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Friday, June 22, 2007

Time for the United States to Invade Dick Cheney!

Props for this idea from Keith Olbermann:
Cheney Above the Law?













It's time for President Bush to invade Dick 'It's Vice President Skeletor to You' Cheney and democratize him to create: A FREE, PEACEFUL, AND DEMOCRATIC DICK CHENEY!

According to the latest assertion by Dick 'Skeletor' Cheney, he's not: an Executive Branch official, a legislator, or a judge... Hmmm... What is he?..


I know! A "Rogue Nation!!"

..And since, just like Iraq he: refused to grant the inspectors access, kicked them out, and even tried to destroy them (in this instance, by abolishing their office) - remember how the UN Weapons Inspectors & Scott Ritter were treated similarly by Saddam Hussein? - in this case, officials of the Information Security & Oversight Office (ISOO), of the National Archives, sent there under an Executive Order from the President regarding proper accounting for and the preservation of secret Documents - it's time for the President to send troops to Cheney's "undisclosed location" (obviously somewhere in Snake Mountain), invade Dick Cheney and democratize him to create: A FREE, PEACE-LOVING, AND DEMOCRATIC DICK CHENEY!

Note to the troops: Unlike the first Gulf War, I wouldn't risk starting the campaign to FREE CHENEY with a rapid end-run to an entrance from the rear!



It's reportedly filled with BioHazard horrors beyond the nightmares of the most fevered member of Al Qaeda...

It's high time to form an international coalition and invade Dick Cheney, to make the free world safe for democracy once again!

Now we just need to get Bill O'Reilly onboard with the idea!

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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Besame Mucho - Hasan & Danny Aiello craft a hit hip-hop remake of a true classic Latin standard!

Earlier this month, at an exclusive video premiere during the Hoboken International Film Festival, I viewed Hasan & Danny Aiello's rap remake of Consuelo Velázquez's classic Latin torch song standard Besame Mucho.

In the vid, Danny Aiello at times looks slicker and more dangerous, as a crooning lounge lizard, than Al Pacino seemed in The Devil's Advocate. Let's just say I'd rather not run into his character, some night, on a dimly lit Brooklyn street...

For those of us who have worked in Lower Manhattan's Flatiron (Photo) District and DUMBO, the location shots, on cobblestone streets, hit a special chord.

I was skeptical, I mean, c'mon, this song is OLDER than a SugarHill Gang stepshow! ..and I've never been a real big fan of Latin ballads... ..BUT... ..I gotta admit...

..I LOVE THIS REMAKE!!

Mad Props to my bro Hasan and to Danny as well!!!












BTW: Watch for Hasan's producer's skillz coming to the task, via C.R.E., on JLo's new album.

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Dick Cheney is above the Law of Man - Does that Make Him God?

Dick Cheney apparently thinks he's God!

Dick 'Skeletor' Cheney and his allies are the single biggest danger to the history and values the United States, both at home and abroad...

While George W. Bush may well be the single worst American President in history, 'Cheney and friends represent the single gravest threat to the American Constitution and the 'American experiment' since the Civil War. At the same time, 'Cheney and friends' may very well be the single greatest threat to world peace since the end of the Second World War...


Doubt me? Scooter Libby & Valerie Plame, Cheney's assertion that he can declassify information whenever it suits him politically, his sending 'Torture Tsar' Alberto Gonzales on a nocturnal mission to Ashcroft's hospital-bed for some arm-twisting to try to maintain apparent justification for an unconstitutional spying program, lastly his recent refusal to even allow Congress know who he has met with (while instructing the Secret Service to destroy the visitor logs) aren't enough?..

Now, he's once again making up his own rules on secret documents and even the very basis of Constitutional American government. Witness Dan Froomkin's - Cheney: Neither Here Nor There?, in today's Washington Post.

It seems Dick Cheney is not just ABOVE-THE-LAW, now his office is asserting that it is ABOVE EXECUTIVE ORDERS FROM THE PRESIDENT as well!!

The only explanation I can fathom is that when Bush says he "speaks to God," he really means he speaks to Cheney...

Moreover Cheney's completely delusional. Since he entered office, he's been using any excuse, including claims of "Executive Privilege" to give the once-Republican-controlled Congress a facial excuse to avoid pressure to investigate his doings. Now that a Democratic Congress isn't buying that, he's asserting he's not part of the Executive Branch, but the President is!!! (Apparently he failed Schoolhouse Rock - he was probably out torturing wild animals for fun)

HELLLLLOOOO Skeletor, earth to Cheney: you cannot avail yourself of claims of "Executive Privilege" if you AREN'T part of the Executive Branch!

This man is an outright crook. I don't care WHAT his intentions are. The fact is that evil means to achieve even the best ends are simply E V I L !

If ANY HUMAN BEING BELONGS at Guantanamo Bay, it is the man President Ford said had "terrorism fever" since 9/11: Dick Cheney. Let him share a room with Osama bin-Laden, they already share the same respect for: the most basic human rights, democracy, and just rule flowing only from the consent of those governed.

Note to Cheney: try reading Article 2, Section 1 of the US Constitution- it establishes the Office of Vice President in the Executive Branch... Oh yeah, that's right, who needs to adhere to an old and cumbersome Constitution when we have the theory of the Unitary Executive? Yup, as George W. Bush once said: If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.

In Annie Hall a young Woody Allen said it best about people like Cheney: "What an asshole...."

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