How did I not know that Grace Park and Tahmoh Penikett are married? I'm really out of the geekTV gossip loop!
My kingdom for a serial comma!
Section 8 (which ironically reminds one of the popular name of the portion of the 1937 Housing Act that paved the way for subsidized affordable housing ) of this legislation is just a single sentence of thirty-two words, but it represents a significant consolidation of power and an abdication of oversight authority that's so flat-out astounding that it ought to set one's hair on fire. It reads, in its entirety:
Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.
Yeah, that's not the Section 8 I'm reminded of.
Happy to be of help.
I was wracking my brain all morning trying to come up with that word, and then I flashed on an episode of Python (which is also what made me click on twit). I checked wikipedia to see if it was also something inappropriate, but I can't find anything except that it's supposed to be a stronger insult than "twit".
Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.
Would that passage even get by the Supreme Court when this little bit of legislation is reviewed for constitutionality? I would think that any laws passed to grant broad executive branch powers free of legislative and judicial oversight would have to be made via amendment to the Constitution.
That's pre-9/11 thinking, Matt.
(Also, to the best of my knowledge the SC doesn't review anything for constitutionality - they step in if and when a suit is filed and makes it's way to that level. Say around 2014. I don't know if that's an absolute, if they could step in in extraordinary circumstances. But I sure doubt this bunch is likely to even if they have that power.)
Rick Sanchez just quoted my tweet on the air on CNN. Nothing stranger than hearing "Cashmere says" on teevee.
This Wonkette post cracked me up - is that wrong?:
New Lincoln Penny Honors Republican Homosexuals
Now that American Capitalism has completely failed and the U.S. currency is even more worthless, the folks at the U.S. Mint are having some fun by releasing this new Lincoln Penny, which reminds us that all Republicans are terrible closet-case homosexuals having grim bathroom encounters in these Log Cabins on the edge of town, by the interstate rest stop.
Abraham Lincoln was our first gay president. As a social liberal, he thought slavery was “wrong,” so he freed the slaves and attempted to kill all the Southern whites, so America could heal. But many white Southerners survived, including Jesse Helms and George Allen, and that’s why we still have all these problems today, as Trent Lott famously noted.
Lincoln was enjoying his favorite pastime — seeing RENT at a Washington theater — when a wingnut blogger killed him.
Glad you're well, Shir, thanks for reassuring us.
I can't log into the Bank of America website. Grr.
I'm blanking on my logo project for my sister. Grr.
My cheek scar is suddenly pinker than Allyson's wall. Grr.
eta: no grr about Shir checking in, but a general grr for the violence.
Glad to hear you're ok Shir.
Speaking of the financial crisis, I was just thinking maybe I should write a letter to WaMu offering to lend them some money at a low introductory rate of 7.9% APR. increasing to 19% after the first three months
