Sotomayor picked

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Are we done talking about Australia yet?

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Are we done talking about Australia yet?

Not if Constellation has anything to say about it.

Any moment now we'll hear about how they don't need toilet paper Down Under because their ####### all comes out golden from their azzes.

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Would just like to note on this auspicious day that the first Jew to serve on the Supreme Court was Louis Brandeis, appointed by President Woodrow Wilson.

In 1916, President Wilson nominated Brandeis to become a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. However, his nomination was bitterly contested, partly because, as Justice William O. Douglas wrote, “Brandeis was a militant crusader for social justice whoever his opponent might be. He was dangerous not only because of his brilliance, his arithmetic, his courage. He was dangerous because he was incorruptible. . . [and] the fears of the Establishment were greater because Brandeis was the first Jew to be named to the Court." He was eventually confirmed and would become one of the most famous and influential figures ever to serve on it. His case opinions were, according to legal scholars, some of the “greatest defenses” of freedom of speech and the right to privacy ever written by a member of the high court.

If Sotomayor can achieve even a fraction of the legacy of Brandeis on the bench, she will have served nobly. I look forward to diversity on the court and dare I say it "empathy" -- the currently fashionable buzzword on the Sunday talk-show circuit.

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Are we done talking about Australia yet?

Not if Constellation has anything to say about it.

Any moment now we'll hear about how they don't need toilet paper Down Under because their ####### all comes out golden from their azzes.

Having a messy dump that requires more than the regulation number of sheets of TP is probably a criminal offense!

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Would just like to note on this auspicious day that the first Jew to serve on the Supreme Court was Louis Brandeis, appointed by President Woodrow Wilson.

In 1916, President Wilson nominated Brandeis to become a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. However, his nomination was bitterly contested, partly because, as Justice William O. Douglas wrote, “Brandeis was a militant crusader for social justice whoever his opponent might be. He was dangerous not only because of his brilliance, his arithmetic, his courage. He was dangerous because he was incorruptible. . . [and] the fears of the Establishment were greater because Brandeis was the first Jew to be named to the Court." He was eventually confirmed and would become one of the most famous and influential figures ever to serve on it. His case opinions were, according to legal scholars, some of the “greatest defenses” of freedom of speech and the right to privacy ever written by a member of the high court.

If Sotomayor can achieve even a fraction of the legacy of Brandeis on the bench, she will have served nobly. I look forward to diversity on the court and dare I say it "empathy" -- the currently fashionable buzzword on the Sunday talk-show circuit.

F### empathy. How about the CONSTITUTION?

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F### empathy. How about the CONSTITUTION?

May I suggest the very very first line at the tippy-top start of this thread:

Sotomayor: "I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it."

That was quoted from the article I led with.

BTW, I asked you this before, never got an answer.

Your sig:

"Tyrants from Hitler to Mao to Stalin have sought to disarm their own citizens, for the simple reason that unarmed people are easier to control. Our Founders, having just expelled the British army, knew that the right to bear arms serves as the guardian of every other right. This is the principle so often ignored by both sides in the gun control debate. Only armed citizens can resist tyrannical government."

-Ron Paul, June 26, 2006

That's bogus. Show any evidence whatsoever that Hitler, Mao, or Stalin "sought to disarm their citizens".

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Says who?

I'm sure you have photos lying around with you and your gangsta mates..

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Minority != gangsta

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Says Constellation. He's right because he's Australian and Australians are always right, if you don't believe me go see the airport at Melbourne, it shines! Shines, I tell ya. Not like the airport at Newark which is gross and dirty, like you I might add.

Jealousy is a curse. How's your cousin doing by the way?

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Minority != gangsta

No. But six always defends the gangsta types so I'm sure he hangs with a few of them.

Edited May 26, 2009 by Constellation

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Says Constellation. He's right because he's Australian and Australians are always right, if you don't believe me go see the airport at Melbourne, it shines! Shines, I tell ya. Not like the airport at Newark which is gross and dirty, like you I might add.

Jealousy is a curse. How's your cousin doing by the way?

As happy as a claim in Sydney Harbor.

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Its a shame really - cause before the 1960s the USA was really like one of those 50's picture postcards where mom walked around in a brightly colored house dress and high heels serving steaming cookies to the freckle-faced children right from the tray.

Oh and every Christmas was like a Thomas Kincaid painting (he paints from memory ya know!).

Hey don't blame me you come from a screwed up family.

As happy as a claim in Sydney Harbor.

Yeah I bet.

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Says who?

I'm sure you have photos lying around with you and your gangsta mates..

you thought processes really are interesting aren't they. If I follow your train of thought if a person claims to have friends they must produce photographs to prove it.

You must be the pride of the Australian public education system

You're like the Guy Pearce character in Memento.

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you thought processes really are interesting aren't they. If I follow your train of thought if a person claims to have friends they must produce photographs to prove it.

You must be the pride of the Australian public education system

You're like the Guy Pearce character in Memento.

Yeah that must be it. You definitely seem like the type that hangs out with those you so strongly defend.

Has MS-13 crowned you their leader yet?

Edited May 26, 2009 by Constellation

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Speaking of wild tangents, how about this crazy weather we're having? American weather is so retarded, they do it better down under.