Go ahead. Turn back now. The possibility of something enlightening escaping my lips or fingertips today is dwindling rapidly.
Lack of sleep. Extreme lack of sleep.
Curse Comcast and that silly little 12.0 mbps cable modem they sent me. My wife was laughing good and hard at me this morning, because I came to bed at about... oh, 2:00am.
She doesn't understand things like going from a 21.6 kbps connection to the data pipeline we have now. There's even talk of putting a curfew on the computer (tucking it in with a blanket and the whole works).
Okay, on to the post....
Headline: Crosses honoring troopers protested: Atheists' suit says Utah markers unconstitutional
This is where I get politically incorrect. And very pissed off. Let's set the wayback machine for, oh, say the early 1600's? Location: England.
The Church of England was a state sponsored and controlled church, and life could be and usually was made very hard for those who didn't belong to or opposed the official church in any way.
In writing the Consitution of the United States of America, the founding fathers didn't want any encore presentations of the religious intolerance that was played out in England, hence the First Amendment:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...รข€Seems pretty clear cut to me: The state neither establishes a religion, nor interferes with anyone's religious rights.
In a statement, Utah atheist Stephen Clark said the cross stands for Christianity to the casual observer.
"To so blatantly tie the [Utah Highway Patrol] to religion and to overwhelm the commemoration with a harrowing symbol exclusive to one religion unquestionably violates the doctrine of the separation of church and state", Clark said.
What a crock of shit.
I see no religion being established here, and I can't see religious persecution here, either. Unless you count the asshats who are filing the suit.
This is not about establishment of religion or preventing the free exercise thereof. This is about the few having power over the many. This is an in-your-face bitch slap to the religious. This is about contention, and the great money that is to be made from it. This is about taking the unity that made our country great, and turning neighbor against neighbor until our nation is nothing more than a bunch of bitter, angry people living on the same land mass.
This is not the First Amendment. This is the bastard inbred cousin of the First Amendment, and if we could figure out a way to harness the energy from the founding fathers spinning in their graves, we could probably cut our dependence on foreign oil altogether.
It looks like Alla was fired from The Apprentice last night.
I think it's admirable that she made it that far. She's right, though; her financial net worth is over eight figures. Losing the bid to a job from Donald Trump shouldn't affect her very much.
Who knows? She might own Trump someday. If you take a look at where she came from, and how far she has come, it's definitely a possibility.
That's all for now. I'm listening to the music from A Charlie Brown Christmas by the Vince Guaraldi Trio. Very relaxing, very seasonal, very recommended.
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