So I took a couple minutes to go for a jog before settling back into my desk to work out the evening. Nothing serious, just a quick run from the office (red line) to watch the sun set. (And to send some seriously happy running karma to Becky and Doc prior to the Motorola. You go girl and boy.)
As I rounded the corner to head back into the office, the VU’s “The Gift” was playing. One of my favorites, from White Light, White Heat, another favorite.
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Witness!
Maybe not so AWOL after all: “I saw him each drill period,” retired Lt. Col. John “Bill” Calhoun said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press
Calhoun said he contacted Texas GOP leaders with his story in 2000 when the issue was raised just before the November general election.“I got on the phone and got information and called Austin, Texas, and talked to the Republican campaign. They said I was talking to the campaign manager,” he said. “I told him my story and said I would be glad to provide information to that effect. At that time they said … The story is not true. And we don’t think it’s got enough weight to stay out as a story.’ And they said, ‘But if it does we’ll call you back.’ And I never heard from them again.”
This time charging Mayor Bloomberg is killing off New York’s charm:
The mayor’s latest crazy scheme would turn the City That Never Sleeps into NYZZZzzz. Bloomberg wants to license most bars and clubs that play music above 90 decibels. Without licenses, such establishments would go dark at a puritanical 1:00 A.M. …“This is turning the entertainment capitol of the world into Salt Lake City,” says Pete Fogel, former music booker at Le Bar Bat, a Manhattan nightspot I patronized. Litigation expenses and sluggish revenues shut its doors December 21. Fogel called Bloomberg’s smoking prohibition “probably 50 percent of the reason that it closed.” He estimates that smoking restrictions halved the club’s sales. …“Bloomberg is making a joke out of the city,” Fogel adds. “With a capitol J.”
His 25-percent property-tax-increase proposal gagged even Gotham’s leftist City Council. They approved only an 18.5-percent hike.
What reason does the Nurse have for taming NYC? Michael Bloomberg is a mole who is sabotaging Gotham from within, pro-bono Beantown.
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Last night JRO and I had a very brief discussion about Cheney and whether or not he has any financial interest in the future of Haliburton. I asked him to check it out and post something if he found it. I know he’s busy, and I was curious – so I looked. Looks like the answer is no.
“Assuming he has divested himself of all stock holdings in the company,” Stives said, “it is accurate for Cheney to say he has no financial interest in Halliburton.”
…and…
The Cheney aide said that on January 18, 2001 — just before being sworn in as vice president — Cheney assigned all of his Halliburton stock options to a charitable trust. “He legally and irrevocably assigned them and he receives no tax benefit from them,” the Cheney aide said. This aide said the trustee of the trust decides when to sell them.
You can say that he still has buddies there and all that – but it remains a fact that he has no direct financial interest in the profitability of the company.