D.O.M.A Declared Unconstitutional

Yesterday the US 2nd Court of Appeals based in New York, rules in a two to one decision that the Defense of Marriage Act, passed under President Clinton in 1996 so Bob Dole couldn't use it as a campaign issue, this act was Unconstitutional and is the 2nd US Court of Appeals to do so.  This act doesn't invalidate gay marriages in the states of New York or Vermont there they're legal by legislative fiat, but they do put in place other safeguards for normal heterosexual marriages.  Neither side has sought to make gay marriages an issue in this Presidential campaign.  Also Rush Limbaugh's opposition to gay marriage is what I could call "soft".  Just as limp as his you know what.  Of course now that great bastion of Truth out there, World Net Daily has come up with some totally fantastic headlines which aren't exactly new, but Randi Rhodes was talking about this sort of stuff in her opening hour today.   Apparently World Net Daily has said that the reason why there aren't any "sex escapade" stories from young women being brought forward is because as a young student at Columbia University in New York in the early 'eighties, President Obama was into the men.  And fact he and a Moslem gay male roommate in college were co-habeting.  And they even exchanged rings.  President Obama wears this ring all the time that his mama gave him that has Arabec writing on it which says, "There is no god but Allah", leaving off the rest of the saying " - - and Mohamed is his prophet".  I have no problem saying "There is no god but Allah" because it violates none of my religious sensabilities.  Since Eloham, the Hebrew word, is OT lingo for the Holy Trinity according to the Baptist Bible College set.  I have this talisman thing given to me by Dr. Levy a couple of years ago called a "Hansa" or something, which is Aribec for "warding off the Evil Eye".  It has this hand with a big eye on the back of it.  I have it in a drawer right mow but maybe I should start wearing it around my wrist again.  Actually a lot of the evil forces that had been plaguing my left lessened or vanished when I got this talisman.  I also have a copy of the Koran, but I don't have a copy of the Thalmid.  Of course you can use video tapes to prove anything, such as Joe Biden saying a week or so ago, "Make no mistake about it.  President Obama has a big stick".  You see the thing is that the President is supposed to be "into older white men" and they say that Joe Biden still looks pretty good in wet swim trunks.  Of course now the Romney campaign is still obsessed with this Libya thing that should have died a natural death over a month ago. There is a new CIA five paged report that was made public today and the right wing quoted from the first and third paragraph - - skipping the second paragraph, as well as ignoring the whole rest of the five page memo.  You can check Randi Rhode's program podcasts for the details, I'm not going to review all the tedious details for you now again.

Generally, the following material was from my own private writings- - occasionally text-expanded or re-formatted a little when called for.  I'm going to censor out one name Mal Evans doesn't want made public but actually I have slipped up a time or two.  (And I won't tell you where)  Mal Evans may want his name withheld for another reason if you're into our Federation writings, particularly from around June of 2005.

We had a spaghetti sauce style meat balls with tube pasta, and Dora had seconds on the meatballs and sauce.  Again we had ice cream.  Tonight it was raspberry.  I made that final pot of coffee this evening informing Bill he couldn’t have any.  We got egg sandwiched from Donnie, who made it upstairs.  (?)  “The Last Resort” is coming on now.  I’m doing better on cigarettes tonight than last night.  There was more post mortem on the Boy Scouts on EWN tonight.  I am the type who doesn’t like secrets being kept anyhow.  In the case of Raphael keeping Nicole’s secret from his- - EX wife, this is a gray area.  I must emphasize it’s his EX wife.  He disdained her enough to divorce her, so she can’t really lay claim to his loyalties.  Maybe Samantha should ask herself honestly why he would conceivably trust Carrie more than her.  Think about it.

The SL Cardinals are now close to being up three games to one over the SF Giants and are ahead in tonight’s game four to one in SL.  Later information says they won in game four and now have but one game to go to win the National League pennant.  The Tigers beat the Yankees four straight games.  It’s just as well I watched none of them because it would have been depressing.  I have never been a fan of the Tigers.  To tell you the truth, I was a little freaked out when I learned that the Tigers had taken four games straight from the NY Yankees.   Interestingly enough - - - Mal Evans seems to have gone to an Andromadan to get support for the Cardinals against the Giants.  Normally Andromeda rules the Giants but their power was "co opted" from them by the Sutterans.  The same thing happened in October of 1987.  I had the game on TV for various segments.  There was also ABC network news, Jeopardy, and Wheel of Fortune.   

Here is a question about “GOD” I just thought of.  We know that God is not “material” in that he has no “substance” or “matter” as we think of it in this material Universe.  Most people agree on this axiom.  Therefore how can the Catholic Church claim that “The Father’ is ONE “in substance” to the Son?  To allege that God even is possessed of ANY “substance” is to say that said substance has prior ontological existence, for said substance to be used in the creation of God.  Think about it.   Theologians trap themselves.  Here's a question for you.  Does God have what we call a "function" or "purpose" for His own existance?  Be careful how you answer this jaw breaker.  Because both "function" and "reson det" as they say in French- - -imply the act or somehow "Will" of an Outside Force.  In this case that would be a Force bigger than God.  So God lacks, substance.  Got lacks a teological reason for his existance.  What else does God lack.  He lacks Essence.  Some may chafe at that one but think about it.  Do you remember when we talked about how blueberries have an "essence" or "sense of blueberry-ness" we all perceive in common?  But we humans don't "perceive" God.  At best he hides from us and it worse isn't there to begin with.  Finally the final attribute of Creation - - and that is Form.  When I use the word "Form" just substitute "Blueprint".  It can be a schematic or archetectual plan or a chemical or mathematical formula.  It's the "Instructions" or "template" to use a more techy word, for "How do you want to bring said Creation about?"   When you think about it - - most all of the things Theologians, particularly Calvinists - - say about God - - CAN be True.  God is not localized.  God has no shape.  God can be all knowing.  Everything in our destiny can be within God's power.  God can be immutable or unchanging.  But all this and fifty cents won't buy you a cup of coffee nowadays.  What God isn't an Essential thing God is lacking for us humans is - - Relevence.

This is Friday October 19, 2012 approaching ten thirty.  Moe Kelly is doing “Who would you hire and who would you fire” day, and has been the past hour and a half.  Anne Romney stood in for her husband yesterday on “The View” and refused to answer simple questions.  And Tag Romney, a son, said he would punch out President Obama if it weren’t for the secret service agents.  There was one caller who didn’t grasp the concept of the show and by his tone of voice you could tell right away he had some chip on his shoulder.  He said “I voted for Obama four years ago but I don’t like the pettiness of radio shows like yours and therefore I’m voting for Romney this time’ and then went on to attack the President’s children.  Coffee call came just before ten and after a wait of some length I finally got two cups from Laura.  I said Hi to the four birds, who were quiet today.  I just smoked my last cigarette and made it almost to lunch.  They just announced going for the China buffet, although it would be a really early lunch right now.

Last night it was “The Last Resort” on ABC with more authority challenges.  Then it was “Gray’s Anatomy” I watched till nine thirty and the plot seemed directionless.  I slept fairly well and had some dream about a St. Bernard pup that slept on my chest and I was thinking “When he gets bigger he’ll never be able to do that”.  It was almost six thirty and starting to get light when I arose and began today without coffee.  I had Stephanie Miller on.  [name withheld] greeted me at the door and [name withheld] said for us all to grab up apple juice and milk from the cart, and feel free to take Rice Krispies from the cereal cart.  That speeds up the whole process and is something they should have been doing all along.  Coffee was reasonably generous and we had scrambled eggs and toast with butter and jelly.  In terms of news it’s been pretty quiet the past three days since the debate with only occasional sniping back and forth here and there.  Most of people’s attention will be on baseball these next fifteen days or so.  It seems at the Al Smith dinner Mitt Romney broke with protocol, doing his campaign speech- - at a place where candidates are supposed to do self deprication.  Mitt Romney is a guy who doesn’t play by the rules of civility.

This piece of crap that Christians love to dump on you is saying “Oh you can feel free to ask questions.  Doubt is not a sin per se.  But we want you to ask only OUR questions we hand script for you- - even if the questions we suggest are crap and ones you never care to ask yourself and probably don’t even care about”.  I don’t like one’s motives being impugned by the person being asked the question.  And it’s really dumb to say “I didn’t answer that obvious question you had, that’s true.  But you probably had corrupt motives in asking it anyhow.”  And when Paul says “Pastor Halliday is refusing to answer your questions because he knows that isn’t the real question”.  This is from a guy who (A) wasn’t there for any of the exchanges and (B) claims to have never met Pastor Halliday and hasn’t a clue what he’s really like.  But I’ll tell you this, and it goes back to the Raphael thing.  It’s OK to have a “prior loyalty”, which is code for “Of course I reserve the right to tell you boldface lies- - even if I protest to you ten times I’m telling the truth and would never lie.  Because I have an OBLIGATIPN to lie to you because I’ve made a prior commitment”.  Well in court cases and in the case of Grover Norquist- legislation - - we have the “prior commitment” thing come up.  It’s called “Conflict of Interest” and if you FAIL to disclose that you HAVE a conflict of interest- - you are implicitly lying to the Court or whoever else you are dealing with.  Inherently fair people know intuitively this is the case.