High Court Voids Key Portions of the 1965 Voting Rights Statute

We never thought we’d ever have a Supreme Court ruling that was actually WORSE than Citizens United but today we got just such a ruling.  In that case the supreme court reached into their collective asses and pulled out the doctrine of free speech and since corporations don’t have mouths and don’t vote and aren’t citizens- - then the only way they can “express themselves” is through money.  Just to keep this politically balanced, I’ll say the same thing of flag burning rulings.  Flag burnings isn’t “free speech”.  If it were then I would just speak to the flag and have it burst into flames.  Nobody I know short of Jesus Christ or somebody has the power to do that.  Now we have two key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights law being stuck down.  These are sections 4 and 5.  The train of thought in justice Scelia last February says it all.  He says that both houses of congress have regularly voted to renew this 1965 act for varying terms of time.  So the Justice then pulled another of those principles out of his ass, which goes like this.  “Clearly we see congress less and less willing to end these provisions of the voting rights law that involves prohibiting of eight southern states from changing their voting rights laws in contravention of the law.  Justice Scelia says “Clearly what we have here is a new phenomenon called racial entitlement.  And history shows that such entitlements if not nipped in the bud have a way of perpetuating themselves- - and so the Supreme Court has to come to the rescue and do what congress refuses to do and end this thing right now”.   Keep in mind that the constitution on so many of these civil rights amendments has the words appended “Congress has the power to enforce this measure with appropriate legislation”.   And for decades the law was working exactly as proscribed by the law itself.  But now this idea of “further research into the matter” was introduced.  Well congress has DONE this “research.  Joe Byden said today that between 1982 and 2006 some seven hundred laws have been put a halt to that these states wanted to enact with the deliberate intent to deny minorities the vote”.  He goes on “In 2011 in a South Carolina case it was shown that sixty thousand Blacks would immediately lose their vote were this SC law allowed to be enacted”.   The thing if that these Southern states can get off of this “probation list” merely by having a “clean record” for ten years- - of no grevious infractions of voting rights.  But none of these states were able to do it.  This decision was along the classic five to four lines, with the usual people on each side.  Of course even in the past few months there have been countless cases in the news of Blacks and other minorities being purged from the Voter rolls.  Of course you will remember that the decision on Bush v Gore the Court then said that “This decision cannot be used to establish any sort of legal precedent”, which is about the same thing as saying “I had my fingers crossed”.  So really there should be a blank in the History books as to who was president those four years with an asterick explaining the problem.  But the Court has also restricted the rights of those suing for worker place harassment.  Now they say that the very one who did the hassassing must have the power himself to Fire you, and if he doesn’t then you have no basis on which to lodge a complaint.  To me this is funny because just last week the tea party was moaning about that “Climate of repression and hostility” that President Obama was establishing in the IRS from a thousand miles away- - - so which is it???  That white female who was rejected from admission to the University of Texas, stated that she was “encouraged” by the Court’s ruling.  Apparently she read something in-between the lines that I didn’t.

The whole media coverage of the George Zimmerman trial has been pathetic and hopelessly inadequate.  The entire opening defense statement was reduced to a tasteless knock-knock joke repeated endlessly.  One key statement the opening for the Defense was that Trayvon Martin was indeed “armed” because he was “armed” with the public sidewalk.  The defense would have us believe that a 220 pound man was pinned down to the sidewalk by a 140 pound teenager, whom regularly has about four inches added to his actual height.  We are then led to believe that while on his back and screaming for help, all the while holding a gun with his finger on the trigger that he “felt threatened” and so fired upward at Trayvon Martin, who was presumably above him facing down.  But somehow Zimmerman managed to get not one drop of the victim’s blood on him.  Clearly if the individuals were in the positions the defense describes than the dead Martin would have fallen on the defendant.  And yet someone had the audacity to say that “Trayvon Martin was uninjured in this encounter.  Yeah, all except for the fact that he is dead.  Then rather than seek medical help, George Zimmerman just stood over the body like a lion that has just killed his prey.  Keep in mind just a couple of minutes earlier a panicked Trayvon was on the cell phone to his girlfriend talking with her, and saying that someone is following him.  I think a key prosecution bit of evidence is that tape we haven’t seen in a long time of Zimmerman with his crew cut and apparently not any cuts on his head.  Or the hospital people saying “cancel the call- - only one person needs medical attention” because all those lacerations on the back of Zimmerman’s head had spontaneously healed and no longer needed stitches.  The idea that Zimmerman was a “flat liner” as far as the lie detector goes, is only evidence that he is a psychopathic killer with no conscience at all.  Because a normal person even if he just killed somebody in a bloody confrontational manner would be “shaken up” by the experience.  Zimmerman is a pathological liar- - and the defense would not dare to put him on the stand because one and all on the jury would see him for exactly what he was. 

By the way you numerology freaks, we were talking about how the Cross of Jesus was symbolic of the number 33.  Well if you add up the initials K K K you get a 33.  Coincidence?  Perhaps.  If you're a number Twelve dimensional freak then your key word is BADE as in "gave permission or invitation", in this case, to exist.  (Selah)  There has been no new news on the Edward Snowden caper in two days.  Apparently he is still truck in “the transfer zone” kind of a neutral area that isn’t officially in Russia so Putin doesn’t have the power to arrest him, neither “checked in” or “checked out’ of anything.  For a cosmic perspective, Burt Lombard regards the guy as a Hero.  Burt is one of those “let it all hang out’ kind of guys and is very big on civil liberties- - - with a bit of a Ted Nugent anti government streak.  He has had somewhat of a modifying influence on Stewart Sutcliffe (whose birthday it was the other day) in softening his initial rather anti-sympathetic stance.  John Lennon issued a statement about this voting rights thing, which has a strange translation in the original Romulan.  It’s something like “This law flies in the face of all of those liberal songs I wrote- - and pretty much puts a dagger through the whole spirit of them”.   But in the Romulan this translates that “Those liberals in America had more to do with those songs that I did”.    By the way when it comes to that Romulan stuff from last April involving the Beatles, at first Stu was protective of John Lennon - - thinking Romulans were trying to take credit for his songs, when Lennon himself said “Cool it, Stu- - they’re right, you know”.   Even this line involves explanation because it isn’t the eight “Romulan Songs” I have enumerated- - but rather those Other songs where we have said that “someone else sang” in 1963 and 1964.  

One long awaited event is finally going to occur tomorrow.  We’re promised a ruling on Proposition 8 but what I was referring to is my blood test, which has been “in the works” for some three and a half months and tomorrow at nine thirty it’s finally going to happen.  I was called down to the office and Yadera told me not to eat anything and they would get me breakfast afterward.  Of course luckily I have coffee now.  (more on that later)  So I may cheat a little- if caffeine intake is cheating.  Last night for dinner we had meat balls with tomato sauce and rice and broccoli.  I had seconds on all of that.  We had rainbow sherbet for desert.  But not an hour later I come out and there is a crowd chowing down on Pastrami sandwiches and fried zucchini from Janet, which she bought apparently for a couple close friends, but then everybody and his dog horned in on it.  I resolved not to become a part of the problem and so stayed away.  The NFL finals were on played in Boston tonight.  The Bruins scored first and the Black Hawks tied it up, and then the Bruins scored fairly late and the crowd erupted in cheers thinking that this was the defining score.  But then with seconds left in the third period, Chicago scores twice within a period of some seventeen seconds making the score 3 to 2 Blackhawks and thus they won the same on June 24^th and the series was not extended any further into Summer.  There was still daylight left here when the came concluded.  First it was the MVP trophy and then as per custom the Stanley Cup was hoisted and passed around from player to player.  They have the solid tradition in that sport of every winner shaking the hand of every losing opponent.

The Following Was Typed Yesterday

Mario completely wasted the first hour on the whole Paula Dean thing.  She is the quaint Food Lady, and older woman with kind of an Elizabeth Dole accent who told about how her father was devastated by the Civil War, which took so much.  Mario acts as though to relate the human tragedy of a great grandfather means that you’re some kind of racist.  I got the definite opposite opinion about the lady.  The only remark I question is the one about how Southerners are actually less prejudiced than are northerners.  But the callers didn’t take kindly to Mario’s carping at the lady either.  One Black guy thought Mario wasn’t plugged into reality- - and doesn’t know what Blacks face right NOW.   The Chicago Blackhawks won game five in Chicago over the Boston Bruins 3 to 1, and as such I’m not getting a good feeling about the Bruins’ chance in this series.  At the stroke of eight coverage ended and I switched to the office for five or six minutes and then turned it to a CBS drama.   But now I don’t remember and I retired soon after nine.  Randy Rhodes talked about this Rolling Stone reporter named Mike Hastings who crashed his car in Hancock park last Friday night.  He told his best friend in Afghanistan who he was an “imbedded reporter” with Staff Sergeant Biggs, that he was working on another really big story and would have to drop off the Radar for a while.  Mario was wondering why David Gregory gave the guy Greenwald such a tough grilling on Meet the Press asking “Shouldn’t you yourself be charged with the aiding and abetting of a crime?”  Randy also voiced the same sentaments.  Now it seems that Edward Snowden may be going to Iceland after all.  Of course maybe he decided against Ecuador because there are too many Federation people there, from what I was told thirty years ago in 1983.  Snowden did not get on that plane to Cuba, which is too close to Guantanamo anyhow.  So he’s stuck in the “neutral zone’ in Moscow airport neither checked “in” or “out” of anything.  I guess he has all of the gift shops and food places to pass the time, assuming security doesn’t throw him out.  Some have wondered why Putin doesn’t just arrest him and turn him over to our government as a personal favor but apparently Putin is even dumber than he looks.