupelo MS, rocker (Blue Suede Shoes, Hounddog)
1935 Jesse Garon Presley stillborn twin brother of Elvis
1937 Bob Eubanks Flint MI, TV host (Newlywed Game)
1937 Shirley Bassey Cardiff Wales, singer (Goldfinger, Moonraker)
1939 Yvette Mimieux Hollywood CA, actress (Time Machine, Where the Boys Are)
1940 Cristy Lane US, country/gospel singer
1940 Little Anthony [Gourdine] rocker (& Imperials)
1941 Graham Chapman England, comedian (Monty Python's Flying Circus)
1942 Stephen Hawking English physicist (Black Holes & Baby Universes)
1946 Kathleen Noone actress (All My Children, Party of 5, Knots Landing)
1946 Robbie Kreiger Los Angeles CA, guitarist (Doors-Come on Baby Light My Fire)
1947 Igor Ivanov Leningrad, Canadian chess champion (1981-84, 1985- )
1947 Terry Sylvester rocker (Hollies-The Air that I Breathe)
1947 David Bowie [Jones], London, singer/actor (Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust)
1948 Paul King rocker (Blue Oyster Cult)
1952 Laurie Walters San Francisco CA, actress (Joannie-Eight is Enough)
1953 Bruce Sutter pitcher (Cubs, Cards, Braves)
1955 Mike Reno Vancouver BC Canada, rock vocalist (Loverboy-Get Lucky, Heaven in Your Eyes)
1969 R Kelly singer (I Wish I Could Fly)
1971 Brenda Lee Armstrong Albert Lea MN, Miss Minnesota-America (1990)
1978 Petra Minarova Miss Czech Republic-Universe (1997)
1979 Sequoyah chimpanzee (son of Washoe)
1982 Gaby Hoffman actress (Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck, Now & Then)

DEATH

1324 Marco Polo Venetian explorer/Governor of Nanking, dies
1642 Galileo Galilei Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 78 in Arceti Italy
1880 [Joshua] Norton I Emperor of US/Protector of México, dies at 60
1934 Alexandre Stavisky French swindler, dies
1941 Lord Robert Baden-Powell founder of the Boy Scout movement, dies at 83
1975 John Dierkes actor (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 69
1976 Chou En-lai China's PM (1949-76), dies of cancer in Beijing at 78
1982 Reta Shaw actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir), dies of emphysema at 69
1991 Steve Clark guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria), dies at 30
1992 Menachim Begin Israeli PM, dies at 78 of a heart attack
1994 Harvey Haddix pitcher (12 perfect inning game), dies at 68
1994 Lady Caithness wife of British undersecretary, commits suicide
1994 Pat Buttram actor (Haney-Green Acres), dies of kidney failure at 78
1996 Francois Mitterrand President of France (1981-95), dies of cancer at 79
1997 Ronald William Eastman cinematographer, dies at 60
1998 Walter Diemer inventor (bubble gum 1928), dies of heart failure at 93

January 8, the 8th day of 2008. There are 358 days left in the year.

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