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Bill Gates, Time Magazine "Person of the Year"
klubar writes "Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, were named Time Magazine "Persons of the Year". He was joined in this honor with Irish rocker Bono-all being named for being "Good Samaritans" who made a difference."
Now it's time for a nitpicking moment:
Can you PROVE, beyond all shadow of a doubt, that the U.S.A. is the MOST IMPORTANT country in the world? Because I'm inclined to disagree with you that there is any single most important country.
I really wanted to change my sig to something witty, but all I could come up with is this.
Signing orders that violated the US Constitution? How's that?
In the past two days, George W Bush has publically confessed to hundreds of counts of wiretapping.
Wiretapping without a court order is a flagrant violation of state and federal laws. And more importantly, it violates the fourth amendment to the US Constitution, something Bush theoretically swore to uphold.
Bush says this is acceptable, because he did it in support of the "war on terrorism". By that same reasoning, police officers can make warrantless searches during the "war on drugs". This reasoning is a justification for vigilantism: you can freely break the law if you've got a good reason, and are too strong for the police to stop you.
Last I checked they were warranted by the Patriot Act.
They were not, but it doesn't matter: an act of Congress does not have the authority to override the US Constitution.