I heard a good one today that makes SS really look like an ass—e. It seems that someone was in jail wrongfully convicted and the defense lawyer filed his papers past a deadline,but the deadline given to him by the court was a mistake. She ruled against the innocent defendant,and he stayed in jail seven more years. She felt it wasn’t her job to interfere in this snafu. You all might change your mind about her based on this,sounds like a Roberts or Alito decision.

I don’t know why that is Sotomayor’s fault. It sounds to me that the criminal had an incompetent lawyer. Maybe the lawyer figured the guy was not innocent. :P

It is too bad that race and ethnicity have turned into another cog in the rent-seeking political spoils system–akin to farm subsidies, Davis-Bacon wage rules, et al. Just another interest group seeking space at the feeding trough. Whoever thought a colorblind society possible missed this outcome by a country mile. MLK must be rolling in his grave.

Powell says:

“And I think that’s a good rule for private institutions as well. Call it affirmative action, call it diversity. It goes under a lots of different names.”

Hey, Colin babe, let’s call it by its name: DISPARATE IMPACT. Sotomayor wants to enforce disparate impact with a vengeance. That means nothing more nor less than QUOTAS. Sotomayor should be rejected for supporting QUOTAS. Republicans who do not roast her fully on this issue are turncoats. All the logical points are in their favor.

Lee Harvey Oswald had that “one simple tricky but nonetheless” bad day in Dallas, but he was for “fair play” (for Cuba).

“Affirmative Action” existed in the southern states before the defeat of Jim Crow in the 1960s; namely, there was “affirmative action” for white people. Different treatment under the law according to race is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which is why Jim Crow was finally ended. Now Colin Powell and the like support it. And why are “Latinos” included in the now-favored groups?
Colin Powell and his like should study the Declaration of Independence.

My fondest memory of this selfless patriot is from the days of the Rodney King riots, when the LA mob once again turned out to beat on people between forays into the television-stealing business and Korean-store-torching business.

It was when he stepped up to the microphone and, as a black person and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he calmed the crowd by saying, “Well, I think it’s almost impossible for a black person to make anything of himself in this country.”

Given his performance as Secretary of State at the U.N. I’d have to agree that he was right about one black person.

Mister Powell and Ms. Sotomayor should heed the rich cultural experience of this Eastern-European descended White Male.
When my Mother was a little girl, she sat on Grandpa’s knee, and he told her this:

“Someday this country will be Socialist”.

I have never forgotten this story, related to me by my Mother.

My Grandfather came from Europe as a young person, to this great country, as did my Grandmother.
They both were proud to become AMERICANS, making it through hard times and raising five children (My uncle and aunts) to be good citizens.

Obama may be a Black Man, he may be a US citizen (doubtedly so), Sotomayor may be a Hispanic, she might even be as much of a woman as Sarah Palin although she seems to be a creature from academia….but one thing is certain:

THEY ARE SOCIALISTISTS.

Grandpa, you knew more than they did.
Another example of the richness of my family’s roots, learned from firsthand experience with an evil world.

Thank You Grandpa, Thank you Mom for warning me about today.

I’m all for sending Colin P a Mao cap with a red star on it.

Tell him there’s even room for confused African American Maoists like him in our big tent.

How many $30,000.00 and up honorariums has Colin P collected for his canned 15 minute speeches to dozens of JUF dinners from sea to shining sea? The guy is just rolling in Jewish money.

Yep, so is 0bama.

Didn’t the Jews give Jesse Jackson his start?

Where would Calypso Louie be without the Jews?

If we stopped paying them, maybe they’d shut up already.

Way to go, Jenny! It’s simply horrid for that Negro Mr. Powell to have accepted admission to college in the first place.
To think that he would have the nerve to think that other undeserving dark-skinned people might hope or the same type of treatment is almost too much for you to have to bear. You’re just so right to heap scorn on this man!
We gave him preferential treatment and what did we get back from him?

#10, I’ve asked myself that question for nearly a quarter century and haven’t come up with an answer. What was so great about Powell anyway?

So far as I can tell his career was a tribute to a faintly condescending Republican brand of noblesse oblige. Or maybe most genuinely talented military guys these days get out before they make general so Powell simply followed Woody Allen’s advice by just showing up.

If ppl knew how pervasive racial quotas are in this country there would be a revolution, listen folks, when you are denied a position in college or employment based on your race they don’t tell you. I was denied a position in a nursing program for years despite having a 3.77 GPA. Minorities only needed a 2.00 GPA to enter. I only found this out because I sat next to several black ppl that told me they were accepted based on keeping a 2.00 GPA. I never had a chance.

Powell is a pitiful man, a disparate racist. What he says should be forgottem. It is worthless.

“If ppl knew how pervasive racial quotas are in this country there would be a revolution”

………

Eh, maybe.

Certainly it is true that the sort of people in charge of administering/enforcing the various Quotas (not just racial) at universities (both student-admissions and faculty-hiring), law-firms and corporations, government agencies, et al., have developed an authentic mastery in the arts of covering their tracks. Their like-minded colleagues in the media have developed a similar mastery to prevent the issue from becoming openly discussed, except in the vaguest-possible terms and at very distant, irregular intervals. So a certain level of public ignorance about this issue is understandable, perhaps inevitable.

But still and all, the essential components of the “Quota-System” have been in place now for three or four decades. Don’t you suppose that most Americans, at some point in that time, one way or another, have brushed up against that system, or at least had a chance to see its effect on daily life? There are literally tens of millions of people in this country who have been similarly situated to what Frank Ricci went through (and is still going through) in New Haven. If, after all these years, they still haven’t decided “Enough Is Enough” I begin to wonder if they ever will.

#14, let’s see what happens if we combine rampant quotas with Obamanomics. The economy since 1980 arguably provided adequate opportunity (however bubble-based in retrospect) even for those who felt swindled by affirmative action. Where prosperity itself is politically rationed, the stakes are higher.

The scenario you sketch out is possible, though I’m not holding my breath.

We’ll see.

One great negative effect of quotas and affirmative action is on minority-group members.

First, the constant messages of “you will be rewarded even if you don’t do as well,” and “you couldn’t possibly win this on your own merits” keep people, especially the young, in a bubble. Not coming up against hard competition or demands, they are not as well prepared for encountering reality where your best efforts might not succeed.

Then, minority-group members are deliberately placed in schools and jobs where they are in competition with others who have way better preparation or qualifications. Either the affirmative action thing has to continue, as in the firefighters case, or the minority flunks out, can’t pass the bar exam, can’t bring in the business, etc.

Why were the black firefighters as a group so much less qualified than the whites? Perhaps because more qualified blacks who actually were the equals of the white firefighters who passed the test had already been recruited for more prestigious or well-paying kinds of work, through affirmative action. Both they and their firefighter colleagues are doomed to remain at the bottom of the ladder, having been placed above their skill sets in the first place.

“Well Qualified”, soon to be confirmed and seated, and the rest is just Rubinababble.

Colin Powell, General Officer, USA, Retired as any good American, took advantage of the opportunities presented, attended college, joined the Army (in his own words, “it was a job, and I needed one.) climbed the ladder of “diversity” and rose to the the very pinnacle of military leadeship. By and large, provided a credible execuktion of office. Until he was thwarted in his desire to capitulate Iraq. Then the “flag” came off, and his true allegiances were revealed. African-American? Not really. The constant hyphenization of Americans is something that should cease in Conservative speech! You are African, or Mexican, or French, or German, et al. Hey! We are, all of us, each of us, Americans! If not, we are of some other nation! Give it up already with the dual identification nomenclature! White American would include the hispanics, if they are (North) American. Blacks, Indians (because Columbus was less than an accurate navigator) but even so, they are Americans. Not “Native Americans” and it goes on. Space is short. The point is made. Powell is what he is, and supports the Statist redistribution of power and wealth. To the detriment of the Republic of the United States of America.

Thought that I had. Wondere what happened to it. Hmmm?

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