I was just speaking to someone about buying a new watch and he advised me to wait until the US Marshal's Service auctions off Jessie Jackson Jr.'s stuff. I had been thinking about Ebay, but the Fed's need the money.

I don't have the full list, but I will watch for it and post a link when and if it comes up.

I think he paid $46,000 for his Rolex, so for that kind of money it had better work!

I got mine at Target for twenty bucks.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

Shoot. I got taken. Paid 25 at WalMart 5 years ago. If I had a bazillion dollars I wouldn't pay over a hundred for a goddammed watch.

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84 Euro 240D 4spd. 220.5k sold
04 Honda Element AWD
1985 F150 XLT 4x4, 351W with 270k miles, hay hauler
1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

Never understood watches. My mom would always give me a watch, every other year a new watch. Nice ones, of the designer type. Once I asked her if she had ever seen me wearing one...from than on it was a nice lighter every year; even that I had quit smoking for a good five years...

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).

I have a few watches for different situations. I normally wear a cheap Seiko 5 which I have had for about 25 years. It is solid as a rock and is my wrecking yard watch. My regular 'wearing' watch is an Eterna which keeps really good time when you consider it is about 45 years old.

I also have a number of dress watches I wear depending on who I am going to be with. In the circles I move in some people put a lot of stock into what you wear.

Now that I am retired I am considered one of the best dressed bums at the coffee shop. Since I could not show up for work wearing anything less than the best I still have a closet full of $350 shirts. I don't see any reason to just let them hang there.

But anyway..... The original comment I made on this had to do with the weird stuff Jackson Jr. bought with the money he skimmed off from his election funds. All of that stuff will be auctioned off, and it will be interesting to see what it goes for. Since I posted the comment earlier I have talked to a Republican Rep who said he knew someone who was going to bid big on some stuff just so they could flash around Jackson Jr.'s stuff.

I hope they do. The Feds need the money!

$350 for a shirt? That must be really nice. The most I've paid for a shirt is about 30 quid, or 50 dollars in American money. It's from Scuderia Ferrari and looks pretty cool.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

I think the most i ever paid for a shirt was my first hawaian which has lovely woodie cars on it. I bought it for myself on my 50th bd and wear it sparingly so its still pretty fresh. I think I may have paid as much as 60 for it.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

As well you should. Good taste never goes out of style.


...back to JJ JR, didn't the missus plead guilty to income tax evasion and draw jail time too?

I remember thinking when all this hoo ha came out about him having mental problems etc that it was a bit odd. I suppose it was all smoke to cover his wrongdoing.

There is an attitude among many people that anybody who is successful is cheating on things like taxes and so forth as a matter of "good" business. The trouble with this attitude is that it makes too many people think its "OK" to cheat (morally).

The truth is that most successful people are successful because they have worked hard and wisely to be successful, and that they have done so their whole life and have not made a "big" score all at once but have gradually built it up over a lifetime.

Unfortunately the cheaters get the headlines though so it promotes the stereotype of cheating being the norm.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

What would be a great news story is if and when they ever find an honest politician from Chicago IL . The mental health issue he is hiding behind is not to cover up a "big" score all at once, but over three quarters of a "million" over seven years, and his wife has admitted to six years of filing false tax returns. That is what i would call a career thief. I have not heard yet if I am still going to have to pay for his life time pension, being that he will go to a federal prison I will be paying to house and feed them. And the best part is that if he could run for the same congressional district while in the sh#$%$#@! he would get 80% of the vote of which there is about 15% voter turnout in that district.

Charlie Rangel was censured in 2010. Was re-elected in Nov.

Doesn't look good for Sr. that Jr. has turned out to be such a flake. It is true that blacks have been abused for years by the totality of life in the new world but Sr. focused perhaps too much on the past, looking for everything to be made right somehow.

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1984 300D, 138K

Obama is clean.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Wasn't there something a bit unusal surrounding his purchase of his home?
A sweetheart deal of some sort?

I have not heard anything about that.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.