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The SCOTUS confirmation circus has begun....

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September 09, 2018, 09:42 AM
6guns
The SCOTUS confirmation circus has begun....
quote:
Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
I didn't really much like Ted Cruz until now. Please go back and watch synthplayer's vid. It's outstanding.

GOD SAVE PRESIDENT TRUMP. Where would we be now without him?


That was a fantastic statement! Thanks, synth for posting it!




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September 09, 2018, 02:01 PM
flashguy
quote:
Originally posted by c1steve:
Way to go Ted Cruz! Very straightforward and to the point.
That's MY Senator! I'm so proud of him! We need 40 more like him.

flashguy




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September 09, 2018, 03:22 PM
BamaJeepster




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September 09, 2018, 09:24 PM
Sigmund
Speaking of Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg, anyone else NOT planing to see this bio pic when it comes out in December:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4669788/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Here's the plot summary:

The story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights and what she had to overcome in order to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
September 10, 2018, 01:13 PM
Il Cattivo
That's just so creepy. They're terrified of her dying, and eulogizing her before she's dead.
September 10, 2018, 01:30 PM
grumpy1
Good lord. I bet none of these idiots would ever vote for her anyhow.


September 10, 2018, 01:42 PM
ensigmatic
quote:
Originally posted by bigdeal:
quote:
Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
The biggest problem here is that Roe was a badly written decision....
Oh I'll go a bit further than that. Roe was horrible jurisprudence and likely the biggest failure of the high court. It absolutely should be overturned because it was a garbage decision given there is 'zero' constitutional authority to support it. Justice Kennedy's wet dream decision for gay marriage by trying to wrap it in the 14th amendment is another decision that should be set aside given its also a bastardization of non-existent constitutional authority.

Agreed. Those were poor decisions, IMO. I don't necessarily disagree with their outcomes, but I believe that how we arrive somewhere is every bit as important as where we arrive.

quote:
Originally posted by bigdeal:
And this coming from a person who isn't terribly religious, and has only limited interest in this topic.

Same here. Both topics: Abortion and gay marriage.

In fact: I'm libertarian/liberal, depending upon your perspective and definitions. Still: Bad jurisprudence is bad jurisprudence.



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September 10, 2018, 10:44 PM
RNshooter
When are we supposed to force a vote on Kavanaugh?

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September 10, 2018, 11:06 PM
cslinger
FFS
Look I really don’t care who you want to fuck. I have utterly no dog in the fight. Make sure nobody gets hurt and keep the noise down after 11 and rock on with your bad self. Man, woman, sheep in green jello what ev’s we all got our kinks.

That being said in that Maine ad NON BINARY PERSON!!! PULLLLLEEEEAAAASE. Look at the end of the day it all comes down to plumbing. You are either a man or a woman. PERIOD. No matter what you think or what you want to do. I could care less if you are a woman who likes women. A man who likes men or either who likes sheep. But for FFS you are either a friggin man or woman. PERIOD. Nature is a fickle bitch regarding this.

Sigh I truly don’t care what “your thing is”. But you are not a GOD DAMNED NON BINARY PERSON!!!!!!

Hallelujah, holy shit. Where’s the Tylenol.


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September 11, 2018, 01:03 PM
bigdeal
quote:
Originally posted by cslinger:
FFS
Look I really don’t care who you want to fuck. I have utterly no dog in the fight. Make sure nobody gets hurt and keep the noise down after 11 and rock on with your bad self. Man, woman, sheep in green jello what ev’s we all got our kinks.

That being said in that Maine ad NON BINARY PERSON!!! PULLLLLEEEEAAAASE. Look at the end of the day it all comes down to plumbing. You are either a man or a woman. PERIOD. No matter what you think or what you want to do. I could care less if you are a woman who likes women. A man who likes men or either who likes sheep. But for FFS you are either a friggin man or woman. PERIOD. Nature is a fickle bitch regarding this.

Sigh I truly don’t care what “your thing is”. But you are not a GOD DAMNED NON BINARY PERSON!!!!!!

Hallelujah, holy shit. Where’s the Tylenol.
The running commentary I use to offend the millenials around here goes like this. Reach down and pull out the top of your britches and look down. If you see some stuff dangling there you're male. If you don't, you're female. End of topic. Their response is usually priceless. Smile


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September 11, 2018, 07:04 PM
synthplayer
quote:
Originally posted by bigdeal:
quote:
Originally posted by cslinger:
FFS
Look I really don’t care who you want to fuck. I have utterly no dog in the fight. Make sure nobody gets hurt and keep the noise down after 11 and rock on with your bad self. Man, woman, sheep in green jello what ev’s we all got our kinks.

That being said in that Maine ad NON BINARY PERSON!!! PULLLLLEEEEAAAASE. Look at the end of the day it all comes down to plumbing. You are either a man or a woman. PERIOD. No matter what you think or what you want to do. I could care less if you are a woman who likes women. A man who likes men or either who likes sheep. But for FFS you are either a friggin man or woman. PERIOD. Nature is a fickle bitch regarding this.

Sigh I truly don’t care what “your thing is”. But you are not a GOD DAMNED NON BINARY PERSON!!!!!!

Hallelujah, holy shit. Where’s the Tylenol.
The running commentary I use to offend the millenials around here goes like this. Reach down and pull out the top of your britches and look down. If you see some stuff dangling there you're male. If you don't, you're female. End of topic. Their response is usually priceless. Smile


Plumbing can be switched out. But, the question of whether you're female or male can be answered simply with a DNA test. Perhaps DNA tests should be required in order to obtain a VALID form of ID. Roll Eyes



I found what you said riveting.
September 13, 2018, 08:35 AM
JALLEN
Fox News

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas poked Sen. Cory Booker over the New Jersey Democrat's much-mocked invocation of "Spartacus" during last week's confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh.

Booker was roundly ridiculed after threatening to defy the Senate rules and release what he thought were confidential documents concerning Kavanaugh’s past,


“This is about the closest I’ll probably ever have in my life to an ‘I am Spartacus’ moment,” said Booker.

Thomas, who called his own contentious confirmation hearing back in 1991 a "high-tech lynching," took a jab at Booker during a conversation with the Federalist Society that aired Wednesday on C-SPAN.

“Honorable – if we could use that word about more people who are in public life, people who actually ask the questions at confirmation hearings, instead of 'Spartacus,'” Thomas said, prompting loud laughter in the audience.

The famously circumspect jurist went to lament that the overtly partisan confirmation hearings may pose a threat to civil society as lawmakers are more interested in scoring political points rather than questions the suitability of nominees.

“If we could use the word honorable more often, think about the difference it'll make,” he said. “Then, you'll have a legacy. We will have left the country in better shape, morally, structurally than we found it.”

“But as long as we're looking at our interests, or scoring points, or looking cute, or being on TV,” Thomas continued, “Especially the legal system, how do we maintain it? If you can't debate hard issues honestly, with honor, with integrity, how do we keep a civil society?”


After Booker's dramatic declaration, it was revealed that the potential 2020 presidential election contender, already had the approval to disclose the emails and the spectacle was merely theatrics.

“We cleared the documents last night shortly after Senator Booker’s staff asked us to,” William Burck, a lawyer working for former President George W. Bush told the New York Times.

“We were surprised to learn about Sen. Booker’s histrionics this morning because we had already told him he could use the documents publicly. In fact, we have said yes to every request made by the Senate Democrats to make documents public,” he added.

“Apparently, someone just wanted to break the rules and make a scene, but didn’t check their email,” a spokesman for committee Republicans said in a statement. “All of this drama this morning apparently was for nothing and it’s unfortunate,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told reporters.

Link




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
September 13, 2018, 11:11 AM
sdy
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/13...committee/index.html

The Senate Judiciary Committee's vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been delayed until next week.

In a vote on party lines, the committee voted on Thursday, 11-10, to set the vote on Kavanaugh's nomination for September 20 .
September 13, 2018, 11:27 AM
Spokane228
Clarence Thomas is the best!
September 13, 2018, 11:34 AM
PASig
Oh look, the "tolerant" Left is showing us their true selves once again. Roll Eyes

quote:

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and her staffers are facing taunts and threats over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, including a rape threat, reports the New York Times.

Buried under no fewer than ten paragraphs and the anodyne headline, “Interest Groups Turn Up Pressure on Senators Before Kavanaugh Vote,” the far-left New York Times finally gets to the meat of the story with the news that Collins and her staffers are facing “threats” and “vulgar language” from the left-wing Resistance, all of this in the hope of intimidating Collins to vote against Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

“The [left’s] frustration has boiled over at points,” the Times understates. “Annie Clark, a spokeswoman for Ms. Collins, provided The New York Times with copies of a letter and multiple voice mail messages addressed to the senator using vulgar language and outright threats.”

One example of a threat is a “caller [who] told a 25-year-old female staff member at one of Ms. Collins’s Maine offices that he hoped she would be raped and impregnated.”


Resistance Makes Rape Threat to Susan Collins Staffer over Kavanaugh Vote


September 13, 2018, 12:08 PM
Il Cattivo
quote:
Originally posted by sdy:
The Senate Judiciary Committee's vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been delayed until next week.

In a vote on party lines, the committee voted on Thursday, 11-10, to set the vote on Kavanaugh's nomination for September 20 .

Delayed? I didn't cite a source, but back on September 6th I posted that the 20th was already the date the committee planned to vote on.

I think CNN's spinning just a little bit when they say "delayed".
September 13, 2018, 12:14 PM
Veeper
quote:
Originally posted by synthplayer:
Plumbing can be switched out. But, the question of whether you're female or male can be answered simply with a DNA test. Perhaps DNA tests should be required in order to obtain a VALID form of ID. Roll Eyes


Chromosomes gonna hate.




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September 13, 2018, 12:19 PM
JALLEN
quote:
Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
quote:
Originally posted by sdy:
The Senate Judiciary Committee's vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been delayed until next week.

In a vote on party lines, the committee voted on Thursday, 11-10, to set the vote on Kavanaugh's nomination for September 20 .

Delayed? I didn't cite a source, but back on September 6th I posted that the 20th was already the date the committee planned to vote on.

I think CNN's spinning just a little bit when they say "delayed".


Not at all. The Committee’s rules allow a one week postponement on the vote, which the minority was expected to, and did, demand.

The vote could have been today, but for that procedural maneuver. So, next week it is.

Technically a delay, but one that was fully expected.




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
September 13, 2018, 12:23 PM
Il Cattivo
Ah, a backdated delay. I'd apologize to CNN, but...that's pretty darn technical, given that the plan is moving along just as it was always expected to.
September 13, 2018, 01:26 PM
nhtagmember
quote:
Originally posted by 911Boss:
Side note, there are agnostics and atheists who are also against abortion. It isn’t purely a “religious” issue...


I'm an atheist and I don't have a problem with abortion

my view is that if you're against abortion, don't have one

but if its a decision that the individual wants to make, then the individual should be able to make it

I don't believe it should have ever been a federal issue



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