And for some reason, it seems like the perfect song to catch the Mood of the Moment. Thanks probably to the paranoia-simulating bass line.
Anya: Are you stupid or something? Giles: Allow me to answer that question with a firing.
'Sleeper'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Fred Pete - Aug 17, 2006 9:08:13 am PDT #3182 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Kat - Aug 17, 2006 9:11:59 am PDT #3183 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
AH! earworm central.
I'm feeling all wound down, like whatever is next is going to be less fun than I'd like for it to be.
Nora Deirdre - Aug 17, 2006 9:15:43 am PDT #3184 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Judge orders NSA to halt wiretapping program. It appears to be unconstitutional!
Dana - Aug 17, 2006 9:18:15 am PDT #3185 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It appears to be unconstitutional!
You don't say.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 17, 2006 9:18:53 am PDT #3186 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I call Xena for teh Gays! It's named after one of our own. Let's colonize, bitches!
Haven't we had first right of refusal for Ganymede since the 1600s?
Jessica - Aug 17, 2006 9:19:57 am PDT #3187 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It appears to be unconstitutional!
I am shocked, SHOCKED, SHOC--wait, no. What's the opposite of shocked?
Nutty - Aug 17, 2006 9:20:50 am PDT #3188 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Judge orders NSA to halt wiretapping program.
Okay, it was even funnier when I thought you'd typed NASA.
Ailleann - Aug 17, 2006 9:21:56 am PDT #3189 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
bon bon - Aug 17, 2006 9:23:18 am PDT #3190 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Thank you for the Crazy mention.
Good news for today: monthly departmental luncheon where the topic was "a surprise." We were to "prepare to be challenged", which no one looked forward to. However, it turned out to be a trivia contest among tables randomly composed of associates and partners-- trivia on firm history, identifying pictures of staff, paralegals and lawyers, legal questions, a sudoku, logic games/reasoning from the LSAT...and my table (the only one sans partner but with enough midlevels/senior associates to remember who the staff is) won! Our prize has something to do with the firm's sports tickets. Best department lunch ever!
tommyrot - Aug 17, 2006 9:31:59 am PDT #3191 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
An analysis of the text of the decision in the NSA spying thing: [link]
eta: Judge Diggs Taylor wrote:
In this case, if the teachings of Youngstown are law, the separation of powers doctrine has been violated. The president undisputably has violated the provisions of FISA for a five-year period. Justice Black wrote, in Youngstown:
Nor can the seizure order be sustained because of the several constitutional provisions that grant executive power to the President. In the framework of our Constitution, the President's power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a lawmaker. The Constitution limits his functions in the lawmaking process to the recommending of laws he thinks wise and the vetoing of laws he thinks bad. And the Constitution is neither silent nor equivocal about who make laws which the President is to execute. The first section of the first article says that `All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States * * *'
The President's order does not direct that a congressional policy be executed in a manner prescribed by Congress - it directs that a presidential policy be executed in a manner prescribed by the President. . . . The Constitution did not subject this law-making power of Congress to presidential or military supervision or control. Youngstown, 343 U.S. at 587-588.
These secret authorization orders must, like the executive order in that case, fall. They violate the Separation of Powers ordained by the very Constitution of which this President is a creature.