Today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in 1967 in Loving v. Virginia. By unanimous decision the court ruled that Virginia’s law banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The case involved Richard Loving, a white man, and his wife Mildred Loving, a woman of color. In 1959, the Lovings were convicted of violating Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which criminalized marriage between people classified as “white” and people classified as “colored”. Caroline County circuit court judge Leon M. Bazile sentenced them to prison but suspended the sentence on the condition that they leave Virginia and not return. The Lovings filed a motion to vacate their convictions on the ground that the Racial Integrity Act was unconstitutional, but Bazile denied it. After unsuccessfully appealing to the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Lovings appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed to hear their case.
According to the Supreme Court:
Marriage is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” fundamental to our very existence and survival. To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State’s citizens of liberty without due process of law.
Coping…
I was saddened to read of the death of Brian Wilson – we all loved his music with the Beach Boys. Here is one of the first songs he wrote to the tune of Chuck Berry’s ‘Sweet Little Sixteeen’. Brian is on the far right in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s4slliAtQU
On this day in 1776, the Second Continental Congress appointed the Committee of Five, including John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman. The Committee was charged with authoring a Declaration of Independence. Adams, a leading proponent of independence, persuaded the Committee to charge Jefferson with writing the document’s original draft, which the Second Continental Congress then edited. Jefferson largely wrote the Declaration in isolation between June 11 and June 28, 1776. The Declaration was a formal explanation of why the Continental Congress voted to declare American independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
The Declaration justified the independence of the colonies, citing 27 colonial grievances against King George III and asserting certain natural and legal rights, including a right of revolution. The Declaration was unanimously ratified on July 4 by the Second Continental Congress, whose delegates represented each of the Thirteen Colonies.
It is worth noting some of the grievances outlined in the Declaration:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
The Declaration has become one of the most circulated, reprinted, and influential documents in history.
How to spice up your life!
When your microwave asks for a sacrifice…
SIGNZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Today is the birthday, in 1940, of Joseph DiNicola, from American group Joey and the Starlighters. who scored the 1962 US No.1 single ‘Peppermint Twist, Part 1’. Jimi Hendrix was a member of the band during 1964. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8wEORnZxdg
Today is Portugal Day, officially known as Dia de Camões, de Portugal e das Comunidades Portuguesas (‘Day of Camões, Portugal, and the Portuguese Communities’). It commemorates the death of Luís de Camões on June 10th 1580 and is Portugal’s National Day.
Camões wrote Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads), Portugal’s national epic celebrating the country’s history and achievements. While it is only officially celebrated in Portugal, Portuguese descendants across the world may also celebrate the holiday.
The Lusiads focuses on the Portuguese explorations in the 16th century, which greatly expanded the influence of Portugal. The poem is considered to be the most important piece of Portuguese literature and has become a symbol for the glory of the Portuguese nation.
Camões was a colorful character. He lost one eye fighting and was shipwrecked off the coast of present-day Vietnam. According to legend, during the shipwrecking, he kept his epic poem dry by swimming with one arm and keeping the other arm above water.
It is the custom to split the Portugal Day celebrations between a city within Portugal and a foreign city with a significant Portuguese presence. The main events for Portugal Day 2025 will be held in Lagos (Portugal) , with celebrations extending to the Portuguese community in Macau.
Hmm….
Mr. Giggles looks like fun!!
It’s still Pride Month…
BADA BING!!
Me: No more. Your dog food bag says one cup. Dog: The Oreo bag surely doesn’t say 16 Oreos Tricia, but here we are…
I think I’m a cell phone. Even if I charge all night, I’m already down to 50% by 10am.
I just ordered a life alert bracelet, so if I get a life, I’ll be notified immediately.
Do you ever feel like your body’s “check engine” light has been on for a while and you’re still driving like, “Nah, it’ll be fine.”
A good wife will always be by your side during bad times. Mostly to remind you that none of this would’ve happened if you had just listened to her.
Being an adult is just repeatedly staring at a pill bottle in your hand and asking yourself, “Did I already take this, or was I about to take it?”
Not everyone needs a partner to live happily ever after. Honestly, some of us just need a dog.
tRUMP heard that some people are calling his resort TAC-O-LAGO, and he’ll do anything to keep it quiet.
White House press secretary will now be known as TACO Belle.
Science literacy empowers you to know when someone else is full of shit.
You know of Alan Turing, who cracked the Enigma code in WW2. But nobody knows his sister Kay, who provided Alan and his team with refreshments and food.
My wife is super upset at our neighbor who happens to enjoy suntanning in her backyard naked. Personally, though, I’m on the fence.
My husband and I were doing yard work but I started a fight so I could storm off into the air conditioning.
Cop: So, I’m writing you a ticket for driving alone in the car pool lane. Me: You’re going to feel really stupid when you look in my trunk.
My biggest fear about becoming a zombie is all the walking.
Cop: Do you know why I pulled you over? Me: Depends on how long you were following me.
Mother-in-laws, stop telling us how to raise our kids. We live with yours and we’ve seen your work.
Becky: That candle smells like Fireball. Me: Us non-alcoholics like to call it cinnamon, Becky.
I wonder what normal people think about.
I woke up from a deep sleep in a panic thinking I was late for work. Thankfully I was at work.
People who worship paper bags are sackreligious!
I’m not a hoarder. I’m a ‘this might be useful later’ specialist.
Them: Are you a dog person or a cat person? Me: All I can tell you is that I’m not a people person.
I don’t run from my problems. I ignore them, like an adult.
Saying ‘Have a nice day’ to someone sounds friendly. But saying ‘enjoy your next 24 hours’ sounds threatening.
I have to stop saying, “How stupid can you be?” I’m beginning to think people are taking it as a challenge.
On this day in 1732, James Oglethorpe was granted a charter to establish a colony, The Province of Georgia, in North America. The British government saw the colony as a ‘buffer’ between Spanish Florida and the British colonies along the Atlantic coast in North America.
The colony was planned as utopian society with an integrated physical, economic and social design influenced by the ideals of James Harrington. Oglethorpe envisioned a colony which would serve as a haven for English subjects who had been imprisoned for debt and “the worthy poor.” General Oglethorpe imposed laws that many colonists disagreed with, such as the banning of alcoholic beverages.[5] He disagreed with slavery and thought a system of smallholdings more appropriate than the large plantations common in the colonies just to the north.
A decision was made here…
Music Festival Lineup???
ENTERTAINMENT!
Yesterday was the birthday, in 1810, of Robert Schumann, German Romantic composer. Here is the incredible Yuja Wang playing ‘The Smuggler’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMxmNm2xnTk
Today is, of course, the anniversary of the ‘D-Day’ landings in 1944. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.
thirty-nine Allied divisions would be committed to the Battle of Normandy: twenty-two American, twelve British, three Canadian, one Polish, and one French, totaling over a million troops. The landings and the subsequent liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany was a remarkable demonstration of cooperation among the many allied nations.
The landing was not without cost. There were more than 10,000 casualties and 4,414 confirmed killed.
Europe is getting tough…
Insect season is here.
Clinton hiding in the bushes…
Anti-theft advice…
SIGNS…
Today is the birthday, in 1959, of Jimmy Jam from the American R&B/pop songwriting and record production team Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Their productions have received commercial success since the 1980s with various artists, most extensively Janet Jackson. They have written 31 top ten hits in the UK and 41 in the US. Artists they’ve worked with include: have worked with a multitude of artists, including Lionel Richie, TLC, Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Boyz II Men, Usher, Chaka Khan, Mariah Carey, Prince, Bryan Adams, Snoop Dogg, Spice Girls, George Michael, Rod Stewart and Gwen Stefani. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujnq2v6R02U
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