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1. #1
   On July 10th, 2009 at 11:30 am, sonofdy said:

   For example: Does Sotomayor have tax problems?

   I thought that was a requirement for obama appointees?

2. #2
   On July 10th, 2009 at 11:32 am, Misscheryl said:

   They must really admire Sarah Palin and her family for the sacrifices they are making. Trig is a down syndrom child ya know.

   From Ed Whelan at The Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sotomayor and Abortion for Undesired “Populations.”

   ooohhhh, never mind…

3. #3
   On July 10th, 2009 at 11:33 am, Lan Astaslem said:

   Ginsburg offers this, er, interesting comment …

   …Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.

   Wow. Just wow.

4. #4
   On July 10th, 2009 at 11:36 am, RobM1981 said:

   Other reasons why Sonia Sotomayor is a great candidate for Justice of the US Supreme Court:

   There are no records of her ever kicking a puppy.

   She likes French Fries.

   She has both a favorite color, AND a favorite number.

   She loves her mother.

5. #5
   On July 10th, 2009 at 11:38 am, Misscheryl said:

   am, RobM1981 said:

   AND…

   she can count to 10

6. #6
   On July 10th, 2009 at 11:44 am, Ragspierre said:

   Reporters from roughly 30 television networks, newspapers, magazines, and web sites celebrated the Fourth of July with Barack Obama at the White House last weekend. Why didn’t you know that? Because they were sworn to secrecy.

   Newsbusters

   The Press/Obama roll in the hay just keeps going hot and heavy.

   Does anyone, anywhere think we are going to get anything like a full expose’ on Sotomayor?

   IF a conservative nominee had diabetes, would that not be hinted at…at least…as a disqualifier?

7. #7
   On July 10th, 2009 at 11:45 am, smfoushee said:

   I have a hang nail, can I get a gig as a Federal Judge?

8. #8
   On July 10th, 2009 at 11:46 am, vinny said:

   So she likes churros…that’s historic???

9. #9
   On July 10th, 2009 at 11:51 am, CantCureStupid said:

   Sotomayor’s nomination is historic also because she is living successfully with diabetes

   What the hell does this even mean? That her nomination is historic because she’s not dead? Does diabetes have anything whatsoever to do with her disgraceful record of higher court reversals, or what?

   Yet another example that education is not synonymous with intellect.

10. #10
    On July 10th, 2009 at 11:51 am, SHoward said:

    Well, I am surviving with Type 1 diabetes as well. And I’m doing it in the People’s Republik of Kalifornia-stan. Can I have a job-for-life?

11. #11
    On July 10th, 2009 at 11:52 am, CantCureStupid said:

    Should have been ‘intelligence.’ Sorry.

12. #12
    On July 10th, 2009 at 11:54 am, tre said:

    I’m successfully living with asthma! When can I expect my judicial appointment?

13. #13
    On July 10th, 2009 at 11:54 am, 5minutes said:

    I’ve found us a better nominee!!! Yay, me!!!

14. #14
    On July 10th, 2009 at 11:54 am, SHoward said:

    Does diabetes have anything whatsoever to do with her disgraceful record of higher court reversals, or what?

    Actually, that is a great question. Diabetes, if not properly controlled, causes unpredictable mood swings and periods of being incoherent. I am NOT making this up.

    If she were in fact not in control of her diabetes, that actually could explain some of her stupid rulings and sayings.

15. #15
    On July 10th, 2009 at 11:54 am, 5minutes said:

    http://growabrain.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/12/wilford_brimley_want.jpg

16. #16
    On July 10th, 2009 at 11:55 am, tre said:

    On July 10th, 2009 at 11:52 am, CantCureStupid said:
    Should have been ‘intelligence.’ Sorry.

    I’ll spare you the wise crack about your moniker. :0

17. #17
    On July 10th, 2009 at 11:56 am, CleanGuy said:

    Cold, but… Maybe I’ll gush about her when she is successful AFTER diabetes ravages her body. After all, blind and being a multiple amputee and being a Supreme Court Jurist WOULD be something to gush about. I bet there are millions of other successful women with diabetes that no one knows about and no one gushes over. But right now, she is just an activist judge to me.

18. #18
    On July 10th, 2009 at 11:58 am, vsatt said:

    I don’t see the big deal about living with diabetes when you consider the fact our current president and many members of congress are somehow living and functioning with only half a brain.

19. #19
    On July 10th, 2009 at 11:59 am, Danceswithdachshunds said:

    Good thing she doesn’t have gout or she’d be a shoe-in.

20. #20
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:02 pm, Misscheryl said:

    OT but I’ve been looking on Drudge and Fox regarding the story about the black kids who attacked the white family in Akron, Ohio and it’s gone. All I can find is the story about the black children who were discriminated against at a PA pool…What’s up?

    Can someone help me out here.

21. #21
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:02 pm, pueblo1032 said:

    Not only is she not qualified for the SUPREME COURT, I doubt she would qualify to sit on a JURY here in MARICOPA COUNTY Arizona…

22. #22
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:07 pm, goodforlaughs said:

    I’m truly a minority, conservative, caucasian, Christian, living in the bay area! Working so that others don’t need to! Can I retire now? Why am I being punished? Never mind, it’s probably my fault others don’t have a job.

23. #23
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:09 pm, cheapseat said:

    sotomayor has diabetes, and several parents are mourning the loss of their children in san francisco because illegal alien ms 13 gang members saw some college kids driving while wearing a red sweater or a red ball cap, and these fine latino young men who have the benefit of that fine latino upbringing jumped out of the stolen car they were cruising in, and opened fire on the car with the kids in it. hmmmm.

24. #24
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:17 pm, southsideironworks said:

    I’m living successfully with a number of health issues and I don’t let them define who I am.

    I don’t want government “help” either.

25. #25
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:18 pm, npphotog said:

    The next job I apply for will list type 1 diabetes at the top of my resume and highlighted.

26. #26
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:20 pm, flenser said:

    This is why I hope she gets confirmed. Her life expectancy is about ten years. That is far preferable to seeing another lefty placed on the courts for the next forty years.

27. #27
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:21 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Not only is she not qualified for the SUPREME COURT, I doubt she would qualify to sit on a JURY here in MARICOPA COUNTY Arizona

    She would be disqualified as a juror in virtually any jurisdiction I can think of.

    She’s a self-described racist and sexist. Period. End of story. Close the book.

    But she’s perfectly in line with THE ONE, soooo….

28. #28
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:28 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Wow, throw in a case of soriasis, a little fibromialgia, and some toenail fungus and she can be Chief Justice.

29. #29
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:28 pm, Veretax said:

    Michelle, did you see the Ginsburg interview in support of Sotomayor in the NY Times Mag?

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/magazine/12ginsburg-t.html

    (Pay close note to pages 3 and 4)

    (starting on Page 3)

    Q: If you were a lawyer again, what would you want to accomplish as a future feminist legal agenda?

    JUSTICE GINSBURG: Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that had changed their abortion laws before Roe [to make abortion legal] are not going to change back. So we have a policy that affects only poor women, and it can never be otherwise, and I don’t know why this hasn’t been said more often.
    Q: Are you talking about the distances women have to travel because in parts of the country, abortion is essentially unavailable, because there are so few doctors and clinics that do the procedure? And also, the lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women?

    (Page 4)

    JUSTICE GINSBURG: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.

30. #30
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:30 pm, lgm said:

    The best conservative evidence against Sotomayor:

    I have no idea whether Sotomayor should have had her sideline practice at all, whether she got all the approvals she should have gotten…

    This ambitious wise Latina woman kept her record clean.

    If she is confirmed, you can bet that the American Diabetes Association (or whatever it’s called) will point to her as a success story in living with the disease. That’s not a bad thing.

31. #31
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:31 pm, madmonkphotog said:

    “Sotomayor’s nomination is historic also because she is living successfully with diabetes.”

    Do you know how many Latinos live with diabetes? What’s the accomplishment here? None whatsoever.

32. #32
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:31 pm, nail49 said:

    our current president and many members of congress are somehow living and functioning with only half a brain

    vsatt: You mean, of course, that they are sharing that half of a brain among them.

    Let’s see, Nancy gets it on Tuesdays, Barry gets it on Wednesdays, Barney only gets it once a month, Harry said he doesn’t need it, so that means Teddy can have it Fridays and Sundays…

33. #33
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:32 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion.

    Wow what a great way to promote a government program.

    “Support Medicad Funding – America’s Final Solution.”

34. #34
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:33 pm, nail49 said:

    point to her as a success story in living with the disease. That’s not a bad thing.

    lgm: She can live with the disease as a family practice attorney and that would be a better thing!

35. #35
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:33 pm, Misscheryl said:

    12:31 pm, nail49 said

    THAT was funny!

36. #36
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:46 pm, Ragspierre said:

    This ambitious wise Latina racist, sexist bigoted woman kept her record clean.

    Yep. As clean as such a record can be…

37. #37
    On July 10th, 2009 at 12:57 pm, RobM1981 said:

    I’ve had my heart broken.

    I broke my nose playing football, once, but valiantly finished the game. Fractured my tailbone, too, a different time.

    I’ve had several teeth filled.

    Injured myself badly splitting wood, back when I was a teenager.

    Almost rolled a car after a blowout, but miraculously came out without a scratch on the car or the occupants. There was a little kid in the car, too, so that’s bonus points.

    I’ve shot “clean” at a trap shoot.

    I’ve never slept with one of my teachers. Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever slept with a teacher at all.

    Wow… what am I eligible for? Sounds like at least an Ambassadorship, by my math.

    Oh, wait, I’ve actually had SEVERAL real jobs, unlike our POTUS. Need to recalculate…

    …carry the 2

    …divide by 17

    Got it… GOT IT:

    ALL KNEEL: I AM YOUR NEW POTENTATE

38. #38
    On July 10th, 2009 at 1:07 pm, UrbanSpaceman said:

    Like a couple of others, I have type 1 diabetes–had it for almost 35 years now.

    Ms. Sotomayer has diabetes? Whoop-tee-do.

    When I was first diagnosed with diabetes, I was given a pamphlet that talked about famous people who live with diabetes–Mary Tyler Moore, some baseball player (Ty Cobb maybe?), and a couple of others. That did not impress me either.

    Knowing that others live with the disease does not impress me as they do not/did not have the same living conditions I have had (and am having).

    And the American Diabetes Association can go take a long walk off a short pier with their promoting stem cell research when they refuse to look at a more promising method–adult stem cells.

    And as someone else mentioned, how do you define successfully living with diabetes? That she still has all her limbs, plus has no retinaopathy (sp?), neuropathy (sp?), or kidney troubles? That her HA1C is around 7? That she still breathes? What?

    I do not care as much about the diseases she has as the fact that she does not support the US Constitution–this means she has no business anywhere near the Supreme Court.

39. #39
    On July 10th, 2009 at 1:13 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Oh, wait, I’ve actually had SEVERAL real jobs, unlike our POTUS. Need to recalculate…

    …carry the 2

    …divide by 17

    Got it… GOT IT:

    You forgot that this is an even numbered Friday in an odd numbered month. You have to square root the gezzinta. Once you do that the result is… Redundancy Czar of Redundancy.

40. #40
    On July 10th, 2009 at 1:13 pm, Danceswithdachshunds said:

    RobM1981: I’ve never slept with one of my teachers.

    And for one of mine, I’ve been regretting it for 40 years!

    I had a root canal and a broken collar bone. Are those worth anything?

41. #41
    On July 10th, 2009 at 1:13 pm, Ragspierre said:

    I do not care as much about the diseases she has as the fact that she does not support the US Constitution–this means she has no business anywhere near the Supreme Court.

    Amen.

    But nor will any nominee likely to come from THE ONE.

42. #42
    On July 10th, 2009 at 1:29 pm, tbear44 said:

    Dumbest pro-Sotomayor op-ed of the week
    By Michelle Malkin • July 10, 2009 11:27 AM

    Earlier this week Soto met up with Al Franken! Bizarre.

43. #43
    On July 10th, 2009 at 1:58 pm, sonofdy said:

    BTW I just saved or created 348,231,632 jobs.

    You are welcome.

44. #44
    On July 10th, 2009 at 2:01 pm, Salt said:

    On July 10th, 2009 at 1:58 pm, sonofdy said:

    BTW I just saved or created 348,231,632 jobs.

    You are welcome.

    …but did you stay at a Holiday Inn Express?

45. #45
    On July 10th, 2009 at 2:02 pm, nail49 said:

    BTW I just saved or created 348,231,632 jobs

    Sonfody: Were those the same 348,231,632 jobs I saved yesterday, or the ones Rags saved on Wednesday? We mustn’t couble-count or deceive anyone, after all.

    BTW, thanks for your part in saving and creating jobs. Tomorrow we’ll talk about how you cooled the earth for us all.

46. #46
    On July 10th, 2009 at 2:07 pm, Misscheryl said:

    Monday, I’m going to offer free health care to everyone in America, illegals or otherwise and I’m paying for it!

    HA!

47. #47
    On July 10th, 2009 at 2:11 pm, nail49 said:

    couble-double-count

    My bad!

48. #48
    On July 10th, 2009 at 2:16 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Monday, I’m going to offer free health care to everyone in America, illegals or otherwise and I’m paying for it!

    You people are saints. I consider myself lucky to live in America at a time when we are doing the work of collectivist angels every day.

    Really.

    I have a lump in my throat butt.

    /sarc off

49. #49
    On July 10th, 2009 at 2:16 pm, twofoot said:

    I know at least half a dozen people “living successfully with diabetes”. Two of which have also had strokes. I would gladly see any of them on the Supreme Court before this racisit, sorry, wise latina.

50. #50
    On July 10th, 2009 at 2:36 pm, nail49 said:

    I have a lump in my throat butt.

    Rags: Likely the scar tissue from where the Obama Administration removed your wallet!

51. #51
    On July 10th, 2009 at 3:11 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    The Seattle Times headline reads like a fifth grader’s introductory sentence in the second-to-last paragraph of a persuasive essay as the student struggles to meet the requirements of the assignment.

    Sotomayor may be a Hispanic woman who overcame poverty and has diabetes, but can she walk and chew gum at the same time? Can she rub her belly and pat her head simultaneously? Her path to confirmation will probably be a greased-up downhill Slip-n-Slide.

52. #52
    On July 10th, 2009 at 3:51 pm, JustAThought said:

    So, I suppose that my wife’s story should be published and she should receive a key to any city we visit, based on this claptrap, right? Afterall, she is fighting Stage 4 breast cancer, has been for more than two years now.
    Shouldn’t I get SOME kind of medal, reward, payment for being such a hero to stick by her and not pull a Silky Pony?
    I’ll go back to looking forward to this rag going the way of their competitor The Seattle P-I.

    Chimps.

53. #53
    On July 10th, 2009 at 4:53 pm, SpeakEasy said:

    Well if she does get confirmed she will not last long under Obamacare. Better line up few more wise latino women.

54. #54
    On July 10th, 2009 at 6:06 pm, jrgdds said:

    I don’t Know if Judge Sotomayer’s being a Type I diabetic will help her by way of qualification, but I do know that her and Barak Obama’s socialist agenda, particularly Universal Health Care, will help her bottom line.
    Being a Type I diabetic myself, I can tell you that the use of insulin pumps is the state of the art in therapy. Being a self employed dentist I can tell you the cost of my medical coverage using this type of therapy.
    The initial outlay for a pump is 6000 dollars, supplies and associated costs including insurance premiums, copayments, medications, laboratory tests, and doctor visits cost out of pocket 4200 per year.
    Now there are 3 million Type I diabetics in the USA. And according to Barack Obama, As American citizens we are entitled to our medical care at taxpayer expense. And as American Citizens, we will demand state of the art care which is insulin pump therapy.
    So my neighbors and countrymen will initially lay out $18 billion for our pumps these will have to be replaced every 5 years. And then $12.6 B per year in associated costs. This does not include treating the 15000 people who are diagnosed with Type I Diabetes each year that will also be covered, nor does it include treating the complications of the disease that many people that share my affliction have already experienced.
    Of course this isn’t the only disease, but it is the one we really care about. Of course there are otherOn behalf of us including Judge Sotomayer, I would like to thank everyone in the country in advance of the enactment of Universal Health Care into law for caring enough to pay for our medical needs. We may not live longer, but at least we won’t have the stress of paying the bills. If we need anything else, believe me, we won’t be afraid to ask.
    /sarc off

55. #55
    On July 10th, 2009 at 6:33 pm, blues said:

    Im surviving arthritis,and am wrong at least two out of three times—I think that qualifies me for SCOTUS.

56. #56
    On July 10th, 2009 at 6:39 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    from Steve Sailer’s article on vdare.com…these are the questions that should be asked of Sotomayor:

    But these questions would be worth asking for their own rhetorical sake:

    *

    Much as Chief Justice John Roberts asked during oral arguments over Ricci… Can you assure us, Judge Sotomayor, that your decision in Ricci for the City of New Haven would have been the same if minority firefighters scored highest on this test in disproportionate numbers, and the City said we don’t like that result, we think there should be more whites on the fire department, and so we’re going to throw the test out?
    *

    On the South Wall of the Supreme Court Building’s courtroom are carvings of the “great lawgivers of history.” The second earliest lawgiver depicted is Hammurabi, king of Babylon, who is honored for carving the laws in stone and putting them up in public—which meant that even the king couldn’t change the laws after the fact to suit his convenience. Why should Mayor DeStefano enjoy the privilege that King Hammurabi denied himself: to see what the final score turned out to be, then change the rules of the game?
    *

    In the Obama Administration’s friend of the court brief to the Supreme Court on the Ricci case, the Obama Administration called for your decision for summary judgment in favor of Mayor DeStefano to be overturned and the Ricci case to be remanded to local district court for retrial on the facts. Why did you vote for a more extremist outcome than the Obama Administration later called for?
    *

    Chief Justice Robert s recently wrote, “[t]he way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” Do you agree?
    *

    Here’s a guest question from Emily Bazelon of Slate and the Yale Law School about your terse judgment in Ricci: “The problem for Sotomayor, instead, is why she didn’t grapple with the difficult constitutional issues, the ones Cabranes pointed to. Did she really have nothing to add to the district court opinion? In a case of this magnitude and intricacy, why would that be?”
    *

    Is the primary point of our civil rights laws to protect minorities or to protect individuals of all races?
    *

    You have described yourself on video as “a product of affirmative action” and an “affirmative action baby” and that it is “critical that we promote diversity.” Considering your often-expressed passionate views on the topic and personal self-interest in promoting ethnic preferences, how could Frank Ricci have expected even-handed, colorblind justice from you?
    *

    Yes, but, according to the Supreme Court, Frank Ricci didn’t get justice from you, now did he?
    *

    I realize you resent these questions, but aren’t doubts about racial bias inevitably created by the act of treating people of different races differently, acts which you endorse?
    *

    Considering the personal benefits that ethnic preferences have provided you over the years, shouldn’t you have recused yourself from the Ricci case?
    *

    Will you promise to recuse yourself in all future cases involving quotas, affirmative action, discrimination, or disparate impact?
    *

    Six years ago, in the previous major affirmative action case, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote in her majority decision in Gratz, “We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today. ” (That’s now only 19 years from 2009.) Do you agree?
    *

    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in her dissenting opinion on Ricci: “The Court’s order and opinion, I anticipate, will not have staying power.” Do you agree?
    *

    Should immigrants be eligible for racial and ethnic preferences?
    *

    Why?
    *

    Judge Sotomayor, you were a member of the National Council of La Raza from 1998 to 2004 . What do the words “La Raza” mean in English?

57. #57
    On July 11th, 2009 at 8:48 am, jangar said:

    And as American Citizens, we will demand state of the art care which is insulin pump therapy.

    You’ll be lucky to get a 50ml bottle of novolog that isn’t outdated, with a box of B-D syringes that don’t last till the next box comes by mail.

58. #58
    On July 11th, 2009 at 11:52 am, Savage24 said:

    Hell I got gout and they haven’t approched me. I guess I’m not a shoe in.

59. #59
    On July 11th, 2009 at 7:15 pm, Dimsdale said:

    I don’t care if she is a leper: she still tried to screw over those firemen in New Haven to keep a quota.

    That is bad judgment.