It's finally coming into the open*, that which has been "known" for a long time - the New York State Police have compiled information on political and other prominent persons, and have used it to further both the NYSP's interests and the interests of those whom the NYSP might have reason to favor.  In other words - they've been acting as a species of secret police and political hit squad.

Within hours of the NYP article I linked to above, the new Governor - Patterson - took action to authorize the NYS AG (Andy Cuomo) to go after the NYSP.

So, a few more questions:

Does anyone seriously believe that, given the NYSP example of likely misuse of private or confidential information to b*tch-slap politicos into line, the feds (with, um, say, warrantless wiretaps of all of everyone's electronic emissions) would be similarly inclined to similarly misuse that sort of information to serve their own purposes?

Does anyone seriously believe that the revelations against Spitzer were not a political hit job first, last and always?

Does anyone seriously believe that the adultery questions the new Governor Patterson had to face and discuss within hours of his inauguration started from leaks from the NYSP or its friends, just to keep him in line?

It's interesting to read the NY Times coverage - moaning and groaning today about PA food combinations.  Oh, the NY Times.

-- It's time for him to get his campaign out of the gutter.
-- Let's strike a deal.
-- There's no time to spare.
-- I'll even spot him two frames.
-- Let's make sure ALL the pins are counted.

The Right has perfected the art of creating mythical cults of personality around their leaders. They are strong, courageous, honor-bound, protective, morally upstanding salt-of-the earth Everyman-warriors -- contemptuous of elitist prerogatives, and oozing traditional masculine virtues and cultural normalcy. As important, if not more so, is the corresponding character demonization of liberals, Democrats and a growing group of miscellaneous right-wing opponents -- those weak, subversive, conniving, appeasing, gender-confused, elitist freaks, whose men are as effeminate and cowardly as their women are angry, threatening and emasculating.

Workplace anger -- who wins

'Overall, women are expected to feel comfort in expressing happiness, sadness, and fear and to feel reluctance in exhibiting anger and pride; men are expected to display the obverse pattern (Kelly & Hutson-Comeaux, 1999; Plant, Hyde, Keltner, & Devine, 2000).'

Issues of anger in the workplace: do gender and gender role matter?

Lately, the news media is doing everything is it's power to keep the Tusla non-story alive, while at the same time, giving Obama every excuse and pass for his misstatements about his parents, the Selma march, etc.  A steady stream of OBH supporters are being presented to make the case that Hillary is a lying, conniving, pandering, evil witch, and Obama is a truth-telling saint.  The latest excuses for BHO's misstatements are that he wasn't alive during his parent's first meeting, so he doesn't know the story is false when he tells it (same for his other stories)  What a sham!  Are they telling us that he is incapable of doing the math?  Do they suggest he believes the stories are important enough to tell us, but not to think about logically?  

In an interview, General Hartmann said officials were aware of the 1998 civilian indictment, but were proceeding with a military case at Guantánamo. "That's the avenue the president, the Congress and the Department of Defense" established, he said, "to deal with alleged war crimes in connection with the global war on terror."

Here is the delegate scenario if Michigan and Florida are not counted:

Below, numbers go like this: Existing delegate total + estimate that they split remaining delegates in the final states + Hillary picks up the winner-takes-all Puerto Rico delegates + estimate that they split John Edwards' 18 delegates = total + remaining super delegates needed to win and in parentheses, the percentage of remaining supers needed to win:

BO  1627+ 258 +  0+9 = 1,894 + 131SDs Needed(40%)
HRC 1497+ 258 +55+9 = 1,819 + 206SDs Needed(60%)

This is assuming that at the end 333 super delegates are still undecided and used to reach the necessary 2025 delegate victory margin.

Here is the delegate scenario if Florida and Michigan are included and assuming that Hillary wins those by a total margin of 41 delegates:

BO  1627+258+ 0+9+136 = 2030 + 178 SDs Needed (46%)
HRC1497+258+55+9+177 = 1996 + 212 SDs Needed (54%)

This is assuming that at the end, 388 super delegates are undecided and used to reach the "FL and MI included" magic number of 2,208.

Besides, I like that it makes Republican men look like they are a-skeered.

drop a book in a room, and they'll mostly wet their pants. when you pretty much hate everyone, being scared is probably a good survival technique! lol

aw geez jeralyn, i find him entertaining, in that "gee, isn't it amazing that a dog can do that without having opposable thumbs?" kind of way. plus, he's soooooooooooooo easy! lol

......that are intended to annoy other readers here.

exeter, an intangible that could well happen: sen. clinton blows sen. obama out of the water in most of the remaining primaries, building popular vote, delegate #'s and, most importantly, momentum going into the convention.

more negative sounding tidbits come floating out of sen. obama's closet in the meantime. it's not a completely unlikely scenario that previously pledged superdelegates change their endorsement to sen. clinton, adding to her tally.

He made a football analogy of his support for Clinton.

"Even though I don't expect the Kansas City Chiefs to beat the Indianapolis Colts, I cheer for the Kansas City Chiefs," he said, and goes on to cast it in terms of friendship and personal loyalty.

Ickes explained that his different position essentially is due to the different hats he wears as both a DNC member and a Clinton adviser in charge of delegate counting. Clinton won the primary vote in Michigan and Florida, and now she wants those votes to count.

"There's been no change," Ickes said. "I was not acting as an agent of Mrs. Clinton. We had promulgated rules, and those rules said the timing provision . . . provides for certain sanctions, automatic sanctions as a matter of fact, if a state such as Michigan or Florida violates those timing provisions.

"With respect to the stripping, I voted as a member of the Democratic National Committee. Those were our rules, and I felt I had an obligation to enforce them," he said.