http://politicsandpress.com/2009/the-supreme-court-as-a-legion-of-decency/ The interaction of the press and politics; public diplomacy, and daily absurdities. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:44:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://politicsandpress.com/2009/the-supreme-court-as-a-legion-of-decency/comment-page-1/#comment-13914 jeff Thu, 14 May 2009 15:31:46 +0000 http://politicsandpress.com/2009/the-supreme-court-as-a-legion-of-decency/#comment-13914 First of all, her name is Jennifer, not Jessica – time to cut down on the beer, boys. And she has a lot going against her besides her birthplace. I mean a Canadian judge? Cripes, she would be endlessly seeking the middle ground. Plus– she got degrees form Berkeley and Harvard; is a failed actress; won a third-rate (compared to Sarah Palin’s first rate) beauty contest; did not try for American citizenship until she had been in the country 17 years; kept her maiden – whoops, I mean “birth” – name when she married; competed in TV’s Dating Game, and defeated the son of the founder of Amway – a great American institution - in her re-election. But worst of all, she is of Scandinavian descent – and the last thing we would want would be someone with Swedish and Norwegian genes pulsing through her brain as she decides issues with potential socialistic implications. First of all, her name is Jennifer, not Jessica – time to cut down on the beer, boys. And she has a lot going against her besides her birthplace. I mean a Canadian judge? Cripes, she would be endlessly seeking the middle ground. Plus– she got degrees form Berkeley and Harvard; is a failed actress; won a third-rate (compared to Sarah Palin’s first rate) beauty contest; did not try for American citizenship until she had been in the country 17 years; kept her maiden – whoops, I mean “birth” – name when she married; competed in TV’s Dating Game, and defeated the son of the founder of Amway – a great American institution – in her re-election. But worst of all, she is of Scandinavian descent – and the last thing we would want would be someone with Swedish and Norwegian genes pulsing through her brain as she decides issues with potential socialistic implications.

]]> http://politicsandpress.com/2009/the-supreme-court-as-a-legion-of-decency/comment-page-1/#comment-13902 Mackenzie Brothers Thu, 14 May 2009 06:13:20 +0000 http://politicsandpress.com/2009/the-supreme-court-as-a-legion-of-decency/#comment-13902 Jeff forgot to mention one of the odder facets of the current appointment process . One of the leading candidates is said to be Michigan Governor Jessica Granholm, an honors graduate of both the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School, an academic background that automatically makes her a devil to Jeff's Legion of Decency. Because she was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and only moved to the US when she was in diapers, the guardians are now trying to block her because she was not native-born, a stipulation in the US Constitution for the President (Tell that to Arnold Schwarzenegger!), but not for the Supreme Court. Nevertheless no foreign-born judge has sat there since Felix Frankfurter, suggesting that the must be strong evidence that those bediapered months abroad smell anti-USian. Jeff forgot to mention one of the odder facets of the current appointment process . One of the leading candidates is said to be Michigan Governor Jessica Granholm, an honors graduate of both the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School, an academic background that automatically makes her a devil to Jeff’s Legion of Decency. Because she was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and only moved to the US when she was in diapers, the guardians are now trying to block her because she was not native-born, a stipulation in the US Constitution for the President (Tell that to Arnold Schwarzenegger!), but not for the Supreme Court. Nevertheless no foreign-born judge has sat there since Felix Frankfurter, suggesting that the must be strong evidence that those bediapered months abroad smell anti-USian.

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