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Remember I said yesterday:

We’ll crank up things next week or so, once the games commence. See you then.

Well, next week came early.&#160 Buffalo’s other&#160 team, the Bills (not, of course, to be confused with the Bulls) take on the Tennesee Titans this evening in Canton, OH for the Hall of Fame game.&#160 (This is the year that former C’boy Bob Hayes gets inducted, so there’s a tie.)

I’m not handicapping this game; I don’t care who wins; I don’t care if you pooh-pooh the fact that it’s even less-than-preseason football.&#160 It’s live, dammit, and I haven’t had that in six months.&#160

UPDATE:&#160 Tennessee 21, Buffalo 18.

Throwback Day at Canton.&#160 Beefalo wore their old whites with the white helmet/red standing (grazing?) buffalo; Tennessee wore their old Houston Oiler (Columbia) blue with the blue helmet (oil derrick, not trimmed in red this time).&#160 Very nice.

The PFW will return Friday or so for the Cowboy preseason opener.

(Hat tip:&#160 Dan Riehl, whose Fine Blog&#153 is getting blogrolled posthaste.)

One of the things about which the Demoscum constantly squeamed
the last eight years or so was President Bush’s use of something called a “signing statement”.&#160 When Dubya signed a bill and enacted it into law, he would also issue a statement advising how he would interpret said law – whether there were parts he’d treat differently than what the Imperial Socialist Congress&#153 intended, or simply ignore whole parts of said law.&#160 These “signing statements” were generally used to get around parts of bills Dubya correctly interpreted to be bullshit attempts on infringement of his responsibilities as Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces, but were used for other purposes on occasion.

(Such an example of the aforementioned squeaming can be found here – if&#160 you have the stomach for it.)

In fact, one of the aforementioned (yes, that’s the Word Of The Day&#153 – why do you ask?) Demoscummic critics of said Dubya practice was one B. HUSSEIN!!!!!&#160 Obambi.&#160 Here, see for yourself:

So it is a great curiosity that the Ayatollah…seems to have developed an affinity for the practice.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, The Won denounced President Bush’s use of signing statements as an “abuse” after he used them to authorize officials to bypass laws like a torture ban and oversight provisions of the USA Patriot Act.

Since taking office, The Won has relaxed his notion of what he deems to be appropriate signing statements and on July 21, 2009 Representatives Barney Frank (D-MA) and David R. Obey (D-WI), sent a letter to Obama complaining about one of his signing statements.

“During the previous administration, all of us were critical of the president’s assertion that he could pick and choose which aspects of Congressional statutes he was required to enforce. We were therefore chagrined to see you appear to express a similar attitude. The policy of using signing statements to assert the right of the White House to ignore certain provisions of legislation regarding the IMF, the World Bank, and other international financial institutions may result not in the invalidation of those various provisions, but rather in insufficient Congressional support for further funding of these institutions.”

Obama said he could disregard the negotiation instructions under his power to conduct foreign relations.

PotKettleBlack&#153 there much, Jugears?