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Hello all you wonderful people. I have no news for you other than I am somewhat inexplicably tired. But talk amongst yourselves.

And it’s still a great time to wash your hands. And an even greater time to get vaccinated if you haven’t yet or boosted if you’re eligible.

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  1. 1

    I’d understand if the donor was Cuomosexual G-clown, ’cause it wouldn’t be The Wuhan I’d be afraid the kid might be infected with if a transplant occurred.

    9-Year-Old Boy Denied Kidney Transplant Because Donor Dad Isn’t Vaccinated

    But this seems rather silly.

  2. 2

    Seems like his dad could save his son’s life by getting vaccinated as well as giving a kidney

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    KBJ is a fantastic pick!

    First ever public defender, one of only a few career defenders and advocates for the accused. A much needed perspective not available from most other prospective nominees.

    Now watch the white nationalist flying monkeys go to work.
    The “hot take” driven media ecosystem will eventually drive some of them into expressions of unhinged bigotry. They can’t help it.

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    KBJ nom also ably demonstrates Biden’s commitment to the substance of diversity – and not merely to the symbolism.
    Her’s will be a legal perspective informed by a lifetime of important and relevant professional experience, as well as personal experience, unknown to the other eight.

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    @ 4

    The “hot take” driven media ecosystem will eventually drive some of them into expressions of unhinged bigotry.

    We are a nation of 330,000,000 people. There will always be “some” of anything and everything. “Some” Democrats have also expressed unhinged bigotry. Lately, even.

    If the Jackson nomination becomes a kerfluffle, it will be because of an emerging concern that Jackson’s vote would be 49-50 in favor before the least competent Veep since Dan Quayle weighs in with hers, while Childs’ support is clarified at 53-55, or possibly significantly more, were she to be substituted.

    There’s really no bigotry in wanting to substitute one black woman for another, especially if it requires calling Manchin a bigot because he came out in support of Childs, and ends up not supporting Jackson.

    Agree that the public defender perspective might prove useful.

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    @ 5

    Her’s will be a legal perspective informed by a lifetime of important and relevant professional experience, as well as personal experience, unknown to the other eight.

    Here’s where you lose me. Any of the “other eight” born in a third-world country, and brought to the US by immigrant parents?
    I’ll grant that being a black woman might mean that Jackson’s personal experience differs from Thomas’ personal experience, but it’s not like Thomas had it easy growing up in the ’50’s and ’60s in Georgia.

    Srinivasan, too, had a personal experience very different from that of the other justices, even QoS McHillbilly would have to concede.

    Stick with pushing Jackson’s public defender perspective, QoS McHillbilly. It’s a bipartisan, smart choice.

    And there’s no apostrophe in your use of “Hers”. There never is.

    Grammar Tip – Hers Versus Her’s
    Barb’s question: “I was in a store recently and saw two signs: ‘his’ and ‘her’s.’ Is this correct?”

    BizWritingTip response: We have all been taught to use an apostrophe to show possession. However, as I keep saying, there is always an exception to every rule. And, in this case, it relates to personal pronouns.

    The following personal pronouns never require an apostrophe to show possession because they are already possessive: my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, their, theirs and whose.

    Examples (correct)
    The proposal is his. The business plan is hers.
    My passport arrived ten days ago, so she should get hers this week.
    Our two cars look alike so it’s hard to tell ours from theirs.

    Note: Her’s is never correct.

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    Personal experience:

    I was also blessed from my early days to have had a supportive and loving family. My mother and father, who have been married for 54 years, are at their home in Florida right now and I know that they could not be more proud.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/politics/supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson/index.html

    Two-parent household. Father an attorney, mother a public school administrator.

    A native Washingtonian, Jackson moved to Florida as a young child with her parents, graduates of historically Black colleges and universities who worked as public schoolteachers. Her father then went to law school, eventually becoming the chief attorney for the Miami-Dade County School Board. Her mother became an administrator and served as the principal at a public magnet school for 14 years.

    https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/02/profile-of-a-potential-nominee-ketanji-brown-jackson/

    Hey, know who else grew up in a two-parent household with an attorney father and a public school teacher mother?

    Brett Kavanaugh.

    https://www.biography.com/law-figure/brett-kavanaugh

    OK, OK. Kavanaugh’s mom didn’t end her career as a public school teacher. But still.

    Personal experience. Supportive, loving, stable homes are important, and the successes enjoyed by AJ Kavanaugh and by AJ nominee Brown Jackson clearly reflect that. Of course, that’s not the personal experience Clarence Thomas had:

    His father left him, his older sister, and his mother two years later. His mother struggled to make ends meet as a single working mother, especially after giving birth to another son after Thomas’ father left. After a fire left his family homeless, Thomas was sent to live with his maternal grandfather.

    https://www.oyez.org/justices/clarence_thomas

    QoS McHillbilly, stick with the public defender perspective. It’s the wise choice.

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    If the Jackson nomination becomes a kerfluffle, it will be because

    “Madame President, I rise today to vote in opposition to this nominee because there’s another one I’d rather you choose instead.”

    TFW advise and consent becomes “I demand that I make the choice for you.”

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    8,
    Degen Bob’s cri de coeur on behalf of “Shithole people from shithole countries” “The Noble Immigrant Backbone of ‘Murica!”…

    …and grammar!

    I honestly can’t tell which is the more precious.

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    @ 10

    Used to be that a withheld blue slip conveyed the same message, silently.

    The outcome of advise and consent can be conveyed silently, as when Clinton and Hatch met, or publicly.

    QoS Hillbilly, this is not news to you.

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    Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination may become the second time Joe Biden has hung a black woman out to dry before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

    Yes, I did a double-take on “hung”. Decided to leave it, as it goes nicely with Thomas’ decision to employ “lynching”, also before Joe Biden’s Judiciary Committee.

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    @ 11

    …which is the more precious.

    I believe the beret you wore when crafting that spew is the most precious of all, QoS McHillbilly.

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    For reference
    2003 to 2005: Assistant special counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission
    2005 to 2007: Public defender
    2007 to 2010: Worked as a appellate litigator
    2010 to 2014: Vice chair US sentencing commission
    2013 to 2021: Judge on the DC District Court
    2021 to 2022: Appeals judge on the DC District Court

    ACB had 3 years experience as a judge when she was nominated to the SCOTUS and the greedy racist incel said ACB was qualified to be a Supreme Court Judge.

    What were the posts he made about Srinivasan in reference to ACB?

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    @15,

    “boofing”, beer binges and….

    heh.. whatever..

    Hey now. Degenerate America deserves to see their identity and life experiences represented in the makeup of the Court too.

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    18,
    Srinivasan has powerful “Noble Immigrant” juju. /s

    Which used to be the worst thing in the world when an “exotic” Black guy born in Hawaii with an immigrant father was running for president.

    Degen Bob and Every Republican You Know are suddenly in favor of OPEN BORDERS for at least the next few weeks.

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    @ 18

    Her qualifications are not an issue.

    Neither were Robert Bork’s.

    I’d be just fine with an AJ Brown Jackson.

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    @ 20

    Lemme know when Sri Srinivasan files candidacy for President.

    I might have something to say then.

  23. 23

    @7 “We are a nation of 330,000,000 people. There will always be ‘some’ of anything and everything.”

    That’s why God gave America islands to stash people like you on.

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    @ 15

    I see that our resident unserious twat feels that a stable home life may not guarantee the best behavior.

    She’s right, of course. Some opportunities arise later in life. Why, one might have to bide one’s time even until, say, elected governor of Arkansas, before one can successfully get away with raping a woman.

  26. 26

    @13 Thomas was “lynched” (figuratively) if he was innocent. If he wasn’t, it was Anita Hill who was (figuratively) lynched (for a second time).

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    @18 The best measure of a justice’s qualifications is what they do after they’re on the Supreme Court bench.

  29. 29

    Moscow hotel joke du jour:

    Q: What’s the difference between a chickpea and a lentil?

    A: Donald Trump never had a lentil on his face.

  30. 30

    @21 Bork’s qualifications were very much in issue after doing what Elliott Richardson and Bill Ruckelshaus, two far better men than he, refused to do. Helping Nixon cover up the Watergate scandal by firing Archibald Cox was quite properly treated by the Senate (including several Republicans) as disqualifying.

  31. 31

    The Dow is up, what, 835 points today? I keep tellin’ ya, doc, this is a dip not a correction. As I remarked yesterday, you’re full of shit.

  32. 32

    I think bork would have been an awful judge given his views. What do you admire about the man?

    “Bork was a circuit judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1982 to 1988. ”

    A hotly contested United States Senate debate over Bork’s nomination ensued, concerned with Bork’s perceived willingness to make abortion illegal, limit right to privacy, roll back civil rights rulings and his opposition to the federal government’s right to impose standards of voting fairness upon the states.
    Bork was criticized for being an “advocate of disproportionate powers for the executive branch of Government, almost executive supremacy

    On October 23, 1987, the full Senate rejected Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court by a vote of 58–42.
    52 Democrats and six Republicans voted against. The proportion of votes against Bork remains the third-largest against any Supreme Court nominee on record,
    The others were in 1811 and 1845.
    (The seat Bork was nominated to eventually went to Judge Anthony Kennedy, who was unanimously approved by the Senate, 97–0.)

  35. 35

    We ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.

    President Biden’s approval rating has hit a new low of 38 percent, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey released exclusively to The Hill on Friday.

    Just wait until after the midterms, when decimated Democrats know he won’t be running again and will feel free to deservedly blame First Vegetable Joe Biden for his senility, dismissiveness, and incompetence.

    What’s more, 54% said he’s not fulfilling his campaign promises, and 52% said he has done more to divide the country than unite it, despite uniting the country being a pillar of Biden’s 2020 presidential run.

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    @35

    Speaking of campaign promises not kept, remind us again of how that wall on the southern US border went? Did we ever get a check from Mexico for payment?

  37. 37

    4 hour wait for the ferry from the Mukilteo terminal. Never seen a wait that long before.

  38. 38

    More than anything, and what most disqualified Robert Bork was his judicial temperament. He eagerly adopted a prefigured opinion about every single issue of consequence that might come before him. And he was entirely unwilling to entertain with any degree of respect any of the arguments presented if they did not already agree with his biases, prejudices, and prior conclusions. The temperament of a skilled and vigorous advocate is not always the temperament of a good judge. Regardless of how his opinions were preordained, they were. Such people on an appellate court do serious harm to the rule of law and to citizen’s faith in their legal system.

    An arrogant and supremely petty man. I think there is very little doubt that he agreed to carry out Nixon’s orders to obstruct justice because he hoped to help Nixon survive the investigation and put him on the Court. Bork’s claims that Ruckleshouse and Richardson “begged” him to remain at DOJ were self serving bullshit.

  39. 39

    The polls, they have spoken.

    CDC Discovers New Masking Science Right in Time for Biden’s State of the Union

    Now that Democrat governors are falling all over themselves to end mask mandates in their states, the brave CDC has figured out a way to massage the data to make it seem OK.

    What a fucking clown show.

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    @ 38

    Of the three who The Federalist Society auditioned for the High Court, only Scalia made it.

    Bork did it to himself, I agree. And Posner proved insufficiently “conservative”.

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    And Posner proved insufficiently “conservative”.

    Honestly a little surprised Degen Bob didn’t say this about Bork. Given Bob’s strident defense of white nationalist ghost gun sport murders and Machine-Guns-for-Babies.

    As claimants to “texturalism” I have ten times more respect for Bork’s avowed views than for Scalia’s lying hypocritical record.

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    Ukranians need only take one look at First Vegetable Joe Biden to appreciate the strength and courage of their own leader.

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    Only 33% of US adults approve of First Vegetable Joe Biden’s handling of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, according to the WaPo/ABC News poll just released.

    I guess that “minor incursion” Biden was willing to permit didn’t do him any favors.

    Bob Gates was oh-so-right about Biden.

  50. 50

    @49 And what do you think Biden should have been “willing to permit”? Thousands of Americans returning home in body bags?
    Russian tactical nuclear missiles hitting NATO bases in Germany, France, and U.K.? Or a sellout of Ukraine to Moscow, without a shot being fired?

    Let us know what you have in mind. Be specific. Let us know what you want our leader to be,

    [ ] a madman fidgeting with the nuclear trigger, or
    [ ] a surrender monkey

    It has to be one or the other, because the in-between space is already occupied — by Biden.

    As I’ve been saying, you’re full of shit. And, clearly, about more than just the stock market.

  52. 52

    This time I disagree with the Ukrainians. They argue Russia should be removed from the U.N. Security Council.

    https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ukraine-s-u-n-ambassador-calls-russia-s-veto-question-n1289826

    Apart from their nuclear arsenal, we’ve done the same thing they’ve done — i.e., wage an optional war under false pretenses, and lying about it — and if they’re kicked off the Security Council for that, the same thing could happen to us the next time we get stuck with a Republican president.

  53. 53

    I’m OK with this.

    Zane Sparling
    @PDXzane
    ·
    6h
    Chandler Pappas bear sprayed 6 police officers in an attempt to breach the Oregon State Capitol in 2020

    Prosecutors called him the ringleader of an “attempted occupation”

    Pappas asked for the presumptive sentence — probation

    A judge sentenced him to 13 months in state prison

  55. 55

    @53 I’m okay with it, too, and also with ex-Rep. Nearman getting expelled from the legislature for breaching the door for those assholes.

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