We must answer the question? Why was Gary Brown fired," Kilpatrick wrote. "It will be asked, I need short, powerful answer. ... I just need a good answer whatever it might be..."

On the witness stand last August, Kilpatrick insisted the decision to fire Brown was his alone. He testified that he wrestled with the decision. He said he even waited a day before determining on Friday, May 9, 2003, that Brown had to go.

Under cross-examination by city lawyer Valerie Colbert-Osamuede, Kilpatrick provided a very specific reason for removing Brown, who headed the police internal affairs unit.

"My intent was to move him out of the ...professional accountability bureau and find a more professional person who understood that. That had grew up in that process and get that person in there," the mayor testified. "It was a tough decision. These decisions are always tough."

Geez Louise, you know?  How many more of these startling revelations are we going to see between now and the trial?  Look, I'm a conservative and I like watching the face of Michigan's Democrat Party get beat senseless as much as the next guy but at some point it just gets to be too much.  Not that he doesn't deserve everything he's going to get... I just don't want the entire State to have to suffer the indignity of having our most prominent Mayor tarred and feathered in court while holding public office.  

So will someone do me a favor?  Shake the man.  Someone.  Please.  Maybe his mom can do it... he's a big guy and a lot of other folks might be intimidated.  But someone just plain needs to shake him.  

And then, if that works, maybe you could take a trip to Lansing to shake Jennifer Granholm and John Cherry too.  The Associated Press reports that they didn't get their way on higher education spending and even the Democrats in the Senate voted against the administration.

Each school would get 3 percent more in state aid next year than it's getting now.

Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm wants to base the increase on factors such as how much research is done and how many students graduate. That formula would give some schools more than 6 percent more and others just over 2 percent more.

It passed the university spending bill 37-1 and sent it to the Democratic-led House, which will start working on university funding next month.

Wouldn't it be interesting to see the Governor attempt to play favorites that way with K-12 spending?  Give a big boost to her favorite school districts while trying to screw around with the funding for others?  I have a sneaking suspicion that that wouldn't fly.  Might have something to do with the fact that even her tax-hiking Dem Senate Minority voted against her on this one.

Although they did manage to increase spending.  Again.  Interesting to see what we're spending less on next year to make those books balance.  Because remember... no more tax hikes.  You promised.  At least until lame duck.