Thursday’s NY Times has an amazing story about Curtis Brooks, a self-described “eviction specialist.”

The Times reports on the allegation that Brooks has been forging documents on behalf of a non-existent lawyer to collect fees from landlords to evict people.

Like I said, it’s an amazing story and I won’t repeat all the details but one part jumped out at me.

I guess neither Bill Hammond of the Daily News, Nicholas Confessore of the Times nor Mike McKee, the lobbyist for tenants are as dumb as Hiram hoped they would be.

Senator Hiram Monserrate, has been giving a series of interviews, in which he constantly repeats the talking point that he was once a Marine and a cop and then tries to explain his wacky behavior of the last week. While I’m glad his defense is not as lame as his defense from the charges that slashed his girlfriend (at least he doesn’t deny he voted with the Republicans!), his statements make no sense.

As I write this on Monday morning, Juan Gonzalez of the NY Daily News is reporting that Senator Hiram Monserrate has decided to rejoin the Democrats in Albany.

I’m sure most readers of this blog have probably heard that Mayor Bloomber called Azi Paybarah of the NY Observer a disgrace because Azi had the gall to ask him a question about term limits. 

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/

But I think the most interesting thing about the exchange between Mike & Azi is what Mike actually said was the reason why term limits were extended;

“The rationale for extending term limits is the City Council voted it, and the public's going to have a chance on Nov. 3 to say what they want, and I don't think we have to keep coming back to that.”

I was mistaken in my report yesterday about the New York Post. They did print a correction for their ridiculous mistake of confusing the Governor of Alaska, who the paper endorsed for Vice President of the United States with an unknown free lance journalist. Somehow I missed the correction, which was on page 22, above a half=page ad for dental implants and near another ad for sexual enhancement treatments.

Sunday’s NY Post published a list of what they said was 100 mistakes in 100 days by the Obama Administration.

Putting aside the fact that a policy that the Post editors might disagree with (releasing the torture memos, for example) is not necessarily a mistake, some of what the Post lists is not a mistake by any definition.

Here is some of what the Post calls mistakes -

Mark Penn, fresh after his brilliant performance in the Clinton campaign had an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal about bloggers.

At the beginning of the article, Penn made some observations that just didn’t smell right to this blogger.

Penn wrote:

The best studies we can find say we are a nation of over 20 million bloggers, with 1.7 million profiting from the work, and 452,000 of those using blogging as their primary source of income.

I wondered about those studies but the Journal was nice enough to link to them on-line. So I clicked on them and here is what I found out what the studies actually reported

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/giulianis-startling-departure-on-civil-unions/53313/

Observant readers are used to some inconsistent ideas among newspaper columnists, pundits & editorial pages.

The following appeared in Thursday’s Daily News

Jews and Muslims will have a tougher time burying the dead before sundown because a slash in state funds will delay issuing death certificates, the city's chief medical examiner warned Wednesday.

The coroner's office is facing a 27% cut in state aid, leading the agency to propose 300 layoffs, about half the staff.

Governor Paterson has had not much good news lately but Sunday’s NY Post might have printed some.

Almost exactly one year ago, the NY Times Editorial Board said the idea of tolls on the East River & Harlem River bridges was a dud – now they are suggesting it as a solution to the MTA’s problems.

 

No explanation about what changed in 54 weeks is printed.

  

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/opinion/24thu4.html?scp=6&sq=congestion+pricing&st=nyt

In his strongest language yet on the issue, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday warned of "riots in the streets" if state lawmakers don't renew mayoral control of the city's schools.

"If they didn't do that, I think that there'd be riots in the streets, given the improvement" to schools, Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show

TOP 10 OTHER THINGS MAYOR BLOOMBERG THINKS MIGHT CAUSE RIOTS IN THE STREETS

10 – Politicians criticizing Con Edison

On Monday, New York Post Washington Bureau Chief Charles Hurt, as part of his continuing audition to become a Republican hitman on FOX calls “Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Obama's old pal and political ally.”