Crystal Mangum;

… the drug-addled, mentally unstable prostitute who falsely accused three lacrosse players of raping her two years ago.

North Carolina Central University has awarded her a degree in police psychology. (link fixed)

If I may interrupt the Danica! Patrick! first! ever! winning! woman! driver! media fawn fest for 5.3 seconds…

I just thought it was time for someone with an actual memory for women in motorsports to set the record straight.

Who drove slowly and with her window rolled down, so that she could better make out the buildings she used to navigate her way home from the post office each day. To her credit, I believe she was sober.

A big, fat reminder of where race politics eventually leads…

The rally at Sharpton’s office was followed by a 20-block march down Malcolm X Boulevard and then across 125th Street, Harlem’s main business thoroughfare, where some bystanders yelled out “Kill the police!”
Fifty of the marchers carried white placards bearing big black numbers for each of the police bullets fired at Bell and his friends.
Sharpton urged people to return for a meeting this coming week “to plan the day that we will close this city down” with the kind of “massive civil disobedience” once led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
“They never accused Sean Bell of doing anything. Then why is he dead?” Sharpton asked, his voice roaring with anger. Authorities “have shown now that they will not hold police accountable. Well, guess what? If you won’t, we will!”
“Shut it down! Shut it down!” the crowd chanted, standing up and applauding wildly.

The Clintons will be loving this.

MR. WARMAN: I’m sorry, I don’t know.

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING – is “impossible”.

Towards a smaller, deeper carbon footprint;

Staufen, in the Black Forest, was proud of its innovative geothermal power plan that was supposed to provide environmentally-friendly heating.
But only two weeks after contractors drilled down 460ft to extract heat from below the earth, large cracks have appeared in buildings as the town centre subsided about a third of an inch (8mm).
The baroque Town Hall, the main church, two schools and over 64 other buildings in the historic centre were severely affected. Experts said buildings in the outer part of the town had risen by a similar amount.
According to Robert Breder, an engineer, the problems began when geothermal probes penetrated an underground reservoir. As the water seeped out and the pressure fell, upper layers of earth started to collapse, causing the surface – and the town – to sink.

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At Blue Like You, commentor “Tony” drops this tidbit from The Edmonton Journal, dated February 2003;

“It looked like a friggin parking lot outside that house most days,” said Sandy Smith, who asked that her real name not be used. She still lives in Vallarta and fears the Mexican federal police. The Toronto native worked as Waage’s chef and lived in Castillo Cristina for 10 months beginning in July 2000.
[…]
“Our liquor bill was $2,000 a week — minimum,” she said.
Smith said she placed one order for 80 kilograms of crab and then sent a mozo (houseboy) out to buy two new freezers to hold it all.
“He wanted only the best and I got it for him,” she said.
“He was very generous and I had carte blanche with money. If I went to him and said I needed some money to get groceries or whatever provisions he would say to me, ‘How much do you need, this much?’ ” she said, miming Waage holding his index finger and thumb about two inches apart.
” ‘Or do you need this much?’ ” she said, and moved her fingers about four inches apart. “Then he would reach into the safe where he kept the cash and take a wad out of money out and just give it to me. Sometimes he never even counted it.

Emphasis mine.
Brenda Martin “worked for Waage for 10 months until he fired her in 2001”.

Learn a martial art form from India called “runforyerlife”
Previous.

“He has retired to a secret tropical island, with his Helliburton pension, golfing with Jack Kennedy and sharing peanut butter and bacon sandwiches with Elvis. Yucking it up with Danny Pearl. There’s a greenish glass jar in the entertainment center, beside the big screen TV. Inside, a Roswell alien floats gently, gently, upside down. A pallid little creature bobbing in a lava lamp. Some sick bastard has slapped a decal on it; ‘Don’t Mess With Texas’.”
And near the beach, under the shade of the palms, a bearded figure in a red Adidas track suit practices his morning yoga and sings songs of la Revolución.

(Other Liberal media promotions – “When you wish upon a Star”)

* h/t to commentor Neo for the most excellent post title suggestion.
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is reported to be resigning from his office later today;

Gov. Eliot Spitzer has told senior advisers that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, The New York Times reported Monday, citing an anonymous top administration official. […] The Times reported that a person with knowledge of the governor’s role believes the governor is identified as a client in court papers. Four people allegedly connected to a high-end prostitution ring called Emperors Club VIP were arrested last week.
Spitzer, 48, built his political legacy on rooting out corruption, including several headline-making battles with Wall Street while serving as attorney general. He stormed into the governor’s office in 2006 with a historic share of the vote, vowing to continue his no- nonsense approach to fixing one of the nation’s worst governments.
Time magazine had named him “Crusader of the Year” when he was attorney general and the tabloids proclaimed him “Eliot Ness.”
But his stint as governor has been marred by several problems, including an unpopular plan to grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants and a plot by his aides to smear Spitzer’s main Republican nemesis.

In my opinion, it was the driver’s license fiasco that should have brought him down. But this will do.
Update: Commentors have already noted that a certain detail has been overlooked in this report and others – Spitzer’s party affiliation.
Update 2: The fastest purge in political history. That and other links are collecting at Hot Air.
Update 3!

As a sidebar to an article at ABC news about Elliott Spitzer, they’ve helpfully put together this slideshow of 13 politicians involved in famous sex scandals.(Collect them all!) Anyway, it’s rather interesting that of the 7 Republicans on the list, all of them save one are identified by ABC as Republicans. Of the six Democrats on the list, only one is identified by party affiliation.

The Liberal way!

(thanks to reader Bruce. A different view.)

In the footsteps of the master.
Update – Ladies and Gents, we have a retraction.

And a welcome opportunity for Lucy to pay someone else’s costs for a change.
Update – here. “Now, just for fun, can you think of any way of establishing that Warman did in fact use the IP from which the nasty screed on Anne Cools would have been posted? For example, is it possible that Lucy sent some emails from that IP on the days in question? And is it possible that he might have used such emails as evidence in other proceedings?”
Heh.
Update 2 – Understanding the evidence.

h/t

Indeed.
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