Mr. Obama, Are You Listening???

Disclaiming, I find the idea of homosexuality repulsive.*  Nevetheless, that Iowa court decision justifies itself with one simple statement that hasn't a damned thing to do with sex-- homosexual, heterosexual,  horizontal, vertical in a hammock, or intergalactic. 

The Iowa court wrote in its summary decision: "The court reaffirmed that a statute inconsistent with the Iowa constitution must be declared void even though it may be supported by strong and deep-seated traditional beliefs and popular opinion."

Eat more corn, just out of gratitude.

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*The same does not necessarily apply to all homosexual people.

Report from Brokeback Hog Lot

Hoo boy!  Are you guys going to be hearing a  lot about Iowa. The Heart of Bucolia Supreme Court has just made gay marriage legal. 

Hawkeye land becomes the fourth* state in the nation to legalize it. Probably making  gays even gayer, Iowa is (wrongly) perceived as the most conservative Bible-belty kingdom this side of  Alabama, and the gays believe if it can happen in the corn fields  it can happen anywhere.

See? Iowans can do something besides turn dimwits into U.S. presidents.

EDIT: Surprising absolutely everyone,  the court decision was unanimous.

*EDIT 2: Strictly speaking,  Iowa is the third -- accompanied by Connecticut and Massachusetts --  rather than fourth . The Proposition  Eight  fight technically returns California to the man/woman-only standard.

How scared should we be?

I'm not going to live-blog the President's  speech,  but I'll offer you the first quote I heard a few seconds ago. He says of the auto industry: "Our  (White House)  evaluation  is now  complete."

If that doesn't scare Hell out of you,  you and I do not share even the slightest similarity of thought processes.

I wonder what Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden will decide to evaluate next. 

Fargo

Y'all remember when G.W. Bush caused Katrina in New Orleans because he hated minorities. That was a few days  before he ordered the government to be real cheap about free debit cards, free trailers, free hotel rooms, and free what-all  that the victims deserved. A whole lot of them were entitled  and deserving --  as far as I could tell -- mostly because they pissed and moaned a lot. Surely not because they displayed an abundance of character before, during, or after the hurricane.

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Right now folks in Fargo, North Dakota, are facing a record Red River crest, a flood which the word "catastrophic" does not over describe. They're confronting it at the tag end of  a week of brutal labor in freezing weather by ordinary citizens, officials, and their National Guard. They're  filling and humping sandbags, moving stuff out of the likely wet places, and generally trying to take care of themselves. 

Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker sets the tone by telling the national media "We don't want to go down, but if we do we'll go down swinging." You often hear such stuff  in this part of the world where bunches of unpussified people living in the same town consider themselves part of a "community."

And that reminds me again of how badly I wanted to turn New Orleans over my lap and  give it a damned good spanking. Still do, but then I'm routinely accused of harboring extended grudges against candy-ass whiners.

Fargo will apply for the usual federal disaster money when it's all over. But they won't accuse the new President of making the river rise because he hates non-minorities. And they won't defecate all over the floor of their  public shelters while demanding that President Obama hurry up and make the river go down.

Good luck, Fargo.