Economics: Presidential HARD-BALL

Hey BUSHKIE/Paulson : GO AWAY. WTF are you trying to do??

700 BILLION dollars and NO oversight???

GO AWAY... and come back AFTER YOU're INDICTED for WAR CRIMES...

CONGRESS: NO OVERSIGHT, NO WAY.

WE WANT oversight. WE WANT judges to ORDER re-negotiation of Mortgages.

BUSHKIE. GO AWAY. YOU RUINED OUR COUNTRY ALREADY.
(Iraq weapons of mass destruction, Domestic SPYING inside ofthe USA)

Oh yeah: and BREAKING the GENEVA convention AGAINST torture.

WATER-Board DICK CHENEY NOW...

These have been MY personal opinions

Oh, want details? ABC news covers the news (via AP of course) and says...

Congress today rebuffed White House pleas to quickly pass its $700 billion Wall Street bailout package without any changes...

and instead drafted bills that would require an oversight board ...and...and... assurances that no taxpayers' money would be used to finance golden parachutes for executives whose companies were at the heart of the economic crisis.

... and ...The Senate proposal went even further than the House bill by including a measure that would give judges the power to rewrite mortgages that were in danger of default to lower monthly payments and avoid foreclosure.

Congress balked at giving Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson a blank check to buy up a mountain of virtually worthless mortgages that posed the biggest threat to the banking industry since the Great Depression. Paulson insisted Sunday that it was only "a matter of days" before credit dried up completely and he argued against any changes to his proposal, including protection for homeowners or a cap on executive compensation.

President Bush added his voice to the urgency of the legislation today and urged Congress to quickly pass the measure and to drop its plans for amendments, saying their demands would "undermine the effectiveness of the plan."

"Indeed, the whole world is watching to see if we can act quickly to shore up our markets," Bush said.

Deputy White House spokesman Tony Fratto later urged Congress to not insist on a cap for executive compensation.

"We certainly understand. Yeah, we do. Bushkie is a TOTALLY immoral, great person to drink with, but I certainly would NEVER want him to run one of my COUNTRIES... OR companies...

Deport HIM to Saudia Arabia.

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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* The current failures only bring us 25% into the problem!!
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

News: Court says FCC Arbitrary and Capricious

Gee.. ABC (via AP of course)

threw out a $550,000 indecency fine against CBS Corp. for the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction."

The three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Federal Communications Commission "acted arbitrarily and capriciously" in issuing the fine for the fleeting image of nudity.

I don't think I was 'officially' blogging then, but I did say that the FCC was STACKED, (JUST LIKE THE 'Supremes') was by our Treasonist in Chief, BUSHKIE.

See also Sally Fields: (yes, the flying Nun!)
From her Emmy award speech last year

The ANSWER my friends:

Is CENSORSHIP in the Wind...
...
The ANSWER is CENSORSHIP in the Wind...


Don't believe ME?

What about:
FISA-Gate: Bush Administration Spys Illegally against American Citizens, then claims
NY Times committed Treason...
NO weapons of Mass Destruction
Illegal Torture AGAINST the Geneva Convention


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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

Time for the Treasoner-In Chief to Be indicted

Interesting... Terry Gross interviewed Scott McClellan the former Bush press secretary today.
She asked him did Ron think that George Bush was actually running the white house, and did Bush actually ever read the newspapers while in the white house..

Link to interview here


Terry actually asked Scott if he thought BUSH had committed any impeachable acts...

But Scott politely punted the question.


I just want to know... .WHEN does the charge of TREASON come up?

George W. Bush HAS committed TREASON against the UNITED States of America.
Forget about his so called 'election' in 2000 (by a 5-4 decision of the SUPREME court)
BUT... BY:

LYING to the American people about Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Deliberately 'outing' a CIA agent, and then Lying about it.
LYING to the American People about Breaking the Geneva Convention against TORTURE.
And by the use of his 'signing statements' which negate the law and make him above the congress and COURTS..

and by making himself the IMPERIAL president!


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(In case you haven't seen this, I believe the CURRENT recession will become a BAD DEPRESSION (Just like the 1930's!)
We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.

We need a new deal.

We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

We need to FIX:
* A Living Wage
* National Single payer Healthcare
* National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Tax Reform
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure
* Lack of Training/futures


See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details on rebuilding society.

Politics: Cheney OUTED on Waterboarding..

Gee... Haven't I said in the past that George Bush was the PUPPET and

THE PUPPET-MASTER was VP Dick Cheney?


Apparently the puppetmaster

was PRESENT and the HIGHEST ranking official in THE GOVERNMENT

THAT approved WATERboarding and 'intense' techniques against prisoners..

See here (AP via ABCnews)

AUGH...

I been avoiding updating... but this forces me again!

RacE: Why I am against HILLARY

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WHY am I not for Hillary?

NOTHING to do with Sexism (even though I'm a male! I swear!)

Reasons why I don't like Hillary (for President)

1. She's related to Bill
2. I don't really want the Second coming of the Clinton "dynasty"
   
1. Someone on WNYC discussed the fact that between BUSHes and the Clintons we will have had TWENTY-EIGHT (28) years of the BUSH/CLINTON dynasty when and if Hillary wins in 2008 and 2012.
   
3. Was I that hateful of Bill's Presidency? NO.
4. And of course, the hateful minority that would NEVER vote for a woman for president.

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2008 Haiku: Impeach Cheney; Pelosi Pardons ; Democracy Restored-- Pass it on

RacE: Why I'm AGAINST OBAMMA

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WHY am I not for OBAMA?

NOTHING to do with RACE (even though I'm white! I swear!)

Top Reasons why I don't like Obama (for President)

1. He's a great Senator, and has great potential once he's seasoned.
2. He's NOT Seasoned.
1. He has (only 2 years) National Service
2. He was a STATE senator before this
3. He's unproven in national and international situations.
3. He is competing against the first woman with a chance to be president.
1. AUGH, could she lose the election (a la Ralph NADER?)
1. Don't FORGET 2000 The Supreme Court annointed the Loser president!
2. Do we REALLY want to split the ENTIRE party NOW?

IN SUMMARY, I am against OBAMA because I am afraid.

NOT of a Black President (may I be alive to see the day when it comes...)
BUT...

Because I am afraid of another REPUBLICIAN RULING (and removing) our failing democracy. for the next four years.

AND I need to explain why I don't (REALLY!) support HILLARY either (see HERE- Eventually!)

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2008 Haiku: Impeach Cheney; Pelosi Pardons ; Democracy Restored-- Pass it on

Stupid iS: as Bush does:

Our Commander in Pajamas has AGAIN said "NO, NO, NO" (today: He is SUPPOSED to claim that HE (again, as Idiot in Chief) will be the ONLY ONE (NOT CONGRESS) to decide WHEN to withdraw the US TROOPS from IRAQ.


The CONTRARIAN says: (as I have said MANY MANY times!)


1) we needed 500,000 GROUND troops in IRAQ 4 years ago to secure the country.
NO troops, no success. THIS is the RESULT!

2) The war to make IRAQ free has ALREADY been LOST.

3) The BEST that we in the US of A can do now is PREVENT mass (two sided) GENOCIDE (aka civil war!)

4) We ABSOLUTELY need to TELL the PRESIDENT without a doubt that WE NEED our troops HOME

5) THE ONLY possible outcome (besides the US being in IRAQ until 2027) is that
THE UNITED NATIONS agrees to send in a MULTI-National force, to help the US.

5a) THe US must commit to at least 150,000 troops to support this UN force.


We have NO choice, we can SAY we will bring the troops home, but it is NOT feasible and is actually NOT the morally responsible thing to do now.

We need the following:

• Congressional children enlisting and going to IRAQ
• IMPEACHMENT of Dick CHENEY
• A National Reconciliation Commision, chaired by congress.
• All those testifying will receive immunity from PROSECUTION, but must answer EVERY Question, and NAME names.

• The Defense budget and War allocations must NOT be "special" allocations, but must go into the regular PENTAGON funding bills .
• We need to start socializing that Bush W has started the modern equivalent of the 100 year wars.

• The Hundred years wars were NOT called that originally. (Doy!)
• George Bush,and the NEO-CONS have managed to create an IMPOSSIBLE situation. PERMANENT WAR with NO consequenses for themselves

WE need a truth and reconcilliation commision NOW....
Either that or IMPEACHMENT, and then a WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL!

PoliticS: Impeach The MotherFuc*er Already!

HE had the BALLS to COMMUTE Scooter LIBBY's SENTENCE?

Send the MoFo DIRECTLY to his TRIAL for torture!

what a set of IRON balls this dick has! *

*as of 6/2/07 at 10:42, we're STILL protected by freedom of speech

But based on NSPD 51 I bet it doesn't last much longer....

Until then, Mr. President, I salute you, . . . with my Middle finger...

And guess what folks, I heard on the radio the possibility that DICK CHENEY might be brought up on ARTICLES of IMPEACHMENT.

Cut HIS BALLS ANDHeart out!

Father's DaY: Take ONE.

Cartoon Fantasy time

This is my fathers day.

I am a father. Good or Bad.
It's father's day; for your Dad.
Being a father is somewhat tough,
the bumps it give are very rough
but, so so sorry if it made you mad.

Take one

DICTATOR BUSH: lookie at latest BULLTURDS-update

Thanks to SKIPPY for catching this BULLSHIT from our PRESIDENT.

Thanks to Darrin Bell (cartoonist of CANDORVILLE) for this cartoon!



What SKIPPY CAUGHT!
The original is apparently HERE

The ORIGINAL Press release from WHITE HOUSE

WHAT it MEANS

Billy Joel said:
Say GoodBye to HollyWOOD Say goodbye my baby.

I say
Say goodbye to Democracy Say Hello Dictator BUSH

OK. As USUAL a paragraph by paragraph analysis:
Captioning for the brain impaired!

President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement,on May 9 signed a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the president.

President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement,
BUSH TRIED to slip this one past by WITHOUT COMMENT

>>>on May 9
15 Days ago!

>>>signed a directive
A LAW that was NOT voted or even LOOKED at by CONGRESS

>>>that granted near dictatorial powers

dic·ta·tor:
a person exercising absolute power, esp. a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession.
SO our PRESIDENT can now create a DICTATOR

>>>to the office of the president
THAT is TO HIMSELF (and his OFFICE)

>>>in the event of a national emergency

Hmmm,THE press release says:
...snip...national emergency..
..snip..."Catastrophic Emergency" means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions;
...So, if we have EXTRAordinary disruption...

>>>declared by the president.

so HE can declare himself, the OFFICE of the DICTATOR!

Hey we finished a paragraph!!

The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive," with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive, establishes under the office of president a new National Continuity Coordinator.

>>>The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive
Fancy talk for LAW implemented by HIMSELF, rather then by CONGRESS

>>>with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive
So important, he issues the same thing TWICE!

>>>establishes under the office of president a new National Continuity Coordinator
Ah, A new bureaucratic title,the NCC.

That job, as the document describes, is to make plans for "National Essential Functions" of all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments, as well as private sector organizations to continue functioning under the president's directives in the event of a national emergency.

>>>to make plans for "National Essential Functions"

The Job ...snip...makes Plans (MS-PROJECT!) for National Essential Functions"

>>> of all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments,
...{review: Makes plans for} all {federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal} governments

>>> as well as private sector organizations
...and... {also plans for}private sector organizations.

>>>to continue functioning
{review: PLANS for take overs of ALL government AND private groups} so they continue to work

>>>under the president's directives
under the president's ORDERS!!!!

>>>in the event of a national emergency.
{or in case he declares an EMERGENCY!}

The executive order loosely defines "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions."

>>> doy, already covered this above..
See ABOVE, where it says "The press release"

When the president determines a catastrophic emergency has occurred, the president can take over all government functions and direct all private sector activities to ensure we will emerge from the emergency with an "enduring constitutional government."

>>>When the president determines a catastrophic emergency has occurred,
or, when he decides he wants to stay in power... after 2008 (because giving in to democrats would be giving in to TERRORISTS...

>>>the president can take over all government functions
Yeah, we get it...Like a...hmmm D*I*C*T*A*T*O*R

>>> and direct all private sector activities
Yeah, LIKE A DICTATOR...

>>>to ensure we will emerge from the emergency with an "enduring constitutional government.
Yeah RIGHT! IF the emergency EVER ends. EGYPT has been under emergency for over 27 years

And in the IRONY is Still here category

Ironically, the executive order sees no contradiction in the assumption of dictatorial powers by the president with the goal of maintaining constitutional continuity through an emergency.

>>>
No comment needed.

The directive specifies that the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism will be designated as the National Continuity Coordinator.

...snip...specifies that ...snip...the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism will be designated THE NEW DICTATOR of the UNITED states!
{under the instructions of the first dictator (bush the first)}

>>> Currently, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism is Frances Fragos Townsend.

Townsend spent 13 years at the Justice Department before moving to the U.S. Coast Guard where she served as Assistant Commandant for Intelligence.
So we can technically say, MADAME dictator!

SORRY I can't finish this, I am too sick

Please forward this post to your local news agency and ask why they aren't covering this??

This has been NEWS for the short attention span!

Bush and Peace (send Nancy Pelosi to Iran/Terhan--NOW)!

OK. Let's brainstorm a moment.

Lets PRETEND that "43" has a REAL brain.

Let's pretend that he knows that his days as "dictator" are over.

Let's say that he actually CARES about his future reputation and would like to have ONE positive contribution to his legacy.

What if.... (and it's a HUGE if) the President (having realized that all of his policies have FAILED)
decides that his CURRENT IRAN policy has also failed.

What if... He decides that he can take advantage of the democratic victory, by sending the HEAD of the US opposition (NANCY Pelosi), to Terhan, as an ambassador to negotiate/achieve a peace.

Hey. Don't laugh so hard.

It IS conceivable that Bush might actually now have a slight grasp on reality.
If he does, and he cares about his legacy, he might realize that his so called "Iran" policy has also failed.

And if he did, Nancy might get the best possible results.
REMEMBER--The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Bush is the Enemy of Iran. Pelosi is (now?) the enemy of Bush.
With any luck the enemy of Bush will become the friend of Iran, and
attempt to convince them to join the NON-Nuclear club!

However far fetched, it might actually happen

Techdirt: Major Diebold Voting Machine Security Hole Discovered... Again

Techdirt: Major Diebold Voting Machine Security Hole Discovered... Again

I'm getting sick of this.

How Many F#$$#&* holes in the voting system's OS are we supposed to put up with BEFORE we are granted permission to examine it, and disect it so it is safer...

See also here in The Register

Hey if you don't believe ME, Listen to Avi Rubin, computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University. *** and a former colleague of Markbrown, when they used to work at AT&T Labs, before the bottom fell out, and they fired all their research staff. He says, "It's the deal breaker. It really makes the security flaws that we found (in prior years) look trivial."

'nuff said.

So I predict that our GREAT (future) dictator will make sure DIEbold is put in as the ONLY choice in the HAVA update he'll have the "congress" (aka RUBBER STAMP) pass.
Then he'll really be able to put Jeb in Office, even if Jeb doesnt even RUN for president.

This is SOOOO good I have to quote the Register (thanks guys...)

When Bruce Funk called in BlackBoxVoting to look at some strange memory issues with Diebold voting systems in Utah, finding the "nuclear bomb" of e-voting security was not on his agenda.

As the auditor and clerk for Emery County, a large rural bite out of the middle of Utah, Funk had noticed that the county's voting machines - provided by Diebold - were having various maintenance issues. Because Utah had adopted a requirement for a verified voter paper audit trail - essentially a printout of a person's vote - Funk needed the printers to work flawlessly. However, they frequently jammed. Moreover, electrical cords had pulled out from the machines with components attached. Those issues made Funk believe the machines may not have been new, but refurbished.

A Diebold technician told the county auditor early this year that any components with problems would have to be replaced. Funk decided to do a manual check of the systems to find any other issues and discovered that the machines had a variety of different file sizes on backup memory. Uncertain why that should be and wanting an independent opinion, he contacted the e-voting muckraking group BlackBoxVoting to come and look at one of the systems, he said.

In March, BlackBoxVoting flew in Harri Hursti, a Finnish voting-machine security expert with whom the group had frequently collaborated. Funk remembers that he was surprised by what Hursti could do with only poll-worker-level access to the machine.

"He was able to - from the keyboard that appears on the machine - create a macro that doesn't even show up that you created it, go and pickup a program through the modem, and run it," Funk said during an interview with SecurityFocus from his home in Clawson, Utah. "I was thinking that this was not right."

As Hursti got more familiar with the machine, he and members of BlackBoxVoting, who were videotaping the process, became more concerned, Funk said.

"It became so serious, that my concern about memory was minor," he said. "They told me that the information that they'd found had to go to certain federal agencies and certain things had to be done before the issues were made public."

Officials in Utah apparently were not concerned with the security of the systems, but with what they considered a breach in authorization. State officials and representatives of Diebold told Funk that he had cost the county more than $40,000 in damages because Diebold technicians would have to return to the county and recertify the systems, according to transcripts of the public parts of an April meeting in Emery County published by BlackBoxVoting.

"The reason that we’re here today is because Mr. Funk, on his own, has gone outside that system and compromised the integrity of not only Emery County’s elections, but also the State of Utah and any other jurisdiction of the United States that is using this equipment, simply because he wouldn’t call and ask these questions that these people and the Lieutenant Governor’s staff know the answers to," said Utah's State elections director, Michael Cragun, according to the transcript. "It seems to me it’s inappropriate to be in this meeting now answering these questions he should have asked before he compromised the integrity of this system."

The officials asked for Funk's resignation, which he gave verbally at the meeting.

"They basically said that they have people that want to have you removed," Funk said. "This whole weight fell on me and I said, 'I'm so tired, just let me out.'"

By the next morning, he decided to fight the process, but he was informed that a verbal agreement to resign was enough, he said. Calls to both Diebold and the office of the governor of Utah by SecurityFocus were not returned.

Meanwhile, Funk maintains that he did what the county's voters elected him to do: Look out for their interests in a fair election process.

"Basically, (Utah officials) tried to portray BlackBoxVoting as some radical organization, and they portrayed me as a renegade villain," he said. "They don't want this to come out, but it needs to come out at a national level."

Holy Bullshit Batman.


And they made the poor guy RESIGN???! ha ha ha

PolIticS: White House Lies (again, and again) *updated* 5-2-06

caption: Bush’s contention that he can ignore provisions of the Patriot Act, whose renewal he ushered last month, has drawn scrutiny. (Jim Young/ Reuters)

Benjamin over at Politics, Compassion, and Justice (PoCo&Ju)
pointed out a VERY interesting post over at The Boston Globe



Benjamin said it succinctly here:

President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.

Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, "whistle-blower" protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research.

Legal scholars say the scope and aggression of Bush's assertions that he can bypass laws represent a concerted effort to expand his power at the expense of Congress, upsetting the balance between the branches of government. The Constitution is clear in assigning to Congress the power to write the laws and to the president a duty "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Bush, however, has repeatedly declared that he does not need to "execute" a law he believes is unconstitutional.

The Globe continues:

Many legal scholars say they believe that Bush's theory about his own powers goes too far and that he is seizing for himself some of the law-making role of Congress and the Constitution-interpreting role of the courts.

For the first five years of Bush's presidency, his legal claims attracted little attention in Congress or the media. Then, twice in recent months, Bush drew scrutiny after challenging new laws: a torture ban and a requirement that he give detailed reports to Congress about how he is using the Patriot Act.

THROW this DICTATOR in JAIL. Forget IMPEACHMENT..
MAKE IT TREASON!

PoLiTicS: V is for IMPEACHMENT

Oh. Just got taken to see Natalie Portman's new movie. V is for Vendetta.

Previously, I mentioned I was in Love with her....despite her being young enough to be my daughter....

But REALLY this is about V.

For those of you who still know how to read (sorry, I know you all do if you're here reading this, I just couldn't resist). Think George Orwell's, 1984.
Then think of the Dictator currently running the USA.

Then think of a BRILLIANT way of GETTING rid of said dictator, and restoring life!

That is V is for Vendetta in a nutshell.

Actually, the movie takes place in London, and takes place after the USA has split after a Civil War, precipitated by (CURRENT Mid Eastern Wars...)
Go See it.
Fantastic...