The Week That Was

The distortions of the birthers and health care rioters are all poisonous concoctions of pseudo conservatives anxious to deny anything labeled: “United States Government.”………………..

http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/08/07/anger-can-blind-human-vission-malcolm-x/

Nancy Pelosi, aka San Fran Nan:
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Trying to outdo her out of control comments on insurance companies, decides to call protestors against Obamacare Nazis.
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Funny how the Michelle Bachman stuff gets a post, but examples of San Fran Nan, not so much.

Limbaugh, Rush–

Will be right back to tell you how Obama plans to kill your grandmother with end of life counseling after he does another ad for living wills from Legalzoom.com.

Obama, Barack
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Shows mad political skills in giving Mary Robinson Medal of Freedom.

Well, she is a San Francisco liberal. Just because the teabaggers held up swastikas and refused to engage in a debate, but tried to prevent anybody from talking doesn’t mean she should get uncivil.

The teabaggers were correct. The Sudetenenland is ours.

What do we want? An HMO exec deciding if he should take a vacation to Tahiti, or pay for our kidney transplant. When do we want it? NOW!!!

Sotomayor, Sonia

Evidence of how being a hack is not a barrier to advancement to the highest court in the land if you have the right optics.

Trash Dump, Friday Afternoon
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Senate Ethics Committee “clearing” Senator Dodd and Senator Conrad.

…so you think she’s hot?

Nope, she has demographic appeal. And she is a hack.

Florida, Tampa

Site where teabaggers declare that Health Care Reform is in fact Hazardous to One’s Health!

Did she buy a ranch last year before she ran for the Supreme Court and pretended to be a cowgirl even though she prepped at Andover?
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That is so cynical.
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Attacks, Unfair:
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Quoting the Sainted One.

Didn’t know people “ran” for the Supreme Court. Moreover, even assuming that the two situations are comparable, is someone getting a break a justification for another getting one?
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Sotomayor’s a hack. There’s really no getting around it.

holy crap…i guess i’m late to the party, but the article under chirac shocked me – http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=haught_29_5
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I mean I knew Bush was an idiot, but this is some scary ****

which, of course, makes them fair game for violence

Yes. You are correct. Her credentials and experience are suspect. It’s all a plot to make Puerto Rico day replace the 4th of July. The FEMA re-education camps she will vote for are just a bonus.

When a federal judge, sitting on the federal bench for 17 years, discusses the subsequent history of a case she was involved in and shows that she cannot read a simple Supreme Court opinion, that makes her a hack. (And this is not to mention all her malapropisms (conveniently ignored by MSM or her abject butchery of some answers–see, e.g., her response to Kohl on term limits for SCOTUS.)
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Sotomayor asserted that Ginsburg’s dissenting opinion in Ricci would have affirmed the Second Circuit. That observation is wrong, and the reason is elementary. Ginsburg’s opinion didn’t deal with all of the plaintiff’s claims. And she prepared for this. She is a hack.

With the Milibank/Cizilla atrocity finally placed into the dustbin of web history, is Slansky’s weekly effort now the unfunniest weekly web feature from a mainstream media outlet?
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or is there other competition out there?

Does the Borowitz Report count?

Sanford, Jenny
subtopics: moving out, outta here, club clothes and shoes, start buying again, reboot: city, sex in the, chance, do we finally have with her now?

She’s moving out of the Governor’s mansion.
http://www.thestate.com/local/story/893310.html
My wrong guess is that Gov. Sanford wouldn’t remove the bedroom ceiling frescoe of him and Maria in various, ahem, poses within Argentinian landscapes…all to imitate the Sistine Chapel ceiling. For Jenny’s reaction see: Camper, Happy, Not.

So, I Told You
-What Pirate Wench will be saying next Thursday.

…maybe instead (or not) it was the Sanford voice mail greeting recorded by his mistresses, “Hi, Mark’s not in me, I mean, in…right now, I think whatshername might be in, like I care, maybe…oh yes…just leave a message at the tone and think about me, mkay? Sweet kisses…” *beep*

“Health care riots!”
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Titter, titter. Giggle, giggle. That’s so funny.

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/anti-health-care-reform-protester-encourages-physical-violence-use-of-firearms.php

Effect, Arkele:
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The phenomena of Republicans ostensibly pretending they had nothing to do with 43, by either claiming they questioned his judgments, or by pretending that it was all Bill Clinton’s fault and that nothing actually happened between Feb 20, 2001 and Feb 20, 2009.
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See Game, Blame, the

Game, Blame, the:
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The act of blaming either 42 or 44 for 43′s misdeeds.

Mays, Billy—
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Billy Mays no longer here. Cocaine contributed to fatal heart attack. But wait, there’s more.
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He used cocaine a few days before dying and it was a factor.

Cookie Wars
subtopic: Walmart, Girl Scouts, blogger, mint cookies, Miss Communication, media control, lack of

http://www.cnbc.com/id/32330660
short piece, but read the last line; it’s been a ranty issue here….

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…hmm, I just saw an ad at cnbc.com that showed Tweety (the bird, not the MSNBC mouthpiece) in closeup with text, “Logo: Titi Offert!” say that three times fast….
(went back but it’s gone)

Stuff, Touristy
subtopics: beaten path, different kind, German village, War, Cold, remnants, theme parks, beats the crap out of

…a German village once literally divided during East / West cold war is now a tourist hotspot…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32329195/ns/travel-destinations/

Tumulty, Karen

• The financial support and strategic guidance of town-hall disrupting fascist mobs by Freedom Works founder, former Congressman and Swampland contributor Dick Armey, is oddly omitted from blog posts on health care opposition — including one on “rumors and their sources” — by

Sotomayor’s a hack. There’s really no getting around it.

Actual lawyers disagree.

Sotomayor asserted that Ginsburg’s dissenting opinion in Ricci would have affirmed the Second Circuit. That observation is wrong, and the reason is elementary. Ginsburg’s opinion didn’t deal with all of the plaintiff’s claims.

Hint: She wrote a dissent and not a separate concurrence.

way to go square1

Ethics Violations

Sens Dodd and Conrad cleared from allegations of

Perfect.

You should count your blessings. If Bush had been reading the Lord of the Rings instead of the Bible we’d be fighting in Middle Earth right now.

Since you have insulted me in the past, square1, I have no problem calling you an idiot.
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Your “hint” doesn’t address the point. I think it’s a hard argument to make that, with 100% certainty, 9 Justices bounced Sotomayor’s decision. But that doesn’t make the opposite true, i.e., that the dissenters would have affirmed her either. You simply cannot read the dissent that way, as she did.
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Resolving the plaintiffs’ Equal Protection claims is a sine qua non to any opinion purporting to affirm the grant of summary judgment. Ginsburg’s opinion doesn’t have that. Ergo, it’s false to say that the dissenting opinion would have affirmed Sotomayor’s resolution of the case.
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This is f’in elementary, you moron.