Fourth of July

Hope everyone had a nice holiday yesterday.  Those in San Diego were supposedly disappointed that all the fireworks for the show went off at once, but it looks pretty cool to me:



Meantime, everyone is still debating "tax" or "penalty." Romney says it's now a tax because the Supreme Court said so, but he is not happy about it:

Emphasizing his disagreement with the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Obama’s healthcare law, Mitt Romney criticized Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Wednesday, stating that Roberts reached a conclusion that was inappropriate and “took a departure” from sound reasoning. Before the healthcare ruling, Romney had praised Roberts. His website says he would “nominate justices in the mold of Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito,” candidates who “exhibit a genuine appreciation for the text, structure, and history of our Constitution and interpret the Constitution and the laws as they are written.” But Romney displayed a cooler attitude toward Roberts in his interview with CBS News’ Jan Crawford on Wednesday near his vacation retreat of Wolfeboro, N.H. When Crawford asked whether he would nominate a justice like Roberts, now that the chief justice voted to uphold the president’s healthcare law, Romney answered that he “certainly wouldn’t nominate someone who I knew” was going to come out with a decision that I “vehemently disagreed with.” Roberts’ decision to side with the liberals of the court, Romney added, gave the impression his “decision was made not based upon [a] constitutional foundation but instead, [a] political consideration about the relationship between the branches of government.” Romney called Roberts “a very bright person,” according to a transcript provided by CBS News, and said he would look to nominate justices with intelligence who “believe in following the Constitution.”