Exceptions

Via wingedkami... this is just sad, no matter where you come from on the issue.

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I just heard a 'thump' outside my front door and went to investigate...

Buzzy is a bad, bad squirrel.

If I may quote from the note that came with the package:

merree frithmus artblaks! i hoape u enjoie havinge thiz az muche az ive enjoied *makinge* u have ite. yor frend, -buzzy

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Remember how, about a month ago, I opined that it would be unethical and a dangerous precedent to use emergency provisions to impose a Democratic president on people who'd voted for a Republican?

Democrat senator Tim Johnson has been hospitalised with 'stroke-like symptoms' and is now undergoing brain surgery. If he is unable to serve out his term, the state governor - who is a Republican - can appoint anybody he likes as a replacement, as long as they meet the normal legal requirements for senators.

I submit that if the Democrats had announced a plan to impeach both Bush and Cheney and so install Pelosi as President, they would not now be able to make a strong case for why the governor should pick a Democrat. Or, and this is more likely to be an issue, a bona fide Democrat - when a similar situation occurred in Australia, the state governor in question selected a stooge who was on paper a Labor Party member but could be relied upon to help topple the Labor government of the day.