happy new year everyone…
moe is going to orlando for a week. she’s attending some veterinary conference and taking some continuing education workshops, but she’s not taking me, because i’ve got to stay at home and take care of the pets.
i finally bought some beading needles, and made a sivalingam necklace. there are more to be made (i’ve got 9 more sivalingams) and i hope to be able to sell them on Hybrid Elephant
i joined the jew’s harp guild, which i didn’t even know existed before reading
St. Gordy of Boenghytte proposed a public ritual vegetable sacrifice some time soon, and i suggested that he nominate some weekend day as “Tinite New Year” with the specific purpose of holding another public ritual vegetable sacrifice on that day. now i’ve got to wait until he actually does it. hopefully it will be some time before october…
“It’s pretty stunning that, rather than focus on whether the president broke his oath of office and broke federal law, they are going after the whistleblowers.”
– Anthony D. Romero, executive director, ACLU, on the Justice Department probe of the leak of the warrantless eavesdropping
2005 was the year that the president of the United States declared proudly that he had broken the law repeatedly and with full intention, that he had the power to do so whenever he wanted to, and that he would continue to do so whenever he determined it to be desirable. This declaration was met with basic approval from much of the beltway chattering classes, prominent libertarian bloggers, and just about every small government conservative.
The issue is simple: Bush has declared that one man has the right to make the law whenever, in his determination, national security warrants it. While even I can understand the necessity of broad executive powers in emergency situations, we aren’t anywhere close to being in one of those. If Bush decides that personally shooting dissident bloggers or pesky journalists in the head is in fact necessary for national security, then no one can object. The fact that he has not, as far as we know, done any such thing does not matter in the slightest. By conferring dictatorial authority on himself Bush has declared that this is, in fact, a dictatorship even if he hasn’t (yet) bothered using such authorities to the fullest of his claimed ability.
It’s a mystery why Russert and the gang can giggle over their little roundtables, essentially ignoring what amounts to a military coup by our own president. He’s asserted the authority of commander in chief over the entire country, and not just the military to which the constitution grants him such authority. Yes, we hope and generally assume that this temper tantrum by our boy king will pass in 3 years, that the his overreach will not have long lasting effects, that the crisis will pass.
2005 was the year the president declared he was the law, and few of our elite opinion makers and shapers bothered to notice, or care.
well, i guess i’ll accept it… especially since there really is no founder for hinduism… but at the same time, i took the quiz 3 times, and i only got Buddha twice. the other time i got Jesus, and i simply couldn’t put up with that…
| Siddhartha Gautama You two would probably really get along! |
| Founder of Buddhism “All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?” |
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Religion Founder You Resemble Test written by Stinkbot. |