This morning's news crawl.

[theweaselking]

Circuit City files for Chapter 11

Also,
DHL discontinues service to the USA.

Also,
Schwarzenegger comes out strongly against Prop 8, a week too late.

Also,
Obama declares intention to reverse Bush's harmful executive policies as soon as he takes office, work at the harmful non-executive ones after that.

Also,
Bone marrow transplant from HIV-immune donor cures AIDS.

Comments

[reyl.livejournal.com]

From the Obama article:
Early targets for reform are likely to include lifting restrictions on stem cell research and blocking moves to allow oil and gas drilling in wilderness areas. Obama may also lift a ban that prevents international family planning organisations that receive US government funding from advising women about the possibility of birth control.

I like this guy already :)

On the AIDS article, holy awesome Batman!

On Prop 8... I still don't get it. The Cali supreme court said that denying gays the right to marry is unconstitutional. Okay. So people figured that the way to get around this was a vote to amend the constitution? And then they *vote* about it? Bizarre. I'm glad the Governator is maybe going to work to fix this. Or at least encourage gays to complain until enough people change their minds or something.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

On Prop 8... I still don't get it. The Cali supreme court said that denying gays the right to marry is unconstitutional.

It actually said that gays *have* the right to marry, and that laws abridging that right are unconstitutional.

California has two different ways to amend their constitution.
The first one is what they used. Legally, it's the *wrong* one.

[reyl.livejournal.com]

Well I mean I get the process of what happened. I just don't get:

Minority People: X should be legal
Court: You have a right to X
Court holds up constitution and points
Majority People: Who thinks X is yucky by a show of hands?
Majority People gesticulate madly
Minority People: Not fair!
Majority People write on constitution in big black markers
Majority People: See, you really don't have the right to X.
Court: Don't look at me.
Minority People has a sad.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

Right, I'm pretty sure the basic point is that you really can't make a constitutional change like that just by using the Cali ballot process.

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

You can, but theres ANOTHER step before that where the Cal Legislation does something. Prop 8 didn't do that...