Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
AP:
Government lawyers told federal judges that the president can send the military into any U.S. neighborhood, capture a citizen and hold him in prison without charge, indefinitely.
There is little middle ground between the two sides in al-Marri’s case, which is before a federal appeals court in Virginia. The government says the president needs this power to keep the nation safe. Al-Marri’s lawyers say that as long as the president can detain anyone he wants, nobody is safe.
Land of the free…as long as the government allows you to be free.
Posted by Smithers at 8:26 pm in Politics | Permalink | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Friday morning, I wake up and get the kids ready to go to day care. Mrs. Smithers is going to drop them off for a half day so she and I can get some work done before we go out of town for the weekend.
I get the kids changed, fed and dressed and loaded into the car and Mrs. Smithers is off on her way. She drops off the kids without incident.
Dog Smithers has to go to the kennel for the weekend because we don’t have enough room in the car to bring him with. But before he goes to the kennel he has to go to the Vet becuase all his vaccinations are due and the kennel won’t let him in without an update. So I take him to the Vet and, in the course of his blood checks, he pulls the needle out of his leg twice in his joy at visiting the Vet. By the time I get him out of there he has bandages on both legs and my shirt is covered with blood. I drop him off at the kennel and the kennel employees are horrified at the blood on my shirt. I say nothing, the dog is happy to be there.
Back home I have some quick packing to do before I go to work for a few hours. I also change my shirt. During the course of the packing I realize that I can not get into the front garage door. See previous post. Pissed off, I throw some crap in a bag and go to work.
Upon my arrival to work I get a message from Mrs. Smithers that Toddler Smithers is getting kicked out of day care due to a fever. She picks up Toddler and Baby Smithers and brings them to the doctor where he is diagnosed with an ear infection. As Target always takes 20 minutes longer to fill a prescription than they tell you it will be, Mrs. Smithers decides to drop off the prescription so I can pick it up on the way home.
As she is heading home I get a call from the garage door company. The technician can’t find our house. I give him directions to the house. He then calls back and says that he can’t find anything wrong with the garage. I tell him he needs to check the front garage, not the back garage. Mrs. Smithers takes over upon her arrival at home.
I try and get some work done and then bail for the weekend and head over to Target to pick up the prescription. Once back at home I see that the garage door technician has opened the door and determined the cause of the problem. It seems that the door switch has a "lock" option and, last Sunday when I allowed Toddler Smithers the opportunity to close the garage door, he hit the "lock" button preventing the door from being opened by remote.
Mrs. Smithers and I are now on auto-pilot. We know what has to be done to get out of town and we are on schedule. The kids seem happy and allow us to concentrate on finishing packing and loading up the car. Once the car is loaded Mrs. Smithers opts to give Baby Smithers one last bottle for the road so she will have a full belly and be more likely to sleep.
But now Baby Smithers feels warm.
Back to the doctor’s office (where I took this picture Steve E). Another ear infection, this time for Baby Smithers. Back to Target for another prescription. It takes 20 minutes longer than they said it would so we sit in the parking lot at Subway and eat a sandwich.
We finally get on the road 3 hours late.
Other than that everything went exactly to plan.
Posted by Smithers at 3:21 pm in Family | Permalink | 5 Comments »
