Mr.9/11...boogie! woogie!

The best quote/overused from Rudy's campaign:

"Well, if there's one thing I learned on 911........." and fill in whatever subject is being discussed. Someone pointed it out earlier. Was he really serious at all about running or was it just to make more money on the Former Politicians World Tour that seems to happen to all has-been politicians?

Like we didn't see this coming? Rudy always was a political hack. His only claim to fame was 911. It is obscene to see how much he profitted from it. He surrounds himself with the same neo-con scum Bush used and did nothing but try to scare the shit out of us by claiming he was 'America's Mayor'. Shameful indeed.

maybe soon their won't be any republic left to kick around anymore ;)

Chalmers Johnson - Speaking Freely

Chalmers Ashby Johnson is an author and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He has written numerous books including, most recently, three examinations of the consequences of American Empire: Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire, and Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic.

Rudy will soon crawl back to whomever will bankroll him, which if he was elected President, would be every American taxpayer. Could you imagine the high time the Rudester would have on our dime? It would be one huge revisiting of 9/11, he'd remind us daily of all the danger we are in. Scary thought. To get his point across he would use a bullhorn during his State of the Union

OK somebody needs to post Letterman's top 10 tonight. It was the rejected titles for the Oliver Stone movie about Bush. One of the titles was "Das Boob"

jkb @ 8:

What I find disturbing about Rudy is that I can honestly say that I would vote for Nixon before him!

I would have voted for Nixon over any of the Republican front runners and if Nixon were president for the past 7 years instead of Bush the country would not be this fucked up.

The Republicans have gotten worse since Nixon. Now THAT's disturbing.

Richard Belzer said that Rudy Giuliani's approval rating in New York before 9/11 was just 32% and then he kind of got a bump for walking around in the street looking for a place that was safer than his command center in WTC 7. Sorry Story. I like how the New York Times kind of summed it up the other day.

Going once! Going twice!....

When I get the breaking news email that Rudy officially dropped out, then I will celebrate. He's a slime-ball. Who knows what he was doing down in Florida with the rest of Bush crime family.

odanny @ 9:

Rudy will soon crawl back to whomever will bankroll him, which if he was elected President, would be every American taxpayer. Could you imagine the high time the Rudester would have on our dime? It would be one huge revisiting of 9/11, he'd remind us daily of all the danger we are in. Scary thought. To get his point across he would use a bullhorn during his State of the Union

I think it was Rupert Murdoch that was bankrolling him. Don't worry, Rupert will soon kick him to the curb once he figures it out. Rudy ain't gonna make it.

Rudy is and always has been a joke. He'll be lucky if he gets 1% of the vote in Florida. He's shown just through that method of campaigning that he doesn't give a damn about the American people. We may have screwed up in 2004, but I think We the People are starting to wise up.

At least, I really hope so.

Talcott @ 22:

Shell Oil Acknowledges Peak Oil

"....Regardless of which route we choose, the world's current predicament limits our maneuvering room. We are experiencing a step-change in the growth rate of energy demand due to population growth and economic development, and Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand."

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3548#comments

Great way to keep the price of a barrel going up. They don't mention the huge reserves that Brazil just discovered off their coast. MAYBE THEY WERE ONLY TALKING ABOUT OIL THEY COULD STEAL FROM THE UNDERDEVELOPED NATIONS.

Don't kick a man while he's down. He may get up.

Hand me the pliers!

Ron @ 25:

Talcott @ 22:

Shell Oil Acknowledges Peak Oil

"....Regardless of which route we choose, the world's current predicament limits our maneuvering room. We are experiencing a step-change in the growth rate of energy demand due to population growth and economic development, and Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand."

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3548#comments

Great way to keep the price of a barrel going up. They don't mention the huge reserves that Brazil just discovered off their coast. MAYBE THEY WERE ONLY TALKING ABOUT OIL THEY COULD STEAL FROM THE UNDERDEVELOPED NATIONS.

"Yes, folks, peak oil is here, that thing that politicians don't speak of; that event which cornucopians (those who believe that we will not run out of energy) believe is a fraud or misunderstanding is here...."

"The only places on earth that are undergoing significant increases in crude production are Angola, Kazakhstan and Brazil. Kazakhstan will always be limited to the size of the pipeline it has available. Pipelines have fixed capacity"

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3014

"Petrobras estimates it contains at least 700 million barrels of crude - about 10% of Brazil's current reserves."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4563896.stm

The US used in 673,000 barrels per day in 2006.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16709406/

So that big find is worth about a hundred day's US.

xoites defends Constitution @ 26:

Ron @ 25:

Talcott @ 22:

Shell Oil Acknowledges Peak Oil

"....Regardless of which route we choose, the world's current predicament limits our maneuvering room. We are experiencing a step-change in the growth rate of energy demand due to population growth and economic development, and Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand."

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3548#comments

Great way to keep the price of a barrel going up. They don't mention the huge reserves that Brazil just discovered off their coast. MAYBE THEY WERE ONLY TALKING ABOUT OIL THEY COULD STEAL FROM THE UNDERDEVELOPED NATIONS.

Brazil IS a super power, ya know.

xoites defends Constitution @ 26:

Ron @ 25:

Talcott @ 22:

Shell Oil Acknowledges Peak Oil

"....Regardless of which route we choose, the world's current predicament limits our maneuvering room. We are experiencing a step-change in the growth rate of energy demand due to population growth and economic development, and Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand."

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3548#comments

Great way to keep the price of a barrel going up. They don't mention the huge reserves that Brazil just discovered off their coast. MAYBE THEY WERE ONLY TALKING ABOUT OIL THEY COULD STEAL FROM THE UNDERDEVELOPED NATIONS.

Brazil IS a super power, ya know.</blockquot
Yeah, that's why they can't just go in and steal it. Kinda like Hugo Chavez won't let them steal their oil.

Talcott @ 22:

Shell Oil Acknowledges Peak Oil

"....Regardless of which route we choose, the world's current predicament limits our maneuvering room. We are experiencing a step-change in the growth rate of energy demand due to population growth and economic development, and Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand."

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3548#comments

For the love of God, why don't we just build ourselves some nuclear facilities up to today's safety standards and leave it at that? While we're waiting for the construction we can A) fix up high-occupancy buildings like schools and apartment complexes with solar power (and why not the malls and sports stadiums as well?), B) make use of methane gas emitted from decomposing food in landfills to power nearby structures (they're already doing it in some parts of California), and C) see about that Ethanol stuff, not as a permanent fix but just something to get us through the current crisis until something better is found.

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"Brazil is on its way to becoming one of the main international poles for the exploration and production of petroleum," the World Petroleum Council projected in April 2002. "According to data supplied by Brazil's National Oil Industry Organisation (Onip), over the coming ten years the domestic petroleum industry ought to take a significant share of the sector's international investments, or roughly US$ 100 billion, 85 per cent of which [is] to be applied in the oil segment."

Oil Companies
[edit]National
National Petroleum Agency (ANP)
Oil MS Brazil
Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) (state-owned oil and gas company); See Petrobras in the Wikipedia.
Repsol YPF (Spain - Brazil/Argentina)
[edit]International
Chevron (US)
ExxonMobil (US)
Royal Dutch Shell PLC
Shell Oil Company (US)
Unocal (US)

What a horrid piece of photoshop and did we ever kick Rudy around to begin with? Does that mean he'll make another more successful attempt at the White House like Nixon did? Nixon uttered those words before he was elected president.

Oh, is Rudy taking that job as spokesman for 7-11?

Ron @ 41:

Doug @ 40:

Oh, is Rudy taking that job as spokesman for 7-11?

7-11, 7-11, 711, is that what he has been saying all along?

No, but i bet he has stopped singing, "Oh, thank Heaven for 9 Eleven!"

You want to know what i think?

I think if he had never, ever brought it up (not even once!) he might have swept it.

The biggest heist in history Rudy Guliani to his donors. "Look, give me the bucks, I will fool the hicks wait for Florida and we will win" . Upshot Rudy gets to pretend he is a made guy in the Republican mafia, big points with new wife, beats viagra. The best news, a bunch of Republican morons got ripped off by a con artist. Go Rudy...go Rudy.

The avg. American gets hit with $1000.00 in hidden fees every year? Sounds kind of high for an average. It's amazing the credit card racket in America, what these companies are getting away with.

wisedup @ 43:

Watching repubs lie and self-distruct is pure joy.

The Democrats are destructing a close second . . .

Dang, Rudolph has an exceptionally LARGE head!

We should have a way to celebrate the last SOTU speech for the rascal. Some unified symbol or event, what would be appropriate?

That will not happen till May. Some kind of global unified send off.

Stellaa @ 55:

Ok..I don't know how many people are up and around, but can you all tell me what a transcending candidate is? I just want to sing that song from the old day: Bend me shape me any way you want me long as you love me it's allright. Is that what all the kids want? to be bent and transcended. Is that something that you want someone else to do for you? Should that not be in the privacy of your room? When did getting transcended become a national goal? It's sort of scary. Please, don't transcend me, I want to be the nasty old lady that I am. It took me years to get here.

If that is what you want, i doubt it will change.

One question:

Why do you want it?

I think Rudy would enjoy a tran sent to him, though.

If you take a look at Rudy what you see is a wierd, kinky guy in a dress who wants to suck the blood out of you

and be President.

If you look at Huckabee what you see is a wierd, crazy guy who wants you to join his church, suck the blood out of you

and be President.

When the neo-cons and wingnuts bought into the 21st century version of American Exceptionalism did they bother to read the fine print in the owners manual about high end maintenance cost? Or was it the sociopathic Nihilism aspect that drew them in like a moth to a flame?

xoites defends Constitution @ 56:

Stellaa @ 55:

Ok..I don't know how many people are up and around, but can you all tell me what a transcending candidate is? I just want to sing that song from the old day: Bend me shape me any way you want me long as you love me it's allright. Is that what all the kids want? to be bent and transcended. Is that something that you want someone else to do for you? Should that not be in the privacy of your room? When did getting transcended become a national goal? It's sort of scary. Please, don't transcend me, I want to be the nasty old lady that I am. It took me years to get here.

If that is what you want, i doubt it will change.

What to be transcended? Everyone keeps talking about it...I just don't trust it.

One question:

Why do you want it?

I am grabbing the next tran which will send me to bed.

Good night all!

Rudy's desent, sad to say, does reveal something nurotic about US. Istead of confronting this fruad with the evidence of his misdeeds, or shaming him out of his sickening self promotion at the expence of the 9-11 victims; he dies the death of a thousand one liners.

I'm glad he's gone, sad he ever happened. Speaking of those who should be called out; Mark Sheilds and Ed Shultz, shamelessly race baiting and trying to pin it all on Bill Clinton.

So, if Captain 9/11 actually bows out, will Chris Matthews continue to talk about him as one of the major power players in the race?

Dustin de Wynde @ 4:

OK, since you brought it up...

People say that a Republican can't win the Presidency this year, and they may be right, but then again we once had an election year where things were just about as bad as they are now and at the end of it we elected....

This Guy.

Forewarned is forearmed, but be afraid, be very, very, very afraid.

Insert obligatory Castaneda quote here.

:)

~Nyc

Good point, Dustin. "Never underestimate the isolation, indoctrination, and ignorance of the American public."---anon.

Here, Obama is almost right; where many Americans run the spectrum of being Conservative, Independent, or Liberal. Like myself, sometimes I think Conservative, sometimes think Independent, and sometimes Liberal. Yes, we are one America but we all think in different ways at different times.

What’s funny, Obama talks about his heritage as cousin to dick Cheney, then we all know Obama totally dismisses his father as a very devoted Islamic believer that is half the blood that runs through him. Plus being attracted to Lieberman as a Senate mentor is striking, even Karol Rove likes to comment in nice ways about him, praised by the king George too, couple that with ample commercials that support Republicans all lead to when is his personal epiphany going to be realized that he is on the wrong team. All the real experts know and waiting for the “Change” you can believe in. Their all waiting for Obama to go Republican. Sheesh.

Which leads me to my argument that there are, by Media bias, a very narrow group that are focused in each of those categories that have core believes staying in that category, even if they are filled with unhealthy ideals pushing the cultural envelope to decay. All, happening and mastermind by visual videos, musical and rhetorical contextual manipulation not only in today’s cable news medium, but also in the arts, cinema, music, and history documentaries, and adult and children education. Most of all, they are the major driving engine in modern hip hop black wrap, drug culture. They know what their doing and it’s not nice, the media and open market openly sell violence black wrap with divisive vulgar language that builds hate, bias that exists as a poison of fundamentals of the Neo-Con Right.

Its no wonder writers want a fair share of intellectual capital. All leading to a deliberate hodgepodge, collage, and scaled ignorance where the electorate is easily manipulated by the rich elitist. Surprise all which gives the rich a very sensible argument that the citizens don’t know how to be good citizens. Therefore those in power need to crack down and take away your liberties to make things better.

Across the board, FOX, MSNBC,CNN,CBS,ABC,CNBC, etc… all participate in this wild instigation that fails the mission responsibilities in public electromagnetic domain. Licensed to work in a mission to serve the public but is now in a mission that controls and abuses this domain with biased working belligerently through criminal rhetorical actions. That is oppressed reporting, failure of clear in depth education to the public, and the most important part of the quality control process of culture development, deception in over sight which is totally abusive to out right criminal. News cable Journalism is going to be accountable finally. It does't matter who is elected...the Internet is here, and finally transparency.

Oh, come on, don't you think that Chrissy, Wolfie, Timmy et al can bring NEW LIFE to Rudy's campaign and then have a month's worth of the BIG STORY of another "Comeback Kid"?????Just watch, because if you are deluded into thinking that the 'Merikan sheeple are making the choice of who will be candidates then you need to take another look...

John Kiel @ 74:

Dustin de Wynde @ 4:

OK, since you brought it up...

People say that a Republican can't win the Presidency this year, and they may be right, but then again we once had an election year where things were just about as bad as they are now and at the end of it we elected....

This Guy.

Forewarned is forearmed, but be afraid, be very, very, very afraid.

Insert obligatory Castaneda quote here.

:)

~Nyc

Good point, Dustin. "Never underestimate the isolation, indoctrination, and ignorance of the American public."---anon.

This is very real and if you haven't noticed it happening you just aren't paying attention. The media continues to marginalize John Edwards so they can push Obama or Hillary for the Democratic nomination. They already have their slander campaigns ready to go, and by the time the media gets done praising McCain and slandering the Democrat, the ignorant sheep will elect Mr. Surge McCain and we fall further into the abyss. It's going to happpen, and it makes me sick.

Megalomaniac.
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Comedian George Wallace - " Don't kick a man when he's down ? , that's the best time when he's closest to your foot " .