a caption speaks 1000 words

today's Times of India had this on it's front page:



these guys should do a blog.

dvtv live broadcast 7.26.07

in the White House tonight, the wagons are circled - the trenches are dug. the sandbags piled high.
the Bush administration is under siege on several fronts.
not only are there calls for impeachment proceedings against the president - not only are there calls for impeachment proceedings against the vice president - not only are there calls for contempt of congress charges against the president’s most trusted aides - wait –there’s more. today the highest-ranking law enforcement official in the land – the Attorney General of the US– is facing perjury charges.
appearing before Congress today FBI Director Robert Mueller gave testimony that contradicts the testimony Attorney General Alberto Gonzales gave the senate on Tuesday.
FBI director Mueller told the House Judiciary Committee today that the warrantless wiretaps program were the reason for the now-famous midnight meeting in 2004 with a hospital-bedridden and sedated then-Attorney-General John Ashcroft. on Tuesday, Gonzales had denied this, and today the Justice Department said Gonzales stands by his testimony.
but wait –there’s still more. Sen. Pat Leahy, D-Vermont, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena for Bush’s head political advisor Karl Rove about the DOJ’s firing of us attorneys last year which sparked the Judiciary committee hearings in the first place.
this ups the ante in this ongoing constitutional battle, even though the president has already stated that he would not permit rove to testify.
Leahy also issued a subpoena for deputy political director J. Scott Jennings.

"The Bush-Cheney White House,”

Leahy said in issuing the subpoenas,

“continues to place great strains on our constitutional system of checks and balances…not since the darkest days of the Nixon administration have we seen efforts to corrupt federal law enforcement for partisan political gain and such efforts to avoid accountability."

as i said – the wagons are circled - the trenches are dug. the sandbags piled high. an entrenched, embattled Bush administration is determined that it will serve out the remaining five-hundred-forty-three days in office. why? no doubt there is unfinished business. it’s not enough that the United States is losing two wars, that the military is clearly stretched too thin, that weary soldiers embark on their fifth tour of duty of Iraq, that tens of thousands of paid military contractors are transforming the us armed forces into a private, for-profit corporation. there is unfinished business for the Bush-Cheney white house – dark, dank secret programs that hint at the termination of democracy as a form of government in the united states. but what do i know – i may just be a paranoid lefty. i don’t think i’m paranoid-because i’m not alone in my thinking.
let’s listen to a far more conservative voice – from a man who was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Ronald Regan. Paul Craig Roberts wrote a recent column on impeachment for counterpunch.org. here’s how he began:

“Unless congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the us could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran.
Bush has put in place all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of "executive orders" that are triggered whenever Bush declares a national emergency.”

you can hardly call an Assistant Treasury Secretary under Reagan- the man called the father of Reaganomics -a paranoid lefty. Roberts feels all the executive orders are in place to give unchecked, unlimited power to the executive branch, and that Bush and Cheney will soon invoke that power to extend the Iraq war. while it took a Pearl-Harbor-like event – September 11th - to enable the start of the Bush-Cheney coup – Roberts warns us that a total dictatorship is now possible merely by a presidential declaration. furthermore, this Republican stalwart cites ominous hints of imminent national disaster – Homeland Security chief Chertoff’s gut feeling of a terror attack on US soil soon.
Robert’s column is titled “Impeach Now or Face the End of Constitutional Democracy”
so: do we leave Bush and Cheney in office for the next eighteen months and let them finish their demolition of our constitutional democracy?
or do we impeach the motherfuckers now?
the studio lines are open for you to express your opinion at 212 757 1393. this is dvtv live, it’s the twenty-sixth of July Two Thousand Seven….

five polyps and the red tow truck

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will assume presidential duties today

while Bush’s doctor (Air Force Brig. Gen. Richard J. Tubb) gets all up inside of him later today, the “rarely invoked” 25th amendment will allow Vice President Cheney (shot a guy in the face last year) to become acting president. (This guy was his friend.) This will actually be the second time Cheney (he was an old guy too) takes the reins: in June, 2002 bush had a similar procedure and Cheney (four days later the old guy apologized) took office for just over two hours. (The old guy still had lead shotgun pellets in his heart valve.)

why do I think the big Dick (with the big stick, above) might just take advantage of the situation and try to pull something whilst Bush is under, having his colon oscopied?

$3 !?

after yesterday's word about the revival of the congestion pricing plan for Manhattan - now it seems that the MTA board will meet wednesday to discuss - wait for it - the three-dollar transit fare! ta-daaaahhh!

so lemme get this straight - you can drive into Manhattan in your pollution-gushing SUV from Brooklyn, the Bronx or Queens for free (!?) - but on clean-green public transit, three bucks?

PLEASE SWIPE AGAIN
AT THIS TURNSTYLE

where are those squeegee guys when you need them?

dvtv live broadcast 7.12.07

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Texas warned us about Bush, too

here's the (13 minute) video that the 280,000 member International Association of Firefighters (IAFF, AFL-CIO, CLC) released about Rudy and his appalling lack of leadership on the day he is celebrated for his so very heroic leadership. (from their website Rudy Giuliani: Urban Legend)

dvtv live broadcast 7.05.07

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you knew this

a few minutes from a fascinating BBC documentary series dealing with the fabrication of al-Qaeda by US law enforcement.

and another thing

from bush's statement on commuting libby:

"The consequences of his felony conviction on his former life as a lawyer, public servant, and private citizen will be long-lasting"

upon hearing this the reasonable concerned citizen might utter:

"when a lawyer is convicted in a federal fucking court of fucking perjury, ob-fucking-struction of justice and lying to fucking investigators, the consequences usually is motherfucker!."

btw: the statement isn't posted onwhitehouse.gov.

expect terror alerts.

get out of jail, pay $250,000?!

bush has just commuted "scooter" Libby's jail sentence.
he called the sentence "excessive". excessive?? this sentence was well within the federal guidelines, something bush has hammered throughout his term.
the written statement called it "a harsh sentence based in part on allegations never presented to the jury." wtf? 30 months?!
from the next hurrah:

"[Bush] Made sure that Scooter wouldn't flip rather than do jail time. He commuted Libby's sentence, guaranteeing not only that Libby wouldn't talk, but retaining Libby's right to invoke the Fifth.
This amounts to nothing less than obstruction of justice.
....a guy who is pushing to restore minimum sentencing laws says that Libby's sentencing--which was the minimum according to the guidelines, was too tough..."

i'm ashamed to be an american sometimes. like now.
can you say "quid pro quo"?

secret: terror "spectacular" opens wednesday?

abc news is reporting of a "secret U.S. law enforcement report" warning of an al queda terror "spectacular" for the summer, attributing the news to "a senior official with access to the document".
said senior official says that the warning is "reminiscent of the warnings and intelligence we were getting in the summer of 2001".
(here's a link, but you just read about all of the details.)
now, it's a secret, only it was leaked by a "senior official with access to the document". is anything ever leaked by this administration by accident? doubtful.
saturday, abcnews.com reported that:

U.S. law enforcement officials received intelligence reports two weeks ago warning of a possible terror attack in Glasgow against "airport infrastructure or aircraft," a senior US law enforcement official tells the Blotter on ABCNews.com.

The warnings were kept secret for operational reasons, according to officials.

these warnings seemed to have been kept secret from law enforcement officials in Glasgow as well.