Read her lectures and then tell me she’s qualified. She’s not qualified now. Besides, she doesn’t ever do her own legal research and she’s had her decisions overturned over 60% of the time. But that’s OK with the morons who voted for Barry HusseinOrama. Fasten your seat belts idiots, your country is falling away under your feet. We won’t forget it in 2010 either. Dolts.
You are so right. But …we keep reading anyway. I think they know it may increase our readership and participation, in actuality. There’s no easy way to know how many people get so put off that they just quit reading, or how many are spurred to see what next round of ridiculousness has been spewed and needs to be countered.
I appreciate an occasional moment to blow off some steam, which can’t be blown at the public. Well, not if we want to keep the client or earn the business.
No matter how you slice it or dice it or rationalize it, she’s not smart; she’s at least an ethnocentrist, if not an outright racist; she’s a socialistic, far leftist, out-of-the-mainstream political hack who wants to control every aspect of everyone’s life.
Bottom Line: She’s a threat to our personal and economic freedoms.
She’s bad news for all Americans and her nomination should never go to a vote before the full Senate. Her nomination should die in the Judiciary Committee. This would save many moderate to slightly-conservative Democrats the uneasiness of either voting against their party (if they vote against her nomination) or voting against the wishes of their constituencies (if they vote for her nomination).
“Out of Context”: Part II Thomas Sowell
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
As the mainstream media circles the wagons around Judge Sonia Sotomayor, to protect her from the consequences of her own words and deeds, its main arguments are distractions from the issue at hand. A CNN reporter, for example, got all worked up because Rush Limbaugh had used the word “racist” to describe the judge’s words.
Since it has been repeated like a mantra that Judge Sotomayor’s words have been “taken out of context,” let us look at Rush Limbaugh in context. The cold fact is that Rush Limbaugh has not been nominated to sit on the highest court in the land, with a lifetime appointment, to have the lives and liberties of 300 million Americans in his hands.
Whatever you may think about his choice of words, those words and the ideas behind them do not change the law of the land. The words and actions of Supreme Court justices do. Anyone who doesn’t like what Rush Limbaugh says can simply turn off the radio or change the station. But you cannot escape the consequences of Supreme Court decisions. Nor will your children or grandchildren.
What does it say about a nominee to the Supreme Court that the most that her defenders can say in her defense is that her critics used words that her defenders don’t like?
What does it say about her qualifications to be on the Supreme Court when her supporters’ biggest talking points are that she had to struggle to rise in the world?
Bonnie and Clyde had to struggle. Al Capone had to struggle. The only President of the United States who was forced to resign for his misdeeds– Richard Nixon– had to struggle. For that matter, Adolf Hitler had to struggle! There is no evidence that struggle automatically makes you a better person.
Sometimes, instead of making you appreciative of a society in which someone born at the bottom can rise to the top, it leaves you embittered that you had to spend years struggling, and resentful of those who were born into circumstances where the easy way to the top was open to them.
Much in the past of Sonia Sotomayor, and of the president who nominated her, suggests such resentments. Both have a history of connections with people who promoted resentments against American society. La Raza (“the race”) was Judge Sotomayor’s Jeremiah Wright. If context is important, then look at that context.
Sonia Sotomayor has, in both her words and in her decision as a judge to dismiss out of hand the appeal of white firefighters who had been discriminated against, betrayed a racism that is no less racism because it is directed against different people than the old racism of the past.
The code word for the new racism is “diversity.” The Constitution of the United States says nothing about diversity and the Constitution is what a judge is supposed to pay attention to, not the prevailing buzzwords of the times.
What the Constitution says is “equal protection of the laws” for all Americans– and that is not taken out of context. People have put their lives on the line to make those words a reality. Now all of that is to be made to vanish into thin air by saying the magic word “diversity.”
The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, like the Constitution, proclaimed equal rights for all, not special rights for those for whom judges have “empathy.”
When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was being debated in Congress, its opponents claimed that it would lead to discrimination against white people. Its supporters declared that it meant no such thing and added new provisions to make sure that it meant no such thing. That was the law that was passed.
It was not the law, but the judges, who changed equal rights into special rights and thereby set the stage for the new mantra of “diversity” that trumps equal rights. Diversity was Judge Sotomayor’s rationale for going along with the denial of equal rights for white firefighters in Connecticut.
When all else fails, supporters of Judge Sotomayor say that she is Hispanic and a woman, and that it would be politically dangerous to deny her a place on the Supreme Court. This is as much an insult to the intelligence of Hispanic and female voters as it is to the Constitution of the United States and to those who put their lives on the line for equal rights.
That column IS good stuff! Right on point, but unfortunately I fear it will fall upon deaf ears of the majority in Congress today …even if the majority of the constituents agree.
MONEY has made our politicians Deaf, Blind and Dumb. The crafty ones with sinister motives are achieving their treasonous agenda through the ignorance of their constituents. They are promised reward, special treatment and power but will learn that what they have already gained will be all that they receive. Their own treason will gain them nothing but death at the hands of the one who made the promise.
These folks are not the liberals but are apart of the Eastern movement to take over this country and claim our natural resources that they desperately want to control.
WAKE UP. North Korea will clear the path for the ones who will wait.
North Korea and other rogue countries, gangs and organizations will cause the death and destruction. But China will come to collect. Russia will agree to claim the North. The Muslims will submit. The Christians will be silenced.
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Read her lectures and then tell me she’s qualified. She’s not qualified now. Besides, she doesn’t ever do her own legal research and she’s had her decisions overturned over 60% of the time. But that’s OK with the morons who voted for Barry HusseinOrama. Fasten your seat belts idiots, your country is falling away under your feet. We won’t forget it in 2010 either. Dolts.
If Harry Reid supports her, then she’s got to be a lib hack.
David – how would you word it then? I guess I don’t understand what’s wrong with printing a quote or expressing in his own words.
Nor,
I wouldn’t call it journalism. I would call it an advertisement. More accurately, it would be called false advertisement.
Insurance Journal never fails to amaze me. It seems never to target its audience.
Ann,
You are so right. But …we keep reading anyway. I think they know it may increase our readership and participation, in actuality. There’s no easy way to know how many people get so put off that they just quit reading, or how many are spurred to see what next round of ridiculousness has been spewed and needs to be countered.
I appreciate an occasional moment to blow off some steam, which can’t be blown at the public. Well, not if we want to keep the client or earn the business.
Anyway…
No matter how you slice it or dice it or rationalize it, she’s not smart; she’s at least an ethnocentrist, if not an outright racist; she’s a socialistic, far leftist, out-of-the-mainstream political hack who wants to control every aspect of everyone’s life.
Bottom Line: She’s a threat to our personal and economic freedoms.
She’s bad news for all Americans and her nomination should never go to a vote before the full Senate. Her nomination should die in the Judiciary Committee. This would save many moderate to slightly-conservative Democrats the uneasiness of either voting against their party (if they vote against her nomination) or voting against the wishes of their constituencies (if they vote for her nomination).
This is great stuff:
“Out of Context”: Part II Thomas Sowell
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
As the mainstream media circles the wagons around Judge Sonia Sotomayor, to protect her from the consequences of her own words and deeds, its main arguments are distractions from the issue at hand. A CNN reporter, for example, got all worked up because Rush Limbaugh had used the word “racist” to describe the judge’s words.
Since it has been repeated like a mantra that Judge Sotomayor’s words have been “taken out of context,” let us look at Rush Limbaugh in context. The cold fact is that Rush Limbaugh has not been nominated to sit on the highest court in the land, with a lifetime appointment, to have the lives and liberties of 300 million Americans in his hands.
Whatever you may think about his choice of words, those words and the ideas behind them do not change the law of the land. The words and actions of Supreme Court justices do. Anyone who doesn’t like what Rush Limbaugh says can simply turn off the radio or change the station. But you cannot escape the consequences of Supreme Court decisions. Nor will your children or grandchildren.
What does it say about a nominee to the Supreme Court that the most that her defenders can say in her defense is that her critics used words that her defenders don’t like?
What does it say about her qualifications to be on the Supreme Court when her supporters’ biggest talking points are that she had to struggle to rise in the world?
Bonnie and Clyde had to struggle. Al Capone had to struggle. The only President of the United States who was forced to resign for his misdeeds– Richard Nixon– had to struggle. For that matter, Adolf Hitler had to struggle! There is no evidence that struggle automatically makes you a better person.
Sometimes, instead of making you appreciative of a society in which someone born at the bottom can rise to the top, it leaves you embittered that you had to spend years struggling, and resentful of those who were born into circumstances where the easy way to the top was open to them.
Much in the past of Sonia Sotomayor, and of the president who nominated her, suggests such resentments. Both have a history of connections with people who promoted resentments against American society. La Raza (“the race”) was Judge Sotomayor’s Jeremiah Wright. If context is important, then look at that context.
Sonia Sotomayor has, in both her words and in her decision as a judge to dismiss out of hand the appeal of white firefighters who had been discriminated against, betrayed a racism that is no less racism because it is directed against different people than the old racism of the past.
The code word for the new racism is “diversity.” The Constitution of the United States says nothing about diversity and the Constitution is what a judge is supposed to pay attention to, not the prevailing buzzwords of the times.
What the Constitution says is “equal protection of the laws” for all Americans– and that is not taken out of context. People have put their lives on the line to make those words a reality. Now all of that is to be made to vanish into thin air by saying the magic word “diversity.”
The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, like the Constitution, proclaimed equal rights for all, not special rights for those for whom judges have “empathy.”
When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was being debated in Congress, its opponents claimed that it would lead to discrimination against white people. Its supporters declared that it meant no such thing and added new provisions to make sure that it meant no such thing. That was the law that was passed.
It was not the law, but the judges, who changed equal rights into special rights and thereby set the stage for the new mantra of “diversity” that trumps equal rights. Diversity was Judge Sotomayor’s rationale for going along with the denial of equal rights for white firefighters in Connecticut.
When all else fails, supporters of Judge Sotomayor say that she is Hispanic and a woman, and that it would be politically dangerous to deny her a place on the Supreme Court. This is as much an insult to the intelligence of Hispanic and female voters as it is to the Constitution of the United States and to those who put their lives on the line for equal rights.
That column IS good stuff! Right on point, but unfortunately I fear it will fall upon deaf ears of the majority in Congress today …even if the majority of the constituents agree.
She will judge according to common sense. This makes her none other then a well rounded, intelligent human being.
MONEY has made our politicians Deaf, Blind and Dumb. The crafty ones with sinister motives are achieving their treasonous agenda through the ignorance of their constituents. They are promised reward, special treatment and power but will learn that what they have already gained will be all that they receive. Their own treason will gain them nothing but death at the hands of the one who made the promise.
These folks are not the liberals but are apart of the Eastern movement to take over this country and claim our natural resources that they desperately want to control.
WAKE UP. North Korea will clear the path for the ones who will wait.
North Korea and other rogue countries, gangs and organizations will cause the death and destruction. But China will come to collect. Russia will agree to claim the North. The Muslims will submit. The Christians will be silenced.