My Day Be Made

It was five to four, but it's wonderful. The writer feels waxing poetically is the order of the day, but his poetry sucks. As witness to his prose how could the reader disagree?

Before I forget, let me add my two cents to the recently dead. When my uncle died years ago and I read his obituary, I did not recognize the person in the story.

"They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response... Shall we continue?

"Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother."

Leon: "My mother? Let me tell you about my mother." Pulls gun, starts shooting. 

Deckard: Sushi. That's what my ex-wife called me - cold fish.
Gaff: Monsieur, azonnal kövessen engem, bitte!
[Deckard gestures to Sushi Master for translation]
Sushi Master: He say you under arrest, Mister Deckard.
Deckard: Got the wrong guy, pal.
Gaff: Lófaszt! Nehogy már! Te vagy a Blade Runner!
Sushi Master: He say you brade runner.
Deckard: Tell him I'm eating.
Gaff: Captain Bryant toka. Meni-o mae-yo.

Not that I had any love for Robert Byrd in the first place. He was a pompous blowhard when he was alive and should have retired long ago to make room for some new thinking. That the Democratic strategy has become more complex is just too awful to contemplate. My dad once remarked, "Capitol Hill is a hard-on that never goes down." Now the assholes reinvent themselves before our eyes and we forget who they really are. Even what's-her-name changed her tune before the Senate today. Which part was the lie?

Back to dancing in the streets...

It was as if the Constitution of the United States was written and adopted by the States in a vacuum. The Declaration of Independence (notice no spanglish translation here) has been largely ignored in the legal realm. Yet, the Supreme Court often weighs 'legislative intent' when picking nits. Why the founders' intent is ignored is preposterous. The Constitution became the prescription for achieving the values set forth in the Declaration. The two documents are inseparable in American history. Separation of church and state? Checks and balances? Probably a question of what people were drinking as opposed to what they were smoking. Not just then, but now. Yet these ideas are accepted as fact, taken out of context, arcane and detrimental to the health of the American nation.

For a sample of revisionist thinking, check the dissenting opinions regarding history and consensus. The problem has been consensus. Too many loyalists in the assemblies. Too bad they ALL didn't move to Canada.

Justice Stevens wrote, "[T]his is a quintessential area in which federalism ought to be allowed to flourish without this court's meddling." Out of the other side of his brain he wrote that he would have given more leeway to local government. How's does one reconcile those two thoughts? Is it local government, with nothing better to do, poisoning anything that might flourish? Or is it the heavy-handed federals fueling the frustration of the citizenry, subjugating states' rights to special interests? Check the 17th Amendment.

Hopefully, the meddling is over. There's a never-ending messy (at best) debate about what a militia might be and what well-regulated might mean. Necessary to the security of a free state might mean without or within. It can be argued that the right is qualified or justified by the introductory clause. Read the Declaration, it's clear. Finally, the right "shall not be infringed." Where's the ambiguity? Is there some difficulty with the earth's gravitational field? Heavy.

George Mason, champion of the Bill of Rights said in 1787, "I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials."

Finally, and maybe this is what really scares people, “The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority... it is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people,” wrote Frank Irving Cobb, an American journalist not as well known as Joseph Pulitzer.

Let's celebrate! Something wonderful has happened here and we should all be grateful. The upcoming Fourth of July should find us dancing on the mall. Only wish there was time to get there. Party on! Light out of darkness. Have a wonderful day.

Lest they be forgotten, let's bring our men and women home from their service overseas so we can celebrate together.

Celebrating the ready availability of fireworks in Lincoln County, Wyoming, I asked a local retailer while he stocked his shelves, "I guess it's illegal to shoot fireworks in the city limits?" He said, "Yeah, the only time fireworks are allowed in the city limits is from July 1 to July 11. You can shoot 'em off outside the city limits anytime." Sign me up.