However there are at least three Supreme Court
rulings I take strong exception to. They
ruled that this “buffer zone” of a mere thirty five feet put in place by
Massachusetts violates people’s right to “free speech”. That is that women have to be subjected to
hysterical people protesting against the practice of abortion and praying,
carrying on, obstructing, or what have you.
To me rights to public access and freedom from harassment is at
stake. These protests aren’t going to be
listened to by anybody, but women don’t need the added emotional stress and
just might be going in for some other problem like endometriosis or
something. What is so hypocritical about
this ruling is that for a political event- - they pen protestors off in protest
zones maybe a block away from the event and the court sees no problem with
doing that, and more often it’s much more important that these other protests
actually be heard.
The Supreme Court also ruled, according to the
Norman Goldman show, that these people that were living next to this abandoned
industrial plant that was closed down in 1986 and got cancer- - that these
people have no rights. This is just
another trend of the court to unreasonably side with businesses over the
individual rights of the citizen, and here the issue is the same to lead a free
and unmolested life- - in this case being free of cancer outbreaks. They did not argue that the cancer outbreaks
weren’t real or were not caused by the abandoned plant. Rather the reason was (this is the height of
stupidity) that “Well if these people are given the right to sue businesses,
then people all over the place will want to sue businesses for damages, and we
can’t set this type of precedent”. The
logic blows my mind.
The Supreme Court ruled against the Obama
administration as far as letting congress know about recess appointments. As you will remember that President Bush was
famous for making all sorts of “recess appointments” during the summer when
congress was not in session. But this
crop of Republicans is so dedicated to obstructing this president any way they
can, that they would station one guy in the Capitol building- - and say that “technically’
they were not in recess. Clearly this
was not the Constitutional writers intended.
I think the court could quite reasonably that the intent of congress was
to skirt the law, and that clearly, congress had NO INTENTION of meeting, to
approve these appointments or any other work.
We know the five week vacation for congressmen is sacrosanct, and
nothing but nothing, will “delay” something as important as Vacations. Urgent bills- - they will put those on hold,
but never vacations.
There is one more day when the Supreme Court
could issue a rulings because Monday is June 30th and for all I know
they may save their biggest zinger for that final day. Meanwhile the Brian Stowe jury is in
deliberation now. Given recent trends,
particularly here in California, the LA Dodger organization will get off with
no liability at all. This seems to be a
trend over the past twenty years or so.
The violent weather in the rest of the country continues to headline the
network news. I’m thinking that all
these people in the nation’s heartland should be grateful that at least they
HAVE rain this year and that the drought is over. I had a dream a few nights ago I was in a
city called Situation, Florida- - with people I didn’t know. And there are things in this dream I
forget. It was on the west coast of
Florida- - and we were watching TV and they were saying that in California they
were suffering through a horrible drought, and I remember thinking “I’m glad I
don’t live in California”. You would
think that with all this unusual weather in the red states, that people would
think twice about the global warming issue.
President Obama was in Miniapolis the other day- - and it seems the
entire town is under water or something.
And it seems that if you just go into a hospital for another reason- -
they will stick you on a cholesterol lowering Staten drug- - even though Judy’s
father, Henry died - - or suffered severe brain damage, from Staten drugs. Paul indicated doubt as to whether this was
the cause, but I don’t doubt it for a minute.
And apparently there is no positive benefit from Staten drugs at all as
to saving lives if you take them all the time or never take them. Given the FDA’s response to other needed
drugs they won’t approve, (and some organic substances are heavily frowned on
by the Food Drug Administration) so given this fact, how did Staten drugs slip
by their radar?
I always wondered what they did with the Griffith
Park Observatory since shots of it don’t look much different than before. According to Terry, they vastly improved the
planetarium proper with high resolution photographic stuff that “is so
realistic it makes you dizzy to watch it” and also Terry says they escavated a
whole lower level to the demonstration hall.
I guess I’m puzzled how they could do this without upsetting the
foundational integrity of the whole building but I guess there will be a whole
lot more “stuff’ to look at now. Paul
had indicated Tuesday evening when I was at his house, that “You know I believe
you are destined to come up with some discovery that nobody else had thought
of, and just might change lives”. My ego
loves that sort of remark- - but I can’t help thinking that my stuff would more
aptly be classed as Science Fiction rather than science. But maybe today’s science fiction, or
tomorrow’s common place. I think of
things like “unformatted space” and “hard determinism” that are controversial at
best- - but they are things I picked up from reading. The whole tinker toy thing with baryon holes
in transported “binding energy that carried most of the mass” is also really “out
there”.
Mike Deletori had
died. When Richard Moore told me I
thought it was either a roomer or perhaps part of some joke. Richard grew annoyed with me. But it seems
Mike really has died, after a stay of a week or so in some hospital. It’s always the way that you go into the
hospital around here for some mystery symptom and end up dead. Ricardo says “It’s better this way because
he’s in a better place; he’s in heaven”.
That’s the last thing I think about when I hear someone around here
dies. I think about the loss- - of that
person’s life- - existence- - and I think about their grieving family and what
his or her loss means to people around here.
Maybe DNA in cells is real and can be studied- but you can’t make the
same claims about this place called heaven.
I have gotten two cigarettes from Larry Barton this morning, and one
from Richard. So I have been lucky. We had corn flakes for breakfast and then two
pancakes, which were under gone and a lot smaller than last time. We got a sausage link. The coffee was good, though.
News-flash. Indiana is the next state to turn queer. Some judge there just legalized gay marriage
from the bench, and I guess there is no way to fight it. Meanwhile Charlie Wrangle won his election to
a 22nd term in congress, by a slim margin of two thousand votes, yet
he is still claiming victory. Thad
Cochrin, the animal husbandtry guy from Mississippi - - and I mean “husband’ in
every sense of the word- - yes he won his challenge from this younger tea party
candidate, and apparently in Texas some tea party candidate went down, which is
good. This seems to be the general
pattern this season, with Eric Cantor being an unusual case on its own.
Tuesday morning after
breakfast as I was wandering around the building looking for a cigarette I got
a call on the office phone. It was Judy
saying that Mom had had what we thought could be a stroke. She collapsed when her right leg went lame on
the way down the hall back to her room after breakfast. She complained of having trouble speaking and
her right eye lid was drooping. She was
admitted to Saddleback hospital for tests.
But she passed all of those and these symptoms were caused by something
else. Later when Paul talked to her, Mom
seemed to be in good spirits, and she could come home today after a night of
observation in Keiser hospital. This is
the place Mom had been with diaria and had to wait in the “hallway” for
service, for hours on end. She had that
“dificil” bacteria. So obviously the
visit of Tuesday night would be canceled.
At no time yesterday in the evening or otherwise, was there any
conversation about this B 12 liquid capsule or the methylated folic acid. I guess this was something Judy was going to
get Mom to pay for the stuff for me, and it would not be appropriate to ask in these
circumstances.
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