Documenting the Slime King

The LA Weekly is not exactly a pro-Republican newspaper, but their reporter, Bill Bradley, has been all over the "October surprise" orchestrated by Slime King Davis and his flying monkeys at the LA Times. I mentioned his article "Connecting the dots" previously. Now there is The Davis Touch:

The Times maintains that none of the women came forward at the behest of Schwarzenegger’s opponents. That claim, however, is looking increasingly dubious. One of the three women in the story says she came forward at the urging of Jodie Evans, described by the Times as a peace activist and "co-founder of the women’s peace group Code Pink." At best, this is an incomplete, misleading description.

Here’s what the newspaper should have said about Evans. She is actually a former close colleague of Gov. Gray Davis, a longtime Democratic operative and a friend of noted Democratic hit man Bob Mulholland. Evans is also the ex-wife of Westside financier Max Palevsky, the man who gave Gray Davis his first job in politics as the fund-raiser in Tom Bradley’s 1973 mayoral campaign.
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As most Californians know by now, Davis is the champion of negative campaigning and has nearly perfected the strategy of last-minute allegations breaking in the final days of the campaign.

It's all one big happy family! It's also nice to know that the Code Pink Saddamites are an auxiliary of the Democrat party.

And then there's The Times Leaks on Arnold:

Senior Democratic strategists knew the particulars of last Thursday’s L.A. Times exposé on Arnold Schwarzenegger well in advance of the story’s publication, the Weekly has learned from well-informed sources. This knowledge came not only in advance of publication but also before anyone outside a close circle at the Times knew of the story’s timing and particulars.
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I had been very impressed with the alacrity with which Davis and the Democrats seized on the Times story and swiftly pivoted into all-out attack mode. A flurry of press statements and highly coordinated events and advertising involving politicians across the state and in Washington, D.C., ensued. It was remarkably efficient. But if you know what is coming in the news flow and when it is coming, it is much easier to design the close of your campaign.

I'm shocked, I tell ya!

But there's some good news in New Sheriff in Town?

Meanwhile, Davis is making preparations for his defeat, calling for an extraordinary session of his seldom-convened Cabinet for the afternoon after the election and making plans for the shredding of documents.

Full CYA mode alert!

Keeping up with Kim Dynasty news

Kim Jong-Il's Wife in Critical Condition:

The wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il suffered head injuries in a car accident last month and is in critical condition, a Japanese daily reported Tuesday.

Over at Free Republic where a poster speaks Korean, the story is that her driver drove off before she was fully in the car. Can you say "revised career path"?

The Sankei Shimbun quoted a "Korean Peninsula source" for its report about 50-year-old Ko Yong-hi, but had no other details.

The paper, known for its tough stance toward North Korea, said Pyongyang had recently been trying to raise Ko's profile, leading to speculation that one of her two sons may be picked as Kim's successor.

Kim has had other wives, and children with them.

Little is known about Ko other than that she was born in Japan to ethnic Koreans and moved to North Korea in the early 1960s.

She is said to have been a member of a dancing and singing troupe in Pyongyang.

Hmm, sounds like one of the "Pleasure Group".

Media reports in Japan have said Ko has recently been referred to as "the beloved mother," lending weight to reports that one of her two sons is in line to succeed Kim.

North Korea watchers have said the favored son appears to be Swiss-educated Kim Jong-chul, who is in his early 20s.

Another of Kim's sons by a different wife had been seen as heir apparent, but his chances are thought to have waned after he was caught trying to sneak into Japan more than two years ago using a fake Dominican Republic passport

Media reports said Kim Jong-nam had been planning to visit Tokyo's Disneyland.

Ain't royalty grand?

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They'll know who you mean.

"Children are our future" ... and it's damn scary!

The Mankato Free Press relates the tale of last Saturday night's riot.

“The scariest part of the whole thing was that no one seemed to care,” Medcalf said. “Students weren’t scared, they weren’t angry, they weren’t upset. They just did it to do it.”

Boothe said many students thought that because they outnumbered police, they could do whatever they wanted.
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MSU student Laura Kleckner said she saw students roasting marshmallows over the burning car. The owner of the car hadn’t been identified by police Sunday. [ed. note: The owner was not in the car during the marshmallow roast.]

“It was so exciting, everyone was cheering,” Kleckner said. “I might have been cheering, too. But it is kind of sad that there were people getting hurt.”

“Yeah, but it was still really exciting,” said senior Christy Nelson. “We can say that we survived the riots of 2003.”

Hmm, Laura and Christy clearly have limited career opportunities in rocket science. But they're trumped by this next goof:

MSU junior John Peterson was walking through the crowd at about 1 a.m. when he got hit in the face with a fence post. The large wooden post scraped his face, causing him to bleed. Still, Peterson stayed to watch the riot until after 3 a.m.

“I don’t know, I just had to watch,” Peterson said.

Indeed.

They really are weasels!

Convicted cop killer Mumia is now an honorary citizen of Paris:

The city of Paris made an honorary citizen of celebrated US death row inmate and black activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, sentenced to die for the 1981 murder of a white Philadelphia policeman.

It is the first time Paris has bestowed the honor since Pablo Picasso was made honorary citizen in 1971, Socialist mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe told an audience of 200 people, taking the occasion to attack the "barbarity" of the death penalty.
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In attacking the "barbarity called the death penalty," the mayor said "as long as there is a place on this planet where one can be killed in the name of the community, we haven't finished our work."

Raising his fist in a sign of solidarity, Delanoe then shouted "Mumia is a Parisian!" as the crowd of mostly-leftist activists cheered and applauded.

Who knew? But I'm not surprised.

And look who else showed up - Angela Davis!

Black activist Angela Davis, a former member of the Black Panthers and the Communist Party, hailed the "profound sense of humanity" of Abu-Jamal, attacking American "unilateralism" and racist attacks against immigrants.

The movement to free Abu-Jamal "takes on a new sense in face of American unilateralism, the aggression against the Iraqi people and the racist attacks against immigrants which can only further gnaw away at the vestiges of democracy in the United States," Davis, a professor at the University of California in Santa Cruz, said.

Still singing that same old tune.

But the best part is at the end:

French school children are required to study the case as part of their education.

Check out the photo of Bertie and Angie. Clip and save in case you ever need an emetic.

A quick laugh before someone tells her!

Babs says Vote No on Recall:

Regardless of what you think about Grey Davis ...

The rest is in her best dumb but earnest high school girl style.

Cubs winners after 95 years

There's bad news ....

Patrol car hit by flying outhouse

A state trooper has survived The Attack of the Flying Toilet.

It sounds like a really bad science-fiction movie from the 1950s, but an airborne outhouse wreaked havoc on a State Patrol car on I-90 near La Crosse on Sunday night, the patrol reported Friday.

Trooper Rich Vanko wasn't hurt, said his supervisor, Sgt. Bruce Holsclaw.
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Vanko had stopped to help a stranded motorist change a flat tire and was standing at the side of the road when a truck passed by and "all of a sudden, something hit his car," Holsclaw said.

At first, Vanko thought the truck had struck the patrol car, Holsclaw said. But it soon became apparent that the truck was carrying a shipment of portable toilets, and that one had fallen off.

The toilet shattered the flashing lights atop Vanko's patrol car and dented a fender, causing more than $1,000 in damage, Holsclaw said. Then the toilet bounced back into the highway, where it was hit by another truck and smashed to pieces.

and there's good news

Vanko was also lucky that the toilet was empty at the time, Holsclaw noted.

Trouble in Eurotopia Alert!

Spain and Poland block new EU deal. But now they are hearing their master's voice:

Spain and Poland want to retain a system that gives them nearly equal weight with larger countries including France and Britain. Their demand, at a summit of 28 present and future EU members in Rome, came despite hints that countries blocking progress on the constitution might suffer when it came to handing out EU funds.

And speaking of the Euroweenies, I haven't mentioned much about the recent Eurostat and Committee of the Regions scandals, but if you think unelected bureaucrats feathering their plush nests, you've got the idea. And in related news, we were relieved to hear that Euro MP's are finally getting adequate remuneration:

With business-class air fares paid and an all-day limousine service on tap, Euro MPs had only to pay for the taxi home after dining out in Brussels’ vaunted restaurants. Now they have eliminated even that small cost.

Blithely ignoring charges of “moral corruption”, MEPs have voted to give themselves an allowance of up to €50 (£34) a week to cover the cost of getting back to their Brussels pads after the free limousine service ends at 10pm.

I guess you have to pay big bucks for superstars.

No worries about a rocket scientist shortage!

(Via The Corner) Jonathan Foreman on Sex, Lies & Hidden Agendas:

One of the comic ironies of the recall campaign is the way everyone decries the "media circus" while doing their best to create one.

And that while doing so they can be less than honest about their real agenda.

You could see this at yesterday's "Arnold is a Rapist" press conference.

It wasn't actually called that, but at times it felt like it should have been, even though the two organizations behind it - Codepink Women for Peace and MoveOn.Org - seem more concerned with stopping a Republican takeover of California than Arnold Schwarzenegger's alleged predilection for unwanted sexual advances.

MoveOn doesn't always want to "just move on"? Who knew?

One of the Pinkies 'splains it:

... the most honest thing I heard came from film producer and Codepink activist Patricia Foulkrod.

She admitted that Bill Clinton's sexual peccadilloes were as inexcusable as Arnold's.

"The difference is that Clinton was so brilliant," she said.

"If Arnold was a brilliant pol and had this thing about inappropriate behavior, we'd figure a way of getting around it. I think it's to our detriment to go on too much about the groping. But it's our way in. This is really about the GOP trying to take California in 2004 and our trying to stop it."

Has Patty been sucking down the Kool Aid or what?