Sotomayor Transcripts and Live Updates

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Andrew Malcolm and associates have been doing a great job of live-blogging the Sotomayor hearing at Top of the Ticket, including posting transcripts of Sen. Jon Kyl’s rambling, digressing, endless questions, which is above and beyond the call of duty: Sotomayor hearings: Graham comes out swinging.

Here’s the live video stream from senate.gov, moved from the earlier thread:

[Live video finished for the day…]

UPDATE at 7/14/09 2:28:02 pm:

They’ve adjourned for the day, so the video is no more.

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130 comments
1 turn  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:21:38pm

Just confirm her and get this over with, this is getting BORING. What windbags.

2 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:22:30pm

This is a boring as watching the All Star Game. Yawn.

3 jones  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:22:42pm

If she votes against the 2A on Murphy, NRA or any other future gun case in 2010, there will be some sad senators next november.

4 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:22:47pm

Like. Watching. Paint. Dry.

5 tradewind  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:23:04pm

As a fashion wise non-latina woman, I would hope that future Justice Sotomayor would get herself to a stylist ASAP.
She can’t spend her whole life in those robes…

6 DaddyG  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:23:15pm

Impose a word tax on the Senate. That would shorten the hearings and eliminate the deficit in short order.

7 Sharmuta  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:25:35pm

re: #1 turn

re: #2 Nevergiveup

When have confirmation hearings ever been exciting? Maybe Bork or Thomas? This is the norm- nice and boring.

8 Occasional Reader  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:25:36pm

By the way; here are some wise Latina women.

I wish Obama would get on their side, too.

9 _RememberTonyC  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:26:11pm

they’re saving al franken for last … i guess it’s a seniority thing. I will look forward to that one.

10 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:27:59pm

re: #4 Alouette

Like. Watching. Paint. Dry.

Yeah but I like how paint smells

11 Killgore Trout  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:28:26pm

Robert Spencer Fauxtography…
Spencer has posted a half naked picture of Ahmed Rehab who withdrew from the ALA event because of Spencer’s participation. The source of the pic is here. Notice anything strange about the two pics? Although there are two separate poses the angle of the head is exactly the same in both pics. Even the glare from the flash on his glasses is exactly the same in both pics.
Anyone else think this is an obvious photoshop?

12 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:28:33pm

And buh bih, bih bih, uh, that’s all folks.

13 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:29:14pm

re: #9 _RememberTonyC

they’re saving al franken for last … i guess it’s a seniority thing. I will look forward to that one.

I’m not, but I get were your coming from

14 soxfan4life  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:29:15pm

re: #3 jones

If she votes against the 2A on Murphy, NRA or any other future gun case in 2010, there will be some sad senators next november.

There should be some sad Senators, but most likely they will win in a landslide. ACORN is working hard to ensure their victories.

15 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:30:09pm

re: #12 Charles

And buh bih, bih bih, uh, that’s all folks.

Praise the Lord. Hallelujah!

16 Kragar  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:30:15pm

re: #2 Nevergiveup

This is a boring as watching the All Star Game. Yawn.

Know what both need? Boobytraps.

17 kansas  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:30:24pm

I was on the beach all day, but sounds like most of the day was spent listening to Sonia lie. Wonder what is means?

18 [deleted]  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:30:45pm
19 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:30:55pm

re: #12 Charles

And buh bih, bih bih, uh, that’s all folks.

That comment bugs me!

20 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:31:49pm

re: #18 buzzsawmonkey

No more Porque Pig?

Was it the pig?!
I thought it was Bugs.

21 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:32:22pm

re: #20 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Was it the pig?!
I thought it was Bugs.

/senility strikes!

22 soxfan4life  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:33:06pm

re: #8 Occasional Reader

By the way; here are some wise Latina women.

I wish Obama would get on their side, too.

I wish he’d get on America’s side.

23 [deleted]  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:33:32pm
24 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:33:33pm

00:18 Obama: Iran post-election protests could hinder nukes talks (Haaretz

Yeah, Freedom is such an inconvenience to someone like Obama?

25 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:34:02pm

re: #11 Killgore Trout

The reflection on the glasses is subtly different, and the hair above the ears says the angle of the head isn’t QUITE the same.

26 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:34:31pm

re: #23 buzzsawmonkey

At the end of Looney Tunes? Porky.

Well, just shows how long it’s been for me.

27 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:34:44pm

re: #11 Killgore Trout

Robert Spencer Fauxtography…
Spencer has posted a half naked picture of Ahmed Rehab who withdrew from the ALA event because of Spencer’s participation. The source of the pic is here. Notice anything strange about the two pics? Although there are two separate poses the angle of the head is exactly the same in both pics. Even the glare from the flash on his glasses is exactly the same in both pics.
Anyone else think this is an obvious photoshop?

Nope, it’s not a Photoshop; look at the angle of the sunglasses’ earpiece…

As for Spencer’s reason for posting that, who knows?

28 soxfan4life  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:35:00pm

re: #24 Nevergiveup

00:18 Obama: Iran post-election protests could hinder nukes talks (Haaretz

Yeah, Freedom is such an inconvenience to someone like Obama?

All 0bama cares about is power, freedom,liberty, and independence are stones in his way of achieving ultimate power.

29 _RememberTonyC  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:36:15pm

re: #13 Nevergiveup

I’m not, but I get were your coming from

i’m hoping he will say something funny … but I’ve been waiting 30 years. OK, I’ll settle for something insipid.

30 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:36:25pm

Meanwhile, American Jewish leaders who met with Obama on Tuesday expressed great satisfaction with their discussion. Obama said Israel must “engage in serious self-reflection” regarding the conflict with the Palestinians.

Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, said he and
other participants were very impressed by what they heard and left the meeting with a very good feeling. Yoffie told Haaretz Tuesday that the president reassured the Jewish leaders over their concern about recent tensions between the White House and the Jewish community over Obama’s criticism of settlement activity in the West Bank.


[Link: www.haaretz.com…]

Which only confirms there is fool born every minute, even Jewish fools.

31 Killgore Trout  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:36:46pm

re: #25 pre-Boomer Marine brat

The reflection on the glasses is subtly different, and the hair above the ears says the angle of the head isn’t QUITE the same.

Hmmm, you’re right. It’s odd that the angle of the head is so close in both poses though.

32 Occasional Reader  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:37:10pm

re: #23 buzzsawmonkey

At the end of Looney Tunes? Porky.

And don’t forget his role in Gershwin’s “Porky and Bess”, when he famously sang, “Buh-bee-buh-bee-buh- Besss, you is my woman now…”


/shamelessly stolen from SNL, circa 1977

33 _RememberTonyC  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:37:49pm

re: #23 buzzsawmonkey

At the end of Looney Tunes? Porky.


Porky? Porky PIG??? anti muslim hate speech … TAKE IT BACK

34 Killgore Trout  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:38:15pm

re: #27 Charles

Nope, it’s not a Photoshop; look at the angle of the sunglasses’ earpiece…


Ah, thanks.

35 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:40:06pm

Officials are also considering whether the government should make mortgage payments on behalf of borrowers who cannot keep up with their home loans, tapping an unused portion of a $50 billion housing aid kitty.

As part of this plan, jobless borrowers might receive a housing stipend along with regular unemployment benefits, the sources said. (Reporting by Patrick Rucker; Editing by Diane Craft)

[Link: www.reuters.com…]

Why do i even go to work?

36 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:41:38pm

re: #27 Charles

Nope, it’s not a Photoshop; look at the angle of the sunglasses’ earpiece…

As for Spencer’s reason for posting that, who knows?

He thinks Ahmed is hot!

37 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:41:47pm

re: #31 Killgore Trout

Hmmm, you’re right. It’s odd that the angle of the head is so close in both poses though.

I’ve heard of stiff-necked people, but this is ridiculous!
///

38 ShanghaiEd  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:42:16pm

OT, reposted from previous thread:

re: #517 JacksonTn

Hi, Jackson: I’ve got a problem, here. I was just reading the Lounge thread and notice that for some reason you have cut and pasted an angry conversation you had with another commenter, then substituted my name for theirs.

You then call me an “Obama drooler,” and “drunk with ignorance” for something I did not say.

I have no idea why you would do this, but I really don’t appreciate it. Goodness knows I have enough flaws of my own to answer for, without taking on someone else’s.

I would also like for the folks who approved of your take-down of me…Lincoln, Mandy, Pink, and Reine, so far…to note that the information is false. I’d appreciate a correction, when you have time.

39 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:42:54pm

re: #30 Nevergiveup

Meanwhile, American Jewish leaders who met with Obama on Tuesday expressed great satisfaction with their discussion. Obama said Israel must “engage in serious self-reflection” regarding the conflict with the Palestinians.

Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, said he and
other participants were very impressed by what they heard and left the meeting with a very good feeling. Yoffie told Haaretz Tuesday that the president reassured the Jewish leaders over their concern about recent tensions between the White House and the Jewish community over Obama’s criticism of settlement activity in the West Bank.

[Link: www.haaretz.com…]

Which only confirms there is fool born every minute, even Jewish fools.

Yoffie bowed before Obama, and banged his head on the floor three times as a display of his devotion.

40 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:43:17pm

re: #33 _RememberTonyC

Porky? Porky PIG??? anti muslim hate speech … TAKE IT BACK

I don’t think Buzz will be bacon off his opinion.
It wouldn’t be like ham.

41 Dianna  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:43:25pm

It’s not Sotomayor’s fault, but I’m never going to be able to look at her picture again without remembering how unhappy my stomach is today. That is a serious example of bias.

42 Dianna  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:44:30pm

re: #35 Nevergiveup

Officials are also considering whether the government should make mortgage payments on behalf of borrowers who cannot keep up with their home loans, tapping an unused portion of a $50 billion housing aid kitty.

As part of this plan, jobless borrowers might receive a housing stipend along with regular unemployment benefits, the sources said. (Reporting by Patrick Rucker; Editing by Diane Craft)

[Link: www.reuters.com…]

Why do i even go to work?

Could they please rescue my mom?

43 jacksontn  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:45:26pm

re: #38 ShanghaiEd

OT, reposted from previous thread:

re: #517 JacksonTn

Hi, Jackson: I’ve got a problem, here. I was just reading the Lounge thread and notice that for some reason you have cut and pasted an angry conversation you had with another commenter, then substituted my name for theirs.

You then call me an “Obama drooler,” and “drunk with ignorance” for something I did not say.

I have no idea why you would do this, but I really don’t appreciate it. Goodness knows I have enough flaws of my own to answer for, without taking on someone else’s.

I would also like for the folks who approved of your take-down of me…Lincoln, Mandy, Pink, and Reine, so far…to note that the information is false. I’d appreciate a correction, when you have time.

SE … I already changed the post … why don’t you go back and look at it instead of posting this everywhere … I put your name there and it should have been Flyers1974 …

44 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:45:46pm

re: #42 Dianna

Could they please rescue my mom?

Was just looking at you immediate-prior …
wondering how that’s going …
wondering if I could have the temerity to ask.

45 Killgore Trout  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:46:26pm

re: #36 Alouette

It’s probably from his extensive “research” into Islamist Beefcake.

46 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:48:06pm

re: #43 jacksontn

How do you change a post?

47 JacksonTn  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:49:11pm

re: #46 Nevergiveup

How do you change a post?

NGU … well, I didn’t change it but I quoted my post and posted what needed to be corrected … so not actually changing the original post … how you doing? …

48 Dave the.....  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:49:17pm
they’re saving al franken for last … i guess it’s a seniority thing. I will look forward to that one.

Al said he assembled a crack team of legal experts to consult with. Ummm, yeah Al. Like you are actually having to think about this. I think it is safe to say you will vote yes on the Wise Latina.

Know what’d be funny…if a Republican would read Ted Kennedy’s anti-Bork rant, but change the name to Sotamayor.

“In Sotamayor’s world, African-Americans will be denied…”

49 callahan23  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:51:03pm

OT: Human Rights Watch Goes to Saudi Arabia

A delegation from Human Rights Watch was recently in Saudi Arabia. To investigate the mistreatment of women under Saudi Law? To campaign for the rights of homosexuals, subject to the death penalty in Saudi Arabia? To protest the lack of religious freedom in the Saudi Kingdom? To issue a report on Saudi political prisoners?
No, no, no, and no. The delegation arrived to raise money from wealthy Saudis by highlighting HRW’s demonization of Israel. An HRW spokesperson, Sarah Leah Whitson, highlighted HRW’s battles with “pro-Israel pressure groups in the US, the European Union and the United Nations.” (Was Ms. Whitson required to wear a burkha, or are exceptions made for visiting anti-Israel “human rights” activists”? Driving a car, no doubt, was out of the question.)
Apparently, Ms. Whitson found no time to criticize Saudi Arabia’s abysmal human rights record. …
… The point of my post, though, is not that HRW is pro-Saudi, but that it is maniacally anti-Israel. The most recent manifestation is that its officers see nothing unseemly about raising funds among the elite of one of the most totalitarian nations on earth, with a pitch about how the money is needed to fight “pro-Israel forces,” without the felt need to discuss any of the Saudis’ manifold human rights violations, and without apparent concern that becoming dependent on funds emanating from a brutal dictatorship leaves you vulnerable to that brutal dictatorship later cutting off the flow of funds, if you don’t “behave.” BY: DAVID BERNSTEIN at: WSJ

The Saudis and HRW our friends not so friends.
/// Oh, must I?
Saudis and HRW: Yuck ‘n spit

50 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:51:08pm

re: #47 JacksonTn

NGU … well, I didn’t change it but I quoted my post and posted what needed to be corrected … so not actually changing the original post … how you doing? …

Pretty good Pretty good. And you?

51 albusteve  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:51:27pm

how sad…it’s official


[Link: www.foxnews.com…]

52 JacksonTn  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:52:05pm

re: #50 Nevergiveup

Pretty good Pretty good. And you?

NGU … great … just finishing up work … about to call it a day …

53 Sharmuta  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:52:19pm

re: #45 Killgore Trout

It’s probably from his extensive “research” into Islamist Beefcake.

I think spencer is trying to suggest something. I guess it’s not libel if there’s a photo.

54 Occasional Reader  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:52:59pm

re: #49 callahan23

OT: Human Rights Watch Goes to Saudi Arabia


The Saudis and HRW our friends not so friends.
/// Oh, must I?
Saudis and HRW: Yuck ‘n spit

It’s a real shame, especially since HRW grew out of “Helsinki Watch”, which reported on human rights abuses in the USSR, and was generally on the side of the good guys.

55 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:53:14pm

re: #52 JacksonTn

NGU … great … just finishing up work … about to call it a day …

Yeah, this is my long day. I’m here till 8:00 PM. I’m off tomorrow but I got a shit load of errands to do.

56 Dianna  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:55:19pm

re: #44 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Was just looking at you immediate-prior …
wondering how that’s going …
wondering if I could have the temerity to ask.

It’s a nightmare. I’m too upset for belief.

57 HoosierHoops  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:56:18pm

Good afternoon Lizards!
I saw about 30 minutes of SotoMayor hearings.
How is everyone today?

58 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:57:51pm

re: #56 Dianna

It’s a nightmare. I’m too upset for belief.

{ { {Dianna} } }

59 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:58:29pm

re: #57 HoosierHoops

Good afternoon Lizards!
I saw about 30 minutes of SotoMayor hearings.
How is everyone today?

I’m doing better than you.
I didn’t watch any of it at all.
:D

60 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 2:59:03pm

Batch of Teva drug central to Jackson probe recalled
Published: 07.15.09, 00:56 / Israel News
Federal drug enforcement officials have contacted the maker of the powerful anesthetic propofol as part of their investigation into Michael Jackson’s death.

A spokeswoman for Israel-based Teva Pharmaceuticals says the Drug Enforcement Administration asked the company about a specific batch of the drug. (AP)

I knew it was the JEW’s fault?
/

61 ShanghaiEd  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:00:25pm

re: #43 jacksontn

SE … I already changed the post … why don’t you go back and look at it instead of posting this everywhere … I put your name there and it should have been Flyers1974 …

I hate to quibble, Jackson, but you can’t “change” a post. It’s still there, along with its updings.

You did add a note just now (10 minutes after I pointed out your mistake; though you said you had done it “already”) on the dead thread —not apologizing to me for your mistake, but only noting that I was a “different drooler.”

Jeez, Jackson. I thought you were a classier person than that.

62 HoosierHoops  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:00:26pm

re: #59 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I’m doing better than you.
I didn’t watch any of it at all.
:D

My broadband went out today.. I’m on dial up..This suks…
I should call tech support but a think a cold beer is in order first

63 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:01:01pm

re: #54 Occasional Reader

It’s a real shame, especially since HRW grew out of “Helsinki Watch”, which reported on human rights abuses in the USSR, and was generally on the side of the good guys.

I recall someone writing that, since the fall of the Soviet Union, Soros has developed a very peculiar way of deciding what “oppression” he’s against.

64 Dianna  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:01:15pm

re: #60 Nevergiveup

I don’t quite understand. Is the DEA saying that one batch was stronger than it was supposed to be? Or had some strange additive? Or what?

Or maybe they should be saying that Jackson was an idiot?

65 Dianna  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:02:07pm

re: #61 ShanghaiEd

One really good idea - for everyone - would be to leave disputes on the thread they happened on.

66 callahan23  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:02:34pm

re: #54 Occasional Reader

It’s a real shame, especially since HRW grew out of “Helsinki Watch”, which reported on human rights abuses in the USSR, and was generally on the side of the good guys.

It is a shame, yes. My answer in the ‘The Other Les’ words: “Scratch a “progressive” and you will usually find a tyrannophile.”
I can’t come up with a better and more coherent answer. Unless and otherwise RANT I MUST. phfff

67 Dianna  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:02:44pm

re: #63 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I recall someone writing that, since the fall of the Soviet Union, Soros has developed a very peculiar way of deciding what “oppression” he’s against.

Helsinki Watch hadn’t a thing to do with Soros, except that he contributed to it once.

68 WinterCat  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:03:30pm

re: #54 Occasional Reader

It’s a real shame, especially since HRW grew out of “Helsinki Watch”, which reported on human rights abuses in the USSR, and was generally on the side of the good guys.


There are no good guys. Only other people with a different way of seeing and reacting to the world.
//

69 HoosierHoops  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:03:40pm

re: #66 callahan23

Hi stud..How goes it today?
Hope today finds you well

70 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:04:26pm

re: #67 Dianna

Helsinki Watch hadn’t a thing to do with Soros, except that he contributed to it once.

Didn’t know that, but was under the belief that HRW, as presently constituted, is a Soros operation. Correct?

71 JacksonTn  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:04:29pm

re: #61 ShanghaiEd

SE … I know you cannot change a post … so I did the best I could and quoted the post and said it should have been Flyers1974 … you are a whiner … and no I am not a classy person or mature … so that remark did not offend me … what else do you want from me? .. sorry I put your name on the post instead of Flyers … now what? … I am done with it …

72 albusteve  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:05:13pm

re: #67 Dianna

Helsinki Watch hadn’t a thing to do with Soros, except that he contributed to it once.

unearned dings…how devastating

73 Dianna  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:05:35pm

re: #72 albusteve

Huh?

74 Dianna  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:06:14pm

re: #70 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Didn’t know that, but was under the belief that HRW, as presently constituted, is a Soros operation. Correct?

I don’t actually know. I could check their annual report, of course.

75 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:06:36pm

re: #74 Dianna

I don’t actually know. I could check their annual report, of course.

It’s not a big thing.

76 callahan23  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:08:00pm

re: #69 HoosierHoops

Hi stud..How goes it today?
Hope today finds you well

Back from one day of LGF abstinence. Yesterday was a pub-quiz. Our group’s won. Yeah, well deserved I might add. Not my doin’ though. ;-)
I hope you are well and a kickin’.

77 opnion  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:08:55pm

re: #51 albusteve

how sad…it’s official


[Link: www.foxnews.com…]

OMG, pass the kleenex.

78 calcajun  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:09:33pm

These are the tales we must keep telling our children and their children on down through the ages:

[Link: www.cnn.com…]

We keep losing more men like this every day and soon there will no longer be any living memory. A mentioned earlier that Darrel “Shifty” Powers of “Band of Brothers” fame passed away last month on June 17. These are the heroes to whom we owe so much, whose courage we can never surpass, and thanks to their sacrifices, we haven’t had the need to put ourselves to the test which they went through.

79 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:11:14pm

re: #64 Dianna

I don’t quite understand. Is the DEA saying that one batch was stronger than it was supposed to be? Or had some strange additive? Or what?

Or maybe they should be saying that Jackson was an idiot?

Maybe both?

80 HoosierHoops  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:11:16pm

re: #76 callahan23

Back from one day of LGF abstinence. Yesterday was a pub-quiz. Our group’s won. Yeah, well deserved I might add. Not my doin’ though. ;-)
I hope you are well and a kickin’.

Was it a sports quiz? Or just general questions…
Nice seeing you

81 Eowyn2  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:11:17pm

re: #8 Occasional Reader

By the way; here are some wise Latina women.

I wish Obama would get on their side, too.

“It speaks volumes that Raúl’s second-in-command is older than he is,” says Mr. Freyre. “They’re just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.”

We can only hope so.

82 albusteve  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:11:27pm

re: #73 Dianna

Huh?

we need a Ding Distress Squad…a fast action cyber unit that specifically deals with misplaced or ill gotten dings…maybe a Wrongfully Dindged Board of Inquiry…

83 Van Helsing  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:11:32pm

Useless, speechifying swine and senators.

But I repeat myself.

84 JacksonTn  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:12:14pm

re: #82 albusteve

we need a Ding Distress Squad…a fast action cyber unit that specifically deals with misplaced or ill gotten dings…maybe a Wrongfully Dindged Board of Inquiry…

albusteve … you don’t even ding … crazy boy …

85 albusteve  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:12:32pm

re: #77 opnion

OMG, pass the kleenex.

there’s a Distressed Fans Hotline number at the bottom if you need it

86 Dianna  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:12:57pm

re: #82 albusteve

we need a Ding Distress Squad…a fast action cyber unit that specifically deals with misplaced or ill gotten dings…maybe a Wrongfully Dindged Board of Inquiry…

Has anyone that keen a sense of injustice? Or does anyone need punishment that badly?

87 opnion  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:13:38pm

re: #85 albusteve

there’s a Distressed Fans Hotline number at the bottom if you need it

Thank’s man, that will help.

88 albusteve  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:13:45pm

re: #86 Dianna

Has anyone that keen a sense of injustice? Or does anyone need punishment that badly?

yes, we’ll smoke ‘em out…they can run but they can’t hide

89 Kragar  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:13:58pm

re: #82 albusteve

we need a Ding Distress Squad…a fast action cyber unit that specifically deals with misplaced or ill gotten dings…maybe a Wrongfully Dindged Board of Inquiry…

Perhaps we can train animals to monitor dings, something with really good hearing to detect them better, like bats. THATS IT! DING-BATS!

wait…

90 [deleted]  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:14:12pm
91 Eowyn2  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:14:43pm

re: #60 Nevergiveup

Batch of Teva drug central to Jackson probe recalled
Published: 07.15.09, 00:56 / Israel News


A spokeswoman for Israel-based Teva Pharmaceuticals says the Drug Enforcement Administration asked the company about a specific batch of the drug. (AP)

I knew it was the JEW’s fault?
/

Is it possible that someone tampered with MJs drugs?

92 Kragar  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:14:43pm

re: #86 Dianna

Has anyone that keen a sense of injustice? Or does anyone need punishment that badly?

Oh yes, punishment is quite necessary.

93 albusteve  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:14:54pm

re: #89 Kragar (proud to be kafir)

Perhaps we can train animals to monitor dings, something with really good hearing to detect them better, like bats. THATS IT! DING-BATS!

wait…

you are now Head of Project Developement

94 callahan23  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:14:57pm

re: #80 HoosierHoops

Was it a sports quiz? Or just general questions…
Nice seeing you

Five questions each category, sports, VIP-gossip, music, general knowledge (my topic) fun and games. I mainly see the fun and camaraderie in it not necessarily the competition.

95 irongrampa  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:15:04pm

re: #85 albusteve

A net plus, imho, now perhaps Tonyboy can devote himself fully to playing football. He’s definitely got the talent, so less distraction can only help.

96 ShanghaiEd  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:15:49pm

re: #65 Dianna

One really good idea - for everyone - would be to leave disputes on the thread they happened on.

Excellent point, Diana. I’ll take it back there, right now. Thanks.

97 reine.de.tout  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:16:06pm

re: #38 ShanghaiEd

OT, reposted from previous thread:

re: #517 JacksonTn

Hi, Jackson: I’ve got a problem, here. I was just reading the Lounge thread and notice that for some reason you have cut and pasted an angry conversation you had with another commenter, then substituted my name for theirs.

You then call me an “Obama drooler,” and “drunk with ignorance” for something I did not say.

I have no idea why you would do this, but I really don’t appreciate it. Goodness knows I have enough flaws of my own to answer for, without taking on someone else’s.

I would also like for the folks who approved of your take-down of me…Lincoln, Mandy, Pink, and Reine, so far…to note that the information is false. I’d appreciate a correction, when you have time.

My response just posted on the thread below:

Ed. Jax’n came back on that thread and said it wasn’t you.
Those of us reading those threads, btw, as I was, knew it anyhow, because we knew what everbody said, and we knew it wasn’t you. Even if we had not known, Jackson came back and made the correction.

Please do not ever make an assumption that I have updinged somebody because I agree with or like their “takedown” of anybody. There are many reasons I upding; you do not know and cannot know what they are.

98 Eowyn2  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:16:12pm

re: #82 albusteve

we need a Ding Distress Squad…a fast action cyber unit that specifically deals with misplaced or ill gotten dings…maybe a Wrongfully Dindged Board of Inquiry…

The first time I updinged someone, I really downdinged them instead. I felt really bad. Said poster is now two dings short of a dingpack.

99 IslandLibertarian  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:16:27pm

re: #78 calcajun

The stories of real heroes capturing a gun position overlooking Omaha Beach on June 6…or a Camero and a Peter Built transforming into battling robots.

I choose real heroes.

/Michael who?

100 reloadingisnotahobby  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:16:29pm

re: #80 HoosierHoops
It was a “pub-quiz”??”Guess That Grog”!
No biggy,I’ve survived 100’s of
those…Can’t remember them ,but I’m still here right?

101 albusteve  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:16:39pm

re: #91 Eowyn2

Is it possible that someone tampered with MJs drugs?

yes, himself…totally self destructve

102 Eowyn2  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:16:44pm

re: #86 Dianna

Has anyone that keen a sense of injustice? Or does anyone need punishment that badly?

who’s doing the punishing?

103 [deleted]  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:17:37pm
104 albusteve  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:18:40pm

re: #102 Eowyn2

who’s doing the punishing?

the collective…we will mercilessly hurl insults until the perp loses conciousness

105 HoosierHoops  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:19:32pm

Moving upthread…On dial up..Dang it!
See ya in 30 minutes or so.. :)

106 Dianna  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:19:59pm

re: #91 Eowyn2

Is it possible that someone tampered with MJs drugs?

I don’t know. I’m not entirely sure I care. My suspicion is that he OD’d himself without much help from anyone.

107 Lincolntf  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:20:02pm

Contender for the shortest ever term before an ethical flameout?

Buh-Bye

108 J.S.  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:20:08pm

re: #39 Alouette

It that’s the case of Yoffie, then what of Ben-Ami?

109 Dianna  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:20:37pm

re: #96 ShanghaiEd

Excellent point, Diana. I’ll take it back there, right now. Thanks.

Good! I think you’ll feel better.

110 albusteve  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:21:11pm

re: #95 irongrampa

A net plus, imho, now perhaps Tonyboy can devote himself fully to playing football. He’s definitely got the talent, so less distraction can only help.

the whole team is looking more focused and working really hard…this legacy of mental mistakes has killed them through the years…special teams stink, so they brought in a new coach who has been terrorizing the players and they love him for it…one example…look for a vastly improved running game too

111 Dianna  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:21:13pm

re: #92 Kragar (proud to be kafir)

Oh yes, punishment is quite necessary.

The only punishment we have here at Castle Anthrax?

112 calcajun  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:22:36pm

re: #82 albusteve

we need a Ding Distress Squad…a fast action cyber unit that specifically deals with misplaced or ill gotten dings…maybe a Wrongfully Dindged Board of Inquiry…

“If you feel that you have been dinged unfairly, press ‘1’”
“If you’d like to retract a ding, press ‘2’”
“For all other dinging matters, please stay on the line.”

113 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:22:54pm

re: #91 Eowyn2

Is it possible that someone tampered with MJs drugs?

He probably had more drugs than most pharmacies?

114 calcajun  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:24:03pm

re: #111 Dianna

The only punishment we have here at Castle Anthrax?

I did not notice that the Grail-shaped beacon was even on? Oh, bother.

115 Eowyn2  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:26:15pm

re: #99 IslandLibertarian

The stories of real heroes capturing a gun position overlooking Omaha Beach on June 6…or a Camero and a Peter Built transforming into battling robots.

I choose real heroes.

/Michael who?

We cannot take our young children to Band of Brothers. I would not want my 3 & 4 yr old grandsons watching “The Great Raid”
So we take them to watch the good guys win the battle of the robots or the star wars trilogy or the evil Disney characters get beaten (and usually dead.)

At least with transformers, star wars, and the old Disney movies, the bad guys really were bad guys and not the ‘planet rapers’ that so many shows are about now. I hate Power Rangers

116 Eowyn2  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:27:01pm

re: #103 buzzsawmonkey

Does anyone have a lolcat-o’-nine-tails?


barbed tongue cat-o-nine?

117 reine.de.tout  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:34:09pm

re: #82 albusteve

we need a Ding Distress Squad…a fast action cyber unit that specifically deals with misplaced or ill gotten dings…maybe a Wrongfully Dindged Board of Inquiry…

Those “formatting” errors happen from time to time - anybody reading the thread knows immediately when they happen.

And for somebody to assume they know WHY I (or anybody else) dinged up any particular comment, without asking me, and posting my nic with reasons that the commenter is assuming I had, is just wrong.

118 axegrinder  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:47:30pm

Cars that turn into robots. What’s not to like? Brilliant marketing, even better graphics. Fun movie.

119 axegrinder  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:52:07pm

re: #117 reine.de.tout

Seriously, does anyone actually care how many dings they get/don’t get? I admit, it’s gratifying when several people think I made a witty or insightful comment but I don’t get down when the opposite is true. Isn’t the karma rating more a testament to how much time one spends enjoying the camaraderie of LGF then anything else? Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

120 calcajun  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:53:30pm

re: #118 axegrinder

While we’re becoming robots which drive cars.

121 axegrinder  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 3:55:46pm

I always come in on the ass end of threads. My brilliance wasted on non-existent lizards. Curses.

122 ShanghaiEd  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 4:07:40pm

re: #119 axegrinder

Seriously, does anyone actually care how many dings they get/don’t get? I admit, it’s gratifying when several people think I made a witty or insightful comment but I don’t get down when the opposite is true. Isn’t the karma rating more a testament to how much time one spends enjoying the camaraderie of LGF then anything else? Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

I agree, axegrinder. I don’t care a hoot about dings I get/don’t get, and I have no problem with different opinions. I was pointing out a comment that quoted an angry conversation with somebody else and put my name on the top. Just correcting a mistake, and it’s been corrected. I’ll move on.

123 Flyers1974  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 4:12:24pm

re: #119 axegrinder

Seriously, does anyone actually care how many dings they get/don’t get? I admit, it’s gratifying when several people think I made a witty or insightful comment but I don’t get down when the opposite is true. Isn’t the karma rating more a testament to how much time one spends enjoying the camaraderie of LGF then anything else? Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

Without me, my karma points are useless. Without my karma points, I am useless.

124 ShanghaiEd  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 4:34:10pm

re: #121 axegrinder

I always come in on the ass end of threads. My brilliance wasted on non-existent lizards. Curses.

PS: I seem to live on the ass end of threads. As a result, your brilliance is never wasted on me.

125 punchy100  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 4:34:29pm

Moral Relativism.

…that right and wrong is determined by your genetic background, or your upbringing, and is a problem only of perspective: that’s the essence of Sotomayor. That’s what Kyl’s questions are about.

Kyl first asked whether Sotomayor would agree with President Obama’s analogy about judging that suggested there is place in decision-making for empathy for certain disadvantaged groups. But Sotomayor rejected that approach flatly. “We apply law to facts,” Sotomayor said. “We don’t apply feelings,” evoking a grateful response from Kyl. (For a moment, he almost made it sound like they were simpatico. For a moment.)

But then Kyl, a lawyer, got to the heart of the matter, reading aloud several passages from a speech Sotomayor delivered at Seton Hall University in 2003. “To judge is an exercise in power. There is no objective stance. No neutrality. No escape from choice,” Kyl quoted Sotomayor as saying.

From Sotomayor:

“Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences…our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.”

This is all wrong. Being a judge demands objectivity and, like she said earlier, applying law to facts. But any mention she makes of this herself is only Orwellian lipservice: her record and her unguarded words speak for themselves.

FEDERALIST No. 78 says of the judiciary:

…in a republic it is a no less excellent barrier to the encroachments and oppressions of the representative body. And it is the best expedient which can be devised in any government, to secure a steady, upright, and impartial administration of the laws…The independence of the judges may be an essential safeguard against the effects of occasional ill humors in the society. These sometimes extend no farther than to the injury of the private rights of particular classes of citizens, by unjust and partial laws.

And that’s not all; Sotomayor goes along with Ginsburg in saying that we should look to international law as a guide in the courts. This is ridiculous. A justice’s has an obligation to the Constitution only. Other nations’ laws and precedents have no bearing or interest in a US court, and can only do harm.

126 P. Aaron  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 4:40:51pm

Lindsey Graham comes out swinging.

Right or Left?

127 ShanghaiEd  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 4:47:16pm

re: #123 Flyers1974

Without me, my karma points are useless. Without my karma points, I am useless.

flyers, that is worthy of a Zen koan. Seriously. It’s given me food for thought, and I was hungry after my rant. :)

128 Flyers1974  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 4:59:13pm

re: #124 ShanghaiEd

re: #127 ShanghaiEd

flyers, that is worthy of a Zen koan. Seriously. It’s given me food for thought, and I was hungry after my rant. :)

You certainly had every right to be pissed before you knew it was an honest/drunken mistake. It has nothing to do with karma points. I’d be pretty weirded out if I saw my name over someone else’s posts.

129 Flyers1974  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 5:26:59pm

re: #127 ShanghaiEd

The funny thing is, when I wrote that karma point thing, I had no idea about Jackson’s antics or your rant afterwards. I remained blissfully ignorant until reading elsewhere your post about Jackson putting your name over the post of another “commentator.” I was thinking, who might that mystery commentator be?

130 reine.de.tout  Tue, Jul 14, 2009 8:46:39pm

re: #119 axegrinder

Seriously, does anyone actually care how many dings they get/don’t get? I admit, it’s gratifying when several people think I made a witty or insightful comment but I don’t get down when the opposite is true. Isn’t the karma rating more a testament to how much time one spends enjoying the camaraderie of LGF then anything else? Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

Axegrinder - well, of course most people care, I think.
The issue is how much stock we put into it.
There are two users, neither of whom posts very much, who I’ve seen go back on threads a couple of days old, and down-ding every comment I’ve made.

I’ve never made an issue of it, and I certainly would not name them. They have some adverse reaction to me, and so be it. Making an issue of it, or calling them out on it would serve no purpose. They are allowed to have their own reasons for the “ding” system, and to use it however they want. As am I.

I don’t like condescension. It is usually used by one person toward another who appears to be less gifted in some way. It is a bullying tactic, imo. And I will upding anyone who attempts to defend themselves from it.


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