Before Governor Perry makes a huge decision in proceeding with the victimization of Texas women, let me remind all about Roe v Wade.

Abortion has existed from the beginning of time. Abortion has existed since women became pregnant.

Roe v Wade did not start abortions in the USA. 

Nor did Roe v Wade cause an increase in abortions. 

Roe v Wade provided for regulation of abortions to MAKE THEM SAFE. 

Roe v Wade has a populous name called "Choice." Choice means there is a choice in having an abortion and women don't have to die anymore.

Before Roe v Wade women died while having an a abortion. They died in clinics like the nightmare called The Gosnell Clinic. 

Roe v Wade has saved the lives of women. Women that returned to their lives to uphold their dignity and care for their families. Oh, yes, women that have abortions have families and go on to have larger families. 

Abortion is a WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUE.

Abortion is about women, it is not about babies. It has never been about babies.

Abortion in the precedent of Roe v Wade has always been about women.

When state legislators trash abortion rights they aren't saving babies. That is a completely different subject.

When state legislators trash abortion rights they are providing greater dangers to women. It won't stop abortion, it will simply kill more women.

WENDY WE LOVE YOU !!!

You undoubtedly love the people you serve.

Go forward!

Seantor Grassley has inappropriate concerns about the Immigration Reform Bill.

Senator Grassley's biggest complaint about so called 'holes' in the legislation revolves around the topic of crime. 

This is an immigration bill, it is not a crime bill. He offers no statistics to assign overwhelming concern to these 11 million people stating they are a problem within this country, therefore, should not be legal citizens. 

The Immigration Reform Bill excludes anyone seeking citizenship that has a criminal record. 

Additionally, the concerns over counterfeit visas and assigning criminal content to their manufacture belongs to Homeland Security. That is the place where accountability lies.

The Department of State (click here) issues visas to foreign nations seeking to visit or immigrate to the United States. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is charged with admitting persons seeking entry to the United States for short term visits or immigration. Immigrants to the United States will interact with the Department of Homeland Security to apply for Legal Permanent Residence (Green Cards) and during the naturalization process. The Departments of State and Homeland Security work cooperatively to ensure consistency and transparency in the administration of U.S. visa and border security and facilitation of travel.

Homeland Security can write regulations to bring this crime under control and I suggest they do so. But, to make criminal people in Mexico we would have to get our hands on to charge is a very difficult thing to do. If there are foreign problems such as that it belongs to The State Department. It is also up to other governments to mitigate those crimes under their laws. So, including measures to levy criminal charges of those manufacturing Visas and Passports outside the USA won't work. 

Within the USA if there are those falsifying documents and selling them is something the USA criminal system could oversee and should. My guess that such fraud is being somewhat minimized is due to case loads and the realistic ways in which that can be dealt with in the criminal justice system. Senator Grassley can hold hearings with Justice to find statistics and methods to minimize the impact of such fraud. My suspicion is there is not a great deal of it to handle, but, I could be wrong and Senator Grassley's concern is 'the one document' that will cause the next 9/11.

As for terrorism. The 11 million already in the USA are worried about terrorism, too. They don't communities full of people willing to kill for the sake of a cause. They don't want underwear bombers or tennis shoe bombers or anyone else, so let's not assign these folks that identity. Additionally, these 11 million people can't be held responsible for the Boston Bombing or September 11, 2001. That was masculine identities connected with radicalism in former and distant homelands. None were from Mexico, okay?

At this point, Senator Grassley is starting to sound as though we are going to pull the plug on Grandma again. He needs to apologize to these folks and pass the legislation. We have brilliant young people longing to be an asset to the USA and I suggest he consider that identity the most prominent among this community.

Have a better day for the 32 that vote "No." Maybe you all need a vacation. Maybe to Mexico. 

Grounds for appeal.

This illustration is simply a random example and has nothing to do with the Zimmerman trial in Florida. But, if there aren't official transcripts and there are obvious inconsistencies between the transcripts of the defense, prosecution and judge; that is basis for an appeal.

There can't be that much difference between what is stated by a witness. There can be some inconsistencies over time that is reasonable, but, the reaction of the witness alone is one of alarm to what the defense attorney is stating she said before. 

My opinion is the this trial session should be adjourned until there are official transcripts ordered by the judge. Those transcripts need to be obtained from reliable sources the court determines accurate. At this point I think the transcripts are being tampered with and too inconsistent to be reliable in the trial.

The reason this is a hurdle is because the defense is attempting to make the witness appear to be unreliable and lying. There is something wrong here and it isn't entirely the witness that has the problem. I speculate the defense council is toying with the jury to manipulate their ability to discern facts from implied facts. This confusion with the witness is engineered. She is being taken advantage of in her naivety.

Rachel's testimony does not bode well for the Sanford African American community.

This is the face of poverty. Deep cultural and educational divides.

This testimony, in order to extract 'the truth' past 'the shame' takes a great deal of understanding, acceptance of the witnesses 'status,' and patience to work through what divides this witness from 'normal court status/demeanor.' 

Her greatest enemy is 'shame.' She is ashamed of her lack of sophistication. She dresses up and does her hair to compensate for other deficits. Sorry this is hard to read, but, if those interested are to understand why Rachel appears to be deceptive and underhanded, one has to understand her status. 

Rachel is not deliberately seeking to lie. She has a lot of ego defenses and getting past those no matter her willingness to be truthful is a maze. So, this is a new experience for her and she is having difficultly submitting to 'the shame' she feels about her status. 

She is also anxious to move past this experience in her life because she is feeling her shame in a very deep and profound way. She also has to face in her mind of minds the fact her future has no promise. It is easy for her to live day to day without confronting her deficits, but, to face her future as she speaks through her deficits is a sincere and profound challenge for her. I have a great deal of empathy for Rachel. This is how profound racial issues still exist in the USA. If she is an example of the African American community in Florida, there is a long way to go. 

For me this brings to mind the Voter ID issue. Imagine now, this lovely young woman seeking to have a Voter ID. She has to confront so much emotion to even permit herself to vote as she believes she is mostly unworthy, it would be near impossible for her emotionally to actually walk into a government office for application of a Voter ID. Those are my thoughts. The USA is not finished with it's racial issues. 

In reflection of Trayvon Martin and his affection for her, knowing his parents and their love of their son, I can fully appreciate how wonderful a young African American man he was becoming. Imagine being the man that was able to reach into Rachel's life in a profound way to move her from her deficits to be the man in her life. Trayvon added enormous sophisticated prowess to Rachel's life. He made a difference in her life. He was a hell of a guy. He wasn't looking for perfection in his life; he was looking for purpose and Rachel was a profound purpose to him. Isn't that what life and relationships are all about. They were wonderful young people together with a great deal of potential. I like them a lot.

This African American Community in Florida have raised their families in a parallel world from the mainstream. That is not uncommon in a void of acceptance by the status quo.

African Americans of Sanford (click here) have served in the building of this great nation since their participation in the three Seminole Wars. They were a large part of the labor force that earned Sanford the distinction of “Celery Capital of the World.” The residents of Sanford and its surrounding communities of Goldsboro, Georgetown, Bookertown, and Midway/Canaan work tirelessly to nurture and protect their families...
  
As Crooms Academy (click here) confronts the role of preparing students for a high tech world, it emerges on the grounds of one of the oldest high schools in Seminole County. Founded in 1926 by Professor Crooms as Seminole County's first high school for black students, Crooms has a rich and varied past. Professor Crooms and his wife, Wealthy, donated the land on which the school was constructed. Under their guidance and teaching, many doctors, lawyers, teachers, and business people graduated from Crooms.

President Obama has an ally in the fight against poverty.

Theologians can be allies to diverse democracies. Their basic agendas are the same. 

Pope Francis is the leader of the Catholic Church and his main focus is ending poverty in the world. He embraces the poor. 

The Catholic Doctrine is not necessarily that of every person, but, his desire to end suffering is profound. Any leader of any government, big or small, can find consensus with religious leaders if they want to.
 
June 7, 2013
By Thomas C. Fox
As a Vatican press release today reports, Francis said: (click here)

Poverty in the world is a scandal. In a world where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, that there are so many children without an education, so many poor persons. Poverty today is a cry. We all have to think if we can become a little poorer, all of us have to do this. How can I become a little poorer in order to be more like Jesus, who was the poor Teacher?” 

First of all I want to tell you something, tell all you young persons: don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Please, don't let it be stolen from you. The worldly spirit, wealth, the spirit of vanity, arrogance, and pride … all these things steal hope. Where do I find hope? In the poor Jesus, Jesus who made himself poor for us. And you spoke of poverty. Poverty calls us to sow hope. This seems a bit difficult to understand. I remember Fr. Arrupe [Father General of the Jesuits from 1965-1983] wrote a letter to the Society's centers for social research.

Look, you can't speak of poverty without having experience with the poor. You can't speak of poverty in the abstract: that doesn't exist. Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures. Go forward; look there upon the flesh of Jesus. But don't let well being rob you of hope, that spirit of well being that, in the end, leads you to becoming a nothing in life. Young persons should bet on their high ideals, that's my advice. But where do I find hope? In the flesh of Jesus who suffers and in true poverty. There is a connection between the two.

Why is Perry so persistent about this atrocity of a bill? Pure politics. National level politics.

...While standing (click here) during the filibuster, Davis wore pink running shoes. It was unclear whether the color was chosen because anti-abortion Republican feminists have been referred to as "pink elephants." In 2010, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin spoke of a "stampede of pink elephants," promising a movement of GOP women against abortion...

Hardline Right Wing politics has gotten harder since 2008. Their rhetoric is going to be based in bibles and not law because they want numbers in every legislature in the country, but, especially national legislature. The Right Wing wants to win and in order to win they need numbers to carry out the religious agenda of those willing to vote for it. 

Perry was front and center during the past presidential debates. Texas has a burden of being the anchor of the Right Wing. Individual rights are nothing to the folks involved in these laws. Perry wants to get into the national race again and it would be egg on his face if Texas even allowed abortion. This isn't about anti-abortion, it is about the potential presidential possibilities of Rick Perry.

I'm just sayin'.

Article V of the USA Constitution

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

There is momentum to defeat all these oppressive laws. Now is the time and I am sure there are many cases in each state. It is time to put nails in coffins.

— 30: The number of states, (click here) including California, that ban same-sex marriage in their state constitutions. Ten states bar them under state laws. New Mexico law is silent on the issue.

There goes any improvement in trade relations.

June 25, 2013 - 6:49pm 

by Bob Moritz  

LITTLE ROCK — Three countries (click here) have stopped importing poultry from Arkansas because of an outbreak of avian flu in one commercial chicken house in Scott County, a possible blow to the state’s economy, a state agriculture official told lawmakers Tuesday.

Livestock and Poultry Commission Director Preston Scroggin said the outbreak of avian flu, discovered June 16 on a farm in the Boles Community, was contained to one chicken house and testing of all poultry within a 6.2 mile radius has been negative.

Scroggin said he hoped the three countries — China, Japan and Russia — will resume importing Arkansas poultry soon after a quarantine of all poultry within the affected area has been lifted, within about 90 days.... 

 Germany is reporting some cases in Lower Saxony. (click here)

June 25, 2013   

CHINA - Researchers in Nanjing are reporting work showing how to improve immunisation of ducks with inactivated H9N2 virus vaccine. (click here) As natural reservoirs of avian influenza viruses, waterfowl play an important role in the generation, spread and enzootic transmission of avian influenza, report Haihong Kang and colleagues at Nanjing Agricultural University in the journal, Poultry Science.

To prevent avian influenza in waterfowl through a simple, non-invasive and needle-free route, they immunised ducks orally with an inactivated avian influenza virus (H9N2; IAIV) combined with CpG DNA and high-dose glucose. They then investigated the local and systemic immune responses of the ducks. In addition, immune protection was assayed after viral challenge.... 

Infectious? Who? Me?

By Jason Koebler

...In the event (click here) of a pandemic outbreak of bird flu or the new MERS virus, public officials might want to look at quarantining children and teachers first—a new study has found that young people and school teachers are prime candidates to spread infection, due to the amount of "social contact" they have each day. 

Anyone who has watched chicken pox spread through a classroom may think the study's findings are just common sense, but tracking disease as it moves through a population has been tough, especially with highly contagious, airborne infections like the flu.

The study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, tracked the social interactions of about 5,000 British people. It found that average person had about 26 hours of contact with other people per day (when someone was in close contact with multiple people at once, the time with each person was counted). But some groups had much more contact than the average person, including children (47 hours), health workers (33 hours), people in the service industry (33 hours), and teachers (32 hours). 

"There was a big hole in our knowledge about how people interact," Leon Danon, of the University of Warwick and lead author of the study, said. "We had to make a lot of assumptions about patterns of interactions and their networks that might facilitate infectious disease transmission. Now we've got a general overview about what social patterns are like."...

How did Avian Flu get to the USA?

June 25, 2013
By Malcolm Glover

...Though experts (click here) with the state’s Livestock and Poultry Commission say the outbreak was isolated to one farm, Dustan Clark, a veterinarian with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, says farmers must take appropriate precautions to prevent the spread of diseases. 

"An avian influenza outbreak can potentially lead to financial and flock losses for poultry producers and owners," Clark said. "Flock owners must do all they can to spot these illnesses and ultimately promote the basic hygiene and sanitation practices necessary to end them."

The H7N7 low-pathogen avian flu was found on a farm in western Arkansas that supplies birds to Tyson Foods, Inc. In a flock of 9,000; testing found about eight birds had the flu....

The previous avian flue H5N1, killed about 70 percent of the people it infects. H7N7 kills about a third of it's victims.

June 26, 2013

...More than a third of patients (click here) infected with a new strain of bird flu died after being admitted to the hospital earlier this year, Chinese researchers report in a new study.

Since the new H7N9 bird flu first broke out in China in late March, the strain has sickened more than 130 people and killed 37. The World Health Organization has previously described H7N9 as "one of the most lethal influenza viruses" it has ever seen and said it appeared to spread faster than the last bird flu strain, H5N1, that threatened to unleash a pandemic....

Senators Bernie Sanders and Michael Bennet both spoke on the Senate floor today.

They made two statements that intrigued me a great deal.

Senator Sanders stated the cost of a college education in the USA has tripled since 2004.

Senator Bennet made a temporal observation when he noted, the USA was first in college educated people in 2000. 

2000 was the millennial.

I have to wonder what happened between 2000 and today and from 2004 to today to accomplish such devastating results to our young people. Then considering on top of all that they are unemployed at graduation. And to realize their debts are high means they do not contribute to the economy in a real way while being unable to purchase homes. This is serious problem and it is about to get worse with the student loan interest because the interest rate is doubling as of July 1, 2013.

June 24, 2013
On Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), (click here) demanded that Ed DeMarco, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), justify why his government agency is supporting the super-high-interest rate private students loans that are drowning many Americans in debt.

For the past few years, one of the Federal Home Loan Banks that DeMarco's agency oversees has been funding Sallie Mae, the largest provider of private student loans in the country. Warren wants DeMarco to explain why...

Federal Home Loan Banks (click here)

Senator Bennet is correct. The number of graduated Bachelor Degrees in 2000 were 15.5. percent (click here), then in 2010 it was 19.4 percent (click here). While that seems a real improvement in college degree performance, one has to remember Bachelor degrees are often the beginning of an advanced education. That is only a growth of 3.9 percent. What is not reported here is the competition and the increase globally of the Bachelor degrees.

What this is coming down to is that the USA is STAGNANT in the growth of our advanced educated citizens. If China proves anything, it proves they are winning on expertise within their sovereign borders.

This is a study by UC, Berkley (click here)

In 1978, there were only 405 higher learning institutions in China, including three-year vocational training colleges. By 2006, there were already 1867 public universities and colleges, with 444 public adult higherlearning institutions as well. System diversification also provides the possibility for highschool students to get a tertiary education in the private sector. Now in China, there are278 private (Minban in Chinese) colleges and universities which have already beencertified by the Ministry of Education, with 994 more institutions which are ready forcertification, and 318 independent colleges that have some kind of affiliation with public universities. Now, China has 3901 higher learning institutions with a gross enrollmentrate of 22%. The total number of students is 23 million, making the higher educationsystem one of the largest in the world.

The stark reality is what follows after the Undergraduate Degree in the USA. 

The advanced degrees in the USA were about 8.9%. In 2010, it was 10.5%. That is an increase of 1.6 percent. When one compares where the USA is to China we are definitely behind in education of our citizens.

This is the real shocker. From a USA historical perspective we have really fallen off our performance levels.

To the right are Bachelor and advanced degrees. Below are Bachelor degrees.

 

 


         
Where these statistics get a little too odd is to relieve that a Bachelor's degree in 1990 does not get the same pay grade as in 2013.

This is the report where these graphs and statistics are found (click here) "120 years of American Education: A statistical portrait."

They not only don't get the same pay grade, they are more expensive to achieve.

I have to agree there is a lot wrong. It was "Apple" that once stated it would be difficult to bring manufacturing to the USA because we lacked enough engineers for their needs.

These Senators are correct. We need to look at all the parameters effecting the future of the USA. There are programs like that of NASA to reach into deep space. The USA has to have the brain trust to carry those programs to completion.

Additionally, the idea expensive education will result in the kind of brain trust we need is wrong. The PhD grads in China don't pay a dime. The Congress needs to do something. The rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer in the USA. It is all backwards and we have to stop wagering our children's futures.

Senator Patricia Murray is answering the complaint by Senator Sessions today. 

Senator Sessions is deeply worried about the reassessment of the First Quarter GDP. Senator Sessions is deeply worried about the sluggish 2% growth of the USA last year.

By David Lawder

WASHINGTON | Sat Mar 23, 2013 7:50pm EDT
The budget plan (click here) passed 50-49 at about 5 a.m. after a marathon voting session in the Democratic-controlled chamber. Four Democratic senators facing tough re-election campaigns in 2014 joined all the Senate Republicans in opposing the measure, which seeks to raise nearly $1 trillion in new tax revenues by closing some tax breaks for the wealthy....

Senator Cruz objects to Budget Conference with House demanding a 60 vote threshold for raising the debt limit. Was the debt level addressed in the Senate bill? Then Patricia's amendment to the bill should accept Senator Cruz objection into the amendment to be addressed at Budget Conference. Basically, note his objection and move forward. 

The Conference needs a simple majority which was accomplished in March, so there is no reason to not allow Cruz his complaint.

However, while Senator Murray's amendment will begin to heal the country from The Sequester, it is likely Senator Cruz will cause a working sequester with objection to the Debt Limit. I don't think we are close to the debt ceiling yet, right?
 

By Jim Puzzanghera

June 12, 2013, 9:08 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- As Congress (click here) readied for a new battle over raising the debt limit, Sen. Barbara Boxer announced legislation that would prevent lawmakers from being paid if they did not increase the nation's borrowing authority.

"It is an American value to pay your bills. It's also an American value to do your job," Boxer (D-Calif.) told reporters Wednesday. "If we as members of Congress refuse to pay the bills we have incurred, we should not be paid our salaries."

Boxer announced the legislation along with the lead House sponsor, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.).  It is modeled on legislation enacted in January that denied salaries to members of Congress if their chamber did not pass an annual budget....

Oh, this is some of the impetus to Cruz's objection in raising the debt limit. His paycheck.

There was a provision in the House Budget that demanded the Senate to pass a budget. In recognizing that is the understanding there was going to be a conference. The Senate complied with the House request and now there needs to be a conference. 

This conference will help solve the complaints of Senator Session and the sluggish GDP and it will pay bills. We have to pay bills. So, now that the conference is necessary and has been DELAYED for over three months, Senator Cruz objects to a vote on the Debt Limit because his paycheck is riding on it.

Pay Your Bills or Lose Your Pay Act of 2013 (click here) 

This is a House Bill. H. R. 2335 (click here). I think Senator Boxer is attempting to make this a bipartisan effort. 

You know Cruz has a point here, not a good one, but he does have a point. If there are requirements of a 60 vote majority on limiting the debt ceiling, there will be savings in no other place but Congressional paychecks when the 60 vote threshold is not reached. It may be that Senator Cruz is a real 'man of the people' in that he feels their pain when the debt limit is not passed with a 60 vote majority.

Senator Cruz is a McConnell wannabee, too. That is something to applaud in some circles. 

What Senator Cruz does not appreciate is the fact all the budget fights have to occur at the time the Budget is passed and not at the time the Budget requires raising the debt limit. Senator Cruz is asking for redundancy in debate and that is not permitted. Debate on bills happens one time, in this case at the time of the Budget passage. To begin budget debate AGAIN in the form of a Debt Limit increase is redundancy and it will cause damage to the economy. Senator Cruz needs to stop grandstanding at the expense of the American people.

Senator Cruz as Senator McConnell has no appreciation for his colleagues and the possibility of such a threshold. Senator Cruz needs to stop his objections and realize how to place these issues in perspective rather than inflating their importance.

Senator Dan Coats is very wrong about his reasons to vote against the Immigration Reform Bill. He bases his decision on the idea that American people need to have trust put back to their understanding of government. That is rhetoric. Just because the American people don't have a good opinion of Congress, doesn't mean it is a trust issue. That is not the case.

The reason the American people have lost faith/trust in their government is because it is chronically stalemated and does not solve the problems of the country. That's why Americans are more than disappointed or lacking trust or disillusioned or have lost faith. The federal Congress can't get anything done. That is the reason, it has nothing to with anything else.

Trust is a non sequitur. Trust is guaranteed to the people of this country by the oath a Congressperson takes. The issue of trust is pandering rhetoric and nothing else. Getting the work done is the problem. So, while Senator Coats has made a very pandering and solicitous opening statement to defeat the bill it has no place in THE TRUTH and does not draw a logical conclusion. 

WORK. Getting the work of the nation done is the problem. Trust has nothing to do with it. Basically, Senator Coats is not earning his salary. Senator Coats has yet to enter any sincere opposition to the Immigration Reform Bill. He made a campaign speech and did not address why this bill is adverse to the future sovereignty of our nation.

It is the responsibility of the USA to uphold it's sovereign rights. If 11 million people have come here because of failed foreign policy to make an ally, namely Mexico, a country of quality of life while American companies have used cheap labor to benefit their profits, that is a problem. The USA has allowed a great deal of people into this nation to undermine it's own labor force. It has gone on for decades, at least over 25 years since the last immigration bill.

Eleven million people have been accepted into the borders of this country. They belong here now and it is the problem of the USA to return sovereign power over those 11 million people. Not just police actions that are woefully inadequate in containing the influence of these people, but, sovereign action to bring these people into the fold of the American populous. They will pledge to this country and not look to a foreign homeland as a place of loyalty.

This Immigration Reform Bill has to do that, if it doesn't do that there is no sense to it. This Immigration Reform Bill BETTER return our sovereign authority in regard to these people or there will plenty of Congresspersons looked at very strangely by their constituency after this mess.

McConnell's 60 vote majority is proving to be a joke. He can't even get 31 votes yet alone 41.

All the great liberators of the people voted no today in opposition to the Border Security measure of Immigration Reform Bill.

People like McConnell, Grassley, Barrasso, Cruz and all the greats.

The amendment passed with 68 yes votes, 30 no votes and 2 not voting. 

These Republicans are really sad, they can't even vote yes for Republican amendments.

The Defense of Marriage Act was in defiance of The Equal Protection Clause of the USA Constitution.

Any State law or amendment based in the Defense of Marriage Act can now be struck down, that includes North Carolina based in The Equal Protection Clause. Any activities of any states based on these laws can now be challenged and reversed.

This decision was based on a Canadian marriage license and procedure. Marriage is not a constitutional activity. 

This is still yet another example of how state politics, as they exist in North Carolina, exhibits nothing constitutional. The rights of the people in North Carolina are decided by the federal appeals system and the Supreme Court. North Carolina does not govern according to the USA Constitution, they govern according to their bibles. That is Anti-American. 

If the Red States and the Republican Party wants to know why they don't do well in federal elections; it has nothing to do with massaging the Centrists, it has everything to do with governing within the parameters of the USA Constitution as it exists in a modern day America. 

While the Pilgrims are interesting for children to study in the history of the USA, let's face it The Mayflower wasn't floating when The Boston Tea Party occurred. 

Proposition 8 has no standing in the federal justice system.

Proposition 8 is superceded by The Equal Protection Clause. Proposition 8 is struck down.

Throwing money and religious guilt might work at the ballot box, but, it doesn't stand when it defies the USA Constitution. 

The verbiage "Same Sex Marriage" is now antiquated. The law of the land in the USA is "Marriage." All marriages in California have to be honored and extended to all persons seeking marriage.

The Summer Solstice brought turbulence

High winds uprooted a tree (click here) that fell onto a car in the Uptown area at 25th St. and Aldrich Ave. S., Friday, June 21, 2013 in Minneapolis. Another round of heavy rain and high winds swept into the Twin Cities Friday night, less than 24 hours after damaging winds and heavy rain uprooted trees and knocked out power to more than 157,000 Xcel Energy customers. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, David Joles)

June 21, 2013
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Several homes were damaged (click here) and an entire county was without power Friday after a fast-moving line of strong storms moved through northeast South Dakota, bringing several tornadoes and golf-ball-sized hail.

The National Weather Service said tornadoes touched down in Clark, Hamlin, Spink and Kingsbury counties.

Hamlin County Sheriff Chad Schlotterbeck said the whole county was without power Friday evening, and the fire department was going door to door to assess the extent of damage.

"We've got homes destroyed," Schlotterbeck said. "We've got trees down."

Jim Scarlett, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Aberdeen, said the damage in Hamlin County appears to have been caused by a tornado, but the office was still assessing the result of the storm system...

Climate

Tornadoes Not Motorist-Friendly, Says Mo. Fire Chief (click here) 

Jack Miles 
The Daily Star-Journal, 
Warrensburg, Mo.Created: June 25, 2013  

Warrensburg's fire chief told the city council that vehicles and tornadoes do not mix. He said being in a car during a tornado would be like being a football in a game....
... During a discussion about emergency management recommendations, Councilman Baird Brock asked about people getting into their vehicles prior to a tornado. He asked because a Moore, Okla., TV meteorologist told his audience to get into their vehicles and flee an approaching tornado that later caused 24 deaths and widespread damage to Moore. KFOR meteorologist Mike Morgan took heat after the report due to giving unsound safety advice that resulted in traffic jams.
Johnston said getting into a vehicle when a tornado approaches would be like being being the football on game day, with a tornado able to kick the ball around. If that happens, seat belts and air bags will provide no help, he said.
Emergency personnel never should tell somebody to get into a vehicle when a tornado is near, he said....

It is difficult to pay for housing and a mortgage at the same time.

June 25, 2013
From Staff Reports 
Foreclosure auctions fell sharply in May (click here) after three months of increases probably because of a moratorium on foreclosures following the May tornadoes, according to Irvine, Calif.-based property data firm RealtyTrac.

Foreclosure auctions were down 47 percent from April and down 26 percent from a year ago in May, the firm reported.
Foreclosure starts were down 30 percent year-over-year in May, but bank repossessions were up 52 percent, the third straight month with an annual increase, the firm said.
RealtyTrac's Oklahoma Foreclosure Market Report showed foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — were reported on 1,123 Oklahoma properties in May, a decrease of 11 percent from April and down 13 percent from May 2012.... 

With the arrival of "trained spotters" on the job this quickly, the credentialing must have been in the works. The National Weather Service probably has a policy about whom reports to them and whom does not. They probably have had that policy for some time. People have to be trained to their standards.

NWS reports multiple tornadoes with Monday’s storms (click here) 
 
by Shellie Nelson
updated on: 01:17pm, June 25, 2013
The National Weather Service is assessing damage from multiple tornadoes sighted with storms that moved through our area Monday, June 24, 2013.
The Muscatine, Iowa Emergency Manager reported tornado damage on the north side of Muscatine near Highway 61.  Multiple semis and other vehicles were overturned, and buildings were damaged.   The damage is believed to be from a tornado spotted by local law enforcement there just before 3:30 p.m.
A National Weather Service storm survey assessed a reported tornado four miles northeast of Atkinson in Henry County, Illinois.  The tornado is reported to have been 50 yards wide and followed a path of about four miles on the ground just after 4 p.m.  A pole barn was reportedly destroyed, numerous trees were down and tin was reportedly wrapped around the tops of trees along the tornado path.  Closer to Atkinson, a trained spotter reported a 70 miles-per-hour wind gust with the same storm.

A trained spotter reported a tornado just after 4:30 p.m. near Walton, Illinois in Lee County.  Several grain bins and the Walton elevator were reported damaged....

There stands a great American.

Million - Billionaire Neil Bush that made is claim to fame in China with prostitutes; is now seeking volunteers worth far, far less in financial stature than he; to carry out the work of Million-Billion Dollar Wall Street firms.

Does Neil Bush know the USA court system has ruled on unpaid internships? Because as of now, this is not possible without those folks getting a salary.

It is that time of year. College folks are out for the summer and Neil Bush arrives to harvest his share for free labor in the name of a good reputation and good will.

"Snowden broke the oath!"

No clue. 

He should not have been given 'The Oath' in the first place !

That is the problem. The problem belongs to Carlyle. Our nation is not safe in the hands of Carlyle and Booz-Allen. Just that simple.

Oaths are very funny things. In the case of Mr. Snowden, he had to make all kinds of promises to get the job he had. And who would not want it. The pay rate was astronomical compared to his other options. But, once he got into the job and realized he knew what he knew being who he was his concern for his country took over. He is more than right to do what he did. I wish him well. Now, as for Congress, I'm not so sure.