Hey, any guesses what the administration will do to inact the two (used to be one but now TWO) presidential directives? (The one from May 19th and the latest one this week) Not that I am going to jump to any sort of conclusions but.......

Ugh. This whole Congress-Preznit-Supremacist Court thing is like a bad reality show that the networks won't cancel. It's even worse than Laguna Beach.

Just pull the plug.

Ugh, where's my coffee...

@6- Thanks, it's fixed.

General Petraeus: “The War in Iraq is hard, but we’ve Turned a Corner® and we need time to achieve supreme Victory® - six more months, tops!”

Preznit Bush: “Only dirty terrahists question my plans for the Iraqazoids. Go shopping and find Jayzus!”

New York Times: “Anonymous government sources assure us that we’re going to win the Iraq War and the upcoming Iran War – And We Believe Them!”

Democratic Congress: “We’re just innocent bystanders… or we don’t have the votes to do anything… or the Washington media will tell us that we’ll face a massive voter backlash if we try to impeach our Dictators-in-Chief. We’re going to hide under the covers until this whole thing blows over.”

Supremacist Court: “We proclaim that Preznit Bush is your Unitard Executive God, and you must supplicate yourselves immediately. The vote was 5 to 4.”

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/07/20/cheney-to-become-presidentbriefly/

King County also passed a regulation to require nutrition labels on chain restaurant (10+ location) menu boards starting Aug '08. Remember, it was only a few years ago that nutrition and ingredient labels on packaged foods were nonexistent. You had no idea if you were eating packaged foods that had 200 calories or 1000 calories, and you had no idea if the food you were eating contained allergens, carcinogens, or a heaping spoonful of aspartame. That's what's happening at chain restaurants until this law goes into effect.

You might consider labeling laws and food regulations "nanny state laws," but they're for the good of public health. Banning trans fats will save many millions in WA public health spending. The alternative is allowing chain restaurants to save a few cents off the price of a large fries by using poisonous trans fats instead of sliiightly more expensive alternatives, which are indistinguishable to the consumer.

Hmm, would I like my frites done in commercial partially hydrogenated fats? Or would I like them done in vegetable oil or lard? I'd go for option 2, every time.