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Bush says executive privelege means that the Justice department will NEVER prosecute contempt charges for those that refused to testify for congress

Ummm, WOW. I mean, you saw it coming, but you figured he'd at leasst dilly dally to use up some of his time.


Also, just in case you were wondering, September progress reports on the surge are meaningless (unless of course, they provoke an even bigger surge.)

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Supernatural is still in the Thursday slot of DOOOOOOMMM.

God, It sucks when you actually would prefer your show moved to the graveyard of Friday night so it's ratings would have a chance at improving. Stupid smallville and beauty and the geek.

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Eeee, dog macros for those of us not under the tyranny of cats!!

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Long live the constitution United States under Bush.

Bush's magical shield

dknightshade mentioned it, but I found a good picture to go with it. Tomorrow, add a few thoughts for the well being of the USA because Cheney will be the one in power for a couple of hours.

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*cries that my endnote is not compatible with boss's endnote*

Of course, it's probably a function of different versions of MS Word as well as mac versus pc. But still. *pouts*

Yes, yes, this sort of spam is forseen for the next few days. Feel free to filter me out.

Oh boy

If this is what Kieth Olbermann had to say last night, I wonder what tonight's will be like.

And, the longer this presidency goes on, the more facts I learn about Watergate (which my US history classes "conveniently" never got to in high school).

ETA: Ummm, can the media please stop with the "what women wear" crap. While, look, I have no problem with you disagreeing with Hillary's ideas, policies, or what have you. Heck, if you want to dislike her for her demeanor, FINE. But can we focus on substance instead of looks? And I'm not just talking about women either. Let's cut the crap about Edwards and Romney and the rest. Running for president shouldn't be a BEAUTY PAGEANT. And that means, let's ask substantive questions instead of crap like "would abortion be the deciding factor in your supreme court justice nomination" and the like. How about "what's your foreign policy", "how would you address poverty and help those in poverty get higher paying jobs", "is there a better way to address drug addiction rather than criminalizing every single small marijuana possession", "what would you do to aid the states in improving foster care", or even "what would progress in Iraq be defined as".

And if we are going to do the beauty pageant questions, please make it "How would you achieve world peace DURING YOUR PRESIDENCY?" (appended by "prefferarably without going to war to achieve it).

ETA2: and here's the scandalous apparel that brought about this rant. Really, America, it's time to outgrow the Puritanism.

super sweet is only for chocolate --- not fruit

Sometimes, my large portion of my life as an avoider of fruit (oddly, me and veggies always got along) becomes difficult.

It took me a few days to adjust to the pecan pie Lara bars (pecans, almonds, dates). But I did and can now scarf them down admirably and really enjoy them (though, they taste NOTHING like pecan pies. At least, not the pecan pies that my Aunt Juney makes. And trust me, she makes the best!).

After surfing over their website, I decided to try the apple pie bars (dates, almonds, unsweetened apples, walnuts, raisins, and cinnamon). *cough* Mistake (20 dollar mistake). I'm going to send some to my parents to see if they like them before offering them up here. I think I'd be fine with it after some adjustment to the raisins, except there's too much cinnamon. And yes, raisins take an adjustment. I was the weird girl in your kindergarten class that would rather have a beating than eat raisins and marshmellows. Don't ask me why, but both grossed me out. Now, when I find unsulfited raisins, I find them waaaay too sweet on their own. Add that to the overpowering cinnamon and the only way it could be worse is if you dumped a bottle of nutmeg in there (yes, I'm really selling these, aren't I?) I may give them another go, but...gah. Though, if you love cinnamon, I think you'd actually love these. I'm just a cinnamon in moderation girl.

And of course, today, I finally notice that Trader Joes actually sells individual bars of a few Lara bar flavors. Would have been nice to know last week, stupid TJ's. Never putting anything truly useful in your flyers. But I did decide to try out the cashew cookie and the cherry pie prior to dropping moocha bucks on a box.

Cherry pie (dates, almonds and cherries) is much more tolerable than the apple pie. Still a tad too sweet and bit bitey for me, but I can make it through an entire bar (in about an hour). I think once I adjust to the intensity of the dehydrated cherries I'll be good. So the only question will be how I'll deal with the cashew cookie -- I think rather well since it's just cashews and dates. Hopefully unsalted cashews.

However, the good news is I'm not reacting to any of these so far. Some people on the avoiding corn board are reporting issues. Which just goes to show that I should be thankful that I'm not reacting to the amounts of corn that are used for the ethylene gas spraying of fruits and stuff. *yay, body, keep up the good work*

And GIP!! I don't know if I've gotten to use this one for a full post before. heee!

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Umm...okay.

Google docs and spreadsheets changed their layout of the file server...which I actually like better.

And I only know this because a good scene between Bobby and Melinda hit me, poisontaster. :) Some year, I'll actually finish a story for you. But apparently never the one you want if my muse has anything to say about it.