Open Thread…………………………………………..Thursday, June 19

MoonHowler

bitch203

 

It’s just a raging bitch kind of summer, or perhaps I am describing myself.  The weekends have been great–better than probably any of us living in Virginia in June deserve.  This weekend is supposed to be just like the last 3 weekends.  Warm and gorgeous.

I am taking the plunge and having my wrap-around deck re-stained. What a pain!  I think I have more on my deck than I do in my living room.  Plants, furniture, mosquito spray.  Mosquitoes have been horrible.  Bull Run breeds them big.

Has anyone found a cure to keep the mosquitoes at bay?

I need a beer that is perhaps less biting than an IPA.  Any suggestions?

Supreme Court expected to issue Hobby Lobby ruling today

MoonHowler

CBSNewyork.com:

The Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether Hobby Lobby needs to cover contraception as part of its health care plan.

Owners of the crafts chain object to certain forms of contraception. Under the affordable care act employers are now required to cover birth control.

The Court ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby in a 5-4 decision. So much for saying there is no war on women. The buffer zone ruling and the contraceptive ruling both are directed at women. No one else.

To prove a point, the Court specifically stated their ruling was just about contraception, and not other things, like blood transfusions. You don’t get any more religious than the Jehovah’s Witness ban on blood transfusions for their members. That was a mighty short sighted ruling, in my opinion. Furthermore, corporations shouldn’t have religious beliefs. Corporations are legal units serving as one body. Funny how inanimate bodies can now have religious beliefs.

Stay tuned.