Federal Law Applies To Kansas, Too

It's really about time. It has been found that the Constitution grants marriage licenses to all couples, regardless of sexual preference, and that the fourteenth amendment offers legitimacy to the marriages of gay men and women. But Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has a problem with America's Constitution. He refers to the Supreme Court as an "activist court", and promises to "review the ruling carefully to understand it's effects on the people of Kansas." Is he serious? When was this governor ever concerned about the effects of anything on the people of Kansas? From fighting Obamacare tooth and nail to stripping public schools of funds, Brownback has not shown much concern at all about the people of Kansas. But now Kansas will be required to recognize marriage, everyone's marriage. And about de-funding public schools; block grants do not work as well in funding numerous, tiny, redundant schools as they do in funding larger, more efficient, better staffed schools. In order for the type of funding for which the Kansas GOP has opted for the public schools in Kansas, the schools will have to be consolidated, county by county, and answerable to the state, rather then to hundreds of "unified school districts". This would actually be a very good idea for Kansas, but the legislature has put the cart before the horse......the small, community schools should have been shut down and reorganized first, into bigger schools. Then, block grants, rather than the yearly handouts based on the number of students each school contains, would have been more sensible. The Supreme Court in Kansas made a decision for Brownback, though: de-funding education this way is unconstitutional. Brownback has vowed to appeal this decision. It seems he cannot get around the Constitution today!

If Kansas Republicans were truly conservative, the Kansas Department of Education and all of the "unified school districts", along with their schools, would have been in receivership a long time ago. Instead of small schools, serving less than one hundred students from kindergarten to twelfth grade in some cases, schools would be consolidated. Rather than forcing tax payers to fund the lifestyles of three or four high school principals in a county that only has three or four hundred high school students, there would only be one high school principal to pay. We could completely eliminate nonsense positions, such as "curriculum adviser", because the curriculum would be dictated by the state and by national and global standards. Allowing small towns in Kansas to waste money on tiny, inefficient schools is a frivolous waste, and no conservative worth his salt would allow such a thing to continue under his watch.

In other news, a legislative panel has dismissed a charge against Congresswoman Valdenia Winn, D; Wichita, Kansas. It seems that some Kansas Republicans did not like it when she referred to them as "racist bigots" when they tried to deny in-state tuition to immigrants. The Constitution strikes again! This time, with the First Amendment! It appears that the Constitution is sending a message to Kansas bigots today.

Mitt Romney Uses Wife To Project Image

In yet another great example of a smoke and mirrors ruse, Mitt Romney got his wife, to whom he refers as "sweetheart" all dressed up in a white apron to serve breakfast and play "June Cleaver". She's supposed to "humanize" him a little, and make him appear to have stuff in common with other Americans. Somehow, I just don't see it.

First of all, in this picture, taken at a GOP gathering in Michigan, she appears nervous and her smile looks fake. This makes her husband look even more fake. Then, she talks about serving pancakes to her five sons every morning before school. That's nice........but before unemployment became the problem that it is now, both parents in most American families normally worked. This, more often than not, meant that no one would have time to make pancakes in the morning before school. A parent's time was, and is, often spent sitting in traffic in the morning, before school. Is Mrs. Mitt coherant with that reality? Is Mrs. Mitt coherant with the reality that a lot of families do not have two parents at this point, and a lot of families with school aged children have at least one parent deployed? Pancakes or not, if she and her husband move into the White House and inherit Bush's mess from Obama, she'd better learn something about it, or risk being perceived as another Nancy Reagan.

Second, speaking of national unemployment, the only reason anyone supporting a family, and that's usually BOTH parents, would have time to make pancakes before school is unemployment. Even if Americans wanted the clock turned back forty years, to the days when moms usually stayed home, I don't think Mitt Romney could do that. The world's economy no longer supports the nuclear family of the 1950's and 1960's in America, and never truly did. Even if it did, quite a few women were not happy with that lifestyle, and we really don't want to go back. Mitt, I am not impressed with your marital theatrics. Why don't you spare your wife the stressors of public life, and let her stay home? That's another reason why I don't believe you.......your wife really isn't living the "ideal", is she? You're actually USING her, and you could hire a model to fill her shoes if she didn't want to play follow-the-leader with you.

Third, Mitt Romney will never be coherant and fluent in Reality enough to truly relate to mainstream America. His assumption that every woman wants the same thing in life, and that every family wants to be a replica of "Leave It To Beaver" is almost an insult. He is not only overlooking and ignoring Reality himself, but he is asking me to do the same! Sorry, Mitt; I can't do that for you. If I truly wanted all the things you want, I would try writing letters to Santa Claus before I'd vote for you. I also don't wear high heels to clean the house or work in the garden.