Even though I've been saying since 2003 he should quit, this makes me somewhat sad. I wonder if I'll feel some sort of masochistic romanticism about the bush years once they are over.

~shudder~

Bush signed this presidential directive on May 9th (my birthday...yay!). It's pretty sweet. This pretty much grants absolute power to the executive during any "Catastrophic Emergency" which is defined as any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions.

Scary.