A Google Challenge

[everman]

Originally posted by: logic1485

Originally posted by: Gooose
every answer is 42!

no, it's only the answer to life!

Life, The Universe, and Everything!

 

[Cristatus]

AFAIK, from what i read, i think he was overweight at that time

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: everman

Originally posted by: logic1485

Originally posted by: Gooose
every answer is 42!

no, it's only the answer to life!

Life, The Universe, and Everything!

sorry, my bad!

 

[her209]

http://mccarthy.cjb.net/

1954-1957: The Bubble Bursts

From 1950 to 1954, Joseph McCarthy was on the top. A simple sentence of his could be enough to ruin a man's career; a few kind words to the voters helped many fellow Republicans into office.

In May 1954, he got into a confrontation with the United States Army and its secretary, Robert Stevens, and the famous Army-McCarthy hearings started soon after. With a television audience of twenty million Americans, the flamboyant senator randomly fired accusations of Communism toward certain Army officers. With the assistance of his faithful aide Roy Cohn, he was able to put together enough evidence to give him at least slight credibility.

But McCarthy went too far. President Eisenhower helped the Army, his former employer, mount an impressive counter-attack. They recounted how McCarthy's former assistant and Cohn's sidekick, David Schine, had the senator gain him soft military assignments after being drafted. The press revolted as well, with Edward Murrow of early television fame showing plain, unedited clips from the hearings to show the fraud in McCarthy.18

Over the span of thirty-six days, there were thirty-two witnesses, 71 half-day sessions, 187 hours of TV air time, 100,000 live observers, and two million words of testimony.19 Joe kept up his attacks, which gradually weakened. Every day, millions of TV sets showed McCarthy pointing his finger yet again at another man. McCarthy was obviously slipping, but he didn't give up. Then, when he was attacking an associate of Joseph N. Welch, chief attorney for the Army, Welch stood up, faced the senator, and said:

Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you no sense of decency?20

And with that, the hearings ended, and so did McCarthy's witch hunting career. On December 2, 1954, the senate voted 67-22 to condemn him for "conduct contrary to Senatorial traditions." The condemnation?only the third one in 165 years?noted the abuse of his Senatorial powers.21 After the condemnation, he tried to pass a few of bills written by him, but most senators didn't approve these, probably to avoid association with the "worst senator". He had lost his honor, and rightly so.

As a result of his lower status, he began drinking heavily. Sometimes he would be drunk for days on end. He was frequently hospitalized, and although McCarthy and his doctors claimed reasons such as abrasions or broken bones, he was really dying from alcohol-induced cirrhosis. He died on May 2, 1957, at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland of peripheral neuritis. At his family's request, there was a funeral for him in the Senate chamber, and he was buried in Appleton, Wisconsin, seven miles from his birthplace.

 

[Nimloth]

Dunno about that McCarthy character, but I found some great medical info on US presidents

http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g43.htm

In the second debate Bush was blinking his eyes at a furious rate. Rapid eye blinking has been associated in the medical literature [15] with mental tasks such as memory use and speech, as well as with clinical states such as dry eyes, tardive dyskinesia, Tourette syndrome, schizophrenia, autism, and combined depression and sleep deprivation [10]. (More generally, eye blinking has been described as a useful clinical sign of central dopaminergic activity [15].) Eye blinking can also increase when a person is lying or when in uncomfortable or unpleasant situations [14]. (For further examples, see Richard Nixon and George H. W. Bush.) Eye blink "storms," which Bush certainly had, have been described as "the mind's way of shutting out unpleasant stimuli" [14].

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: Nimloth
Dunno about that McCarthy character, but I found some great medical info on US presidents

http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g43.htm

In the second debate Bush was blinking his eyes at a furious rate. Rapid eye blinking has been associated in the medical literature [15] with mental tasks such as memory use and speech, as well as with clinical states such as dry eyes, tardive dyskinesia, Tourette syndrome, schizophrenia, autism, and combined depression and sleep deprivation [10]. (More generally, eye blinking has been described as a useful clinical sign of central dopaminergic activity [15].) Eye blinking can also increase when a person is lying or when in uncomfortable or unpleasant situations [14]. (For further examples, see Richard Nixon and George H. W. Bush.) Eye blink "storms," which Bush certainly had, have been described as "the mind's way of shutting out unpleasant stimuli" [14].

you know what else eye blinking means? you got something in your eye. :roll:

 

[Nimloth]

wow.. i didn't know that Abe Lincoln was color blind... cool site

edit: kinda makes sense how he was the one who freed the slaves and had a black wife (?)

 

[LtPage1]

no?
what retard would name their kid joseph mccarthy?

 

[Unheard]

Originally posted by: aplefka
42

What was the question again?

 

[MillionaireNextDoor]

Overall, Google knows more than you, aside from McCarthy's weight in 1950 and my own weight in 1980.