Thanks to Memere’s email delivery service…. with a couple of slight corrections…

The George W Bush Presidential Museum is now in the planning stages. It was supposed to be a library, but the planners kept resigning. You’ll want to be one of the first to make a contribution to this great man’s legacy.

The Museum will include:

• The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction.
• The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you can’t remember anything.
• The Texas Air National Guard Room, where you don’t have to even show up.
• The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don’t let you in.
• The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don’t let you out.
• The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room, which no one will be able to find.
• The Iraq War Room, where they make you go back. After you complete your first tour, they make you return for second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth tours.
• The Dick Cheney Room, in an undisclosed location, complete with shooting gallery. If you have the right connections, you might get there, but there are no promises about your location in relation to the gun.
• The K-Street Project Gift Shop, where you can buy – or just steal – an election.
• The Airport Men’s Room, where you can meet some of your favorite Republican Senators in an informal location.
• Last, but not least, there will be an entire floor devoted to a 7/8 scale model of the President’s ego.

To help you find the President’s accomplishments, the museum will have an electron microscope.

President Bush said that he didn’t care so much about the individual exhibits as long as his museum was better than his father’s.

Republican senator John Warner of Virginia has announced that he is retiring and won’t seek re-election. I wonder if that has anything to do with his recent comments about Iraq. Here’s him trying to clarify/backtrack/whatever – maybe that wasn’t good enough.

White House Spokesman Tony Snow is resigning in September – “I feel terrific. It’s not a health matter. It’s purely financial.” I’ve told people when my money runs out, then I’ve got to go.” Only $168,000 a year just ain’t enough to sling the snow-jobs. He’s gonna hit the lecture circuit.

Lots of buzz about who might replace Gonzales as Attorney General. I sure hope they are wrong about Michael Chertoff being top choice. I don’t see that he’s done so much for the common good in any of this previous positions. I’m also curious as to why no one seems to care that despite his associations with groups like the Federalist Society, he actually carries dual citizenship: to Israel first, and then the USA. And wouldn’t that mean he’d need to be replaced as Secretary of Homeland Security? Can’t these people ever go outside the inner circle?

Here’s something interesting from OpEd News – Why the Right be Hatin’ on Hip Hop, by Min. Paul Scott

A few of the homies have gotten together and recorded a “diss” record aimed at those Right Wing talking heads who have been guilty of “dissing” Hip Hop. (And frankly, a few were thrown in just cuz we don’t like ‘em.) The track, “Drums of War” featuring Big Swagg, Mr. Cox and yours truly can be downloaded at http://www.hiphopstrikesback.com .

Let this be the song that sparks the revolution! The Left’s new anthem that makes the Right shake in their boots! The song that will bring about a wave of social equality that….

OK, I’ll settle for making Bill O’Reilly have nightmares about a bunch of “gangsta rappers” bum rushin’ the No Spin Zone, tying him up and forcing him to watch 48 uninterrupted hours of Black Entertainment Television…

We come in peace (shoot to kill):

Some actions for my fellow armchair activists. Click on the links for more information and to take action.

• Don’t Give Alberto Gonzales the Power to Speed Up Executions. You’ve got to read this just to believe they are even considering it.
• Demand the immediate release of renowned Iranian-American scholar Dr. Haleh Esfandiari, who is imprisoned for the 100th day in Iran’s notorious Evin prison, a location infamous for the torture and detention of political prisoners. Dr. Esfandiari, 68, is the director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
• As a consumer, support workers’ rights at the Tar Heel, North Carolina, Smithfield Foods plant, the largest hog slaughterhouse in the world. The mistreatment of injured workers – and the conduct of Smithfield Foods in past union elections at the Tar Heel plant – is completely unacceptable (and perhaps unlawful too).
• Fat lot of good that it will do, but go tell the Bush administration to reject the proposed Desert Rock power plant. Oppose the plans for a dirty, coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico that would release mercury and other toxic contaminants into the environment, pollute waterways and threaten human health. A “global energy company” and the Dine Power Authority want to build the plant on the eastern edge of the Navajo Nation.
• Sign the petition for an independent investigation that would seek to establish whether the Bush Administration intentionally delayed the capture of Osama Bin Laden in order to justify the invasion of Afghanistan.

Oh, the VEEP – Keep an eye on the Washington Post Cheney 4-part series by Barton Gellman and Jo Becker, which will draw on interviews with 200+ people who worked for, with or in opposition to Cheney’s office.

I hope this will open some eyes.

Part I was published today.

Cheney brought a four-page text, written in strict secrecy by his lawyer. He carried it back out with him after lunch.

In less than an hour, the document traversed a West Wing circuit that gave its words the power of command. It changed hands four times, according to witnesses, with emphatic instructions to bypass staff review. When it returned to the Oval Office, in a blue portfolio embossed with the presidential seal, Bush pulled a felt-tip pen from his pocket and signed without sitting down. Almost no one else had seen the text.

Cheney’s proposal had become a military order from the commander in chief. Foreign terrorism suspects held by the United States were stripped of access to any court — civilian or military, domestic or foreign. They could be confined indefinitely without charges and would be tried, if at all, in closed “military commissions.”

“What the hell just happened?” Secretary of State Colin L. Powell demanded.

Read more…

Oh, and Dick Cheney is still refusing to comply with an executive order governing the handling of classified information. He has treated “as classified” information like the names of industry executives who advised his energy task force, costs and other details about his travel, and Secret Service logs showing who visits his office or official residence. He recently tried to abolish the office that sought to enforce those rules.

Cheney’s office claims it doesn’t have to comply with the order because it is not an “agency” or “entity” within the executive branch, according to Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which is investigating the matter.

Waxman scoffed at the assertion, calling it “an absurdity for the ages.”

“The vice president is pretending he isn’t part of the executive branch and the White House is pretending that the rules for protecting classified information are being followed,” he said in a statement.

“The vice president can’t unilaterally decide he is his own branch of government and exempt himself from important, commonsense safeguards for protecting classified information. And he can’t insist he has the powers of both the executive and the legislature branches but the responsibilities of neither. Our Constitution doesn’t work that way,” he said.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was asked in January to resolve the legal dispute, but he has not yet ruled on the issue.

Other Cheney news bits:

• White House Backs Cheney: Defends Veep On Secrets Exemption
• Bush claims oversight exemption too
• Cheney challenges classified oversight
• White House Defends Cheney’s Refusal of Oversight
• Cheney quietly watched tower fall
• Rahm wants to defund Cheney
• Cheneying Cheney

And here’s a very interesting story…

Will BAE Scandal of Century Bring Down Cheney?

Addendum 6/25: Very interesting that it appears through a Lyndon LaRouche publication. Man. I wouldn’t normally be given to linking anywhere near there, but if this story holds any truth to it… comment if you’ve seen anything about this anywhere else.

Here are some other links, just in case. One person wasn’t able to click through on the above link.

Here is original article by Jeffrey Steinberg (see also Cheney Plots New Wars To Save His Hide):

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2007/3426bae_cheney.html

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/1761/2/

On the same topic, by Lyndon LaRouche:

http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=3545

http://www.just-international.org/article.cfm?newsid=20002298