THE HUMAN REMAINS FOUND AT GROUND ZERO AND RUDY '08

FOX:

Forensic anthropologists on Thursday recovered 39 bones found in a road being dug up at the World Trade Center site in the three-month-old renewed search for remains of Sept. 11 victims. The recovery — made in a Brooklyn facility where anthropologists are hand-searching debris — was the largest in a day since Oct. 19, when utility workers came across about 80 bones in a long-abandoned manhole.

City officials are digging up the road, which had carried construction trucks in and out of the site since it was rebuilt in the spring of 2002. They also plan to search the land where a destroyed church sat, as well as hundreds of manholes surrounding the site, for remains that could be underground.

The original nine-month cleanup yielded more than 20,000 pieces of remains of the nearly 3,000 victims of the terrorist attack. Since September 2005, more than 1,000 more have been found in a vacant skyscraper across from the site and in the service road on the western edge. None has been matched with any victims.

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QUESTION: DOES RUDY BEAR SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS, OR FOR THE ILLNESSES EXPOSED RESCUE-WORKERS ARE NOW SUFFERING FROM?

I DUNNO THE ANSWER. BUT THESE TWO ISSUES MIGHT EFFECT HIS CAMPAIGN, AND IT WOULD GOOD IF HE DEALT WITH THE POTENTIAL CHARGES THAT MIGHT SPRING FROM THEM NOW.

[NOTE (from the NYPOST article): "some 6,000 plaintiffs who claim they suffer from a variety of respiratory diseases, illnesses and cancers brought on by foul WTC air and dust. "

In many ways, Rudy is an ideal candidate for the GENERAL election: he's a social moderate who is a fiscal hawk and a hawk on WW4. But he has baggage. I oppose him because of his stands on the 2nd Amendment and on abortion. But I would vote for him over any Dem dove. And I think his 2004 convention speech was fantastic! Stay tuned...