great example of neocon policy
March 13th, 2008Government out of the private sector (and the public sector for silly things like health care or insuring predatory lenders cant skirt the law or fuck the economy at large). Government IN to block privatization as long as it benefitting people who want to post videos of their cats and search for tits.
re: Google’s new server farm/power plant
If any acts of charity figured in Google’s arrival at
The new Google plant will demand enough power to serve a city the size of
(From Harper’s)
Bush on Obama willing to meet with raul Castro
February 28th, 2008Warming to the subject, Bush continued: “Sitting down at the table, having your picture taken with a tyrant such as Raul Castro, for example, lends the status of the office and the status of our country to him. He gains a lot from it by saying, ‘Look at me. I’m now recognized by the president of the United States.’”
That’s All, Folks
January 30th, 2008“ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Following his third place finish in Florida, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani is expected to drop out of the presidential race today and endorse Sen. John McCain.”
…and this is too bad. I still owe this site a review of the so far excellent Giuliani Time (http://www.giulianitime.com/) and also a detailed analysis of an extremely detailed Village Voice analysis from a few months ago I never linked to. I will post a review of Giuliani Time, which ships on Super Tuesday, shortly. It covers much more than I was able to cover here…after that, you can bury this blog in a time machine in your backyard. And vote for Obama.
In Matters Big and Small, Crossing Giuliani Had Price
January 28th, 2008More reminders about Giuliani’s quasi-Stasi ways as Mayor
Rudolph W. Giuliani likens himself to a boxer who never takes a punch without swinging back. As mayor, he made the vengeful roundhouse an instrument of government, clipping anyone who crossed him.
New York Times Endorses McCain
January 26th, 2008“The real Mr. Giuliani, whom many New Yorkers came to know and mistrust, is a narrow, obsessively secretive, vindictive man who saw no need to limit police power. Racial polarization was as much a legacy of his tenure as the rebirth of Times Square.
Mr. Giuliani’s arrogance and bad judgment are breathtaking. When he claims fiscal prudence, we remember how he ran through surpluses without a thought to the inevitable downturn and bequeathed huge deficits to his successor. He fired Police Commissioner William Bratton, the architect of the drop in crime, because he couldn’t share the limelight. He later gave the job to Bernard Kerik, who has now been indicted on fraud and corruption charges.
The Rudolph Giuliani of 2008 first shamelessly turned the horror of 9/11 into a lucrative business, with a secret client list, then exploited his city’s and the country’s nightmare to promote his presidential campaign.”
And the bells toll…
January 24th, 2008DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. - Rudy Giuliani splurged on Florida, lavishing time and money on a high-risk gamble that the state would vault him to the Republican presidential nomination.
Five days before his make-or-break primary, all that last year’s national front-runner has to show for the love he’s given the Sunshine State is a diminished standing.
“We are gaining support. I think you’ll see that over the next few days,” Giuliani insisted Wednesday, hours before a new poll showed him trailing John McCain and Mitt Romney.
Losing in the polls in NY? Well, duh
January 22nd, 2008Little N.Y. love for Giuliani: poll
NEW YORK - Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor, is trailing in the race for the Republican presidential nomination even on his home turf of New York state, according to a new poll.
The WNBC/Marist poll released yesterday showed 34% of registered Republicans support John McCain, compared with 23% for Mr. Giuliani.
Giuliani Fails the Baby Test
January 15th, 2008A family gets their baby into the arms of the candidates and assesses each encounter
“Dalia smiled for the first two seconds…then she started crying”
I would too.
Rudy Was For Spanish Before He Was Against It…Or Something
January 10th, 2008Mr. 911 - The Giuliani Anthem
January 9th, 2008Tales of Rudy Giuliani’s Temper
January 8th, 2008In preparation for a February GQ article, today the New York Daily News’ Rush & Molloy reveal some unsurprising (to New Yorkers) testimonials from Rudy’s Mayoral days. Temper tantrums and strong-arm threats were the norm for political opponents.
Rep. Charlie Rangel offers that “the best contribution that Giuliani ever made to the African-American community is just not meeting with them.”
First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams allows that he recently spoke to a “very conservative former federal prosecutor,” who said he wasn’t surprised that Giuliani was doing well in the ‘08 White House race because “he was a good candidate.”
“‘Are you supporting him?’” Abrams asked the former prosecutor. “[He] said, ‘Well, no. I know him.’”
He even has to compare his Iowa defeat to 9-11
January 5th, 2008He really said this:
“None of this worries me — Sept. 11, there were times I was worried.”
The Rudy Giuliani Dickipedia Entry
January 3rd, 2008See Rudy among a group of fellow dicks, including Michael Moore, Roger Clemens, and Bill O’Reilly. nice overview, actually.
http://www.dickipedia.org/index.php?title=Rudy_Giuliani
This includes an incident we have yet to cover here:
“Another typical case at the time was that of Patrick Dorismond, a security guard and father of two. On March 16, 2000, he was standing outside a bar when two undercover police officers approached him and asked where they could buy marijuana. Dorismond told them he wasn’t a drug dealer. A scuffle ensued and so, this being “Giuliani time,” the officers shot and killed Dorismond.
The reaction of Giuliani, then involved in his abortive run for Senate against Hillary Clinton, was to offer a statement of support to the family and vow to investigate the matter. Just kidding! That’s what a non-racist who was not too cowardly to resist appealing to the lowest common denominator in a Senate campaign would have done. But this was Giuliani, and this was “Giuliani time.”
Instead, the next morning Giuliani released Dorismond’s sealed juvenile records to show that he was “no altar boy.” The records contained a misdemeanor that occurred when Dorismond was 13 years old. To many people, though not Giuliani, a misdemeanor at the age of 13 isn’t sufficient justification to be later murdered by police officers. But those people haven’t experienced “Giuliani time.” And, as it turned out, Dorismond was, in fact, a former altar boy. Though now he was a dead former altar boy.
True to form, Giuliani never apologized to the Dorismond family. New York City taxpayers, however, had to apologize for him, in the form of a $2.25 million settlement to the Dorismond family.
For this and other reasons, Giuliani’s popularity rating had fallen to the low 40’s by the time of 9/11, the event that Giuliani would happily use to enrich himself and revive his then-failing political career.”
The Rudy Rap Diss
January 2nd, 2008Rudy on Gitmo and Torture
December 31st, 2007Of all the republican nominees, Rudy seems to be the most gung-ho about keeping Guantanamo open and using torture.
Keep Guantanamo open:
Yes: Giuliani, Romney, Thompson
No: Huckabee, McCain, Paul
As for interrogation techniques, McCain, Paul, and Huckabee are of the “do unto others” camp…you know…the human one. Romney and Thompson are for “enhanced interrogation techniques” (Romney) that “meet the circumstances” (Thompson).
Giuliani, however, comes out swinging…or waterboarding, as it may:
“If we know there’s going to be another attack and these people know about it, I would tell the people who had to do the interrogation to use every method they could think of.”
so…Colombian necktie? An analysis seems to indicate that all forms of torture are acceptable. But wait a minute…he says “if these people know about it”. But…if they knew about it, why would we need to interrogate and torture…because they already told us, right? Otherwise…we’d already know that they know, and that means the interrogator can read minds…which means we will never have to torture. So…just for the record:
Giuliani is a proponent of any and all forms of cruel punishment and torture, provided that we know the victim knows about an attack. In other words, Giuliani is for torture as punishment, since there is no need to torture someone who already has told you about an attack.
I’m being slightly facetious here, but if we examine the words, we find something very typical of Mr. Giuliani’s character here. He is for punishment. He is talking about punishment. And when it comes to punishment, the less worry about laws, the better. And THAT is the real Rudolph Giuliani.
Merry Christmas from Ghouliani (Where’s the family?)
December 24th, 2007There’s only one explanation for this ad. Getting writers and producers was standard operating procedure - he must have had a third cousin, college roommate, and loyal bribe-collecting NYC cop come up with it.
Ha! Judith Giuliani…Future Bioterrorism Cabinet Member
December 23rd, 2007Test Your Rudy Knowledge
December 21st, 2007With The New Yorker’s “Rudy Time” quiz.
For example, who said He is not bound by the truth. I have studied animal life, and their predator/prey relations are more graceful than his?
Also, try your hand at navigating all the Giuliani appointees who are up on criminal charges. With so many, don’t expect to coast on this one!
More FOX News “Fair And Balanced” Analysis
December 18th, 2007We are talking about someone who was meeting a mistress behind his wife’s back, bonking her, letting the taxpayers foot the bill for their secret getaways, then came clean to his wife in a news conference, rather than to her face, causing their children to become estranged from him…we’re not talking about a blowjob in the oval office! That’s reprehensible! Watch Sean Hannity and…uh…some frightening FOX news bimbo defend Giuliani and attack Clinton…again.