Best Wishes on Your Upcoming Nuptials

Same sex couples celebrated; they're allowed to wed

After the decision that what people do in bed

Doesn't make a marriage - shouldn't matter to the State.

Love is love.  It's not their business who we choose as mate.

There are some "religious" people who would disagree,

Fearful that a marriage which is legal civilly 

Means that churches will be forced to bless a wedding vow...

(Why would same sex couples want their blessings anyhow?)

Church and State are separated; thus, a church is free

To continue on a path of righteous bigotry

But, discrimination's not the purview of  the Feds

So let me congratulate the country's newlyweds.

Dr. Seussilitis Does The SCOTUS Blog (Again)

Yesterday the Justices heard arguments about

Language putting subsidies for health care in some doubt

For states that don't have a health care system of their own,

Because local politicians say they won't condone

Health care that's affordable. (They think it's Socialist.)

Thus they've launched another last ditch effort to resist

Implementing ACA by gutting subsidies;

Which leaves millions who can't pay their high insurance fees.

We won't know 'til June which way the Court is gonna rule...

If they'll strip away Obamacare's most vital tool.

I sure wish Republicans spent even half the time

Fixing health care as they've spent on making it a crime.

An Immodest Proposal

(Photo/Thinkprogress.org)

I'm prepared to make a deal regarding birth control;

If a business thinks that it's imperiling their soul

To provide that coverage insuring employees

(Pregnancy prevention means that women close their knees)

If they want to play it that way, then it's only fair

That the reproductive cost's a burden we all share.

Since it's true that procreation needs a man's erection

I suggest the penis should be subject to inspection.

Men would have to prove they need Viagra, penis pumps

And why should religious people pay for those poor chumps?

If we want to pick and choose the health care people need

Let's start with the organ that's delivering the seed.

The Seussilitis SCOTUS Blog

The buffer zone in question. (Photo/PBS.org)

Massachusetts finds itself Defendants in the Court;

Operation Rescue sued (they had outside support.)

Want to end a buffer zone; they claim it stifles speech.

Doesn't give their members 7 seconds more to preach.

Here in Massachusetts, where 2 clinics were attacked,

Women felt unsafe and so our Legislature backed

Efforts aimed at balancing our First Amendment rights

With a patient's - who's not feeling up for any fights.

Lawsuit has a public face...  A granny with a cross.

Waits outside abortion clinics; gets her point across.

Claims she's counseled 80 women who have changed their minds...

No infringement there (or, so I hope that SCOTUS finds.)

SCOTUS - Affordable Health Care and Dick Cheney

excerpted from an
Article first published as Supreme Court Will Address Affordable Health Care Act... Maybe on Technorati.

I bet Mr. Cheney's happy he was well insured

And I'm happy for him. Hope that he's completely cured.

All those folks who said that Cheney didn't have a heart

Must acknowledge now that it's his most expensive part.

I hear that he's comfortable - recovering his health.

And, thanks to insurance, didn't lose a lot of wealth.

That's the thing with medicine - such miracles we see - 

But, unlike God's miracles, this kind is not for free.

Isn't it ironic, then, that Justices will hear

Arguments about this thing Republicans hold dear;

Is it Constitutional to force us all to pay

For those miracles that doctors perform every day?

Doctors do not have a choice according to their oath;

Doesn't matter if you're rich or poor - they treat them both.

If it's an emergency you won't be turned away.

But, the bottom line my friends is; someone's gotta pay.

Once upon a time, not long ago, the G.O.P.

Advocated mandates and their (almost) nominee

Implemented something very similar to what,

Under the Obama plan, the country also got.

Now they're praying in the streets the Court will overturn

Health Care Legislation. Should they win, I fear they'll learn

System was as broken as Dick Cheney's failing heart.

True, it isn't perfect yet but I think it's a start.