Diary and Other Rantings

Oct 27, 2005

Today in history - the gunfight at the OK corral.

Today in history - the gunfight at the OK corral. Tombstone, Arizona in 1881.

The White House lawyers (would this involve Ms. Miers?) have demanded that the Onion - a spoof website, cease and desist from using the presidential seal in its parodies on Bush speeches. They also decided to make it difficult for folks to steal their image and use it in other anti-Bush websites. If you go to whitehouse.gov and try and save the image of the presidential seal, you'll find out it has been chopped into three pieces and assembled onscreen.

But never fear because I have grabbed the pieces and assembled them back into a single image for you. Be warned - the White House does not look kindly on using this image in an inappropriate manner.

Bush is great

Figure 1: Example of appropriate use of presidential seal.

Bush sucks

Figure 2: Example of inappropriate use of presidential seal.

Speaking of whitehouse.gov, I notice a press release buried in yesterday's flurry of propaganda. The president signed an executive order continuing the national state of emergency over weapons of mass destruction that was initially signed into law by Clinton in 1994. Did you know that we are under a national state of emergency? In fact since 1933 the office of the president has been granted extraordinary powers half a dozen or more times under emergency rules which have suspended the constitution. These powers are legally binding and have never been revoked.

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