Bruno @ MindSay

- tonight in class, I got to use a soldering iron, and let me tell you something, it was enjoyable (and scary!) and I would probably like to do that again.

- in NO WAY can I believe this story:  http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-liburg0329,0,5231200.story 
no way.  Not Anthony.  I've worked with several other people in my years who I can actually envision doing that, but not Anthony.  So if it's false, the damage it's doing to his reputation is irrepairable.  And if it's true, my soul is absolutely crushed.

There's no win in this situation.


((happy opening day, all!  too bad the Yanks didn't get to play))

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, still dealing with a recent corruption scandal, has apparently gotten the news that he is the governor, and not the dictator, of New York. The New York Times is reporting that Spitzer is trying to change the rocky relationship between his administration and members of the State legislature (both the Republican Senate and the Democratic Assembly).

The past two weeks have left even many of the governor’s strongest supporters dismayed that his credibility to deliver on arguably his central campaign pledge, to clean up the ethically challenged state government, has been fatally compromised.

 

“You talk about agents of change; we really thought Mr. Spitzer was that agent of change,” said Barbara Bartoletti, legislative director of the League of Women Voters of New York State. “Now the governor really has to prove that he is that agent of change.”

 

With investigations going on at almost every level of state government, Ms. Bartoletti, who has been on the scene since the Hugh Carey administration, said the state of ethics in Albany was “almost laughable” and relations among lawmakers “worse than I’ve ever seen.”

So after alienating the Republican Senate by improperly using the State Police to target Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, and making personally insulting comments about Bruno, Spitzer is seeking to repare his relationship with the same New York Democrats he trashed in an earlier fight over the replacement of disgraced former Comptroller Alan Hevesi.

Five months ago, the governor unleashed his anger at Mr. Magnarelli, a low-key member of the Assembly, after Mr. Magnarelli accused the governor of meddling in the Legislature’s selection of one of its own, Thomas P. DiNapoli, as comptroller.

 

“Bill Magnarelli is one of those unfortunate Assembly members who just raises his hand when he’s told,” the governor said during a trip to Syracuse in February, a shot that was the first of a series of barbs at Assembly Democrats that shocked lawmakers eager to work with the first Democratic governor in a dozen years.

 

This week, the headstrong governor was humble and solicitous — quietly courting lawmakers he has scorned in recent months — and the change made clear how far Mr. Spitzer has been thrown off stride by scandal and how eager he is to rebuild.

I voted for Spitzer and was thrilled to see him elected governor, especially because of his campaign pledge to actively push for marriage equality in New York. But I am sorely disappointed in a man that allows his temper and anti-social behavior get in the way of doing his job.

 

At present, there is no way he could ever bring about the compromises needed to get the Republican State Senate to allow a vote on the marriage equality bill. In that way, he is as much an obstacle to passage of marriage equality as Republican Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno. And, as such, I have no patience for Spitzer's temper tantrums and childish behavior. Grow up, Eliot, this state needs a leader.

The big news in New York politics this week is the scandal involving the Spitzer Administration and the efforts of certain Spitzer aides to attack and discredit State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno. Before being elected governor, Eliot Spitzer was the New York State Attorney General, and his campaign slogan was "Everything changes on day one."

Governor Spitzer's administration is the target of an investigation by current Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, and it is likely that the State Senate will be launching its own investigation. As the New York Times reports, Spitzers old enemies on Wall Street are loving every minute of it.

The New York attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, found this week that Mr. Spitzer’s aides had used the State Police to gather embarrassing information about a political opponent, Joseph L. Bruno, to share with the press, and then lied about why the information was collected. Since the report, more than one old antagonist has allowed himself an I-told-you-so moment.

“Mr. Spitzer has been manipulating the press and the law to disparage decent people for years, and it’s about time that he’s been held accountable,” said Kenneth G. Langone, a billionaire founder of Home Depot whom Mr. Spitzer accused of misleading fellow Stock Exchange members about the exchange’s rich compensation.

Governor Spitzer has had some growing pains since taking office in January, including an ongoing fued with Senator Bruno. This latest scandal takes some of the shine off the new Spitzer Administration and does the unthinkable -- it makes Joe Bruno look like the victim of partisan dirty tricks.

If the public comes to see the Republican Senate as a necessary check on the Spitzer Administration, Spitzer's dream of a Democratic Senate could be slipping away.

Dear Abby, got a problem.

I am not gay, nor am I a homophobe. Although I feel an aversion toward fat lesbians, nothing against them but the concept creeps me out. But DO NOT TOUCH ME. I was poked, more or less stroked at school today. I know several were in fact girls and to that extent I am not aware of whom. Send tremors down my spine for- first off in cyclical order- the fact I didn't know/expect/ want any of that and second why were they doing that? I know how charming and attractive I am but gosh? I am daftly afraid of unanounced touching of The Karl. What should I do

-Helpless in highschool

Okay any of you know Bruno? Thought so, evidentally I can't find the camera charger so I can't say much about it. I gave him a haircut prior to my nap today because he was getting kinda mangy. Well anyhow it was a pretty cool haircut if I do say so myself. Actually I don't know what brought this on but I ended making him in the Likeness of Lenin. No not John Lenin you beatnicks, that's right The V.I Lenin. So if you reading this Carol your little dog is starting the revolution up in New York.