Supreme court

Jury duty is the cornerstone of the American justice system. For centuries it has been the envy of the world. We have municipal courts for minor offenses. Superior courts handle more serious disputes. Then there are appellate courts if there is any question of whether justice was properly served by a lower court. We have the supreme court to handle the most complex cases. It is staffed by nine lifetime appointed Judges that are held in such high esteem that they are called "Justices". In order to bring a case before them, an attorney must be especially certified This is our third coequal division of government, and it is only fair that they be held to the highest standard.
We present them with a case, perhaps a complicated case. There is, we presume, a correct interpretation of the constitution. If this is so, the justices should be able to find it. All of them. In fact, there are very few 9-0 verdicts. There are many 5-4 and the trouble with 5-4 verdicts is that they can be reversed by one vote. The founders gave us nine justices but 5-4 is essentially one vote. A 5-4 verdict is, in fact, no verdict at all. It is an interim poll at which 4 justices are saying to the others, "You are wrong," Isn't it odd that the lower courts must reach a unanimous verdict and the most elite learned justices can get away with a 5-4 verdict? We have a right to expect a supreme court that does its job.

Yardsticks

We seem to have lost any utility for pennies and hundreds millions aren't enough to work with the $billions we piss away every month for what? no one seems to have a clue. but the billions flow on.

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We used to think of the life of our planet as thousands of years. Now, thanks to waste, greed and stupidity we may not have this one.
There is substantial melting of the Greenland ice pack, Horrendous consequences can be be expected. Like most of Florida being several feet underwater, that geological event is well underway. Huge icebergs the size of an an apartment house are breaking off as you read this. There were over 100 glaciers when I honeymooned in Glacier National Park in 1952. Now there are about 30 and they will be gone in a scant decade or two... Are we ready for a glacier National Park without any glaciers ? The plight of the polar bears is particularly sad. They are drowning. The ice floes are too small to support their weight. They can't hunt effectively. So they drown, in their almost perfect habitat. This will go on until they are gone. The bears are superb swimmers, but unless we can cool things down these magnificent creatures are doomed. And I don't think we can. Do you?
Take the bears as a metaphor "Ask not for whom the bell tlls. It tolls for thee "