On a more sobering note.
WASHINGTON — Supporters of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor are quietly targeting the Connecticut firefighter who’s at the center of Sotomayor’s most controversial ruling.On the eve of Sotomayor’s Senate confirmation hearing, her advocates have been urging journalists to scrutinize what one called the “troubled and litigious work history” of firefighter Frank Ricci. [...]
On Friday, citing in an e-mail “Frank Ricci’s troubled and litigious work history,” the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way [a George Soros funded leftist group ... ed.] drew reporters’ attention to Ricci’s past. Other advocates for Sotomayor have discreetly urged journalists to pursue similar story lines. [...]
No People for the American Way officials could be reached Friday to speak on the record about the press campaign. [...]
“Sotomayor and her panel colleagues were bound by long-standing precedent and federal law,” People for the American Way executive vice president Marge Baker said in a June statement. “They applied the law without regard to their personal views.”
Last month, however, the Supreme Court overturned the 2nd Circuit by 5-4.
“Once . . . employers have made clear their selection criteria, they may not then invalidate the test results, thus upsetting an employee’s legitimate expectation not to be judged on the basis of race,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority.
With his awards for bravery, some 17 years of fire department service and history of overcoming dyslexia, Ricci has become a compelling human character in the Sotomayor confirmation drama. Senate Republicans have summoned him, along with Lt. Ben Vargas of the New Haven Fire Department, as two of their 14 witnesses next week.
(h/t Bob Reed via email)
Comment by Cranky-d & Associates on 7/11 @ 12:38 pm #
The progressives are heavily invested in the politics of personal destruction? Get outta here!
Comment by I Callahan on 7/11 @ 12:38 pm #
Gee, I thought the “politics of personal destruction” was the sole purview of the Republicans? At least, that’s what Clinton said.
Comment by I Callahan on 7/11 @ 12:39 pm #
It looks like Cranky & I are on the same wavelength…
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/11 @ 12:48 pm #
Love that photoshop job Darleen; and Che would be proud of Sonya too, I think…
It truly makes me want to go “postal” hearing that Soros through all of his various “activist” groups are overtly courting the media to go after Ricci, and try and paint him as litigious…
This from the same crowd that files harrassing ethics complaints against the likes of Palin, and proudly mau-maus into submission any that will not comply with their totalitarian, statist, groupthink, C ideology, and vision for an America of equal outcome…
Sotomayor has the “misfortune” of actually leaving a paper trail; too bad she wasn’t from Chicago, where such things disappear “conveniently”. But that same trail points to some inconvient truths about her personal beliefs, her past associations, and some stubborn facts regarding her history. And it doesn’t help her that in the law business, you write opinions, so those words don’t float away in the breeze, nor are they as easily walked back, as quotations of spoken statements…
No, as we used to say, “Her Battleship mouth has gotten her into a jam that her rowboat ass can’t back up”. And it doesn’t look like the MSM was going to come riding to the rescue like they did when Obama did the same vis-a-vis “Joe the Plumber”, an embarrasing moment for the press corps, the corrupt Ohio government officials who participated in Joe’s destruction, and our nation as a whole…
And now it look like the Soros machine would like to see the same thing Happen to Frank Ricci. They better tread lightly if they take the bait, because the public won’t as easily buy that same act twice…
Best Wishes
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/11 @ 12:54 pm #
Clinton raised the politics of personal destruction to a high art! And the nutroots essentially did post-graduate work on it during the Booooosh! years; further refining the technique of making the political, personal…
But they will be the first to cry foul. Just like the racialist hypocrisy of identity politics and multi-culturalism is simply a cover under which the greatest race-baiters and racists operate…
Comment by ushie on 7/11 @ 1:01 pm #
Huh. And here I thought the SUPREME COURT of the US had the last word in that catfight. Why doesn’t Soros and his band of jiss-smuggling yes-men go after the 9?
Comment by Cranky-d & Associates on 7/11 @ 1:04 pm #
You are ALL going to end up the rehabilitation camps, you know.
See you there!
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/11 @ 1:11 pm #
We’ll save you a nice bunk cranky-d!
Comment by Old Dad on 7/11 @ 1:23 pm #
Gee, attacking a hero fireman with dyslexia….
Bigots, is there anythiing they don’t know?
Comment by Joe on 7/11 @ 1:57 pm #
This is a terrible strategy for supporters of Sonya Sotomayor because it will back fire on them. Firefighters are not easy to paint as bad guys.
Personally, I hope Sotomayor gets confirmed. Not because I like her, far from it, her decisions are a mess and disaster–but she is better than the alternatives in the wings (the most likely being Diane Woods). Obama has a lock on the process and barring a complete meltdown he is going to get his nominee confirmed.
The GOP needs to be careful not to make Sotomayor a Hispanic nominee getting grilled–the fact she is Puerto Rican is not an issue and in fact Sotomayor is far more self made than Obama is. While Sotomayor is not a cutting edge legal intellect, she grew up in project in the Bronx to parents who came from Puerto Rico, did get good grades in Catholic parochial schools, was encouraged by the nuns to go to Princeton where she did well, etc. Her legal opinions are flawed and wrong, but she is not a fool. The GOP needs to use these hearings to show what Sotomayor is all about (and show what Obama is all about and why he picked her).
Comment by meya on 7/11 @ 2:14 pm #
What’s the point of having Ricci testify again? What’s he going to tell us about Sotomayor?
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/11 @ 2:21 pm #
What’s the point of having Ricci testify again? What’s he going to tell us about Sotomayor?
Interesting time to question the time-honored tradition of pointless witnesses in Washington. Why don’t you join the ranks of the non-mendoucheous and ponder why teh leftards are gearing up to attack a pointless witness? He isn’t even a plumber!
Comment by SDN on 7/11 @ 2:26 pm #
Actually, the MSM didn’t come riding to the rescue; Joe the Plumber was smart enough to make himself so visible they couldn’t ignore him even though they wanted to. And that only worked because it was an election year.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/11 @ 2:28 pm #
Joe,
The Supreme Court of the US just determined that she violated precedent, most likely Bakke-though I haven’t read the decision, both by assenting to race being the only factor in personell decisions as well as the fear that the municipality would be mau-maued by community groups.
She does have a good story, though I would hazard so do many of us here amongst the PW commentariat. Does a “good story” make each of us qualified as SCOTUS justices? Does a belief in minority exceptionalism, one that would disqualify her immediately if she were white, automatically qualify her for SCOTUS? The Democrats didn’t seem to fear any Hispanic backlash when they pulled their usual tactics on Gonzales and Estrada; did they suffer as a result if this? If Roberts belonged to any organization analogous to “La Raza” would he be sitting on the court right now? Boooooosh! had control of the process for 3/4 of his term, yet many of his appointments never even recieved a vote!
Many of the preceeding questions were rhetorical, and I’m not getting down on you personally Joe. I just feel that the RethugliKKKanz shouldn’t fear any hispanic backlash, as they can’t expect to get that vote in the first place; a much greater test is to come anyway when Obama brings up an amnesty provision. The hearings should be be excruciatingly thorough, and no questionable element of her past left un-examined publicly, so that not only does the public realize what they’re getting in Sotomayor, but so that Obama’s ideological beliefs, and political calculus of race, be better exposed to public scrutiny, since he has proffered her as mainstream and middle of the road…
I realize much more overtly partisan nominees are in the wings. But if Sotomayor essentially gets a free pass, how much easier will it be to portray them as “just a bit left” of her, when the next retirement comes…
Comment by meya on 7/11 @ 2:54 pm #
“Interesting time to question the time-honored tradition of pointless witnesses in Washington. ”
Oh you think this is “pointless”?
Comment by Joe on 7/11 @ 2:54 pm #
I agree with what you say Bob, and I am not suggesting she get a free pass. She should be grilled in a manner that is professional but very tough.
But Senate votes are votes, and the Dems have plenty. The reality is the GOP will ultimately lose this fight (even if the GOP managed to derail Sotomayor, it would likely alienate Hispanics and Obama would nominate Diane Wood who is smarter, and even worse on policy). If I thought the back up alternatives were better than Sotomayor, then I would say go for it, but they are not, they are worse.
Comment by Joe on 7/11 @ 2:55 pm #
I 100% agree with you on this: The hearings should be be excruciatingly thorough, and no questionable element of her past left un-examined publicly, so that not only does the public realize what they’re getting in Sotomayor, but so that Obama’s ideological beliefs, and political calculus of race, be better exposed to public scrutiny, since he has proffered her as mainstream and middle of the road…
Comment by RD on 7/11 @ 3:09 pm #
Oh dear. Why, oh why, does the Republican Party hate strong, outspoken career women?
They surely must be pathologically misogynist. Or something.
Comment by 24AheadDotCom on 7/11 @ 3:10 pm #
The picture isn’t the smartest thing in the world, now is it? She’s Puerto Rican not Cuban, and the whole “Obama is a Communist” thing didn’t work out too well, now did it? Let me suggest looking into whether she has links to interesting folks and ideas in the same way that, for instance, LuisGutierrez does. That would be a public service, as long as it’s completely fact-based.
Also, I don’t exactly see a plan to push back against those who’ll be pushing PFAW’s line; perhaps coming up with one might be a good idea.
Comment by Rusty on 7/11 @ 3:11 pm #
#15
15.Comment by meya on 7/11 @ 2:54 pm #
Oh you think this is “pointless”?
There ya go. Workin’ without tools again.
can’t have a dog and pony show without a dog,………………….or a pony.
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 3:15 pm #
What’s the point of having Ricci testify again?
Power, SFAG. Raw political power.
What’s he going to tell us about Sotomayor?
That she’s a racist?
What do I win?
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/11 @ 3:22 pm #
24Ahead,
There is essentially no pushback available at PFAW, Mr. Soros and zealous progressives write the checks to fund them, and they are completely on board with getting Sotomayor confirmed, “by any means necessary”…
I assume you were alluding to your strategy of a letter writing campaign. I suugest that will come to pass if and when they attempt to slime Ricci with the “litigious” label…
As for Obama’s underlying communism? The more the public becomes dissatisfied with him, his policies, and administration the whole communist thing will be able to be recycled; and this time it will have more traction, since he will have demonstrated what could only be alluded to and speculated in advance…
Good luck with your site…
Comment by Darleen on 7/11 @ 3:23 pm #
She’s Puerto Rican not Cuban
:::snicker::: neither was Ernesto Guevara Lynch.
Comment by RD on 7/11 @ 3:25 pm #
My two prediction for these hearings:
1) Fastest confirmation, ever.
2) Most pointless, histrionic and prolonged tantrum by a minority party, ever.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/11 @ 3:28 pm #
Oh dear. Why, oh why, does RD consistenty repeat worn out meme’s and stale left wing tropes..?
RD surely must be a pathological propagandist or professional malcontent. Or something…
So how does Axelrod pay you guys anyway, by the comment, word, or stroke…
My guess is the last…
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/11 @ 3:32 pm #
“ Most pointless, histrionic and prolonged tantrum by a minority party, ever.”
No RD,
I think you’re reliving one of the 23 times Boooooosh! & the RethugliKKKanz tried to reign in Fannie/Freddie, and increase financial regulations, in an attempt to hed off the eventual collapse of the housing bubble…
Or perhaps the Roberts or Alito hearings…
Comment by B Moe on 7/11 @ 3:35 pm #
Both sides are plenty capable in the politics of personal destruction, and while I don’t much care for it, that isn’t what bothers me about this. This is what is going to kill us:
…and scrutinize they will. While the fired IGs story, and all the other bullshit this administration is pulling, will just fade into the rear view.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/11 @ 3:35 pm #
Well gang, I gotta go for now, social calendar and all…
But, much like MacArthur, I shall return…
Just, you know, much later
Peace-out, yo!
Comment by Dash Rendar on 7/11 @ 3:35 pm #
Even though Sonya is a swamp wench, I hope she gets confirmed after a long and painful discovery process, what with getting a liberal either way. Alito and Roberts will tear her to rhetorical shreds every time without fail, then share a subdued fistbump afterwards.
Comment by B Moe on 7/11 @ 3:36 pm #
Thick as a fucking brick.
Comment by Carin on 7/11 @ 3:40 pm #
Oh dear. Why, oh why, does the Republican Party hate strong, outspoken career women?
They surely must be pathologically misogynist. Or something.
Sarah Palin. You assholes have forever lost your street cred to call US misogynist.
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/11 @ 3:41 pm #
Oh you think this is “pointless”?
I think your manner of trolling is pointless. Long before you got your University of Phoenix law degree congressional committees were soliciting testimony for all manner of reasons ranging from a direct bearing on a nominee to tangential theater. So yes, it is “pointless” if I take the cue of a disingenuous twit who asks what “we’re” going to learn about Sotomayor by having him testify again. But that is a separate matter from whether or not it is pointless with regard to the actual “purpose” of having him testify. Do you understand now? Can the grown-ups go back to the actual post about a bunch of lefties setting up to attack a fireman for telling the truth?
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/11 @ 3:48 pm #
Can the grown-ups go back to the actual post about a bunch of lefties setting up to attack a fireman for telling the truth?
Well, no, Abe, the whole point of these trolls is to deflect from the character assassination of the witness. Oh, and that U of P crack was perfect. I’m saving that one for later.
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/11 @ 4:02 pm #
Oh so he WONT be testifying about expanding the ADA? See Abe, SBP has your explanation.
You truly are your own sub-species. Mendacius Indefatigablus.
Comment by B Moe on 7/11 @ 4:04 pm #
He is on FIRE!
Please be careful before someone gets hurt!
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 4:17 pm #
See Abe, SBP has your explanation.
Welcome to the world you made, SFAG.
You’ve made it clear that you’ll stop at nothing, if it leads to power.
You’re going to learn that others can play that game, and play it much better than a pig-ignorant amateur fascist like yourself.
Enjoy!
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 4:17 pm #
Gee, I must have missed the FOX News reports detailing the crack efforts of the Bush Team to fight off the nefarious efforts of ACORN to destroy the housing industry back in the day.
Hint: that would be because you’re stupid.
Hope that helps!
Comment by RD on 7/11 @ 4:30 pm #
I still think it’s hilarious that wingnuts spent millions attempting to take Hillary down, and then supported her by proxy in the Democratic presidential primaries.
All of this after regularly accusing her of being a serial killer and calling her daughter the “the White House dog”.
The Alaskan Quitbull got off easy.
Comment by B Moe on 7/11 @ 4:34 pm #
Quiet! He is on a roll.
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 4:35 pm #
RD,
Your superior intellect, debating skills, and rapier wit have convinced of the error of my ways. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/11 @ 4:37 pm #
Yeah, me too. I’m tearing up my RNC membership right now! And I’m going to start respecting strong career women! Thanks, RD!
Comment by Old Dad on 7/11 @ 4:40 pm #
I’m no expert on trolls, but I gotta hand it to old thor. Sure, his comments are mostly stupid and nasty, but at least you get the vague impression that he’s probably…lonely in the basement, and just wants friends.
RD is just a nasty pissy baby…as trolls go.
Back in the day, there were manly (and womanly), vicious, funny, smart trolls. Oh well, it’s Obamaland now. Even trolls are devalued.
Comment by ushie on 7/11 @ 4:40 pm #
Gosh. I am so mistaken. It isn’t Meya who says, “Gee, I haven’t been stupid today. I’d better go post something at PW,” it’s this RD creature. Again, I say, “Awww, that’s so cute. It knows how to type and everything!”
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 4:41 pm #
I’m in such awe of RD’s abilities I can’t even type, or it could be the scotch. I’m thinking it’s the scotch, but I eagerly await the next pearl of wisdom from RD.
Dance monkey, dance!
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/11 @ 4:41 pm #
Recitar! Mentre preso dal delirio,
non so più quel che dico,
e quel che faccio!
Eppur è d’uopo, sforzati!
Bah! sei tu forse un uom?
Tu se’ Pagliaccio!
Vesti la giubba,
e la faccia infarina.
La gente paga, e rider vuole qua.
E se Arlecchin t’invola Colombina,
ridi, Pagliaccio, e ognun applaudirà!
Tramuta in lazzi lo spasmo ed il pianto
in una smorfia il singhiozzo e ‘l dolor, Ah!
Ridi, Pagliaccio,
sul tuo amore infranto!
Ridi del duol, che t’avvelena il cor!
Comment by B Moe on 7/11 @ 4:42 pm #
Honestly, it is not often one of these characters comes up with anything new. Hillary is a serial killer is a new one on me.
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 4:43 pm #
SW,
Is that Austrian?
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/11 @ 4:44 pm #
No Big D, it’s Pagliacci. RD reminds me of nothing so much as the clown.
Comment by RD on 7/11 @ 4:49 pm #
SFAG? Actually, that’s a nice change of pace over your usual “liar” Tourettes.
But not by much.
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 4:49 pm #
I know, SW. I was making a small joke at the expense of O!
I denounce myself.
Oh, but here’s one:
Q: How many Obamas does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Meya: That’s not funny!
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/11 @ 4:51 pm #
Scuza, Big D. I’d better go to bed. Ciao.
Comment by sdferr on 7/11 @ 4:54 pm #
Stuart Taylor’s narrative of the 2nd circuit’s “summary judgement” and the small chance that the case made it to the SCOTUS. h/t Insty
Comment by newrouter on 7/11 @ 4:57 pm #
running back sarah palin
here
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 5:03 pm #
Actually, that’s a nice change of pace over your usual “liar” Tourettes.
Hint: calling a liar a liar isn’t “Tourettes”.
Liar.
Bye, “RD”.
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 5:12 pm #
One can derive a great deal of black humor by contemplating the fact that SFAG (amateur fascist) and “RD” (useless eater) would be among the first ones sent to the camps, should they ever get the kind of government they’re after.
Oh, but it won’t happen THIS time. There won’t be a Stalin, Hitler, or Pol Pot. SFAG and “RD” are WAY smarter than their predecessors, so, just NATURALLY they’ll be the ones who wind up on top of the thugocracy. They is FIERCE REVOLUTIONARIES, they is! So fierce that they have to keep changing their anonymous names and using “anonymous” proxies to hang out here.
You know who’ll be relatively unscathed, though? The redneck NASCAR-fan farmers that people like SFAG and “RD” despise. You see, they’ll actually be producing loot for the thugocracy. Oh, a few of them will be liquidated, pour encourager les autres, but most of them will be left to slave away in peace. SFAG, “RD”, and their ilk will exist just as long as they continue to be useful idiots.
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/11 @ 5:15 pm #
If you were going to recruit a fool so that anyone who happens by here would think lefties are idiots you could not do better than RD. Meya is too subtle and hides her vileness behind a pleasant demeanor. Thor is so fucked up that you think batshit crazy and his politics are secondary. But for cross-eyed, ragey Joe Conason-style stupid, RD is central casting. Please stay!
Comment by Darleen on 7/11 @ 5:16 pm #
I still think it’s hilarious that wingnuts spent millions attempting to take Hillary down
I don’t remember that it was the “wingnuts” calling Bill Clinton a “racist”.
Comment by RD on 7/11 @ 5:17 pm #
You always say that.
I don’t believe you anymore.
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 5:19 pm #
P.S. RD, I’ll see you in a week.
Assuming you haven’t switched to another name before then.
Comment by RD on 7/11 @ 5:21 pm #
Then I guess you don’t remember “Operation Chaos” either.
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 5:22 pm #
Come on, RD. I’m eagerly awaiting your next pearl. That serial killer line was hysterical.
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 5:25 pm #
Then I guess you don’t remember “Operation Chaos” either.
*John Madden voice* - Here’s a guy that just doesn’t get it.
Comment by Darleen on 7/11 @ 5:26 pm #
63.Comment by RD on 7/11 @ 5:21 pm
Oh, you mean the out-in-the-open, larkish and fully publicized legal answer to a long-used Democrat tactic?
PUMAs didn’t think it was “wingnuts” either.
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 5:27 pm #
Come on RD, you can do it! Tell us how Operation Chaos was racist.
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 5:34 pm #
I know this is tough, RD. It pits two of your favorite victim groups against each other, but if anyone has the mental horsepower to sort it out it’s you. Don’t disappoint.
Comment by Darleen on 7/11 @ 5:34 pm #
Oh, btw, RD has used in this thread alone the following IPs
86.193.67.26, 222.188.128.36, 192.251.226.206 (this one used by meya quite often), 93.216.244.34, 66.35.1.170, 85.178.95.14
Now why would someone change their IP every couple of comments? (and meya has done it too)
Comment by RD on 7/11 @ 5:41 pm #
Vince Foster? Gun in the Wrong hand? Body moved?
Sorry, I keep forgetting that most of you have never listened to Rush Limbaugh and prefer a strict diet of Edmund Burke and/or Ayn Rand.
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 5:44 pm #
Vince Foster? Gun in the Wrong hand? Body moved?
Usually when you are speaking of serial killers there is more than one victim involved. Try a bit harder RD.
Comment by B Moe on 7/11 @ 5:44 pm #
Are you sure you aren’t trying to say cereal killer? Fruit Loops, maybe?
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/11 @ 5:49 pm #
Vince Foster? Gun in the Wrong hand? Body moved?
Sorry, I keep forgetting that most of you have never listened to Rush Limbaugh and prefer a strict diet of Edmund Burke and/or Ayn Rand.
In my case you’re right. Except that I read about all that stuff in the leftard Village Voice.
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 5:59 pm #
So is RD Meya or are they sharing the laptop in between bong hits?
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 6:00 pm #
Now why would someone change their IP every couple of comments?
Because he’s a cowardly little fuck?
Comment by Carin on 7/11 @ 6:05 pm #
It’s always sad when a lefty accuses us of believing shit we supposedly heard on Rush, yet they get it wrong. Vince Foster was killed by HILLARY, RD. Not a serial killer. duh.
Comment by Carin on 7/11 @ 6:06 pm #
I mean, I can get their stupid 911 theories straight. What’s so hard?
Comment by RD on 7/11 @ 6:08 pm #
Really? Are you honestly trying to imply that Rush and the RNC had nothing at all to do with spreading that story?
Comment by newrouter on 7/11 @ 6:13 pm #
i thought the meya drug cartel was doing that
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 6:19 pm #
fear the sarahcuda.
Given that you and your buddy “RD” hide behind “anon” proxies, you must be scared of something, SFAG.
What is it?
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/11 @ 6:20 pm #
Really? Are you honestly trying to imply that Rush and the RNC had nothing at all to do with spreading that story?
I’m not trying to imply anything. I’m flat out telling you that the Village Voice had a preoccupation with the amount of mysterious dead surrounding Clinton and as someone too busy to listen to talk radio that was the first encounter I had with this stuff before the age of blogs. And I thought this stuff had faded away from polite society ages ago until the moonbat left started using it all to attack Billary in the spring.
Comment by B Moe on 7/11 @ 6:21 pm #
I read about it on a box of Captain Crunch.
Comment by B Moe on 7/11 @ 6:22 pm #
There was a picture of Chandra Levy on the milk, lots of cereal killers that morning.
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 6:25 pm #
Given that you and your buddy “RD” hide behind “anon” proxies, you must be scared of something, SFAG.
What is it?
Don’t both answer at once, now.
Hell, I’ll even take “RD” out of the troll bin for a little while, if he cares to explain why he’s so shit-scared of the people on this site that he needs to use an “anonymous” proxy.
Comment by newrouter on 7/11 @ 6:25 pm #
o! sorry that was the mena drug cartel:
here
Comment by RD on 7/11 @ 6:26 pm #
Mainly because I don’t want you smashing all my picture windows out in the wee hours, Darleen.
It’s happened before, and I’m wary.
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 6:28 pm #
Mainly because I don’t want you smashing all my picture windows out in the wee hours, Darleen.
They have picture windows in the rescue mission nowadays?
It’s happened before, and I’m wary.
Oh, I’m sure it has. Of course, the alternative solution (i.e., not acting like a fucking asshole) has never occurred to you, has it.
Cowardly little fascist fuckstain.
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 6:30 pm #
Maybe you and SFAG can get amateur fascist listed as a protected class under the “hate crime” laws.
Comment by B Moe on 7/11 @ 6:33 pm #
Darleen smashed your picture windows out? Damn.
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 6:34 pm #
I would bet that Darleen would go for something more..direct.. and..permanent.. if she decided to take a beef with RD into meatspace.
Smashing out someone’s windows sounds like the tactic of a cowardly little fascist fuckstain to me.
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 6:45 pm #
With all due respect, I suggest we get back to the original topic
With no respect whatsoever, I suggest that you STFU, cowardly little fascist fuckstain.
Back in the trollbin you go.
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/11 @ 6:47 pm #
With all due respect, I suggest we get back to the original topic:
Sonia Sotomayor — Socialist baby-killer or La Raza Terrorist?
With all due respect (man do I love that phrase when no respect is due),
The topic was a gaggle of fascist fuckstains planning to attack a fireman for telling the truth. Care to dip your toes in?
Comment by B Moe on 7/11 @ 6:57 pm #
Just follow the trail of stupid crumbs, we will meet you there.
Comment by SDN on 7/11 @ 7:01 pm #
I’ll take both for $1000, RD.
Comment by Joe on 7/11 @ 7:09 pm #
I disagree with Sonya Sotomayor, and agree she will make a bad justice because she has not distinguished the difference of the Supreme Court vs. a trial court, but she is no Che.
Comment by newrouter on 7/11 @ 7:10 pm #
sonia sotomayer “wise guy latina” ™
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 7:11 pm #
With all due respect, I suggest we get back to the original topic:
Which means you have nothing. You brought up the “serial killer” accusation. Either back that up or STFU.
I’ll be over here waiting, enjoying a frosty beverage.
Comment by newrouter on 7/11 @ 7:11 pm #
O!’s done cornered that market
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 7:12 pm #
Give it a rest, Joe.
Comment by newrouter on 7/11 @ 7:14 pm #
she’s an O!bot who has friends who likes to bomb things. yo bill clinton who likes pr terrorists
Comment by RD on 7/11 @ 7:14 pm #
The people who are going to extremes in defending her are wasting their time, as are the people going to extremes to make it look like she’s “teh worst SC nominee evar”.
It’s the usual Kabuki, and no one outside of the habitual blog circuit will care.
Happy now?
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 7:20 pm #
Happy now?
Just as soon as you back up your earlier claims, RD. Change the subject all you want, but you still have a big bogey hanging out there. I’ll wait.
Comment by B Moe on 7/11 @ 7:21 pm #
Speaking of which, if ignorance is bliss how come you pinheads are always so fucking pissy?
Comment by newrouter on 7/11 @ 7:23 pm #
you’re right ginsburg is up there for worst with her “controlling certain populations” comment. but you proggs all suck big time for your desire for totalitarian regimes
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/11 @ 7:23 pm #
Happy now?
Fortunately my happiness is not contingent upon whether you continue to beclown yourself or cede an inch when backed into a corner because of your rhetorical ineptitude. It’s a win either way, mate.
Comment by B Moe on 7/11 @ 7:30 pm #
I am enjoying watching RD try to figure out what the topic is.
This is kind of how I picture it.
Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 7:30 pm #
“Give it a rest Joe.”
Wow Big D. Better shut Curley up before he speaks his mind!
Also, isn’t this unprecedented? Why would a confirmation committee summon a party to an action before a nominee? What substantive testimony could Ricci offer?
Comment by Spiny Norman on 7/11 @ 7:31 pm #
Why are all the trolls sounding like whining drunken idiots?
Is it because it’s the weekend and they ARE drunk?
Comment by B Moe on 7/11 @ 7:33 pm #
He could finally explain to Sotomayor what she refused to hear the first time around, for starters.
Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 7:34 pm #
Is that valid in a confirmation hearing?
Comment by B Moe on 7/11 @ 7:36 pm #
Why wouldn’t it be? Was Anita Hill valid?
Comment by newrouter on 7/11 @ 7:41 pm #
ax bork or thomas or rogers-brown or owen or any gop nominee
Comment by ushie on 7/11 @ 7:41 pm #
RD typed cutely,”I don’t want you smashing all my picture windows out in the wee hours, Darleen.
It’s happened before, and I’m wary.”
Oh, dear. The poor thing paid $2.99 to watch “Flashdance” on PPV and thinks it was all real and all happening to him. I bet this happens often to RD. He seems suggestible.
Comment by newrouter on 7/11 @ 7:43 pm #
michelle O!’s job at the hospital disappeared. obama is a grifter fool
Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 7:43 pm #
BMoe: I don’t think “That beaner bitch screwed me” is equivalent to “Brother put pubes in my coke!”
Happy Trails
Comment by newrouter on 7/11 @ 7:44 pm #
todd palin usw member. unions are grifters?
Comment by B Moe on 7/11 @ 7:45 pm #
Your right. One of them is actually pertinent to the persons abilities as a judge.
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 7:47 pm #
If you mean the Hillary smears, fuck off. Unless you were born yesterday, you know damn well they were out there and why.
Don’t hurt yourself moving those goalposts. You brought up a very specific claim that Hillary had been accused of being a serial killer. I know you are not used to being held accountable for your words, but give it a try. You might find accountability somewhat refreshing.
Comment by newrouter on 7/11 @ 7:47 pm #
maybe sis did it to FRAME THE BLACK MAN WITH THE PROGGS EGGING HER ON.
gingsberg trying to “control certain populations” don’t you know
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 7:48 pm #
#
Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 7:43 pm #
BMoe: I don’t think “That beaner bitch screwed me” is equivalent to “Brother put pubes in my coke!”
Happy Trails
Cynn,
Could you point me to where anyone has called her that? Thanks in advance.
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 7:49 pm #
“Beaner Bitch” I mean, Cynn.
Project much?
Comment by newrouter on 7/11 @ 7:52 pm #
proggs: circle jerk idiots
Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 7:54 pm #
BMoe: I would think one’s immediate behavior would signal one’s fitness for the bench.
Big D: Why no, I don’t have a cite; that’s the beauty of free speech in the post-internet referent dependent age. Try it!
Be Free!
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 7:56 pm #
Big D: Why no, I don’t have a cite; that’s the beauty of free speech in the post-internet referent dependent age. Try it!
Translation: you are a psychotic, drunken liar.
No surprise to anyone here.
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 8:01 pm #
I would add to that, but I think Spies nailed it.
Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 8:02 pm #
SPB: Sotomayor stands or falls on her own, according to her judicial predilections and other standards. Presumably, the confirmation hearing participants are bright and perspicacious enough to determine her fitness. The rest is redundant crap, just like in any other confirmation process. Now godspeed and fuck off.
Comment by RD on 7/11 @ 8:05 pm #
Well, she did introduce “Long Dong Silver” to public discourse, as well as Snarlin’ Arlen’s most extended exposure since the Warren Commission.
So, yeah. Valid as hell.
___
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 8:08 pm #
SPB: Sotomayor stands or falls on her own
HAHAHAHAHA! Wrong.
Presumably, the confirmation hearing participants are bright and perspicacious enough to determine her fitness.
In ACTUALITY, the confirmation hearing participants are politicians, who’d cornhole their own grandmothers if they thought it would get them reelected.
If they start getting calls and letters asking them why they’re supporting a racist communist who hates firefighters with a disability, the “wise Latina” goes under the bus.
That’s the way you fascist have decided the game is played.. You made the rules, cynn. Too late to change ‘em now.
Comment by guinsPen on 7/11 @ 8:16 pm #
I’m almost sold, Joe.
Please flesh out et cetera.
Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 8:23 pm #
SPB: Do you realize how frothing-mad you seem? If you really believe this you need to leave this country immediately. For mutual protection.
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 8:27 pm #
SPB: Do you realize how frothing-mad you seem?
cynn: I’m not mad at all. I’m going to enjoy watching you fascists squirm.
You like to spread rumors about Palin being crooked? That she faked a pregnancy? That she spends too much money on clothes?
We’ll spread facts that SotomaYOR and Obama are racist communists.
Payback, she be a bitch, cynn. Get used to it.
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 8:27 pm #
By the way, cynn: this is my country.
Not yours.
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 8:30 pm #
Oh, and cynn?
Psst… it’s working.
By the end of this year, Obama won’t be able to get a Hooter’s waitress to take his order, much less get anything through Congress.
Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 8:31 pm #
You go right ahead, SPB.
And this is my country as well, by the way.
Shut up, Joe.
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/11 @ 8:32 pm #
Considering her confirmation is a fait accompli it is good to put a face (Ricci) on Sotomayor’s race-based convictions. Own it, lefties. These are your values. Never mind that whenever it is put to the people they tell you to stick it. It isn’t healthy to be stealthy (channeling my inner Jesse there).
I mean, so what if liberal California votes against gay marriage. So what if the Democrat president campaigns in opposition to it. Let’s go after a young girl in a beauty pageant who when asked expresses the same opinion and have a Hitler-mustached pudgy beta male Obamoid like David Axelrod call her, of all things, a dog. Because implicit in this, like in the case of affirmative action, is that the left doesn’t really have the courage of their convictions when it isn’t politically useful because it is easier to tell the people to go fuck themselves under the protective cover of the judiciary.
Own your beliefs. And I don’t mean on Kos or in the dark recesses of the Pandagon cesspool.
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 8:32 pm #
Since you’re too stupid to click on “those orange things”, that last link shows Obama going from +28 to -7 in the Rasmussen poll. In his first six months.
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 8:33 pm #
And this is my country as well, by the way.
No, it isn’t.
I support the Constitution of the United States, and you are one of its enemies.
Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 8:35 pm #
I have never cared what the polls indicated, even with Bush. It’s not a metric I value. Sorry.
Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 8:36 pm #
OK, so I hate the Constitution. Why do I picture you as a cartoon hornet?
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 8:37 pm #
It’s not a metric I value.
It’s not about you, cynn.
Not in the slightest.
Your pig-ignorant opinion doesn’t matter.
At all.
I assure you that Senators and Congressmen DO value poll numbers.
Sorry to blow a hole in your fantasies of omnipotence.
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 8:38 pm #
OK, so I hate the Constitution.
You’ve made that abundantly clear, cynn.
Why do I picture you as a cartoon hornet?
Probably the same reason I picture you as a slovenly, sloppy-assed drunk in a kitchen full of dirty dishes and overflowing ashtrays.
Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 8:40 pm #
Hey, BMoe, you catch this? What do you think of your cohort? Get me, I’m givin’ out wings!
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 8:41 pm #
Probably the same reason I picture you as a slovenly, sloppy-assed drunk in a kitchen full of dirty dishes and overflowing ashtrays.
Damn it! That was a perfectly good monitor.
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 8:44 pm #
Cynn,
You and yours are in control of everything now. The executive and legislative branches both belong to you. Why so angry? You have what you want. Could it be that it is not quite working out the way you had envisioned?
Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 8:50 pm #
I’m not the least bit angry. I, like you, want to know if Sotomayor is a good candidate for the Supreme Court bench. I would like a liberal appointee, but not someone radical.
Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 8:56 pm #
Jeff, I can only assume that you want us lefties to go.
Comment by ushie on 7/11 @ 8:57 pm #
Uh…firefighter…dyslexic…topic…lord, I keep forgetting why I get tired of here.
Comment by Pablo on 7/11 @ 8:59 pm #
Jeff’s not here, cynn.
Comment by geoffb on 7/11 @ 9:02 pm #
Theft is part of the lefty life.
Comment by Pablo on 7/11 @ 9:03 pm #
Yeah, that and the Senate. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 9:11 pm #
I would like a liberal appointee, but not someone radical.
Had you nominated Hillary Clinton, who would have beaten McCain too, you would have been granted your wish, a liberal justice. . As it stands you elected a radical, and a radical justice you will get. You and yours did it, cynn. Own it.
Comment by Big D on 7/11 @ 9:16 pm #
Oh, and Cynn? What I meant in my “give it a rest” remark in re Che Guevara is this: If any of you wish to make the axiomatic point that Sotomayor has not rounded up opponents and had them summarily executed, I yield it to you.
Comment by newrouter on 7/11 @ 9:27 pm #
This breed callled AMERICANS
Comment by newrouter on 7/11 @ 9:38 pm #
educated idiots please go. and you did it on uncle sam’s dime
Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 9:45 pm #
That is not only sick, it is actionable. Well, done, PW, and good luck.
Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 9:49 pm #
Someone catch a screenshot of Big D’s latest comment.
Comment by Wm T Sherman on 7/11 @ 9:51 pm #
What are you talking about, “cynn?”
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/11 @ 10:00 pm #
This is what happens when cynn supplements a nice box wine buzz with shots of Valu-rite Vodka.
Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 10:01 pm #
Never mind, you can get your underoos on.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/11 @ 10:05 pm #
OH SNAP! The PW commentariat has certainly pwn3d the troll crew tonight!
Meya’s gone by-dee-bye, RD has been shut down, stuffed on the attempted serial killer meme construction, and cynn is wondering why she is getting a radical instead of, you know, a mainstream card carrying liberal…
I mean, after all, Obama is a centrist! after all, right?
Yeah.Right…
Meet me in Brooklyn, I have a lovely bridge you might be interested in buying, Cheap!…
Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 10:15 pm #
Well you ignorant fuckers just cost yourselves a pretty viable website. Morons. I would have paid attention to you.
Comment by newrouter on 7/11 @ 10:41 pm #
HOW? WHY? WHO?
Comment by newrouter on 7/11 @ 10:43 pm #
journo 101 who what when how
obmama journo 101 suck dick
Comment by Wm T Sherman on 7/11 @ 10:46 pm #
I do believe that Cynn is under the thumb of Demon Rum. She has reached inebriant stage 3a, “maudlin self-pity.”
Comment by SBP on 7/11 @ 10:57 pm #
What are you jabbering about now, cynn?
What’s “actionable”?
Comment by Have Blue on 7/12 @ 12:05 am #
Is cynn really “She who must not be Named” (SWMNBN). Pointless accusations of comments being “actionable” (what ever that means in their tiny little intellects) is a standard recognition sign. Overall she is slightly less incoherent.
I think she misread Big D. Cynn what Big D was saying is that Sotomayer has NOT rounded up political opponents and had them shot and that that is a good thing. Possibly the only good thing you can point to in this nominee but still a good thing.
Of course that will anger all of the Che fans in the Obama ranks, (those that had his poster and Cuban flags with his portrait on them in his campaign offices).
Comment by Big D on 7/12 @ 12:12 am #
Cynn,
The comment Joe made earlier was that Sotamayor was not Che. I was simply stating that Che had rounded up people and had them executed, the judge had not. If that was the point he was making I yield the point.
Cynn, what the hell is wrong with you? You are not normally this whacked.
Comment by Challeron on 7/12 @ 12:27 am #
Big D, cynn is just frustrated, because it’s no longer possible even for the Kool-Aid Drinkers to deny that The O! isn’t what they’d convinced themselves that they were voting for.
Thus, more wild-ass accusations to try to cover their own shame (what little of it they have), such as suggesting that a misunderstood comment (recall: They’re all about Redefining Meaning) can be legally “actionable” (a word they recently heard from Palin’s attorney) in slandering an anonymous entity (I don’t think the O!bots understand either word). But you’ve got to cut her a little slack: Cynn thinks that tort reform means Not Burning Your Toaster Pastry….
Just my opinion, of course; and, legally, Everyone’s Entitled To Their Opinion….
Comment by Big D on 7/12 @ 12:34 am #
I don’t know why I went to the trouble to explain myself to cynn. The entire point of this site is language and the meaning thereof. Apparently cynn missed the class.
Cynn, you bloody well know what I meant and you purposely misconstrued my comments to further your own personal agenda. Not only that, but you have insinuated that there is legal action forthcoming. I call, cynn.
To quote another commenter here, “That is a lie and you are a liar.”
Comment by Big D on 7/12 @ 12:36 am #
Cynn thinks that tort reform means Not Burning Your Toaster Pastry….
That is classic! I hope you don’t mind, but I am going to work that into many conversations.
Comment by A. Miyuki on 7/12 @ 12:53 am #
Since you’re too stupid to click on “those orange things”, that last link shows Obama going from +28 to -7 in the Rasmussen poll. In his first six months.
I like clicking on those orange things. Here is another one. It shows that President Reagan lost over 20 points in his approval rating before his first two years were completed. I doubt that he cared much about it, and I doubt that President Obama cares about your +28 to -7. You’d be better off concentrating on putting out a strong field of candidates for the midterms. You’ve got a lot of work to do.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 7/12 @ 1:30 am #
People for the American Way [a George Soros funded leftist group ... ed.]
This is the group super secret 9 to 5 ninja Valerie Plame donated to from her super secret CIA front group Brewster Jennings. It’s all such a mystery what People for the American Way [ is up to and I can see why she would feel comfortable outing her super secret front just to be apart of them.
Actually, the Plames’ and Johnson have gone rouge on Obama and so they must feel betrayed?
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 7/12 @ 1:36 am #
anecdotal. Running group that contains radical leftists say that Obama is “inept”
I said nothing. I think that he will be thrown under the bus soon, just a guess cuz leftist will never admit they are wrong, just wrong cult hero.
Comment by Karate Kid on 7/12 @ 1:40 am #
“I like clicking on those orange things.”
Wax on, wax off, mr. miyuki. We’re talking six months. And with the media tonguing his balls, no less. They’re so thorough and attentive to his nether region I reckon some could tell ya if Baracky’s chocolate starfish tastes more like a Filet-O-Fish sammich or Castrol GTX. There’s only one direction this is headin’. And even though I’m a publican and not much for the science book learnin’ I believe it was the physicist/trout fisher Sir Izaak Walton who swatted away a pesky Diplodocus and declared that the direction for falling objects in the natural universe to be down.
Comment by Big D on 7/12 @ 2:58 am #
Not gonna show your cards, cynn? Figures. After your showing of last evening you might want to darken another door.
Comment by LTC John on 7/12 @ 5:40 am #
“Presumably, the confirmation hearing participants are bright and perspicacious enough to determine her fitness.”
Ted Kennedy? Al Franken? Robert Byrd? Tim Johnson(does he attend anymore?)?
Comment by donald on 7/12 @ 5:43 am #
Ricci’s going down! It will be established that he gave Sotomayor a coke can with a pubic hair on it, and requested they watch “The Italian Stallion”.
Comment by SBP on 7/12 @ 5:48 am #
It shows that President Reagan lost over 20 points in his approval rating before his first two years were completed.
Yep, because we all know that losing 20 points in two years is exactly the same as losing 35 points in six months.
I doubt that President Obama cares about your +28 to -7.
I think you’re high. Seriously, dude.
You’re not even trying, are you?
Comment by Pablo on 7/12 @ 5:52 am #
This RD one really brings the lame.
Comment by Joe on 7/12 @ 6:33 am #
Comment by guinsPen on 7/11 @ 8:16 pm #
While Sotomayor is not a cutting edge legal intellect, she grew up in project in the Bronx to parents who came from Puerto Rico, did get good grades in Catholic parochial schools, was encouraged by the nuns to go to Princeton where she did well, etc.
I’m almost sold, Joe.
Please flesh out et cetera.
Yale Law School…and they ruined her there!
I am not trying to sell Sotomayor, I would never have picked her. She may be the least bad of Obama’s short list finalists Diane Wood (scary smart and scary liberal “Roberts” type) and Janet Napolitano (scary stupid).
And my Che comment was to point out that to my knowledge Sotomayor is not a murdering monster like Che. But Big D, if you have evidence contrary, please share.
But I am sure there are a few in the Obama Administration who admire Che’s…directness. Michelle?
Comment by B Moe on 7/12 @ 6:40 am #
I am feeling rather benevolent this morning, so I am going to try to give the trolls a break.
Try to understand this right here:
Or here:
That is what the Ricci case is really about as far as the hearings and the Supreme Court ruling is concerned.
The court was 5-4 in ruling on the facts of the Ricci case, but 9-0 against Sotomayor in her refusal to hear the case. This should be of concern to the confirmation committee, but it probably won’t be.
Comment by B Moe on 7/12 @ 6:42 am #
It was a fucking joke and a photo shop most of us found funny, Joe. Jesus, give it a rest.
Comment by Joe on 7/12 @ 6:48 am #
Jesus, I think my Michelle comment was a joke too (although if anyone was going to go Che, it would be Michelle). Give it a rest B Moe you are a tad sensitive. I thought the photoshop was funny.
But this is not a joke. Holder is apparently gearing up to start a war crimes investigation of the Bush Administration.
From
The NationThe Obama Publication Newspeak.The current Admistration needs a distraction for bad economic news.
Comment by serr8d on 7/12 @ 6:55 am #
The lingering smells of Cynn’s wine boxes and stale butt(s) permeate in here. And in the air, floating pubic hairs! Cynn, you get some treatment for that, you hear?
Obama’s radical choice for U.S. Supreme court is troubling, and should be fought tooth and nail. They must run the same course as ours.
(OT, but can you imagine Charles Johnson’s head asploding when he sees this? Puts a smile on my stone face, yes it does!)
Comment by Joe on 7/12 @ 6:56 am #
The David Brooks photograph, in the next thread however, is not photoshoped. That’s Brookie going out to meet some Senators for dinner!
Comment by serr8d on 7/12 @ 6:59 am #
I got your photoshop right here. Pisse Obama~!
Comment by Joe on 7/12 @ 7:01 am #
Serr8d, that is some fine art, how much federal money was used to subsidize it!
Comment by B Moe on 7/12 @ 7:05 am #
Given the source, I suspect that is red meat to try to pacify the True Believers. I can’t believe Obama would want to open a Pandora’s Box like that.
Comment by Joe on 7/12 @ 7:14 am #
Let the economy sink further into the shitter B Moe and they will start to get desperate.
Comment by Charles Johnson on 7/12 @ 7:26 am #
Serr8d, heads exploding? Let’s just say yes, but not the head you are thinking of. I never thought this would happen to me, but I got a recent personal visit from Pam Geller.
Ms. Geller knocked at my door unexpectedly. She invited herself in, shut the door behind her, then locked it and pulled down the shade. She then came to stand in front of me as I sat in my chair. “Now, Charles,” she said, “the first thing we have to do is to clear the air between us. All year I have watched you trying to call me a Nazi and worse when you are really wanting to stare at my bountiful breasts, or trying to see my panties. I have let you get a glimpse of them every so often, just to keep you happy, and I will admit it made me feel good to see how I could turn on the big biking pony tailed blog stud. Yes, I saw you trying to cover up the hard-ons I gave you.” I was too embarrassed to say anything, but I was also getting turned on, wondering where this was going. “But, Charles,” she went on, “this game-playing has caused both of us to forget what we are all about. You have stopped concentrating on fighting Islamofacist terror, and I partially blame myself for letting this game go on so long. But for the next four weeks we will stop playing games. I know you are capable of doing better work. I also know that sometimes it is much easier to accomplish something if you have a goal to shoot for–just like in competative biking. Your goal should be protecting western civilization, but now I’m going to give you an additional one. Charles, if you change the direction of your blog, which I know you can do, this will be your trophy from me.”
And with that she pulled up her shirt and I looked at two…
But I have to stop there. Gentlemen do not talk out of class.
Comment by B Moe on 7/12 @ 7:42 am #
I have no doubt they intend grievous harm to the country as we know it, I just don’t see them as suicide bombers.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/12 @ 7:42 am #
“Comment by cynn on 7/11 @ 8:02 pm #
SPB: Sotomayor stands or falls on her own, according to her judicial predilections and other standards.”
Ah, but she can’t, and that’s the point of having a robot army of Soros funded O! cyborgs digging up dirt on the opposition.
It’s what, 4 out of 5 times that her decisions have been overturned by SCOTUS? Great track record.
Comment by Charles Johnson on 7/12 @ 8:13 am #
I will say this Serr8d, when Ms. Geller showed me her treasures, she said, only a loving personal God would create such beauty. It was not mere chance. I could not disagree.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/12 @ 8:32 am #
“Comment by donald on 7/12 @ 5:43 am #
Ricci’s going down! It will be established that he gave Sotomayor a coke can with a pubic hair on it, and requested they watch “The Italian Stallion”.”
I’m not sure, but I think donald won the thread with this one…
Comment by Charles Johnson on 7/12 @ 8:41 am #
But B Moe, the Dems love Show Trials!
Comment by Joe on 7/12 @ 8:52 am #
Until Sarah Palin supports candidates who can win and take back the Senate and White House for conservatives, we can expect more nominees like Sonya Sotomayor (or worse). Right now, Obama could get Bill Ayers confirmed.
Comment by SBP on 7/12 @ 9:22 am #
I wonder if any other parties from her work are going to testify
I wonder if you’re going to answer my question in #81, SFAG.
Comment by B Moe on 7/12 @ 9:24 am #
Jeez, let’s see… Should we focus on a very questionable, current, high profile decision or dredge up some obscure stuff from down in the cellar? That really isn’t a very hard decision, is it meya?
That will be your sides story. Post 187 details what the Republicans are talking about.
I really intended that post for RD and some of the dimmer trolls, didn’t think you needed it too.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/12 @ 9:32 am #
Everyone here knows that thor is a liar, do they not?
Comment by donald on 7/12 @ 9:35 am #
I meant Check K cola orange.
Comment by guinsPen on 7/12 @ 9:35 am #
rabo encendido
Poco martillo.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/12 @ 9:37 am #
Besides, thor is a thief.
His #203 is a direct steal from my post telling his he’s not good enough to lick the sand from my son’s combat boots.
Which he isn’t.
Comment by guinsPen on 7/12 @ 9:51 am #
I am not trying to sell Sotomayor
Then why the pitch?
Comment by Darleen on 7/12 @ 10:23 am #
NOB
#203 is gone.
Comment by Wm T Sherman on 7/12 @ 10:31 am #
I predict that Ricci will not be confirmed.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/12 @ 10:56 am #
Thank you, Darleen.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/12 @ 10:59 am #
And it looks like he left another rabbit pellet in “The Gaze” thread.
Comment by meya on 7/12 @ 1:12 pm #
“I wonder if you’re going to answer my question in #81, SFAG.”
Oh I use anonymity software for all the standard reasons. Now did we ever figure out how old you were?
Comment by Big D on 7/12 @ 1:37 pm #
And my Che comment was to point out that to my knowledge Sotomayor is not a murdering monster like Che. But Big D, if you have evidence contrary, please share.
That was the point of my comment as well, Joe. It seemed to me that you weere trying to point out that the comparison was over the top. If that was not your intent I apologize.
Comment by Danger on 7/12 @ 2:48 pm #
“Oh I use anonymity software for all the standard reasons.”
Like hiding from the law or keeping your parents from taking away your internet access.
Comment by meya on 7/12 @ 2:59 pm #
you know you’re around the intentionalists when they tell you all about you.
Comment by Danger on 7/12 @ 3:10 pm #
you know you’re around a troll when they tell you all about nothing and hope you are impressed.
Comment by somenobody on 7/12 @ 3:13 pm #
So, Darleen feels threatened by a woman who has actually works for a living and achieved success. Big fucking surprise.
Comment by Danger on 7/12 @ 3:22 pm #
“So, Darleen feels threatened by a woman who has actually works for a living and achieved success. Big fucking surprise.”
Try again by starting at the beginning after all reading is FUNdamental.
Comment by somenobody on 7/12 @ 3:29 pm #
I did you tool. Try pulling your head out of your ass before hitting the “Say It!” button with a flip of your hair, bitch.
Comment by Danger on 7/12 @ 3:39 pm #
FTA: On the eve of Sotomayor’s Senate confirmation hearing, her advocates have been urging journalists to scrutinize what one called the “troubled and litigious work history” of firefighter Frank Ricci. [...]
It seems clear to me the the person being threatened here is Mr Ricci YMMV
and would you mind not tracking the evidence of a poor upbinging on our carpet, Thanks
Comment by Pablo on 7/12 @ 3:41 pm #
Who do you feel threatened by, somenobody? A woman who has actually worked for a living and achieved success?
Comment by Pablo on 7/12 @ 3:42 pm #
Danger, they letting you guys have enough hair to flip these days?
Comment by Danger on 7/12 @ 3:46 pm #
Sweet shot Pablo!
Splash one troll
Keep firing!
Comment by Danger on 7/12 @ 3:51 pm #
Nope,
Uncle Sam issues just enough to facillitate the early enemy warning radar (mostly neck hair;)
Comment by B Moe on 7/12 @ 3:52 pm #
And you know you are dealing with the disingenuous when they avoid responding to the people on point.
Comment by Danger on 7/12 @ 4:00 pm #
Amen Brother B
Comment by SBP on 7/12 @ 4:10 pm #
Oh I use anonymity software for all the standard reasons.
Translation: you’re a cowardly little troll. And a dumb one, if you think your “anonymity” software provides you with any real protection. It’s like the goofballs who think that using PGP was some kind of protection against TEH EVUL BUSH REGIME. Never occurs to ‘em that a real EVUL REGIME would simply break fingers until they coughed up the key.
Now did we ever figure out how old you were?
Did we ever figure out if you’d ever made an honest post?
Oh, right: we did. And the answer is negative.
Comment by SBP on 7/12 @ 4:11 pm #
woman who has actually works for a living
Evidence for this? Because going by her appellate record, she simply makes up a bunch of bullshit and then takes the rest of the day off.
Comment by Danger on 7/12 @ 4:13 pm #
Hey SBP,
Watch out for the “I know you are but what am I” counterpunch
It is a common tactic of these southpaws
Comment by SBP on 7/12 @ 4:16 pm #
Oh, I noticed that SFAG didn’t actually answer the question, Danger.
I just like watching her flail.
Comment by Danger on 7/12 @ 4:22 pm #
Thats good because forced flailing is one of the approved methods listed in the Army Field Manual;)
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/12 @ 4:33 pm #
you know you’re around the intentionalists when they tell you all about you.
Yeah. You’re a regular puzzle wrapped in a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a used condom.
Comment by SBP on 7/12 @ 4:39 pm #
Actually just about anyone into security would indeed know that attack on encryption.
Actually, anyone with enough sense to pour piss out of a boot would know about that “attack on encryption”.
Still not answering my question, SFAG.
Why are you scared shitless of the people on here?
Comment by SBP on 7/12 @ 4:40 pm #
Actually, anyone with enough sense to pour piss out of a boot
Which, not to put too fine a point on it, excludes about 99.5% of the “Internet security experts” out there.
Including Bruce Schneier.
Comment by Danger on 7/12 @ 4:42 pm #
Ok troops carry out the plan of the day
I gotta hit the hay cause early comes around early in these parts.
Comment by Big D on 7/12 @ 4:55 pm #
Good night and Godspeed, Danger.
Comment by cynn on 7/12 @ 7:49 pm #
Shut up, Joe!
Comment by somenobody on 7/12 @ 8:26 pm #
Give me a fucking break. Get a room, you two. When does Danger graduate from ROTC?
Comment by Big D on 7/12 @ 8:41 pm #
“Somenobody” sums it up nicely. You are nobody. In fact, you would not make a pimple on a good private’s ass.
Danger is over there doing a job that would make you cower under your bunk. Come back here when you have something to say. Otherwise, STFU.
Comment by meya on 7/12 @ 8:50 pm #
“Including Bruce Schneier.”
You know, if your view of anonymity is limited to crap like this:
“Why are you scared shitless of the people on here?”
its not going to be fun talking security with you.
Comment by somenobody on 7/12 @ 9:16 pm #
Some asshole whackjob in the military doesn’t really impress me. Sorry, bucko.
Maybe you’d be better off if you didn’t bow before some jerkoff saying “splash one” in political talk on the internet. Cause it looks stupid as shit.
Comment by B Moe on 7/12 @ 9:28 pm #
Is 243 and 244 supposed to be coherent English communication?
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/12 @ 9:31 pm #
You’re really an ungrateful piece of…work, somenobody…
Why don’t you take your bad attitude and go on back to /b/chan…
Don’t go away mad, just, well, you know…
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/12 @ 9:34 pm #
Oh, and for your info somenobody, Danger is a former Naval Aviator, among whom “splash one” has a definitive meaning that is exactly analogous to the context it was used in…
Look it up somewhere, ruminate over it, you get it…eventually…
Comment by somenobody on 7/12 @ 9:35 pm #
Should I pepper my posts with military jargon? Would that give you a woody?
Comment by JD on 7/12 @ 9:37 pm #
These trolls are just lousy …
Comment by Pablo on 7/12 @ 9:38 pm #
That’s those shit colored glasses your imbecile ass is wearing. Ain’t no ROTC in Baghdad.
Comment by B Moe on 7/12 @ 9:39 pm #
It’s preferred to make a point in coherent English and be prepared to defend it.
Comment by somenobody on 7/12 @ 9:40 pm #
Bird away!
Comment by lee on 7/12 @ 9:40 pm #
Thomas Sowell has an interesting response to that particular mime.
Comment by Darleen on 7/12 @ 9:42 pm #
@ somenobody
same for you as other trolls, stay on topic and refrain from ad hominems - especially against the military commenters or anyone’s family or I will delete your comment on my threads.
I’m tired of the threadjacking. I understand you and the other Obama-and-or-Leftist-Statist cult members want to distract from the Transforming of America(tm) but either argue facts (ha!) or get lost.
Only warning.
Comment by JD on 7/12 @ 9:45 pm #
At least somenobody practices truth in advertising.
Comment by SBP on 7/12 @ 10:35 pm #
its not going to be fun talking security with you.
You don’t know jack shit about “security”, SFAG.
Or any other subject, as far as I can tell.
You’re still under the impression that I’m interested in having a “discussion”, “debate”, or “conversation” with you.
I’m not.
All I want to do is point out your lies for the benefit of others.
And yes, you’re fucking scared shitless.
Comment by SBP on 7/12 @ 10:40 pm #
For the benefit of non-SFAG readers, Mr. Schneier is a crypto guy who’s under the impression that that gives him expertise in other areas of security (e.g., physical airport security).
Classic arrogant wackademic.
Here’s a choice quote:
“There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.”
Left unstated: “As long as said ‘major government’ is a free country that isn’t willing to apply a cattle prod to your testicles to get you to fork over the key”.
Comment by SBP on 7/12 @ 10:41 pm #
Oh, and SFAG: I wouldn’t count on that ‘anonymity’ thing.
Just because you read about it in WIRED doesn’t make it true.
Sorry to break the news to you.
Comment by somenobody on 7/12 @ 10:42 pm #
[deleted ... see what I did here, troll?]
Comment by SBP on 7/12 @ 10:43 pm #
same for you as other trolls, stay on topic and refrain from ad hominems
I ‘hammered him after his first post, Darleen.
Comment by somenobody on 7/12 @ 10:44 pm #
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Comment by JD on 7/12 @ 10:48 pm #
Somenobody sure can bring Teh Stoopid.
Comment by B Moe on 7/12 @ 10:49 pm #
More evidence for my hypothesis that humans really aren’t sentient beings.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/12 @ 10:50 pm #
You’re a pretty tough guy posting anonymously on the internet somenobody…
My guess is that in person? Not.So.Much…
Comment by JD on 7/12 @ 10:54 pm #
Exactly, Bob.
Comment by SBP on 7/12 @ 10:55 pm #
I see no somenobody here.
Comment by meya on 7/12 @ 11:02 pm #
“Left unstated: “As long as said ‘major government’ is a free country that isn’t willing to apply a cattle prod to your testicles to get you to fork over the key”.”
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/02/xkcd_on_cryptan.html
Comment by JD on 7/12 @ 11:03 pm #
Wow, this one is so unoriginal and unentertaining. Pretty pathetic.
Comment by SBP on 7/12 @ 11:06 pm #
Hint: a cartoon from 2009 doesn’t trump Schneier’s statement from 1994, you stupid fucking bint.
Comment by SBP on 7/12 @ 11:06 pm #
Yeah, JD. That’s why it went in the troll bin instantly.
Comment by meya on 7/12 @ 11:17 pm #
“Hint: a cartoon from 2009 doesn’t trump Schneier’s statement from 1994, you stupid fucking bint.”
Trump what? It’s very simple. You picked on the dude and then you find out he gets it. Get over yourself. Even that boingboing guy — cory doctorow — had someone in his teen novel being waterboarded for a password. This isn’t some exclusive club you’re in where you pantsed bruce schneier.
Comment by SBP on 7/12 @ 11:21 pm #
Trump what?
Your mendacity, SFAG.
You picked on the dude and then you find out he gets it.
15 years later. When it should have been obvious at the time, SFAG.
cory doctorow
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Next you’ll be quoting Wiliam Gibson.
STFU, amateur.
.
Comment by meya on 7/12 @ 11:26 pm #
“STFU, amateur.”
That’s the point. Even amateurs know of this attack. Some travelers too: you follow the laptop border search issue? There was talk in there of how this could defeat your encryption.
Comment by SBP on 7/12 @ 11:27 pm #
What part of “we’re not having a discussion” didn’t you understand, SFAG?
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/15 @ 12:59 am #
aw, is someone making the last comment… as usual.