Monday full of Hope

After a headache weekend, the new week started off on a hopeful foot. Again, I can't get in to any details whatsoever, but there have been positive events in my case that give hope.

It's frustrating on the other hand that the company I'm contracting through has reorganized once again, and lost my invoices adding up to a pretty significant amount. So to get paid, I basically have to recreate all the paperwork and rebill them, all because they decided they didn't need the clerical person that was handling billings from contractors like myself. So nobody took over the job function. It reminds me of why I quit them in the first place - the company is just incompetent. I hear they're planning to go public, and I for one will not be investing.

But what's really trying the hardest to break down my hopeful mood is the idiot Supreme Court. They just ruled that the Ten Commandments must be removed from courthouses across the country. What Constitutional principle do they cite? A non-existent one they like to call a "wall of separation between church and state". Not only is that nowhere in the constitution, but it was even taken out of context from an old letter written by Thomas Jefferson.

So has anybody ever taken even a basic class that studies Law? Does anybody remember where our legal system came from? That's right, the Judeo-Christian philosophy, which has at it's core the Ten Commandments! Has anybody else studied American history? Can any reasonable unedited reading of history find any desire by the founding fathers to remove all references to Christianity from public discourse? Absolutely the opposite.

The founders were for the opposite of what these judges are espousing - freedom of religion. The intended freedom was that the government could not take a single brand of Christianity, for example, Methodism, and then tell everyone, "You are now a Methodist, and 10% of your earnings will be deducted every week and given to the government-run American Methodist Church". They were overwhelmingly faithful Christians themselves, and clearly stated the primacy of God over this young nation.

Not to mention that the court just decided that Eminent Domain can be exercised by local governments for any purpose they deem proper. So now we no longer have any protection from our government taking our property at will for any purpose they dream up, as long as they do it under "Eminent Domain". It means that the government can walk up and evict you from your home simply because they or someone influencing (say, "bribing") them finds it desirable.

Do average people really support these rulings? How can anyone with half a brain argue that either of these rulings are appropriate? Small wonder the greatest battle of our time will be over who gets appointed to that court over the next 5-10 years.

Oops, looks like I got carried away again. Hope is still present despite stupid courts, corrupt politicians, incompetent companies, uneducated morons, evil drug dealers and child abusers, etc. As long as a few decent and intelligent people remain, there is hope.