Political Intersection - Latest Comments in Day #1 of the Sotomayor Hearings: My Take (From theROOT.com)

Re: Day #1 of the Sotomayor Hearings: My Take (From theROOT.com)

millipo48 — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:29:27 -0000

When you are counting objects, you go "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D...".

When asked about a bus schedule, you wonder if it is 16 or 32 bits.

When your wife says "If you don't turn off that darn machine and come to bed,then I am going to divorce you!", and you chastise her for for omitting the else clause.

When you are reading a book and look for the space bar to get to the next page.

When you look for your car keys using: "grep keys /dev/pockets"

When after fooling around all day with routers etc, you pick up the phone and start dialing an IP number.

When you get in the elevator and double-press the button for the floor you want.

When not only do you check your email more often than your paper mail, but you remember your {network address} faster than your postal one.

When you go to balance your checkbook and discover that you're doing the math in octal.

When you dream in 256 pallettes of 256 colors.

Re: Day #1 of the Sotomayor Hearings: My Take (From theROOT.com)

millipo47 — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:24:32 -0000

No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do:

1.They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.

2.Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that.

3.Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Windows does that too.

4.Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. - Sigh.. Windows does that, too.

5.Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. - Yup, Windows does that, too.

Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences: Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.

So Windows is not a virus.

It's a bug.

Re: Day #1 of the Sotomayor Hearings: My Take (From theROOT.com)

millipo46 — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:23:38 -0000

little boy : mummy is god a girl or a boy?

mummy: why god is both girl and boy

little boy: mummy is god black or white?

mummy: why god is both black and white

little boy: mummy is god gay or strait?

mummy: why god is both gay and strait

little boy: mummy is god Michael Jackson?

Re: Day #1 of the Sotomayor Hearings: My Take (From theROOT.com)

millipo41 — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:44:02 -0000

Dear Editor,

I have two brothers, one works at Microsoft, the other was sentenced to death in the gas chamber.

My mother died of insanity when I was three years old, my two sisters are prostitutes and my father sells drugs.

Recently, I met a girl who was released from a reformatory where she served time for smothering her illegitimate child to death.

I love this girl very much and want to marry her.

My problem is this:

Shall I tell her about my brother who works at Microsoft?

Sincerely,
Larry

Re: Day #1 of the Sotomayor Hearings: My Take (From theROOT.com)

way2go — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:12:52 -0000

Sophia, another fine post and one with which I entirely agree.

In the end, the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor will make no difference in the right-wing bent of the solid phalanx of four activist, partisan, Republican ideologues, Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Scalia (RATS) plus one so-called swing vote, Anthony Kennedy, who sides with the RATS court in almost every case.

Even if the oldest justice, 89-year-old Paul Stevens, retired from the U.S. Supreme Court another Obama appointment would not make a bit of difference in the rightward-leaning agenda of the RATS ideologues whose hostility to civil liberties and constitutional protections is well-documented.

If anything, Sotomayor's inclusion on the high court could well turn out to be far more favorable to Republicans than to Democrats since her decisions have been in sync with the conservative rulings in at least 52% of the time.

The only break in the stranglehold the Republicans have to fear is if Anthony Kennedy or Antonin Scalia, both 73-years-old, were to retire. That is unlikely, especially with Scalia who revels in his role as a self-described "originalist" judicial thinker whose arrogance and hubris will never permit him to believe he should be questioned in any decision on which he has ruled.

This is a solid Republican high court and will be for at least another decade. Sonia Sotomayor will neither add nor subtract one iota from the increasingly hard-right RATS ideology.