Gay Marriage Again Legal in California

I guess it’s time to weigh in on the Supreme Court ruling today, if I really have to.  It seems that the DOMA case or defense of marriage act, was filed by an “injured party”.  And Mario was saying that now you have to actually be “insured” or have suffered yourself to file a class action suit.  “It didn’t used to be that way, but now the law is the law”.  My view is that DOMA should never have been enacted but Clinton only did it because he felt if he didn’t that Bob Dole could win the election.  The case revolves around this eighty year old widow- - or perhaps widow-ess since it’s her female lover who died after a decades long relationship.  We talked about this case before.  How she’s have to pay $350,000 in estate taxes if she lost this case because she wasn’t the legal spouse of the deceast.   Anyhow the Court overturned DOMA, but used a different ratioalle than I would have.  Personally I don’t like the idea that one state has to honor the legal doings of another state, whose laws are contrary to its own.  After all you license an insurance company or a bank, so why not a marriage?  In terms of the Proposition Eight portion of the ruling I was bewildered.  They said the suing party had no legal standing to do so.  But even in “victimless crimes” such as gambling, prostitution, and selling of hard drugs- - people can do argue that it’s society itself that is injured.  The will of the Voters of the State has been violated.  My thinking is consistent.  In Bush v Gore - - I argue that they should count the damn votes and had no business intervening in an area that constitution makes no provision for.  And in yesterday’s case I argued that- - since the fifteenth amendment expressly states that “Congress shall have the power to enforce this provision with appropriate legislation” I would remind people that it does not state “The Supreme Court may modify or gut the provisions in this amendment whenever it sees fit”.  To my way of thinking “enforce’ means to buttress or strengthen, and not to dismantle.  But now the issue is settled.  But the would be gay couples still have to wait another long 25 days in order for some “stay” to be vacated.  It’s some kind of legal thing.  I guess a lot of people are happy.  I’m not against people being happy.  Some would say that God alone instituted Marriage.  But you can settle this matter very quickly.  You don’t pay your taxes to a church (hopefully) and no Church has the power to grant a Divorce.  (Selah)

This whole "beating up on Paula Dean" bit is getting a little much.  Certain people the media likes to rake over the coals as a distraction to what's really going on.  People got all bent out of shape about Jimmy Swaggart visiting a prostitute.  As I said a couple of days ago on the patio "If people can forgive Bill Clinton for what he did (including perhaps myself) than they can forgive Jimmy Swaggart.  Some people have this "Nick Fallon job" done on them.  Paula has lost her Wall Mart connection and her 'empire' appears to be crumbling around her, repeating the same sad history of her great grandfather.  The thing is sometime people don't want an apology, they want an exhibition.  I used to have this saying with God of God saying to me "I thought we had our relation down pretty pat.  You grovvle on your knees for acceptance- and I reject you.  And now you say you want to leave Me.  Why - - oh why?"  As to Jim Bakker I never really understood all that.  The thing about Jim Bakker I found most personally offensive, was Wally George saying on his show when it was on that "Jim Bakker used to like to ooogle teenage boys in the shower".

Now we learn stuff about the Fourth Century we may have forgotten.  The question is whether anyone can attain religious enlightenment while playing with their Peter.  Well as you know Luke didn't talk nearly as much about Peter as either Matthew or Acts, neither book which Marcion recognized in his cannon.  I heard the roomer that St. Peter's Basillica, the one built in the fourth century- - used to be a temple dedicated to Jupiter.  Interesting if true.  I know there was people Constantine was instructing to "Go and find the bones of St Peter to put inside, and his henchmen complied with the request with no problem.  We are informed that the library of Alexandria was burned down in 397.  And we are informed that late in the fourth century the Olympic Games were suspended after nearly a thousand years or something because these athletic endeavors were considered "pagan".  I bet all those Monks were too cloistered in their high walls go out and get a little exercise.  You know- - take a walk in the sunshine and smell the roses.  We are informed that in that Century that the Huns from the Asian plains defeated the Visagoths.  Of course in "East of Eden" the German people were referred to by the loco yocos as 'Hunnish".

Naturally I stayed in during breakfast.  It had Stephanie Miller on and time ticked down and then Mario came on.  At 9:25 I became concerned I hadn’t been called to come down for my 9:30 appointment.  When I got to the office I was told to sit down and wait for Loretta to show up.  She showed up and announced she was going to go out for a smoke first when it was already five minutes past the start of my appointment.  I went with Lishia down the hall and out to the back and we waited.  I wanted to clear the nicotine from my system so would not have smoked a cigarette even if I had had one.  We waited till seven minutes to ten and Loretta finally showed.  She is sure looking peekid these days- - as if she’s carrying the weight of the world on her.  She complained about being in pain because her pain medication ran out.  We chatted.  We went to that same general area on Romnya where I had seen the endodonist.  Loretta was scheduled to see an ear doctor in one of those offices.  Then we crossed the street to one of these modern sky-scraper type buildings which was solid tinted glass panes.  We took the elevator up one floor, and my heart sank when I saw that the waiting room was full of people, and they generally looked like welfare cases.  (They had that vibe to them)  Yadera said not to worry because WE had an appointment.  But alas virtually all of the people who had been in that waiting room cleared out before we were called.  First Lishia was called in and then I was.  My procedure took very little time- - but they did take three vials of blood.  I mentioned that “The last blood test I had was when I was an alcoholic”.  She had no response.  I got done first and Lisha followed and we picked up Loretta, who seemed to be moving in slow motion.  Yadera had promised us breakfast, which we didn’t get.  By now we were a mere half hour away from lunch.  I hinted that I wasn’t even interested in waiting THAT long to get something to eat, but Yadera didn’t pick up on the little hint.  When we got back it was about eleven and I went out to the west patio where I “borrowed back” one of Francis’ good white cigarettes.  When we finally did get around to eating we had tomato soup with a bit of corn starch and onion slices in it to make it more interesting.  I had two bowls.  We had a chef’s salad and as far as I know there were no seconds on that.  We had a pear, which was actually ripe- - and then my “Aunt Jane” knocked on the door and I hastened to drink my coffee and bounded up the stairs.  In contravention of calling family members when I had GOOD news- - I haven’t called anybody today.  I haven’t felt like it. 

Randy Rhodes was on and then it was the Soap Opera where Eric Brady had this “scared out of his whits” expression lying in his hospital bed and jerking about as if being tormented by some demon.  That “demon” in the person actually had the gall to show up at the door, which is the dumbest thing she could have done if she were really concerned about Eric’s remembering her.  Marlena has suspicious about Nicole’s presence there initially.  Lucas still looks young enough to be my son- but now he’s a grandfather.  I reran the coffee grounds so passed on the two o clock courtyard outing.  Later on- - there was a big plastic thing of chocolate on chocolate Oreos out on the table- - and when I found out they were up for grabs I ended up eating seven of them, which hopefully got my blood sugar up a little.  I’ve been looking at my skinny arms all day and mentioned to Lisha “I hope I fine out from this blood test why I am so unable to gain any weight.  Lisha shared that she’s been having nerve pain and suspected it might be diabetes.  I agreed this was possible, from what I’ve heard on TV.  But Yadera assured both of us that this is just a routine blood test and they aren’t looking for anything in particular.  Hopefully.

In the morning before breakfast I negotiated two John Blacks from Joe Drisco, and had the second one at ten to eight.  I didn’t have breakfast and it turns out they not only had two big pancakes, and bacon, but also Cheerios, which they haven’t had here in perhaps a year.  I wonder if they are going to put Cheerios back in the regular rotation.  I changed the wallpaper from “Blue Lace” to “Huntington Palms’ in keeping with the big change in the weather today.  Yesterday they put up the fourth of July decorations in the dining room.   Last evening I negotiated two Phillies for a quarter from Keith.  I can’t imagine what substantive change there was in my credibility status between Sunday night and last evening.  I keep thinking of that Dr. Phil episode where this druggie was taking advantage of his mother’s niceness to him.  But then after Dr. Phil speaks to his mother on the show a few minutes the mother’s attitude tword the son changed completely and from that moment on she became highly combative, such that even after a month had passed and the son was now off drugs with no indication of going back- - she continued to carp at him.  This lets me know that the issue was never really “all about substance abuse” to begin with.  On the soap opera people used the term on Lucas of “dry drunk”.  They were more in love with putting a label on him than they were about substance abuse.   The weather is much warmer today.  So in terms of the weather- - summer has at last arrived so our beach wallpaper reflects this.

This last paragraph is a little shorter now.  The Federation are the only people who have the original unedited versions of "Pencil Neck Geek" and 'Exestential Blues".   If you missed early reading of this post, you missed it.  It was something Stu advised me about even including in the first place.