A week of some "good calls"

First it was the President, surprisingly ordering "his health secretary to issue new rules aimed at granting hospital visiting rights to same-sex partners", bringing everyone in America that much closer to equality for all.

Good on ya', Mr. President. Well done. And thank you. As you know, sir, it was long overdue.

Then it fell to Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson for the next sound judgement call:

"...Gov. Mark Parkinson on Thursday vetoed legislation designed to tighten the rules on late-term abortion."

"The legislation would have required physicians who sign off on late-term abortions to document the specific medical diagnosis used to authorize the procedure. It’s similar to a bill vetoed last year by Kathleen Sebelius."

And here's the good part--Gov. Parkinson called "abortion a “tragedy” but..." said that "Kansas lawmakers shouldn’t intrude in a private decision..."

Because after all, isn't that big, intrusive government reaching into our personal lives?

Isn't that what "conservatives" want is government out of our private lives?

For the next "good call", "A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional Thursday, saying the day amounts to a call for religious action."

Yeehaw! It just keeps getting better and better.

Could we have "separation of church and state"? Please?

Finally, in this brief list of "good calls" this week, it was announced a few hours ago that the government is pressing charges of fraud against the seemingly untouchable Goldman Sachs for "defrauding investors by failing to disclose conflicts of interest in mortgage investments it sold as the housing market was collapsing."

I don't know how this will play out since Goldman Sachs is, for all intents and purposes, in the White House and has been for years but it surely was good news.

Maybe they'll go after some more of the big companies that defrauded America and Americans in similar ways. That would be nice.

In the meantime, because of this, the price of a barrel of oil decreased, too, just because the government is going after GS.

Check it out--a "two-fer" for the common, working stiff, all in the same day.

Anyway, after the more local mess that was the Saturday night melee' here in town, it was a nice change that these kinds of things happened.


Let's have a great weekend, y'all!