Vacation....What Vacation?

I've been on vacation this week. Nine days off from work .... squeezing in the two weekends off between the five day vacation.

You might think, with this much time off, I would have spent a little bit of this time writing. Not so. Cathy and I closed on a new house this week and there's a lot to do before we can move in. It looks as if we'll be here for a couple of weeks while the contractor works on repairing the sheet rock and replacing the laminate and vinyl flooring and carpet.

Cathy and I hope we can start on the painting before I go back to work Monday. There's no way we can get it all done this weekend but, getting the kitchen finished will be a plus.

I have a long list of things that need to be done today.....there's no rest for the weary.

This little post will have to do for today.

Energy Secretary wants to paint the world white.

President Obama's Energy Secretary, Professor Steven Chu said roofs throughout the world should be painted white to reflect the sun's rays back into space and, thereby, reduce global warming. Professor Chu has also said that roads and pavement should be made from light colored concrete rather than black asphalt for the same reason.

I'm sure it won't be long before environmental wackos, such as the members of Earth First, will put forth the idea that we must all wear white clothing to be green.

From what I understand, the uniform pictured here was once standard clothing for Democrats. I'm sure quite a few of Democrat voters may still have one or two sets put away in the closet.

We all know Margaret Sanger was a fan of the klan, so maybe Planned Parenthood could put their resources behind this.

links:
Obama's green guru calls for white roofs
Professor Steven Chu: paint the world white to fight global warming

More of the Same.

Let's take a quote from Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, as reported in a NY Times article [A Judge’s View of Judging Is on the Record ] transpose a few choice words and see how well it comes across:

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman white male with the richness of her his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male Latina woman who hasn’t lived that life,”

Some change..........

The Latest in Fashion?

According to the Lincoln Journal Star:

A man who robbed a north Lincoln Kwik Shop on Monday morning brought a disguise — he was wearing a Bud Light box on his head.

The man had a green rag wrapped around his hand, implying he had a weapon, when he entered the store at 4400 Cornhusker Highway around 4:30 a.m. He made off with nine packs of Newport cigarettes, valued at nearly $50, police Capt. Bob Kawamoto said.

While I was unable to find a photo of the thief and his Bud Light box mask, I have located quite a few photos of folks wearing an assortment of beer boxes on their heads. I've made a collage of said photos for my readers' enjoyment.

Kinsley defends Prejean.....sort of.

Just when I thought the issue of the "Miss California, Carrie Prejean's same sex marriage question and answer controversy" was old news, Michael Kinlsey weights in on the subject in a column for The Washington Post [A Crown of Thorns for Miss California?].

Kinsley defends Prejean.....sort of.

In his view, Prejean is a bigot - guilty of an innocent, mindless bigotry that shouldn't ruin someone's life - but, a bigot none the less.
Kinsley believes same sex marriage will be accepted through out the country, because......" the arguments for it are so reasonable and appealing to so many people across the political spectrum". To Kinsley, Prejean is not "an intolerable bigot" because she's just "a bit slow to wrap her head" around what he sees as "reasonable and appealing arguments".

He may have presented these "reasonable and appealing arguments" somewhere before, but he fails to do so in this column, so I'm unconvinced.

Same sex marriage would not be an issue today were it not for one thing ...... Government's decision, years ago, to take over the Church's role in determining what is and what isn't a "legitimate" marriage.

The State doesn't have any need to be involved in the question of marriage in any way what-so-ever. Marriage is a religious act. Marriage is an agreement between two people (or more in the case of polygamy) before God, wherein the participants pledge to join together - in theory - for ever and always.

There are some who claim that marriage must be recognized before the State in order to secure property rights and child support should the parties involved later decide to divorce. Child custody and financial support issues are handled now before the law when the dispute is between couples who share parenthood yet never married. It's the same with division of property. It's not necessary for the partners be married for the State to settle disagreements. There are already laws in place to take case of the civil issues.

Let the State remove itself completely from any involvement with marriage and let the matter be what it is......an issue left up to the Church (or Churches).
If you and your beloved - for example - wish to be married in the Catholic Church, it should be handled by the Catholic Church. If you and your betrothed are Muslim and wish to have a polygamist marriage, then it should be strictly a Muslim matter.
If you want a same sex marriage and the Catholic, or Baptist or Islamic Churches don't allow it but the Episcopal Church does, so be it.
Leave it up to the religious community to allow or disallow marriage as it sees fit.

I suppose, the only ones who might object to this idea would be the atheists who have no church in which to marry. Their not having a God before whom they can pledge their love does throw a monkey wrench into this. Any self respecting atheist should, I imagine, find being married before the State as objectionable as being married in a church.
All is not lost for the atheist, however. There's always the Atheist Wedding Ceremony.