THE SUPREME COURT, CHRIS CHRISTIE, WALMART AND OTHERS MAKING DIFFICULT DECISIONS

Much has been made about the recent Supreme Court case in which anyone arrested for a serious crime will have their DNA taken. The Supreme Court ruled for it 5-4, but oddly enough not along party lines showing the most lopsided decision in years. As the law stands right now, I do not have a problem with it. I know many out there are screaming about privacy rights and if the law covered everyone nationwide, then I would not be in favor of it at all. But DNA is nothing more than a fingerprint for the 21st century and many cold cases could be solved by this method, not to mention the fact that rape misidentification will be harder to prosecute when the suspect's DNA doesn't match, meaning fewer innocent people in prison. Scalia and the three women on the court wrote the dissent, calling it another step toward totalitarianism. Only if we start using across the public en masse will that be true. For now, it is an important step to allowing families some closure as to finding the killers of their loved ones where no progress has occurred for years. We have much more serious privacy concerns than this.

Speaking of difficult decisions, Chris Christie has the mother of all when he has to appoint an intern senator to the state of NJ now that Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) has died at the age of 89. This has opened a huge can of worms that have direct implications on any run for presidency he may be considering. First, he has to nominate a replacement which, no matter which way he goes, is going to piss half the state off. Most likely, he will nominate a Republican, but as he will replacing a Democrat, the left is going to scream bloody murder about it, especially a very blue state like NJ. If he nominates a Democrat, the right will scream TREASON at the top of heir lungs and chaos ensues. Either way, he's screwed.

Then comes the election. Christie signed a bill that would make special elections for open seats rather than filled until the next one. I hate this law as here in MA, we have had nonstop campaigning for seats for the last few years and I am sick of it all, and I love politics. Imagine how the average guy thinks of this. This special election is another huge problem for Christie as he could side step his own law and keep the interim replacement until 2014 giving NJ it's first GOP Senator in 41 years. It would also give way to claims that the governor is acting like a dictator and not willing to follow the laws he himself enacted. The alternative is set a special election for October, with primaries in August, which would allow presumed nominee Cory Booker to win the seat, assuming he isn't after the governor spot for which Christie is seeking re-election in November. If the special election is held a month before the governor's bid, many will see it as a way of wasting $24 million to eliminate a perceived threat from Booker. All of these options suck for a politician still reeling for having the audacity to treat the president as real human being and not some Hitleresque charactiture invented by the loony right. I have no real problem with Christie but I find it unlikely he would ever get the top GOP spot for the presidency as there is no way he is right wing enough for them. As long as the GOP continues down this path, the presidency is going to be forever beyond them.

The Senate is vulnerable as democrats have an estimated 13 seats up for grabs while the GOP has only two. I find that hard to believe but this country is becoming dumber by the second. Yesterday, some enterprising brainpowers in OK thought the best place to hide from a tornado was in a concrete storm drain. Apparently ignoring the laws of physics that when rain comes down hard it goes into storm sewers, five people died, including three small children. This is the single dumbest place to take shelter from a storm and the fact that this took place in a state voting some of the stupidest people to Congress makes much more sense. If we keep voting for Republicans, we are all going to drown.

We keep hearing from these morons that they don't want to pay for anyone's birth control, abortions or food stamps, while they suck money from us for disaster relief and tax breaks, three times what the blue states get. They have a higher level of poverty which we subsidise, less regulations causing more people to get sick, and lax public rules that are literally killing people such as the warehouse explosion last month that still hasn't been solved as to why it happened.

And then there is Walmart that is the big things in states like OK. According to a recent government studies, Walmart's slave labor rules are costing taxpayers millions nationwide. Because they don't pay their workers enough money, taxpayers are footing the bill instead for food stamps and health insurance. One Walmart in Wisconsin is estimated to cost the taxpayer at least $904,542 per year and that could rise to $1,744,590. It's not like Walmart can't afford to pay it's people better as it makes more per year than whole countries like Norway. The family that owns the company saw their fortune go from $73 billion to almost $90 billion in three years. The six who own it all have as much wealth as 50 million families in the US. That is sick.

They rank dead last in companies paying their employees the least with the average wage of $8.81 per hour. Try living off that. You can't which is why so many employees are getting government assistance. Now mind you, these workers should have struck on Black Friday last year and every day after until they got better pay but chickened out instead and decided it was better to live on their knees than die on their feet. Pussies. When you are making 28% less than everyone else, you need to either stand up or accept the fact that you are slave and be at peace with it.

We as a people need to stand up and tell out politicans we want better pay, we want gay marriage, we want legal weed and and end to the drug war (which Guatamala is in the process of voting on today), and we want the government out of our bedroom and our lives in general, while keeping the peace. How hard is that already?