AND SO IT GOES

Yesterday 250,000 Gaza children destrapped from their atomic zap guns to fly a Guinness world record breaking number of kites;

(RAI 3 notizie, 17.00, www.rai.it 8/11/10)

Senator Lindsey Graham, Arizona, is now interested in altering the 14th amendment of the U.S. constitution so as to imitate the Bossi-Fini law in denying citizenship to children born in this country;

(Newsweek, August 9, 2010 page 9 The Next Immigration)

As Proposition 8, declaring same sex marriages illegal, has been finally put to rest by a federal judge, Mexico is declaring the unions legal in all of the country, not only the zone they're celebrated in (think of the absurdity of this parochialism. Think of the advantages for the adulterous spouse: married only from 10:3If you time travel using the same logic an adulterous spouse can have a heyday: married from 10:00 to 12:00, a break for lunch)...

Not learning from past mistakes, such as forcing people to pay a fine for not enrolling in a health plan (declared unconstitutional) and supporting suicide or homicide in circumstances of extreme stress, NOW the Obama administration has signed into law 26 billion in assistance to save 300,000 public sector jobs, half of which teacher's but added a 12 billion cut in food stamps, beginning 2014. Hawaii closed its schools on 27 fridays due to a severe budget crisis, but how good is it to have people starve or eat life shortening food to make ends meet? Last I calculated I need at least 400 dollars a month to eat nutritionally sound food, and the food stamp maximum is 200 a month. If you call Human Resource Administration, the recording has the grace to say that food stamps help with food purchases, but when the rent assistance maximum is about 500, I'd like to know where these families live and shop. It's not in New York: a gallon of milk still without magnesium needed for calcium absorption but with the latter mineral, phosphorus and vitamin D is 4 dollars a half gallon, and you need three cups a day. On top of which vitamin and mineral supplements are full of phosphates, banned from sale in this state as in many others, and insoluble micro materials which can accumulate internally, if not aluminum, found in high concentrations in Alzheimer harmed people. What the hell are they thinking of?

(Democracy now, August 11, 2010)

and here a story in today's New York Times, Nation section, "In the rearview mirror, Oklahoma and Death Row", in Dan Barry, This Land:

James Fisher is named in a murder by another and sentenced to death with the help of two defense attorneys, one E. Melvin Porter, anti-gay at the time, and Johnny Albert who actually threatens Mr. Fisher's life, mind clouded with too much cocaine. The third attorney, Mr. Hudson, is the clincher-breaker and frees Mr. Fisher after he pleads guilty, since the new law requires a plea from death row inmates, leading to freedom but banishment from the state of Oklahoma. Now he's in a re-entry program sustained by Alabama's Equal Justice Initiative.