I may have new pictures of mac. I will know at lunch. HEE!
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
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.
msbelle, how EXCITING!
Put all that together and you really do have the danger of taking emergency measures for wartime and transforming a peace-time constitution into an essentially martial system, where every citizen or non-citizen can be apprehended at will and detained without charge. I repeat: this is a huge deal. It really should be a huge deal for conservatives who care about restraining government power.
I think there is a big problem right now in what I like to call cheerleader politics where people defend the policies of people on their team even if they don't agree with the policies themselves. How many people (on both sides) would take a 180 degree turn in their stance on issues such as the war in Iraq if it was Al Gore as president instead of George Bush? The same people who criticized Clinton non-stop during his use of the military in the Balkans now demand that everyone support the president when our troops are in the field. (I'm sure there were those on the left who have done just the opposite but it's they don't have national TV and radio shows so they aren't very visible).
Excellent!
(er...that was to msbelle and mac; not the partisan cheerleaders)
YAY
I have skipped and now regret it. Find out what?
Then I saw this article in the morning paper and knew I had to share it with Tep.
"He has gigantic hands,''
What a nice way to perk up my workday!
Msbelle, how exciting!
The football player's pretty cute, too (there's a photo with that article). Best part was finding out that "the CFL measures just about every aspect of a player before the draft." Hmmmmm, I say.
Speaking of winter coming, yesterday I told the Blue-Eyed Boy that soon it would be dark when he got up to go to school and dark when he came home. Being six, he thought that was kewl instead of depressing.
On my flight back from the UK yesterday, they showed a PSA on What To Expect If You're A Nasty And Suspicious Looking Foreigner Coming To Our Glorious Shores Of Liberty and Wonderfulness (note: not real title), and it was...scary. Not even so much that non-US citizens are required to digitally scan in their fingerprints before entering the country, but the tone of the video gave me deep deep chills. "Welcome to America, where we only want to track your every movement because we love you so very very much! Almost as much as we love FREEDOM!"
That, and the jackass immigration agent (giving DH shit about being born in Pakistan, made a "yuk" face when we told him we'd been in Europe -- hello, you're a freaking immigration officer! The only people you see all day are people who are returning from countries which are not America!) gave me a very bad taste in my mouth about coming back.
The NY Times finally finds its spine:
Last week, the White House and three Republican senators announced a terrible deal on this legislation that gave Mr. Bush most of what he wanted, including a blanket waiver for crimes Americans may have committed in the service of his antiterrorism policies. Then Vice President Dick Cheney and his willing lawmakers rewrote the rest of the measure so that it would give Mr. Bush the power to jail pretty much anyone he wants for as long as he wants without charging them, to unilaterally reinterpret the Geneva Conventions, to authorize what normal people consider torture, and to deny justice to hundreds of men captured in error.