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Disclosure, disclosure. So powerful a position is the presidency, so little do many of those pursuing the office want to share.
Rudy Giuliani’s successful consultancy, Giuliani Partners and its affiliates, and its work for a Singapore gambling interest gets some attention from the Chicago Tribune.
Specifically, "a complex partnership with the family of a controversial Hong Kong billionaire who has ties to the regime of North Korea’s Kim Jong Il and has been linked to international organized crime by the U.S. government."
In his candid-seeming (though not always forthcoming) style, Giuliani will not say what he did for these clients, and he sidestepped questions of disclosure yesterday, saying "all of Giuliani Partners’ clients, maybe with one or two exceptions, I’m not even sure that’s right, are public … At least the ones that I was familiar with." He added that confidentiality agreements prohibit complete disclosure "but somehow I think you — you meaning the press in general — have been successful in discovering. I’d have to check if it’s every client. But just about every single client of Giuliani Partners. You’ll have to check with them."
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, claims to have no idea what happened to his records from his years in the Illinois legislature, even though he’s hammered Democratic frontrunner Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, for not enabling the quicker release of the records of her First Lady days.
But the big question on the blog today has to do with Clinton.
Last we checked, the National Archives was proceeding at a snail’s pace with its release of her records from her days as First Lady — which just yesterday she was holding up as evidence of her experience, while mocking Obama’s claim that living abroad as a child brought him some perspective on international affairs.
We also had been asking about research done by late Clinton friend and professor Diane Blair (READ MORE HERE), papers that seemed a few years ago to have been nearing release from the University of Arkansas Library, but now … aren’t.
And now we learn from the AP (READ HERE) that 34 files of papers from her days as First Lady of Arkansas won’t be available any time soon either.
According to Bobby Roberts — director of the Central Arkansas Library System where the papers are stored — those papers will not likely be released before the 2008 election.
Roberts says the problem is that the library is short-staffed, and delays in processing the documents because of delays in renovations for the archives.
”They’re really files from the point of view of the governor’s staff rather than from her point of view,” Roberts told the AP.
This would be the same Bobby Roberts whom President Clinton in 1993 appointed to the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science …
And the same Bobby Roberts who donated $1,000 to Hillary Clinton’s campaign earlier this year.
– jpt
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Above: Jim Florentine with his “Crank Yankers” alter ego Bobby Fletcher.
A little part of “The Howard Stern Show” will roll into Delaware Dec. 18.
Comedian Jim Florentine (”Crank Yankers”), who also happens to be Robin Quivers’ new boy toy, will at Mojo 13 in Holly Oak.
Tickets are $12 and you can get them beforehand at Ticketweb or at the door.
Florentine has been the subject of much
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The math is way beyond me but this is pretty damn cool nonetheless. From the description at YouTube: "A short film depicting the beauty of Moebius Transformations in mathematics. The movie shows how moving to a higher dimension can make the transformation
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Yes. I’ve been writing about Silicon Valley turning into “Media Valley.” Nikkei business magazine, Japan’s top business magazine even featured my take on “Media Valley” earlier this year with a prominent interview. Many of Silicon Valley’s biggest and fastest growing companies are media companies. Google, for example, isn’t a technology company. It is a technology enabled media company it publishes pages of content with advertising around it. Google and many other Silicon Valley companies are increasingly best defined as media companies and they depend on advertising. Consumer oriented advertising is a huge business and GOOG et al depend heavily on that business. A consumer recession will hurt the advertising business. It always does. The question is whether online consumer advertising…
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According to a new article in The Times, an extremely productive Cretaceous bone bed has been found at Lo Hueco near the city of Cuenca (somewhere between Madrid and Valencia) in Spain, diggers for a rail project stumbling across the site. They’re in a bit of a rush, though; they only have until the end of the month excavate the site before the diggers come back in. I guess there’s just not stopping “progress,” and although I’m sure the researchers will have plenty of time to study the bones in the lab a month is not enough time to give the fossils they attention that they need (or even to do a detailed study of the paleoecology of the site).
What kinds of dinosaurs are being found? The article is poorly written when it comes to this part, obscuring some of the information, but we’re told that four “types” of Titanosaurus have been discovered. Remains attributed to Titanosaurus have been found in southern Europe, but the genus is a bit of a wastebin, especially since the original remains don’t especially distinguish it from other related forms. I can only imagine that what the article means is that there are four species or genera of titanosaurs at the site, the Family Titanosauridae becoming more and more well known in recent years. The piece also makes mention of the nodosaurid Struthiosaurus (not to be confused with the ornithomimid Struthiomimus), dromeosaurs, and ornithopod Rhabdodon, although there may be more waiting to be uncovered. I really don’t know how they’re going to safely and carefully get all these dinosaurs out of the ground within the month, and I really do hope that the site can be preserved (at least for a while).
I also should point out a bit of a tasty typo;
“Everything indicates that the dino-sours were enjoying great evolutionary vigour when they suddenly disappeared,” said José Luis Sanz, the co-director of the dig. [emphasis mine]
[Hat-tip to Peter of The Beagle Project Blog]
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Over the weekend, conservative columnist Robert Novak reported that "Agents of Sen. Hillary Clinton are spreading the word in Democratic circles that she has scandalous information about her principal opponent for the party’s presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, but has decided not to use it. The nature of the alleged scandal was not disclosed."
Obama hit back hard. Clinton denied the charges.
On GMA this a.m., we took a look at that and other dirty tricks on the trail. Watch it HERE.
Or read about it HERE.
What do you think?
– jpt
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