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      Tuesday, May 5, 2009:
      The following rant by Dr Dreidel on Fark.com

           They farking better put the screws to Bush and Friends.

           Look, after Nixon, the government largely punted on matters of national secrecy and executive power. No one wants to force a Constitutional crisis, but how the bloody blue FARK are we supposed to prevent shiat like Bush pulled from happening again? Obviously the Geneva-farking-Conventions AGAINST TORTURE weren't enough.

           Obama's taking some positive steps, but they're all reactionary - undoing the specifics of the Bush plan (GTMO, adopting the CIA standards to the UCMJ, etc). What we need is some Congressional Legislation, Supreme Court decisions AND Executive orders (covering all 3 branches) that specifically outlaw the types of shenanigans that Bush pulled: -mandating that EVERYONE under US jurisdiction (as the 14th Amdt is kinda vague) is subject to either military or civilian law - either you're tried by civilian courts or a court martial; none of this "neither-here-nor-there" bullshiat

           -Executive Privilege must be limited. I don't care if it has a chilling effect on the executive's decision making process. Make it subject to a secret review by SCOTUS and/or a Congressional panel, but put something other than the president's word on it. We've seen it abused far too often in the last 16 years.

           -Congressional subpoenas CANNOT be ignored. I know Bush and Friends believed they're above the law, but they were working for a CO-EQUAL branch and, as such, are not ABOVE a subpoena. They can show and say nothing (and be cited for contempt), but if a branch of the FEDERAL FARKING government wants to see you in their office, you go. This fits in with the second point.

           -figure out where the VP's office is, and make it stick. Cheney's argument that the VP's office is under whichever branch he says based on the phase of the moon is retarded and counter to the separation of powers doctrine.

           Pro-active legislation that not only undoes the damage, but prevents new damage, cannot be a bad thing, and I am embarrassed by my country's inability to sort out the basics of modern governance. Like NOT torturing people. Like offering even the hardest of criminals a day in court. Like not monkeying around with the system of government and running down the clock until the end of a term with needless "investigations" and bullshiat legal maneuvers to prevent the truth from being known.

           I can't believe things got so out of hand that we still DON'T KNOW the extent of the damage that Bush did to the machinery of government, even 3 months after that pigf*cker left office.



      Monday, December 22, 2008:

           Insults mean something only when coming from a person whose opinions have merit and not from some random microencephaloid troglodyte.

           Under the snow, all cars look like junkers.

           Blueberries taste a lot better than mushrooms. Besides, who would ever make brandy from mushrooms? That's just messed up.



      Awesome Talent... Matthew Rachmajda, aka mattrach on YouTube


           (Grabbed from bash.org)
      <djahandarie> we ain't here to do e-c-e
      <djahandarie> we're here to do c-s-e on the w-e-b
      <djahandarie> listen to me spit these rhymes
      <djahandarie> while i program lines
      <djahandarie> and commit web accessibility crimes
      <djahandarie> word, son
      <http402> You talk like your big on these I-Net kicks,
      <http402> But your shit flows slower than a two-eighty-six.
      <http402> I'm tracking down hosts and nmap scans,
      <http402> While Code Igniter's got you wringing your hands.
      <http402> Cut the crap rap,
      <http402> Or I'll run ettercap,
      <http402> Grab your AIM chat,
      <http402> N' send a PC bitch-slap!
      <http402> peace
      <djahandarie> you're talkin bout down hosts and nmap scans
      <djahandarie> while i got other plans
      <djahandarie> you're at your new job, but you can't even do it right
      <djahandarie> you just create a plight with your http rewrites
      <djahandarie> i've been on the web since the age of three
      <djahandarie> you just got on directly off the bus from mississippi
      <djahandarie> respect yo' elders, bitch
      <http402> You've been webbin' since three, but still ain't grown up,
      <http402> Gotta update your config and send the brain a SIGHUP.
      <http402> You say you're that old? No wonder you're slow!
      <http402> You're knocking at the door while I run this show!
      <http402> Elders my ass, you're shit's still in school,
      <http402> Hunt and pecking at the keyboard like a spaghetti-damned fool,
      <http402> Rim-riffing your hard drive like a tool,
      <http402> Face it. I rule.
      <djahandarie> i erase my harddrives with magnets (bitch)
      <djahandarie> all you can do is troll on the fagnets
      <djahandarie> and son, my brain's wrapped in a nohup
      <djahandarie> it wont be hurt by the words you throwup
      <djahandarie> dont mind me while i emerge my ownage
      <djahandarie> while you're still over there apt-getting your porridge
      <djahandarie> you say i'm still in school
      <djahandarie> but the fact is that i know the rule
      <djahandarie> cuz you need to go back to grade three
      <djahandarie> and you better plea, that they take sucky graduates from c-s-e
      <http402> Time to bend over and apply a patch,
      <http402> Your brain's throwing static like a CD with a scratch.
      <http402> Your connection got nuked and you've met your match.
      <http402> You run a single process like a VAX with a batch.
      <http402> I'd pass the torch to a real winner
      <http402> But it'd just scorch a while-loop spinner
      <http402> Caught in a loop that you cant escape,
      <http402> I run clock cycles around your words and flows,
      <http402> Cuz your rhyme is like a PS fan: it' blows,
      <http402> Your water-cooled lyrics leak and it shows,
      <http402> Take your ass back to alt.paid.for.windows.
      <djahandarie> Good god, I can't even respond to that. :P
      <djahandarie> You win haha
      * http402 takes a bow
      



      Friday, July 4, 2008:
           I woke up this morning with an "Inspected by..." sticker on the back of my left hand. WTF?

           Happy 4th, America.







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