Archive for the '9/11' Category

I used to think he was smart and a little tetched. I was wrong.

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Jason Linkins
The Huffington Post
Rumsfeld on the 2006 Election: “The Correction For That…Is An Attack”
May 13, 2008 01:55 PM
An ongoing exploration of the documents related to the Pentagon’s “message force multipliers” program has unearthed a clip of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggesting that America, having voted the Democrats back into Congressional power, could benefit from […]

Forget it! He’s not moving until Green Acres is over at three p.m.

Friday, March 7th, 2008

SYDNEY MORNING-HERALD
They knew, but did nothing
March 8, 2008
In this exclusive extract from his new book, Philip Shenon uncovers how the White House tried to hide the truth of its ineptitude leading up to the September 11 terrorist attacks. .
In the American summer of 2001, the nation’s news organisations, especially the television networks, were riveted by […]

I shall simply join readers and shake my head in disbelief.

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Unchecked aliens cram flight schools
by Bill Hutchinson
Daily News staff writer
Thursday, February 28th 2008, 4:00 AM
Despite tough post-9/11 laws, thousands of foreign students are training at U.S. flight schools without proper visas or security background checks, government documents show.
“TSA’s enforcement is basically nonexistent,” Bill McNease, a former Federal Aviation Administration inspector, said in an interview aired […]

I think it should have been at her beach home.

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

New York Times
January 26, 2008
Memo Details Objections to Command Center Site
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
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The New York Police Department produced a detailed analysis in 1998 opposing plans by the city to locate its emergency command center at the World Trade Center, but the Giuliani administration overrode those objections. The command center later collapsed from damage in […]

All of these unfortunate Giuliani moves are hand-maidens of his desire to postpone the New York election results after 911.

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Giuliani Claims It Would Have Been ‘Impossible’ To Give 9/11 Firefighters Working Radios
Today on ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos pushed former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani on why the radios for the 9/11 firefighters didn’t work. Giuliani dodged the question, claiming that it would have been “impossible” to have given them working radios:
The […]

I’ve come up with this campaign poster…

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

but I still believe he looks more rational–and certainly happier– in drag.
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Images: (Giuliani) both are AP photos via huffingtonpost.com

Whether answering the cell phone is a Giuliani ruse or an Il Duce refusal to listen to his staff, we don’t need another King Korn.

Monday, October 1st, 2007

JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL
OPINION-Wall Street Journal
Rude Giuliani
If he wants voters to respect his privacy, he ought to show some respect for basic manners.
Monday, October 1, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
…Even members of Mr. Giuliani’s own staff are appalled at how he handled the incident in which he answered a phone call from his wife, Judith, […]

It is funny that it took a week for the explanation of the cell phone’s 911 reference.

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Giuliani cites Bible on personal life
By LIBBY QUAID, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 33 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani compared the scrutiny of his personal life marked by three marriages to the biblical story of how Jesus dealt with an adulterous woman.

“I’m guided very, very often about, `Don’t judge others, lest you […]

“Boys, give ‘im a fair trial, then hang him.”

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

All of us realize bin Laden will becaome a martyr in the eyes of his followers. I say take him alive and bury him in Marion, IL Big House. Then, leak out to the press that he is living in the Witness Protection Program and has secured the services of a theatrical agent. He is […]

Well, he’s got the bald-faced lie part down.

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Here’s an exchange between Rudy Giuliani and Chris Wallace on Fox News.
You put the emergency response command center in the World Trade Center in 1997, even though your director of emergency management suggested — recommended that you not put it there because it had been a target in 1993. Why’d you do that?
GIULIANI: My director […]