29 Jun 2005
Supreme Court Justice Proclaims Monotheist State

How could I have missed this? I even read and commented on parts of Scalia's dissent. But I stopped reading too soon, it seems - sorry, but legal briefs aren't exactly my cup'o'tea. This is from his dissenting opinion in one of the recent Ten Commandments cases:

If religion in the public forum had to be entirely nondenominational, there could be no religion in the public forum at all. One cannot say the word "God," or "the Almighty," one cannot offer public supplication or thanksgiving, without contradicting the beliefs of some people that there are many gods, or that God or the gods pay no attention to human affairs. With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our Nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists.

So there you have it. In the opinion of this distinguished, conservative legal scholar and Supreme Court Associate Justice, polytheists, pantheists and atheists can simply be disregarded with respect to the First Amendment.

Gosh, I guess I'm just a second-class citizen after all - a dhimmi in a Christian Nation.

Actually, what I've become is a stranger in a strange land: this is not the America in whose military I served so many years ago, this is not the America I grew up in. And it's certainly not the America of the Founding Fathers. Here's what Thomas Jefferson wrote in his Autobiography, in reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom:

Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.

Last time I checked, "Hindoos and other Infidels" were polytheist or pantheist. But no matter: obviously our "originalist" Justice knows better what the Founders proposed than they themselves did. He must be a "liberal activist judge", after all!

Does anybody still wonder why the upcoming battles over judical appointments are so critical? At this point the Democrats could run Bozo the Clown for President with Micky Mouse as his running mate in 2008 and I'd volunteer to work the campaign. Because they couldn't possibly do much worse than the clowns and mice that are currently running this great nation.

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Scientology: It's Not Just For Breakfast Anymore

The Cheesemistress takes on Tom Cruise.

At the end of 1, the cheese is still standing alone ...

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Sorry 'bout that!

No posts yesterday - it was an incredibly busy day. Of course, Tuesday's always are around here: that's when I run the delivery route. But yesterday was worse...

I suppose I should preface by telling you that we have garnered a bunch of new customers, mostly from an ad that's breaking in the Zionsville Times-Sentinel (they have an article coming out on the farm as well) and on the inclusion of our delivery service in the email newsletter run by Trader's Point. So it was going to be busier than usual anyway, when the milk cooler broken down.

The temperature here was slated to reach 95° F, so without a working cooler, I had to load the perishable products up into picnic coolers, pack them with ice, and run fast! The the storms started popping up, and the cooler (without ice) that I used to store the bread began to leak. So I emptied the cooler, packed the bread into the front seat beside me, and tried to navigate to several new locations. What a pain in the ass!

Getting home about three, I went to feed the chickens - and noticed that we were out of supplemental feed! Shit! So Kris and I went up to Lafayette to pick up a bag until I can get some more ordered bulk, and decided to go out to eat while were were up there.

Getting back home about 9:30 pm, I checked my mail and noticed something highly unusual: no SPAM. In fact, I had no email at all, and neither did Kris. Uh-oh... it turned out that qmail had died on our main server, overrun by runaway mailing list manager that a customer maintains.

So I frantically log on and start killing rogue processes, finally getting everything back to normal after midnight.

And having started yesterday morning before 6, I just collapsed into the sack. So no blogging. Sometimes, it seems, I get a real life...

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