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News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant More P... - 8/13/2006 9:00:08 PM   
Daddy4UdderSlut


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Status: offline 		Drafting the new Presidential Empowerment Act, our fearless leader is working overtime to ensure the safety and security of the nation:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51140
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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/13/2006 9:02:06 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Daddy4UdderSlut

Drafting the new Presidential Empowerment Act, our fearless leader is working overtime to ensure the safety and security of the nation:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51140



the Onion is sooooo not a serious news source... call it a tabliod if nothing else

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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/13/2006 9:05:11 PM   
Daddy4UdderSlut


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ORIGINAL: dincubus

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ORIGINAL: Daddy4UdderSlut

Drafting the new Presidential Empowerment Act, our fearless leader is working overtime to ensure the safety and security of the nation:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51140



the Onion is sooooo not a serious news source... call it a tabliod if nothing else

Yep, I'd call it satire - but they have some pretty funny pieces!

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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/13/2006 9:09:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		It is satire, never was intended as anyhting else. Bit of a wrench to put it in the off-topic forums without "Onion Reports:" oer something to that effect.

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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/14/2006 3:18:34 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Daddy4UdderSlut

Drafting the new Presidential Empowerment Act, our fearless leader is working overtime to ensure the safety and security of the nation:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51140



Great news article…. It totally identifies with part of the ‘’Federalist Society’’ dogma known as the ''Unitary Executive'' - Also a ''Straussian'' concept

It’s an unconstitutional doctrine that grants absolute dictatorial powers to the ''President'' during times of national crisis / emergency. It completely undermines the checks and balances / separation of powers built into the system  

Total proof that ever since 9-11 they have been very committed in calling for a ‘’roll back’’ of post-Watergate infringements related to Presidential power.   

As was one longtime poster mentioned some time ago  '' We are ripe for Dictator. People are STARVING for someone to take charge and be pragmatic to the issues at hand. With one more or larger scale 9/11 this may seem like the good old days. ''    


Sad but true....



 - R

Edited to add:  Some think its funny.... but read Samuel Alito's dossier {with regard to  the Senate questioning his participation  in the ''Federalist  Society'' }  

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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/14/2006 8:17:46 AM   
Dauric


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Status: offline 		Err... you do know that "The Onion" is a humor magazine that makes the articles up from thin air right? They bring up valid and timely  issues, but no article from The Onion can be considered as proof of anything.

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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/14/2006 8:29:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		the onion at its finest, here is today's HEADLINE

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51561

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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/14/2006 8:31:00 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Daddy4UdderSlut

Drafting the new Presidential Empowerment Act, our fearless leader is working overtime to ensure the safety and security of the nation:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51140



Please tell me this is a tongue in cheek article? Puuuuuuuuuuuulllllllllllllllllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese.

(because if it's real;.. I wonder if anyone is thinking I was that far off compairing Hitler's rise to power and dictatorship to Bush's regeime?)  I wouldn't put it past him to try for a 3rd Term-saying  "Y'all NEED Me to FIX this world!"

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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/14/2006 8:35:53 AM   
Dauric


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Status: offline 		Everything in "The Onion" is tounge-in-cheek. It isn't a news source, it's satire of news and current events.

That said I agree that President Noxious-Weed would say exactly that.

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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/14/2006 8:47:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thank you!  No- I had never heard of the Onion before :)  But gee.. if someone could actually THINK something like that might be possible.. what's that say about our present situation?  (Other than I'm gullible as hell! My evil brotherss liked that about me.)

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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/14/2006 8:56:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		Of course didn't you know that GW Bush uses the Onion as his main source of worldly information.... Now of course he'll try to follow the lead of the faithfull Onion and go for a new executive powers like President for Life, Adopting Iraq as the newest State of the Union. Who knows he may ever adopt Isreal as another fully fledged US State as well.... I'm sure the NSC owns and runs CM to get a wider knowledge of what his subjects are doing too. Perhaps we are all part of the Bush Intelligence Think-Tank

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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/14/2006 8:58:52 AM   
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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/14/2006 9:00:13 AM   
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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/14/2006 9:02:20 AM   
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ORIGINAL: IronBear

Of course didn't you know that GW Bush uses the Onion as his main source of worldly information.... Now of course he'll try to follow the lead of the faithfull Onion and go for a new executive powers like President for Life, Adopting Iraq as the newest State of the Union. Who knows he may ever adopt Isreal as another fully fledged US State as well.... I'm sure the NSC owns and runs CM to get a wider knowledge of what his subjects are doing too. Perhaps we are all part of the Bush Intelligence Think-Tank


Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwww :) LOL!

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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/14/2006 12:32:01 PM   
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ORIGINAL: LotusSong

Thank you!  No- I had never heard of the Onion before :)  But gee.. if someone could actually THINK something like that might be possible.. what's that say about our present situation?

*LOL* Yep, as noted above (perhaps not loudly enough) The Onion is satire.  They take some strange/unsettling ideas that are in the news a lot (like Bush usurping governmental powers), and then exaggerate them to be beyond strange.  I was *ROLLING* when I read this one!

Here are a couple of other goodies...
That always free-spending NASA with a new idea...
"NASA Announces Plan To Launch $700 Million Into Space"
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/47977

If you recall Dick Cheney campaigning for re-election during the 2004 season with a pitch of "Re-elect us or die!", you'll enjoy...
"Cheney Vows To Attack U.S. If Kerry Elected"
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30742

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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/14/2006 12:44:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		That particular article is a joke. But they are working to broaden and reinterpret presidential power.
http://www.volokh.com/posts/1155016617.shtml


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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/14/2006 12:51:30 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Daddy4UdderSlut

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ORIGINAL: LotusSong

Thank you!  No- I had never heard of the Onion before :)  But gee.. if someone could actually THINK something like that might be possible.. what's that say about our present situation?

*LOL* Yep, as noted above (perhaps not loudly enough) The Onion is satire.  They take some strange/unsettling ideas that are in the news a lot (like Bush usurping governmental powers), and then exaggerate them to be beyond strange.  I was *ROLLING* when I read this one!

Here are a couple of other goodies...
That always free-spending NASA with a new idea...
"NASA Announces Plan To Launch $700 Million Into Space"
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/47977

If you recall Dick Cheney campaigning for re-election during the 2004 season with a pitch of "Re-elect us or die!", you'll enjoy...
"Cheney Vows To Attack U.S. If Kerry Elected"
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30742



This is what I thought it may have been an off-shoot of:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws/

"signing statements"

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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/14/2006 1:12:07 PM   
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ORIGINAL: LotusSong
This is what I thought it may have been an off-shoot of:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws/

"signing statements"

It absolutely is an off-shoot of that.  A great many legal scholars and historians have said that Mr. Bush has made a completely unprecedented expansion of presidential powers, often with questionable legal basis for doing so.  I am neither a historian nor a legal scholar, but I don't think that everyone can be wrong.

In any case, I just thought The Onion article was very funny... I grow a little tired of the bickering in some of the threads is all, and thought others might appreciate a little levity.

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RE: News Flash! Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant Mo... - 8/14/2006 1:19:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		The Onion is satire, but what makes it 'humorous', is that it's not far from the truth.  Bush, through his signing statements has noted in writing that he will not be bound by more than 750 laws passed by congress.  He has created more signing statements than every other President in history combined.  I do believe Bush thinks he is above the law, thus granting himself the option to disobey 750+ laws.  The Onion, while, it's humerous and un-newsworthy, can also be frighteningly accurate.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws/

Edited to note:  I was typing my post while LotusSong posted hers...  excuse the duplicate reference, etc.  

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