Forgive me if this is obvious to all the Foxheads out there, but it’s something that I kind of ignored previously. You don’t have to send a single statement through a SQLEXEC() call.

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It turned out that Sitemeter had “partnered” with another company to put tracking cookies on sites using their counter. Since that wasn’t part of the deal when I signed up with them, I’ll be using something else in the future.

Darn, why is Giuliani running instead of Cuomo?

Mario Cuomo gave a speech on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to 2,000 of the most influential lawyers in NYC. The program didn’t give a title for the speech, but Gov. Cuomo repeatedly invoked, as if she were some kind of Catholic saint, “Our Lady of the Law.”

He called out “power seeking presidents” who engage in “efforts to throw off constitutional restraints” through various means. He decried in particular

“signing statements,” “secret White House task forces,” and the “unprecedented politicization of the Department of Justice.”

But of all the overreaching by presidents, the one that came under Gov. Cuomo’s harshest criticism was

“the seizing by presidents of the power to declare war.”

Cuomo said flat out that the AUMF “violates the Constitution.” He pointed out that under our Constitution the Congress’ power to declare war is non-delegable.