Kerik's Name Removed From New York Jail

[AnOhioan]

NEW YORK Jul 2, 2006 (AP)— A city jail renamed to honor former police commissioner Bernard Kerik in 2001 has resurrected its previous name after he pleaded guilty to charges of taking gifts from construction firm.

Workers removed the sign from the Bernard B. Kerik Complex in lower Manhattan early Sunday and replaced it with one bearing a familiar name Manhattan Detention Complex, correction spokesman Michael Saucier said

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Soon after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, then-Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani approved changing the Manhattan Detention Complex's name to honor Kerik, who also had been correction commissioner.

In 2004, President Bush nominated Kerik to be the head of the Department of Homeland Security, but the nomination was withdrawn amid ethics questions.

More at http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2146493

[Endangered Specie]

1. hmmm, for some reason I feel like watching The Shawshank Redemption now.

:shrug:

[FredScuttle]

11. Top notch recommendation

"Salvation lies within."

[Endangered Specie]

12. His Judgement Cometh, and that Right soon!

Watch ye for ye not know when the master of the house cometh

sooo many good quotes from that movie :)

[FredScuttle]

13. What say you, Ms. Fuzzy Britches?!

I loved Bob Gunton in that movie

[Endangered Specie]

15. yup, top notch performance.

"Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me."

[uppityperson]

2. too good, and good

[tanyev]

3. Ozymandias

I'd like to dedicate this to the entire Bush administration:

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

by Percy Bysse Shelley

[Kolesar]

6. Perfect! ... eom

[Mind_your_head]

4. "Ma, they named a JAIL after me"

...however, they 'took it away' b/c they found out that I am a crook too. (Maybe that's why they named it after me in the first place?) :shrug:

Ma, don'cha love me, proud of me???? :loveya: <--------love ya

Bernie

:sarcasm:

[Lochloosa]

5. I give that one the fifth....sob should be in jail

[UTUSN]

7. I *heart* KERIK/Judith REGAN threads

A couple of her men:

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/152/

*********QUOTE********

.... Then Judith and Rupert found each other -- and ReganBooks was born. Not only did their commercial instincts mesh, but Judy's what's-the-world-ever-done-for-me politics were highly compatible with the Murdoch view.

And then the sex part. It's a one-woman show.

I have never heard anyone talk about sex the way Judy does. I have never heard anyone talk about their sexual partners the way Judy does. I have never heard anyone analyze individual motivations, the workings of the marketplace, and politics, too, in such precisely sexual terms. The other day, on her show, she kept interrupting her tempered guests on the subject of why women like Bill Clinton, and, voice rising, saying: "They want to have sex with him -- that's why they like him!"

Early in her career at Simon & Schuster, she published a book called The Rogue Warrior and fought tooth and nail for a full-face cover photo of the author. "Don't they understand?" she stormed to me. "Women will buy this because they want to fuck him!" She got the full face and a best-seller.

http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical/newlow.htm (by DUer Gloria: )

Regan looked straight into the camera and for almost 10 minutes, delivered a pseudo stream-of-consciousness poetry riff mocking Clinton. Referring to his sad boyhood, she mocked his loneliness, then proclaimed that he built himself up and called himself KING, because "I am rich and I can do what I want!" She likened him to the cast out Socks, and envisioned him an old man meeting up with Socks at 125th street, both holding tin cups. ....

It was incredibly vicious. What was especially appalling was how she took the most painful aspects of Bill's background--his truly grievous childhood--and twisted them, using them to mock him. If this wasn't the "politics of personal destruction" I don't know how else you could describe this horrific display. ....

**********UNQUOTE***********

And I (the poster) will claim credit for insight. Back when KERIK's book for REGAN was debutting, she hosted him on her Faux interview show. His tale was of his missing mother, who inexplicably abandoned him as a tot. She never showed up for a custody hearing. The premise of the book was that this tough uber-male had this hole in his heart, thereby setting the pants on fire of tough wingnuts of all genders. As she probed him about the book, she and KERIK locked smouldering, HOT gazes. Once the mother-thing was done, she moved on to his heroics (which were what?) on 9-11. She asked WHERE HE WAS when the planes hit. Without missing an eye-lock, he said, "Stepping out of the shower." She swallowed and held a long breath. The image of nekkid KERIK was plainly etched on the Faux camera lens during the LONG pause. He added, "In my office." Another LONG pause. He added, "After WORKING OUT." There was another swallow. I suspected BACK THEN that something was cooking between publisher and author, and it weren't spaghetti. Only 2 or 3 years later, when KERIK's many other past deeds floated to the surface like dead bodies did it become official that there was indeed WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVE between the two, that the two of them alternated their WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVE sessions with WORKING OUT together, that he had used NYPD to track down what happened to his mother, that he used NYPD to provide security for his personal WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVE sessions, that the WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVENEST was a city-paid apartment near the WTC intended as a rest site for rescue and recovery workers. The REGAN-KERIK Faux interview was pure musk in the air. Why don't Shrub's handlers hire some of US for intelligence work?

[texasleo]

8. loving it

LOVING IT!

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. How the mighty have fallen...collector of bad and doubtful debts

:rofl:

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. How many Bush friends have to be exposed as crooked frauds

for the public to see what (and I do mean what...not who) is leading them?

[JI7]

14. will he continue exploiting 9/11 for his own financial gain

along with that asshole Giuliani ?

the fact that Kerik even had a job at this level is a joke. i saw the moron on tv during the 2004 election and he is an idiot who has no idea of the issues. it was embarrassing watching him.

[robbedvoter]

18. I'm afraid there'll be more for Rudi now...

Il Duce, girlfriend & all her relatives are feeding at the trough of the 911 charities .

[ShockediSay]

19. Rudi was the one who named the jail after that crook!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/nyregion/03kerik.html

"Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani dedicated the two buildings that make up the complex in honor of Mr. Kerik."


Repugs honor the culture of corruption once again.

[NYC]

16. Good!

As it should be!

[robbedvoter]

17. Heh, heh - too crooked for a jail to be named after him!

I was wondering about this - as I discovered the name by chance AFTER reading about the scandals...

[UTUSN]

20. His name should be IN the jail, not ON the jail n/t