HUGE news out of Kansas today!

In a precedent setting decision issued today, the Kansas Supreme Court has recognized the rights of a same-sex couple as parents with full and equal legal rights to custody, parenting time and child support.

The Court ruled that a parenting agreement between same-sex partners can be enforced in Kansas courts. The court also held that children of a same-sex couple have the same constitutional rights to have two parents as children of any other relationship.

Finally the Court reaffirmed the rights of District Courts to divide a same-sex couple’s jointly acquired property when the property was accumulated during their relationship.

Read the decision here: http://www.kscourts.org/Cases-and-Opinions/opinions/SupCt/2013/20130222/103487.pdf

This, ladies and gentlemen, is what equality looks like.

Question

Since corporations are people as the Supreme Court of the US told us last year in their "Citizens United" ruling....why don't we tax them as people?

Supreme Court came down on side of business---yet again

Well, no surprise here.  Move along.  Move along.

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday yet again for business, big business, corporations and against you and I, the "little guy":

Supreme Court Allows Contracts That Prohibit Class-Action Arbitration

By ADAM LIPTAK

WASHINGTON — Businesses may use standard-form contracts to forbid consumers claiming fraud from banding together in a single arbitration, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in a 5-to-4 decision that split along ideological lines.

Though the decision concerned arbitrations, it appeared to provide businesses with a way to avoid class-action lawsuits in court.

Yet more power for corporations, stripping you and I of control over our lives.

Get cheated by a business or corporation, along with a great deal of others in the country?  Want to sue in order to get back at least some of what was taken from you?

Well, bucko, forget that.  The Supreme Court said it's okay for businesses to have put in the contract that you are out of luck on that.  It will be you and your meager pocket book--all alone--vs. the giant corporation, their money and their big, multi-millionaire pocketbooks.

Guess who's going to win everytime?

One guess---and it ain't gonna' be you or me.

I miss the time in America when I felt government was the one last, big bastion between corporations and big business and all the rest of us.  

I miss it when government was on our side.

Particularly and especially the courts.

Link:  

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/business/28bizcourt.html?_r=1&ref=supremecourt

The end of representative government in America

According to The Huffington Post , "A Texas company recently took out a political ad in several local newspapers, making it one of the first corporations to do so in the wake of a landmark Supreme Court ruling that lifted restrictions on corporate political spending."

"The Texas Tribune reports that the company, KDR Development, paid for an ad against state Rep. Chuck Hopson, formerly a Democratic member of the state legislature who switched parties and ran in the Republican primary for re-election."



This, ladies and gentlemen, is what the end of "representtaive government" looks like.

The money floodgates for elections and attack ads are open.

It was nice while it lasted.