••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Tuesday, June 26, 2007


WASHINGTON - House Democrats, responding to Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that his office is exempt from certain national security disclosure requirements, said Tuesday they will try to strip some of his funding.


4th branch authoritah


we may never know if daily show and colbert report writers pick material independently or coordinate work to get another slant on news they deem worthy.

either way, last night both noted vp cheney's assertion that he's not in the executive branch contradicts his past claim of executive privilege.

it's illogical for him to want his office viewed as legislative when the opposition has a majority, so both shows extended the idea into a fourth branch of government.

news media used to be called that. for about 25 years they've abdicated their responsibility to keep us informed, so it was inevitable that somebody would enter the vacuum, supplant their mission with its mirror image, and keep us uninformed, misinformed, &/or disinformed.

one satirist aptly morphed the branch into a club to beat down critics, but another sense of 'club' also applies, since cheney doesn't work alone.

he used his earlier stance to avoid revealing who his energy task force met with. the new position defends his disregard of mandated procedures for handling classified info.

of course, both have to do with secrecy and control, two hallmarks of bush-cheney sometimes said to be causally related—i.e., personal power depends on keeping secrets.

what's new is a subtle demand to respect the vp's supposed authority to do whatever he wants however he wants to do it.

condi rice used to say 'you can't have it both ways.' apparently dick cheney can. he's not just darth vader now. he's eric cartman too.

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