Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Questions for Wednesday Morning

> Another day, another scandal. Judith Reagan is suing News Corp and in the process, stuff about Kerik and Giuliani is being revealed. Here are a few tidbits from the NY Times:

Judith Regan, the former book publisher, says in a lawsuit filed yesterday protesting her dismissal by the News Corporation, the media conglomerate, that a senior executive there encouraged her to lie to federal investigators about her past affair with Bernard B. Kerik after he had been nominated to become homeland security secretary in late 2004.....
....Ms. Regan says in the suit, though, that when she realized the company had been assembling material with which to justify firing her she called a company lawyer. She says she wanted to confirm that accusations she had made about executives’ creating a hostile workplace had been included in her personnel file. One of those accusations was that an executive had advised her to lie about Mr. Kerik to protect Mr. Giuliani....

Ouch! I wonder if the Giuliani people are worried yet?

> According to the Boston Globe, Republican presidential candidate wants "...a million-member military ground force..." if he is elected. How do you think he'd get that? Would he have a draft? I'm not a military expert, but with all this technology available today in warfare, is this an appropriate proposal? Thompson has no military experience. Does he even have a clue about how the modern military operates? Is his only experience with warfare his acting roles in civil war dramas?

> Have you seen the HBO special about the Ohio State-vs.- Mi- - gan rivalry?