That's the headline the Economic Times in India gave to what happened in London today. I've been reading blogs and articles before work today to find out as much as I can about what happened in London. It's always a tragedy when something like this happens, and all I can hope is that the casualties are minimized and they don't find anymore.

The terrorists are trying to live up to their name and make people around the world afraid again, letting people know they still exist since they haven't received any press coverage lately.

However they picked the wrong target this time. Londoners have been through wars with the French, firebombed by the Germans and terrorized by the IRA. If there's a country that knows what to do in the face of a terrorist threat, it'd be the Brits.

A quick rundown of last night's city council meeting:

Eric Griego: "And while some of us weren't around in these backdoor deals.... backhanded meeting... backdoor deals..."

Cadigan: "You know, we're all tired of the innuendo and personal attacks by Councilor Griego. There were no backdoor deals. Everything that happened wasn't unethical or illegal. God forbid someone actually meet with the (Chavez) administration to work things out. If Councilor Griego has any proof of his allegations then bring it up."

Griego: *crickets: chirp chirp*

Guess he didn't have anything to show this time around. Give him time, all he needs to do is look in the alleged (true or untrue we wonder, is it real...) "dirty laundry" dossier that Eli Lee has sent out to media sources and that his staff refers to everytime there's a slightly negative story about Eric Griego's mayoral run.

And before that, the Chief Administrative Officer called out Eric Griego for grandstanding during the City Council meeting. Of course then, Griego could count on his pal O'Malley to deflect some of the fire, not so later on.

What? Eric "Clean Campaign" Griego running an alleged dirty tricks dossier on Mayor Marty?!? How did they say it in Casablanca? "I'm shocked, shocked I say!"

On an interesting side note, after this exchange Griego looked like my stepnephew after he'd been had been told to behave (you know the pouty look I'm talking about) and then vanished for a little bit (looking for that dossier ya think?).

P.S. And at the end, when the council was being chastised by the teacher about their conduct last night? Priceless! Bravo to her!

... than Paris losing the 2012 Olympic bid to London would have been Ashton Kutcher stepping out from behind the curtains and telling the French delegation "You got punk'd!" ;-) Like Napoleon before, the French fall once again to the Brits.

As Nelson would say in The Simpsons, "Ha ha!" Oh yeah, Paris is 0-3 in recent years. (Can someone say Schadenfreude?) ;-)

(and right on cue, the French start crying. (at the bottom of the article) ).

Well, the semester is over (thank buddha) and the computer is finally off of life support and working on its own (double thank buddha). Now if I just had something to blog about...

Oh yeah, there is always the latest goings on in the Albuquerque media-scape, looking at the Trib and Journal has indicated to me there are two different elections going on. I might be blogging about this on Duke City Fix in the near future. Plus J-Lo was in town! In a test of how much we as people can suspend reality, she plays a news reporter (insert your own Journal joke here).

All this, and pics of "Chano-Dog" soon to be revealed!

Snoochie Boochies...

C