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Can't be good news for the Giuliani campaign
UPDATE: Uh oh. Major media is picking up on it.
I understand the need, when he was mayor, to have 24 hour security. But if it was so on the up-and-up, why were his proctection expenses billed to obscure city offices, like the Office for People With Disabilities? What did that bureau have to do with his weekend jaunts to see his mistress in the Hamptons?
AmericaBlog sums it up:
This piece on Obama is just mind-bogglingly awful. Essentially, this is the summary: "There are a bunch of vicious rumors online about Obama. Obama denies them, but some random people interviewed assume they're true. Because these random people think the smears might be true, we'll tell you all about the smears, but without saying that they're all false and malicious. Plus, if they are true, it might torpedo his candidacy!"
Seriously. It's like, "Random emails say Obama is a Muslim. He says he's not. But if he is, he's screwed!" It's absurd.
The article in question is on page one of the dead-tree version of the Washington Post.
The right blogosphere is going apoplectic because a couple of the questioners in last night's debates were (in their words) "plants". Meaning, that the questioners lean toward Hillary or Obama or something.
In other words, the questioners didn't lob softball questions at the GOP candidates.
Apparently, the "winner" was Huckabee, who looks destined for an Iowa victory, if trends continue.
America Family Association informs us that -- and I quote -- "Kohl's has banned Christmas".
I wasn't aware that Kohl's had that kind of authority, but apparently they do.
Preview here.
I'm really too close to it to step back and say whether it is good or not. I'm pretty pleased with it though. I was very lucky to have Kelly Wallace play Grace (the mother who gets saddled with running the pageant) and Sarah King as Beth (Grace's daughter, and the narrator). Both of them are real pros, and hold the thing together. We've got some other outstanding kids, and well, other kids. It's a fun evening, I think.
Nine months ago ...shopping bags, backpacks and purses were left around the subway system, then stealthily watched by undercover officers. They arrested anyone who took the items and walked past a police officer in uniform without reporting the discovery.
Now, a new version of the operation has started to catch people in public places outside the subways, and at much higher stakes, Criminal Court records show.
Unlike the initial program, in which the props were worth at most a few hundred dollars, the bags are now salted with real American Express cards, issued under pseudonyms to the Police Department.
Because the theft of a credit card is grand larceny, a Class E felony, those convicted could face sentences of up to four years. The charges in the first round of Operation Lucky Bag were nearly all petty larceny, a misdemeanor, with a maximum penalty of one year in jail.
OVER the years, decoy operations have proved to be very effective in flushing out criminals lurking in public places. They also have a history of misfires involving innocent people who stumbled into a piece of theater in the routine drama of city life.
You mean there's not enough crime in New York City as it is? They have to gin some up?
As if the threat of getting blown up is bad enough, our soldiers in Iraq have to contend with uniforms with -- I am not making this up -- "crotch durability problems"....
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