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Ed is setting Arlen Spector on fire.

The 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee airs tonight on ABC at 8 p.m. Eastern time.

Scalia, Alito Quotes Blunt Conservative Attacks On Sotomayor

What's odd about the body of opposition to Sonia Sotomayor is that it includes so many items that seem to have been previously deemed acceptable for Supreme Court Justices. Take the whole notion of Obama's appointee being a "judicial activist of the first order?" As you may have seen, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor once quipped:

The saw is that if you're going into academia, you're going to teach, or as Judge Lucero just said, public interest law, all of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people with court of appeals experience, because it is -- court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know -- and I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know.
But, as it turns out, Sotomayor needn't worry about talking about how policy is made at the appeals level on videotape. Why, some justices on the Supreme Court have said the same thing and baked it into their judicial decisions. Like, say, noted leftist jurist Antonin Scalia, who, in the majority opinion of 2002 case Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, wrote:

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. See, e.g., Baker v. State, 170 Vt. 194, 744 A. 2d 864 (1999). Which is precisely why the election of state judges became popular.
In footnote 12, Scalia elaborated (emphasis added):

Although Justice [John Paul] Stevens at times appears to agree with Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg's premise that the judiciary is completely separated from the enterprise of representative government, post, at 3 ("[E]very good judge is fully aware of the distinction between the law and a personal point of view"), he eventually appears to concede that the separation does not hold true for many judges who sit on courts of last resort, post, at 3 ("If he is not a judge on the highest court in the State, he has an obligation to follow the precedent of that court, not his personal views or public opinion polls"); post, at 3, n. 2. Even if the policy making capacity of judges were limited to courts of last resort, that would only prove that the announce clause fails strict scrutiny. "[I]f announcing one's views in the context of a campaign for the State Supreme Court might be" protected speech, post, at 3, n. 2, then-even if announcing one's views in the context of a campaign for a lower court were not protected speech, ibid.-the announce clause would not be narrowly tailored, since it applies to high- and low-court candidates alike. In fact, however, the judges of inferior courts often "make law," since the precedent of the highest court does not cover every situation, and not every case is reviewed. Justice Stevens has repeatedly expressed the view that a settled course of lower court opinions binds the highest court. See, e.g., Reves v. Ernst & Young, 494 U.S. 56, 74 (1990) (concurring opinion); McNally v. United States, 483 U.S. 350, 376--377 (1987) (dissenting opinion).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/28/antoni...

Sorry for the post, djchefron.
I didn't see your post until after I sent it (darn fingers).

Ed Schultz’s Psycho Talk
‘Conservatives have Empathy Problem”

*****Check out this Video of George HW Bush-1991
Announces his nominee Unca Clarence Thomas to the SC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/3096978...

Someone needs to tell the GOP we're in the 21st century!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Photos of President Obama as a college student are rare. But 21 of them are about to be shown publicly. They come from a collection of thirty-six photos taken by Lisa Jack, a fellow student at Occidental College, of Obama as a freshman.
In the photos, a few of which were published in Time Magazine, Obama wears a Panama hat and bomber jacket, smoking cigarettes.

Jack told the "Today Show" that she kept the collection in a safety deposit box through the election to avoid influencing the results, and she described the future president as "cute."
"I'm sure Hillary would have paid a fortune for them: 'Is this who you want picking up the phone at 3 a.m.?' " Jack said to the L.A. Times. "I could have made a boatload of money, probably, but I wanted to do it right."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/28/obama-...

He is too hot!

Woo Hoo! ;)

FROM THE KITCHEN TABLE
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Criminal Shadows

Melissa,

I hope you are enjoying your time away. I promise to take a much needed break at some point, but there is so much happening and I wanted to share some thoughts at the table.

I have gotten news about the premature deaths of two black men I know and admire; one attended my alma mater (Adam Henry '91) and the other was my former colleague who began his academic career with me in the same department (Aime Ellis). Both of these men were wonderful, warm, funny, and well-educated; excelling in their careers and in their relationships with families and friends. They will both be missed.

The lives of these two real black men stand in direct contrast to the fictional characters who apparently thrive on carjacking innocent victims. Reminiscent of the Susan Smith tragedy, another woman accused two black men of carjacking, abducting her and her daughter, and stuffing the two of them into the trunk of a Cadillac. This report triggered major news coverage as well as an Amber alert in our area. It turns out that the mother had stolen money and fled to Disney.

I want to talk about our national psyche, the means by which we, as a nation, criminalize black men from birth. It is no accident that either consciously or subconsciously, this woman from Pennsylvania choose two fictitious black male abductors as did her Southern counterpart, Susan Smith. One part of these stories is the anxiety and surveillance these individual accusations trigger; the other part of the story forces us to face our assumptions, stereotypes, and racist characterizations of blackness, and particularly of black manhood.

I am weary of watching our brothers, fathers, sons, husbands, friends being demonized as criminals or potential criminals. How much of our current criminal system represents a self-fulfilling prophecy? In other words, because we expect black men to become criminals, we treat young black boys as potential felons (through racial profiling and educational inequity), and then when some of them actually do commit crimes, we justify our own racist actions by saying: "I knew that they would be thugs all along."

Melissa, you and I both live in this same small town. As we walk along the main street, I cannot count how many times I have seen an almost life-sized mugshot of a black male face on the local paper, in a report about a crime that has taken place 10-15 miles from our own community. I have yet to see the full page mug-shot of a local white drunken college student who breaks into downtown property during his inebriated state, and that is a crime that occurs regularly in this college town. I have yet to see the full page mug-shot of the white restaurant owner who stole 1.4 million dollars from his investors...another case taking place in our town.

Those faces are "absent" from the criminal enterprise, an enterprise that we assume to be black/brown and male, and increasingly black/brown and female. Why is that? In light of a financial crisis in which shady mortgage lenders (of all races) have bilked people out of billions of dollars, and shady financial investors have straight-up stolen from people's pensions plans, why is the face of a criminal, the real or imagined thug who lurks in the shadows, always a face that looks like mine?

Yolanda

http://princetonprofs.blogspot.com/

LINEN CEO BEAT HIS MAID: COPS

The CEO of the nation's largest linen company went berserk and brutally beat his housemaid in his posh Upper East Side apartment -- leaving her with swelling on the brain, officials said.

George Bardwil, 57, who runs Bardwil Home, was charged with second degree assault in Sunday's savage attack that left the maid unconscious in a pool of blood.

The maid - who was only on her second day on the job - told police that when she arrived for work that afternoon, Bardwil opened the door and began pummeling her
Full Story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/05272009/news/regio...

This is truly crazy - another article on it

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/0...

wait -- the woman suffered a fracture to her skull and he got charged with "third degree" assault? that's all??? WTF?

The woman is damn near in a coma.....I wanna know why its not attempted murder. If you take a metal ashtray and smash it over the head of a woman that you've already been beating upside the head as she lays on the floor...is it not your intent to kill her?

But, but..... Val, the bastards on antidepressants for his depression. He couldn't help it if his wife left him and took his 3 kids.

The maid's life is not as valuable as the rich, depressed white guy.

The maid is in stable conditon, when she recovers, I hope she really CLEANS his LINEN for him.

Ok, so Sir George bashes his maid's head because he claims she stole money from him, after 2 days on the job. He possibly raped her as well, and is charged with second degree assault.


“Sources said Bardwil is on anti-depressant medication and is estranged from his first wife and three children. “

“Bardwil's younger brother, Charles, died in 1994 when the manager of a McDonald's in the East Village stabbed him in the chest in a fight after he had asked Bardwil to stop drinking beer outside the fast food restaurant.”

Seems to be a history of violent behavior in the privildeged Barwil family.

I hope the maid sues the living shit out of him. It would be nice to own the linen company instead making his bed with it.

I keep thinking of Michael Vick getting sent up the river for dog fighting and this muthafucker bashes his maid over the head and gets a second degree assaut charge.

Aint that some shit?? This man has damaged this woman for LIFE. Hell, he tried to kill her! And he is charged with third-degree assault (yes, THIRD degree).

The two stories list two different assault charges, but what really counts is this mofo tried to KILL this woman.

Spirit, please help me to understand something. This man is the CEO of a large corporation....why is this story only running in the NY Post, the NY Daily News and a small blurb in the NY Times?? Is this not worthy of national coverage?

Miranda, this rich white man bashed in his MAID's head.
the maid. What is her life and story worth to the MSM?

What is this woman's life worth? Is'nt she HUMAN? A blurb in the NY newspapers.

The MSM is corporate owned, and this white man own a large corporation. I, like you are waiting to hear coverage on National TV........

<<<<<<<<<<<<<CRICKETS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Hey....depending on the day if you give me some Oreo's I'll sing like a bird too.

No Torture Needed -- Cookies Did the Job

Fascinating piece coming in tomorrow's TIME magazine. Reporter Bobby Ghosh writes, “The most successful interrogation of an al-Qaeda operative by U.S. officials required no sleep deprivation, no slapping or ‘walling’ and no waterboarding. All it took to soften up Abu Jandal, who had been closer to Osama bin Laden than any other terrorist ever captured, was a handful of sugar-free cookies.”

Former interrogator/member of the FBI Ali Soufan, who testified to Congress last month, tells TIME: “He was a diabetic ... We had showed him respect, and we had done this nice thing for him .... So he started talking to us instead of giving us lectures.” Ghosh points out, “Defenders of the Bush program, most notably Cheney, say the use of waterboarding produced actionable intelligence that helped the U.S. disrupt terrorist plots. But the experiences of officials like Soufan suggest that the utility of torture is limited at best and counterproductive at worst.”

http://www.eandppub.com/2009/05/no-torture-need...

"C'mon, George...they're chocolate chip...and they're WARM..."
"They sure would go great with that cold glass of milk."
"All you have to do is tell us everything that Dick Cheney was involved in, from the energy task force, Haliburton, Valarie Plame, oh, and shooting that guy in the face."

Michelle and Barack Obama are one HOT couple!

Yes they are!

What role models for the country! Love Them!

I luv these intertubes LOL
Scalia, Alito Quotes Blunt Conservative Attacks On Sotomayor
What's odd about the body of opposition to Sonia Sotomayor is that it includes so many items that seem to have been previously deemed acceptable for Supreme Court Justices. Take the whole notion of Obama's appointee being a "judicial activist of the first order?" As you may have seen, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor once quipped:

The saw is that if you're going into academia, you're going to teach, or as Judge Lucero just said, public interest law, all of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people with court of appeals experience, because it is -- court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know -- and I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know.
But, as it turns out, Sotomayor needn't worry about talking about how policy is made at the appeals level on videotape. Why, some justices on the Supreme Court have said the same thing and baked it into their judicial decisions. Like, say, noted leftist jurist Antonin Scalia, who, in the majority opinion of 2002 case Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, wrote
Read More
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/28/antoni...

Another hilarious example showing the GOP still lacks a basic understanding of the Intertoobz.

Get Well Wishes For Our Sweet GreenLady! We Love You!

When You're Not Here


When you are ill,
our sun goes under a cloud.
Your presence in our lives
is such a bright joy
that everything seems in shadow
when you're not here.
When you aren't feeling well,
we feel the lack
of your glowing energy
and contagious vitality.
When you are sick
we feel incomplete,
like a jigsaw puzzle
with a missing piece;
Please rest,
take good care of yourself,
and feel better.
We miss you
and want you back.


Get well soon.


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By Joanna Fuchs

THE RIGHT CONTINUES ITS PROCESS OF TURNING INTO THE '60S LEFT, IN ALL THE MOST SELF-SABOTAGING WAYS

Rush Limbaugh got a lot of attention for calling Sonia Sotomayor a "reverse racist" (after which Newt Gingrich effectively said "ditto").

But Limbaugh went one better, or worse, yesterday -- he compared Republicans to brutalized and disempowered seekers of civil rights:

Conservatism is an oppressed minority today. The Republican Party is an oppressed minority.... When you're an oppressed minority, what do you do? You willingly go to the back of the bus and you willingly shut up and you willingly don't make waves. If ever a civil rights movement was needed in America, it is for the Republican Party. If ever we needed to start marching for freedom and constitutional rights, it's for the Republican Party. The Republican Party is today's oppressed minority, and it knows how to behave as one. It shuts up. It doesn't cross bridges; it doesn't run into the Bull Connors of the Democrat Party; it is afraid of the fire hoses and the dogs, it's compliant.

The Republican Party today has become totally complacent. They are an oppressed minority; they know their position; they know their place. They go to the back of the bus. They don't use the right restroom and the right drinking fountain, and they shut up....

Barack Obama thinks of himself as a member of an oppressed minority, but he's not taking it, he's fighting back. He's going to go so far as to desecrate the Constitution to address his grievances. The Republican Party, they've mastered it, they've got it down pat. Washington, DC, may as well be -- (interruption) what, Snerdley? Washington, DC, is the Old South for Republicans, if you want to draw the analogy....

(Audio below, via Media Matters.)

Republicans feel that they're the only legitimate Americans, so they feel entitled to all the power available; it's their due, as far as they're concerned -- even the power of being able to say you're from a group that's been oppressed. They're jealous of those they perceive as having that power.

And, beyond that, well, they're just turning into the '60s and '70s left, in ways that alienated a lot of people back in those days. They call Obama a "fascist." They get giddy holding big protests using live pigs as props. And now here's Limbaugh trying to appropriate black oppression, a tactic I certainly remember from my childhood:
http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/

rush...rush...rush...........has it come to this?

LMAO

Just pathetic, isn't it?

It truly is. BTW...I saw your comments on field negro's blog...I am right there with you about Crystal Magnum...i know in my heart something happened to her that night that was not of her will. I KNOW IT.

Miranda,

Vincent Clark stated that Crystal's mother suffered a stroke after all the stress. The hate-ful lacrosse supporters did those old people so bad. I'm still angry about it. They posted those old people's personal info on the web for all to see, called them ignorant, constantly asking questions and then run to the media to talk about it on TV everynight and laugh at them. It was too much for the old folks.

It's official: I don't care how nice the colors or who created the garment, the First Lady needs to put the patterns DOWN.

She's at her best in solid, saturated colors and she should always be at her best.

Leave these ridiculous patterns alone.

I think I see where she was going with this....abstract art, improvising, jazz, poetry...lol
I don't think the top was designed to be off-the-shoulder though. I agree that she looks great in strong colours.

I love the patterns on the First Lady. I think she, of all the First Lady would be the one who can wear these types of patterns.

The look is bold, modern and ethnic-chic.

co-signing. I loved it but would have paired it with red or black pants.

I'm a fan of bold, modern, and ethnic-chic.

But not this version.

LOL, I hear you, Craig. I think the blouse was appropriate for the
occasion, a bit artsy fartsy

"Poetry Jam."

Coates goes to town in this one.

From Ta-Nehisi Coates:

Especially The Blacks And The Latinos
28 May 2009 10:00 am

My former colleague Tim Padgett has an unfortunate and deeply problematic article on Sotamayor's effect on the relationship between blacks and Latinos, a subject that major media has never gotten a solid handle on, for reasons that are made clear in Padgett's lede:


Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court is a historic milestone for Latinos, but it resonates well beyond Hispanic pride. It is perhaps the most potent symbol yet of a 21st century rapprochement between the U.S.'s two largest minorities, Latino Americans and African Americans, who in the 20th century could be as violently distrustful of each other as blacks and whites were.


One must be clear about what constituted "violent" distrust "between" blacks and whites in the 20th century. It meant thousands of whites, in Atlanta, in 1906, assembling on the streets to randomly murder black people. In Springfield, Illinois, in 1908, it meant whites pillaging a Jewish businesses for arms, and then proceeding to the black side of town, attacking black business and black homes, and thousands of black people fleeing for their lives. It meant whites--across the nation--in 1910 assembling in mobs and murdering random black people (On the 4th of July!). The cause? Jack Johnson had the temerity to win the championship. It meant whites in East St. Louis, in 1918, perpetrating a pogrom against the city's black population, and killing over 100 black people because, "southern niggers need a lynching."

I have not known Latinos in the 20th Century to perpetrate a Red Summer. I have not known blacks to lynch Latino veterans, returning from war, in their uniforms. The fact is that there was no violent distrust between blacks and whites in the 20th century. Rather there was a one-sided war waged against black people by white terrorists, which government, in the best cases, failed to prevent, in many cases, stood idly by, and in the worst cases actually aided and abetted. I'm sorry but comparing that to whatever's happening between blacks and Latinos, is a slander against both those groups, and an amazingly naive take on the history of white America in regards to race.

The great problem with this whole Latino/Black divide story, is the undergirding idea that "the divide" even comes close to approaching the cluster-bomb of racist terrorism, government-sponsored wealth destruction, systemic discrimination which was visited on blacks in the 20th century. For nearly half that century, blacks in the South--on pain of death--were essentially forbidden from voting. Its amazingly self-serving to suggest that that evil even approaches anything that's happened between blacks and Latinos in this country. It also conveniently allays American discomfort, with an ugly, shameful past that we'd love to see go away.

Leaving aside the differences between how blacks relate to Puerto-Ricans in the Bronx, versus how they relate to Cuban-Americans in Florida, it is borderline delusional to pretend that some beef between some folks in L.A is the equivalent of Martin Luther King. Or even Rodney King. It isn't. And the fact that we can't tell the difference is still haunting us.


http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives...

Isn't this the same media that proclaimed that Latinos didn't like blacks and would never vote for Obama?

Spot on!

Some of these stupid, race-baiting reporters need to travel more, and understand that Latinos can be black folks as well. This information can easily be discovered via Google or wikipedia. It lists the racial makeup of every Spanish-speaking Caribbean and Latin American country.

C'mon they think Maria looks like Natalie Woods.

"This information can easily be discovered via Google or wikipedia"


Ahhhhhhh.....and therein lies the problem with what you propose....I don't think a lot of these reporters understand the concept of "research".

Todd Palin Offered Bristol A Car To Dump Levi
HufPo- May 27, 2009

In an yet-to-be released interview with GQ, Levi Johnston, the ex-boyfriend of teen mom Bristol Palin (and father to her son, Tripp) reveals even more details about the dynamics of his relationship with Bristol and her family.
Johnston told GQ that Todd Palin, on multiple occasions, offered to buy his daughter a car if she would break up him.
Since their split in March the two have separately given numerous media interviews, in which various divides have emerged. Johnston has declared that abstinence is unrealistic and been fairly frank in discussing the couple's love life. His family has also gone public with complaints that the Palins do not allow them enough contact with the baby. Bristol, on the other hand, after initially questioning abstinence has become an ardent campaigner for the cause but reluctant to discuss her own romantic past.
According to New York Magazine, who snagged a preview of the article, Johnston said he has no plans to get back together with Bristol.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/27/todd-p...

They should have offered her some birth control instead of that car.

LOL! Now she has a motel on wheels!

**dead**!!! lol

Thank You!

You read my mind....some birth control and condoms would have been a lot cheaper.

Monie, I have two little girls and all can keep thinking is how in the hell did they let that boy live in their home?

Exactly.

Where I'm from, the elders and my family call it "shackin up" and you can best believe my Mom never tolerated that.

Her motto: If your lover/mate and yourself aren't old enough or financially able to afford your OWN place, then the hell if you are laying and shackin up in mine.

She drilled that into my head so much that as a married woman, I STILL felt guilty about staying at her house during our family visits. (LOL)

Monie,

I understand exactly what your mom was saying.

Whew Lawd...with my parents....you'd better not even entertain the thought! It WASN'T gonna happen!

My daddy said any boy coming to see me best to be wearing a tie....you know damn well we weren't going in nobody's BEDroom...we'd have to be right in that living room with the DOOR OPEN! LMAO Courting time was 5 to 7pm on Sunday...after that you can hit me up by my locker at school! LOL!!!!

Miranda

BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA

My grandfather said the same things.? I shacked up and didn't tell a soul.? My mom was all like I knew he was living there, and I told her I didn't tell her so that she could have plausible deniablity if Daddy found out.
LOL

lol

THE ROOT Thursday, May 28, 2009

Why Can’t Black Women and White Women Talk to Each Other?
The snarky, multicultural cast of VH1’s Charm School shows some things never change.

It was clear from the moment Ricki Lake was introduced as the host of this season’s Charm School on VH1 that there was going to be ‘90s talk-show-type drama on the set. Lake, who always managed to bridge the high-low divide on her syndicated gabfest, is the perfect headmistress for a racially mixed cast of mostly black women from the show Real Chance of Love and white chicks from Rock of Love Bus.


Charm School is designed to reform bad-girl behavior through charitable acts, such as donating clothes, feeding the homeless and cleaning up the Los Angeles River. It also promises to be an interesting social experiment of the nature of relationships between black and white women.


This is an experiment that some of us have been having our whole lives. Women’s relationships are fraught in general, but race and ethnicity always throws some extra craziness into the mix. This season of Charm School is giving me flashbacks of my life in multicultural Miami. In both life and in art, it seems that we don’t know how to talk to each other.


By episode two of this season, the racial divides were already apparent. The white women constantly refer to the black women as “loud and obnoxious” and said they were “threatened and intimidated” by the sisters. One white cast member said she felt like she had been “dropped off in the ghetto.
Ouch.

Read on
http://www.theroot.com/views/why-can-t-black-wo...

Some days, I'd like to really, really hurt the people who create, produce, write, and air these "let's vilify / mock / denigrate black women" television shows....

Wow, VH1 and their sociology experiments.

ROFLMAO.......I'm truly amazed at how VH1 went from being MTV's mature older sibling to being the trashy loud cousin that embarrasses you to no end.

For all who want to send GreenLadyHere some good thoughts and wishes, here's her email addy:

greenladyhere12@yahoo.com

Latina Woman, Tongue-Tied Man

By Dana Milbank
Thursday, May 28, 2009
In her years on the bench, Sonia Sotomayor has produced millions of words. Opponents of her Supreme Court nomination are particularly interested in 32 of them:
"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," she said in a 2001 speech.

Fox News anchors and guests began to rail about the sentiment an hour before President Obama announced the nomination on Tuesday: "Reverse racism. . . . Revolutionary, radical. . . . Completely counter to the notion that justice should be blind."
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich joined the chorus. "A white man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw," he wrote on his blog. "Latina woman racist should also withdraw."
Yesterday afternoon, the matter spilled into the White House briefing room. "Are you familiar with Newt Gingrich's blog?" asked CBS News's Chip Reid.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs smiled at the very notion. "I am not, no," he said.

Reid told Gibbs of Gingrich's proposal for Sotomayor to withdraw, and the presidential spokesman responded with a warning for Gingrich and "anybody involved in this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which they've decided to describe different aspects of this impending confirmation."

Gibbs proceeded to work his way through the various White House talking points on the nominee: "Federal judicial experience that exceeds any nominee for 100 years. Strict adherence to precedent. . . . Common sense and open-minded decisions. . . . Keen intellect." As for Sotomayor's critics, the spokesman taunted, "I'm not sure what number they graduated in their class at Princeton, but my sense is it's not second."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

http://www.blackvoices.com/blogs/2009/05/28/wom... Good perspective on this mess.

I wish a brother would kidnap me and take me to disney land. LOL Cause I need a vacation.

kidnap you and your kids cause I am sure your girls would love to a ride on the teacups too. Don't forget -- also equip you with $314,000 in spending money lol

And you know it.? Ms. Rory is partial to alladins carpet ride.

Here's another reason to love Justice-to-be Sonia Sotomayor...

LATimes: At Yale, Sotomayor won apology from Law Firm
In 1978, she complained of bias during her job interview process. And a university panel backed her stance.

While interviewing for jobs during her final year of school, she accused the firm, then known as Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, of discriminating against her by asking questions about the qualifications of Puerto Ricans and other minorities.

Sotomayor's complaint caused a campus furor. A student-faculty panel found the complaint warranted and ordered Shaw Pittman to write her a letter of apology.

The complaint resulted from a dinner conversation between Sotomayor and a Shaw Pittman partner, Martin Krall. According to news reports at the time, Krall asked her whether she would have been admitted to law school if she were not Puerto Rican and whether law firms did a disservice by hiring minority students with inferior credentials and then firing them a few years later.

The law school threatened to bar the firm from recruiting from its talent-rich pool of students, an associate dean at the school, James W. Zirkle, said then.


So, Sister Sonia was like, "No you didn't just ask me that question! Who you think you fucking wit? We'll shutdown your whole "white-shoe, cracka-scum operation" on DIS'Here campus...No YALE LAW Students (Black, WHite, Or Latino) for you jerks!"

Gotta Love Sonia, Gotta Love Yale 4 Backing Her Up--I hope she kept that Spirit and starts showering it all over Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Skullia.

Sonia Sotomayor is not going to take any shit off of any of these crackas, none of them.

Seriously. No doubt she's dismissed fools like this throughout her career, only difference now is it will be on camera.

I can't wait.

And no doubt she'll deliver with style, grace, and hold these men to a highter standard of excellence just as President Obama is doing.

Ferengi Rules of Acquisition:

#48 The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/index.php?title=Fere...

Pat Buchanan is trying to pump up the racist republicans by saying they have to stand for something! He want the republicans to oppose this affirmative action pick!

Saaaaaaa>>>>lap!

MSNBC likes it when he rants like that. Why else would they continue to give him a platform?

Let him and the rest of them keep ranting.We will laugh all the way to the ballot box in 2010 and 2012.

None of 'em! Homegirl don't play.

JJP/Rikyrah,

Do you have contact info where we can send GreenLady a get-well card?

Everyone please come together & lift up our GreenLady in prayer!

Pray for healing!

Didn't you pray for Tyson's daughter?

I can only click "like" or "report". Where is the "I totally hate this fucking comment" option? Or, "that was such an asshole thing to say" option?

If you were trying to bait somebody, it worked. You are an asshole.

Coming from someone like the Dalai Llama, or someone like that, "asshole" MIGHT be an insult. However, from you carolinagirl, it is a spine-tingling, nipple-hardening compliment.

Did you get my email?

I did because the word says always to pray. So I do.

I can seek God for physical healing but sometimes God has other plans. In the Tyson case...he did.

Who knows what God might do. So we pray.

If the little girl had survived, would you have attributed that to the power of prayer?

Also Justice, I am a rather confrontational person....not cowardly in any wise, which I think stems from a sense of freedom which comes with age. You seem to want me to know that you and the "church lady-office girls" are talking about me via private email. I presume this is to make me uncomfortable somehow...a kind of clumsy psychological warfare.

I notice that several of you, seemingly always the same people, make a point of "liking" the comments of those who respond unfavourably to my comments....the presumption being that I care what strangers think of me...and that your displeasure will wound me.

I am not sure how old you all are, but it is the type of behaviour seen on middle school playgrounds everywhere. All this I find a little amusing...and revealing. It confirms my feelings about "church ladies" and the "elect of Christ"..as it were. They are often nasty, snide, childish, petulant, jealous, silly, gossipy, ignorant...shall I go on?
Here we have, piety expressed in one instance(Tyson's daughter), and cruelty in another.

Clearly, your prayers are worth naught.

Yet, you do great justice to the god of Abraham...who has much blood on his hands.

I imagine that you will also be hyper-sensitive, and howl victimization for that last sentence bolded above, playing the persecuted Christian. That's because you are probably unable to take a dose of your own medicine(psychological warfare), from a Master.

Shut up, and take it like a man.

This is why I have to pray always and seek forgiveness from my God & Savior Jesus Christ.
Don't think you know me from a messageboard. Please don't get it twisted.

Oh dear...have I misjudged you???!!!!

It is either your prayer is ineffective; or, your god doesn't exist; or, your god caused the death of a little girl; or, your poor character prevented your god from saving a little girl's life based on your prayerful appeals.

See how good I am at this psychological warfare stuff?

You slap, I stab.

Now, buzz off.

Have you completely lost your damn mind? Was that even necessary? Damn, catch fire...if you're this completely empty, catch muthaphucking fire.

You are far too "into" me, and what I say, for your own good, Miranda. And it is funny that you think you are credible as to what constitutes sanity.

"catch muthaphucking fire."

Is that your version of prayer? No doubt, it will be as effective a Justice's was.

Very interesting to see the people who responded, and the tone of their responses... Always the same usernames...always the snide comments...Christians, I presume?

LOL...its funny you think anyone takes you seriously. You're lonely and bitter, and that's a shame, but no worries, its a message board! You can be as bitter and anal as you wanna be! That's the beauty of it all, but don't think you're dropping science...come'on...you know better right? Its not obvious by now that you're simply tolerated because hey, its a MESSAGE BOARD! The only reason I'm even engaging you right now is because I'm bored. I'm on my way to see Star Trek in a few and just passing time until my friends get here. But you, in your "deepness", please keep believing you're riling up the masses and being this thought-provoking mystical creature straight outta Narnia. Whatever helps you make it through the day doll! whatever helps you make it through your day! LOL

LOL!

I concur! Have fun seeing Star Trek! I'm heading out to my granddaughter's birthday party. Haley is 4 today. Woo Hoo!

Oh how cute! You have a fun too!

Hey!...what are you doing back here so fast?

So, you concur with madness. You had the opportunity to say to me everything that she said, yet you did not. Do not be a coward, Justice.

Also, be careful in your eagerness in opposing one person, you end up "co-signing" stupidity.

Even your love of Christ cannot make you resist the urge to be of poor character.

..I take it you're no longer Christians anymore? Or, maybe you're caught Christians?

Ahh..see how good that feels to purge?

Hmmm...that's some rather grandiose stuff you project onto me there...:
"thought-provoking"
"mystical creature"

Is that what you really think of me, Miranda?

Go ahead, let it all out, you silly cow. You are stark raving bonkers...

Why am I talking like a Brit?

I pray for her every day and miss her voice, wit and generosity of spirit. if you write, please let her know that i too (among so many others) am sending love and light.

Will do Zackboston!


We love her! **Tears**

Why does every other day CNN have a new article up trying to make us understand why people are snapping over their financial situations?

Insights On Why People 'Snap' and Kill

Story Highlights
Schizophrenia, brain tumors, seizures, alcohol and drug abuse are risk factors
Other warning signs include feelings of hopelessness and shame
If warning signs are strong, the person should be taken to emergency room
Even 48 to 72 hours of treatment for psychosis reduces the risk of violence

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/26/snap.momen...

Because the majority of the People who are snapping and killing are WHITE, that's why. Of course folks of all ethnicities engage in alcohol and drugs to cope. We already know that, because some of us do it.

This statement says it all:

"It's striking when you talk to people who have done things like this, how they're really preoccupied with their own feeling and have in their mind stopped thinking of the other person as real full human being," he said."

Remind you of any folks? Serial killers who are WHITE. Racist, bigoted folks who don't view Blacks or other POC as humans. The White priviledged & entitled who are preoccupied with their own feelings, wants, and desires above all else.

When they find themselves in the same boat as other folks, they don't have the coping skills to survive. When someone would rather kill themselves rather than be poor is very telling and oh so sad.


"Why some people snap and others don't is still a mystery, experts say."

This one's a no brainer, it is NOT a mystery.

Some people's survival and coping skills have been stretched beyond the average limits, and they manage to survive and thrive, i.e., Black folk's Preserverance against slavery, lynchings, jim crow, you know institutional, systematic, racism.

CNN is so transparent. They are trying to lay the groundwork of alibis and excuses for all the so-called snap-crazy white folks who jump, hang, and shoot themselves.

You are on the money.

Good morning JJP fam. I was watching CBS this morning, and they were already building old girls sympathy defense. "She must have been having a hard time financially." "She must have been having problems in her marriage...."

Tell it to Pookie and Ray-Ray in the Big House.

Let them tell it pookie and ray ray like jail. They get three hots and a cot. They got it good on the inside.

I just read this, did they mention post-partem depression as one of her "defenses?"

"This case put Sweeten's family, friends and the entire Philadelphia region on an emotional roller coaster. Her husband, Richard Sweeten, made an emotional plea to his wife Wednesday afternoon.

"I don't know what’s going on, Bon, but here's your daughter…she misses you," said Sweeten, with a rocky voice while holding his youngest daughter, 8-month old Faith, up to a TV camera. "You have a ton of support. Whatever kind of trouble you're in, whatever's going on everybody will come together and help you out. I'm here for you. We have a brand-new daughter who needs her Mom. Please come home and turn yourself in and don't do anything stupid."

They haven't mentioned it, but I am sure they haven't ruled using that one out either.

May 28, 2009 Here's Hufpo's updated version with video

PHILADELPHIA (AP)- A Philadelphia-area woman says she gave her ID to a former co-worker to fix office paperwork without knowing of her plans to fake her abduction and fly with her daughter to Florida.
Jillian Jenkinson said Thursday on CBS' "The Early Show" that Bonnie Sweeten's request to use her identification to fix a discrepancy on her 401(k) "seemed innocent."

Jenkinson says she had worked with Sweeten for nine years, but didn't specify where they had worked together.
Sweeten and her 9-year-old daughter were taken into custody Wednesday night at an Orlando hotel.
In frantic 911 calls on Tuesday, Sweeten said she and her daughter had been abducted by two men in broad daylight and claimed she was stuffed into the trunk of a car.

NO MENTION OF BLACK men, just TWO MEN. We see you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/28/bonnie...




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/28/obama-...

Why no mentioning of 2 BLACK men?


We See you mofos!

No, Justice. Mentioning the fake Black men is totally irrelevant now, since they already starting to mount a defense of sympathy for postpartum deppression.

You know she's delusional and all, so they might want to save that black men line for court. "I thought I saw 2 black men kidnapping me and the kid." SMH!

Something that's getting lost in the shuffle is how she was able to get on a plane using someone else's ID. Just another example of what a massive joke airport security is, they ain't fooling anybody with 3 oz. liquid and take off your shoes nonsense.

Hey now!

If it were a person of color, there would be a very invasive cavity search (security officer's whole arm up POC's ass, up to the shoulder)...

I know that's right. In the first couple of years after 9/11 I was on a few dozen flights, and about 95% of the time I was pulled over for "random" searches. Came down to this:

Black woman + traveling solo = terrorist or drug mule

Like I said, they ain't fooling anybody.

riiight, Ms. Kitty.

I mentioned on the other post that in this post 9/11 world we live in, in which we have been told to be suspicious of everything, including the air we breathe....I just wonder will there be any further questioning about this "so-called" harmless case of ID theft/fraud.

who the hell does Jenkinson think she's fooling with the bullshit excuse of lending her ID to fix Sweeten's 401K account?

I watched that crap this morning as I was doing Ms. Rory's hair.? I so wanted to smack her dumbass friend.? Why couldn't she have just given her her license number.? In this era of all in one printers, she could have just given her a copy.? Old girl better hope she doesn't get someone that thinks like me questioning her.... cause if she does she has seen a bad day.

Oh......so its the standard "depression" defense? umph......I thought they'd get more creative than that.

Now Miranda her story wasn't remotely close to being creative...... so the defense of her is not even shocking.

Well...I be damn!

Ain't that a bitch?

They said nothing about how she falsely accused to black men. Didn't hear a peep about it.

They View covered that. Whoopi is tired. And she also explained there are certain crimes we don't commit and taking someone else's kids is one of them. We spend enough with our own, our friends and our families. We don't need more kids.

I live in L.A. and was listening to the news this morning and the anchor; a brotha, didn't mention it either. I was taken back by it.

If it was some of other crime committed by a black man....his picture and "he's a black man" would have been said 5 times.

The updated version is leaving out the "fake" abductors race but damn if MSNBC didn't report the woman & child were abducted by 2 black men!

And MSNBC continued with it until the case began to fall apart.


Funny... when things start falling the hell apart then....oops...lets stop saying it was "black" men!

But of course.? It is disgusting, disturbing, and disheartening.

sommamabitches!! I knew it...

Isonprize,

I posted an updated article last night over at Field Negro and noticed the race of fake abductors were left out! A damn shame!

Yeahhh....I had a helluva time finding anything that mentioned "black men" - mention was made of a "black Cadillac."

See - yu'll was just confused. There was no black men, there was a black Cadillac. Those men coulda been ANY color, doncha know.

Oops we didn't blame no black people.

Media tries out Jedi Mind Trick:

"These aren't the black men you're not looking for"

We see them!

Why Obama’s Court Pick is Already a Winner
Posted on May 28, 2009
By Joe Conason
Choosing Sonia Sotomayor as his first nominee to the United States Supreme Court will allow Barack Obama to prove three important things. As a politician, he is not afraid of a fight. As a constitutional lawyer, he is willing and able to defend his conception of that living document. And as president, he is prepared to brush aside the phony consensus of Washington’s gossipy elite.

When battle commences over the nomination of Sotomayor, a judge currently serving on New York’s Second Circuit federal appeals court and a woman with working-class Puerto Rican roots in the Bronx, the president should welcome it, because he cannot lose politically. If he wins, as he almost certainly will, then he will have earned the gratitude of Hispanic voters across the country for putting their “first” on the nation’s highest bench. If somehow he loses to a Republican filibuster, then those same voters will surely inflict their wrath on his adversaries.

Having chosen an affirmative-action candidate to chair the Republican National Committee (and another, years ago, to occupy a seat on the Supreme Court), GOP leaders could probably find a way to permit Sotomayor to ascend without mounting bitter, racially divisive opposition. A Republican president, George Herbert Walker Bush, originally nominated her to the federal bench, with support from the two New York senators at the time, hard-line conservative Alfonse D’Amato and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, no doctrinaire liberal. Among the conservatives who voted to seat her on the Second Circuit was Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, without significant opposition.

But the same impulses that have long driven the Republican Party toward ethnic polarization and immigrant-bashing seem certain to infect its opposition to her—in ways that can only benefit the Democrats and Mr. Obama in elections to come.

According to the conservative groups that will drive right-wing reaction to the Sotomayor choice, she is a “liberal activist.” Even if that were true, it is fair to ask why Obama should not exercise the same prerogative that allowed George W. Bush to choose justices who reflected his perspective. After all, she is considerably more moderate in her thinking and practice than Chief Justice John Roberts—and less “activist” than he has been so far, as outlined in a recent profile of the chief justice in The New Yorker.

The buzzword that the right has seized upon in seeking to discredit Obama’s choice is “empathy,” because the president said he hoped to select nominees who would display that quality in their jurisprudence. Of course, conservatives invoke the same emotional responses when they complain about judicial decisions they dislike—such as the Kelo case decided by the Supreme Court several years ago, when blue-collar families lost their homes to the city of New London, Conn., for an economic development project. Furious free-marketeers who felt that the justices in the majority had failed to empathize with local property owners demanded that local governments condemn their homes and hand them over to private developers.

Rather than empathy or practicality, according to the hard right, judges are supposed to reflect the “original intent” of the authors of the Constitution. Whatever their intent may have been, however, it certainly was not to perpetuate 18th-century laws and institutions on people living 300 years later. Otherwise the Founders would not have been geniuses but idiots who differed very little from the monarchs and despots they overthrew. Perhaps the president will have a chance to articulate a modern understanding of the Constitution and the intention of the founders during the struggle to confirm Ms. Sotomayor.

Finally, by choosing Sotomayor, the president demonstrated his disdain for the obnoxious whispering campaign against her that began in a dubious article in The New Republic, migrated to the National Review web site (which pronounced her “dumb and obnoxious”) and predictably found its way onto the pages of The Washington Post. Only weeks ago, the participants in that campaign were congratulating themselves for killing her nomination. Thankfully Obama ignored the decree of the capital’s gossips and made up his own mind. Let this occasion be the first of many.
Joe Conason writes for the New York Observer.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090528_wh...

Try as I might, I haven't been able to get a sense of how Judge Sotomayor's nomination -- and the blatant racism that followed -- is playing out in the Latino blogosphere.

Do you speak and read Spanish? The Spanish papers in NYC are estastic!

Maybe Mexicans don't give a shit about Puerto Ricans?

I'm still waiting for the Latinos to show up on my tv screen. I've seen 2. Now, granted, I pretty much only watch MSNBC. But, I thought I'd see more.

Don't be shocked when these "news" programs have Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony on as the official representation of the latino community.

ED had on Rep Sanchez. I'm thinking Linda? I cannot remember and I fucking hate that! I can see her face. Now I don't want during the day 'cuz, ya know, I'm working :)) - but the only person I've seen is on The Ed Show.

http://dos-centavos.blogspot.com/

http://lauramartinez.wordpress.com/

I am hoping that we are not seeing some dirty little secret playing out.... the whole racism against certain types of latinos.

And would that be the Latinos with a consistent percentage of African DNA?

I wish it were not so Ronnie B.? But that may be 100% correct.

Good Morning.Your Thursday cut.Enjoy
Stevie Wonder - Do I Do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6f6BOKXXxg

Thanks dj

You rock!