Weddings and Politics. Yee-haw!

Click here to head over to our wedding blog to see a post created by none-other than miss liz herself concerning our wedding and some pictures.

In other news, i realized that i listen to waay waaaaay too much NPR this week. I take a lot of quiet solace in my ability to listen to the world's happenings with my smug hipster elitism set on high as i take my double dose of the morning and evening commute.

I've actually begun carpooling with another Lieutenant who lives in the Fort and works in my Squadron, and am scared to ask whether or not he detests the station, because, well, i don't know if i could live without it.

But, in conversation this week with a coworker, we were examing President Bush's signature on a certificate, doing our best to determine if it was indeed authentic. It was at this point the following tirade began to flow from my own face:

"Well, it very well may be his signature, it's not like he's been wearing out his hands signing much else. I mean, he just signed a veto on a bill for the first time in his entire presidency last month over stem cell semantics. You know, most presidents have signed dozens of vetos by the time their first term is over, let alone halfway through their second term. And i know it has something to do with the fact that he basically owns both the house and the senate, but if you could say anything about the changing face of politics in this country is that it is getting harder and harder to be able to stick to a party line with a straight face, and yet he finally signs his first veto after 6 years -- and it is motivated completely by his own sense of morality and i would argue the 'christian' vote! Though really, another explanation has to do with the way that the president has signed all of those other bills with his texan scrawl in using the line-item approval and his presidential signing statements. Basically, in his administration's interpretation of the constitution's expression of the executive branch's power, he can sign these bills into law with a P.S. tacked onto the end of it explaining his opinion on the litigation and basically changing the point of the entire document if he so wishes. (sidenote - for the best example of this, look here for what Bush signed on top of the Anti-Torture bill at the end of last year.) It has been done before by previous presidents, yes, but as seems to be the credo of this adminstration, never at the level of what they are doing now. This all ties into the giant wire-tapping case that is going on right now in which they basically violated a lot of people's civil liberties in the name of security and terrorism. Which really amazes me, i mean, what is next? And even scarier, could we be finding out even crazier things in the next months that has already happened without our knowledge? There were ways to do what that program was (is) doing completely legally and still on the sly so as to not bring attention to it, the simple question is why didn't they approach the courts before they simply ignored FIZA? It really boggles me."

Yikes, yea, i know. I should explain that it was the end of a work day, and when i am tired the rants that build up in my brain find the exit valve a lot more easily than when i am more astutely aware of my surroundings. (e.g., this all happend after 4 in the afternoon.. and on an air force base. heh.)

Sorry to divulge into politics, but, i can't help it. I promise to post tomorrow about the nice hike that we took this weekend and the bouldering that i did last night. Honest.