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	<title>Comments on: L.A. Times On Sotomayor&#8217;s &#8220;Courts Make Policy&#8221; Quote: She Was Joking!</title>
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	<description>Harangues that just make sense</description>
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		<title>By: JD</title>
		<link>http://patterico.com/2009/05/26/la-times-on-sotomayors-courts-make-policy-quote-she-was-joking/comment-page-1/#comment-500142</link>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 03:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Those diplomas are all important when a Leftist has them.  When a Republican has them, it makes them the mostest stupideset dummerest President EVAH.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those diplomas are all important when a Leftist has them.  When a Republican has them, it makes them the mostest stupideset dummerest President EVAH.</p>
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		<title>By: imdw</title>
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		<dc:creator>imdw</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 03:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>and princeton, summa cum laude. But yet thomas jackson still thinks he is right, no doubt.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>and princeton, summa cum laude. But yet thomas jackson still thinks he is right, no doubt.</p>
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		<title>By: HeavenSent</title>
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		<dc:creator>HeavenSent</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 03:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#45 Yale, I think.</description>
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		<title>By: Thomas Jackson</title>
		<link>http://patterico.com/2009/05/26/la-times-on-sotomayors-courts-make-policy-quote-she-was-joking/comment-page-1/#comment-500127</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Jackson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 03:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All this proves is that a Havard Law School education does not guarantee you understand the US constitution, have any respect for the law, nor that the requirements for admission to Havard Law could not be met with someone with the IQ of a slug if Sotomayor is an example of their selection process.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All this proves is that a Havard Law School education does not guarantee you understand the US constitution, have any respect for the law, nor that the requirements for admission to Havard Law could not be met with someone with the IQ of a slug if Sotomayor is an example of their selection process.</p>
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		<title>By: nk</title>
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		<dc:creator>nk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 02:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Seriously, maybe the lady is not resentful about the miserable lot in life she inherited, and maybe she is disciplined enough not to go into hypoglycemic psychosis, but why the hell do we need to chance it?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seriously, maybe the lady is not resentful about the miserable lot in life she inherited, and maybe she is disciplined enough not to go into hypoglycemic psychosis, but why the hell do we need to chance it?</p>
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		<title>By: daleyrocks</title>
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		<dc:creator>daleyrocks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 02:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>nk - I&#039;m sure JD has done worse.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>nk &#8211; I&#8217;m sure JD has done worse.</p>
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		<title>By: daleyrocks</title>
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		<dc:creator>daleyrocks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 02:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What&#039;s with the infestation of beer trolls?  You&#039;ve got DBG and now a Belgian Ale?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What&#8217;s with the infestation of beer trolls?  You&#8217;ve got DBG and now a Belgian Ale?</p>
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		<title>By: nk</title>
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		<dc:creator>nk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 02:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We must all strive to make the world a better place for fat, ugly Puerto Rican women, with Type 1 diabetes, JD, you heartless elitist.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We must all strive to make the world a better place for fat, ugly Puerto Rican women, with Type 1 diabetes, JD, you heartless elitist.</p>
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		<title>By: JD</title>
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		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 02:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dana - Thank you for those, very interesting.  Probably racist.  This is precisely what I think that she should be asked in her confirmation hearings.

You once said 

&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt; 

Why?

You also once said

&lt;blockquote&gt;Justice [Sandra Day] O’Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases…I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor [Martha] Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life&lt;/blockquote&gt;

If someone said to you that they hoped that a white male with the richness of his experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Latina/black/asian/polish/polka dotted female who hasn&#039;t lived that life, would you not scream RACIST in their face?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dana &#8211; Thank you for those, very interesting.  Probably racist.  This is precisely what I think that she should be asked in her confirmation hearings.</p>
<p>You once said </p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>You also once said</p>
<blockquote><p>Justice [Sandra Day] O’Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases…I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor [Martha] Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life</p></blockquote>
<p>If someone said to you that they hoped that a white male with the richness of his experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Latina/black/asian/polish/polka dotted female who hasn&#8217;t lived that life, would you not scream RACIST in their face?</p>
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		<title>By: JD</title>
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		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 02:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>White House spokesman Robert Gibbs about Newt Gingrich&#039;s criticism of this nomination ... 
&lt;blockquote&gt;
“I think it is probably important for anybody involved in this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which they’ve decided to describe different aspects...&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Remember when Ari said something about how people should be careful with their choice of words, and the Left went absolutely batsh*tkrazy?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>White House spokesman Robert Gibbs about Newt Gingrich&#8217;s criticism of this nomination &#8230; </p>
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“I think it is probably important for anybody involved in this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which they’ve decided to describe different aspects&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Remember when Ari said something about how people should be careful with their choice of words, and the Left went absolutely batsh*tkrazy?</p>
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