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Feb. 6th, 2006 10:59 pmStill bone-weary. Trying to settle into not over-taxing myself at work— just because i'm capable of doing something doesn't mean i'm obligated to do it, and realistically, it's not necessarily my responsibility to fix things, just to delegate them so that they get fixed. The difference, though, is between having something fixed for the requestor in a short time or considerably longer.
Handing them out will give me more time to work on the project management training i'm supposed to be doing. So far, i haven't seen anything which wasn't simply instinctive, which makes me wonder what the big deal is about all of it. It doesn't seem to take much mental horsepower to follow that failing to plan well leads to increased likelyhood of failure later, or that failing to use sound procedures and processes makes it difficult to deliver in a timely manner with decent quality control. Having taken the pre-class placement tests and gotten a passing score on them immediately, without having read a word of the coursework just seems to reinforce that it's just application of common engineered common sense.
I've heard some of the Gonzales testimony before Congress today, and have found great chunks of it inexplicable. I don't understand how the President can claim emergency, wartime discretionary powers- like the FISA-less wiretaps, completely outside any oversight- without the nation being at war- and he's the only one to make a warfare statement— the power to do so quite explicitly lies in the hands of Congress, and even had the Congress abrogated that right, it's neither implicitly nor explicitly transferrable. An authorization for the use of military force isn't the same thing as a declaration of war.
Thinking about it, there's something of a precedent in American history- Abraham Lincoln's unilateral abolition of the writ of habeas corpus, which was itself overturned by the U.S. Circuit Court acting under the direction of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney in Ex Parte Merryman (17 F. Cas. 144)- this building on the precedent of Ex Parte Bollman in 1807, and subsequently upheld in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld.
Anyway, Nicholas is insisting that it's bedtime, and looking at the time, i'm inclined to agree with him, before i get into doing any more research into constitutional law.
Handing them out will give me more time to work on the project management training i'm supposed to be doing. So far, i haven't seen anything which wasn't simply instinctive, which makes me wonder what the big deal is about all of it. It doesn't seem to take much mental horsepower to follow that failing to plan well leads to increased likelyhood of failure later, or that failing to use sound procedures and processes makes it difficult to deliver in a timely manner with decent quality control. Having taken the pre-class placement tests and gotten a passing score on them immediately, without having read a word of the coursework just seems to reinforce that it's just application of common engineered common sense.
I've heard some of the Gonzales testimony before Congress today, and have found great chunks of it inexplicable. I don't understand how the President can claim emergency, wartime discretionary powers- like the FISA-less wiretaps, completely outside any oversight- without the nation being at war- and he's the only one to make a warfare statement— the power to do so quite explicitly lies in the hands of Congress, and even had the Congress abrogated that right, it's neither implicitly nor explicitly transferrable. An authorization for the use of military force isn't the same thing as a declaration of war.
Thinking about it, there's something of a precedent in American history- Abraham Lincoln's unilateral abolition of the writ of habeas corpus, which was itself overturned by the U.S. Circuit Court acting under the direction of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney in Ex Parte Merryman (17 F. Cas. 144)- this building on the precedent of Ex Parte Bollman in 1807, and subsequently upheld in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld.
Anyway, Nicholas is insisting that it's bedtime, and looking at the time, i'm inclined to agree with him, before i get into doing any more research into constitutional law.
