Supreme Court Grants New L G B T Rights

The US Supreme Court is an institution we haven’t heard much from lately.  I thought maybe they were on a Corona virus vacation.  I’ve heard talk about social distancing even there.  However this is late June and usually there is a raft of decisions coming down before the term ends in two weeks.  Today by a six to three vote the High Court decided that being trans-gender was something you could no longer discriminate on, as well as being gay.  They say if you’re gay and you get fired all the boss has to say is that it was for some other reason.  Well today by a six to three vote they were decisive in their decision that the 1964 civil rights law covers trans-gender people.  It’s the darndest thing I’ve ever heard.  Justices Gorsich and Roberts jumped their own party to vote with the majority.  I bet Paul and Judy won’t like this decision one bit.  But we have other news.  Today a eleven Gary and Shannon had a press conference where this “Black hanging from a tree” incident was gone into.  They already have done a through autopsy.  There were no signs of foul play and it looks like suicide.  But they want to be sure, so they are putting this case under an investigative microscope.   And then we have President Trump’s upcoming executive order to be issued tomorrow.   He’s doing an end run around his own congress to lay down a bunch of nation-wide regulations that all of Law Enforcement from Maine to California have to abide by.  It sounds a little sweeping to me.  But I guess the president decides he’s trailing in the polls and needs to do something to win the election and get those middle-of-the-roaders.   Then of course we have that Atlanta police chief who resigned last Friday.  This looks like a gray area to me.  They say the drunk suspect was running away from the cops at the time he was shot twice.  On the other hand they say he was firing back at them with a taser he had stolen from an officer in a physical altercation.   This could easily be argued as a physical threat.  But I don’t know which case is true.   Finally we have this ALL Black Lives Matter parade over the weekend.  By “all” they mean gay and trans-gender Black people.  They say that hetrosexual whites sympathize with the protests because they have an underlying sense of guilt and privilege.  Finally, they came out with the fact that there have been no spikes in COVID 19 virus spreading due to all of the major protests that have happened.  Tulsa in 1921 saw the greatest attack against a Black community by whites in the history of America and Black businesses and homes were wiped out.  I was going to talk about the campaign rally in Tulsa this Saturday.  You know about that.  The chief concern now is not that it violates a Black holiday but it’s in an indoor arena with a masks optional situation.  Thom Hartman today was saying that the whole concept of a police force as we know it today was from the old slave catching posse groups of two hundred years ago.

I keep trying to skip days when I take Ativan.  It seems my night time sleeping medication doesn't wear off in the morning sometime and when it's time to take my meds I'm still tired so skip the Ativan.   First I'm tired.  Then I get a spacey feeling in the head.  Finally I get the shakes.  Something is going on with my medications and I need a major readjustment.   Right now the rumor is that July Fourth is when they take us out of lockdown and we can leave.  Some say it is when Disneyland opens on July 17th.  That's still a month away.  Our administrator has been promising us other days when the quarantine ends that hasn't materialized.  Then I won't have to worry about running out of cigarettes and I'll be able to buy coffee for the first time in three months.