NEW YORK BIRTHDAY TODAY--CIA TOO!

Today is the 219th birthday of New York. In 1788 New York became the 11th state in the United States. It is now THE ONLY FREAKIN' STATE IN THE UNION that still requires grounds for divorce. Yeah team!

Today also, is the 60th birthday of the CIA. You know those guys, they find weapons of mass destruction that don't exist, but they can't find terrorists that do. REMEMBER FOLKS--Deny everything, admit nothing, and make counter accusations. Especially when your own competency comes into question.

TODAY mirabile dictu, is the 99th anniversary of the formation of the Office of the Chief Examiner, which in 1935 became the EFF--BEE--EYE. Yes, the FBI ladies and gentlemen, Forever Bothering Italians.

Ain't history great?

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WOMEN'S RIGHTS MILESTONE

This day in 1848 the first women's rights convention, took place. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a woman's suffragette, and Lucretia C. Mott, an anti-slavery activist got the ball rolling at Seneca Falls, New York. You've come a long way baby, but you still have to have your rights protected in the courts when it comes to a divorce. Your right to vote has brought about child support standards and equitable distribution. Your right to counsel enforces those rights. Let's tip the old hat to Liz and Lu for setting us all straight one hundred and fifty nine years ago.

THE SUPREME COURT ONCE AGAIN KAYOS THE CONSTITUTION with its ridiculous right wing religious decision in Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc. Bye bye to the First Amendement separation of church and state with this one. Alito, Roberts, Thomas and Kennedy, who should have flunked second year Constitutional Law for rendering such a decision have decided that a taxpayer has NO STANDING to challenge government funding of faith based community groups. Their reasoning is that taxpayers cannot challenge the executive decision to use such funds, merely the congressional, or legislative decision. The funding came from Executive Branch general appropriations.

DIG THIS: Taxpayer money is being used to fund religious based programs, but the taxpayers who provide the money, cannot challenge the constitutionality of this funding. This is the Bush legacy to American Justice folks.

In the dissenting opinion it was recognized, "When executive agencies spend identifiable sums of tax money for religious purposes, no less than when Congress authorizes the same thing taxpayers suffer injury."

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