Not banned, just strongly discouraged. My personal feeling is that it's 2009 and the Secret Service should learn to work with it.
Wait. People? She eats people? 'To Serve Man.' It's 'To Serve Man' all over again.
Gunn ,'Power Play'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
Jessica - Jan 22, 2009 7:26:32 am PST #3035 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Kathy A - Jan 22, 2009 7:29:40 am PST #3036 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
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).
Steph L. - Jan 22, 2009 7:31:30 am PST #3037 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
juliana - Jan 22, 2009 7:35:02 am PST #3038 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
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.
Trudy Booth - Jan 22, 2009 7:35:16 am PST #3039 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Obama to Bush: I Can Release Your Records. Don't Like It? Sue.
I'll be in my bunk.
juliana - Jan 22, 2009 7:35:31 am PST #3040 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Le oops. Double-postiness!
Miracleman - Jan 22, 2009 7:36:54 am PST #3041 of 30000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
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!
Steph L. - Jan 22, 2009 7:38:04 am PST #3042 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Future generations should have a textbook of the Bush/Cheney years.
As written by Miracleman.
Jessica - Jan 22, 2009 7:40:40 am PST #3043 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
You know, I thought Jon Stewart was kidding when he said Obama would need a week to fix the Middle East.
Now I'm wondering if that was a conservative estimate...
Jesse - Jan 22, 2009 7:42:04 am PST #3044 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not banned, just strongly discouraged. My personal feeling is that it's 2009 and the Secret Service should learn to work with it.
And someone smart enough to be president is probably smart enough not to use email for things like "OK, see you at noon at 14th and K!" or "Go ahead and bomb the shit out of those losers."
ION, I just tried this new bagel place by my office, and it was good, except the "everything" bagel didn't have salt on it. The place sells salt bagels! If I had known there would be no salt on the everything bagel, I would have just gotten the salt bagel. Ah well.