Carl Paladino wants to send the poor to prison to learn personal hygiene.
Query: will there be soap on a rope? Carl Paladino Will Teach Poor People to Stop Being So Dirty nymag.com
Maybe Espada didn't report the cost of the food he gives away because he grows it himself; he certainly has an ample supply of fertilizer. Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada runs afoul of state Board of Elections over food giveaways – NYP www.nypost.com
Schneiderman internal memo may be the one thing that could convince me to support Rice.
One must also note that with the WFP and its interlocking allies supporting him, the actual size of the Schneiderman campaign chest is unknown. Eric Schneiderman Campaign Memo Says Times “Earthquake” Eliminates Eric Dinallo, Sean Coffey And Ric www.cityhallnews.com
Calling Marty Connor! Wyclef Jean Says He’ll Challenge Election Ruling – NYTimes.com www.nytimes.com
This race keeps getting stranger and stranger.
Coming up next, “Muslims for Lazio.” Charter School Parents FOR State Sen. Bill Perkins www.nydailynews.com
Dan Donovan, mensch; whodda think? Republican Candidates Not in Accord on Mosque – City Room Blog – NYTimes.com cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com
Snarkiest unspoken point of the week:
"When I wrote that the two most obvious explanations for opposition to the mosque were bigotry and political opportunism. I should have made clear that I don't think Charles is a bigot."
Lots of other good snark here as well. Sensitivities Don't Override the Constitution | The Atlantic Wire www.theatlanticwire.com
WHY THERE? Ground Zero: The real estate perspective, and for those who've purchased anything in this City, entirely credible:
“Listen,” said El-Gamal, “do you have any clue how the Manhattan real-estate market works, what is involved? People seem to think that we picked that building to make some kind of point. But that is simply insane. This is New York; no matter who you are, you just don’t choose a building, move in, and take over. Do you know how many places I looked at? I looked at Chambers Street. I looked at Vesey Street, Broadway, Greenwich Street, Warren Street, Murray Street. Maybe half a dozen more, I can’t even remember now. It was only after all that that Park Place came up. Even then, it was the most grueling negotiation of my life. So many times I told myself, Wow, this just isn’t worth it. One minute the deal was on, eight months later it was off. The whole thing almost drove me nuts.”There's a lot of other stuff here as well–not all of it particularly comforting. Muhammad Comes to Manhattan nymag.com
Rupert Murdoch a terrorist? Stewart breaks it down A Dangerous Game of Guilt by Association – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
While the points here are cogent ones, I do think the writers go too far, especially in their criticism of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Frankly, any woman who's had her clitoris cut off and has been credibly threatened with a violent and gruesome death has earned a little latitude. Secondly, because, while genital mutilation is not mentioned in the Koran, it is a practice that much (though certainly not all) of the Islamic world has adopted as a religious rite.
I know it is not a religious doctrines per se, but, being a Reform Jew, I incline to the idea that a religion is, de facto, composed of those beliefs actually held by its professed adherents, rather than what's contained in some ancient text. The "Good Ones" Are Not Ones – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com