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Unwise Non-Latinas

The most famous Latina since Queen Isabella wisely allows others to shine.

One night last February we were on patrol for big government apologists in Fairfax County, our one-way radio tuned to WTOP, the authoritative all-news station of Washington, D.C., and what did we hear? Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was suffering from an early form of cancer. What kind? The yokel announcer said it was "prostate cancer." Our investigations wagon did a 360 spin. The fellow sure knew how to hit a defiant feminist where it hurt. Moreover, we feared for his well-being and the likelihood that he would join the ranks "of populations that we don't want to have too many of," as Ginsburg recently put it apropos her understanding of whom supporters of Roe v. Wade intended to target. Her remark came in a pre-Sotomayor hearing interview in the New York Times, where nobody stopped to ask, perhaps because they didn't have to, "What do you mean 'we,' Justice Ginsburg?" And where nobody bothered to apologize to Rush Limbaugh for ridiculing his use of the term "Feminazi," as if there could be no such thing.

We should not be too hard on the New York Times, which is going through a difficult stretch. Last month, to save on printing costs, it had to downsize its famous Sunday magazine, which now looks almost as puny and negligible as the Washington Post's own Sunday supplement. To be sure, the magazine's editor explained to horrified readers that the tiny font they were suddenly having to decipher was an improvement on the previous and easier on the eyes. We're all Obamas now. Or at least they are.

But sometimes we don't appreciate the NYT's contributions, even in an area as contentious and complex as climate change. Its print "Washington Edition" took the lead, predicting in the upper right hand corner of its Sunday, July 12 front page, "Today, mostly sunny, low humidity, highs in mid-80s. Tonight, mainly clear, lows in mid-60s." Those forecasts proved accurate, as those of us who live in the Washington, D.C. area could testify, under oath if need be. But then dread climate change kicked in, and Beltway-area readers of the July 13 paper's "Washington Edition" found walking up to this in the upper right corner: "Northwest: Partly to mostly cloudy west of the Cascades. Some thundershowers east of the Cascades in Washington, northern Oregon, Idaho. Weather map is on Page D8." Everybody talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it. Until the New York Times came along. Again, no one at the Times has reacted to this latest faux pas. Perhaps friends of the ill Kim Jong-il have hacked the NYT's weather bureau.

But there have been compensations from living here. This week, instance, we got to hear from the formidable Sonia Sotomayor. After the singularly unhappy Justice Ginsburg, she came across as a happy trooper, a fan of all-white male Perry Mason (Della Street was conveniently forgotten), macho Yankee baseball, and a taste for English elocution that could have her living permanently on the Upper East Side and guesting semi-annually on Charlie Rose. Already she has performed a major public service, allowing the nation to be introduced not only to herself but to Democrat interlocutors who made one yearn for the return of Hamilton Burger.

Take Rhode Island's new senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a blueblood who apparently inherited the time-worn patents to patronizing speech. "Your nomination caps what has already been a remarkable career legal career and I join many, many Americans who are so proud to see you here today," he said at his first opportunity. "And welcome again, your honor. I have to say, before I get into the questions that I have for you, that I, like many, many, many Americans, feel enormous pride that you are here today," he said next time around. "…it actually give me goosebumps to think about the path that has brought you here today."

But wait. "No, no, no, no, you can't say 'goosebumps,'" friends told him. "You have to say 'piel de gallina.'" "And so I promised them that I would…." One can only imagine how he speaks to his gardener.

Which brings us to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, whose main claim to fame is likely to remain that she is senior senator to Al Franken's junior role, notwithstanding the greater senatorial bearing Senator Smalley already displays. For instance, can we imagine him telling Judge Sotomayor, as chit-chatty Ms. Amy did, "I've been focusing on how patient your mother has been through this whole thing, because I ran into her in the restroom just now"? Regardless, no one was hurt.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (25) | Leave a comment

Nick| 7.17.09 @ 11:03AM

The Republicans really blew it on this one.

They had a golden opportunity to bloody up O'bama during this hearing and just threw it away.

If they had put some thought into it, they could have shown exactly how radical Miss Sotomayor truly is, that B.O. might have had to throw her under the bus with his grandma and all the others.

There are only a handful of unabashed, bold conservatives in the senate. Mr. Inhofe and Dr. Coburn from Oklahoma, Mr. DeMint of South Carolina, Mr. Sessions of Alabama and maybe Messrs. Bond and Bunning. The rest of 'em are just politicians or "My Good Friend" senators.

Hopefully the newer senators will not succumb to the evil seduction of the Beltway.

I like Mr. Sessions, but he didn't handle this confirmation hearing right.

Robert Rosencrans| 7.17.09 @ 11:51AM

Sotomayor's nomination has completed the life cycle of liberalism and may in fact be heralding the beginning of the end.

Her racist life and her racist mind wormed it's way into the Supreme Court, indicating that no institution is immune from the after effects of statist racism.

There are several states where affirmative action is outlawed. Those laws will soon come up for review in front of Sotomayor. I wouldn't be a nickle on a positive outcome for the citizens of those states.

Tim| 7.17.09 @ 11:56AM

The whitenos really really blew it this time.

Bill Rawlings| 7.17.09 @ 12:06PM

I didn't watch the hearings but the News clips left me with the feeling the Democrates have no curiosity about how such a high up Gov. official will affect their lives . Decisions the high court makes effect all of us alike so when things go south like they have lately , court rulings can have an even bigger impact . Surely Dems can't be totally in lock step but they sure remind me of a hoard of Lemmings . Being utterly uninquizitive about their party leaders is the main reason we are where we find ourselves today.
I feel I am being drug over a cliff by fools.

Marc Jeric| 7.17.09 @ 12:36PM

Thanks to the Republican wimps we shall now be exposed to 30 years of preaching by that pig-faced racist (with lipstick) La Sotomayor. When shall they take a course in "borking" and "high-tech lynching" from Biden, Kennedy, Leahy, and other criminals?

Al Adab| 7.17.09 @ 12:50PM

Of course there are Republicans who just want to get along. There are always spineless politicians who believe its better to be popular than Constitutional.
This confirmation hearing is a farce as it is not about qualifications but rather all about ideology. She is a confirmed statist and will rule as to what she thinks the law Should Be rather than what it Is. Thanks to those weak Republicans we will suffer long under her.
Perhaps we can all hope that the Blue Dogs and Conservatives link arms to stop Health Care, Cap and Trade and the other statist moves we are witnessing. Are there enough Constitutionalists in office to save our system? We do not exist to provide their Position, their Position exists to preserve our Freedom. It's about time we started acting worthy of it.

Joe B| 7.17.09 @ 12:54PM

America is swirling the bowl. All conservatives have left is their Schadenfreude.

Anthony| 7.17.09 @ 1:02PM

When a "latina" reporter for the Wasington Post is quoted as saying that ANY "latina" would made a better decision than a white male, you know that the Left has succeeded in its racial/class warfare against this country.
This brazenly absurd comment (in so many ways) is accepted perhaps not as actual fact by the Left, but more perniciously, as the proper DUE of minorities in America. It is now safe for all the pent up hatred and invective the Left has peppered and poisoned the minority community of America with to be spewed with open and gleeful contempt. Granted, Sotomayor played it safe by doing a 180 on her previous comments, but the stakes are too high here, and she is needed by the Left to be on the Supreme Court. There's no room for error. She'll have plenty of time and oportunity to demonstrate her vision of the new racial America.
So friends, we are alone, very alone; abandoned by our own leaders in Washington and now subject to the full display of hatred the Left has invited the minority community of America to inflict on "white" America. If I didn't know better, I'd say the Left is itching for "payback" in the form of a fight. To which I say: Hey, bring it on.

Patriot| 7.17.09 @ 2:10PM

Joe B--you're a piece of fascist liberal crap swirling in that bowl. We just have to flush it.

rdman| 7.17.09 @ 2:36PM

The Only Solution
Time is overdue for We, the People to tell the socialist/fascist democrats and the spineless RINOs that we’ve had enough their deceptive deceit and corruption. Its time to stand up, find these career-politician tyrants in gross violation of their Constitutional Oaths and purge them from the halls of our government.

Eliminate the Washington DC snake-pit of entrenched appeasing, expediency, placating and crab-walking despots by voting these delusional, parasitic, megalomaniac realpolitiks out of government… they are not worthy to represent We, The People of this magnificent Country.

1) Start this process by requiring your State’s Elected Representatives to convene a Constitutional Convention for the sole purpose of modifying in pertinent part, Amendment XVII to read, “Representatives and Senators of the U.S. Congress, elected by the people thereof, for two years and six years respectively for a maximum of two terms…”

2) Reject all career-politicians running for re-election… they speak with ulterior motives, hidden agendas, deceit, duplicity and deception… they have become corrupt and no longer qualified for Leadership or Statesmanship. They are, in fact, a scourge upon the land.

3) Recruit and elect true representatives of We, the People… Citizen Professionals who have demonstrated excellence in management, performance, integrity, patriotism, pride and optimism, chivalry and civility for a maximum of two terms to re-establish the public service model of our Founding Fathers… Leadership, Statesmanship, Dignity, Honor and Duty.

Summation
Over 100 years ago, the great Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, after dealing with government lawyers, proclaimed with eloquent simplicity and clarity, “Whiteman Speak with Forked Tongue.”

Contemporarily stated, despite their duplicity and deviousness, the career-politician-bureaucrat may trip themselves up because part of their need for vindictive triumph includes the desire for their opposition to know who victimized them. Their need for attention may become their nemesis. However, the career-politician-bureaucrat doesn’t care. Public adoration by the unaware or condemnation and notoriety gives them the attention they crave… being admired, feared or despised affirms that they exist with godly power and control.

Old Texican| 7.17.09 @ 7:47PM

Hi, Guys
Hope to see you in DC in September!

We tea partiers are going to stink up the joint...PERMITS OR NO PERMITS!!!!!!!!!!!

KISS MY ARSE IF I CANNOT WALK ON THE MALL WITH MY TEXAS LONE STAR FLAG!

SO ARREST ME AND GET DICK CHENEY AND MEN AND WOMEN OF HIS CHARACTER ALL OVER YOUR HINEYS.

FOLKS...IT'S TIME! SHOW UP OR SAY GOODBYE TO FREEDOM!

IT'S RIGHT THE HELL ............TIME!

I HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

(or...........sit on the sidelines while TRUE Americans die for you...or get thrown in jail forever.

Russ Hugi| 7.17.09 @ 10:08PM

You make it look like Sotomayor is Non-White, although she is a White/Caucasian Hispanic.
CNN even called her a "woman of color"!
Where is the truth in media?

Nick| 7.17.09 @ 11:50PM

Hey Dart,

In the words of Sgt. Hulka, "Lighten up, Francis."

jordan 6 rings| 7.18.09 @ 3:36AM

Those laws will soon come up for review in front of Sotomayor. I wouldn't be a nickle on a positive outcome for the citizens of those states.

دردشه| 7.18.09 @ 7:31AM

You make it look like Sotomayor is Non-White

dsammis| 7.18.09 @ 7:53PM

This Hispanic/Latino/Latina crap is really crazy. The Spanish (from Spain, for those from Palm Beach County), explored, conquored,exploited, and enslaved most of Central, and South America and the Caribean in the distant past. They interbred with the indiginous populations and created mix breeds descendents. (I'm mixed English, Scotch, Welch).
How come they enjoy special benefits as minorities for this specific ethnicity? Seems to me another artificial governemnt creation.

Joe| 7.19.09 @ 12:44AM

It's over. It's been over. Enjoy the "Stalinist Purges" when they come to your town.

1. "Pravda" (the Propaganda) started around 1908.
2. The "Socialists" took control around 1917.

Obama is not "Stalin" (because he's simply the TV pitch-man).

The owners of Pravda-America now have undeniable proof that they can eliminate political opponents. Senator Stevens of Alaska was subjected to a case where the prosecutors' demonstrated the "worst mishandling and misconduct seen in 25 years" (according to US District Judge).

The courts have been used to attack Sarah Palin. Although cleared of wrongdoing, 15 cases have left her with $500,000 of legal fees.

Pravda was created by the Communists. Pravda-America has been created by "Liberals" which have used billions of dollars to own the Washington D.C. politicians.

Bottom line: The media, the courts, and the federal government are now owned the the creators of "Pravda-America." What can you do now? Pray, and hope for God to save you. History is repeating itself, and don't be surprised when politicians that studied Saul Alinsky establish a one-party totalitarian state.

PS: And to show how stupid and apathetic the US population has become, a news quote -- "Saul Alinsky served as the inspiration behind President Barack Obama's initiative to become a community organizer in Chicago." Unfortunately, more than half of the US population has no clue why Alinsky's "Rules" do not foster "good government."

Skip Engle| 7.19.09 @ 3:52PM

When she rules that the 2nd Amendment is null and void, don't turn in your guns, or bury them in the backyard.
Bring them to the Natinal Mall. Loaded.
Then, in the words of FDR, let her enforce her ruling.
Kinda like Tienanmen Square...in reverse.

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