Constitution? We don't need no steenking Constitution...

As reported in the New York Times (free registration required):

The Justice Department said in a federal court filing on Friday that prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who were seeking to file petitions challenging their detentions were not entitled to access to their lawyers to do so.

The department said the prisoners were not entitled to see their lawyers because they were foreigners held outside the jurisdiction of the United States.

The government's 30-page brief argues that despite the 6-to-3 Supreme Court ruling on June 28 that said Guantánamo prisoners could challenge their detentions in federal courts, the prisoners still do not enjoy the rights provided by the Constitution.

"As aliens detained by the military outside the sovereign territory of the United States and lacking a sufficient connection to the country, petitioners have no cognizable constitutional rights," the brief said.

ObSheesh: Sheesh!

Half a year

Six months ago today, my beloved riverheart and I were married aboard the Bainbridge ferry.

The past six months have been the best of my life, thanks solely to my beloved's presence in it.

I haven't been able to be a provider, nor can I meet far too many of her needs. Too many of her dreams are withering on her soul's vine, because we do not have the wherewithal to fulfill them; too many more have been on hold for far too long because of my own self-doubt and inadequacy. Too many times I've had to say "Someday, perhaps; but not today," to the things we want to do, the experiences we've longed to share.

Yet she loves me, and I love her. That suffices. That more than suffices; it is all I need or want from life.

Happy semiversary, my heart; and many many more to come.

For poorer and richer,
For worse and better…