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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
I imagine the prospects of going through confirmation is making it harder to round up the most desirable nominees. On the one hand, being a Federal judge is not the worst job in the world for a lawyer, although it takes a certain personality type to endure the unique challenges, and it is for life during good behavior, adequate but not particularly generous salary, medical care, excellent retirement, etc. OTOH, running the confirmation gauntlet has to be the biggest hassle of one’s life. Not many have led such pristine lives without sin, misjudgments, overreactions, and lawyers are constantly dealing with dispute where tempers can flare, resentments hardened, and disagreements are a fact of daily life. Every one you have ever dealt with will have a chance to get even. Your professors, your writings, the judges you have appeared before will all be consulted. Your religion, your civic participations, political alliances, neighbors, relatives will all be scrutinized. Someone who is a creditable candidate has enjoyed a fair amount of success, is very likely secure in his or her professional and family life, bills paid, bad habits kept within limits, mating habits, old misbehaviors obscured in the distant past, etc. Not many feel the need to expose themselves to this charade. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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"Mitch McConnell Goes to the Mattresses for Trump's Judicial Nominees " "Mattresses"? Is there a play on words in that article? ____________________ | |||
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^ A reference from "The Godfather" perhaps?? "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Ah, OK, I had to look that up. Makes better sense than what I was imagining. ____________________ | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
You know any good-a spots onna west side? | |||
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| Mired in the Fog of Lucidity |
Way to go chump. You're a joke. A fool. A race-baiter. A waste of everyone's time. Dem Rep. Al Green introduces articles of impeachment against Trump: http://www.foxnews.com/politic...t-against-trump.html | |||
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Winning:  https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.958e6255e1f3 ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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Al Green shares one brain cell with Sheila Jackson Lee. They're both raging DOLTS. "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower |
Love his soulful tunes, though | |||
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Heheheh  We covered "Love and Happiness" in a band I was in. Good tune!! My brother and I were the horn dudes... "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
Someone needs do take his ass to the river, and push him in. | |||
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And I didn't think it was possible for rap to suck any more than it already does. | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower |
At least Vanilla Ice is doing something useful these days. | |||
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More winning today with an Executive Order on healthcare. It's not perfect, but it is a YUGE step in the right direction! | |||
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Lighten up and laugh |
That mayor of San Juan is out of her mind. There is sanity...and then her about twenty three miles down the road. | |||
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“If I was a Republican President, which I would never be, I would have a vested interest in not a lot of [Puerto Ricans] moving [to the US]. Wherever Puerto Ricans land, it’s going to change. Where are they going to go? Florida. And how are they going to vote? Mostly Democrat. So if I were Mr. Trump I would want things to get here fast, very quickly. Because in the last two elections, the electoral map has come down to Florida.” https://www.usatoday.com/story...expletive/754274001/ ____________________ | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Missouri pol apologized for hoping for Trump assassination. Now, she compares him to Hitler...  Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, D-University City, posted on Twitter Thursday morning a picture comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler. JEFFERSON CITY • A University City state senator caught criticism on Thursday for the second time since August after she posted another controversial social media post regarding President Donald Trump. http://www.stltoday.com/news/l...0B89BC16A7DF9646B9B6 "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower |
Too easy The perfect retort is just too easy. | |||
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Perhaps she should give some thought about what a real "Hitler" would do to her--her name suggests she was not Aryan. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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