Sonia Sotomayor
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JimJimmyJames
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And vulcanized...live long and prosperSpock-ster
Hehe, I knew somebody would throw that out there!
And vulcanized...live long and prosper
Damn, Diesel you beat me to it!
JoeVser
Active Member
I agree,Jim,and I can talk from personal experience. I am a "2 strikes" white male and was vicitimized by affirmative action back in the late 70's,early 80's. It took my 9 VERY long years to finally become a police officer only to be told numerous times..This test is for minorities only..When I was finally hired, I worked with many minority police officers and they were great cops. Affirmative action actually hurts minorities in my opinion.
In many agenecies,I would be 1-2 steps of being hired only to be told,the "list" expired hence minorities go ahead of me. It was infuriating and made me look at minority police and firemen and think he got the job because of his race etc. I am against affirmative action because all it does is exacerbate racism.
Judge Sotomayor's rise to her judgeship is a great story,the American Dream,if you will. But how many other qualified candidates were passed over to have "racial equality?"
We don't need someone like this to be on the Supreme Court that can empathise with people. We need someone to interpret the law not have a good feeeeeeeling about it.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Actually neither ... Balkanization is referencing a previous post and the other words are the returned candidates when I mis-spelled it since Balkanization is not actually a word.
But I do remember Jim, Jimmy and James Casey.
JimJimmyJames
Big Time Feeder Driver
It is a word! Or at least it is derived from one:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/balkanization
Hehe, what I learned from that is for me to never poke fun at another Jim, Jimmy, or James with you around! And especially if I am making a reference to homosexuality at the same time, lol!
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/balkanization
But I do remember Jim, Jimmy and James Casey.
Hehe, what I learned from that is for me to never poke fun at another Jim, Jimmy, or James with you around
! And especially if I am making a reference to homosexuality at the same time, lol!
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pickup
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Exactly JamesJiminyJim. Its like the case of George W. bush, the guy was born on third and thought he hit a triple. And when it was time to steal home, he got plenty of help from the suppposedly non arbitrary umpires.
wkmac
Well-Known Member
In 2006' Gary Galles, Economics Professor at Pepperdine University wrote a piece entitled "The Antifederalist Were Right" which centered around the late 1780's debate on the then new US Constitution. In this piece by Galles, he makes some interesting observations about the new idea of a Supreme Court as expressed by Brutus who was a New York judge and delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
As the public "interview" of Justice Sotomayer (I think it's a done deal according to republican Lindsey Graham) continues, the 220 year concerns of Brutus IMO ring true today and yet is as forgotten as the sands of time themselves.
Also in Galles piece is a link to the actual 1787' piece written by Brutus (Judge Robert Yates) if you want to read it yourself and I'll also include it here.
As the public "interview" of Justice Sotomayer (I think it's a done deal according to republican Lindsey Graham) continues, the 220 year concerns of Brutus IMO ring true today and yet is as forgotten as the sands of time themselves.
Also in Galles piece is a link to the actual 1787' piece written by Brutus (Judge Robert Yates) if you want to read it yourself and I'll also include it here.
If I remember correctly, she divorced her husband back in the early 80's and has not remarried.
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