All I have to say is, when you're sure Giuliani's out, be sure to train the guns on the next guy in line and show equal - that is, no - mercy.
I figure McCain might be the next worthwhile target, especially if he wins both Michigan and South Carolina.
GO, LM, GO! I'm currently trying to figure out who to blacken an oval for down here (closed primary in FL), but I knew a year ago I'd never vote for that Nosferatu-looking motherfucker who ran NYC. I sympathize - YOU had to live under his governance, so you have firsthand knowledge. Your posts have given me priceless ammunition with which to bombard the few Giulianisti I encounter.
LM: Damn, I'm almost gaining weight eating up all your literary dishes.
I would say that you Bruce Lee'd 9u11ani's thuggish baseball bat politics into a pile of toothpicks.
Bravo!
Beautiful. Now, can you beat up Huckabee and McCain just as badly?
"You don't knock him down. You knock him out."
Amen, brother. Looka what happened when McCain was down and out on the mat a few months ago - we turned our back on him and went looking for the next republican "front runner" to train our sights on, and whaddaya know! Here's Hank Hill's dad hisself, St. John McCain, back from the politically dead like Jason Fucking Voorhees.
So continue to bang on Rudy's unconscious body with that folding chair. Please.
LM,
Great to hear from ya! 
Drop Doc Bopper and I a line; we haven't heard from you!
Ah, I do miss Gilly just about now...he would be ALL OVER the dotcom comparison in a GOOD way...
And shit...a separate first class ticket for a fucking HANDBAG? I carry the LL Bean Heatwave that Gilly got me all over, and you can put twin toddlers AND all their gear in it, and I still get that thing into the overhead. Shit.
—as the Corona and Stella is now locked in a file cabinet in the campaign manager's office.
That about says it all - and screw that song filching, self-serving asswipe Mick (Simpleton Redhead) Hucknall:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
commen...1954727,00.html
LoLo, you want the real deal - go here for the O.G. version done by two bruddahs who wasn't fakin' the funk:
http://www.amazon.com/First-Take...s/dp/
B000GNORBE
A separate seat for "Baby Louis"? Yes indeed, the rich are not like you and me.
To hell with knocking him out. When it comes to Rudy the Ghoul (and writing of this caliber) I'd be perfectly happy to see you give him the full Arthur Dent treatment:
"I'l have you hung, drawn, and quartered! And whipped! And boiled...until...until...until you've had enough. And then I will do it again! And when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will JUMP on them! And I will carry on jumping on them until I get blisters, or I can think of anything even more unpleasant to do..."
Doc Bop:
I have the vinyl of the Valentine Brothers doing that track, (I remember the day I got it—along with Prefab Sprout's “Two Wheels Good” and a Prince “Madhouse” album) but damned if I can find a video of them doing it anywhere—trust me, I looked! I have to go to the storage room, dig that sucker out and digitize it.
Thus, I used the Hucknall version.
And having been with or in proximity to places that have gone belly-fuck-up, I've seen the surreptitious locking up the “the good shit” when things get bad. That, the end of free pizza Fridays, and of course the extended delays in settling up on expanse reports.
Urrrrrrrgh.
Here in Minnesota the discussion in the Republican party is all about the cannibals eating each other in knock down drag out fights between old man backers, religious whackjobs of both Baptist and Mormon persuasion and a teeny, tiny verb, noun and 911 faction. All in all their caucuses should last all night and have no real victor come out... even if our Governor Gimmicky Timmy thinks he has the inside track to a McCain VP slot.
When these bozoes show up here in the Twin Cities for a brokered convention, expect the riots inside the convention to be bloodier than the riots in the streets of St. Paul.
LM, you nailed it.
Once people stop getting paid, they start paying themselves. Everything that is not nailed down will be taken, even stuff of course that doesn't belong to the campaign.
If you have ever worked in retail you know that the underpaid principle always comes into play. A Wal-Mart employee is much more likely to rip off his own store than a Costco one, and it isn't because he's a worse guy. When justice isn't in the offing, most people prefer the oblique, indirect prodding of their masters.
A first-class seat for a fucking handbag? You know that Mrs. Giuliani probably gets trashed by every single staffer at these drink sessions, and every single one of these mid-level staffers probably is kicking themselves that they didn't sign onto the McCain or Huckabee campaigns. They are still Republicans, but they probably appreciate the fact that Huckabee is likely not to have a hissy fit if he flies commercial-not even if he has to ride *gulp* in coach. And McCain's campaign has been broke forever and severely mismanaged(I know cause I got one of the direct mail campaign solicitations), but I'm guessing he isn't breaking the bank for his personal travel expenses. You think that Giuliani will be cutting back on his extravagant personal campaign spending cause his staff isn't getting paid? That would be a resounding 'Hell no'.
As for this happening to the man that got rich off of treading on the corpses of his fellow countrymen and trying to claim that his aimless wandering and corrupt mismanagement impacting every facet of that day is actually heroism, well... losing stupidly could never have happened to a better guy. My guess is his staff won't end up in a breadline but maybe some of them will reconsider working in a kiss up, kick-down organization like RudyCo or BushCo.
But then again maybe I am being hopelessly optimistic.
Doc Bop:
I have the vinyl of the Valentine Brothers doing that track...
Dayyum!! I bow at your feet just for having it in your possession. Mine was absconded with many moons ago. There is no vid available, you're right - just don't hold much truck with tricky mick who also doesn't get much love back in the UK. Mucho in the colonies but nada back across the pond.
Giuliani has been on the speakers' circuit for a very long time, and has had seven years to get used to the sweet perks of that life. And even among that pampered crew, he was notorious for his demands. You can read the amenities rider of his speaking contract here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/
arc...1giuliani1.html
A guy like Rudy isn't going to settle for a comedown after flying that high.
Funny thing: I have a "baby Louis," too. It's a big, gorgeous Alma Voyage that squeezes neatly under the economy seat in front of me, leaving plenty of room for my feet.
I'll spend $$$($) on a handbag that I plan to carry for the rest of my days. (A post on the logic of this is forthcoming.) But I refuse to spend several hundred dollars just to be a tad more comfortable on a three-hour plane trip. I'd rather buy a cheap seat, and pack the Louie with everything I need -- 4' x 4' wool shawl, inflatable neck pillow, knobble, water bottle, iPod, MacBook, magazines, glasses, Chinese fan, and (for extreme cases) Vicodin -- to make the trip as comfortable as I need it to be without paying the premium.
A woman's got to have her priorities. And besides: extra seat or no, the flight attendants are still going to make you stow the sucker when it's time to land, no matter who you think you are. Even Judy Giuliani doesn't outrank the FAA.
Off thread, but, they keep coming after us, and no one covers this shit anymore. WHY? GNB? WHY?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_200...6/
011408A.shtml
‘Now, some have in recent weeks suggested that I stop knee-dropping Rudy in the ribs while he's down. I will not. … for the sake of this country, we deserve to be spared from him.’
I wholeheartedly agree.
Jane Hamsher wrote yesterday in FDL that ‘If Romney can stay alive in Michigan and Rudy takes Florida, the GOP nomination process will be a mess.’
I like the idea of Dems voting for Romney in Michigan, but I dread the prospect that the Florida primary might breathe life into Giuliani’s campaign.
A Giuliani presidency could well mean the end of constitutional and international norms in the US. It will be as if Dick Cheney and J. Edgar Hoover are co-habiting in the Oval Office. President Giuliani will pour gasoline on the smoldering remains of the Bush foreign policy, and outfit the racist-nativist reaction to our credit crunch/recession in brown shirts.
LM, I think Steve would be pleased.
larue:
I think it's simple outrage fatigue.
And, perhaps, the conviction that it'll never get out of Congress.
By gum, I remember my nephew tellin' me about the first time HE heard the Giant Suckin' Sound. He said somebody handed him a bong at Woodstock when Hendrix was playin' the Star-Strangled Banger or whatever ya call the national anthem and there was nothin' in the bong but air and water and he made a Giant Suckin' Sound tryin' to get a hit off it. He got so disgusted that he couldn't get wasted that he quit the hippie life and went inta bidness! Made hisself a fortune, too!
He didn't fergit his crazy ol' auntie, either! He fixed the attic up real nice fer me!
LM, you are so right. Keep hitting them
until they are no longer a threat. Rudy can learn another thing from the martial arts which hopefully he will need very soon, which is how to take a fall.
More seriously your remark about his security company is very ominous. Cheney came into the White House with his energy company ties and with his help, they have done very well. If security companies are Ghuliani's fetish, think of the things he would do to make sure they for do well.
Dayum LM....another one knocked out. It's funny, Giuliani is out preachering the preacher, as far as taking (and demanding) perks that the unwashed heathens are supposed to pay for.
Those staffers who don't get paid, giving up their bucks so fucking louie can get a seat, man, to be a fly on the walls when the realization finally hits those folks.
Man.
When I first heard that staffers were going payless so "resources could be concentrated on the campaign" I laughed.
"You don't knock him down. You knock him out."
This is the reason I want Obama to stop talking about bipartisanship. No one on the other side of the aisle is going to stop until HE'S knocked out, and yet he goes on with talk of reconciliation.
Now, now. Kneeing someone in the ribs when they're down? That's simply not cricket, old chap.
No. A quick clean decapitation is both more merciful, & much more satisfying. Also proven to be a sure cure for even the most virulent political recidivism.
The only appropriate throne "America's Mayor" has earned is a gurney. Remember the Golden Rule, after all. Is he not demonstrably guilty of mass murder? Then have him put down like Old Yeller. Send him where he sent all those NYFD & NYPD, & innocent New Yorkers - both on & after 911.
The sooner the better.
"‘Now, some have in recent weeks suggested that I stop knee-dropping Rudy in the ribs while he's down."
I was going to ask if this was really true, LM, but even as mere rhetoric, it's just too depressing a question. I know damned well it's true. Sad to say.
You know, the snivelling, puling cowardice we see from a certain type of "liberal" never ceases to amaze me. "Oh, we daresn't fight back, we daresn't, we daresn't! Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo!!!!!" What the fuck is the matter with these people?
Fuck Mayor Rudolph Benito Ghouliani and his vapid whore of a wife. If Hell really exists, I hope they're keeping a pit hot enough for him.
John D,
Thanks for saving me some typing--as you know, I share your contempt for the "liberals" out there who think that ANY kind of argument or fighting--even for their own lives--is all icky-poo and will somehow taint their pristine minds and spotless karma records or something like that.
When you see your foe struggling to keep afloat, give him an anvil.
Giulani is like the Terminator - you've REALLY got to finish him off!
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