Tuesday, October 01, 2002

Begin the tut-tutting Man brain dead after being beaten by mob of children - Milwaukee police arrested eight suspects, ages 10 to 18, and were searching today for at least eight more who were part of a mob who left a man brain dead after beating him late Sunday night with bats, boards and shovels, police said.  Milwaukee Police Deputy Chief Leslie Barber said the children banded together to attack 36-year-old Charlie Young Jr., of Milwaukee, after he punched one of them in the mouth for throwing an egg at him. (AP report) 6:25:51 PM     The next gizmo Satellite radio in a boombox.  About $230.  By the end of this year, they say. 4:33:42 PM     Fools rush in It has happened again  The Onion's parody piece depicting al-Qaeda members making money by telemarketing led a Branch County sheriff's deputy to issue an alert to the public: "In the course of this investigation, it was learned that this is going on throughout the United States and some of these telemarketing programs are believed to be operated by Al-Qaeda. The CIA has announced that they acquired a videotape showing Al-Qaeda members making phone solicitations for vacation home rentals, long distance telephone service, magazine subscriptions and other products." This is in the same vein as reports in Chinese news outlets in June 2002 that the United States Congress was threatening to move to Memphis unless a new Capitol was built.  (pointer courtesy of Reason Express) 8:56:21 AM     Power Play Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick wrote a memorandum in late August detailing his plan to deliver a large turnout for Granholm in Detroit and listing what he wanted in return: 20 percent of new appointees to be African American. Directors of the state housing authority, economic development agency, the state's social services and public health agencies and insurance commissioner all to be Detroiters. Any new construction of government buildings to occur in Detroit. Increased use of Detroit minority contractors by state government. Now that the memo has been made public, the stuff has hit the fan and everyone is dodging the flying pieces.  Granholm, all virtue, rejects the idea of political deals; KK "downplays the significance" of the items listed.  But note that no one is surprised by this event.  (Source: Detroit Free Press)  Update: Granholm denies that her camp ever received the memo.  But that is of no moment.  It is common for someone to write up a position, for discussion within his camp, and then make the points in oral conversations with the other.  Further update:  In the grand Coleman Young tradition, KK and the Dems now claim that Posthumus's response to the memo is race-baiting.  That didn't take long, did it? 7:46:34 AM

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