While the Foley "thing" dominates media---because it makes the Republicans look bad---the real stuff is happening, and it ain't good. First, Democrat leader Harry Reid is up to his arm pits in a scandal that features his mob pal who is also a lobbyist. Of course the MSM is covering it up, but I doubt they will get away with it. Then there is another RE deal called Coyote Springs that involves Reid getting special treatment for the developer, Harvey Whittemore. There was a seemingly perfectly normal land swap, one that netted Harry $700,000 in just six years but Harry had to work for it. He got the government to drop an endangered species hold on the development, he supposedly made the government grant right of way to the project, and further tried to get the government to actually give more land to Whittemore. The AP reported this story first but I was paying much too close attention to the latest Paris Hilton naked butt photo to read it. What's your excuse? Read the AP thing because there is no doubt that Reid is involved in major "irregularities" (that's what it's called when a Democrats commit crimes) that may end up really tarring the Democrat Party. Captains Quarters spells it out in a complicated way HERE. He is following up with more scandal we will never understand because Reid didn't take out his dick and try to stick it into a piece of property, like somebody's wife or one of Foley's pages. Late Add: Hugh Hewitt is all over this and in a big way. Unusual for him, but I think he is a Republican finally realizing he has to take the gloves off and do some hitting. Even later add: Malkin has a comprehensive piece, HERE

Nobody seems to give a shit that the last critic of Putin in Russia has been murdered. Hey no biggie, let's talk Foley.

And then there is France, where the Washington Times reports an intifada against the police in Paris is close to unreported Civil War.

Radical Muslims in France's housing estates are waging an undeclared "intifada," or uprising, against the police, with violent clashes injuring about 14 officers each day.

As the Interior Ministry announced that nearly 2,500 officers had been wounded this year, a police union declared that its members were "in a state of civil war" with Muslims in the most depressed "banlieue" estates. Banlieue, which means outskirts, is the commonly used euphemism for the low-income housing projects heavily populated by unemployed youths of North African origin.

Expatica has nothing, which usually means that the French press is covering this up.

But the really big news comes from I Don't Like You in That Way---sit down tit fans. It seems that poor Tara Reid (I'm checking if she might be the bastard daughter of Harry) has a boob job that is just horrible, and I mean just really bad, and all her friends--she has three--are concerned.

And The Bastardly is holding a "Top Five Ugliest Woman" contest, a perfect time to get that old girl friend or ex-wife some face time.