Waiting for Fitzgerald

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Wrong again.

Other than JRB, please explain how any of the other top ten on that list fall into the wacko category? Also, please explain the opposition to JRB, a jurist qualified to sit on a Fed App Ct? Is it racism or sexism or the combo? Certainly bad form to have a republican nominate someone who is a member of two of the demos' largest plantation hostage demographic groups, right?

How am I wrong this time? That your first list didn't have more names on it?

I'm neither explaining nor justifying the opposition. You might like the pope to be nominated. But he couldn't get confirmed. Same for JRB. Why nominate someone, other than a crony, who can't get confirmed? What happened the last time a president made two mistakes? Kennedy.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Justice O'Connor may never get to retire.

Wrong again. The babyjesi has shown that they have the crucial swing part of the Republican Senators on their knees. Are you paying attention to what just happened? Bush bowed because he didn't have 51 of the 55 Senators in his party (50 if you count Reid as a yes vote). Those R Senators knows where the power lies, at the Right hand of God.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
I really was unaware of much harping from the "Left", whomever is encompassed by that term. There seemed to have been much greater and vocal opposition from the religious wingnuts, who were licking their chops over the possibility of a "final showdown" with the liberals over the SCOTUS nomination in the Senate.

The Shrill Left and the Religious Right are tentacles of the same enemy we should all eviscerate from politics. They're both un-American for one simple reason - both want you to do what they, and thhey alone, think you should do, and neither gives a fucking shit what's actually good for you. Alll these fucking Policy Wonks and Jesus Crazies want to do is fashion society in their limited worldview. Fuck both of them. A pox on both their houses, oozing anal chancres to them all.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Wrong again. The babyjesi has shown that they have the crucial swing part of the Republican Senators on their knees. Are you paying attention to what just happened? Bush bowed because he didn't have 51 of the 55 Senators in his party (50 if you count Reid as a yes vote). Those R Senators knows where the power lies, at the Right hand of God.

I am watching, and he's just as screwed if he goes far right, because he won't get 51 senators from his own party for that, either. The support of the far right may be necessary, but it's not sufficent.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
How am I wrong this time? That your first list didn't have more names on it?

You claimed my picks were wackos and that the implied "acceptable" picks were at 10-15. You are wrong. Why can't you admit and retract? Is this like the demo denial that perjury is a crime or rape is wrong?

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I'm neither explaining nor justifying the opposition. You might like the pope to be nominated. But he couldn't get confirmed. Same for JRB.

You are not explaining or justifying because in a world where Ginsgurg can get 90 plus votes there is no reasonable explaination or justification for shooting JRB down, other than racist sexism by the demo plantation overlourds. Comparing her to the pope just further illustrates the lack of substance to your position.

Bush has no choice but to appease the base that elected him. The chits have been called. If he doesn't pay up, he may as well resign because he will be the lamest of ducks.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I am watching, and he's just as screwed if he goes far right, because he won't get 51 senators from his own party for that, either. The support of the far right may be necessary, but it's not sufficent.

dissent. He may lose a couple, the RiNOs from NE, but there are a few blue staters whose recollection of Tom Daschle's fate is better than your recollection of my SupCT nominee lists.

[Captain]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
1) When was the last time a President nominated such an obviously unqualified crony to the position?

2) The harping from the Left makes it clear that either (a) they are royally upset that they couldn't derail her themselves during public hearings, or, more likely (b) they are disgusted because the conservative outcry against a Bush nominee flies directly in the face of their constant accusations that the GOP follows every Bush word like a bunch of lemmings.

As President, Tyler was expelled from his own party (the Whigs). It's just a bit of precedent in which I thought you might be interested.

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
there is no strict logic to athletic performance and if you had ever competed in running above the level of a casual jog on the waterfront or the St Paddy's Day drunk run you would know that. Sure there may be science that can offer a reasonable prediction, i.e. if someone can run a 36 min 10K then they should be able to run a 17:22 min 5K and a 5:07 mile or whatever. The key word is should. What qualifies is fast twitch v. slow twitch, anearobic v aerobic, the time of day, the weather, dietary/fuel issues et a. It's nonsense to say that someone who can run an 8:30-9: minute mile will be able to, on any given day, under all conditions, to run a 4 minute half. Keep beatin it, but it doesn;t make it true. I assume given your continued reaction that you must be an 8:30/4 minute guy. Congrats on that.

I could probably crawl a 4 minute half, but bragging about fake times on the internet is more your speed. Look, you can take all your stupid slow-twitch/fast-twitch arguments and fantasize about them. I run, and I know many people that run. An 8:30 mile, by definition, is a 4:15 half, unless you are changing your pace, and doing a "lethal kick" on one of the legs, in which case the other one is even faster. Among humans, they can universally exert themselves at higher rates for shorter distances than they can for longer distances. From there, it's just a question of how much more they can exert themselves. If you were a runner, you would know that someone running that slow of a mile is generally able to pick it up a little for a sixth or an eighth of the distance they are maintaining that pace for. That's something I certainly know from my training, my training of others and my pacing in longer races. It's not like they have to pick up the pace very much at all to run a 4-minute half - only 15 seconds over the half mile - it would be different if we were talking about going from 8:30 miles to 3 minute halves or 6:00 miles to 2:30 halves.

Anyway, I guess that your point is that Super Nintendo Master Runner or wherever you get your running knowledge is not that realistic. Is that where you get your batshitinsane political beliefs, too?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
You claimed my picks were wackos and that the implied "acceptable" picks were at 10-15. You are wrong. Why can't you admit and retract? Is this like the demo denial that perjury is a crime or rape is wrong?

Perjury is a crime. A serious crime. And Karl Rove should be punished for it to the fullest extent allowed by law.

And rape is wrong. I know. Condoleeza Rice raped me.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by mmm3587
I could probably crawl a 4 minute half, but bragging about fake times on the internet is more your speed. Look, you can take all your stupid slow-twitch/fast-twitch arguments and fantasize about them. I run, and I know many people that run. An 8:30 mile, by definition, is a 4:15 half, unless you are changing your pace, and doing a "lethal kick" on one of the legs, in which case the other one is even faster. Among humans, they can universally exert themselves at higher rates for shorter distances than they can for longer distances. From there, it's just a question of how much more they can exert themselves. If you were a runner, you would know that someone running that slow of a mile is generally able to pick it up a little for a sixth or an eighth of the distance they are maintaining that pace for. That's something I certainly know from my training, my training of others and my pacing in longer races. It's not like they have to pick up the pace very much at all to run a 4-minute half - only 15 seconds over the half mile - it would be different if we were talking about going from 8:30 miles to 3 minute halves or 6:00 miles to 2:30 halves.

Anyway, I guess that your point is that Super Nintendo Master Runner or wherever you get your running knowledge is not that realistic. Is that where you get your batshitinsane political beliefs, too?

again you experience your ignorance of running and the difference between sprint and distance times. I doubt you are even a jogger (although I could see you as one of those hacks who does a race like the Accenture Triathlon and rides beater bike with an inflatable naked doll attached-I may have lapped you if so), but remind me what year(s) you went to USTAF championships or the Worlds?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Perjury is a crime. A serious crime. And Karl Rove should be punished for it to the fullest extent allowed by law.

And rape is wrong. I know. Condoleeza Rice raped me.

Your mockery of rape and violence against woman is sad. I thought you were better than this. We may need to re-think your reinstatement into the insurgency.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Your mockery of rape and violence against woman is sad. I thought you were better than this. We may need to re-think your reinstatement into the insurgency.

Sure, blame the victim.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by mmm3587


Anyway, I guess that your point is that Super Nintendo Master Runner or wherever you get your running knowledge is not that realistic. Is that where you get your batshitinsane political beliefs, too?

Ps: So I took my lover's kid out to the track for another workout last nite. Did the spot the half, mile race thing again. The kid is getting faster. My achilles was a little tight so I started slow, didn't nip the kid until the last 100. 6:02 to the kid's 6:11. It may be time for me to start putting the real smack down on this brat.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Sure, blame the victim.

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Slave told me it was consensual, no?

[Secret_Agent_Man]

I hate to interrupt the Board Historian's stirring defense of McCarthyism -- remarkable as it is both for its limited and Hollywood-centric understanding of what actually occurred in America during that time and for its apparent disregard for (among other things) the fact that the Honorable Senator repeatedly flat-out fucking lied on the floor of the Senate for his own political gain.

But . . . here is more from Spanky's friends at the DLC (through my doppelganger Mr. Broder) on how Dems have to stop bitching and actually start to pony up to clean up the fiscal wreckage of the Bush years.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...11.html?sub=AR

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