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| QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN ANN |
| July 4, 2009, 10:35 PM |
| Another Theory on Print Media's Problems - You Know The Real Reason Why Time Mag Is Going Down the Drain? The Content! |
| July 4, 2009, 10:32 PM |
| More Palin News - Palin Quits to Spend More Time with Couric, Gibson |
| July 4, 2009, 10:10 PM |
| Independence Day Video - Alfonzo Rachel Explains the Tea Parties |
| July 4, 2009, 9:39 PM |
| TV THIS WEEKEND! - Sunday night: FNC's Geraldo, 10pm Monday morning: CBS's Early Show, 7am |
| July 4, 2009, 3:03 AM |
| HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! - |
| July 2, 2009, 2:16 PM |
| Why is constant lawsuits the one part of US culture Muslims like? - Swift Beef Co. installs footbaths and bidets for Muslim workers -- and they still file civil rights complaints |
| July 2, 2009, 5:07 AM |
| IN CASE YOU MISSED IT . . . -
VIDEO: Ann Coulter on Geraldo "I Never Defend Philanderers" VIDEO: Ann Coulter On RedEye: "Not the Appalachian Trail -- Argentinian Tail" |
| July 1, 2009, 9:27 PM |
| Even a Broken Clock . . . - NYT Blogs: Another View: In Praise of Law Firm Layoffs |
| July 1, 2009, 3:04 PM |
| Is It True What They Say About Ann? - Buy the Movie! |
| July 1, 2009, 1:11 PM |
| Jason Oglesbee's Amazing Crane Rescue of Woman in a Dam - VIDEO |
| July 1, 2009, 12:36 PM |
| Iran's Propaganda Faux Pas -
Newsweek Reporter ‘Confesses’ In Iran | Sweetness & Light This is a perfect example of how insular the Iranian regime has become. If they imagine that an employee of Newsweek/Washington Post would have anything but genuine admiration for a dictatorial regime that is rabidly anti-American, they have to be completely out of touch with the outside world. |
| June 30, 2009, 1:44 AM |
| Universal Health Care: Pay Less, Get Less - Sowell: Alice in Medical Care |
| June 30, 2009, 1:24 AM |
| U of Mich: Disney's "The Little Mermaid" a Hate Crime - Team of Researchers Blames Children's Films for Perpetuating "Heteronormativity" I thought people were born gay or straight, but apparently it's up to Disney. |
| June 30, 2009, 1:10 AM |
| DUKE ADMINISTRATOR ACCUSED OF RAPING 5-YR OLD ADOPTED SON - And the victim is black! The alleged perpetrator is white! Where are the media and the professors this time?
Townhall: The Case Mug Shot |
| June 29, 2009, 4:32 PM |
| COULTER ON FNC'S "RED EYE" TONIGHT (MONDAY) - 3 A.M. EST |
| June 29, 2009, 1:14 PM |
| IN CASE YOU MISSED IT . . . - VIDEO: Ann Coulter on Fox & Friends on Cap & Trade Con Job Killer Hypocrisy VIDEO: Ann Coulter on Kudlow discussing Madoff VIDEO: Ann Coulter on CBS's The Early Show Gov Sanford and Hypocrisy |
| June 29, 2009, 1:10 PM |
| OBAMA ADMIN PROMOTES FAKE "SCIENCE" -- REST OF WORLD LAUGHS - WSJ: The Climate Change Climate Change The collapse of the "consensus" has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon. |
| June 29, 2009, 1:05 PM |
| NBC Parent, GE, Biggest Beneficiary of Bank Rescue $$$ - WAPO: How a Loophole Benefits GE in Bank Rescue |
| June 29, 2009, 12:58 PM |
| SHE WAS JUST FOLLOWING PRECEDENT! . . . Oops - WAPO: High Court Rules for White Firefighters in Discrimination Suit Decision is 5:4 |
| June 29, 2009, 1:33 AM |
| Less than 6 Months in Office, Obama Plans Tax Hike on Middle Class - Axelrod: Obama Won't Rule Out Middle Class Tax Hike |
| June 29, 2009, 1:15 AM |
| RIELLE WAS TAPING MORE THAN CAMPAIGN VIDEOS - Aide's tale of John Edwards sex tape |
| June 29, 2009, 1:13 AM |
| WHO DID THE WASHINGTON POST ENDORSE AGAIN? - WAPO: CBO's latest warning on the long-term deficit is scarier than ever. |
| June 29, 2009, 1:10 AM |
| Cap and Trade Bill: Highest Tax Hike in History of U.S. - San Fran Examiner: Betrayal at the highest level |
| June 29, 2009, 12:50 AM |
| Andrew Klavan on Homeland Security Sec. Janet Napolitano - IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE, IT'S CRAZY LADY |
| June 29, 2009, 12:34 AM |
| Building Toys for a Better Tomorrow - Zim Kids Coming to America after Obama recreates Zimbabwe's economy here at home . . . |
| June 27, 2009, 2:29 PM |
| FAIRY TALES OF OBAMA CARE - Obama To Cure Cancer, Make Blind See | Sweetness & Light |
| June 27, 2009, 2:11 PM |
| The End of Monster Celebrity - NYT: After Jackson, Fame May Never Be the Same |
| June 27, 2009, 2:10 PM |
| SANFORD BIGGER DOPE THAT WE REALIZED - In Political Storm, Governor’s Wife Is Hurt but Unbowed |
| June 27, 2009, 1:56 PM |
| How The Obama Administration Elevates Science - EPA May Have Suppressed Report Skeptical Of Global Warming |
| June 27, 2009, 1:54 PM |
| And another view on Michael Jackson . . . - Sorry Neda, We Have a Pedophile to Worship |
| June 27, 2009, 10:24 AM |
| SANFORD'S MISTRESS - PHOTOand VIDEO.
as usual, not as attractive as the wife |
| June 26, 2009, 8:11 PM |
| THE EIGHT REPUBLICANS WHO JUST VOTED TO RAISE YOUR TAXES - (along with almost all Democrats) [VULGARITY WARNING]: 8 Republican A******s Who Helped Cap & Trade Pass the House |
| June 26, 2009, 7:52 PM |
| NYT COMPLAINS: MOVIE NOT DULL ENOUGH! - NYT Review: The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008) Mr. Negahban’s Ali, who resembles a younger, bearded Philip Roth, suggests an Islamic fundamentalist equivalent of a Nazi anti-Semitic caricature. With his malevolent smirk and eyes aflame with arrogance and hatred, he is as satanic as any horror-movie apparition. The fraudulent local mullah, who collaborates in his scheme after being rejected by Soraya, might as well be carrying a pitchfork and breathing fire. Not since “The Passion of the Christ” has a film depicted a public execution in such graphic detail. In the approximately 20 minutes during which the killing unfolds, the camera repeatedly returns to study the battered face and body of the title character (Mozhan Marno) as she is stoned to death. In one of the film’s sickeningly exploitative touches, Ali, wearing a triumphal grin, examines his wife’s crumpled, blood-drenched body to make sure she is dead and discovers signs of life in a rolled-up eye. The movie, like "The Passion of the Christ," is based on a true story. |
| June 26, 2009, 7:26 PM |
| Another View on Michael Jackson - A Monster of Our Own Making Is Dead and I’m Mildly Sad |
| June 26, 2009, 5:43 PM |
| IN CASE YOU MISSED IT . . . - VIDEO: Ann Coulter on Hannity, 6/24, "Most Politicians are Narcissistic Nerds" |
| June 26, 2009, 8:08 AM |
| Sanford's "Sparking" - Cal Thomas: You Can't Explain Adultery |
| June 26, 2009, 8:03 AM |
| Your Average Obama Voters: Spies for Cuba - Liberal Discontent and the Spies Next Door |
| June 26, 2009, 12:07 AM |
| Michael Jackson's - Moonwalk Collection |
| June 25, 2009, 11:56 PM |
| Maybe Obama Gets it From Wikipedia . . . - Wikipedia’s Piety Towards Muslim Titles |
| June 25, 2009, 11:05 PM |
| News You Can Use - YOUTUBE: How to moon walk like Michael Jackson |
| June 25, 2009, 8:06 PM |
| The Troopathon! - MELANIE MORGAN'S ALL DAY RADIO SHOW SENDING CARE PACKAGE TROOPS |
| June 25, 2009, 7:38 PM |
| Where to Invest in a Tough Market - Smith & Wesson profit doubles, beats Street view |
| June 25, 2009, 4:07 PM |
| Watch This 1 Minute Video - Obama Care: THE VIDEO |
| June 24, 2009, 7:44 PM |
| Who is Cubby Culbertson? - Sanford's "Spiritual Giant" |
| June 24, 2009, 3:08 PM |
| NASA's James Hansen is the least-muzzled climate alarmist in America - Weekly Standard: The Man Who Cried Doom |
| June 23, 2009, 8:25 PM |
| Is Barbara Boxer Dr. Evil? - VIDEO |
| June 22, 2009, 8:07 PM |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY - 5 Min. Video: The American Trinity |
| June 22, 2009, 3:19 PM |
| IN CASE YOU MISSED IT . . . - VIDEO: Ann Coulter on Glenn Beck, "Barbara Boxer is massively Ignorant" VIDEO: Ann Coulter on Red Eye, "When has an Asian Country ever had a sneak attack on Hawaii?"*** VIDEO: Ann Coulter on Geraldo, "A woman is shot dead in Iran and, an hour later, Obama is out getting an ice cream" *** [Bleep on Red-Eye was for: "At least we're not sending that tramp steamer, the USS Megan McCain. . . . "] |
| June 22, 2009, 1:22 AM |
| UPDATE: Today's Lies About the Amanda Knox Case - Sunday NYT: Coroner Adds to Questions in Italy Murder Case "A coroner told a jury on Saturday that a stab wound to the neck of a British student slain in Italy was caused by a shorter knife than the one believed to be the murder weapon . . ." But this was not the coroner, it was a coroner -- one who was called by the defense. The defense's coroner also claimed that only one person could have killed Meredith Kercher because the room was too small to allow multiple attackers . . . but then admitted on cross examination that he had never been to the room where Meredith was killed. The defense's coroner is Francesco Introna, whose last great discovery was that Santa Claus does not live at the North Pole. From the December 18, 2005 Sunday Age (Melbourne, Australia): "THE REAL FACE OF SANTA ***1/2 "Monday 8.30pm, ABC "It's going to shock many young players to hear that Santa Claus doesn't really look like that ruddy cheeked, blue-eyed old gent in red who drops by for the biscuits and milk on Christmas Eve. It's probably going to surprise their parents too to hear he was a bit of a rebel, probably looked more like a rugby league star, and was short, olive skinned and had a broken nose that might have been picked up in a bar-room brawl. It surprised me to discover that, far from being safely tucked away with the reindeer, worker elves, and Mrs C up there in the snows, Santa (aka Saint Nicholas, aka Father Christmas), now shares his time between his native Turkey and the port of Bari in Italy. So how do we know all this? FBI-trained Italian forensic pathologist Dr Francesco Introna, more often found chasing the Mafia, relics of saints, or real-life versions of The Sopranos, decided Santa was a cold case that had been hanging around his native Bari far too long. He decided to put the pieces together. With CSI-style forensic technology, the remarkable skills of Manchester University anthropologist Caroline Wilkinson, computer-aided imaging and assistance from the BBC and Turkey, the real Saint Nicholas is shown to have been about 168 centimetres (5ft 6in) high, had dark brown eyes, and had a wide chin and brow. Nothing like the Santa that Coca-Cola introduced for its advertising campaign in the 1950s. So that's Father Christmas all sorted out. Next up: the curious tale of the Easter Bunny . . ." |
| June 19, 2009, 2:03 AM |
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| June 18, 2009, 11:49 AM |
| Edwards Tries to Make a Comeback! - John Edwards Father's Day Special! |
| June 18, 2009, 11:47 AM |
| Get Sick Now - Tyrell: Obama's Senior Moment |
| June 18, 2009, 11:42 AM |
| Democrats Do Well As Senators - EDITORIAL: Durbin's insider trading |
| June 18, 2009, 11:40 AM |
| Don't You Feel Good Paying Taxes? - Sotomayor’s La Raza Uses Taxpayer Money for Radical Agenda |
| June 18, 2009, 11:34 AM |
| Maybe They Should Run an Ad With More Naked Women - PETA Wishes Obama Had Not Killed Fly | Sweetness & Light |
| June 17, 2009, 3:57 PM |
| DEMOCRATS CAN'T STOP PROMOTING RISKY LOANS - Obama Seeks to Mandate More Risky, Low-Income Loans by Banks |
| June 17, 2009, 9:28 AM |
| Coming June 26 . . . See the Trailer - VIDEO: Movie: The Stoning of Soraya M. |
| June 17, 2009, 2:12 AM |
| More Largesse From the Taxpayers Courtesy of Obama - U.S. to Extend Its Job Benefits to Gay Partners |
| June 17, 2009, 2:10 AM |
| Finally, some good news - Yahoo’s Most Recommended Photo – BHO | Sweetness & Light |
| June 17, 2009, 2:04 AM |
| Obama's "Medical Error" Rate Off by 90% - Those "hundred thousand casualties of medical error a year" numbers |
| June 17, 2009, 1:53 AM |
| Update: - Jews Confirm Rev. Wright Being Kept From Obama |
| June 17, 2009, 1:50 AM |
| Cynthia Yockey's Campaign to get David Letterman Fired - Dave has pissed off the wrong lesbian Crowds Line Up to Protest "Pervert" David Letterman in New York Your handy ‘Fire David Letterman’ Kit, Part Two |
| June 17, 2009, 1:30 AM |
| The Plot Thickens! - In cover-up, Obama fires inspector general to shield crony and waste taxpayer money Obama Accuses Fired Inspector General of AmeriCorps of Being 'Confused, Disoriented' |
| June 17, 2009, 1:27 AM |
| Useful Science: Dogs Smarter Than Cats - Cats are not as smart as their owners think |
| June 17, 2009, 1:20 AM |
| IN CASE YOU MISSED IT . . . - VIDEO: Ann Coulter on Geraldo "Timeshare at Gitmo" VIDEO: Ann Coulter on Geraldo “Palin vs Letterman” 6/12 VIDEO: Ann Coulter on Kudlow 6/11 |
| June 16, 2009, 2:08 AM |
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| June 15, 2009, 12:55 AM |
| A Human Interest Story for the Typical NYT Reader - A man whose fetish is to have people walk on him . . . NYT: Bartender, Make It a Stiletto |
| June 13, 2009, 12:08 PM |
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SO MUCH FOR WISE LATINAS
July 1, 2009
With the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano this week, we can now report that Sonia Sotomayor is even crazier than Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
To recap the famous Ricci case, in 2003, the city of New Haven threw out the results of a firefighters' test -- which had been expressly designed to be race-neutral -- because only whites and Hispanics scored high enough to receive immediate promotions, whereas blacks who took the test did well enough only to be eligible for promotions down the line.
Inasmuch as the high-scoring white and Hispanic firemen were denied promotions solely because of their race, they sued the city for race discrimination.
Obama's Justice-designate Sotomayor threw out their lawsuit in a sneaky, unsigned opinion -- the judicial equivalent of "talk to the hand." She upheld the city's race discrimination against white and Hispanic firemen on the grounds that the test had a "disparate impact" on blacks, meaning that it failed to promote some magical percentage of blacks.
This strict quota regime was dressed up by the city -- and by Sotomayor's opinion -- as a reasonable reaction to the threat of lawsuits by blacks who were not promoted.
That's a complicated way of saying: Racial quotas are peachy.
According to Sotomayor, any test that gets the numbers wrong -- whatever "wrong" means in any given context of professions, populations, applicants, workers, etc. -- is grounds for a lawsuit, which in turn, is grounds for an employer to engage in race discrimination against disfavored racial groups, such as white men.
Consequently, the only legal avenue available to employers under Sotomayor's ruling is always to impose strict racial quotas in making hiring and promotion decisions.
Say, if the threat of a lawsuit permits the government to ignore the Constitution, can pro-lifers get New Haven to shut down all abortion clinics by threatening to sue them? There's no question but that abortion clinics have a "disparate impact" on black babies.
This week, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 for the white and Hispanic firefighters, overturning Sotomayor's endorsement of racial quotas.
But all nine justices rejected Sotomayor's holding that different test results alone give the government a green light to engage in race discrimination. Even Justice Ginsburg's opinion for the dissent clearly stated that "an employer could not cast aside a selection method based on a statistical disparity alone."
Indeed, the dissenters argued that the case should be returned to the lower courts to look for some hidden racial bias in the test. For Sotomayor, the results alone proved racial bias.
The one advantage Sotomayor's talk-to-the-hand opinion has over Justice Ginsburg's prolix dissent is that brevity prevented Sotomayor from having to explain why quotas aren't quotas.
That was left to Ginsburg.
Liberals desperately want race quotas -- as long as quotas never come to their offices.
But they can't say that, so instead they talk in circles for 10 hours straight, until everyone else is exhausted, and then, when no one is paying attention, they announce: So we're all agreed -- we will have racial quotas.
Based on her lifetime of experience working as a firefighter, Ginsburg said: "Relying heavily on written tests to select fire officers is a questionable practice, to say the least." Liberals prefer a more objective test, such as race.
Isn't excelling on written tests how Ruth Bader Ginsburg got where she is? It's curious how people whose entire careers are based on doing well on tests find them so irrelevant to other people's jobs.
In the middle of a fire, it can either be a great idea or the worst possible idea to open a door. An excellent method for finding out if your next fire chief knows the correct answer is a written test.
Unleashing the canard of all race-obsessed liberals, Ginsburg observed that courts have found that a fire officer's job "involves complex behaviors, good interpersonal skills, the ability to make decisions under tremendous pressure, and a host of other abilities -- none of which is easily measured by a written, multiple choice test."
So does a lawyer's job. And yet attorneys with absolutely no "interpersonal skills" get cushy jobs and extravagant salaries on the basis of their commendable performance on all manner of written tests, from multiple choice LSATs and bar exams to written law school exams.
I note that Ginsburg has not shown any particular interest in rectifying the "disparate impact" of legal exams: She never hired a single black law clerk out of the dozens she employed in more than a decade as an appeals court judge. (Her hiring practices on the Supreme Court are a state secret, but I can state with supreme certainty that her clerks do not reflect the racial mix of Washington, D.C.)
But liberals think other people's jobs are a joke, so the testing must also be a joke. That is -- other than their preferred test: "Is the applicant black, female or otherwise handicapped?"
There is no test that can prove all things about an employee and so there is no test that can't be derided by the race-mongers. Which is exactly the point. Get rid of all tests -- except for lawyers who graduated at the top of their law school classes at Columbia, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Then liberals are free to impose racial quotas on other people's jobs without limit.
As crazy as this is, even Ginsburg and the other dissenters made a big point of pretending there was some flaw in this particular test. None adopted Sotomayor's position that unequal test results alone prove discrimination.
This suggests that a wise Jewess, due to the richness of her life experiences, might come to a better judgment than a Latina judge would.
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