“Vivo – Do you mean that the only available research she might have used is of the markist-leninist stripe?”

No.

“If that is not what you are saying, your post has no meaning!”

I said: If you want to analyze a situation, you research where social and historical data are available. That’s what universities teach you: open your mind and tell the truth.

27. misanthropicus:

Oh my god! You have no idea what you’re talking about. You’re so confused it’s not worth getting into it.

28. misanthropicus:

You are so ridiculous it’s unbelievable.
You’re joking, right?

Since my drift from liberal to conservative was triggered, amongst a few other facts, by the hysterical opposition against judge Bork’s nomination, I’ll suggest here the use of the same playbook:
* we need Sotomayor’s list of outside job readings -
* since we’re dealing with a woman of an unusual wisdom who, at 200k a years is consistently having less than two grand in her bank account, we need her bills, to see how does she channel her wisdom in financial matters -
* since we’re a living in the transparency age, we need also Sotomayor’s grocery bills, to see what procent of her expenses goes in special ethilical studies – rumors have it that Sotomayor is a big time tippler, having been seen several times clearly unable to carry on her judicial duties (or at least not in a, well… traditional manner).
* etxc. etc….
[NB: “rumors have it” – gosh, and that look of Central Station, puffy-faced, dazed wino…

Pauvre Vivo, you simply can’t get a thing straight – the fact that the so-called “marxist-leninist philosophy” was deemed, even at that time (Sotomayor’s incandescent student years) simply a heap of garbage unusable for squeezing out from history or economic facts constructive explanative & predictive theories, doesn’t lessen a iota the gravity of invoking and practicing it on academic or judicial scale. Sotomayor’s done it, and sure this murderous communist scaffolding is well alive in her mind today, and Soetoro, her soul mate is in the same disposition – we see this day in day out, and the consequences are uglier and uglier.

Vivo, can you understand this simple thing?

With all due respect: it’s Susan Sontag (who certainly appears more than a few times as footnote in Barry Soetoro’s academic work), who decreed what Thomson says: “[...] the white race is the cancer of human history. [...]” (Partisan Review, Winter 1967, p. 57.

Anyway, can’t we talk about a… hotbed of tolerants?

The full “narrative”, as they say, is that Hyman Moscowitz makes a killing in the market, and buys himself the grand yacht he’s always wanted, along with a blue blazer, white flannel trousers, and a classic captain’s hat. In full regalia, he brings his mother to see the new boat, saying, “look Mama, I’m a kepten.”

She responds, “Hyman my son, by me you’re a kepten, and by you you’re a kepten. But by keptens you’re no kepten.”

It happens I had just told that joke earlier today while out on the water with one of my old buddies who last week dropped nearly three grand on his sea kayak.

Sotomayor quotes Marxist/Leninist things, boy, this is bad. Its like me quoting the new testament.
Jul 2, 2009 – 3:53 pm

Really? How?

But in the case of Sonia Sotomayor, to ask the question “How does that, if at all, color what stance she would take towards questions of affirmative action, and other legal issues that come before the court?”

Ricci vs. DeStafano is your answer.

But by the slim thread of sanity to which this country still tenuously clings, overturned by the Supreme Court 5-4.

However, if I were nominated for something and asked about what I said and wrote back then, I could do so, explain why I had certain assumptions and political ideas and how those changed by experience, (some) maturity, further reading, etc. So if Judge Sotomayer can explain why she said one thing then and another thing now, let her do so.

I understand there’s a fad among the lunatic left for eschewing “American” to describe this country. But “North American” isn’t any more correct, since it includes Canada. She could have called it the “US Congress” but didn’t.

I still want to find out what rich life experiences a Latina woman has that I haven’t, or a Polish autoworker here in Detroit, or a rural farmer in Arkansas haven’t.

And since she went to an expensive private high school and then got her degrees from two Ivy League schools, at what point did she stop having Latina experiences and start having privileged experiences?