Today they were interviewing all the people congragated on the Supreme Court grounds. The litigant in this defense of marriage law case is an 83 year old woman who was in a lezbian relationship with another woman for 44 years and in 2007 she was officially married in one of the states that allows same sex marriage. But when her partner died she left her estate worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to the surviving partner. But the partner had to pay mountains of Estate tax she would not have had to pay if her marriage had been recognized as legal by the United States government. That to me seems a reasonable motive to bring a legal case. Justice Ginsberg said there were 'whole marriages' and what she referred to as "skim milk marriages" and I believe it was Justice Kagen who inquired just what prompted the law to be enacted by the republican congress. She found out that the Republicans then in congress "wanted to make a moral statement recognizing the Judeo Christian values of our land and to stem the tide of immorality" and what have you. Some justices questioned whether this was a valid ground on which to base a Federal law in a new area it had not formerly legeslated in. This was a longer Court session than yesterday but I was able to understand less of it because it contained a high ammount of legaleze- and lots of technical wrangeling.
Ashley Judd tweeted late today saying she would not run for Senator in Kentucky against Senate majority Mitch Mc Conell. That's too bad because she almost certainly would have won. The republicans were already running attack ads against her. Ashley Judd stated that she wanted and needed to spend more time with her family. I don't know. To me this seems to be an awfully quick turn-around of oppinion and I can't help wonder what pressures were brought to bear on her decision making process. Dorthy Hammil will not be performing on "Dancing with the Stars" or whatever, because she has physical problems and her orthopedist is advising against exaserbating any comditions. Meta World Peace will not be playing in any more Laker games this season because he has a torn miniscus (?) that needs to be worked on. I wish I knew what that was. The leader of South Korea has announced that they have taken out the one of original four remaining "hot lines' to South Korea for the reason that, "Since there is going to be a War soon it seems the logical thing to do". I guess this kind of leaves the rest of the world hanging as to what he has in store. And they are apparently making "real progress" on that invisibility shield thing. The Romulans had that one perfected centuries ago but they aren't telling anybody how they did it.
Sometimes there is a danger of either "over thinking something' or else getting a little TMI or too much information all at one time, and you aren't able to assimilate it all. This guy on You Tube- - the Higgs Boson guy is guilty of just this because he's trying to make this 'expansion of the universe" thing more complicated than it in fact is- - because he says the math doesn't add up and so there must be another- - strictly hypothical anti energy field presumably made up of anti bosons- - that counteract its effects, kind of like a giant cosmic electronic resister. Allow me to come to the rescue right now. You know of course that- - the speed of Expansion of any Universe need not be restricted to the speed of Light but can and does proceed at a much faster rate. Sure the Higgs boson creates Space at a break-neck pace- - but let's back up to an example we know a little better, and that is Black Holes. We know here that space is "Sequestered" into what Would be a Finite Space- - that is - - IF it could be seen at all, which it can't. But if it could it would be kind of self limiting- - just like Romney says immigrants would exercise "self deportation". That is- - to put it in plain terms- - as measured from what we would call our so called REAL vantage point- - the Higgs boson concentration becomes increasingly concentrated. The further you go in a radius out from Ground Zero- - the more concentrated the bosons - - and so time appears to pass more quickly with reference to activity- - and space shrinks down to Nothing but to these people swimming in Higgs bosons up to their eyeballs- - everything still seems quite normal. And from our so called REAL vantage point once again- there is no reason why their universe could not keep ON expanding. Keep in mind too that we assume that if we look at something four or five Billion years old and it's one third the speed of light- - we make the leap that the Universe is twelve or thirteen Billion years old. But the universe does not "end" the moment the light no longer hits us- even if that day were to arrive. Indeed would get the hyperbolic mirroring effect- - so we would see images we've seen before- - and I expect THIS to be the next great headline in the astronomy news. We'll see these ghost images rather than what's actually out there beyond the event horizon. Let me just say something about the idea that time was "slightly curved" and not totally straight. I think I would like to retract that statement because aspects of it just aren't working out. This entire Cosmic Sling-shot theory presupposes laws of astro physics that weren't in force when I am saying that it took place and therefore to use this theory is overly extrapelative and speculative. So what we are left with is the cosmic firecracker approach where matter explodes out in a host of undefined and new dimensions- - which we usually show on a two dimensional star-burst model. This theory dates back to the early eighties with me and Mark. I'm not ready to abandon it. The idea here is that each of manifold time-lines - - - "chooses from the ever varied pool of probabilities and contingencies". We say "Anything that CAN happen HAS happened - - in Some Universe". It could be likened to the statue of David or somebody. You "Create it" by taking away and not adding to the Clay. The Clay is "Everything there is" and I have no idea what THAT consists of. (Selah)
The
soap opera had a lot of key and varied conversations. It all seems to be leading to “something” but
I’ve been thinking that for weeks, and somehow the whole thing never quite
seems to get to any plot resolution. The
thing is that Nick has all of the Hortons against him plus the Di Miras and the
Kiriacus household, so one might say he is vastly outnumbered and therefore
needs to muster any weapons at his disposal.
But others will still whine it’s still not a “fair fight” because if you
have merit and the Truth on your side it is somehow “Not a fair fight’ or “mean
spirited’ or all of that stuff they were accusing Joseph Biden of during last
years presidential debate. I still have
just a little of the Arabica beans left- and about half of the content remains
to be used now. Hopefully the other
seven ounces will last me through the weekend, which I doubt. Dennis was talking about moving to another
facility but they jacked up the asking price on him by twenty dollars when they
saw he was interested. So he’ll stay
here. The cleaning staff has been
relatively passive and not activist. I
haven’t seen Nora around this week.
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