So typically Presidents are banned from using email?

I'm just not sure it's worth it anymore.

Obama signs executive order to close Gitmo within 1 year. Also to require that interrogations follow the Army Field Manual (i.e., NO TORTURE, BITCHEZ): [link]

Seriously, in this parallel universe, can I have whiter teeth and a perfect singing voice?

Not banned, just strongly discouraged. My personal feeling is that it's 2009 and the Secret Service should learn to work with it.

Oh, this is good: Obama to Bush: I Can Release Your Records. Don't Like It? Sue.

On his first day in office, President Obama put former president Bush on notice. His administration just released an executive order that will make it difficult for Bush to shield his White House records--and those of former Vice President Dick Cheney--from public scrutiny by invoking the doctrine of executive privilege. Shortly after taking office, Bush handed down his own executive order, amending the Presidential Records Act to give current and past presidents, along with their heirs, veto power over the release of presidential records, which are considered the property of the American people.

"[Obama]'s putting former presidents on notice that if you want to continue a claim of executive privilege that [Obama] doesn't think is well-placed, you're going to have to go to court," says Anne Weismann, the chief counsel for Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (CREW).

Oh, this is good: Obama to Bush: I Can Release Your Records. Don't Like It? Sue.

Oh my fucking god.

He's EVEN BETTER than I had hoped.

I think I'm swooning.

Oh, this is good: Obama to Bush: I Can Release Your Records. Don't Like It? Sue.

AWESOME.

Also, awwwww, Aretha (talking about singing on Tuesday): [link]

Yesterday, Mother Nature was not very kind to me. I'm going to deal with her when I get home. It, by no means, was my standard. I was not happy with it, but I just feel blessed because it could have been five above zero or five below zero like it is in Detroit.

I was still blessed to be able to pretty much just sing the melody, but I wasn't happy with it, of course.

Don't worry, Your Highness. Your "below-standard" is miles above most others' "OMGAWESOME." And your hat kicked all sorts of ass.

Obama to Bush: I Can Release Your Records. Don't Like It? Sue.

I'll be in my bunk.

Le oops. Double-postiness!

Oh, this is good: Obama to Bush: I Can Release Your Records. Don't Like It? Sue.

Bush: He cain't do that! Can he do that?

Cheney: We'll fight that son of a bitch to the bitter end.

Bush: I mean...do those records include...everything?

Cheney: Probably.

Bush: Even, you know...cell phone...stuff?

Cheney: "Cell phone stuff"?

Bush: Well, I, uh...I took my cell phone, see and as a joke, you know...I, uh...stuck it down my drawers and took a picture.

Cheney: Crap. So did I.

*beat*

Bush/Cheney: CALL MY LAWYER!

Future generations should have a textbook of the Bush/Cheney years.

As written by Miracleman.