Bush IS Violating Constitution; Net Neutrality

BUSH IS VIOLATING CONSTITUTION

According to a task force group from the American Bar Association, President Bush continuing trend of signing personal exceptions to laws he has just signed violate the U.S. Constitution.

"The ABA group, which includes a one-time FBI director and former federal appeals court judge, said the president has overstepped his authority in attaching challenges to hundreds of new laws.

"The attachments, known as bill-signing statements, say Bush reserves a right to revise, interpret or disregard measures on national security and constitutional grounds."

"ABA's president, Michael Greco: . . ."If left unchecked, the president's practice does grave harm to the separation of powers doctrine, and the system of checks and balances that have sustained our democracy for more than two centuries."

-CNN.com

President Bush has about 800 of these "bill-signing statements", while ALL the other Presidents combined have signed about 600. So, it appears that the President is indeed completely bypassing federal & constitutional laws which have stood for over 200 years.

Use the CNN.com link above to read the whole story. I anxiously wait for the 2008 elections.

NET NEUTRALITY

So there's been this debate about "Net Neutrality" going on lately. Basically (if you don't know about it) some people want to make an "express lane" for information transfer for "accredited" companies. Google, Amazon, eBay, and news channel websites would be among these.

Most smaller and personal websites, such as small businesses or, ahem, blogs probably would be among those to use the fast lane. Most of these websites would be required to use the slow lane, and have slower transfer times...meaning pages load slower & info doesn't get to you as quickly.

While it's something to be concerned about, as that would be WRONG to do, but why not have a little fun with it? Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who heads the committee on the internet, does an excellent job in describing the internet & how it works.

Then the Daily Show does a good job explaining what the net neutrality act means to you.

You have to understand Democratic humor to get it, though. Until next time...

-Adam

Middle East Headed To War...Again

Well, it appears that Israel & Palestinian militant group Hezbollah have escalated their conflict into a conflict, which, if eitherside is provoked in certain ways, could be turned into an all-out war.

In most countries of the world, when you exchange bomb and missle fire with another country, you're already at war. But in the Middle East, especially that area, it's reported that they're heading for a "major conflict". Israel & their Palestinian enemies are the only two countries in the would that can begin & end wars in days, without anyone winning or losing. And a few years later, it will happen again...and again.

If the U.S. would have been in this situation (thank God we haven't), we'd be at WAR by now. Of course, we'd discover, one way or another, that Cuba has some old militants lying around and end up invading them instead.

I don't think it helped matters when the U.S. vetoed the U.N. resolution condemning the attacks & that Israel pull out of Lebanon. Yes, we're their friends and allies, but sometimes, even friends make mistakes, and they need to know when you don't support their actions.

Will Israel & Hezbollah go to war, or will they make some sort of "roadmap" peace deal, which could last anywhere from 2 days to 2 decades. Every hour this conflict changes, evolving into a new campaign with new rules. Lets hope and pray for peace, before all chances of peace between these countries are lost altogether.

Let's also hope that the U.S. stays out of this for a while. Lets, for once, only help if we're called upon, or if their conflict threatens to harm innocent countries. Basically, not another Iraq.

-Adam
Source: CNN.com-UPDATES,
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