OT, but just the thing to get your morning off to a rollicking start (it’s 7:06 a.m. here in SoCal):

Apparently, Mitt Romney’s two favorite books are the Bible and “Battlefield Earth,” by L. Ron Hubbard.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes…..ard-novel/

That’s inspiring, or reassuring, or … something, I guess.

woo-hoo! OT but funny as a spaghetti spew!

Battlefield Earth The Movie featured Jon Travolta as Earth’s evil / stupid Alien Overlord, who was left minus an arm and scrambling to cover his ass after one of his Earthling slaves nuked the Home Planet via SUICIDE BOMB.

“He’s alive… he’s alive!!”

Ed*ard Teller says

Several of those who spoke to Yitzhaki told Haaretz afterward that they had discussed the need to replace Olmert immediately…

Student groups from all over Israel joined residents of the western Negev town of Sderot and army reservists for a protest march on Tuesday, calling on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz to resign.

Time for Sharon to suffer a miraculous “un-stroke”?

Rise from the dead? All Olmert has to do is come to the US, where he’s sure to be invited to speak before the Senate. His talk will be met with a standing ovation, followed by an unsolicited, unanimously voted resolution of support by our trusted representatives. That’ll kick-start his approval ratings for sure…

You remember, the kind of treatment Sharon received in the middle of his no-confidence votes from the Knesset?

Thanks TireFed. As you said, and the part I don’t get but wasn’t able to articulate, ” AG doesn’t have hire/fire authority unless delegated to him in writing. US Code only gives President authority to remove U.S. Attorneys.”

So how can this action by Gonzalez be anything but illegal? Is this another piece of hay to add to the stack?

only one way this is legal – if there is a written delegation of authority from POTUS to AG giving him authority to fire U.S. Attorneys. No other way around it. And these were removals, not resignations. They told these folks to leave by a date certain.

Mornin’ Christy and Firepups,

Selise,

wiki

On April 13, 2007 the administration submitted legislation to Congress (Title IV of the Fiscal Year 2008 Intelligence Authorization Act [31]) requesting that FISA be amended “to bring FISA up to date with the revolution in telecommunications technology that has taken place since 1978, while continuing to protect the privacy interests of persons located in the United States.”

their footnote #’s 31 & 32 (fact sheet) are in pdf

the only thing on Senator Finegold’s website basically says ‘not as advertised and in fact, expanded powers for the Chimp’

EFF has this in html format – but it’s 66 pages and way above this hippy’s paygrade :)

EFF

thank you! missed your comment earlier…. glad i found it now.

So how can this action by Gonzalez be anything but illegal? Is this another piece of hay to add to the stack?