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Photos by Alison Jackson

23 Jan

A couple of the photos are not safe for sensitive eyes, but most are pretty funny. [From M+B Gallery Los Angeles]

It’s alarmingly like dealing with my 5 year old….

5 Dec

But a close examination of his word choice over the past year suggests that he learned something around August that got him to stop making claims that were apparently no longer supported by American intelligence. Instead of directly condemning Iranian leaders for pursuing nuclear weapons, he started more vaguely accusing them of seeking the knowledge [...]

9/11, 9/11, 9/11

2 Dec

The best thing to come out of UF

20 Nov

since Gatorade: [From Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » Students Protest Alberto Gonzales At University of Florida Speaking Gig]

NYC Patrolman’s Benevolent Assoc.

14 Nov

Yet another law enforcement/public service group that knows the real Rudy. Giuliani has wrapped himself firmly in the cloak of 9/11 for his own political purposes. But the real heroes of 9/11, those who helped to evacuate those towers and lived to tell the tale and all those who participated in the recovery and cleanup, [...]

Down is up.

7 Nov

I can’t get enough of the completely ridiculous Rudolph Guiliani It seems we’ve finally come full circle. The pro-choice, gay-rights-backing ‘hero’ of 9/11 (Rudy) endorsed by the TV preacher (Robertson) who said 9/11 was God’s punishment for America’s culture of sin. [From Talking Points Memo | Total Quality Bamboozlement]

This cracks me up….

6 Nov

[From THE NEW REPUBLIC | Blogs] All He Really Needs to Know He Learned In Gracie Mansion To recap: Rudy Giuliani has now argued that his tenure as Mayor of the Universe New York City gives him better foreign policy credentials than Joe Biden, a keener understanding of torture than John McCain, more experience at [...]

Rudy on torture

27 Oct

From the Washington Monthly: The Washington Monthly: “RUDY ON WATERBOARDING….Rudy Giuliani on whether waterboarding is torture: It depends on how it’s done. It depends on the circumstances. It depends on who does it. Italics mine. So that’s that: when bad guys torture, it’s bad. When good guys torture, it’s good. Apparently that’s the modern Republican [...]

Sunday Forum: Two problems with torture

24 Oct

I really hope that one day, George Bush and Dick Cheney are held accountable for legitimizing/encouraging torture by the United States. Sunday Forum: Two problems with torture: It’s wrong and it doesn’t work, according to interrogation expert STUART HERRINGTON I served 30 years in the U.S. Army as an intelligence officer, which included extensive experience [...]

Guiliani

24 Oct

From the Washington Monthly: Rudy Awakening: Choosing the best presidential candidate among the 2008 contenders is a tough job. Picking the worst is easy. Rudy Giuliani is the guy you’d get if you put George Bush and Dick Cheney into a wine press and squeezed out their pure combined essence: unbounded arrogance and self-righteousness, a [...]