Fixed News Friends - Sucker Punches Themselves

This clip provided by newshound.com is hilarious.

If there was ever any doubt that Fox News was anything more then a conduit for White House talking points this should put it to rest…….they were so clearly taken aback that their guest did not simply rave about what a wonderful thing Crazy King George had just done, that they were speechless, they had clearly expected the producers to have done a thorough job of vetting the guest as another administration apologist.

Aviation expert Mike Boyd is my new hero.

Harry Reid Finds His Testecles

BREAKING: Reid shuts down Bush recess appointments during Thanksgiving

The Senate will be coming in for pro-forma sessions during the Thanksgiving holiday to prevent recess appointments.

My hope is that this will prompt the President to see that it is our mutual interests for the nominations process to get back on track.

While an election year looms, significant progress can still be made on nominations.

I am committed to making that progress if the President will meet me half way.

But that progress can’t be made if the President seeks controversial recess appointments and fails to make Democratic appointments to important commissions.

As Democratic leader, I recommend nominees to the President for many important commissions like the Federal Communications Commission, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

These independent agencies are required by law to have Democratic representation.

As a result, the President has a statutory obligation to honor my recommendations and move on them in good faith.

And, up until recently, the President has generally discharged that obligation.

In the last several months, however, the administration has been stalling progress on Democratic appointments.

This problem existed before the August break.

In an effort to solve it, I worked hard to confirm over 40 administration nominees in exchange for a commitment by the President to make progress on a number of important commissions.

When we reconvened after August break, I also worked to quickly move on the President’s new Attorney General.

I did this despite my own opposition to that nominee.

Even with all this hard work on our side, the commitments the administration made to me before August break were not met.

In the almost three months since that break, we have received no Democratic nominees to full-time commission positions.

For some, in fact, absolutely no discernable progress has been made.

With Thanksgiving break looming, the administration informed me that they would make several recess appointments.

I indicated I would be willing to confirm various appointments if the administration would agree to move on Democratic appointments.

They would not make that commitment.

As a result, I am keeping the Senate in pro-forma to prevent recess appointments until we get this process back on track.

 

1984 - Here we go again- "You didn't see anything"

Ok someone please explain just how this is not one of the most egregious mis-uses of power by our Government.

Court Ruling Blocks Challenge to Wiretapping

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal appeals court dealt a near-fatal blow Friday to an Islamic charity's lawsuit alleging it was illegally wiretapped by federal investigators, saying that a key piece of evidence the charity planned to use is a protected state secret.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that a top secret call log accidentally turned over to the now-defunct U.S. arm of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation's lawyers by the U.S. Treasury Department can't be used as evidence.

Al-Haramain, which was labeled by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization, alleged it had been illegally wiretapped by the Bush administration without a warrant. But without the document, the court said, the foundation has little proof it was wiretapped.

The charity's lawyers voluntarily turned over the document to FBI agents after it was given to them. But a lower court ruled that the lawyers couldn't use the actual document to support their lawsuit but could use their memories of its contents to go forward.

The appeals court said that ruling was ''a commendable effort to thread the needle,'' but still ran counter to the state secrets law, which precludes the disclosure of sensitive information in court that could jeopardize national security.

''Such an approach countenances a back door around the privilege and would eviscerate the state secret itself,'' Judge M. Margaret McKeown wrote for the unanimous three-judge panel

Main Entry: egregious

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Pronunciation:

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Function:

adjective

Etymology:

Latin egregius, from e- + greg-, grex herd — more at gregarious

Date:

circa 1534

1archaic : distinguished2: conspicuous; especially : conspicuously bad : flagrant <egregious errors> <egregious padding of the evidence — Christopher Hitchens>

— egre·gious·ly adverb

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You ever wonder if we attacked the wrong repressive Middle East Regime

Saudi gang-rape victim is jailed

An appeals court in Saudi Arabia has doubled the number of lashes and added a jail sentence as punishment for a woman who was gang-raped.

The victim was initially punished for violating laws on segregation of the sexes - she was in an unrelated man's car at the time of the attack.

When she appealed, the judges said she had been attempting to use the media to influence them.

The attackers' sentences - originally of up to five years - were doubled.

Extra penalties

According to the Arab News newspaper, the 19-year-old woman, who is from Saudi Arabia's Shia minority, was gang-raped 14 times in an attack in the eastern province a year-and-a-half ago.

Seven men from the majority Sunni community were found guilty of the rape and sentenced to prison terms ranging from just under a year to five years.

But the victim was also punished for violating Saudi Arabia's laws on segregation that forbid unrelated men and women from associating with each other. She was initially sentenced to 90 lashes for being in the car of a strange man.

On appeal, the Arab News reported that the punishment was not reduced but increased to 200 lashes and a six-month prison sentence.

The rapists also had their prison terms doubled. But the sentences are still low considering they could have faced the death penalty.

The Arab News quoted an official as saying the judges had decided to punish the girl for trying to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media.

The victim's lawyer was suspended from the case, has had his licence to work confiscated, and faces a disciplinary session.

I just can’t help but wonder, why, oh why does our great ally Saudi Arabia continue to get a free pass from this administration ? Yeah right I know that was a silly rhetorical question……we all know why.

Consider two symbolic moments in the U.S.-Saudi relationship involving a visit by one leader to the other's country. In November 1990, President George H.W. Bush went to the Persian Gulf region with his wife and top congressional leaders at Thanksgiving time to visit the 400,000 troops gathered in Saudi Arabia, whom he sent there to protect that country from an Iraqi invasion. When the Saudi authorities learned that the President intended to say grace before a festive Thanksgiving dinner, they remonstrated; Saudi Arabia knows only one religion, they said, and that is Islam. Bush acceded, and he and his entourage instead celebrated the holiday on the U.S.S. Durham, an amphibious cargo ship sitting in international waters.

In April 2002, as Crown Prince Abdallah of Saudi Arabia, the country's effective ruler, was about to travel across Texas to visit President George W. Bush, an advance group talked to the airport manager in Waco (the airport serving the President's ranch in Crawford) "and told him they did not want any females on the ramp and also said there should not be any females talking to the airplane."[2] The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at Waco complied with this request and passed it to three other FAA stations on the crown prince's route, which also complied. Then, when queried about this matter, both the FAA and the State Department joined the Saudi foreign minister in flat-out denying that there ever was a Saudi request for male-only controllers.

The import of these incidents is clear enough: Official Americans in Saudi Arabia bend to Saudi customs, and official Americans in the United States do so as well. And it's not just a matter of travel etiquette; one finds parallel American obsequiousness concerning such issues as energy, security, religion and personal status. The Saudis routinely set the terms of this bilateral relationship. For decades, U.S. government agencies have engaged in a consistent pattern of deference to Saudi wishes, making so many unwonted and unnecessary concessions that one gets the impression that a switch has taken place, with both sides forgetting which of them is the great power and which the minor one. I shall first document this claim, then offer an explanation for it, and conclude with a policy recommendation.

 

NYT - Tell me this was a joke?

Debate Wrap: Viva Las Vegas

By Katharine Q. Seelye

“But why, oh why, could she not choose between diamonds and pearls? How easy that should have been, especially with the Diamond District in New York! (Then again, the Yankees’ being in her adopted state didn’t help her pick them over the Cubs in a hypothetical World Series.) Is there a Pearl District somewhere? In a swing state?”

Tell me this was meant as a joke....a very tasteless and inappropriate joke for which the contributor should be fired. I really do not care if this was written on the Times “Political Blog”, it was flat out wrong for a contributor of a major newspaper to go down this road.

*****update ....my bad, guess this was not the NYT at work but rather a comment about a late question at the debate......Which I missed the end of.....I will dig more........

*****update 2....turns out CNN is the bad guys......my apologizes to Katharine Q. Seelye, however you still should have let it lie.

from crooksandliars

This doesn’t reflect well on CNN’s idiot factor.

Maria Luisa, the UNLV student who asked Hillary Clinton whether she preferred “diamonds or pearls” at last night’s debate wrote on her MySpace page this morning that CNN forced her to ask the frilly question instead of a pre-approved query about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

“Every single question asked during the debate by the audience had to be approved by CNN,” Luisa writes. “I was asked to submit questions including “lighthearted/fun” questions. I submitted more than five questions on issues important to me. I did a policy memo on Yucca Mountain a year ago and was the finalist for the Truman Scholarship. For sure, I thought I would get to ask the Yucca question that was APPROVED by CNN days in advance.”

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1984 - Even at The Smithsonian NeoCon Denial of Global Warming

Scientists Fault Climate Exhibit Changes
Smithsonian Head Denies Politics Altered Arctic Show Message

Some government scientists have complained that officials at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History took steps to downplay global warming in a 2006 exhibit on the Arctic to avoid a political backlash, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

The museum's director, Cristián Samper, ordered last-minute changes to the exhibit's script to add "scientific uncertainty" about climate change, according to internal documents and correspondence.

Scientists at other agencies collaborating on the project expressed in e-mails their belief that Smithsonian officials acted to avoid criticism from congressional appropriators and global-warming skeptics in the Bush administration. But Samper said in an interview last week that "there was no political pressure -- not from me, not from anyone."

Samper put the project on hold for six months in the fall of 2005 and ordered that the exhibition undergo further review by higher-level officials in other government agencies. Samper also asked for changes in the script and the sequence of the exhibit's panels to move the discussion of recent climate change further back in the presentation, records also show. The exhibit opened in April 2006 and closed in November of that year.

The Post obtained a hand-scrawled note by a curator on the project indicating there was "concern that scientific uncertainty hasn't come out enough." Edits to a "final script" show notations about where to add "the idea of scientific uncertainty about climate research."

Have you noticed that the NeoCons have successfully convinced the media to almost entirely eliminate the phrase “Global Warming” and have it replaced by “Climate Change”, but it doesn’t change the bottom line, the Earth is getting warmer and it is because of us.

Washington DC - A Constitution Free Zone

Cities Eliminate Right to Contest Parking Tickets - thenewspaper.com

In an attempt to stem the loss of revenue from motorists contesting parking tickets, cities are effectively eliminating the traditional due process rights of motorists to defend themselves at an impartial hearing. By the end of next year, Washington, DC's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) will not allow anyone who believes he unfairly received a citation to have his day in an administrative hearing.

"DMV will complete the phase-out of in-person adjudication of parking tickets in favor of mail-in and e-mail adjudication by December 2008," the Fiscal Year 2008 DMV plan states.

The move is intended to allow automated street sweeper parking ticket machines to boost the number of infractions cited well beyond the 1.6 million currently handed out by meter maids. As one-third of those who contest citations in the city are successful, the hearings cut significantly into the $100 million in revenue tickets generate each year.

Under the DMV's plan, motorists will only be able to object to a ticket by email or letter where city employees can ignore or reject letters in bulk without affected motorists having any realistic recourse. That's not good enough for residents like Emily Miller, who told us that being able to present her case in person was essential. The Sunday school teacher was found not guilty at an administrative DMV hearing in June of driving with an open container of coffee. She was so thrilled with her victory that she decided to fight a parking ticket issued to her in a location where the parking signs were contradictory.

Motorists in many cities besides DC complain about unfair citations. So far, Baltimore, Maryland's Inspector General has uncovered 10,000 bogus parking tickets issued to innocent motorists. In Boston and other cities in Massachusetts, motorists cannot challenge a $100 parking ticket in court without first paying a $275 court fee. If found innocent, the motorist does not receive a refund of the $275.


I am of two minds on this one. (at least in regards to DC)

First how, just how can anyone come up with this crap and look themselves in the mirror in the morning – and instead of extracting more money from victims of parking ticket scams let’s instead pay a just little attention to who hell your staff is cutting huge illegal property tax refund checks to. (oh and now they say it may actually 31 million nobody seemed to notice going out the door)

Second what the hell, you won’t let them have representation in congress, why the hell should they care about the Constitution.

As for Massachusetts, oh well let’s blame Mitt

More Fascism - Forced Vaccinations and Flu Shots

The Evidence supporting vaccination is marginal at best, we thought long and hard prior to vaccinating our daughter and probably would not have if some changes had not been made just prior to her time (2000).

Get Kids Vaccinated Or Else, Parents Told

Pr. George's Threatens Legal Action

The parents of more than 2,300 Prince George's County students who failed to get needed vaccinations could face fines of $50 a day and up to 10 days in jail if their children do not meet the state's immunization requirements, county officials said yesterday.

The threat of legal action is a last resort after months in which Prince George's has struggled to get its 131,000 students immunized for chicken pox and hepatitis B, as mandated by the state. More than 2,300 students have not been immunized and have been barred from attending schools, almost two months after a Sept. 20 deadline for meeting the requirement.

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way, but it's got to get done," Prince George's State's Attorney Glenn F. Ivey (D) said at a news conference in Upper Marlboro. "I'm willing to move forward with legal action."

The Connections Between Vaccinations and Autism

The first connection with autism and vaccinations come through a preservative called thimerosal. Thimerosal is a preservative found in many vaccinations. Thimerosal contains 46.9% ethyl mercury. Mercury is the second most harmful natural substance to humans, next to uranium. Mercury has been proven to cause neurological damage, among other ailments, and pregnant women are warned against the ingestion of mercury, even warning expectant mothers of eating fish. Autism and autistic spectrum disorders are neurological disorders. Although the CDC claims that vaccinations no longer contain thimerosal, it must be noted that pharmaceutical companies were not prohibited from using this preservative, but strongly encouraged to or reduce the amount found in certain vaccinations. Seventeen vaccinations contain thimerosal, including the flu shot. Although new vaccinations are being created without thimerosal, vaccinations containing the preservative are still being administered throughout the country.

Then there’s the Flu Shot Scam:

Flu shot ingredients:

Thimersol (Mercury disinfectant/preservative)

Aluminum (additive to promote antibody response) (implicated as a contributor to Alzheimer's, seizures, fatigue, mental problems)

Formaldehyde (disinfectant) (let's embalm ourselves alive!) (incidentally, it's what aspartame aka NutraSweet converts to at a mere 86 degrees F)

Ethylene Glycol (anti-freeze-deadly-poison) (seems to do nothing constructive at all)

Phenol (disinfectant)

Benzethonium Chloride (antiseptic)

Methylparaben (anti fungal, preservative)

How Insane is This?

After nearly seven years Crazy King George’s Rabbit Hole somehow manages to get more bizarre everyday;

Brother of State Dept. Official Linked to Blackwater

State Dept. IG Recuses Himself From Blackwater Case After Family Link Revealed

Inspector General Refutes Allegations

The Inspector General immediately refuted the allegations.

"I can tell you, very frankly, I am not aware of any financial interest or position he has with respect to Blackwater," Howard Krongard said. "When these ugly rumors started recently, I specifically asked him. I do not believe it is true that he is a member of the advisory board that you stated. And that's something I think I need to say."

However, Democrats then produced a July 26 letter in which Erik Prince, Blackwater's founder and CEO, invited Buzzy Krongard, a former top CIA official, to join Blackwater's advisory board, followed by a Sept. 5 letter in which Prince welcomed Krongard to the board. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., told the inspector general that Buzz Krongard was even scheduled to attend a Blackwater board meeting earlier this week in Williamsburg, Va.. Howard Krongard then promised to recuse himself from Blackwater-related issues if his brother was a board member.

A Surprising Turn of Events

An hour later, after a brief recess, the inspector general did just that.

"During the break, I did contact my brother," Krongard said. "I learned that he had been at the advisory board meeting yesterday. I had not been aware of that. And I want to state on the record right now that I hereby recuse myself from any matters having to do with Blackwater."

Krongard testified that he had spoken to his brother about Blackwater approximately five or six weeks ago, and that their conversation focused on allegations that Buzzy Krongard had a "significant financial interest in Blackwater."

"I'm not my brother's keeper, and we do not discuss our business with each other," Howard Krongard said, adding that "we have gone to great lengths to keep our professional experiences separate because of his position and because of my position."

Rep. Stephen Lynch, D.-Mass., then suggested that "we ought to subpoena Buzzy and get him in here and testify as to his conduct and his conversation with his brother."

You’re the “Inspector General” of the Department of State and the Committee Chair has to tell you that your brother is on the board of the largest contractor the State Department has ever had.

Uhhm, let’s see, this means you are either;

a)      an idiot

b)      a lying scumbag

c)       completely incompetent beyond any measure known to man

d)      all of the above

 

Poltics is just a stage to be managed for these guys

Bush Approves Clearances for N.S.A. Inquiry

Just four days after Michael B. Mukasey was sworn in as attorney general, Justice Department officials said Tuesday that President Bush had reversed course and approved long-denied security clearances for the Justice Department’s ethics office to investigate the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program. The department’s inspector general has been investigating the department’s involvement with the N.S.A. program for about a year, but the move suggested both that Mr. Mukasey wanted to remedy what many in Congress saw as an improper decision by the president to block the clearances and that the White House chose to back him.

Tony Fratto, a White House spokesman, and Brian Roehrkasse, a Justice Department spokesman, declined to say whether Mr. Mukasey had pressed Mr. Bush on the clearances for the department’s Office of Professional Responsibility. Mr. Mukasey himself had indicated in a written answer to senators on Oct. 30, before his confirmation, that the clearance issue had been resolved. But Democrats said they thought Mr. Mukasey deserved credit.

“It seems the new attorney general understands that his responsibility is to the American people and the rule of law and not to any particular person, including the president,” said Representative Maurice D. Hinchey, Democrat of New York, who had first demanded the internal Justice Department investigation.

Real subtle, Let’s roll over on something that we are clearly wrong on and then time the announcement it so it looks like the new guy is the hero. Boy this one isn’t too hard to see trough.

Annie Duke - Mills and Locke?

From Annie’s prepared Congressional Testimony scheduled for Wednesday:

"At its most basic level, the issue before this committee is personal freedom -- the right of individual Americans to do what they want in the privacy of their homes without the intrusion of the government. From the writings of John Locke and John Stuart Mill, through their application by Jefferson and Madison, this country was among the first to embrace the idea that there should be distinct limits on the ability of the government to control or direct the private affairs of its citizens. More than any other value, America is supposed to be about freedom. Except where one's actions directly and necessarily harm another person's life, liberty or property, government in America is supposed to leave the citizenry alone. Examples of Congress straying from this principle are legion, but few are as egregious as The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, or UIGEA."

Ok Annie, I whole-heartedly agree with you on the entire topic, if people are stupid enough to lose all their money, who are we to stop them…..however, tell us true now, who wrote your opening statement?

Not that I question that a woman, or a poker player or anyone else would or would not be familiar with Mills and Locke…..but really this just oozes of Poli-Sci Geek/Lawyer speak.

It will be interesting to see if they(her handlers) catch the typo or if she reads it this way:

"If we all agree that puffing (my bold) and driving and other elements of golf are skill components then whether someone is a good putter or a bad putter doesn't change whether putting is a skill or not. It is the same in poker. If someone is poor at betting or good at betting has no bearing on whether the betting component of the game itself is a skill component."

The Truth About Voter ID Cards -It's All About The Republic Party & Voter Supression

NEW STUDY FINDS AFRICAN AMERICANS, LOW-INCOME VOTERS, STUDENTS AND SENIORS LEAST LIKELY TO HAVE VALID VOTER ID AT ISSUE BEFORE SUPREME COURT

Among the key findings:

• 21.8% of black Indiana voters do not have access to a valid photo ID (compared to 15.8% of white Indiana voters - a 6 point gap).
• When non-registered eligible voter responses are included - the gap widens. 28.3% of eligible black voters in the State of Indiana to not have valid photo ID (compared to 16.8% of eligible voting age white Indiana residents - a gap of 11.5 percent).
• The study found what it termed "a curvilinear pattern (similar to an upside down U-curve)" in the relationship between age and access to valid ID - younger voters and older voters were both less likely to have valid ID compared to voters in the middle categories. 22% of voters 18-34 did not have ID, nor did 19.4% over the age of 70. (compared to 16.2% of Indiana voters age 35-54 without valid ID and 14.1% for 55-69 year olds).
• 21% of Indiana registered voters with only a high school diploma did not have valid ID (compared to 11.5% of Indiana voters who have completed college - a gap of 9.5%).
• Those with valid ID are much more likely to be Republicans than those who do not have valid ID. Among registered voters with proper ID, 41.6% are registered Republicans, 32.5% are Democrats.

This New Study from Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law clearly points out what we all knew from the beginning, all these new “Voter ID” requirements being push by Republic Party controlled State Legislatures have nothing to do with “fight terrorism” and everything to do with voter suppression. I bet the fascists now in charge of the USSC still rule these blatant abuses of power legal.

McCain - Just what happened to the "Straight Talk Express"?

I don’t know what is more shameful, McCain laughing so hard he was crying, then commenting “ excellent question”, or the lame report by Fox 25.

Watch this Fox 25 report then watch the full exchange on the next clip.
If McCain had won the nomination in 2000 I would have voted for him, now I wouldn’t vote for him for “Mosquito Control District”

Oh and it's the "Democratic Party" you ignorant putz.

1984 - "Truthiness"

Ministry Of Truth Helpfully Redefines Privacy

By Chris Weigant – huffington post

A United States Ministry of Truth spokesman proudly unveiled the new official definition of "privacy" today, on the heels of their successful campaign to redefine "torture." The new meaning of the word "privacy" will now be (according to MiniTru): "the secure feeling citizens get by knowing that their government is collecting and protecting their personal data." Old definitions of privacy will no longer be operative.

The MiniTru spokesman was quite enthusiastic about the definition rollout. "For generations Americans have been burdened by the responsibility of guarding their own privacy," he said. "This was too great a task for the public to adequately control, so the logical answer was to have the government take over this onerous work, to better serve each citizen's private life. No longer will Americans have to worry about their own privacy, because now Big Brother will take care of it for them."

OK, I made those quotes up, I admit. But I'm sad to say I didn't make up the story itself. Both the AP and the New York Times have stories about principal deputy director of national intelligence Donald Kerr's recent speech [PDF transcript] to the Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. Here are some of the quotes from Kerr:

"Our job now is to engage in a productive debate, which focuses on privacy as a component of appropriate levels of security and public safety."

. . ..

"Too often, privacy has been equated with anonymity, but in our interconnected and wireless world, anonymity -- or the appearance of anonymity -- is quickly becoming a thing of the past

While Chris was being creative as he began his article you quickly come to realize that in reading between the lines of deputy director of national intelligence Donald Kerr's recent comments Chris’ interpretation was pretty darn close.

1984 - Will we see it is upon us, before it is too late?

Achilles Diary on the Daily Kos Nails it:

I remember the first time I read "1984" and the creepy feeling that came over me at the scene of the Two Minutes Hate.  Mindless people, fearful of reprisals, hurling hatred because everyone else is doing it, unsure of who or why they are hating, but convinced that if they don't, something really, really bad will happen to them, because Big Brother Will Know.

At the time, like everyone else, I took this book to be about the Soviet Union, those oppressive Communists in the totalitarian lands behind the Iron Curtain.  It was a horrible vision, but one I believed could never come to America, a land where people have protections under the Constitution, and a belief in decency and the common good made us different, and better, than the Evil Empire.

Seven years of George W. Bush have changed my opinion on this.  

I couldn’t agree more, however we really saw the beginning of this in the Reagan era with the proliferation of  “newspeak” “Reaganspeak” beginning,  with phrases such as the “peace-keeper missile” and "freedom fighters" vs. "terrorists". And we all know how that last one turned out for us.

 

Rudy and Strict Constructionist Judges

Giuliani Judges Lean Left

When Rudy Giuliani faces Republicans concerned about his support of gay rights and legal abortion, he reassures them that he is a conservative on the decisions that matter most.

"I would want judges who are strict constructionists because I am," he told South Carolina Republicans last month. "Those are the kinds of justices I would appoint -- Scalia, Alito and Roberts."

But most of Giuliani's judicial appointments during his eight years as mayor of New York were hardly in the model of Chief Justice John Roberts or Samuel Alito -- much less aggressive conservatives in the mold of Antonin Scalia.

A Politico review of the 75 judges Giuliani appointed to three of New York state's lower courts found that Democrats outnumbered Republicans by more than 8 to 1. One of his appointments was an officer of the International Association of Lesbian and Gay Judges. Another ruled that the state law banning liquor sales on Sundays was unconstitutional because it was insufficiently secular.

A third, an abortion-rights supporter, later made it to the federal bench in part because New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer, a liberal Democrat, said he liked her ideology.

Cumulatively, Giuilani's record was enough to win applause from people like Kelli Conlin, the head of NARAL Pro-Choice New York, the state's leading abortion-rights group. "They were decent, moderate people," she said.

Just another example of how far Rudy will go to get elected President, Rudy will “say anything”, if he thinks it will help him the polls. I am still trying to understand just what makes Rudy an expert on Terrorism? I supposed you could say the kid at the bus stop who gets his lunch money taken away everyday is an “expert” on bullies too. Thanks to crooksandliars for pointimg this article out.

And don’t forget this little gem from Rudy’s liberal resume.