Firefighters Scorch Giuliani

This is huge! Read this letter: ["Firefighters Union Letter On Rudy Giuliani"].
First, the simple stuff: IAFF's bipartisan forum looks pretty cool. Both party's candidates are going to be allowed to talk to firefighters. Too bad it is just a forum and not a full-fledged debate. Let them go at it now! I hope that they allow C-SPAN to broadcast it so the rest of us can see it.
Giuliani won't be seeing it though. He isn't invited.
Second, this letter is too amazing. It goes beyond not inviting Giuliani. The union explains that they aren't inviting Giuliani because of his actions during the recovery operations after the attacks of 9/11.
This passage is devastating:

Giuliani argued that the change was for our own safety, but his argument was empty and without substance. Fire fighters had been on that pile since minutes after the twin towers fell — why all of a sudden, after nearly two months working on the pile, was Giuliani concerned about fire fighter safety.
In our view, he wasn't really concerned. The fact is that the Mayor's switch to a scoop-and-dump coincided with the final removal of tens of millions of dollars of gold, silver and other assets of the Bank of Nova Scotia that were buried beneath what was once the towers. Once the money was out, Giuliani sided with the developers that opposed a lengthy recovery effort, and ordered the scoop-and-dump operation so they could proceed with redevelopment.
In the first few days immediately after the disaster, Giuliani had said he was committed to the recovery of those lost "right down to the last brick." We believed him at the time. But, what he proved with his actions is that he really meant the "last gold brick."

Wow.
Now, the IAFF is a powerful union. They helped pull off big wins for John Kerry in 2004. This is going to be so bad for Giuliani it isn't even funny. Combine this with some of the other developer dealings Giuliani is alleged to have been involved in and this isn't good. It's sad actually.

Some other stuff
Here is some other stuff which has come across my computer in the past couple of days.

First, when does the idea primary start: ["When's The Idea Primary?"].
Yeah, Jesus would be appalled: ["Edwards: Jesus Would Be 'Appalled'"].
With all the talk about Ann Coulter calling Edwards a "faggot," this probably should have gotten a bit more play: ["Ann Coulter's Bodyguard Harass Conservative"].
Southwest has a blog: ["Blog Southwest"].