President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.
[NYU law professor David] Golove said that to the extent Bush is interpreting the Constitution in defiance of the Supreme Court’s precedents, he threatens to ”overturn the existing structures of constitutional law.”
A president who ignores the court, backed by a Congress that is unwilling to challenge him, Golove said, can make the Constitution simply ”disappear.”
Most people think that in order to get somewhere, they have to work hard. They’re only partially right. While working hard can be a pathway to success, there are easier ways of doing it. This is called working smarter, not harder. And that’s what we’re going to talk about here.
My very good friend Vicki was married yesterday to her new husband, Alan. (Good men share a good name. Hehehe.) Deidre and I were there, enjoying the ceremony and reception, and I took over 200 photos.
They had an ‘official’ photographer who was a friend who offered to take the photos for free. I was their unofficial backup. Which was good, ’cause the other guy seemed to hang around at the back of the church, while I was up the front from all kinds of different angles, getting all the good shots. The other guy was there for photos between the ceremony and reception, but then he disappeared and was never seen again. So it’s a good thing I continued getting all the good photos.
I’ll be putting them up on a website somewhere, so guests, etc, can see samples and then choose to buy those they want to. I’ll put some of the best in my own photo blog as well.
Due to Deidre’s allergies, and how badly they’re affected by the house we’re in, we agreed to ‘invest’ in her health. As a result, I bought a secondhand Kirby vacuum cleaner. It’s a model that I used to sell from 1990 - 92, but the real value of it is that it really cleans the carpets and gets the dirt and dust out of them (as well as lounge suites, curtains, beds and pillows, and all kinds of other stuff). I’m hoping that Deidre’s health will improve as a result of the new, super-charged cleaning I’ll be doing.
Two years of selling them, and cleaning other people’s houses while trying to sell them, makes me an expert on using them. They’re a pleasure to use! And now we have one of our own.
One of the biggest issues many men have is their girlfriend or partner having friendships with other men. Why is this? It’s because men know what other men are like.
Most men think with their small head rather than their big head, and their sex drive influences their relationships. (Read my article on platonic relationships for more information on this.) If a man finds a woman sexually attractive, he will often do what he can to see how far he can go. He’ll flirt and put on his best behaviour. He’ll be an ‘extra special friend’ to the woman he’s attracted to, just in case she might be attracted to him as a result of his efforts.
In base terms - and from the man’s perspective - there’s always a mating ritual going on, even if the subject of the ritual is someone else’s mate.
Why do so many men act like wimps around women?There’s a lot of men in this world who act like absolute wimps around women (maybe you’re one of them?). Why do they do this? Mainly for the simple reason that they believe that by being nice, they’ll be liked by the woman they’re interested in.
Most of these men haven’t learnt or understood that it’s more important to make a woman be attracted to them, than to make her like them. ‘Attraction’ creates chemistry which leads onto intimate relationships, while ‘like’ creates friendships or nothing at all.
This is exceptional news! Star Trek XI is soon going to be made, directed by the same guy who created Lost. The story is going to apparently centre on the early days of Kirk and Spock, when they met and went on their very first mission.
Wooohooo! I’ll be following this with great interest!
I posted the below comment on a blog post over here. It’s such a shame that stupid right-wing commenters prefer hiding their heads in the sand. I posted this comment, which the loser deleted, ’cause he obviously doesn’t want to debate the truth. Hey, I know people can delete any comments they like, but he asked for left wingers to comment, but then deletes their comments, while continuing to ask for them to comment. Like most right-wingers, he wants to stifle debate and hide the truth, suppressing the very freedoms they say they promote. Fracking idiots, the lot of ‘em.
I’ll ignore the insults, as I’d like to think that you’re more intelligent than someone who uses insults to disguise their lack of intelligence. That can’t be you, right?
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