03/14/2006
Recently retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor hits out at right wing threats to the judiciary in a speech at Georgetown University: "It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship...but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings...Attacks on the judiciary by some Republican leaders pose a direct threat to our constitutional freedoms."
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The librarian who moved the gay penguin children's book And Tango Makes Three from the children's section to non-fiction says access to the book isn't restricted at all because she moved it to children's nonfiction. Speaking for the wingnuts, she says the book will remains accessible so "the book can say to kids in nonnuclear families that they—the kids—are okay regardless of how we feel about their parents’ life choices." Barbara Read says she moved it to nonfiction because it's a true story, an explanation that doesn't fly with the book's authors. They told Towleroad: "It's obvious to us that this was her rationalization but not her motive for moving [it]."
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So Sandra Day O'Connor warns us of Republican attacks on the judiciary, right after she makes it possible for the Republicans to tighten their stranglehold on the Supreme Court. Miserable bitch.
Posted by: Tom | Mar 14, 2006 9:26:33 AM
the dior hommes fall/winter collection was a huge disappointment... that katherine hepburn look was already chewed-up an spat-out several seasons ago, and was never suitable for guys in the first place. maybe if hedi starts to consume solid food again his brain might spark a substantial men's collection. until then, the accessories line will have to support the dior hommes label.
Posted by: A.J. | Mar 14, 2006 9:28:26 AM
Tom,
You're blaming Justice O'Connor for the shape of the U.S, The Republican Party and the high court today? She's an old lady who resigned from her post...you can't blame her for who took her place, nor can you blame her for Bush being elected President AGAIN! O'Connor IS a Republican, was appointed by Reagan, and continues to have a conservative slant, although her conservatism now smells like liberalism because the wing-nuts have taken over her party.
I would respectfully ask that you leave her alone and stop blaming this solid woman for things that are not her fault.
Posted by: wayne | Mar 14, 2006 10:02:38 AM
Wayne,
I'm not blaming Justice O'Connor for the shape of the US, etc. I'm blaming her for retreating from the fight when she is most needed, when people of any reasonable stripe, Republican or Democrat, are most needed.
It is her fault, and I do blame her, for resigning from her desperately important post during a time when it is most likely to be filled by just exactly the kind of fascist creature she claims to be warning about. And now for her to post warnings about the dangers of the people whom she has left in charge seems to me to be very much like hypocrisy.
Once again, I call her a miserable bitch.
Posted by: Tom | Mar 14, 2006 10:36:30 AM
Wayne,
As an attorney, I respect Justice O'Connor. But she cast the deciding vote that installed that prick in the first place. By no means was he "elected again."
Posted by: Viva Korman | Mar 14, 2006 11:34:26 AM
I just think you guys are barking up the wrong tree. It actually made me laugh that Justice O'Connor was being blamed for these issues...and I'm still laughing. You're entitled to your opinions, I just disagree.
Posted by: wayne | Mar 14, 2006 11:54:15 AM
Wayne,
I didn't blame her for anything except hypocrisy, in warning of the dangers of Republican attacks on the judiciary after deserting her post so that the Republicans can get an ever stronger hold on the judiciary.
I'm laughing at your deliberate mis-reading of e-mails.
Posted by: Tom | Mar 14, 2006 12:28:52 PM
Tom,
So you believe she "left her post so that the Republican's can get an even stronger hold on the judiciary?" This is what was going through her mind when she decided to retire?
I understand the point you're attempting to make, but I just don't agree with it.
And as for mis-reading your emails? You need to re-read your post. I believe you said, and I quote, "It is her fault, and I do blame her, for resigning from her desperately important post during a time when it is most likely to be filled by just exactly the kind of fascist creature she claims to be warning about."
So you do blame her and it is her fault.
Now I'm arguing just for the sake of arguing...I'm done here boys.
Posted by: wayne | Mar 14, 2006 3:58:51 PM
Given Tom's posting history here, I would think he's thanking O'Connor for allowing the right-wing grip to take hold of the Supreme Court as opposed to blaming her.
Posted by: Chad Hanging | Mar 15, 2006 1:14:52 AM
“Now I'm arguing just for the sake of arguing.”
That’s the situation you’ll find yourself in whenever you engage these right-nut gaybats who change position only long enough to rekindle our ire.
Posted by: Chad Hanging | Mar 15, 2006 1:16:15 AM
I'm pretty sure O'Connor left her post to take care of her sick spouse (that and become a professor in Arizona or something).
I think her actions should be commended and we should thank her for some of the many positive things she has done while on the court.
Posted by: Lunee | Mar 15, 2006 4:02:19 AM