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The Week In News pany now sells kosher food at Baltimore Orioles games, Philadelphia Eagles and Baltimore Ravens game and at the U.S. Open in New York. The largest known event to have kosher food was this summer’s Olympics in London, where almost 3,000 packaged kosher meals were served to athletes, staff and journalists.
Richest of the Rich
For the nosy amongst us, a recent report listing the richest person in each U.S. state has come out. It shows that 41 out of the 50 states are home to billionaires. California and New York are the states with the highest number of mega-millionaires; Alaska, Delaware and North Dakota have the lowest number of millionaires. Here are some of the wealthiest amongst us: in the first spot, Bill Gates of Washington state and Microsoft chairman is worth $64.5 billion. Warren Buffett of Nebraska nabbed the second spot. The chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway is worth $49.6 billion. The next three spots were taken up by Lawrence Ellison of California (worth $41.1 billion), James Walton of Arkansas (worth $33.6 billion), and David Koch of Kansas (worth $32.1 billion). Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York came in at the sixth spot and is worth $24.8 billion.
Political Biden Tell All: He Ain’t that Nice Is there anything we don’t know yet? Evidentially there is. Jeff Connaughton, a Biden Senate staffer, penned “The Payoff” in which he
excoriates his former boss and current vice president and President Obama as kowtowing to Wall Street, much like all politicians do. “It’s time people understand why – and how – Wall Street always wins,” Connaughton writes at the outset of his book. And how does Wall Street win, according to Connaughton? Answer: Big banks control both parties. End of story. But anyone can write a book about Wall Street’s dominance over Washington D.C. Reading this book for that information is like going to a restaurant for pickles and cole slaw. This book is meant for those who want a different perspective of Joe Biden. A perspective that is different than Biden’s self-crafted image of being a “jolly, happy-golucky, grandfatherly figure who joyfully puts his food in his mouth with ease, at times just for entertainment value, and never gets upset about anything, except when discussing how bad Republicans are in which case this unflappable fellow has steam blowing from his ears, and not because of his personal agenda but out of his love for his country and concern that Republicans will hurt old people, who he loves so much.” (If that is a mouthful, blame Biden.) Connaughton describes a tense relationship between Obama and Biden, who he says are “both financially illiterate.” After Biden stated during the 2008 campaign that Obama would be tested soon into his term, an angry Obama lectured Biden, telling him that he didn’t need public tutoring. “I don’t need you acting like you’re my Henry Higgins,’” said Obama. Biden confided to Connaughton that “[Obama] is clearly a guy who could restrict my role to attending state funerals or just put me in a closet for four years.” Biden added: “I’m going to have to earn his trust, but I’m not going to grovel to this guy. My manhood is not negotiable.” Connaughton posits that Biden is far from the nice guy he plays on TV. He recalls the time a young enthusiastic fundraiser got into Biden’s car during his failed presidential run. The young man said to Biden, “Okay, Senator, time to do some fundraising calls.” “Biden looked at him and angrily said, “Get... out of the car.” This may not be the last book about Biden. Supposedly if he and Obama lose this election, Biden plans on writing a book titled: One Hundred and One Ways to Put Your Foot in Your Mouth.
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