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From Fark –
Kavya Shivashankar wins National Spelling Bee after successfully completing the “Fill In your name” portion of the application.
Damned immigrants. Ruining Kansas’ reputation.
Conservatives don’t think rape is torture and is, as Rush Limbaugh puts it, ‘blowing off some steam’. I doubt any conservative has the courage to go to a rape victim and tell them that they weren’t harmed by the violent act. Obama should release the photos to help educate conservatives on what torture looks like.
Photos Obama won’t release include images of rape…(warning, graphic)
“At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee.
Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube.”
Maj Gen Taguba, who retired in January 2007, said he supported the President’s decision, adding: “These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency.
Full story at:
http://www.atlargely.com/atlargely/2009/05/photos-obama-wont-release-include-images-of-rape.html
“Munkyhock” also stumbles on same “fill in your name” application.
Sounds like a personal attack against me, “JWink.”
For those of you scoring at home, it came at 6:14 in the morning.
Lighten up MH. Just practicing my spelling skills and trying to find humor in your comment on the spelling contest that is in the news this A.M.
Yeah well, “JWink” –
It’s not as if my humorous and/or sarcastic posts have ever raised hue and cry from WE Blog CONs.
The “personal attack” canard has been a regular whine from CONs until they’re called on it.
On this date, May 29th, record setting temperatures for Wichita Kansas
High: 100 °F (1913)
Low: 37 °F (1947)
Bush and Clinton debate/talk in Toronto to-day. Hmmmmmm I wonder if the timing had something to do with re-entry rules tightening as at June 1/09?
Climate change you can believe in
A giant Mammoth skull is on display in Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas. It represents the type of mammals found in a latter portion of the Cenozoic era.
There were vast glaciers spread over the northeastern part of Kansas during that time. Mammoths, mastodons, camels, and saber-toothed cats reaching as far south as Oklahoma were common during this latter portion of an icy age.
In an even earlier era, the harsh Permian climate did not support a rich diversity of life, but rare fossils of lungfish, sharks, and fish have been found.
In between the Permian and the Cenozoic eras, the Mesozoic era where the seas of Kansas deepened and sharks, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, turtles, fish, and numerous invertebrates flourished and can be found in the fossil record.
All brought to you by mother nature.
I’m not sure if the little girl that won the spelling contest should have been allowed to win, since her name is so difficult to pronounce….
/sarcasm off
Reg – that’s what I find so funny in the argument presented in the opinion pages today, by the person claiming any “AGW denier!” that calls themself a scientist is nothing but a paid prostitute of companies that might be hurt by fixing the emissions problems….yet, they always seem to leave the part out, where AGW alarmist “scientist” funding goes away if they come out and say “hey, temp goes up, temp goes down in nature all the time” and they only get paid in grants/speaking fees for retreading the party line and perpetuating AGW..but somehow that pay-off doesn’t seem to count. The media’s managed to turn science into a “publish or perish” cult and “it’s a natural phenomenon” doesn’t get you published.
Walker may have had a fatal heart attack sometime around 5:30 PM a few nights ago. He has not been heard from since. Please someone check on him. His body may be rotting by now.
JMWalker
Posted May 25, 2009 at 5:28 pm
American_Way
Posted May 25, 2009 at 3:53 pm
“Apparently, amway and jj, those upstanding Christians”
Walker:
What the he ll does my religion have anything to do with anything?
You got a real problem guy.
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I don’t have a problem with any religion. What I do have a problem with is those who profess to be religious, and think attacking other countries is A Okay. I have a problem with those who profess to be religious people purposely attacking people for no other reason than they can. You, JJ and reg fit that to a “T”.”
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Still waiting for JMWALKER to respond to my post on above:
1) Show me where American Way is religious? Any posts to support that? I’m the guy who wants republicans to throw the Religious Right under the bus and drop the PROLIFE dogma as job #1. I’ve posted many times on same.
2) Show me where I supported attacking another country. I was one of those who posted many times that I opposed Iraq and wanted Bush to bring our troops home.
I’ve apologized to others on this page when I wrongly accused them of something, or posted something inaccurate.
Hopefully Walker is man enough to do the same.
“Blowing off some STEAM???????”
Holy s–t – gotta hand it old Rush-boogie. Yeah, this crime is nothin’ more than bluster and wasted crime.
Yeah – that’s what I and my co-habitants of Menorah Hospital would probably say 20 years ago.
Yeah – that’s probably what Mya Angelou (did I spell that correctly?) would probably say – and has said – to great acclaim.
Well, that blew the first part of my intended missive(s) for today….
There’s a horrible upper respiratory affliction going around Wichita this spring, and it does some really icky-awful thangs. For one thing, it lowers your resistance to infection. For quite another, it can render you more vulnerable to horrific things like anaphalactic shock (spelling probably incorrect here, but what the #$$%).
I just spent all off yesterday morning in the E.R. of a prominent Wichita hospital. Wednesday night, I experienced an ultra-violet allergic reaction to something – after fighting an on-off upper respiratory sitch for several months.
I’m happy to say that I was treated by a wonderful doctor this time. I regaled him and his assistants with my humor, even while feeling like a s–t-salad symphony.
And, oh, I must looked a FRIGHT, too.
Anyway, after gettin’ my wonderful meds, I staggered over to a popular Wichita eatery, wondering how I was ever going to coax some food down my tummie. (Another delightful part of the illness is that it saps your appetite. Helluva way to diet, but what the heck.)
Sorry to hear that FilmFan. You may have been exposed to the infection from someone close to you. You may want to check on your family and friends to ensure they too, are not infected. You also might want to stop hanging out with the libs – they are known to carry and pass communicable diseases.
“Conservatives don’t think rape is torture and is, as Rush Limbaugh puts it, ‘blowing off some steam’. I doubt any conservative has the courage to go to a rape victim and tell them that they weren’t harmed by the violent act.”
Bullshift, and a new low for posting
Get well FilmFan – I’ll go to my private corner and pray for you. :)
I hate to shove an old, rusty wire hanger into an old, crusty cliche, but….
For all those cold, cruel anti’s who believe post-aborts are all unfeeling, callous broads who consume the young…..well….
You’re WRONG. You’re just WRONG!
While teetering in line at the restaurant, I noticed a beautiful little boy – he couldn’t have been much older than two. And he was just so happy and thrilled to be alive – he was prancing and gamboling around the eatery like a little wood nymph. Not even his mother could be angry at him – he was that adorable.
“Better run along, honey, your mother’s calling you,” I said to him. But he didn’t hear me, he was too busy being happy.
We have common ground there FilmFan. Kids are great aren’t they? They remind us of the sheer joy of being alive.
But you can’t experience happiness, if you never get a chance to live.
Not only that, but the little cherub had a charming habit of emitting spontaneous, exuberant little “squeaks” when his joie de vivre overtook him.
I’m sitting there, staring blankly at the colorless, drab food on my plate, forcing myself to eat and not enjoying it all that much, and every few minutes I’d hear that youthful mirth – and it lightened my mood and touched my heart.
Somehow, some way, I was able to chow down enough to take my meds – and that was a very, very good thang. ‘Cause I felt miraculously better within a few hours. And I was able to traipse off into never-never land (i.e., sleep).
I was perched at the back of the restaurant – not because some anti-abortionists believe that’s where ever post-abort pipsqueak should reside, but because I didn’t want to make anyone else sick, much less this priceless little child.
By the end of the day, I even forgave the medical staff for refusing my request for euthanasia. (I asked the attending doc to sign off as “Dr. Kevorkian”…..)
And now I’ve rejoined the land of the living – and happily awaiting my brilliant big brother’s call this weekend!
So there…..
Oh, good gosh, Outlander:
This wasn’t meant as a dig to post-aborts, either myself or anyone else.
It was meant as a celebration of this lovely little boy.
It probably wasn’t a good time for you ta dig the knife in – or try to, anyway. I just spent all Memorial Day weekend crying my eyes red because of my family sitch. In fact, that’s probably how I became ill – my resistance was lowered.
You’re not gonna make me feel icky-awful about meself – the legacy of abject idiocy is icky-sticky enough. (And I’m only judging myself, just for the record here.)
Oh well – at least we have common ground about the main issue here. How dare anyone – criminals, priests or the merely perverted – sully the innocence and joy of a child.
Happily, 99.99% of us would not dare do so – ever.
Hey, FilmFan, I love your writing style… And I hope your call with your brother goes really well for you!! Peace!!
Charges Against ‘New Black Panthers’ Dropped by Obama Justice Dept.
Three men were accused of trying to threaten voters and block poll and campaign workers by the threat of force — one even brandishing what prosecutors call a deadly weapon.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/05/29/charges-black-panthers-dropped-obama/
The three black panthers, Minister King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Shabazz and Jerry Jackson were charged in a civil complaint in the final days of the Bush administration with violating the voter rights act by using coercion, threats and intimidation. Shabazz allegedly held a nightstick or baton that prosecutors said he pointed at people and menacingly tapped it. Prosecutors also say he “supports racially motivated violence against non-blacks and Jews.”
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ANTI
Posted May 29, 2009 at 9:31 am | Permalink
The three black panthers, Minister King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Shabazz and Jerry Jackson were charged in a civil complaint in the final days of the Bush administration with violating the voter rights act by using coercion, threats and intimidation. Shabazz allegedly held a nightstick or baton that prosecutors said he pointed at people and menacingly tapped it. Prosecutors also say he “supports racially motivated violence against non-blacks and Jews.”
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The O’Bama administration was ‘agin’ voter intimidation until it was ‘fer’ it.
For all its talk of “raising America’s standing” in the world after the Bush years, the Obama administration is doing a spectacularly bad job of reaching out to its allies. Unfortunately this is the new face of America’s public diplomacy, which will only serve to alienate public opinion across the Atlantic. Congratulations Gibbs – you’ve just made an enemy out of the entire British media, quite an achievement for the man in charge of selling the President’s message.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/nile_gardiner/blog/2009/05/29/robert_gibbs_should_apologise_to_the_british_press_for_his_sneering_rant
“But you can’t experience happiness, if you never get a chance to live.”
Poorly timed shot Outlander, filmfan was already expressing her sadness of her situation. Why turn the knife already stuck in her heart? Rather boorish at the leastk, don;t ya think?
“By the end of the day, I even forgave the medical staff for refusing my request for euthanasia. (I asked the attending doc to sign off as “Dr. Kevorkian”…..)
”
Been there, but never thought of that! THanks for making me smile!
“By the end of the day, I even forgave the medical staff for refusing my request for euthanasia. (I asked the attending doc to sign off as “Dr. Kevorkian”…..)
”
Been there, but never thought of that! THanks for making me smile!
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littlejohn
Posted May 29, 2009 at 9:41 am | Permalink
“But you can’t experience happiness, if you never get a chance to live.”
Poorly timed shot Outlander, filmfan was already expressing her sadness of her situation. Why turn the knife already stuck in her heart? Rather boorish at the leastk, don;t ya think?
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No I don’t, LittleJohn. FilmFan didn’t say anything about having an abortion (post abort) until after the my post. Maybe you know her life’s story. I don’t. Good grief, it wasn’t even a mean comment.
Imagine if Ku Klux Klan members had stood menacingly in military uniforms, with nightsticks, in front of a polling place. Add to it that they had hurled racial threats and insults at voters who tried to enter.
Now suppose that the government, backed by a nationally televised video of the event, had won a court case against the Klansmen except for the perfunctory filing of a single, simple document – but that an incoming Republican administration had moved to voluntarily dismiss the already-won case.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/protecting-black-panthers/
Oh crap. Now I see where FilmFan mentioned being “post-abort” before my comment. If I had seen that I would not have posted by comment. Sorry FilmFan.
“Shabazz allegedly held a nightstick or baton that prosecutors said he pointed at people and menacingly tapped it.”
And libs don’t like it when we say O’bama has organized Brown Shirts just like the nazi party.
Can’t make this stuff up.
That’s ok, Outlander. It’s hardly the worst thing I’ve ever heard. (Mother Angelica’s comment about post-aborts and pro-choicers being “worse than Hitler” was probably right up there with the worst….)
Have a great day, everyone!
The FilmFan
DALLAS – Frank Larison is a disabled veteran with more than 14 years of service, including more than a year of combat duty in Vietnam.
The 58-year-old former Marine now finds himself under attack by his Dallas homeowners association for displaying seven decals on his vehicle supporting the Marine Corps.
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/national/dpgo_HOA_Asks_Vet_to_Remove_Bumper_fc_20090528_2518563
Libtards.
Regular posted May 29, 2009 at 7:56 am
Climate change you can believe in
. . .
All brought to you by mother nature.
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DFB posted May 29, 2009 at 8:23 am
Reg – that’s what I find so funny in the argument presented in the opinion pages today, by the person claiming any “AGW denier!” that calls themself a scientist is nothing but a paid prostitute of companies that might be hurt by fixing the emissions problems….yet, they always seem to leave the part out, where AGW alarmist “scientist” funding goes away if they come out and say “hey, temp goes up, temp goes down in nature all the time” and they only get paid in grants/speaking fees for retreading the party line and perpetuating AGW..but somehow that pay-off doesn’t seem to count. The media’s managed to turn science into a “publish or perish” cult and “it’s a natural phenomenon” doesn’t get you published.
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Working Group I Report “The Physical Science Basis”
Chapter 6 Palaeoclimate
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg1.htm
And libs don’t like it when we say O’bama has organized Brown Shirts just like the nazi party.
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Black Shirts.
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/052909_smithletter.pdf
cosmos_originally
Posted May 29, 2009 at 10:13 am
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Working Group I Report “The Physical Science Basis”
Chapter 6 Palaeoclimate
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg1.htm
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So what cosmos is saying that having glaciers in North east Kansas and being under hundreds of feet of sea water is less significant than a few tenths of a degree in temperature increase. :)
Glory be!
Anti, thanks I’m passing the word.
“That is his identity,” said neighbor Mary Castagna. “He goes to a lot of the veteran meetings, and it means a lot to him. Everyone else agrees with it; it doesn’t bother anybody.”
“He’s in the Marines, and he’s proud of it, and I don’t blame him,” said neighbor Paul Hardy.
Isn’t this typical of neighborhoods? There is always one old crotchety b@sturd who complains
about everything. Doesn’t have the intestinal fortitude to come forward, but complains to
the management or cops. Obviously doesn’t have a life if bumper stickers are all they
have to whine about.
In this case, I believe the association covenants and bylaws probably aremeant to prevent advertising banners on cars and business trucks.
They probably went too far.
An arrogant ex-Marine!
Who could imagine that could happen?
And right in the middle of that bastion of “libruhl” insanity, Dallas.
The British media article Gibbs was referring to was painting American Soldiers as brutal sex offenders.
And that not releasing the photos is an attempt to hide how brutal sex offenders American Soldiers are.
The British media is just as flaw-able as our own media, running with gossip over actually researching and sticking to know facts.
It was the equal of the blog hit that gain legs in the gullible public about car dealerships being closed based on their contributions to the Republican party. If that was the case than the liberals did a bungling job if that was the case. Considering that 8 out of 10 car dealership who did give money to the GOP remained open. Like the British article feeds the hungry of those wanting to believe that the Bush administration
was amoral and liken to the Huns. The car dealer tripe fed into those hungry for a unreasoning hatred of Obama. Its kind of like the GWB and “The Constitution is just a G.D. piece of paper!”. One source who hated Bush and the truth was not bad enough. So since no one cares to seek the truth spread a lie!
Finally a president that’s going to address cyber security as the national interest that it is!
Man fathers 21 children by 11 different women… and he’s only 29
Hatchett, who earns a minimal wage, told TV reporters he knows the names and ages of all his offspring.
Their ages range from newborn to 11 years old.
Authorities in Knoxville said they plan to take half of his monthly salary to pay for the youngsters but officials said that would work out to just over £1 a week for each.
His lawyer Keith Pope said: ‘The children can’t all be supported by Desmond, so the state of Tennessee has had to step in.’
Many Knoxville residents called for him to be castrated.
He even boasted of fathering four children by different women in the same year.
Oops, link to the breeder leach:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1189232/Desmond-Hatchett-fathers-21-children-11-different-women–hes-29.html
“An arrogant ex-Marine!”
Former Marine. The only X Marines are in Fort Leavenworth behind the walls.
And once a Marine, always a Marine.
We keep the title for life.
The Corps of Marines lives forever.
American_Way
Posted May 29, 2009 at 11:12 am | Permalink
“An arrogant ex-Marine!”
Former Marine. The only X Marines are in Fort Leavenworth behind the walls.
And once a Marine, always a Marine.
We keep the title for life.
The Corps of Marines lives forever.
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Well said, brother.
Semper Fi
Once a Moonie, always a Moonie!
Just another cult.
With garters.
Just another cult.
With garters.
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That ‘cult’ protects your worthless ass, Monkeyhawk.
Upon thoughtful reflection for a nanosecond or so, I had to think about
Monkeyhawk’s description of the former Marine.
Arrogant
When a person is led to believe that they are in some way more superior to everybody else.
Someone who believes they are always right, and better than everyone. Also cannot take abuse
Someone who is full of and thinks very highly of him/herself. For example, “
why do i have to be such a god? “
Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.
A certain person who holds the esteem that they are better than you; haughty.
Someone who walks around grenada thinking hes the sheeat.
A person who is fully confident.
Someone who has a high opinion of themselves.
People who think they are smarter and better than everyone else.
aloof, assuming, audacious, autocratic, biggety, bossy, bragging, cavalier, cheeky, cocky, cold-shoulder, conceited, contemptuous, cool, disdainful, domineering, egotistic, haughty, high and mighty, high-handed, imperious, insolent, know-it-all, lordly, on an ego trip, overbearing, peremptory, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, puffed up, scornful, self-important, smarty, smug, sniffy, snippy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, supercilious, superior, swaggering, uppity, vain.
My conclusion is Monkeyhawk is right. So the only correction I would make would be:
Arrogant former Marine.
Monkeyhawk
Posted May 29, 2009 at 11:41 am | Permalink
Once a Moonie, always a Moonie!
Just another cult.
With garters.
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A “cult” you’re probably not man enough to be a part of.
Monkeyhawk,
I don’t know why you keep embarrassing yourself about the garters.
1st: In your own words in a post you state you “spent twenty minutes watching a Marine get dressed”.
2d: In your own words in a follow-on post admitted you had to “take two cool showers” to cool off from watching a naked Marine get dressed in a private lockerroom.
I know Marines are good looking by nature, and I know you may be homosexual (which I’ve stated I have no problem with and respect your sexual orientation).
But I think it is perverted to stare at a man getting dressed. And weird you had to take two showers to cool off after doing so.
And I do have the links.
Before you start, I had dropped this. You brought it back up.
It has been said that Air Force enlisted are smarter than enlisted in other branches of service.
The reason?
They send the officers out to do the fighting. :)
“A “cult” you’re probably not man enough to be a part of.”
Amen.
From the Desk of Newt Gingrich
“I have a dream: that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
“Can you imagine if the President of the United States nominated a judge to the U.S. Supreme Court who said this:
“My experience as a white man will make me a better judge than a Latina woman would be.”
Or could you imagine if that same judge ruled from the bench to deny 18 African-American firefighters a promotion just because of their skin color?
That judge would be called a bigot — and in my judgment, rightly so! Would there be any doubt that he would be FORCED to WITHDRAW his nomination for the Supreme Court?
None.
There are only two options for how we govern ourselves – by laws, or by the will of those in power. The rule of law represents objective, dispassionate knowable standards that are applied and enforced equally to all citizens regardless of their background.
The will of those in power represents subjective, fleeting standards that are never fully known by any and are applied purely to satisfy the wishes of a small, concentrated group in power.
True justice is blind. It does not consider one’s religion, wealth, race or in this case sex, family origin and ethnicity. To do so would be unjust.
To put someone on our nation’s highest court who believes these traits should be considered in cases before the court, would be wrong.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor has proven, by her own admission, that she is such a judge. Knowing this, President Obama should withdraw her nomination to the Supreme Court.
Consider what Judge Sotomayor said about how her being a Latina woman will affect her decisions as a judge:
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
You read that right — Judge Sotomayor said that her experience as a person of a particular sex and ethnic background will make her a better judge than a person of another sex and a different ethnic background!
When did that view become acceptable?
If Civil War, suffrage, and Civil Rights are to mean anything, we cannot accept that conclusion. It is simply un-American. There is no room on the bench of the United States Supreme Court for this worldview.
The checks and balances between the three branches of government are designed to prevent any small faction of society from exerting undue influence over the rest of us. If President Obama will not withdraw his nomination, then the Senate has a duty to ensure that judges with who hold these beliefs are not confirmed to serve on the Supreme Court.”
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
You read that right — Judge Sotomayor said that her experience as a person of a particular sex and ethnic background will make her a better judge than a person of another sex and a different ethnic background! [boxlock]
Ummmm…. Why dont you print the ACTUAL quote of what the Judge said?? She did NOT say what you claim… Anybody with Google can prove you WRONG… and stupidly WRONG at that…
And if you actually would take the time to READ her APPEALS Court decision on the firefighter question, you will find that her opinion sways not ONE word about the RACE of the firefighters!!
Boxlock, anybody who can READ, and use GOOGLE will do what I am doing now… LAUGH AT YOUR INCOMPETENCE, AND THEN CRY FOR YOUR IGNORANCE!! YOUR SLIME POSTS ARENT GOING TO CUT IT ANYMORE!! YOU WILL BE CALLED DOWN FOR EVERY LYING POST YOU MAKE… SO, BE PREPARED!!
Chas shouts –
LAUGH AT YOUR INCOMPETENCE, AND THEN CRY FOR YOUR IGNORANCE!! YOUR SLIME POSTS ARENT GOING TO CUT IT ANYMORE!! YOU WILL BE CALLED DOWN FOR EVERY LYING POST YOU MAKE… SO, BE PREPARED!!
Stroke symptoms setting back in Chas?:)
You are throwing a fit AGAIN you faux preacher because you are wrong and can’t stand to have the truth brought out.
You ahole, if you were not so dim you would see that was a quote not something I said.
What a dimwit.
Provide links or shut the hell up!
“American_Way” –
You have your version of what I’ve written.
I know what I’ve really written.
You seem to be obsessing over a half-dressed Marine far more passionately than I ever did.
Meh…
I respect and admire the Marines’ reputation as warriors. I also know the greatest warriors in history (e.g., the Spartans) got that way with a lot of homo-eroticism mixed into their culture.
Nothing wrong with that.
In fact, there’s probably a lot right about it when you want a bunch of males bonding together in a lifelong fellowship of dominance over those they consider lesser persons.
It worked for the Spartans.
And those group showers at boot camp are probably some of your fondest memories of youth.
That’s fine with me if it cooks for you.
I just think the macho poseur attitude of ex-Marines such as those who participate in this forum is… ironic.
But trying to explain irony to an ex-Marine is like trying to teach a pig to whistle: it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
“Regular” contributes –
“Stroke symptoms setting back in Chas?”
I guess CONs suffer from irony-deficiency anemia.
Sip some more Geritol.
And tune into Lawrence Welk.
Boxlock,
I pointed out quite specifically what is WRONG with the “quote” you posted… You forgot to post all of it… You snark on something taken totally, and intentionally OUT OF CONTEXT… which is your normal way of doing things…
“Ummmm…. Why dont you print the ACTUAL quote of what the Judge said?? She did NOT say what you claim… Anybody with Google can prove you WRONG… and stupidly WRONG at that…”
READ IT AGAIN, idiot!!
By the way all….Snopes has NOTHING on “Judge Sotomayor” or “Sotomayor” or “My experience as a white man will make me a better judge than a Latina woman would be.”
Google comes up with this:
http://graybrook.blogspot.com/2009/05/sotomayors-justice-by-law-or-will-of.html
In other words….Chas, the faux preacher, is a freak.
Go hide under your rock there faux preacher.
Here is what was said:
““I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,” said Judge Sotomayor, who is now considered to be near the top of President Obama’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees.
Her remarks, at the annual Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, were not the only instance in which she has publicly described her view of judging in terms that could provoke sharp questioning in a confirmation hearing.
This month, for example, a video surfaced of Judge Sotomayor asserting in 2005 that a “court of appeals is where policy is made.” She then immediately adds: “And I know — I know this is on tape, and I should never say that because we don’t make law. I know. O.K. I know. I’m not promoting it. I’m not advocating it. I’m — you know.””
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/15judge.html
And by one of the most liberal rags in the country.
Monkeyhawk
Posted May 29, 2009 at 12:18 pm | Permalink
I just think the macho poseur attitude of ex-Marines such as those who participate in this forum is… ironic.
But trying to explain irony to an ex-Marine is like trying to teach a pig to whistle: it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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Spoken like a true outsider looking in.
I know it hurts, but you’ll never be one of us.
“I would hope that a wise Caucasian man with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a black male who hasn’t lived that life.”
“XXX” –
I’ll probably never be a Moonie, either.
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Monkeyhawk
Posted May 29, 2009 at 12:23 pm | Permalink
“Regular” contributes –
“Stroke symptoms setting back in Chas?”
I guess CONs suffer from irony-deficiency anemia.
Sip some more Geritol.
And tune into Lawrence Welk.
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Just basing it on the facts that Chas laid out. He said he types in CAPS because of his stroke. With that many capitalized letters in a row, figured he was having a relapse. :)
By SUZANNE SATALINE, JESS BRAVIN and NATHAN KOPPEL
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — With a single paragraph, Judge Sonia Sotomayor and two colleagues dashed the hopes of firefighters here who believed they’d scored high enough on exams to win a promotion.
The three federal appeals judges said last year the city had the right to reject the results of two tests because no black firefighters scored high enough.
The ruling is now turning into perhaps the most contentious of the 4,000 Judge Sotomayor made in 17 years on the federal bench, and it is likely to come up in her Supreme Court confirmation hearings. The justices whom she may soon join on the high court are expected to rule within weeks on the case, which they took on an appeal by white firefighters.
Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124354041637563491.html
CNSNews.com) – U.S. Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor, mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee, voted to deny a racial discrimination claim in a 2008 decision. She dismissed the case in a one-paragraph statement that, in the opinion of one dissenting judge, ignored the evidence and did not even address the constitutional issues raised by the case.
The case, Ricci v. DeStefano, involved a group of 19 white firefighters and one Hispanic firefighter who filed suit in 2003 claiming that the city of New Haven, Conn., engaged in racial discrimination when it threw out the results of two promotion tests because none of the city’s black applicants had passed the tests.
Each of the plaintiffs had passed the exam. The case is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Where I might add it will likely be overturned, she is one of, if not THE, most overturned judges ever.
Nothing gayer than this –
http://tpmtv.talkingpointsmemo.com/?id=2625093&ref=fpblg
“We affirm, for the reasons stated in the thorough, thoughtful, and well-reasoned opinion of the court below. Ricci v. DeStefano, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73277, 2006 WL 2828419 (D.Conn., Sept. 28, 2006). In this case, the Civil Service Board found itself in the unfortunate position of having no good alternatives. We are not unsympathetic to the plaintiffs’ expression of frustration. Mr. Ricci, for example, who is dyslexic, made intensive efforts that appear to have resulted in his scoring highly on one of the exams, only to have it invalidated. But it simply does not follow that he has a viable Title VII claim. To the contrary, because the Board, in refusing to validate the exams, was simply trying to fulfill its obligations under Title VII when confronted with test results that had a disproportionate racial impact, its actions were protected.”
of course not. They didn’t say anything except they didn;t have anything to add. REad the original district court ruling. Google can do it for ya.
What should be questioned is what does anyone’s ethnicity or gender have to do with our laws and the constituition?
Is the Judge somehow suggesting that as a Latina woman laws apply differently to her?
Sotomayor reversed 60% by high court
“With Judge Sonia Sotomayor already facing questions over her 60 percent reversal rate, the Supreme Court could dump another problem into her lap next month if, as many legal analysts predict, the court overturns one of her rulings upholding a race-based employment decision.
Three of the five majority opinions written by Judge Sotomayor for the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals and reviewed by the Supreme Court were reversed, providing a potent line of attack raised by opponents Tuesday after President Obama announced he will nominate the 54-year-old Hispanic woman to the high court.
“Her high reversal rate alone should be enough for us to pause and take a good look at her record. Frankly, it is the Senates duty to do so,” said Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America. ”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/27/60-reversal-of-sotomayor-rulings-gives-fodder-to-f/
You lose faux preacher!
“What should be questioned is what does anyone’s ethnicity or gender have to do with our laws and the constituition?”
Why nothing at all, unless you go back in time to our early history when being white meant superiority, authority, and righteousness.
Other than that, it’s apparently not important to one political party.
“American_Way” –
Do you want to rephrase your last post?
Think about it.
Monkeyhawk: Quit following me around. I’m a married man for godsakes!
“DALLAS – Frank Larison is a disabled veteran with more than 14 years of service, including more than a year of combat duty in Vietnam.
“The 58-year-old former Marine now finds himself under attack by his Dallas homeowners association for displaying seven decals on his vehicle supporting the Marine Corps.”
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/national/dpgo_HOA_Asks_Vet_to_Remove_Bumper_fc_20090528_2518563
“Libtards.”
Interesting story, however your insinuation that it is “libtards” who are behind Frank’s harrassment is laughable. Probably, this is someone who doesn’t have enough to do, and HOA boards are all too often advised by their management companies (particularly if they retain attorneys) to have “zero tolerance” policies.
The fact is, HOA’s need to have their fangs pulled, at least to the extent that they need to have the same level of accountability that public governments have. Bylaws created by the attorneys of developers give HOA boards absurd levels of power to micromanage the private lives of homeowners and residents. Too many municipalities and counties are not only encouraging HOA’s and restrictive covenants for new developments, but even requiring them as a way of encouraging cheap growth (where HOA’s take over much of the policing and even infrastructure costs).
I suspect that the HOA will back down in this case because of the overwhelming bad publicity, but the problem with HOA’s will remain.
“Probably, this is someone who doesn’t have enough to do, and HOA boards are all too often advised by their management companies (particularly if they retain attorneys) to have “zero tolerance” policies.”
This “someone” being a neighbor who probably doesn’t have a political objection to the bumper stickers, but who thinks they look “tacky”.
Boxlock,
FYI – 60% reversal is GOOD… sort of works like Golf… the lower the score, the better… Average is something like 75%…
Stop LYING” Boxlock… you’re no good at, and you are giving your fellow liars a bad name!!
Interesting story, however your insinuation that it is “libtards” who are behind Frank’s harrassment is laughable.
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Libtards make me laugh too.
The flaming troll (as usual, without any intelligent research or vetting) posts: “Sotomayor reversed 60% by high court.”
Followed by a Moonie/Washington Times article.
Here is bullsh*t free context for Sotomayor’s reversal rate (a humongous 1.3% of the cases she has been in the majority on). The 60% figure comes from the cases the SCOTUS actually reviewed (a measley 5 out of 232 cases), and the reversal rate is actually lower than usual for appelate court justices whose cases have actually been appealed to and heard by the Supreme Court. When the SCOTUS agrees to hear an appealed case, a reversal is actually more likely than not.
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/what_percentage_of_sonia_sotomayors_opinions_have.html
“Libtards make me laugh too.”
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Agnatha
Posted May 29, 2009 at 1:17 pm | Permalink
“Libtards make me laugh too.”
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I’m laughing at you.
Actually, I was saying that Earth is now in the Anthropocene era.
More on Sotomayor’s “reversal rate”.
http://www.politifact.org/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/may/27/libertarian-national-committee/libertarian-party-claims-sonia-sotomayor-has-had-f/
Sonchomayo is a racist.
Monkeyhawk
Posted May 29, 2009 at 12:35 pm | Permalink
“XXX” –
I’ll probably never be a Moonie, either.
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But you COULD be a Moonie.
You could never be a Marine.
AmWay posts: “Isn’t this typical of neighborhoods?”
Yep.
“There is always one old crotchety b@sturd who complains about everything. Doesn’t have the intestinal fortitude to come forward, but complains to the management or cops. Obviously doesn’t have a life if bumper stickers are all they have to whine about.”
Which is the problem with HOA’s, particularly established ones. Often, the people who really want to be involved in them are the Gladys Kravitz’s of the neighborhood, and HOA’s can give them absolute authority.
“In this case, I believe the association covenants and bylaws probably are meant to prevent advertising banners on cars and business trucks.”
The problem is, HOA Boards have absurdly broad powers to interpret covenants. People who are shown the covenants before buying property are, of course, never told this by the real estate agents who are selling to them.
“They probably went too far.”
I agree.
The problem is, HOA Boards have absurdly broad powers to interpret covenants.
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I don’t understand why people spend a huge amount on a fancy house only to be controlled by the HOA.
I thought the point of achieving the ability to purchase a nice house was the freedom, not being told you can not have a fence and that you can only paint your house one of 3 colors approved by the HOA.
Sotomajor’s decisions HAVE been reversed 60% of the time…..FACT.
And I would imagine that is soon to be one more, or 67%
Spin it anyway you can she but is still and activist racist judge that loses appeals.
And those are the facts!
“XXX” shares an amazing grasp of the obvious –
“You could never be a Marine.”
Yup.
Too old.
Probably too smart.
But mostly, too old.
I could never be nun, either.
Same-gender fellowship, spiffy suits to dress up in… but nope, I “could never be a” nun.
Or a Girl Scout, or Siamese twin, or an NBA Hall of Famer for the Syracuse Nationals…
Just squandered all my opportunities, I guess.
If being a Marine were so special, why have there been so damned many of you?
NBA Hall of Famer for the Syracuse Nationals…
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The who?
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The flaming troll, predictably, crows after being humiliated.
“Sotomajor’s decisions HAVE been reversed 60% of the time…..FACT.”
Of those appealed, that is lower than average for an appeals judge. FACT and reality
Tha actual reversal percentage for the total of cases she ruled on, 1.3%, because the vast, vast majority were not reversed. FACT and reality
As for the rest of the flaming trolls over the top…well…flames.
No more crow soup for the flaming troll.
“ANTI” wallows in his ignorance with –
“The who?”
Nah. That was Townsend, Daltry, Moon, and Entwistle.
I missed out on that opportunity, too.
“The actual reversal percentage for the total of cases she ruled on, 1.3%, because the vast, vast majority were not reversed. FACT and reality”
Not reversed, because they were not appealed, or an attempt to appeal was denied by the SCOTUS.
Monkeyhawk
Posted May 29, 2009 at 1:56 pm | Permalink
“ANTI” wallows in his ignorance with –
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Oink, Oink!
I’m back……like a fungus……
Let me just advise everyone – if you’ve got that crappy upper respiratory s–t that’s invading Wichita like an airborne case of the clap, be forewarned………….
My lovely doctor was kind enough to proffer some Lilting Lortab – just a few, enough for two days, into my waiting palms. This elixir of the gods, conjoined with the 5-day steroidal prescription, restored my will to live. But, as many people who take opioids will tell you…..there’s a side effect of these wonderdrugs.
And it’s kind of unmentionable. And I’m too much of a lady to mention it.
But I kinda forgot to take some over-the-counter s–t to counteract this very unpleasant side effect. And I’m payin’ the price today. Now, I don’t know if this what gay rape is like, and I don’t really wanna know. But……
I’m about ready to move back into my old building, steal of a videocopy of “Hold Me Down, You Naughty Sailor” from my former neighbors, and suffocate myself with it.
‘Cause this ain’t fun – none at all.
I had to buy some over-the-counter stuff at lunchtime, and it ain’t working – not yet. And when you’ve got a job when you’re sitting all day, it’s sort of phantasmagoric.
Oh well, now onto something else…..
Let me just advise everyone – if you’ve got that crappy upper respiratory s–t that’s invading Wichita like an airborne case of the clap, be forewarned………….
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Already had it, upper respiratory s–t I mean. It was wonderful, until it overstayed it’s welcome. Felt like I had a manhole cover on my chest for about 2 weeks, ah the memories!
Take care, I feel your pain.
It was probably sorta of b-tchy of me to mention the right-to-life issue in my earlier posts of day – I should have just concentrated on the innocent little boy who brightened my day.
But yesterday was sort of a bad day. And I couldn’t eat – which was sort of a problemo. And since I could barely eat, that could be why the medication’s hitting me so hard (in both good and bad ways).
And when the big broad can’t eat – there’s something amiss in amazonia.
And when my tummie’s empty, the big b–ch snarts to snarl.
I just hope this “Woman’s Gentle (well, you know)” starts to work soon. How did the cast of “Q–er as Folk” handle this s–t? It’s a many-splintered thang……
U.S. officials say there are new signs North Korea may be planning even more missile launches in a show of strength following worldwide condemnation of its underground nuclear test.
The North fired a short-range missile on Friday — the sixth this week.
Perhaps more significantly, officials say there are indications of increased activity at a site used to fire long-range missiles.
-Fox
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Mr_Kia
Posted May 29, 2009 at 12:42 pm | Permalink
What should be questioned is what does anyone’s ethnicity or gender have to do with our laws and the constituition?
Is the Judge somehow suggesting that as a Latina woman laws apply differently to her?
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Here is a link to the entire speech in which she makes the comment that has been so widely quoted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/politics/15judge.text.html
As I read it, she’s basically saying that judges are human beings and not robots. All human beings have a perspectives and personal biases on issues that are largely based upon their experiences in life. She says that a judge should be aware of personal bias and not allow it to color their decision making when applying the law to real life situations. She also holds that sometimes those who are in the majority have a harder time recognizing their personal bias than those in the minority because those in the majority have their biases reinforced and validated by society as a whole on a daily basis. I don’t necessarily agree with her but in context, her quote does make some sense.
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Boxlock20
Posted May 29, 2009 at 1:43 pm | Permalink
Sotomajor’s decisions HAVE been reversed 60% of the time…..FACT.
And I would imagine that is soon to be one more, or 67%
Spin it anyway you can she but is still and activist racist judge that loses appeals.
And those are the facts!
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I wonder what Alito’s reversal rate was before he joined the SCOTUS?
Pa. newspaper ad calls for Obama assassination
The Associated Press
WARREN, Pa. – A northwestern Pennsylvania newspaper is apologizing for running a classified advertisement calling for the assassination of President Barack Obama.
Warren Times Observer Publisher John Elchert says the ad appeared Thursday. It read, “May Obama follow in the steps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy!” The four presidents were all assassinated.
Elchert tells The Associated Press that the newspaper’s advertising staff didn’t make the historical connection.
He says the newspaper turned information over to police and that the Secret Service is investigating the person who placed the ad.
A note in Friday’s paper says the newspaper “apologizes for the oversight.”
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Idiots.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The government bailout of General Motors includes a valuable prize for the ailing carmaker: a tax break that could save GM and its future investors more than $12 billion—if it ever becomes profitable again.
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ANTI
Posted May 29, 2009 at 3:42 pm | Permalink
WASHINGTON (AP) – The government bailout of General Motors includes a valuable prize for the ailing carmaker: a tax break that could save GM and its future investors more than $12 billion—if it ever becomes profitable again.
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Obama loves tax cuts.
I just heard on the radio that the UAW accepted more benefit cuts and in exchange GM agreed to retool a domestic plant for new production that they had planned on sending to China.
The jawless fish Agnatha can’t understand math let alone what was said.
The article said, and I said, that of the cases reviewed by the Supreme Court 60% were reversed.
And that is fact no matter how the jawless fish gums it.
“Here is bullsh*t free context for Sotomayor’s reversal rate (a humongous 1.3% of the cases she has been in the majority on). The 60% figure comes from the cases the SCOTUS actually reviewed”—the mindless and jawless fish Agnatha
The 60% is fact. All that was ever claimed in my posts was the number and percentage of her opinion’s reversed by the high court.
And that is exactly what the number is, so eat some of that bullsh*t you keep talking about jawless fish…use a straw if you have to.
I just heard on the radio that the UAW accepted more benefit cuts and in exchange GM agreed to retool a domestic plant for new production that they had planned on sending to China.
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Well that’s good. The damned Chinese already have enough of our manufacturing.
ANTI
Posted May 29, 2009 at 4:20 pm | Permalink
Well that’s good. The damned Chinese already have enough of our manufacturing.
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Damn straight.
http://img1.picturewizard.com/1328EA1/0/damnstraight.jpg
Damn straight.
http://img1.picturewizard.com/1328EA1/0/damnstraight.jpg
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TOS Violation?
Take two….
http://img1.picturewizard.com/1328EA1/0/flagpin.jpg
Copy that.
TOS Violation?
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It appears that picturewizard won’t allow an URL that contains the ‘d’ word.
Ethical, successful adult stem cell research has cured a Texas boy of sickle cell anemia, using a sibling’s donated umbilical cord blood to prepare a treatment.
Meanwhile, Obamanation is diverting your tax money away from ethical, successful adult stem cell research, producing new cures and treatments every year, into useless, unethical embryonic stem cell research, which has never cured anything, and likely never will.
I know Marines are good looking by nature,
General Puller was the most butt ugly man that ever lived but bless his heart he was a Marine!
I yet to see a good looking Marines, except in a war movie the rest are too damn busy putting their faces into the fire! Oh wait a minute… I am suppose to be saying with out the Marines who would hold doors for the Navy? I’ll go back to sleep.
4:55 pm, “parkay?”
Knockin’ off early on a Friday, huh?
100 Days of “Fair & Balanced” —
http://tinyurl.com/lnf9qm
This is your brain on Faux News.
Some humor for a Friday afternoon….
In honor of the 44th President of the United States , Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream has introduced a new flavor: ” Barocky Road .”
Barocky Road is a blend of half vanilla, half chocolate, and surrounded by nuts and flakes. The vanilla portion of the mix is not openly advertised and usually denied as an ingredient. The nuts and flakes are all very bitter and hard to swallow.
The cost is $100.00 per scoop.
When purchased it will be presented to you in a
large beautiful cone, but then the ice cream is
taken away and given to the person in line behind you who didn’t have the money to buy ice cream.
You are left with an empty wallet and no change, holding an empty cone with no hope of getting any ice cream.
Are you stimulated?
Good thing the Dems have the moral high ground to attack the GOP on judicial nominees, especially those of hispanic origin….
http://www.judicialwatch.org/durbkencomplaint.shtml
Well the ticket sales for the Toronto Bush/Clinton bash were slow, many of them going for less than the published prices. But here a scoop, Bush was paid $150,000.00 and Clinton got…..$300,000.00 for the aftenoons’ work. Promoters were puzzled because in the past when Clinton had spoken there, they always had sellouts.
I know it’s a big pain when someone comes along to interject context into a debate. But since there seem such a fan base that is loving to quote from speeches. Here is some more of the context that Sotomayor said in the 2001 speech where the quote about a minority and woman came from. Now for some this is all the farther you would be willing to read.
“In our private conversations, Judge Cedarbaum has pointed out to me that seminal decisions in race and sex discrimination cases have come from Supreme Courts composed exclusively of white males. I agree that this is significant but I also choose to emphasize that the people who argued those cases before the Supreme Court which changed the legal landscape ultimately were largely people of color and women. I recall that Justice Thurgood Marshall, Judge Connie Baker Motley, the first black woman appointed to the federal bench, and others of the NAACP argued Brown v. Board of Education. Similarly, Justice Ginsburg, with other women attorneys, was instrumental in advocating and convincing the Court that equality of work required equality in terms and conditions of employment.
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O’Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O’Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.
Let us not forget that wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination in our society. Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case.
“I, like Professor Carter, believe that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. Many are so capable.”
“However, to understand takes time and effort, something that not all people are willing to give. For others, their experiences limit their ability to understand the experiences of others. Others simply do not care. Hence, one must accept the proposition that a difference there will be by the presence of women and people of color on the bench. Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.”
Thanks for that ’soft soap’ sell Dog.
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Regular
Posted May 29, 2009 at 6:04 pm | Permalink
Thanks for that ’soft soap’ sell Dog.
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Yeah, context sux. It’s much more fun to take one sentence out of a five page speech and howl about it incessantly.
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Daniel
Posted May 29, 2009 at 6:23 pm | Permalink
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Regular
Posted May 29, 2009 at 6:04 pm | Permalink
Thanks for that ’soft soap’ sell Dog.
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Yeah, context sux. It’s much more fun to take one sentence out of a five page speech and howl about it incessantly.
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The Judge’s infamous line didn’t come out of that speech.
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writerdog
Posted May 29, 2009 at 5:53 pm | Permalink
I know it’s a big pain when someone comes along to interject context into a debate. But since there seem such a fan base that is loving to quote from speeches. Here is some more of the context that Sotomayor said in the 2001 speech where the quote about a minority and woman came from. Now for some this is all the farther you would be willing to read.
“In our private conversations, Judge Cedarbaum has pointed out to me that seminal decisions in race and sex discrimination cases have come from Supreme Courts composed exclusively of white males. I agree that this is significant but I also choose to emphasize that the people who argued those cases before the Supreme Court which changed the legal landscape ultimately were largely people of color and women. I recall that Justice Thurgood Marshall, Judge Connie Baker Motley, the first black woman appointed to the federal bench, and others of the NAACP argued Brown v. Board of Education. Similarly, Justice Ginsburg, with other women attorneys, was instrumental in advocating and convincing the Court that equality of work required equality in terms and conditions of employment.
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O’Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O’Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.
Let us not forget that wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination in our society. Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case.
“I, like Professor Carter, believe that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. Many are so capable.”
“However, to understand takes time and effort, something that not all people are willing to give. For others, their experiences limit their ability to understand the experiences of others. Others simply do not care. Hence, one must accept the proposition that a difference there will be by the presence of women and people of color on the bench. Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.”
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Regular,
I’m fairly certain that you’ll reply that you were referring to a different infamous line and call me a nitwit.
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XXX
Posted May 29, 2009 at 1:35 pm | Permalink
Monkeyhawk
Posted May 29, 2009 at 12:35 pm | Permalink
“XXX” –
I’ll probably never be a Moonie, either.
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But you COULD be a Moonie.
You could never be a Marine.
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I am not sure Monkeyhawk could be a Moonie.
Apparently they have standards. Monkeyhawk claims to have already been to h@ll and back.
http://www.unification.org/
Daniel,
I wasn’t talking about that statement, I was referring to this statement made by the Judge here:
http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/sotomayors-controversial-statement-at-duke/18718815
…which referred to her view on judicial activism where a court can make policy (legislate from the bench.)
Not only make policy!
” Not only do state-court judges possess the power to “make” common law, but they have the immense power to shape the States’ constitutions as well. ”
Imagine the damage an activist judge like this will do!!
“This complete separation of the judiciary from the enterprise of “representative government” might have some truth in those countries where judges neither make law themselves nor set aside the laws enacted by the legislature. It is not a true picture of the American system.
Not only do state-court judges possess the power to “make” common law, but they have the immense power to shape the States’ constitutions as well.”
OOPS ! Antonin Scalia said that…..
Yes Scalia was talking about State-court judges, not himself or his personal philosophy.
A nice try on diverting the discussion to someone who is already already on the Supreme Court to someone who has yet to meet the Senate judiciary committee.
BTW Daniel, if you try to play ‘gotcha’ games with me, I’ll burn you every time. :)
er DavidB not Daniel, sorry
Bozone(n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating.
The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
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Regular
Posted May 29, 2009 at 7:16 pm | Permalink
Daniel,
I wasn’t talking about that statement, I was referring to this statement made by the Judge here:
http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/sotomayors-controversial-statement-at-duke/18718815
…which referred to her view on judicial activism where a court can make policy (legislate from the bench.)
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You forgot to call me a nitwit ;)
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Daniel
Posted May 29, 2009 at 7:33 pm | Permalink
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Regular
Posted May 29, 2009 at 7:16 pm | Permalink
Daniel,
I wasn’t talking about that statement, I was referring to this statement made by the Judge here:
http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/sotomayors-controversial-statement-at-duke/18718815
…which referred to her view on judicial activism where a court can make policy (legislate from the bench.)
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You forgot to call me a nitwit ;)
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Buffon will do. :)
“Buffon will do.”
On behalf of the League of Supervillains, Doctor Doom ordered that I pass this along:
The correct spelling is buffoon, dolt. ;-)
The correct spelling is buffoon, dolt. ;-)
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Some folks just don’t get humor, eh Reg!…Like Agatha.
And point of reality, again.
Appellate Court justices do in fact functionally make policy, regardless of whether the justices are self described conservatives, liberals, or in between.
http://www.politifact.org/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/may/26/republican-national-committee-republican/rnc-claims-supreme-court-nominee-sonia-sotomayor-s/
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ANTI
Posted May 29, 2009 at 9:22 pm | Permalink
The correct spelling is buffoon, dolt. ;-)
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Some folks just don’t get humor, eh Reg!…Like Agatha.
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Yep, the “jawless fish” was absent from lib school that day when the term ‘buffon’ sprouted wings. :)
“You are left with an empty wallet and no change, holding an empty cone with no hope of getting any ice cream.
“Are you stimulated?”
No, but I am very grateful that this administration is revealing the “inner-racist” of so many very stupid conservatives. Thank you. That post was special…
The Russians see us better than we see ourselves.
“It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.
Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?”
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-0/
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If this doesn’t wake the sheeple up nothing will.
okobserver,
You beat me to this by seconds, congrats. Not that we are in some contest, but it is enormously important and I was glad to see it posted. This should be on the front page of every paper in the U.S., but I am afraid it is too late even if it were printed, and of course with what the media has done to this county it never will be.
We have given the life essence of our great county up, and it’s soul is dead!
Even Russia is freer than we are today, and as little Barry says, “you ain’t seen nothing yet”.
The DimLibs are deserving of every harm that befalls them as capitalism and a free society disintegrates and the producers quit producing.
“We have given the life essence of our great county up, and it’s soul is dead!”
So what?
okobserver,
You’re posting articles from Pravda, now? The same Pravda that was the propaganda organ of the Communist Party in the USSR?
Is this really the company that you want to keep?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lenin_reading_Pravda.gif
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“We have given the life essence of our great county up, and it’s soul is dead!”
So what?
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I’d like to modify my post.
HOORAY!
Boxlock20
Posted May 29, 2009 at 10:34 pm | Permalink
Even Russia is freer than we are today…
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You can’t be serious. Defend your ridiculous statement.
Russia is shaping up as a feudal plutocracy.
To folks like Bawkslot and okie, that is “freedom”.
Russia’s problem these days is that 40 percent of their wealth is held by about a dozen billionaires.
“Regular” opines –
“Russia’s problem these days is that 40 percent of their wealth is held by about a dozen billionaires.”
Why do you hate rich people?
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Monkeyhawk
Posted May 29, 2009 at 11:03 pm | Permalink
“Regular” opines –
“Russia’s problem these days is that 40 percent of their wealth is held by about a dozen billionaires.”
Why do you hate rich people?
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I don’t.
But I imagine the Russia people hate them. They use Russia mafia tactics to keep them in line.
The “Russian Mafia?”
Sounds like unfettered free enterprise to me.
“Regular” opines –
“Russia’s problem these days is that 40 percent of their wealth is held by about a dozen billionaires.”
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Hmmmmmmm…. That means the other 60% of their wealth(a majority) ISNT!!
So, who holds that other 60%??
“Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster.” [Okie's link]
Ummm… as usual, Okie forgot to read into Pg. 2 of her “blogger” quote… The UK’s Blair hasnt been Prime Minister for a LONG time… and especially not since Obama has been President.
IF you read on to Pg. 2 of Okie’s link article, it contains an extremely “Americanized” version of the same drivel routinely posted on this Blog by numerous ones of the CON variety…
Folks, ya gotta go read that link… It’s so Right Wing CON, it’s hard to believe Pravda would even print it!! LOL
Ummm… Okie?? You better go read your link again… Especially that part where it says all of the mega churches and televangelists are leading their people into Marxist ways…. See, we liberals dont have any of those mega churches… and we sure dont have any televangelists that I know of… So, he is talking about the “hard core” of the Religious Right(or is that Wright)??
So, before you trash the liberals, you better read it aggain, and see who your “Right wing Russian” is really bashing there…
Also, read on to Pg. 2… and you will find that your precious “author” is just another Blogger… (and probably just a right wing American CON in “russian drag”…..
You people really need to apply thinking to your reading….
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By TIMOTHY LARSEN
Have you ever heard the one about the Christian who started to study calculus and ended up losing his faith? Of course you have. Such “conversion” to atheism is supposed to be the story of all modern, thinking people. But imagine it happening the other way around. Moreover, imagine the convert being a well-informed, public intellectual who had long made it his business to argue that faith is irrational?
Just such a conversion has happened to A.N. Wilson, the 58-year-old British biographer, novelist and man of letters. He was once an observant Anglican and, later, a Roman Catholic, but in the 1980s he lost his faith and began skewering the supposed delusions of the faithful. His antifaith stance was expressed in books such as “God’s Funeral” (1999) and “Jesus: A Life” (1992). A few weeks ago, however, Mr. Wilson confessed that Christ had risen indeed. He attributed this to “the confidence I have gained with age.” He now says he believes that atheists are like “people who have no ear for music or who have never been in love.”
Mr. Wilson’s story matches that of other skeptical authors who became convinced by Christianity, not least in Victorian Britain, when Darwin and various modern ideas shook the foundations of faith among the educated classes. Among the notable examples from Victorian Britain are Thomas Cooper, the most popular free-thinking lecturer in London in the 1850s; George Sexton, the most academically accomplished secularist intellectual of the time; and Joseph Barker, a well-respected leader of the mid-19th-century free-thinking movement. The 20th century also had its share of writers and intellectuals who rediscovered Christianity as mature thinkers, including T.S. Eliot, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, C.S. Lewis, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and W.H. Auden.
Our modern assumption that thought and faith are incompatible can be traced to the Victorian atheists. As one of them snidely remarked when a fellow secularist came to faith: “I find it hard to believe that someone could progress backwards.”
For his part, A. N. Wilson had denounced as dishonest every leading Victorian intellectual who maintained a commitment to orthodox Christianity. Indeed, in “God’s Funeral” he did not just go after the usual targets, such as John Henry Newman, but savaged even Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. They were not presented as simply mistaken, but rather as downright “dishonorable.”
Secularist leaders were usually raised religious. As clever youths, they would begin to handle the Bible critically. They prided themselves in being “rational” and would decide that Christian beliefs did not meet this standard. They would then go on to find intellectual satisfaction in picking apart the beliefs of others. Thomas Paine’s “Age of Reason,” a book beloved by free-thinkers in the 19th century, systematically went through the Bible, gleefully mocking each book in turn.
Those who later recanted their atheism began to doubt their doubts went on from this common start to begin to doubt their doubts. They gradually decided that their rationalistic method was too narrow: It could pick holes not only in Christianity but in any attempt to distinguish between right and wrong or to articulate the meaning of life. They came to realize that they could only tear down and thus were left intellectually with no habitable place to live. John Henry Gordon, who held the only full-time, salaried secularist lecturer position in England, came to believe that secularism was a creed of “mere negations.”
Having realized that their method was flawed, they then began to reconsider faith. Christianity, they discovered, spoke to the deepest realities of human experience. George Sexton, for example, decided that Jesus as presented in the Gospels was so compelling and haunting that only a historical original could account for this: “If Christ be simply an ideal picture, the man who sketched it will be as difficult to account for as the Being himself.”
Their skeptical pasts did leave a permanent stamp on their thought. Joseph Barker believed as a young man that the Bible was error-free. As a free-thinking lecturer he specialized in highlighting problem passages. As a convert, he conceded that the Bible was not perfect but went on to argue that it was perfectly suited to speak to the human condition. The Swiss Alps are not perfect cones, he observed, but this does not detract from their grandeur. Thomas Cooper declared that his newly rediscovered faith did not include a belief in eternal punishment.
As is the case with Mr. Wilson, intellectuals often pursue long, drawn-out love affairs with Christian thought. Next time you hear someone fume that God is the most contemptible being who never existed, keep in mind that you just might be watching the first act of a divine romantic comedy.
Mr. Larsen is the author of “Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England” (Oxford University Press, 2008).
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“But I imagine the Russia people hate them. They use Russia mafia tactics to keep them in line.”–BlowJb
Today the U.S. uses Obama ‘mafia tactics to keep them in line’.
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