The Times, the Globe, and the Politico are all reporting that Romney is packing it in.

The Politico says he will make say bye-bye this afternoon before members of CPAC, whatever that is.

Dear Congressman Conyers,

Below is a letter which I have sent to my congressional delegation and some others in the Congress. It concerns the obligations of the U.S. Congress in light of the sworn testimony of General Michael Hayden, and the defensive remarks of White House Spokesperson Tony Fratto. It concerns torture. As evidenced in the excerpted articles below, the Congress has no choice but to begin investigation and prosecution of any and all administration officials involved in ordering, approving, writing legal opinions supporting, or otherwise systematizing torture. The treaty is quite clear: There are no extenuating circumstances, even if the September 11th bombers had destroyed every city in the Union, and the bombers were sitting on top of the Capitol building with nuclear weapons in their hands, it would still have been impermissible. The treaty binds signing parties to promptly investigate and prosecute. It binds signing parties to punish appropriately and severely. And the treaty may not be abrogated to absolve those guilty, or to absolve the signing party of the obligations to prosecute.

The Congress is the prosecuting body for the executive branch, and that prosecution is an impeachment proceedings. I don't think you have any choice. If you do not convene such a proceeding you are in violation of the Constitution, which holds treaties as "the supreme law of the land", and you are in violation of a signed, ratified, and implemented treaty. An investigation by the Justice department, given that the statements by Hayden and Fratto are clear that the Justice department was involved, is not a valid investigation. It has no prosecutorial powers. And a routine committee investigation does not have power over executive privilege, which must be waived in this case, since immunity from prosecution for any participants is not allowed by the treaty. Only impeachment does not permit executive privilege claims. Your duty to the law, to the country, and in this case to the entire world, is clear.

Please follow the law.

***(previously posted letter follows)

The anomaly was discovered by Bob Somerby (click at my sig). Details of the discovery are there.

If you start with this FDL post:

http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/06/late-nite-fdl-get-the-net/

...and follow the links to Somerby's post and to MoDo's column, you'll see what we're talking about.

Just more of MoDo's usual feminization of male Democratic presidential candiates, and the opposite for their spouses and for female candidates.

Do you want to know what yesterday's hard copy says?

If so, give me a hint as to what to look for and I'll put it up here.

I just want to say "me too"... "what RMP said"

The graph that is supposed to be in the paper version, and is missing from the online version is:

Even though Obama stopped smoking when he started running for president, he has lost five pounds racing around the country. Just like Hollywood starlets, he works out religiously and he can make a three-course meal out of a Nicorette.

The link to the online version of Dowd's offending column is at my sig. You should find the graph above in your paper. You won't find it online.

You were complimented in a tease style manner by art G.

If I may add: You write letters that are clear as a brass or gold bell.

Even if you aren't goody scrambled egg-omelette's...

You a good letter writer scribbler, IMO. I thank you. You are sunny side up. I'd yoke with you in rainy weather to plow a garden straight-line plant-furrow. I think that's a compliment.

I know zilch about technology. I do recognize a good egg layer. At the farm we have a hen named Pete, a cat named Virtuous, and two dogs:

One dog is named Lulu. She is a black large poodle.

The other blond yellow retriever took the place of a dog we once had named Cezanne. A hunter may have shot Cezanne.

Well.

Each time I eat a brown egg cheese omelet from a egg from the hen-named-Pete...I'll thank beautiful feathered Pete for the good brown eggs. My Granddaughter calls scrambled eggs Eggo's. She is so proud she knows how to make good scrambled egg's.

Thanks for what you do.

Your a real sunny gift.

Bob Somerby follows up with his post today....

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh020708.shtml

The following text, in brackets, is what appears in my hard copy of yesterday's Times. I'm holding it in my little hand. The bracketed text is preceded by an end phrase from the prior graph, and followed by the lead phrasing into the next graph.

" ... he'll be seen as the closest thing to J.F.K. since J.F.K. And J.F.K. is Bill's hero.

[Even though Obama stopped smoking when he started running for president, he has lost five pounds racing around the country. Just like Hollywood starlets, he works out religiously and can make a three-course meal out of a Nicorette.]

For much of the year, when matched against Hillary in debates ... "

~~~

I checked her Wednesday column, as posted on Drudge. The bracketed graph is completely gone from that version.

Thank you, you are kind. As the newly knighted official omelette of the territories, I am proud to be deemed a good egg.

So there, ondelette dreamt he was an egg.
Spitting and frying, a real egg, yes.
Suddenly, he awoke and was ondelette.
Don't know if he was ondelette who dreamt of being an egg,
Or was an egg, now dreaming he was ondelette.
Between the egg and ondelette,
There is a difference, hmm?
This is called the transformation of things.

My apologies to Chuang-Tzu

US Customs is seizing laptops and communications devices from anyone who enters the country whose name ends with a vowel.

Uh-oh.... Double-darn.

Cheers,

Chuang-Tzu would love you.

He sometimes wasn't sure if,

he was Chuang-Tzu or a butterfly.

He may have thought he was,

a fair feathered hen named,

O, teased as old hen-Pete!

No, O, I no-hen-peck you?