Pro-life nutjobs murder Dr. George Tiller
He has fought for a woman’s right to choose for decades. He has been charged in a court of law and beat the politcally-motivated case with an aquittal. They have shot him in both arms trying to end his practice of medicine. They have bombed his clinic and picketed his clinic regularly.
They finally silenced Dr. [...]
Letting the air out of the rights rant on Sotomayor and race.
The Scotusblog lawyers have studied all 97 race-related cases of Judge Sotomayor. Here are the results, sure to piss off the extremists on the right:
Other than Ricci, Judge Sotomayor has decided 96 race-related cases while on the court of appeals.
Of the 96 cases, Judge Sotomayor and the panel rejected the claim of discrimination roughly 78 [...]
Like walking through a river of mud…
A bitch is dealing with a case of The Downs, y’all.
They happen…even to strong black women (wink). I’ve learned to acknowledge them and how to handle them…but The Downs make doing everything feel like a bitch is walking through a river of waste deep mud.
Ugh.
Anyhoo, last night I took a break from all things news [...]
Rightwing nutters are on the attack.
From ThinkProgress, The Progress Report:
‘WISE LATINA WOMAN’: “[L]ess than 24 hours after President Obama’s nomination of Sotomayor,” right-wing hate merchants seized on a 2001 speech about her Latina heritage and the courts, calling her “a racist” and a “bigot.” In a 2001 speech before the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal’s annual symposium, Sotomayor argued that [...]
Dancing With The Pols In Vegas & DC
Readers may remember that I called out Harry Reid’s ludicrous comments last week relating to his contention that he was withholding approval of funding for the shutdown of the Guantanamo detention facility and subsequent transfer of the prisoners because he did not want terrorists released to (in his telling of it) roam the streets of [...]
thoughts from my rainy garden
not much new to report on the garden front- things are growing and it has been chilly and rainy here so they are growing slowly. i haven’t spent much time perusing the news and whatnot but i have managed to pick up on the fact that not much has changed from last year at this [...]
U.S. Incarcerates Innocent Children!
Surrounded by pressing global and national crises, you may not have noticed that the U.S. under the Bush Administration began incarcerating immigrant children in family detention programs. Of course Immigration and Customs Enforcement would not admit to that terminology, nor would they agree that housing immigrant children (who accompany their parents who have, for instance, [...]
Prop 8 upheld.
From McClatchy:
The California Supreme Court ruled today that voters’ ban on gay marriages should prevail, but allowed to stand marriages that occurred in the brief window before the vote was taken.
The court majority rejected Attorney General Jerry Brown’s challenge that Proposition 8 violates “inalienable” rights of same-sex couples to pursue marriage.
The court’s opinion, a summary [...]
Sotomayor’s cases show us she is what?
They show that she swings both ways, as in right and left of the center. Which means no one can really call her a liberal or conservative.
Justice David Souter was supposed to be right of the center, which is why Bush41 nominated him. He was as far from that description as you can get.
Same goes [...]
Sotomayor-Muy Bueno!!!!
What a great way to wake up this morning..to the presser that announces Sonia Sotomayor as the next Supreme Court Justice.
As Obama stated, she will be the only Justice with trial experience. She will need it to deal with the rightwing justices.From a HuffPo article:
A Puerto Rican woman with 16 years of court experience who [...]
It’s All A Game…Right???
Yesterday North Korea tested a nuclear device that upset the world. Rightly so considering what a global danger those things are, Even a small scale explosion has nasty effects on the rest of the world. Along with the pollution that gets out, there is a big fear factor when the loonies with the stupid things [...]
New head of NASA
The Hubble Space Telescope repair mission was a roaring success. It took five long space walks, some occasional muscle, the patience of Job, and a deft robot arm operator to do it. Because of a highly trained and skillful set of astronauts, a set of “whiz bang” new instruments, batteries, etc., Hubble will now have [...]
Veterans for Peace/Memorial day thoughts
The following is a quote from Veterans for Peace Ntl. vice president, Leah Bolger
“When Barack Obama was still running for president, he frequently touted his “no” vote on the Iraq war as an indicator that he was the “peace” candidate. He said that if he were elected president, he would exhaust every diplomatic path before [...]
Memorial Day 2009
“It all rolls into one,
and nothin’ comes for free.
There’s nothing you can hold
for very long.”
Today is a day set aside to remember those who gave their lives defending the American way of life.In the last 250 years hundreds of thousands of brave soldiers, medical personnel and support folks have made the ultimate sacrifice to insure [...]
State Dept recognizes same sex partners.
From the NYT:
The State Department will offer equal benefits and protections to same-sex partners of American diplomats, according to an internal memorandum Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sent last week to an association of gay and lesbian Foreign Service officers.
Wow wee, the federal government can recognize the rights of LGBT’s but the military can [...]
