A Jersey City councilman has reportedly been arrested for urinating on a crowd of concertgoers from the balcony of a Washington D.C. nightclub. The New York Daily News reports in Sunday's editions that two-term Jersey City councilman Steve Lipski has been charged with simple assault.
The newspaper says 44-year-old Lipski was removed from a place called the 9:30 Club on Friday night. That's after club staffers saw him relieve himself onto the crowd from a second floor balcony during a concert by a Grateful Dead tribute band. Messages left at Lipski's council office, and a Jersey City listing under his name were not immediately returned.
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Ah, somdays I feel like doing that. He beat me to it. Wonder if he is a better person for it?
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Way back in merry old England, there was a long standing tale of some Lord who was in an upper balcony and did the same during some performance, until someone down below yelled out, "Pardon me, my lord, would you mind shifting to the left a bit? I'm getting the most of it!"
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Easy BH6, Jerry never peed on anyone. Nice fella, great guitarist.
I've seen the tribute band in question several times (Dark Star Orchestra). Like putting a quarter into the way-back machine. Always enjoyed their show. Never got peed upon, or anything else upon for that matter.
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The New Jersey councilman who allegedly urinated on a crowd of concertgoers from the balcony of a Washington, D.C. nightclub swore off booze on Sunday -- two days after he was busted for the embarrassing stunt. "I've resolved not to touch alcohol again," two-term Jersey City councilman Steve Lipski told the Fox 5 New York. He went on to say that the incident was "deeply humiliating, very embarrassing" and troubling," the Daily News reported.
Never again, I tells ya!!!
The 44-year-old Democratic councilman refused to admit to the lewd stunt.
Oh. So what was so "deeply humiliating, very embarrassing" and troubling,"? Seeing a Grateful Dead cover band?
"I can't comment on that," he told Fox5 News. "I'm going to continue to do all the good things, and I'm not going to let this overshadow me."
So..party on, doods!
Lipski was in D.C. to see a Grateful Dead tribute band and was spotted relieving himself by one of the club's staffers around 9:50 p.m., club sources told the Daily News. He was charged with simple assault.
Over the weekend President-elect Barack Obama scrubbed Change.gov, his transition Web site, deleting most of what had been a massive agenda copied directly from his campaign Web site.
Gone are the promises on how an Obama administration would handle 25 different agenda items - everything from Iraq and immigration to taxes and urban policy - all items laid out on his campaign Web site, www.BarackObama.com.
Instead, the official agenda on Change.gov has been boiled down to one vague paragraph proclaiming a plan to revive the economy, to fix our health care, education, and social security systems, to define a clear path to energy independence, to end the war in Iraq responsibly and finish our mission in Afghanistan, and to work with our allies to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, among many other domestic and foreign policy objectives.
We are currently retooling the Web site, said Obama spokesman Nick Shapiro.
The site went active on Wednesday and was available to the public Thursday. The agenda items, which were active for at least part of the weekend, appear to have been deleted by late Saturday.
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I wonder if this had something to do with the national security and intelligence briefing that the President-elect received shortly before his website was scrubbed.
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Elections won't matter anymore. I'm afraid we've turned a very dangerous corner with this bugger. Elections don't count for much in Mugabe's Zimbabwe or in most of Africa. They nearly didn't here in the States this time around. Obama's Chicago machine and ACORN cadre are in place and still humming along in preparation for 2012. I am not at all optimistic about our the future of democracy.
The article is dated March 28th. I don't know why this is being posted now. AoS.
The University of Chicago released a statement on Thursday saying Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) "served as a professor" in the law school--but that is a title Obama, who taught courses there part-time, never held, a spokesman for the school confirmed on Friday.
"He did not hold the title of professor of law," said Marsha Ferziger Nagorsky, an Assistant Dean for Communications and Lecturer in Law at the school, on East 60th St. in Chicago
The U of C statement was posted on the school's website two days after the Clinton campaign issued a memo headlined "Just Embellished Words: Senator Obama's Record of Exaggerations & Misstatements." The memo was generated by the Clinton campaign as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) was put on the defensive for claiming incorrectly that she dodged sniper fire while First Lady when her plane landed in Bosnia.
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No he did not officially hold the title of professor, and many within the University of Chicago system were not at all happy about his appointment, privilege, and status as a "guest lecturer." The question that should be asked is, precisely how did he get there?
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) describes narcissism as a personality disorder that revolve around a pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and sense of entitlement. Often individuals feel overly important and will exaggerate achievements and will accept, and often demand, praise and admiration despite worthy achievements.
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I think its pretty clear Obama has been groomed for some time by a wealthy benefactor, who will dictate the payback. He has had quite an expensive education at elite schools, given opportunities few dare dream of. Same was said of Bill Clinton, a Rhodes scholar, and unlikely star as a son of a single mother from Arkansas. Rumors of a Rockefeller connection then also make sense now, considering the extensive family connections to Columbia, University of Chicago, etc.
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We don't know yet who "the Guy behind the Guy" is, but every sucessful Chicago politician has one, or more. They will get to feed at the trough first, and at a private seating.
It's the Chicago Way, and I will try my best not to say "I told you so" to my non Chicago based friends.
Thanks to Tuesday's presidential election, Congress is now two Senators short of a full house. Here's some early grapevine on who's in the running to fill the Illinois and Delaware Senate seats being vacated by the President-elect and his running mate.
In the Prairie State, Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich will name Sen. Barack Obama's replacement -- that is, if the embattled governor, who is being investigated for corruption, manages to hold onto office. Mr. Blagojevich briefly flirted with the idea of creating a special commission to help make his pick, but appears to have abandoned the idea. The governor has made clear he's in no hurry, and may not announce anything before Christmas.
Prominent Illinois politicians have been lobbying for the position for months, including Chicago Reps. Jesse Jackson Jr. and Danny Davis, or Evanston Rep. Jan Schakowsky. Mr. Obama will have some input and both Mr. Jackson and Ms. Schakowsky were heavily active in his campaign. Another person who gets a lot of mention is Tammy Duckworth, a disabled Iraqi war vet and unsuccessful House candidate in 2006 who works in the Blagojevich administration. The governor could also use the pick to shore up his own political position, appointing either Comptroller Dan Hynes or Attorney General Lisa Madigan -- both potential Democratic rivals for his seat in 2010. He could also, for that matter, appoint himself.
Over in Delaware, it isn't even yet clear who will do the appointing. Joe Biden has suggested he's in no hurry to relinquish his seat, so the task might fall to incoming Democratic Governor Jack Markell, rather than outgoing Democratic Governor Ruth Ann Minner. Rumors indicate the Delaware political establishment is coalescing around the idea of appointing a placeholder who would carry the seat until 2010, when Mr. Biden's son, Attorney General Beau Biden, could run for the Senate. Among those mentioned are Lt. Gov. John Carney, Supreme Court Chief Justice Myron Steele, former state Rep. Robert Byrd, or Secretary of State Harriet Smith Windsor.
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Duckworth will likely get it. Hate to say anything disparaging about a wounded vet, but if you think The One is a piece of work...wait-out.
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Nah, not Tammy, smart money is on retiring State Senate President Emil Jones. Emil went to the mat for Blago over the recall amendment.
At least then Illinois would have a Senator who brought home some pork
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JJ Jr wants it real bad, and I think he'll do whatever it takes.
But if Blago appoints himself it could be sweet: Fitzgerald WILL eventually get him and the seat will become vacant. In the meantime there'd be a mad scramble for the governor's mansion. That would be way entertaining.
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I thought there was no recall amendment.
My dad told me at the last Constitutional Convention in 1970 - King Richard I made sure that went by the wayside.
Senate Democratic leaders plan to cut Republican committee seats to reflect the new balance of power in the upper chamber, according to Democratic aides.
Republicans will lose at least one seat on most committees and may lose as many as two on some of the larger panels, such as the powerful Appropriations committee.
One aide said that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will likely follow the model set at the start of the 103rd Congress, when Democrats held a 57-seat Senate majority, the same margin they are expected to hold when the results of the election become final. The aide said leaders are not likely to add Democratic seats to achieve the proper ratios.
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Chop Chop! Then all the glory for the coming messes will be all his. I can hardly wait.
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Remember how mere weeks ago Ms. Nancy desperately wanted Trunks to sign on the Bailout Bill to give her cover. [How'd that work for the Trunks?] The scorpion will remain a scorpion. If you want to be gentlemen, go elsewhere. Now's the time to tag every action as One Party's action so its absolutely clear to the public when this ship doesn't turn around, who's been captaining it.
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Ah, mouse, the Trunks have never shown the spine to 'do on to others as they have been done upon'. Like an abused spouse, they keep thinking if they only act nicer that the abuser will stop and respect them.
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If the Republicans dare do anything to even slow down the One's agenda, they will be attacked as standing in the way of "progress", and interfering with Obama's ability to rulegovern.
The Democrats tried the same crap back in 93 when the Republicans opposed Clinton.
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IF I were a congresscritter there would be only 2 votes - present and nay.
US SENATOR John Kerry owed Massachusetts voters more candor as he sought a fifth term. During his recent reelection bid, he said, "I intend to serve my term. If I'm elected, that's what I'm doing."
Politicians frequently do this. They pretend they have no ambition beyond their current office. It's a standard part of the political game. But in Kerry's case, his interest in being secretary of state in a Barack Obama administration was widely discussed in Massachusetts political circles. The average voter deserved to be clued in.
Instead, he imperiously waved away questions about the future, just as he imperiously waved away opponents who dared challenge him.
Kerry had to be forced into debating Ed O'Reilly, the Gloucester lawyer who gave the longtime incumbent his first primary challenge in 24 years; their single match lasted 19 minutes and was broadcast on a Sunday morning. Two weeks before Election Day, he and Republican Jeff Beatty debated twice, once on television up against a Patriots game and once on the radio.
The junior senator from Massachusetts was more experienced, better informed, and, on the issues, the better choice than either rival. He easily crushed O'Reilly and Beatty. So, as he rolled to certain victory, why couldn't he be more transparent about the future? A total confession of ambition would be presumptuous. But, how about something along the lines of, "It's premature to discuss an Obama Cabinet position before an Obama victory, but it would be a privilege to be considered"?
Now, Kerry is said to be on Obama's short list for secretary of state, leading to the possibility of a mad political scramble to replace him if he takes a Cabinet position. Let the contenders, Democrats and Republicans, scramble away. It would be nice to have vigorous debate, a real campaign, and a new US senator who really wants the job.
Under Massachusetts law, a vacant US Senate seat would have to be filled by special election within 140 to 160 days of the resignation. The Democrat-controlled Legislature approved the law when Kerry was running for president in 2004. Democrats wanted to prevent Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican, from appointing a possible successor.
Governor Deval Patrick is indicating that he might be open to the idea of changing it back. That would be wrong. Massachusetts voters, not their governor, should decide who represents them in the US Senate.
Massachusetts Democrats already have so much concentrated power. Must they also cut off even the charade of a two-party system, by taking away a special election? As it is, the rules favor well-known candidates with easy access to campaign money. In this state, that is another way of describing Democrats.
The Republican Party in Massachusetts is pitifully weak. After Tuesday, the number of Republicans in the House of Representatives dropped from 19 to 16. There are only five Republicans in the Massachusetts Senate. And, of course, all members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation are Democrats.
Rebuilding the GOP shouldn't be the concern of the Democratic Party. If Massachusetts voters prefer to vote for Democrats, that's their right. But you would think those voters would also want the Democrats they elect to level with them. Kerry didn't do that.
Four years ago, he came very close to realizing his dream of becoming president. In August, he delivered a strong and eloquent speech on Obama's behalf at the Democratic National Convention. Watching him in Denver, it was hard not to think what it must be like to stand once again in front of thousands of cheering delegates, this time as an unsuccessful presidential candidate instead of as the Democratic Party nominee. It takes a certain strength of character to do that.
When Kerry gives interviews, it's clear he has spent a lot of time reliving the 2004 campaign and would like to have more than a few moments and strategy decisions back. It's also clear that he wants to be somewhere else, like in the Cabinet.
He ran for reelection to hedge his bets. As he hedged them, was it idealistic to expect something else with it, like a little honesty?
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The State Dept. needs him. It is an intellectual and cultural environment only a camilion like Kerry could fully appreciate. Massachusetts, let your son go!
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Aw, come one, mirrorboy! You know you want a disappointed pompous wind-bag of a former presidential candidate as your Sec'y o Staat! Just imagine the visions of Webster, John Quincy Adams, and William Seward that must be dancing in Kerry's overheated brain at the very thought!
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Waffles lies to himself twice a day, just to keep in practice, you fools!
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At this point, Kerry's waiting for Obama to release his birth certificate.
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Anybody remember the touching story Kerry told during his presidential campaign about his grandma on her deathbed saying to young John: "Remember John - integrity."
This was supposed to give the voters the idea that integrity was an important thing in his family.
Except it also emphasized to my way of thinking, maybe yours, that grandma thought that grandson John Kerry was lacking in integrity.
The guy was such a dope, he thought we'd all be impressed.
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WASHINGTON -- President-elect Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas.
Gonna rule by decree, huh? Good idea.
Works for Hugo ...
John Podesta, Obama's transition chief, said Sunday Obama is reviewing President Bush's executive orders on those issues and others as he works to undo policies enacted during eight years of Republican rule. He said the president can use such orders to move quickly on his own.
"There's a lot that the president can do using his executive authority without waiting for congressional action, and I think we'll see the president do that," Podesta said. "I think that he feels like he has a real mandate for change. We need to get off the course that the Bush administration has set."
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If 0bama wants to set the clock back to when the Clinton's left the White House, the Republicans can help by removing all the "Ws" & "Os" from the all keyboards in White House and replacing all the signs with a photo of "The One" giving us the finger.
Would bring to the job: A wide-ranging Washington résumé that spans corporate, legal and national security affairs. Ms. Gorelick (pronounced Guh-REH-lick) was the No. 2 official at the Justice Department in the Clinton administration, from 1994 to 1997, and if chosen would be the second woman to be named attorney general, following her former boss, Janet Reno. Ms. Gorelick would also bring corporate experience to an Obama administration at a time of financial crisis. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
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Baggage: Her work at Fannie Mae, which had to be bailed out by the government in September as part of a $200 billion deal. Ms. Gorelick left the company just as it was coming under attack for huge accounting failures. She has also drawn criticism for her role at the Justice Department, in which she allegedly created an intelligence wall that hindered counterterrorism agents in the years before the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Are there any executives from the FMs which *aren't* being considered for cabinet posts? How about Frank's boyfriend?
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When Bush Jr. used his dad's ol partners, Rummy and his band of thugs, he learned just how bad that decision was. Obama should have taken note, now he will go down that same path as Bush Jr. Expect him to make executive decisions based on polls, just like Clinton. At least we will see it comming at us.
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Jamie "The Wall" Guh-REH-lick? Gah.
How long before she puts the wall up again? Just insane.
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Jamie Gorelick was the one that created the legal wall between our intelligence agencies like the CIA and domestic ones like the FBI. She was one of the contributors to 9-11 through her policies.
And to boot, she was on the 9-11 commission.
Change, my a$$. This is more business as usual. These morons are going to get us attacked again through their stupidity and incompetence.
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Robert Malley, a top Middle East advisor that US President-elect Barack Obama promised months ago would play no role in his administration due to ties to Hamas, has reportedly been sent out on the next administration's first diplomatic mission.
According to a report in Middle East Newsline, Obama dispatched Malley to Egypt and Syria late last week with a message that the he intends to mend and bolster relations with both nations, and to give greater weight to their concerns regarding regional conflicts than did President George W. Bush.
During the Democratic Party primaries, Obama was lashed by critics for having Malley on his team after the latter admitted to being in regular contact with Hamas as part of his work with the International Crisis Group.
Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt quickly responded at the time that Malley had provided "informal advice to the campaign in the past," but insisted that he had "no formal role in the campaign and he will not play any role in the future."
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A lot of the bailout money is ironic. For example, the two largest banks, BOA and Wells Fargo, are at the head of the unofficial list, taking dozens of billions of dollars.
But they are being wise with that money, true to form, unlike those corporations that were foolish to begin with, and are still foolish. Morgan Stanley, for example, took a $12 billion bailout, then immediately gave out $14 billion in bonuses to its executives and personnel.
A Democratic president who feels "a righteous wind" at his back has at least six more Democratic senators and realized a net gain of 22 seats in the House of Representatives ought to make this the age of influence for 28-year Senate veteran Christopher Dodd. But the fates divide our fortune, and not always equally.
As the Democrats moved toward victory at the end of October, a story by NBC's Lisa Myers set Dodd apart from his triumphant fellow Democrats. Myers reported that federal agents are investigating the notorious "Friends of Angelo" list maintained by subprime mortgage giant Countrywide Financial's co-founder Angelo Mozilo. Dodd was the most prominent member of that exclusive club.
Since the Dodd story broke in June, the five-term senator has offered contradictory fragments of explanations and intentions. Scheherazade after a six-pack of Red Bull would not have told more desperate tales. Dodd gallops the gamut from calling the allegations of special treatment "outrageous" to pledging repeatedly and specifically to release documents related to the $800,000 in sweetheart deals he got from Countrywide.
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Look for Dodd to be found guilty of everything by the "ethics" commitee and receive the compulsory "stern warning" and a whack on the peepee. This will also probably "go on his permanent record". Probably on the Friday night or Saturday after Thanksgiving.
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"Scheherazade after a six-pack of Red Bull would not have told more desperate tales."
Talk about bull. I'd be surprised if anything happens. I can see the headline now. "Federal Probe Finds Nothing Unusual." He might even be in line for an Oscar or the Nobel Peach Prize.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Over the weekend President-elect Barack Obama scrubbed Change.gov, his transition Web site, deleting most of what had been a massive agenda copied directly from his campaign Web site. 
US SENATOR John Kerry owed Massachusetts voters more candor as he sought a fifth term. During his recent reelection bid, he said, "I intend to serve my term. If I'm elected, that's what I'm doing."
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas.
