We promise that we will try, with all our might, to end the air of entitlement by taking the handouts away and forcing you to work for what you have the way those slaves desperately wanted to.

Affirmative Action programs exist to benefit women and minorities. It doesn’t matter if women make up more than half of the U.S. population; they’re considered a historically oppressed group and, yes, they benefit from these laws. If Affirmative Action is half as rampant as your other posts imply, you’ve probably gotten signficant aid for your sex (I personally don’t equate AA with the recruitment of morons who happen to be female or non-white or both, but I’m just following the logic of other posts of yours I’ve seen here on the topic).

Affirmative Action was a directive signed by a president. It was never legislated as an actual law. Your application doesn’t fit current trends. I would like you to explain to my mother why she was denied a promotion in favor of a minority woman (cough cough black) who was so inexperienced that within a year she left or she would have been fired. That smacks more of quotas than Affirmative Action.

As to your idea that I somehow equate AA with the “recruitment of morons”… hey, your words, not mine. This is what happens when you treat employment like a social experiment. I’ve never directly or indirectly benefited from AA myself. Why? Because I had the opportunity to prove myself many times on the job…. I was not given that job based on my gender. If you lose the condescending attitude, nyk, for a minute, perhaps you also need to reexamine how companies recruit. They are still looking for the best candidate, not always the best minority candidate.

Yes, most minimally informed women realize that “women and minorities” is often used as an interchangeable phrase with “diversity.” Companies, organizations and lots of kinds of programs consistently examine their ranks to see the percentages of — yes, there’s a pattern here — women and minorities they employ and include to determine if there’s diversity. Hence you have engineering, mathematics and science-related companies and colleges focused on recruiting greater numbers of women, CEO and executive management programs focused on increasing the profiles of female employees, and more.

I’m just sayin’. It’s part of the definition.

Haven’t you tried this tact before? If you’re going to assert that “most minimally informed” women know that diversity represents both women and minorities, you will need to back that up. This is your liberal interpretation of a reality that not all women share.

As a feminist myself, I recognize that liberal feminists think that tying their cause to the “terrible plight” of minorities will get them some kind of bragging rights. However, there are other things like “quotas” and Equal Opportunity (EEOP) that give women pause when considering how beneficial or even how useful Affirmative Action is for women.

Women want to be hired because they’re the the best and brightest, and many are. Some, like yourself, think that women and minorities should have prior claim to jobs. I think that everybody, regardless of gender, race, ethinicity, etc., should get equal consideration for any job they’re applying for…. may the best candidate win.

Oh, and please, stop lumping all women together. We may be the same gender, but there are many, many women who would disagree with your assumptions. Okay?

The republicans should thank Nancy for this gift.

What should the House be truly sorry for?

Taking the taxpayer’s money every payday!

On July 29th, 2008 at 11:11 pm, mistressjustice said:
Some mod wants to delete my posts to nyk. Oh well, very interesting.

Try not breaking the ToU, works for the rest of us. kk thx.

I was telling my wifes boss about this and he said “Jim Crow who the he!! is that, I’ve heard of Old Crow

Old Crow and Virginia Gentleman were staples in my grandaddy’s pantry for most of my early years.
First shot I ever had was Old Crow at the tender age of 6.
I have not had a shot of bourbon since.
Switched to blended. The Canadians can do one thing right.

No matter who you are, you have to admit that you are better off today than you would have been 150 years ago.

My whale oil computer ain’t what she used to be…”Honey do we have any more sperm oil?”

It just struck me as funny, but here we all are, instantaneously bouncing thoughts on race, grievances and historical outcomes off of one another via little keyboards. Can you imagine what our ancestors (whether they came over on slave ships, were already here, were fleeing from persecution, were being starved out through expansions of empire or colonialism) would have thought if they could see how we all live as Americans today?

No matter who you are, you have to admit that you are better off today than you would have been 150 years ago.

110th CONGRESS

2d Session

H. R. 6615

To provide for the transport of the enemy combatants detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Washington, DC, where the United States Supreme Court will be able to more effectively micromanage the detainees by holding them on the Supreme Court grounds, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

July 24, 2008

Mr. GOHMERT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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A BILL

To provide for the transport of the enemy combatants detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Washington, DC, where the United States Supreme Court will be able to more effectively micromanage the detainees by holding them on the Supreme Court grounds, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘Giving Inmate Terrorists More Opportunities (GITMO) Act of 2008’.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds the following:

(1) The United States Supreme Court issued an opinion styled Boumediene v. Bush on June 12, 2008.

(2) Justice Anthony Kennedy, in the court’s majority opinion, held that foreign terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba have constitutional rights to challenge their detention in United States courts.

(3) This is an obvious effort on the part of the Supreme Court to micromanage the detainment and disposition of detainees in the War on Terror who are dedicated to destroying innocent people and the American way of life.

(4) The United States Supreme Court clearly needs increased opportunity to oversee the handling of the enemy combatants, as it has seen fit to take a greater role in managing the Global War on Terror, which is a duty previously exercised by the Executive Branch.

(5) There can be no better way for the United States Supreme Court to exercise its new self-appointed war powers than to house the prisoners whom it has taken a greater role in overseeing.

Read the rest here:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-6615

On July 29th, 2008 at 9:24 pm, Die Hippie, Die said:

But until then I’ll settle for paying just enough taxes to run the Departments of Defense, Justice, State (if reduced by 80%) and Treasury.

Amen to that!