I'm up early this morning

I'm up early this morning after a night of really strange dreams. I would wake up, hear the wind outside, go back to sleep only to have another bizarre dream. Not nightmares really but just nonsensical stuff. Now, I hardly remember what any of them are. They probably stem from seeing the movie Dream Catcher. They were dreams like that.

It's another nice day out. It's sunny and suppose to ready mid 60's today. I wish it were late April. There would be more for me to do, such as seeding. Now, there's too much a risk for frost and it's too wet to even walk in my yard. I have spring fever bad this year after so much snow. There's a small patch of snow left on my deck, but that's about it. The ground is saturated and even the short time that shrubs have been freed from the show, they are starting to green up from the warm temperatures and the daily light from the sun. "It's a good thing."

It seems as if the war on Iraq is getting stickier now. The troops are approaching Baghdad and are experiencing more resistance. That was to be expected. I heard this morning that one of our own men threw two grenades into a tent full of soldiers. One died and six were wounded. I guess he is on the enemy's side or sympathizes with them. Or, maybe he just went crazy from the stress of war. He's in custody. One hundred thousand people demonstrated against the war yesterday in New York City in a march that stretched 24 city blocks. This is like a mini repeat of Vietnam it seems.

I'm off to the shower and breakfast... Have a nice day everyone!

Supreme Court Hears Landmark Gay Sex Case This Week. (Washington, D.C.) The Supreme Court will be asked Wednesday to strike down laws against gay sex. The Court has agreed to hear arguments in the case of two Texas men who were charged in 1998 for having sex in the home of one of the men. Sheriff's deputies, responding to a false report of an armed intruder, entered John Lawrence's Houston apartment and found Lawrence and Tyrone Garner having sex. Both were arrested and jailed overnight. The men pleaded no contest to the charges and paid a $200 fine. The Texas sodomy law under which they were charged bans oral and anal sex between consenting adults of the same sex. It does not apply to heterosexual couples.
U.K. extends war pensions to gay spouses. Gay or lesbian partners of British troops serving in the war against Iraq will qualify for pensions should their partners be killed in action, the Ministry of Defense said on Thursday.
Families of US gay soldiers forced into shadows. SLDN (Servicemembers Legal Defense Network) now receives up to 25 calls each week from soldiers concerned about how to stay in touch with their partners, how to select same-gender individuals for benefits and emergency notification, how to report harassment and how to respond to investigations of their sexuality.