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July 19, 2009

Gee, guess who's defending affirmative action?

"Conservative" columnist Kathleen Parker laments that the male GOP members (heh, you'll see why that word is funny in a second) of the Senate Judiciary Committee were too hard (heh, again) on Sonia Sotomayor...

Judicial temperament is a legitimate concern, of course. But watching Sotomayor take questions about her moods from the nearly all-male Senate Judiciary Committee, one couldn't help wondering how those same fellows would hold up under similar scrutiny while a roomful of women took aim at their . . . fortitude.

See what she did there? She made a dick joke! In the Washington Post! HA!

Parker, a sage critic of the human condition the likes of which has not been seen since Mark Twain, goes on to note that everyone actually has prejudices...

Senators also hammered Sotomayor about her ethnic identification and whether she could rule fairly without undue influence from her gender or political preferences. Wait, let me guess, you're white guys! Are we to infer that men of European descent are never unduly influenced by their own ethnicity, gender or political preferences? Can anyone affirm this assertion with a straight face?

Well, Kathleen, most of us don't have to affirm this assertion, seeing as how we don't, you know, go around announcing it in speeches to legal conferences.

But, then again, most of us don't have the finely-tuned "conservative" mind of Ms. Parker...

When your party looks like a Wonder Bread convention during flu season, picking on ethnic identity and sex seems like an un-brilliant way to proceed. Yet, these same gentlemen don't understand how Sotomayor could have expressed the thought that she, as a Latina, might be able to reach a wiser decision than a white man?

Seeing as how I'm just an ignorant white male, I'm not wise enough to tease out how that makes any goddamn sense. Stupid me.

Educate me, Kathleen!!!

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1 I don't like commenting on affirmative action posts, because, well I'm a jerk when it comes to stuff like this.

"I couldn't pass the test cuz it's racial" PISSES ME OFF!!!

I'm white trash, no really, I was raised, whit EFFING TRASH!

I was born a bastard out of wedlock, but my parents were married TWICE, once before I was born and once after, and my parents were married the second time, NOT because of THEIR children, but because they adopted my cousins, who were born to two more WHITE TRASH parents, one of which I LOVE, and cuz my mom is a "mommy" like all her her family.my mother strong armed my father into marriage so that we could adopt my cousins, so. . .classical white trash, my cousins are technicaly my brothers. That's my personal story, now lets get to the part about me.

In highschool we had many black schoolmates, and I never cared, one of the was a wreseler, though he thought it was streat fighing, and though I was a much lower weight class, I beat the shit out of him, when he punched me.

He quit wresteling, later he started plaing basketball and he is a strong guy and he punched the snot out of a ref.

"I didn't get a chance"

ALWAYS he whined, and when I called it on him to his face, he came at me, and I put him on the ground and gave him a "drag rash"

He got back up, only cuz I was nice and came at me hard.

I put him on the ground again.

and said, "this time it's not nice."

I let him up, he came at me again.

My friends wern'te nice.

The point is, never expect anything, stand on your own.

Posted by: Douglas at July 19, 2009 04:17 AM (uU+Ss)

2 It's the fact that Sotomayor has to fall back on her race and gender as justification of her rulings, rather than making sound legal decisions justified by sound thinking, that makes her so wrong wrong wrong.

Posted by: Alice H at July 19, 2009 12:03 PM (qJHYy)

3 RINO bitch. Frak her and her bff Arlen Specter.

Posted by: Federale at July 19, 2009 05:15 PM (I6UoW)

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