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| Panetta Gets to Sip $10,000 Wine for Taking Out Bin Laden |
| 2011-10-28 |
| After winning a bet with a restauranteur, Leon Panetta may ring in the New Year with a $10,000 bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1870 wine, The Los Angeles Times reports. Ted Balestreri, co-owner of Sardine Factory in Monterey, put the then-CIA director up to the bet at a party in jest five months before bin Laden was taken out in May. When that day came, it was not lost on Panetta. His wife, Sylvia, told the Times that last May Panetta called her: "He said, 'Turn on CNN in 15 minutes. The president will have an announcement --- and, by the way, tell Ted to get ready to open that bottle." That explains it. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #7 What a phuecking rectal orifice. If there's any justice, the cork's failed, air has gotten into the bottle and the wine's been turned into vinegar. OTOH, when I first saw this headline, my immediate thought was that it was a bottle of Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill purchased through the DoD procurement process :-D |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2011-10-28 23:40 |
| #6 CNN? This is their kind of "hard-hitting" news, "Right, Leon?" OBTW, for the past (2) years, your face has looked like "Forty miles of bad road"... That's what an undeserved, "BEEN KICKED UPSTAIRS" career will do for 'ya. Enjoy! |
| Posted by: Creger Hapsburg9613 2011-10-28 22:34 |
| #5 **** cough **** cough **** cough **** ... |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-10-28 22:30 |
| #4 Give him 2. |
| Posted by: Gromomble Spetle9785 2011-10-28 19:26 |
| #3 That's classifed JohnQC. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-10-28 16:43 |
| #2 What did Seal Team 6 get? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-10-28 16:06 |
| #1 I can't really see a problem with this. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-10-28 15:19 |