Well, not literally, but he did manage to completely dodge the question by randomly bringing up homeland security and being mayor during a terrorist attack.
While Rudy Giuliani was in Iowa on Thursday, he was asked about federal support for HIV medications, starting his answer with:
I don’t want to promise you the federal government will take over the role.
He then abruptly shifted the focus of his answer to terrorism:
My general experience has been that the federal government works best when it helps and assists and encourages and sets guidelines; on a state-by-state, locality-by-locality basis. It’s no different from the way I look at homeland security. Maybe having been mayor of the city, I know that your first defense against terrorist attack is that local police station, or that local firehouse.
This reminds me of a certain episode of Family Guy.
Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-07-23 | Filed under: Current events | 2 responses
Confusing title I know, but it’s a weird case. According to Yahoo! News, a machine at Caesars Indiana casino was crediting players with $10 for every $1 inserted because it wasn’t properly designed for U.S. currency. When a player finally informed Caesars, it was out almost $500,000 (small change for a casino). Now, prosecutors are considering criminal charges against the players who used the machine while it was broken.
First of all, serves them right for converting voting machines into slot machines (sorry, I had to). But seriously, casinos are practically licenses to print money. Everything is rigged so that the casino always comes out on top, but if the player start winning, it’s time for the lawsuit? And besides, as Kathryn Ford in the article points out, if the machine had jammed, the casino wouldn’t have refunded the player’s money. They can’t have this both ways.
Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-07-20 | Filed under: Other | 2 responses
The FBI is gathering and sorting information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists according to a government report obtained Tuesday.
In addition, the report disclosed government plans to build a new database to assess the risk posed by people identified as potential or suspected terrorists.
Remember, this is the country where a you can be arrested for using free wifi or wearing a peace t-shirt. Who out there still thinks all this is worth it in order to “protect” us?
Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-07-11 | Filed under: Current events, Fucked up | no responses
Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-07-06 | Filed under: Atheism, Other | 4 responses
I had to take the streaming video down, but you can download Sicko easily with bit torrent.
Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-07-05 | Filed under: Current events, Videos | 5 responses
In the latest example of how the members of the executive branch of the United States consider themselves to be above the law, President Bush has commuted Scooter Libby’s 30 month prison sentence. While it isn’t quite a full pardon (yet, he’ll most likely be pardoned before Bush leaves office), it’s still a slap in the face to the justice system.
Members of the government or not, all people are supposed to be equal under our rule of law. No one should be exempt from it. This recent commutation shows that the Bush administration cares about as much about this principle as it does about habeas corpus, which isn’t very much. If Libby was assured from the beginning he would never go to jail, he could have focused on protecting the vice President (as special prosecutor Fitzgerald put it, throwing sand in the eyes of the investigation) rather than trying to protect himself, which is precisely what he did. This corrupts the entire legal system by essentially saying the President can and is willing to overrule court decisions to protect cronies and loyal party members.
It has been years since Bush has had an approval rating of over 50 percent (that’s putting it nicely), and this isn’t going to help. Worse, some of the Republican presidential candidates have publicly agreed with the decision already. Things seem to be quickly blowing up in Bush’s face, but who will he take with him? Bush might have just ruined his party’s chances of winning the executive branch in ‘08. Read more…
Posted by probabilityZero on 2007-07-03 | Filed under: Current events, News, Opinion | 3 responses
