Bardsinister (Sept 6th)  "Chief Justice nominee Roberts does not believe that the Constitution contains an implied right to privacy."

Battler (Sept 10th) "Bardsinister was right when she mentioned two of the arguments against this type of marriage, and I really believe that they override this questionable "right to privacy" that is cited here...."

Bardsinister (Sept 12th) "I doubt your blog entry presents any scholarly, legal debate as to constitutional issues concerning the right to privacy or equal protection...."

Bardsinister (Sept 13th) "....Because you have also questioned whether the Constitution affords individuals a right to privacy, I suggest you also read Griswold vs Connecticut and subsequent cases which cite it...."

Battler - No, I'll stick with SCJ Roberts.

Bardsinister (Sept 14th) "I responded to a bald comment you made to the effect that the US Constitution does not recognize a right to privacy....."  ".....I simply said that unless you can backup your views on the law, your opinions are just your opinions."

Bardsinister (Sept 14th) "I caved, I read, you have backed nothing you said with anything but personal opinion."

Battler - "This is a Chat Room, isn't it?"

Jim Schweizer (Sept 14th) "....Kind of like watching an insect crawl out of a dung heap."

Battler (Oct 2d) "....ol Sweizer who must have been raised in a cow barn to account for all the filth and dung that he carries with himself...."

Jim Schweizer (Oct 6th) "....something about a cow dropping"  but filthy, nevertheless. What else can be expected from him?

Battler (Today)  "Wow, it's so refreshing to talk to a lawyer! They don't give a guy any room for an expressed opinion but they're full of it themselves.

Mother Nature or Father Time has decreed that we procreate or we perish. Same rules are for "humans" as they are for animals. Our "religion" has taken this on (or vice versa) by speaking against homosexuality, whether because it is a non-procreator or it's an abomination. But I'm no student of the subject; we'd have to ask J Sweitzer or Bardsinister. However, as a man with a family and growing up in the '20s, '30s and '40s, I have a morality instilled in me by my grandparents and parents that can't accept same-sex copulation. Again, observe the animals....ever see such displays?

We have to recognize, tho, that with the present generation there are oh-so-many who want to buck present manners and morality. We've given them the money to do it with, but we don't have to rollover and give in to them. Let's keep our families safe and on the road they've been kept to for the past millenia. Let's not give in to this 20th century aberration.

     Just got thru another experience with J Sweitzer, at least the second time in a couple of months. Seems that when he writes something in his blog , he can't abide anyone who disagrees with him in what he has said. His latest go-round with me concerns his full acceptance of same sex marriages as being put into the California laws. He doesn't accept the fact that there are a lot of people out there, particularly the older Americans who were brought up under different morality codes than he has been, who can't accept this diminishing of the sanctity of marriage. I don't think that anywhere in the history books of America it says that wars that we have fought have included the aim to preserve the notion of same sex marriage. It has just never been a part of the American culture. But now, I guess, the "name of the game" is to see how much of America's past can be dragged thru the mud and be replaced with the notion that "you can't stand in the way of something that I want or I'll sue you."

   Heard about the first release of the BRAC report today. That's the Base Realignment Activity Report which recommends which bases should be closed and which have a continuing mission.  Unfortunately on today's list was Ft Monroe, Va. I think  Ft Monroe was a highly decorative base without any greatly important mission, but it's history goes way back to the Civil War. And my kids in their younger years used to be recipients of a weekend down at the Chamberlain Hotel practically on Ft Monroe, courtesy of their Grandad and Grandmother. Their Grandad was a military man who served over in the Pacific during WWII and after the war continued in the Army Reserves where he had to pull a two-week Active Duty every year. Since they had no car, my brother and I would take turns going down to Ft Monroe to bring them home to Arlington at the conclusion of his two week's AD. And he would spring for the billing of our whole family to stay at the Chamberlain for the weekend. But after a few years go by, nothing ever stays the same and the hotel is not a viable place to stay anymore; needs too much in the way of repairs, and the interior is pretty rundown. So the closing of Ft Monroe ends an era and I'm sure the people of the surrounding territory will miss their economic treasure chest. Now we have to keep Congress out of the business of closing certain military bases which fall in their political circle; they'll try mightily to keep it open disregarding the fact that the BRAC commission is trying to save Defense dollars.