In case you’re wondering what’s going on here today, I’d like to share the following brief list of noteworthy events:
- It’s raining.
- I made an appointment for a routine Coumadin blood test tomorrow morning at 9:15. Sam will take me because I’m a handicapped senior citizen with shitty knees and I don’t drive any more. Also because he looks so damn adorable behind the wheel of our Hyundai.
- I cooked up a big pot of low-carb pasta rice this morning and plan to eat a bunch of it for dinner. A full-color portrait appears below.
- My new cranberry red Ralph Lauren bath towels from Macy’s are being delivered this afternoon and I’m so excited I think my spleen might explode.
- I felt woozy, wobbly, weird and wotten for most of the afternoon, so instead of moseying into the family room to eat dinner (per item 3 above) I shlepped myself to bed and SLEPT FOR ALMOST THREE HOURS. I feel considerably better now and not wotten at all. A juicy nap heals EVERYTHING. Yay, wight?
Just when you thought the right-wing in Congress couldn’t sink much lower ... meet freshman Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, the Tea Party asshole who decided to go rogue by spearheading an open letter to the leaders of Iran — signed by 47 Republican senators — warning them that President Obama is barely a “president” and any nuclear deal they sign with the Obama administration won’t last after he leaves office. I SHIT YOU NOT, PEOPLE.
Basically, Senator Cotton and his fellow Republicans think it’s important for Iran to know they’re going to be in office a lot longer than President Obama, so don’t go making any deals with that foreign-born usurper in the White House because once they repeal him and get a real president in there they can just bomb the crap out of Iran any time they want and revoke any “deals” Iran might make with the current “president.”
Holy mother of crap.
“In our view, this letter has no legal value and is mostly a propaganda ploy,” Zarif said in a statement. “It is very interesting that while negotiations are still in progress and while no agreement has been reached, some political pressure groups are so afraid even of the prospect of an agreement that they resort to unconventional methods, unprecedented in diplomatic history.”
Zarif was clearly flabbergasted that some members of the U.S. Congress think it’s appropriate to write to leaders of another country against their own President and administration. He pointed out that from reading the open letter, it is obvious that the authors not only don’t understand international law, but are not fully cognizant of the nuances of their own Constitution when it comes to presidential powers in the conduct of foreign policy. He also slammed the Republicans for not knowing that in international law, a government — i.e., the executive branch, NOT CONGRESS — represents the entirety of its respective states, is responsible for the conduct of foreign affairs, is required to fulfill the obligations it undertakes with other countries and may not invoke their internal law as justification for failure to perform international obligations.
The Iranian Foreign Minister added that “a change of administration does not in any way relieve the next administration from international obligations undertaken by its predecessor in a possible agreement about Iran’s peaceful nuclear program. I wish to enlighten the authors that if the next administration revokes any agreement with the stroke of a pen, as they boast, it will have simply committed a blatant violation of international law.”
I’m through with the Internet for today. I might even throw up a little.
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