OMG I HAD A FRIEND IN HIGHSCHOOL WHO HAD A RANCH IN REFUGIO!!!

In my head we are like long lost cousins now. t /ridiculous.

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As has been clear for some time, the Bush administration lacks an understanding of and/or a belief in the most basic principles of our system of government.

Here is Tony Snow today (via Atrios), defending the president's "signing statements" and responding to this question: "But isn't it the Supreme Court that's supposed to decide whether laws are unconstitutional or not?"

Snow: "No, as a matter of fact the president has an obligation to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. That is an obligation that presidents have enacted through signing statements going back to Jefferson. So, while the Supreme Court can be an arbiter of the Constitution, the fact is the President is the one, the only person who, by the Constitution, is given the responsibility to preserve, protect, and defend that document, so it is perfectly consistent with presidential authority under the Constitution itself."

See, I admire Mr. Snow, as there's no way in Hell I could say that bullshit with a straight face.

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eta: two more quotes:

James Madison, in Federalist Papers No. 47: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

Morpheus: "I imagine you feel like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole."

I forgot one of my fave driving CDs--American Idiot by Green Day.

Billie Joe Armstrong, mmm.

OMG I HAD A FRIEND IN HIGHSCHOOL WHO HAD A RANCH IN REFUGIO!!!

CRAZY!!! It's so teeny tiny. I still have cousins there. I haven't been back in a while (last time was when I moved back east in 1995 the year after my grandparents died) but my folks go there every year or so. And my one cousin John who is the maintenance man at the Catholic church there and who sounds just like Boomhauer (sp?) from King of the Hill comes out this way for vacation every year.

In my head we are like long lost cousins now.

haha! I'd be honored!

do y'all pronounce it refiurio?

lisah went to school in the same town as I did for college and now lives very near where I am sitting. msbelle's relatives worked in the schools when in my hometown when I was there and I think she actually lived there too (though not when I did...I don't think) and now the two of them have bizarre unlikely connections to podunk and this is all very strange. Because neither of you are quakers and that's usually the way my worlds get all tangled. Or prove to be tangled. And how didn't I meet y'all sooner?

do y'all pronounce it refiurio?

HAH! I had a paragraph in my last post about that and deleted it because I figured you already knew. But, yes. Of course! My (very white) family has been there for like 150 years.

A page from my great-grandfather's memoirs. Perhaps of interest to Deadwood fans.

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And how didn't I meet y'all sooner?

I KNOW! I love making connections like this. Small world!

There are tornado warnings south and east of me.

It's freaky.

Right here: it's not even windy or raining.

Hey! I'm south and east of you. t crawls under desk