Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Saturday May 30, 2009 7:00amSouth Florida Lawyers: Did you know that if you graduated summa from Princeton and were EIC of the Yale Law Review, that makes you "intellectually mediocre"? On race, SCOTUSblog examines the record and says it's "absurd to say that Judge Sotomayor allows race to infect her decisionmaking."
Liberal Values: Top "no sh*t" story: Cheney lied about torture saving lives
The Agonist: Pakistani Ambassador Haqqani is telling the BBC that The Pakistani government is going all in against the Taliban
rubber hose: That Obama isn't backing down on the Israeli settlement issue is surprising, but what's really surprising is that key pro-Israel allies in Congress have been largely reinforcing the Obama team's message to Netanyahu.
onegoodmove: Some great links...
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Cheney lies about everything.
When he chopped down the cherry tree, he told his mom, "I cannot tell the truth, I didn't do it!"
But even if he did, which he didn't, it would have been for the well being of the tree - to protect it from a future terrorist tree-insect attack.
No, actually what he told his mom was, When he chopped down the cherry tree was, "I cannot tell the truth, dad did it!"
What happened between Dick and the cherry tree is confidential, executive privileged.
But I think reality has bitten, they finally realize that home is #1, or at least until the MSM and public forgets.
globalresearch.ca is suffering from 'problems' at the moment.
Some form of DDOS attack, too many connections etc, SQL database resetting and the website itself going down periodically.
Please please please!!!
I pray that AP, Time, and any/all of the dinosaur news sources start
charging for online content.
1. Pick up shovel
2. Dig hole
3. Deeper
4. Deeper
5. One more
6. That's it
7. OK now hand me the shovel
8. Lay down
9. Close your eyes
10. CYA!!!
What else could you say about a leader that runs his newspapers into the ground through falling circulations. You can't blame the people who are not buying the newspapers anymore.
What else happens when you get rid of your experienced staff, hire kids to replace them, and don't do proper journalism anymore, just merely copy paste gov PR leaflets and parrot words from anon officials.
We still subscribe to our local "Catholic" weekly. The Review had a lengthy article on Judge Sotomayor that came down in her favor. It was a nice surprise.
Initially it was kind of shocking, considering this paper is edited by a very right wing editor, and we just finished suffering under the heel of Archbishop Burke, (the jerk). I expected to find a screed about how she was a baby killer or sympathizer with baby killers...etc.
Nope, all positive.
One interesting little tid bit that I found in the article. If Sotomayor is appointed to SCOTUS, she will be the SIXTH Catholic currently serving. I find this a little disconcerting, frankly.
Any thoughts?
that there should be SIX "observant" (that is, church-militant) fucking mackerel snappers sitting in judgment on the mores and norms of a SECULAR state.
Fuck the Opus Dei-ists!!!!
Your wee-wee will fall off.
by your use of the term "Mackerel Snappers"..I couldn't agree with you more.
(It's okay, It is kind of a funny term, and I'm a big girl.)
Here's a funny term for you, vagina dentata.
other than being fun to say?
Look it up; it may be tangential, although I saw it as a simile to snapping mackarel, although it is fun to say too.
Wasn't sure why you used it.
My doctors best testing all seemed to say I was right-brained, and tend not to think in a linear fashion, but in a patternistic manner.
It doesn't always make sense, even to me, until I think about it.
Funny thing though, when I come to a point in my right-brained manner it seems to come outside of myself, and I experience what may be called something of a mini-orgasm, but without having to change my clothes.
Anita Hill for Supreme Court!
I'd like to see someone who has no professed faith at all, frankly.
(Full disclosure...I go to church and keep my faith private usually...I just found this an interesting little dichotomy that has popped up.)
I wouldn't mind that ether. Because what you call keeping your faith private in office is referred to as no professed faith.
mcgramps picked palin, because he hated that part of running for that very reason, and some said it hurt Kerry as well. We knew his religion, but he prefered to talk about trivialities like the Constitution.
I am a very serious believer in seperation of church and state.
I'm also a very serious believer in keeping your faith to your self, under most circumstances.
As stated above, I subscribe to this paper, I found this article in it this week, and I found it interesting that there wasn't a more negative slant, considering the source, and the mention at the end that there would be SIX Catholic Members on SCOTUS, if Sotomayor is appointed. I wish I could get the article to link here..but I either can't make it work, or it can't be done. You do have to be a subscriber to see the entire article.
This does present a problem for me, personally. I like her for the most part, but I have issue with so many of the same professed faith being on SCOTUS.
Interesting choice of words, believe.
I saw a documentary on PBS a few years ago, that one of the first groups to use the term seperation of Church and State extensively, were those in the 19th century supportive of the Protestant nature of public education, and against using tax money to give to Catholic and Jewish interests who wanted to start their own private schools, because they were tired of being called superstitious papists and Christ-killers in the classrooms.
Sounds interesting.
In history a lot of things flip flop and meanings and opinions change. It's always good to know where things come from, and not to assume you know it all.
I don't know everything yet, but I'm looking into having a chip installed.
I hope you're not talking about My Three Sons.
Make mine chocolate.
Or at least potato in HP sauce.
Well it does come from the Establishment Clause, although not in so many words, although Jefferson used it at least once in a letter
Thomas, not George.
That's refered to as the study of Hermeneutics.
I presume it comes from the Greek God Hermes (Roman Mercury), messenger of the Gods.
Although I prefer Hermes Trismegestus.
about the privacy of faith:
"Treat your faith like your genitals: keep 'em zipped til somebody asks."
Shouldn't that be dickto, woody?
n/t
I'm not crazy about that lopsided Catholic "diversity" either, although Sotomayor seems pretty solid so far. I'm not yet familiar with her views on religion, abortion, or how the former informs the latter. With the conservative appointments, I believe the idea was that conservative administrations could find candidates opposed to Roe v. Wade who appeared fairly respectably and mainstream.
Booman and Papamoka could both use a little help...
And I contribute more here than either of them...
Link to my blog through my sig, and send money. Any amount will help.
Tis' a good thing our government suppressed the photos, seeing as they had pornography on them and everything.
Our country has a high moral standard and no doubt the indignation at our behavior may have been too much to bear as a nation.
I feel better knowing our troops are safer now. Don't you?
Since this hasn't been noted in the blog roundup this week:
http://snafu-ed.blogspot.com/2009/05/paper-ru...
You have to wonder why the rightwing think they can get away with this.
Good for Leahy, but CNN is still reporting the Pelosi story while leaving out the many holes in the CIA account.
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