Thursday, July 16, 2009
We Choose The Moon!
Isn't everybody tired of the law already?
Watching the Sotomayor confirmation hearings have left me with a major case of the law blahs.
It's like watching an intelligent woman have to repeatedly explain basic legal concepts to complete idiots, over and over and over again.
Precedent, "settled law," legal realism, it's obvious no one is interested in her answers so why don't these pompous windbags cut her loose already and put her on the bench?
I enjoyed Michael Mayo's column on Sotomayor's mother, and their preparations for Noche Buena every year in Margate. Finally a fresh angle on this dead story.
What else -- the 11th Circuit explains that when the government offers you GoLytley at the airport, it's probably not a good thing.
Hey -- our own Billy Shields won an award from the Florida Bar.
Congrats Billy!
Finally, today is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch to the moon.
What better way to celebrate than love scenes between Diane Lane and the "blouse man," Viggo Mortenson?
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At least we have Senator Franken.
SECOND!!! Too early to call the Shumie....hmmm..
Barzee didn't make the short list for Fed Judge.
Today at noon in front of the Latin America Cafeteria on Flagler where Moreno eats lunch hundreds of us will be chanting
'NO BARZEE NO PEACE...
NO BARZEE NO PEACE."
My boyfriend has a commemorative patch for the Apollo 11 mission. He collected all the patches he could get his hands on. We're total nerds.
Did you see the launch of Endeavor yesterday? I can never get over going to space. Every launch is like the first time. I wish I was an astronaut and blasting into space. We need a moon mission soon. Of course, I'd lose my job if they televised any of it. Yesterday, during the busiest part of my day, I had the Nasa channel streaming on my desktop.
As far as the confirmation hearings and Judge Sotomayor, why the heck is it that people latch on to the stupidest buzz word and hold onto it for dear life? Is it possible for anyone to ask a question in plain English without attempting to sensationalize every single thing?
If I hear one more reference to "Wise Latina", I'm sending THAT person to the moon!
love it 8:42!
""The New York Times described Sotomayor in similar terms, remarking that she’d “stayed cool” throughout the proceedings.
But her demeanor seemed to irritate Graham, who asked of Sotomayor, “Who are we getting here?”
Had the judge gotten angry, even justifiably so, it would have been used to undermine her as it has to undermine countless other women and minorities. By remaining calm under pressure, Sotomayor proved what she’s taken so much heat already for pointing out: She really is a “wise Latina.""
An oldie but a goodie. When music meant something--
Fly me to the moon
Let me sing among those stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby kiss me
Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you
RIP Francis Albert Sinatra
8:21- Props to Homeboy Frank.
didnt like how she declined to answer the hypothetical case of abortion
btw hows your latina?
9/36-I don't play soldier like homeboy frank.
Frank dressed like a real soldier!
9:34, Old timer. Still listen to vinyl?
9:34, agreed. Graham is a bully.
sinatra, apollo anniversary-- the shumies been called.
I was personally inclined to support her confirmation. Although I'm a conservative, I believe that the President's choices are entitled to deference as long as the candidate is qualified. But many of her answers have been so dishonest and rife with rank dissimulation, that I'm having second thoughts.
5pm shum.
Cuyahoga County Sheriff embroiled in "Shumie Scandal Investigation"
"Cuyahoga County Sheriff Bob Reid was forced to call a news conference to explain a news release in which over 44 county employees have been arrested or suspended for an investigation into billing the county for work time while they were at home.
Reid said "the term Shumie Time was used by the suspects to denote the time they were at home when they supposed to be at work. They used the term- we didn't. We just reported it in our news release. Quite frankly our investigators were stumped when they first heard it used. An internet search traced it to some surfers in California and then almost simultaneously to some law firms in Chicago where the attorneys apparently used it as code to their secretaries when they were leaving work early. They said they were working on the Shumie case. In any event, we did not dub this the Shumie Time case, they did."
Billy Shields rocks
Wow, there is a great deal of effective material above!
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