Grrrr....

According to this news story, our president can choose (and has chosen) to throw our Constitution's democratic system of checks and balances right out the window. (If you are unfamiliar with the Separation of Powers, which keeps us from becoming a autocracy, please read up on it at this link.) It seems that by writing a little thing called a "signing statement", a president can pretty much say *screw you* to Congress. Signing statements were pretty rare items until the Reagan adminstration. Looks like the slide to fascism is getting more and more slippery each day....

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It sure will be fun to watch the dominos fall due to the fallout from the Abramoff guilty pleas. And as a sidenote, I'm NOT a fashion maven by any means since I live my life mostly in jeans and tshirts, but wearing a baseball cap with a suit? To court? WTF is that about? My 6th grade teacher used to stand by the door and pull caps off the kids' heads as they walked in if they didn't take them off upon entering the school building. I can just imagine Mr. H reaching out and yanking the cap from Jack Abramoff's head as he enters the courtroom, lol.

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I was listening to talk radio today and heard a caller ("Andrew from California") make one of the coolest statements I'd heard in a long time. You know those statements - the kind that make you look at the radio and shout, "YES!!!" as though you've just had the best orgasm ever. Anyhow, "Andrew" was taking issue with the fact that some people think that the military GIVES us our freedom. He argued that we are given our freedom by the Constitution. The military is there to protect US when OUR freedom is threatened.

I like that. Let's get our troops back home to protect OUR national security, OUR people, OUR country. Here.

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And if we all could only have half the balls this man did, the world would be a much better place. I wish him peace.