tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post7205369302908308312..comments2024-02-11T12:24:26.294-08:00Comments on The Compass Rose: How We Pick JudgesCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-56773312726024156252009-06-06T07:49:37.290-07:002009-06-06T07:49:37.290-07:00I'm just adding a comment to make everyone loo...I'm just adding a comment to make everyone look at what was added. Also, I wanted you to get to 51.Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-11750260347895257682009-06-02T15:18:44.283-07:002009-06-02T15:18:44.283-07:00Dear Anonymous:
This blog isn't "part of the medi...Dear Anonymous:<br /><br />This blog isn't "part of the media." The "media" are the news services, the broadcasting franchises, and the known partisan sites which have specific, public agendas.<br /><br />I'm just a mite scumbling around in its dust.<br /><br />"Quotas" is just a highly visible example of the worst kind of reverse discrimination. You don't fight discrimination with more discrimination; you fight it by NOT discriminating. Then, when and if a minority person qualifies, it's totally legitimate, and no one has any beef. No "points", no "bootstrapping", no "compensation." My ancestors fought on the side of the North in the Civil War. Do I get "points" too?<br /><br />In a truly democratic society, there are no "racial disparities". So what we want is a truly democratic society, not more preferences. <br /><br />With respect to posting and moderating. I swore when I started this blog that I wouldn't ever censor someone on a political basis, and I'll stick by that. What I will do, however, is prevent people from persecuting others anonymously, or burdening everyone with scatology, or mindlessly spamming. Otherwise, you're on your own, folks, take responsibility for your own words!Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-81808850278931175332009-06-02T14:21:20.967-07:002009-06-02T14:21:20.967-07:0089 % of teh Republican Party are white.
no wonder...89 % of teh Republican Party are white.<br /><br />no wonder they (the republicans) are against this Lady...<br /><br />good thing the decision is via 100 (mostly intelligent lawyers) are <br />our DULY elected deciders!<br /><br />ohh now today China owns what was our most useful ground weapon in Iraq..<br /><br />The HV or HUMMER..<br /><br />we developed it now they will improve upon it and export it to Iran, N Korea, etc..<br /><br /><br />ever see it in operation in our first Iraq war? in the desert?<br /><br />or<br /><br />on the streets of Bagdad<br /><br />if only we'd of had better under-car shields fewer of our "boys" would have been blown up maimed or dead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-85772002334169812642009-06-02T11:38:52.770-07:002009-06-02T11:38:52.770-07:00I do think that Curtis should allow immediate comm...I do think that Curtis should allow immediate comments-posting, too, but he argues that he doesn't know how to change it. Sometimes you have to wait 12 hours while he's imbibing drinks, and rolling flavors around on his tongue, while editing Eigner for the Eigneramuses.Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-51568919965543482902009-06-02T09:05:56.228-07:002009-06-02T09:05:56.228-07:00well that other anonymous
who wrote:
"Curtis, if...well that other anonymous <br />who wrote:<br /><br />"Curtis, if indeed, obama..."<br />and<br />"p.s. i don't like having to esit.."<br /><br />ain't me!<br /><br />he, she or it is a bogus<br />anon<br /><br />geeze,<br /><br />I AM the original Anonymous<br /><br /><br />and unlike this other anon am largely ignored!<br /><br />it s gonna be neat after the 50 states become countries and "book"<br /><br />just like France !<br /><br />hey<br /><br />I like you waiting to post...<br /><br /> you've never edited me out... though Ron and Don have.. and fucking saved my ass from seeming silly...<br /><br />chow,<br /><br />oh<br /><br />now our new leader is increasing the budget for the military<br /><br />increaing the military<br />increasing munitions/weapons production<br />increasing military salaries, benifits and<br /><br />size s i z e of the number of troops<br /><br /><br /><br />just in time to go after the demons 40 miles north of Seoul!<br /><br />now he's appointing a new secretary of the Army!<br /><br />where is all of the money/gold coming from we gotta repay China with solid currency for all of the debt of USA they've taken on!<br /><br />oh<br /><br /><br />well<br /><br />lets just sell some more poetry books, print more money and raise<br />everybody's taxes to 90%<br /><br /><br />they're at abou 62 % of a dollar's worth which (the dollar) is worth about 45 cents..<br /><br />who to prey (pray) on next?<br /><br />think I'll curl up with a good book:<br /><br />Our Lady of the Flowers<br /><br />and jerk-off that's still freeEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-85769557291576368402009-06-02T08:36:07.287-07:002009-06-02T08:36:07.287-07:00p.s. i don't like having to wait for comments to b...p.s. i don't like having to wait for comments to be approved by you. i thought you were against censorhip.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-16300024120421800922009-06-02T08:30:44.613-07:002009-06-02T08:30:44.613-07:00curtis, if indeed, obama, said, "the next nominati...curtis, if indeed, obama, said, "the next nomination needs to be a woman," i don't consider that "dishonest or disingenuous," i consider it transparent. <br /><br />also, with this blog, aren't you part of the media you are deriding as somehow laying down on the job. it's all spin, my friend, and now it's you who are spinning. <br /><br />a little self-centered cynicism never hurt anybody's wallet. institutionalized -isms, on the other, are frequently deal-breakers when it comes to hiring practices. without quotas, i imagine good people of color or breasts would never have found an economic foothold in government or private sector. <br /><br />incidentally, how would you handle the current racial disparities in, say, an industry such as construction, where most of the contracts are awarded to mainly white contractors?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-67312731623197197042009-06-02T07:44:44.072-07:002009-06-02T07:44:44.072-07:00Lutherans not only were the only institution that ...Lutherans not only were the only institution that continued to stand against Hitler, but actually attempted to assassinate him. Then, only institution in Eastern Europe to stand up against the communists -- the revolutions of 1989 began in Lutheran churches -- in Romania in Timisoara it began with a Lutheran bishop who had dissed Ceausescu, and was relieved of his duties -- then children with candles surrounded his church and were shot by Securitate -- this act of civil disobedience opened the indignation that brought down Ceausescu -- something similar happened in E. Germany where the anti-communism emanated out of Bach's former church in Leipzig. In Estonia, it was something similar.<br /><br />Czech leaders in 68 against the Kremlin were Lutherans.<br /><br />Hitler wasn't a Christian -- although he was raised as one. He was a green pagan who believed in identity politics.Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-4770203252102718822009-06-02T07:12:45.683-07:002009-06-02T07:12:45.683-07:00when obama voted against john roberts he was worri...when obama voted against john roberts he was worried that<br />on issues where legal process had limits and the "heart" of the judge had to weigh in roberts would fail -he'd propose to impose the law where perhaps compassion was necessary...and the little guy would hold the short end of the stick...now is that taking off the wrap around the eyes of justice???...i don't know...i mean it is a little ridiculous to divorce human consideration from jurisprudence and expect the principles to be sufficient on every issue....even if the justice is as stoic as they come that will be a factor somehow evident in any given decision<br /><br />sotomayers' picture on time this week is far more gentle...she looks like someone we could sit down and drink coffee with....maybe we're past the day when the highest level folks have to represent an elite...maybe the court needs a dumb vote or two...i actually think she'll be OK...how much will it matter in the long run...there's always a balance somewhere<br /><br />o and anonymous<br />luther effectively excommunicated himself...there were efforts in diplomatic resolution and he adamantly snubbed them...those were some dark days<br /><br />jjhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-49396670205051114182009-06-02T03:29:59.352-07:002009-06-02T03:29:59.352-07:00WELL this post from the other anonamos calling Sot...WELL this post from the other anonamos calling Sotomyer a Nazi was not in my original comment<br /><br />SHE IS NOT<br /><br />the other Roman Catholic the one wh Adolf Hitler ,whow was also a Catolic, admired was Martin Luther!!! a hate monger wow wanted to kill All Jews...<br /><br />Luther was booted out of the Catholic Church....got into the protestant revolution<br />etc<br /><br /><br />this other Anonomous isn;t me...<br /><br />this blogging stuff is and most likely always has been HORSE SHIT!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-31932067995538727922009-06-01T20:37:19.637-07:002009-06-01T20:37:19.637-07:00yep
little adolph even attended
a benedictine scho...yep<br />little adolph even attended<br />a benedictine school in austria for awhile<br />i don't know why he hated the church so much<br />but he sure wanted to destroy rome<br />gosh<br />let's hope he wasn't abused<br />he was pretty ecumenical however<br />he had protestants jews and catholics all working for him<br />hey<br />i'd be the first to acknowledge there's been some pretty bad catholics<br /><br />i never have figured out what he had against the gypsies<br /><br />torquemada was a little jewish boy<br />and then a viscious catholic<br /><br />here comes everybody<br /><br />jjhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-41628183506690900172009-06-01T20:30:13.023-07:002009-06-01T20:30:13.023-07:00Why do people continue to push their own agenda wh...Why do people continue to push their own agenda when the original post is so clear?<br /><br />As we stated from the outset, this is NOT a criticism of Sotomayor. What any candidate is, is a combination of experience and knowledge and character. No one chooses to be born what he/she is. It's unavoidable.<br /><br />My criticism is of the selection process, which I find objectionable. The media lies down and pretends not to notice how biased and unfair the process is. We can't talk about it, because all minority issues are hands off. Hot potato. <br /><br />Nonsense. If you say that the next nomination for the Supreme Court "must be a woman" you're being dishonest and disingenuous. It isn't fair and it isn't responsible and it isn't democratic. <br /><br />Dear Anonymous:<br /><br />"referring to the promotion of diversity as reverse discrimination is ignorant at best."<br /><br />Nope. Promotion on the basis of "diversity" (which is a code word for minority preferences) is ignorant. No one of intelligence buys it anymore. It's worn-out, discredited nonsense. <br /><br />Get over it and move on.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-68595421890237575062009-06-01T11:47:55.418-07:002009-06-01T11:47:55.418-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.0000000https://www.blogger.com/profile/14767771887014774485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-29195655714179858652009-06-01T11:07:01.884-07:002009-06-01T11:07:01.884-07:00The Sotomayor Wikipedia page is quite good. At Pr...The Sotomayor Wikipedia page is quite good. At Princeton she helped set up a Latina studies course, advocated for hiring more Hispanic profs, and that's been pretty much what she's done all her life: closely advocating for what she considers to be her people.<br /><br />I find it crazy to be such a narrow advocate of one group with which one identifies.<br /><br />They say that "the personal is the political."<br /><br />And I suppose no one could bear witness to that fact more than Hitler himself -- with his Mein Kampf.<br /><br />I still find it regrettable that anyone should identify themselves on the basis of race. It's very disquieting, and scary.<br /><br />One of your commenters says that will stop once the quotas are filled. That's more or less the line of the Communist Party -- the party will wither away once it's established itself.<br /><br />But the party got more and more insular, and became a kind of royalty in almost every country where that thing got going.<br /><br />Against all that are a few lone voices -- Thomas Sowell's is one in his book AGAINST affirmative action (he's black). This is part of a review of it:<br /><br />"Preferring members of specified groups in higher education, employment, receipt of government services, getting business contracts, and so on is a worldwide phenomenon whose effects are demonstrable. Black economist Sowell focuses on affirmative action in India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and the U.S. In those nations, preferences for minorities metamorphosed into preferences for majorities (e.g., women, when made affirmative-action candidates in the U.S., tipped the numbers of the preferred to more than half the populace), intergroup friction increased (Sri Lanka, once a model of ethnic cooperation, descended into civil war, as did Nigeria), "brain drain" occurred (in Malaysia, preferences for less-educated Malays led to massive Chinese emigration and the ouster of Chinese-dominated Singapore from the Malay federation), and/or something else bad happened. Most damning is that in all five countries, the upper crust of preferred groups reaped the lion's share of benefits. Affirmative action is never rejected, however, because it is evaluated "in terms of its rationales and goals rather than its actual consequences." Invaluable argumentation, more accessible than usual for Sowell." Ray OlsonKirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-51460468395910455762009-06-01T09:49:02.014-07:002009-06-01T09:49:02.014-07:00I confess I see her as a Nazi, not a Catholic. Her...I confess I see her as a Nazi, not a Catholic. Her letter read to me as Mein Kampf -- who's the enemy?<br /><br />OH WOW!<br /><br />just this morning I asked google "what religion was Hitler?"<br /><br />let's see if I can find the answer!<br /><br />yeah here:<br /><br /> http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/john_murphy/religionofhitler.html<br /><br /><br /><br />WOW! and just guess who Hitler's religious hero was!<br /><br />anothe Roman Catholic who was also a hate-monger and excommunicated!<br /><br />etcAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-68959098516155259652009-06-01T09:43:29.017-07:002009-06-01T09:43:29.017-07:00"what other criteria would you recommend?"
after ..."what other criteria would you recommend?"<br /><br />after 2 years of EE at Junior College (1962-1964) under Rickover at Main Navy as a civilian <br /><br />operating 1401 and 7070 computers for BUSHIPS<br /><br />orke 4-12 pm so I could go to day college and learn about the American War <br /><br />whe n Rickover said something one night about parking in his parking space I told him<br /><br /> go drop your napalm bombs on Milwaukee,<br /><br /><br />so<br /><br />had I not been fire and had remained in Gov't I'd of retired in 1996<br /><br />as a grade 13 or 14 with a today's pension of $64,000 per year plus Blu Cross plus Medicare + SS!<br /><br />as it Is I live, now on $400 SS per month!<br /><br />my recommendation criteria?<br /><br /> is this a trick question?<br /><br /><br />I would say anyone who has experience on a bread-line or looks terrific in the nude!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-56037467547936371422009-06-01T09:31:39.967-07:002009-06-01T09:31:39.967-07:00i'm not sure if photographs ever do justice to a f...i'm not sure if photographs ever do justice to a face<br />and maybe her smile is really warm in real life<br />but<br />i read into her glare into the camera lense<br />a sort of highstrung latino attitude<br />you want puerto rican i'll give you puerto rican heh heh<br />don't stand in my way<br />i'm coming for you<br />i don't know<br />it's a little scary to look at her<br />i take it back<br />i don't think she and i would be compatible at all<br />except maybe in church<br /><br />what's in a photo?<br /><br />as for qualification<br />there are a few different sorts of consideration<br />my father used to tell the story of a doctor he hired into his clinic<br />on paper the person was top of the class published in medical journals<br />(out east) everything going <br />except<br />a personality capable of adapting to a new environment<br />boston is not west montana<br />so after a year or so of dramatic personality clashes the doctor left<br /><br />i don't suppose that's a factor on the court bench<br /><br />but sometimes i think it is worthwhile to look at people who may be underqualified compared to others but they possess human attributes which are harder to put on paper...in some situations personality goes quite a bit further than expertise<br /><br />sometimes i get the sense in the music world even in the classical music world that drivenness a sort of professional compulsion gets a person farther than raw talent<br /><br />a shy person may be capable to do a job just fine but the employer is attracted to the hungry gogetter who really really wants the job<br /><br />jjhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-2887718773977049412009-06-01T09:16:34.745-07:002009-06-01T09:16:34.745-07:00well, i do believe that qualifications get you in ...well, i do believe that qualifications get you in the door, but after that it's really up to your background and personality and what the employer is looking for, and oftentimes they are not the same thing.<br /><br />referring to the promotion of diversity as reverse discrimination is ignorant at best. <br /><br />what is fundamentally american: racism? do you really believe the power structures would change based on what...? jim crow is still crowing in my neck of the white world of america. i can't get through a weekend in northern suburbia without hearing some kind of racial slur. if these people are doing the hiring down the street, who do you think they are leaning towards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-91449093965100324252009-06-01T08:39:40.718-07:002009-06-01T08:39:40.718-07:00Dear Anon:
It's funny about experience. If you h...Dear Anon:<br /><br />It's funny about experience. If you have no first-hand experience of something, opponents will tell you "you don't know what you're talking about, you have no first-hand experience of this matter."<br /><br />Then, if you reference some substantial first-hand experience, opponents will say "you're letting your own experience cloud your judgment, you can't see the matter objectively."<br /><br />Which is it?<br /><br />Seems like it depends on the case--whatever people want to make of your "evidence" or experience, they will. You can't help that.<br /><br />Reparations and set-asides may have begun as well-meaning attempts to "right wrongs" and set up parity, but they inevitably corrupt all who participate in them. You can't legislate fairness through institutionalized discrimination. I've seen it first hand, and I can report to you that it doesn't work. I'm not in the least bitter about it anymore, because I'm 8 years retired and it will never touch me again; I took a job which was completely out of my range of skills and training, and no one is to blame for that, but me. But the damage discrimination does--primary or "reverse"--is permanent. <br /><br />Setting up priorities based on demographics and sex and race and gender is fundamentally un-American, and shouldn't be perpetuated. We're 150 years from Emancipation, and at least 75 years from Jim Crow. Whatever lingering racism still exists won't be stamped out by reverse discrimination. <br /><br />"Qualifications are always secondary." <br /><br />I don't believe that, and neither should you. Hiring should always be based on the most qualified--what other criteria would you recommend?Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-18134476147591044682009-06-01T08:01:09.560-07:002009-06-01T08:01:09.560-07:00qualifications are always secondary to the percept...qualifications are always secondary to the perception of how will the candidate fit in the opening, otherwise how would you decide between equally qualified candidates. i've been turned down for many jobs where i sensed my color, gender, or age wasn't quite right. yes, this bothered me, but so what? i'm well-educated, smart and a hard worker. something else would come along. i've also been completely ignored by some employers for being overqualified. <br /><br />qualifications are not the only factor; they are usually the factor that gets you in the door, but they don't always land you the job. sotomayor, since i trust obama because i voted for him, must be qualified. was she presented that way to the media? yes, but so was her background--as was mine when i interviewed for my last position. unfortunately, rather than acknowledging her qualifications, most writers and pundits are readily admitting they know nothing about her qualifications, and are instead initiating discussions about her background because they know it's a hot button and will attract readers. <br /><br />incidentally, i believe you are letting your own bias regarding your employment experiences taint your understanding of the importance of affirmative action. the history and politics of our country required affirmative action. the practice will dwindle as the power structure shifts adequately towards more equality and comfortability for minority group members. the mandatory desegregation of government jobs was the best place to start, if only to provide an example to the private sector of what's expected.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-37491526285135863712009-06-01T07:57:26.289-07:002009-06-01T07:57:26.289-07:00I confess I see her as a Nazi, not a Catholic. He...I confess I see her as a Nazi, not a Catholic. Her letter read to me as Mein Kampf -- who's the enemy? <br /><br />Your race has injured my race, my race should be studied, and yours should be destroyed.<br /><br />I don't think people should think about race. People did this in the thirties -- Hitler drew up a hierarchy of which races were to be exterminated, but there is only the human race.<br /><br />It wasn't just Hitler. He came out of a tremendous watershed -- Comte de Gobelin, phrenology, bizarre stuff -- huge welters of racial (racist) thought that has somehow survived into our time, and proliferates now throughout so-called multiculturalist communities.<br /><br />Sotomayor doesn't trot out a final solution, and she doesn't go on quite as long as Hitler did in Mein Kampf, but the lack of a sense of humor, and the sense that she's thinking through purely racial categories is hilarious. Many people are thinking like this, and the universities proliferate with race-thought -- it's slovenly, and is just going to redo the worst aspects of the thirties.<br /><br />Then she insists that studying Russian wouldn't get us as far as studying her culture (washed-up dregs of Counter-Reformation Spanish colonialism -- where's the profit in studying that, esp. if you have to argue that there's nothing wrong in it, and it's something to be celebrated?)<br /><br />Maybe the main thing is a total lack of a sense of humor.<br /><br />I don't see skin color as a thought. I can't understand how you can think about skin color. I don't think you really can.<br /><br />Hitler did. Call that thought?<br /><br />Today's so-called multiculturalists do. Call that thought?<br /><br />Mein Kampf. Everybody should write one, I guess, every culture should have their Hitler, and we should judge each other accordingly.<br /><br />And then we can redo race battles incessantly -- every day another Blitzkrieg, every day another Stalingrad.<br /><br />I'd rather concentrate on aesthetics, and on the economics described by John Nash -- trading between cultures, and endless mixing, instead of identifying an enemy, identifying a friend, and proceeding to set up the gas chambers for those who aren't of our ilk.<br /><br />This race-thinking is going on throughout the culture -- the truth about Obama is that he's president because he's black. He's a first. <br /><br />Actually, he's just another human being. When we have a cow for president, that will be a first.Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-27073052813445503222009-05-31T20:44:48.110-07:002009-05-31T20:44:48.110-07:00ny times article today calls
sotomayer a cultural ...ny times article today calls<br />sotomayer a cultural catholic<br />which is cool<br />interculturation has been all the rage<br />god speaking through many cultures<br />since the sixties<br />and not just one big roman latin one<br /><br />eric hoffer was a little off on the man inventing god thing<br />it's an easy argument to make<br />but the whole push of judaism was<br />against this tendency<br />they had (and still possess i am sure) the insight or the intuition that the god they're talkin about was like nothing they could make or grasp or describe easily...still they made him a player in the narratives...the christians brought carnality into the picture...hoffer never understood that either...he was always going off on these half-assed anthropological generalizations...i did like his book - the true believer - though...i think he hit on something there...he made a coherent case framed a picture for the mindset of the ignorant zealotry that so often takes people off the deep end...either for religious or political agendas<br /><br />it's always interesting to get a sense of what gets the big crowd going<br /><br />pour moi<br />the wisdom is in the retreat<br />a la chief joseph<br />but that too can be perilous<br /><br />the most recent mass movement that seems to have the world in a dither is the unspoken faith in humanism...humans for the sake of humans...armed with reason and science the world will just get progressively better...who needs religion hollywood xboxes..hell -this machine...thus all the banality of entertainment and hyped up ego grooming passing for education<br /><br />i'm inclined to agree with you curtis on this one<br />the pretense involved in the decision is just too much...but were similar arguments launched against the thurgood marshall choice???<br /><br />you'd think though that the deliberation would stand away from political grandstanding...yet maybe in the market of available judges today there is no such thing as an elite...they're all about the same...some a bit more liberal or conservative than others that's all<br /><br />every appointee from here on in is going to represent the political biases of the man or woman in charge...that's the ball game today...these are the umpiresjhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-32700274546562589302009-05-31T17:56:51.393-07:002009-05-31T17:56:51.393-07:00Take man's most fantastic invention -- God. Ma...Take man's most fantastic invention -- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.<br />-- Eric Hoffer (attributed: source unknown)<br /><br />To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.<br />-- Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, aph. 215 (1955), quoted from The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations<br /><br />You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.<br />-- Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, aph. 222 (1955), quoted from The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations<br /><br />Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.<br />-- Eric Hoffer (attributed: source unknown)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-27703605212936540992009-05-31T17:25:27.010-07:002009-05-31T17:25:27.010-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.0000000https://www.blogger.com/profile/14767771887014774485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-39611886480290350502009-05-31T17:23:25.703-07:002009-05-31T17:23:25.703-07:00Kirby,
I think it may well be that Sotomayor has ...Kirby,<br /><br />I think it may well be that Sotomayor has superior capabilities, and judicial insight and judgment (that's kind of a tautology, I guess, but...).<br /><br />The point is you can't be sure of making correct personnel choices when you're governed by these affirmative action principles which dictate advantage based on race, sex and origin.<br /><br />I worked for the Federal Government for 27 years, and it was a non-stop theatre of underclass advancement based on special pleading and reparation. It made everyone very cynical; it made those who'd been given this unfair advantage cocky and belligerent, because they knew they were untouchable. And because they experienced power as corruption, first-hand, that's what they thought it meant, so they exercised it in a corrupt way. The minority circus has been going on for decades now, in the civil service, and it's unstoppable, it's like a glacier.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.com