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The Original Greaser Bob

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  1. 1 minute ago, Willfully Horn said:

    Expecting Justices to avoid the appearance of partisanship is silly? What other perceptions that run counter to the integrity of the Court are you willing to rationalize? Don’t answer that. You’re among those racing to the there-is-no-bottom.

    Just for future reference, please link to the "appearance of partisanship" that AB has engaged in that broke the mold for you. 

  2. 14 hours ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

    I always wondered what it'd be like to for her be nominated for this absolute pinnacle position but know they guy putting you in is an embarrassment and also that you're being installed to overturn one specific legacy of the woman justice who was barely cold in the ground at that point. 

    Sort of like getting an appointment to the US Military Academy by Ted Cruz or Mike Pence?

    Think of all the good young men who ended up at A&M because they were not willing to accept such an appointment.

  3. 4 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

    I haven’t seen too much indication that ACB cares about trying to actually apply the law. She may be 10% less of a hack than Alito, but that bar is on the floor.

    I read a bunch of her cases prior to her confirmation.  The only flaw I saw was one of her discrimination cases, where she supported the granting of summary judgment where it was not appropriate.  Other than that, there wasn't much to bitch about.

    Oh, unless you wanted to be partisan in your analysis.

  4. 2 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

    I meant partisanship, Greasy. Oily, feculent partisanship. The fucking election had begun. Contrasted with the Constitutional negligence in the Gore-suck shit, I see no game, no honor, and no leadership of a country, but furtherance of a Party. But I vote for a Party which puts the good of the Country over he good of the Party. The other side can’t even manage that, backing the good of one man over the good of the Country.

    Beto Gore had a beef. The Diminished Dictator has only Lies. Fuck out of here peddling AB as anything more noble than the sort of panty stain that suggests a murder has been committed.

    Well it's a really silly POV, since all appointments, in a two party system, are partisan.  Biden is no more concerned with his judges fealty to the Constitution than Trumps, although he certainly could argue the point better.  And you seem to be missing the whole point of my original post - which wasn't to compare ABs nobility to the circumstances of her appointment, but merely to look at her character outside of the context of legal interpretation.

     

  5. 8 hours ago, Burt said:

    One of my wife's best friends is a former Mennonite. She still occasionally struggles with looking over her shoulder to make sure no one sees her doing anything "immodest."  And her parents live 4 houses down from us so if she comes over to have a drink we have to have it either indoors or out in my BBQ shack. Too risky to do it in the backyard out in the open because her mom may go walking on the trails out beyond our yard and see her. 

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  6. 10 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

    I said, in an admittedly garbled way, that anyone who would accept a place on SCOTUS given the circumstances AB faced is not worthy of the job. Because her appointment reeked of partisanship, which diminishes the court. Had she declined that opportunity, and were afforded another, your link would have been helpful.

    Interesting.  Her appointment reeked of partisanship, as opposed to every other Supreme Court nominee?

    The issue of attacking the partisanship of an issue (I'm not sure you mean pure partisanship so much as the gamesmanship related to her circumstances) is the duty of the Senate, and not the appointed person.  The Senate are the folks to be attacked (and ultimately the folks who put them there and continue to support them.)  Or the system.

    (She declines and we actually get a justice who won't  even try to apply the law?)

  7. 14 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

    I don’t want to dislike anyone. I am obliged to dislike a SCOTUS nominee-turned-justice who values themself, their politics, or any reason other than public perception that the SCOTUS is non-partisan. Fuck out of here.

    Just curious as to whether any of you guys actually read the article?

    Not sure what you are trying to say in the italicized sentence.

  8. The Naked City (1948)

    Dated, goofy, silly, but with the great Barry Fitzgerald and some really cool pictures of old New York. 

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    I think these two greasy wrestling guys were an inspiration for the hairy basketball shirts/skins game in Along Came Polly.

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    Eh, don't get to comfortable there, guys.

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  9. 2 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    That attitude is why this board is a great feeding ground for trolls. Years and years and years go by with people setting out a virtual all-you-can-eat buffet for the trolls thinking they’re making a difference by “calling them out” when all they’re actually doing is amplifying the trolls’ dumbassery. The effect you think you’re achieving isn’t happening. The opposite is. Ignore the trolls. That’s the only way to deal with them.

    This is so goddamn true, from a local yokel on this board up to trolls like Trump.  I understand that you have to keep your guard up when it comes to trolls with real influence, but any acknowledgment of their idiocy is simply amplifying the idiocy.  The country and each of us individually would all benefit if we stopped giving idiots our time, and a platform.

    Putting them on ignore is a sign of a patriot.  Not putting them on ignore and not engaging with them is a sign of a well disciplined patriot.

  10. 21 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    Any chance the Pantsing of Putin reverberates in a good way back home?  There’s at least a faction within the GOP that was enamored with Putin and had been borrowing heavily from his domestic control playbook.  Could we see the GOP tell them to get fucked, or if they own too much of the GOP, for the American people to tell them to get fucked?

    I'm a blind optimist whose best years of critical thinking are behind him, so fuck yes!

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  11. Kinda of nice getting the old allies back together.  You know, working towards a common goal. 

    Even though we aren't giving up any blood, it feels good to be on the just side of things.

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  12. Spencer (2021)

    What a beating.  The "discordant jazz" background did it's job, it its job was to make the viewer miserable.

    Stewart is interesting. She can look like quite beautiful in an instant and like a 10 year old boy the next.  It's a bit discombobulating unless you are an ancient Greek warrior.

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    I feel like I need to go watch "The Favourite" so I can watch some relatively pleasant, happy royals.

  13. I wasn't able to post this a few weeks ago but the New Yorker profile on Amy Comey Bryant. was really interesting, given the divide in our times.  Here is a person who I will not be able to understand, culturally.  But she truly is an amazing human from an intellectual and work ethic standpoint and an arguably truly good/saintly person in terms of her family and interpersonal relationships.  You want to dislike her while reading the article because of her problematic legal interpretations but she really is a someone who you just have to respect and admire.

    Sort of a reminder about to stay calm and try to understand people.

    Sorry if paywell.

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/14/amy-coney-barretts-long-game

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