[This a repost from early this AM]

Vanity Fair astrologer Michael Lutin predicted a Bush victory the day before the election.

His message for 11/05/04:

"Some people are ecstatic, contented. Even Cancers are less hysterical, enjoying themselves for five minutes at home. Libras are pretty mental, though, they're happy they're sad they're calm they're nervous they're full of something , God knows, either happiness or caffeine. Other...

From Reid Fleming from here

"District 45 Republican candidate Alan Fortney of Conway admitted Thursday that he has been arrested three times for exposing himself to children... 'We all make mistakes in life, and those are my mistakes,' Fortney said during a telephone interview. Fortney said the incidents were misdemeanors. He was fined but never served time in jail... Fortney did not respond when asked if there were other occasions that he exposed himself but did not get caught... He entered counseling and he said, 'I think counseling worked.'"

En route to boarding the PATH train at Ground Zero, NYC, (still known as the World Trade Center), to zip over to Jersey City, NJ, I was handed a free copy of a rag calling itself The New York Sun. The web edition is here. Featuring such articles as Bush Rejects Retreat Over Beheadings and Allawi: 'Your Sacrifices Are Not in Vain' both written by Eli Lake, one can only wonder who is backing this foul mouthpiece of the Bush Regime. The ads in the printed edition are limited almost exclusively to real estate concerns, and are glaringly sparse. I can't see much of their operating costs coming from selling ad space.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Yesterday someone in a bar in the "East Village" told me that a cop told him there's gonna be massive arrests during the upcoming Convention. In the meantime the NYPD has launched a sweep of Manhattan picking up random homeless, public beer drinkers, urinators, those with outstanding warrants, etc. by the hundreds. I know because I was one of over that number locked in "The Tombs" as Central Booking is commonly referred to, for a funfilled and zany 21 or so hours a couple days ago. Yesterday, there were cop cars and cops on foot virtually swarming over Chinatown, which is maybe two miles south of where the Convention is going to be held, doing God knows what.

I got arrested Friday night for having an "open container", i.e., drinking a beer in public, in the park near Houston and Chrystie streets in lower Manhattan. I was in the "system" for about 21 and one half hours, meaning I had to sit/sleep/piss/shit in various holding pens with anywhere from two to about thirty other unfortunate souls for this duration. Almost everyone I spoke to while "inside" was arrested for either 1) drinking beer in public, 2) sleeping outside or 3) urinating in public. While in the holding pen at Union Square there was a ruckus at the station due to a stabbing in the vicinity. Most of the officers rushed out in search of the perpetrator to no avail. Though they failed in capturing this violent felon, they were, over the course of the evening, evidently quite successful in apprehending a substantial number of public urinators, outdoor beer enthusiasts and homeless people.