Drudge has this little gem up with no link: SEX SCANDAL TO HIT CAMPAIGN… DEVELOPING… Darn you, Matt Drudge! You are a TEASE! Is there something big brewing? Is Larry Sinclair back? Did Paul Ryan spend too much time in the gym showers? Did Joe Biden lunge at a co-ed or two or three? Did Mitt Romney…. uh…wait…there’s nothing to add here as there is no sex scandal in Romney’s past. If I’m sure of anything in this life I’m sure of that.
Ah last-minute scandals. Gotta love ‘em. Whatever it is I’m sure it will be far more important than the overblown Benghazi business…..wait for it….wait for it….
SNARK!
Saw that too. Gotta wonder why it wasn’t his headline instead of a small text story.
Maybe Drudge Finally had sex.
And Bill Clinton had been awfully quiet lately too.
Chit, Bill has been anything but silent–he’s been vociferously shoring for Obama on the stump. A disgusting (and for most PUMAs) and unforgivable spectacle.
“…vociferously WHORING for Obama….”
“Maybe Drudge Finally had sex.” That is funny.
Good grief! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhNjeCeB-xI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
(A Move On ad.)
Matt has an extra paragraph that this involves a powerful Senator. So I do not think it involves either presidential candidate. He says the Daily Caller will issue a late report. Harry Reid?
djmm
Reid isn’t up for reelection; the rumor is it’s a sitting male Senator with a re-election campaign. Something about about unpaid hookers on sex trips abroad.
Twitter has it as Bob Menendez of NJ.
I know a potential sex scandal is intriguing given that this is what people will actually pay attention to. But, please, please, please watch Greta van Sustern’s show tonight (or online). The specifics with the cables that have been leaked now to the press – reported on the show – looks like we are in the high crimes and misdemeanors category with the current administration. As much as I want Obama and his team out, out, out, I have friends at State and am devastated, personally, by what is happening there.
One thing I know for sure. If Obama does the miraculous and wins, there will be NO governing for the next 4 years. There will only be hearings and trials.
It’s not as if he’s done much governing in the past four years other than giving money to his bundlers and doing the celeb circuit. I really am depressed about where our country is at and where it looks like it’s continuing to go.
I also meant to say I watched Greta and the information coming is out appalling and I agree with the high crimes and misdemeanors category. Thanks Run, for pointing this out.
“looks like we are in the high crimes and misdemeanors category with the current administration”
yep.
Hey NES – keep your eye open at all times for a near-by doorway. I think the Canada quake is dislodging a few faults in your hood soon.
Will do, FF. Thx.
Menendez?? Wah Wahhhhhhh. Hence the non screaming headline ad Duffus.
I know. I couldn’t f*ck him if my life depended on it
You speak for all of us, Anthony.
‘Overblown?’ maybe not, if this is confirmed:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/benghazi_reveals_obama-islamist_alliance.html
Coincidence ?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/us-yanks-support-for-syrian-opposition-group-warns-of-extremist-takeover-of-syrian-uprising/2012/10/31/2c684ab6-2386-11e2-92f8-7f9c4daf276a_story.html
This foreign policy toward so-called Arab Spring countries is incredibly naive. The US is never going to be able to dictate who is and isn’t the legitimate opposition in the medium-to-long-term. Moderates may be the face of revolution today, but history has shown that they’ll be replaced with the extremists. In Syria, like Egypt, it’ll be the Islamist extremists who will rule the roost for decades. Why Democrats and Neo-Cons don’t get this is beyond me.
The Iranian Revolution is a textbook case of how the moderate democratic forces brought down the dictator, only to be quickly persecuted and replaced by the ayatollah forces. Thirty years later, the ayatollah regime is still ruling the roost.
Millions in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut are still without power and the weather’s turning cold. The city remains crippled; some subway stations are still submerged under several feet of water; most of lower Manhattan seems almost post apocalyptic, stores shuttered, streets unlit at night. And throughout outlying areas a lot of people are running short on supplies and stamina.
This is a stark reminder that, for whatever reason, the climate is changing and we need to put substantial resources into adjusting to this new reality. Infrastructure alone needs tens of billions of dollars invested. We need leaders who will prioritize this building, not war.
Zal, hope the impact at your end wasn’t too devastating.
Zal, I didn’t realize you were on the east coast. Hope you and yours are well!
Thanks; we’re okay.
Our UWS apartment is filled like a refugee camp with friends from lower Manhattan, ditto our guest rooms in CT. We’re fortunate, we never lost power and have room and food and plenty of water to spare. But a lot of people are struggling – food has spoiled in refrigerators, no toilets or showers for nearly a week, drinking water shortage, looting in their neighborhoods, you get the picture.
And I am telling you: weather events like this is the new normal. If we don’t get warmonger and corrupt elected officials out of office and replace them with builders who’ll deal with the infrastructure we need, the fallout from these events will get worse and worse.
Well, I just came back from downtown. I live on the UWS, and we have power, etc. but there was a lot of damage from tree limbs being ripped off trees.
The West Side subway is running a limited route (stops at 34th St) and I think the East SIde subways are still not operating.
I have friends in every neighborhood, and visited some of them. Walked from Penn Station downward, and criss-crossed west to east and then back again, my backpack and duffle bag filled with things people asked me if I wouldn’t mind picking up. Once I reached Chelsea and the W. VIllage, there were fewer people, but those that hung in there were all in good spirits.
I’m stymied at the report that there was “looting in their neighborhoods”.
In every neighborhood I visited, from Midtown, to Kips Bay to the East and West Village, Chelsea, and even in the more desolate neighborhoods of NoHo, SoHo and Tribeca, there was no sign of looting. If anything, there was the complete opposite. I have to say that I’m once again impressed by my fellow New Yorkers. Everyone was going out of their way to help each other, to keep an eye on businesses and storefronts, doing food runs and water runs further up town, etc. and looking in on each other.
Perhaps there was looting in some other boroughs, but everything here was fine.
As always, I’m proud of the people of my city. No matter what the crisis, we always manage to come together and pitch in, help each other out and ensure that we are all safe and sound.
Glad you’re doing okay, Zal, but thanks for reporting what’s going on. I haven’t heard as much as I’ve liked on the “news” stations.
I agree we need a lot of money going to infrastructure and looking at the overall energy picture. I dobut that’s going to happen. I see more war on the horizon – none of it declared of course and fought with volunteers and mercenaries.
Anthony,
Thanks for your report as well. I’m glad to hear New Yorkers are helping each other as they have done in past emergencies. And what a wonderful thing for you to do to take supplies to different people around the area. Applause to you.
Just heard about looting on Staten Island on TV. Damn, that makes me angry. WTF?!
Senneth, we all do pitch in. I’ve lived here my whole life, and through every blackout, 9/11 and now this, we all come together. In many ways, we are not unlike any other town.
Looting also at South Street Seaport and Coney Island, and there’s concern that as tensions rise so could lawlessness. Meanwhile Bloomberg refuses to postpone the marathon, which he promises won’t divert resources but obviously police can’t be in two places at once.
Kudos to you for helping out your friends. There’s a lot of that, as you point out, not only in the city but all over. That’s good. But many, especially in lower income areas, are facing a more and more difficult struggle as food spoils and good water dwindles, elevators and communication devices are out of commission, many report they haven’t seen hide nor hair of FEMA or the Red Cross. I don’t doubt the agencies and elected officials and utility companies and individual volunteers are doing the best they can, but we need better and we’re going to need more of better in coming years. We need better infrastructure and better preparedness — not only government agencies but corporations and individuals too. We are a heavily populated society almost totally dependent on electricity and running water and gasoline and food on supermarket shelves as bare minimum necessities; if these weather events continue, and predictions are they almost certainly will, we need a more formidable and resilient infrastructure and disaster preparedness.
Obama’s stepping up now because it benefits his chances next week on election day, no other reason, and both he and Romney plan to continue dumping hundreds of billions into military spending while they have no plans to invest in these climate change related needs. Bloomberg –the Independent– endorsing Obama yesterday was just more of the same perverse mind fucking the two big parties, and many independents, have been engaging in that some of us are saying it’s time to unequivocally say, “enough!” to.
http://conservativebyte.com/2012/10/gingrich-october-surprise-may-drop-on-obama-the-next-few-days/
If this rumor’s true, I win the microwave! I’ve always suspected Tom Donilon, who heads up the NSA office in the WH, and is a long-time political advisor of Obama’s, is behind the decision not to rescue the Benghazi Four. He was also behind the national security leaks to the NYTimes some months ago.
Hah – from Leno: “Economists say rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy will give the ailing construction industry a huge boost. In fact, the storm has already created more jobs than President Obama has.”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/11/01/leno-hurricane-sandy-has-already-created-more-jobs-obama-has#ixzz2AzqkT1IH
Wow, just wow! I CANNOT believe this shite! The gross negligence evidence is piling up. (Hope Hillary has emails showing this is on O’s head, not hers.)
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/01/troubling_surveillance_before_benghazi_attack?page=full
Pretty close to how I see things:
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-life-would-change-under-a-romney-administration-2012-11#ixzz2B0AiDZVs
Pretty thoughtful endorsmt. from someone who broke with the GOP, repenting his prior CDS-madness: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/01/why-i-ll-vote-for-romney.html