Originally posted by lukster
So, you object to the president interpreting the geneva convention? You think that by applying his own understanding to this he is therefore no longer accountable for his actions? What nonsense.
OK, what a heck, I got few spare minutes.
You see, long time ago somebody came out with “Separation of Powers” concept. Yeah I know, stupid idea. So we got our government split into 3 branches. Their powers are described in articles 1-3 of Constitution.
Executive branch and presidency are defined in article 2. Clause 5 of article 2 says: ‘The President must take care that the laws be faithfully executed’ and not “to interpret” the laws.
President’s interpretation of the laws is not defined in itself, but Hamilton once wrote:
“The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts,” (that is Judicial branch) and “It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body”.
If you don’t know who Hamilton was, here’s a quote for you: ”One of America's foremost constitutional lawyers, he was an influential delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787 and was the leading author of the Federalist Papers (1788), which has been the single most important interpretation of the Constitution ever since”.
So, yeah, when administration wants to push a bill which transfer the power of Judicial branch to the Executive branch, I do object very much indeed.
Maybe it is nonsense as you’ve said, but to old farts like me, constitution means something. That’s probably failure of educational system we went trough, so… Anyways, let just blame Clinton.
Apropos Clinton, and since you’ve already hi-jacked the thread with your first post, I was curious about your repetitive one liners. I asked my friend who’s psychologist and profiler, to help me with the meaning. He said not to worry about, there is none and that you suffer something he calls “Parrot Syndrome”. No worries dangerous only to men, to housewives like you is benign, albeit annoying at the times.
That made me wonder even more, I get often concerned about health of fellow humans – probably signs of my geriatric age, so I called my buddy neurologist and he thought me a thing or two.
Normal human being draw conclusions or create opinion through process called reasoning. I’m not going to bother you with all the types of it, since you’re not using them anyways and would only distract from more important matter.
Basically, all initial information input goes through receptors via some funny cables to CPU where it get processed and later on spit out in form of thoughts, speech, writings or some other form of output. Unfortunately, CPU, CNS or central nervous system (just a fancy name for brain and co) burns helluva lot of energy in process, in some cases up to 40% of our total energy needs.
So, Mother Nature decided to create more efficient human through evolution (ahh blasphemy, lets say God did it), and that’s where you come into equation.
An advanced species you belong to, process info more efficiently, it has a brand new CPU of monocell design which operates at low frequencies (important for favorable EPA ratings).
When high energy efficient species try to communicate with us older less efficient creatures it has to drop seven bits per byte of info. Per se that’s not bad if output is replaced with rhetoric bites which are saved in pre-emptive strike memory and are sometimes flushed and replaced. So where does “Parrot Syndrome” come into play?
Occasionally flush memory will get imprinted with receptors burn in, that is, when you read a post and you don’t get it, the following staring and first imagined response will burn it into retina. Monocell will be bypassed and first response permanently stored into memory and consequently used as the only response no matter what the original input was. But, there’s a good side, it uses even less energy than monocell processing. Cool, eh?
At first I was really concerned about you, but buddy neurologist assured me, that all symptoms will disappear when you die, and now I know, that you in fact are a miracle. Only God himself could come up with something so clever. Makes me feel proud of having the honor talking to you. Thank you sir!
Just imagine, you in fact do more for the energy conservation than all librul-enviro whackos together.
