Have ya thought about it?

 The whole Voting Rights Act of 1964? I am certain there are lots of pundits trying to justify racism. That really isn’t the argument to prove the racism though.

There once were carriages that horses pulled before there were horseless carriages. 

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The laws regulating horse drawn carriages are still on the books, right? There are only a few instances where they still apply. The Amish use their horse drawn carriages. Now a days they use signal lights so they are easier to see. In cities like New York the rules and regs would still apply because of the tourist businesses that still apply. So, while the laws are mostly obsolete, there are still instances where they are important.

The United States of America is a highly dynamic country. The freedoms of the First Amendment alone bring about a lot of tolerance to difference. The Freedom of Speech alone is vital to the democracy we all love and pledge allegiance.

None of those foundation documents are obsolete except to people who see authoritarianism as a real answer to taxes and the ever increasing diversity of the people of the USA. 

The Voting Rights Act of 1964 is being actively dismantled. That is a hostile act. 

When laws go into effect there is a good chance as time goes by they become obsolete. Laws becoming obsolete don’t have to be dismantled and in most instances are simply a part of history. It is a really fun and is funny to look at laws as they were 100 years ago and realize how far we have come, including child labor laws and the laws that set up the public education system. Where would we be as a sovereign country without public education?

The Voting Rights Act of 1964 was necessary at the time it passed into law. The Roberts Court would like Americans to believe it is obsolete and therefore has to be examined for updated high court remedies. That is corruption. High handed corruption.

If the Voting Rights of 1964 were obsolete there would be no need to litigate anything because it would mean the law worked and equality and respect for voting was achieved. If the law became obsolete it simply would not be used anymore. So, in Shelby vs. Holder they wanted the law watered down so they could conduct elections as they wanted. That’s the truth. 

Shelby didn’t thank the founders of the Voting Rights Act of 1964 for seeing where correction needed to be made and bringing about equality. No. There was no thank you. My guess is there is too much hate to even recognize why the law was necessary in the first place. 

If a Supreme Court decides in majority a law is obsolete and rightfully should be dismantled, what is next? The Constitution itself?

The Roberts Court Conundrum

Roberts has made quite a mess of things, hasn’t he? We’ll find our way out if it. I think he should be sued along with the other five personally. If they get but in the ass they might begin to understand what life is all about.

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It is real. It is corruption of our judicial system at the highest level. It is legislating from the bench. It is based in ideology, political and personal judicial beliefs no different than the destruction of Roe. Now, they are going after contraception in preventing the free and open distribution of the abortion pill.

See these decisions based in personal choices by the conservative judges cause harm. They affect people’s lives adversely. I guarantee the poor and lower middle class are more deeply affected by these decisions than Caucasians in the middle class while the upper class and very wealthy experience no repercussions at all. 

Those class distinctions are important.

Why? 

Simple. The right of upward movement promised by a society based in capitalism. Otherwise what do people do in a society CAST in roles rather than opportunity? Hm? 

Let’s establish a fact or two that is pivotal to the ideology driving the oppression of average Americans. Is there racism? That has to be answered to establish the false narrative of the Roberts Court and the current ideological choice exhibited by the lack of resolve of an administration that based in sexism and racism.

In Shelby vs. Holder the bottom line with Roberts is that it has been decades since the passage of The Voting Rights Act. Nothing else just that the law passed during the Johnson Era was in effect for too long. That was the decision and reasoning by the Chief Justice himself. There were four other conservative justices at the time and they all fell in line.

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There were no clear violations or damages exhibited by the Voting Rights Act of 1964. Just basically Shelby County was tired of being thwarted by the law. Now, what is occurring across this country with the permission of the same court that sought to end the Voting Rights Act? What is occurring across this country? Is there hands off voting rights for every American wishing to cast a ballot? Is voting being facilitated or destroyed? Voting was attacked, that was attacked in the most recent aggression in Virginia. 

The Republican Party wants to ELIMINATE voting to replace our democracy with a king even in the face of the recent reference by King Charles of the United Kingdom of the Monroe Doctrine.

Is there racism? All anyone has to point to is the vicious campaign by ICE and Border Patrol under Trump. Trump is not carrying this aggression against minority people alone, the Republicans DEFEATED the immigration reform under Biden. The bill was about to pass both houses, but, the Republican Party unilaterally thought it best to campaign in fear of the other instead.

The answer to the issue of the injustice found in the rulings of the Roberts Court is obvious. The Shelby decision and all others that followed were clear decisions to advance an ideology in complete disrespect of the USA Constitution and every man and woman that died defending it.

Power brokers. That is the focus of justices like Alito as if entitled to turn this country on it’s head for the simple fact they made the cut into a permanent office of power to advance whatever their political urges might be.

I have no problem pointing a finger at those that abuse the power of their office and the racketeering it takes.

Rouge Waves

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Dead serious about climate.

Air-Water interface.

Helmets are a good idea. I have to wonder how understudied seamen are in regard to head injury and concussion. 

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There is the very rare thought that the worst rough waves occur when tides, moon gravity, currents, and Rossby Waves converge, along with the air-water interface.

“Shelter Skelter”

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It is strange to live with the threat of reckless nuclear annihilation in a country with that capacity and as well as being a target. I always thought “The Twilight Zone” did a great serve to Americans about the folly of such weapons. 

Given Hegseth's record of self-destruction in battle, it is a rather appropriate lesson even today.

I definitely would not rearm Hegseth. Seriously.