The Nominal: Work, Chiropractor, & Tooth; Family Heritage: for Dad; and “Poly-ticks:” Ginsburg's Passing (published 9-20-2020)

The Nominal

First, let us begin with the nominal. On Monday, 9/14/2020, after I worked from home and Mrs. Appalachian Irishman taught at school, we had our usual every-four-week chiropractic adjustments. I especially needed mine due to the latest “whatever” (i.e., a left shoulder ricochet into my right shoulder and down both sides of my back) that started the day before. Chiropractic adjustments are usually pain-free. I felt the tolerable pain in my left shoulder at the adjustment, which helped greatly.

Tomorrow, I work from home. (The current routine is working from home on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday but at the office on Wednesday and Thursday. It's an insane schedule.) Tomorrow, however, I plan to work from 8 to 10:30 AM only. My dentist will “corona” (i.e., crown) the upper left tooth (the one just before the wisdom tooth) that I chipped on Monday, 8/10/2020, while eating my noon meal at home. I bit into a peach seed, certainly not on purpose.

Afterward, I hope that our fine chiropractor will be able to see me in the afternoon. My current “whatever” is significant. My core back muscles on both sides and the muscle group across the back of my neck are stiff. I hope that this is another go backward to go forward. I have done the going backward to go forward enough. “Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz?” No, scratch that! Dear Lord, won’t you balance out all my muscles? The trauma recovery with these muscles is taking too long. I’m tired of it.

Family Heritage

My father, Earl Ferrell (middle name not mentioned, since he didn’t like it for a known family heritage reason), was the final (and eighth) child of Marion and Gertrude Archer Ferrell, my grandparents. He was born on 9/17/1927.

Dad was a fine Christian man, despite his Irish temper (which I too have). I got to know Dad well once I became a man. I understood his Irish temper as well as I do my own. He went to his eternal home to be with my mother and many others on 1/25/2008.

On Thursday, 9/17/2020, I worked at the office. I remembered my father.

A search of this website for “Dad” finds several articles about him. One of my favorite articles about him is Well Machine & Water Truck Legacy (published 6-26-2010). Dad, thank you for being a fine father. The Winesap trees that you planted are still producing Winesap apples. I know that you planted them, even with your ticker trouble, for me, years ago. Ferrell men don’t drop the “love” word often. We prefer to show it by our actions. I love you, Dad. I’ll see you again.

“Poly-ticks”

“Poly,” from Greek, means many. A tick is a bloodsucker. I hope that you like my invented word, “poly-ticks.” I like it.

Well, Ruth Ginsburg died two days ago on 9/18/2020. The day was also Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה‎), New Year on the Hebrew calendar, which began at sundown.

I have read and heard on various media sources about her life. Ruth Ginsburg endured her share of hardship in life, to say the least. It is interesting. I do not diminish her life story. I admire the toughness of her strong-willed spirit. Likewise, I have the same type of spirit from predominantly Irish roots.

I hope that Ruth Ginsburg accepted the Good Lord’s free gift offer of salvation through his Son. I don’t know. If she did, I will see her. If she didn’t, I will not.

Ruth Ginsburg was the second at-the-time female Supreme Court Justice, my politically correct moment in writing. Still in my politically correct writing moment, Sandra Day O’Connor was the first. Two more on the Court now came later. Okay, my politically correct writing moment is done.

Gender (i.e., two only), however, does not matter. What matters for Supreme Court Justices is how they interpret the Constitution. They are either traditional (i.e., the plain meaning of the Constitution as written means what it says) or “living” (i.e., the Constitution means what folks say that it means now).

As a theological sidetrack, biblical interpretation is the same. Conservative theologians, including me, interpret the Bible as it was inspired and written. Liberal theologians interpret a “living Bible,” meaning whatever they say it means. These “living Word” theologians are wrong. I can prove it.

The “living Constitution” folks are also wrong. I can prove it. It is easy enough to do, if these folks have logical minds, educated in valid reasoning. If they don't have such minds, then I don’t argue with fence posts.

Ruth Ginsburg was on the Supreme Court by Bill Clinton’s 6/15/1993 nomination, from 8/10/1993 to the day that she died. (That’s 27 years.) I found a few articles, which seem credible enough, that listed her “notable” Supreme Court decisions. Neither of the two websites that I list is conservative. I read “Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Most Famous Supreme Court Cases,” Newsweek, by James Crowley, 9/18/2020, and “Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Second Woman on Supreme Court, Dies at 87,” Bloomberg, by Greg Stohr and Laurence Arnold, 9/18/2020.

My comments on Ruth Ginsburg's “notable” decisions are as follows:

Stenberg v. Carhart: Ruth Ginsburg was wrong in her opinion. Life in the womb is life. The male or female unborn child is a human being, developing in the early stages of life. Murder (inside or outside the womb, unless to save the physical life in reality of the mother) is murder. She was wrong.

Gonzalez v. Carhart: the Supreme Court upheld, as it should have, based on God’s highest court, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. Ruth Ginsburg dissented. She, again, was wrong.

United States v. Virginia: Ruth Ginsburg was right—if a woman serving in the military can do the same exact physical tasks as a man. I know women who can do more physical tasks than men. Women who serve in the military and have the same ability as men are great. Women in the military who do not have these abilities are liabilities in combat.

Safford Unified School District v. Redding: Ruth Ginsburg was right. No one should strip search a 13-year-old girl regardless of the reason anywhere, especially in school. Whoever did the strip search should have found the Good Lord.

Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company: I wonder why this case rose to the Supreme Court. Reading the details wasted my time. Ruth Ginsburg may have been right or not. I don’t know. I don’t care. It was a case about pay details. Yawn!

A quote, however, from the Bloomberg article previously referenced states, “In 2013, she was the first justice to officiate at a same-sex marriage, and two years later was part of the 5-4 majority that legalized gay marriage nationwide.” Ruth Ginsburg and the other four justices in the majority were completely wrong! God in his supreme court has dictated that marriage is between one man and one woman. His Son verified this. There is no such thing as “gay” (i.e., homosexual) marriage. That false notion idea is not God’s law. God’s law trumps man’s law every time.

Conclusion

Writing this article granted me a bit of intellectual exercise. I still hold to the everlasting perspective and the biblical worldview. In that context, I continue to endure this temporal world, which doesn't, in majority, follow the biblical worldview.

When’s supper ready, dear? I’m hungry! To our “old puppy,” Molly, I’m sorry that I didn’t take you hiking today. My recent “whatevers” kept me from doing so. I could have hiked, but I might not have been balanced enough walking those tight spots where a person could take a bad fall. Wisdom dictates that I wait. I wait impatiently. I need to get into the woods soon!