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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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It’s on days like today, with the mercury dropping and a blizzard blowing in, that an urge comes over me to visit the garage and spend a little time with a sleeping Aretha.

(From better times).
After all, we share a few secrets.
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Man loitering in boys’ washroom with camera phone is startled by swastikas;

” I found it in the boys’ washroom, in smallish letters, but at about a kid’s eye level.”

Discovered while crawling after a lost contact, one hopes.
“By Almost Any Means Possible” – a trip back in time to visit Richard Warman and friends;

Bob MacDonald of the Toronto Sun wrote the following on February 5, 1995: “Now we’ve come to the sorry point in Metro Toronto where a so-called anti-racist gang goes on the prowl armed with knives, iron pipes and machetes – looking for ‘neo-Nazis’ to attack”. Sadly, the three people who were stabbed and slashed in a subway attack were not even ‘neo-Nazis’, they were “just some guys on their way home from a party”.

Read the whole thing. Some kid with a felt pen should thank his lucky stars they weren’t hanging around his hockey rink.

Be spread!

The CBC will announce shortly the firing of most middle and top-level management personnel, replacement of their entire editorial staff, and retirement of all television anchors and international reporters currently delivering the news;

Our very mandate is to provide Canadians with a view of their political life unobstructed by bias. To do that, we must be detached from partisan interest, and professional and dispassionate in all aspects of our reporting. We must be seen to be all these things as well.

More…

Far from restoring the credibility of CBC News, the Corporation’s handling of the Erickson affair has managed to shred that credibility to tatters.
For starters, it confirmed the cozy relationship between the CBC and the Liberal Party, something everybody in the news business knew, but which the CBC always denied until now.
But, but. but…wasn’t Krista acting on her own without CBC approval?
Well, that’s what Cruickshank says—without an iota of evidence provided to Canadians to back up that contention. We’re supposed to take his word for it.
Well here’s a word — NO.
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Maybe Pablo isn’t Erickson’s boy after all and Cruickshank is laughing up his sleeve as reporters make an incorrect assumption. Or maybe Pablo is the Liberal that Krista Erickson was dating, according to one of our sources. Does pillow talk count as Principles, Section 3’s ” association or contact which could reasonably give rise to perceptions of partiality”?

“Oh, Sh…”

Who to believe – the CBC, or my own lyin’ eyes? Stephen Taylor shreds John Cruikshank’s response to Doug Finley;

I understand that a private association like the Conservative party does not have the sort of transparent and reliable complaints process that we have at the CBC. That is regrettable.”

You say “private” like it’s a bad thing. Besides, it is not the transparency and accountability of the Conservative Party that is in the spotlight here. Again, it is that of the CBC.

Read the whole thing. As commentor “BB” notes, Cruikshank’s “transparency” stops short of naming the reporter.

Until someone loses an E70 X5.
Advice from the comments;
“Note to the EU: Running the German economy into the ground has a nasty habit of snowballing into bigger problems.

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Sean’s argument for quintupling the bag limit next year.

Guilty of 6 counts of second-degree murder.
Keep discussion and links on topic, please. (And thanks for the heads up on my spelling error.)