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This is the direction that our friend Fairliberal takes in approach to this, saying that democrats don't want questions asked of Sotomayor, when the truth is, we don't care about people asking her hard, and tough questions, and they should. But nobody is doing that. They're just smearing her with no end in sight. That's the problem that we have.
Why isn't the media covering her membership in NCLR?
Why is Barry supporting a judge who is a member in NCLR and why hasn't he asked her to renounce her support of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan?
They support southwest secession and chicano biased education.
NCLR teaching racist views
Just because you and "others" have pointed out (with no backing facts) that NCLR is NOT racists doesn't make it so.
Since he's the Gov, then it's up to the good people of the great state of Texas to handle it how they see fit. Time will tell.
Plus the two do not even compare.
If you don't know what the words used in a discussion are and what they mean, you really should shut up and let those who understand what they are talking about carry on the conversation.
Show me where Texas has the right to secede. If Perry is against receiving federal money he should refuse it, shouldn't he?
California's problems can be traced to Proposition 13 which was passed when they had a five billion dollar budget surplus (Gov. Brown was in power).
They don't compare? One wants to leave the country completely!
I guess you are telling me you think of Alito as a racist/sexist too because of his affiliations, correct?
1. Yes Texas does, http://www.texassecede.com/faq.htm
2. California's problem is they spend more they the make, pretty simple.
3. You provided no proof for us to research your information about Alito.
1. No, Texas does not have the right to secede, quoting a pro-secessionist website does not make it so.
"The fact is, the treaty under which Texas joined the U.S. provides that it could be divided into five separate states. But it is not empowered to leave the union, a question that the Civil War seems to have settled once and for all. "
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/041809dntexsecession.3f59869.html
U.S. News disagrees too:
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2009/04/17/texas-secession-perry-one-third-of-texans-are-wrong-texas-cant-secede.html
2. Read up on Proposition 13
3. Alito was a member, or at least claimed to be, of a group called "Concerned Alumni of Princeton."
"As Princeton admitted a growing number of minority students, Concerned Alumni charged repeatedly that the administration was lowering admission standards, undermining the university's distinctive traditions and admitting too few children of alumni. "Currently alumni children comprise 14 percent of each entering class, compared with an 11 percent quota for blacks and Hispanics," the group wrote in a 1985 fund-raising letter sent to all Princeton graduates."
"The group had been founded in 1972, the year that Judge Alito graduated, by alumni upset that Princeton had recently begun admitting women."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/politics/politicsspecial1/27alito.html?ei=5090&en=a5d71dc3b4213d05&ex=1290747600&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=printarticle
Jose A. Gutierrez
More from Jose
One more on the dossier of Jose
Classic Jose:
Like I said. The smiling face of the RADICAL movement. Call it what you will.
This is the good one:
NCLR teacing racist views
For the record, I don't think Alito has shown himself to be either of those things, but, by your logic Tbone, he is a racist and a sexist and it doesn't get "any clearer than that."
NPR story on Latino violence
Why don't you wingnuts learn to feed yourselves, and find out just what empty calories the pabulum is that is vomited by the right-wing know-nothing (and proud of it) radio hosts?
Sort of like a dog licking his behind then wanting to lick its owners face. (Only the dog knows what it is really doing).
"La Raza" (The Race) is a broad term which refers to those whose ancestry is indigenous to the area of Mexico (or "Aztlan"). MEChA members refer to themselves as "La Raza" or "Raza," but the term itself is used to indicate camaraderie among those in different organizations with the same objectives. There are a number of organizations who consider themselves to be La Raza.
http://www.mayorno.com/WhoIsMecha.html. (This ties into the below information)
NCLR strives "to encourage immigration policies that are fair and nondiscriminatory, to encourage family reunification, and to enact necessary reforms to the current immigration system." In short, it favors amnesty for illegals already residing in the U.S., and open borders henceforth.
Thus La Raza supports continued mass Mexican immigration to the United States, and hopes to achieve, by the sheer weight of numbers, the re-partition of the American Southwest as a new state called Aztlan -- to be controlled by its alleged rightful owners, the people and government of Mexico.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=153
NCLR's major policy positions also include the following: (just some)
It supports access to driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.
It supports voting rights for illegal aliens.
It opposes the REAL ID Act,
Schools they sponser:
La Academia Semillas del Pueblo is a Los Angeles public school that teaches children "Aztec math" and the Mexican indigenous language of "Nahuatl." The principal, Marcos Aguilar, is an ethnic separatist who told a UCLA interviewer: "We don't want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain. … We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger. And ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction."
This is just a small amount of info about La Raza, so again you’re the only person that is showing how ignorant you are about La Raza.
This is why it is also why it is important that she not get on the bench.
But, if you ever had an original thought in your head, it would die of loneliness.
How is the organization she belongs to "associated" with any others because they call themselves "La Raza"? If you belonged to the Rotary Club and the KKK started calling themselves "Rotarians", would that make you associated with them?
The following are common misconceptions voiced about NCLR and our work. Please click on the links below for more information on NCLR’s response to each accusation.
1.The Translation of Our Name: National Council of La Raza
2.Support of Separatist Organizations
3.Reconquista and Segregation
4.Solely Hispanic-serving Programs
5.Border Security and Immigration
6.Full Disclosure of Our Lobbying Funds
7.Earmarking of Federal Funds
8.Other Issues
Conclusion
NCLR has published this extensive analysis because we trust readers to come to their own conclusions about the merits, or lack thereof, of our critics’ charges. View below what some other observers have concluded.
Letter from Rep. Gutierrez in support of NCLR against Rep. Norwood's claims
Janet Murguía's response to Michelle Malkin: "She's Wrong About My Group"
Mary Sanchez: "Dear Michelle Malkin: Study Spanish"
The Denver Post: “Hispanic Council Fighting Negative Perceptions of Purpose”
Southern Poverty Law Center: “What’s in a Name? The Defamation of the National Council of La Raza”
Media Matters for America: “Fear & Loathing in Prime Time: Immigration Myths and Cable News”
You know Obama says one thing and does another, but sure you believe everything he puts out as well. My Favorites, I will not hire Lobbyist, opps, mean I will after a few months, I will shut down Gitmo, Opps, not sure how. I will give 95% of the public a tax cut, Opps, well not really. I do not believe what La Raza says, I look at what they have done and supported.
Obama and the most ethical administration of the 21st century is going full steam ahead fulfilling his campaign promises in spite of the crybabies on the right.
And you don't look at what la raza does and supports, you look at what others tell you they have done and supported. Good puppies...
HA! Classic!
How many TAX CHEATS are we up to now?????
Six by my last count.
So nobody else on the Supreme Court had more than one case overturned? She had three out of four hundred. Is that significantly beyond the norm?
Would you PLEASE STOP regurgitating right wing crazy talk!!!!!
Academia Semillas del Pueblo Xinaxcalmecac (Spanish: Seeds of the People Academy) is a public charter school of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).
[b]Students are taught Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and the Aztec/Mexica Nahuatl language, as well as English. The curriculum emphasizes Pre-Columbian cultural traditions.
Like all California charter schools, administrators have autonomy determining the curriculum, though Academia is required to adhere to statewide standards.
And, I'm SURE it was just a simple mistake that you left off the QUESTION that the interviewer asked Marcos Aguilar.
TCLA: Finally, what do you see as the legacy of the Brown decision?
MA: If Brown was just about letting Black people into a White school, well we don’t care about that anymore. We don’t necessarily want to go to White schools. What we want to do is teach ourselves, teach our children the way we have of teaching. We don’t want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don’t need a White water fountain. So the whole issue of segregation and the whole issue of the Civil Rights Movement is all within the box of White culture and White supremacy. We should not still be fighting for what they have. We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger. And ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction. And so it isn’t about an argument of joining neo liberalism, it’s about us being able, as human beings, to surpass the barrier.
And if I were you, I wouldn't be so quick with throwing around the "ignorant" tag. You should check your own mirror!
The expectation here is that you bring your best argument. You got nada? Your lack critical thinking skills and parroting of right wing B.S. without an original thought or ideas is so apparent, at least based on this post.
If you are relying on the college drop-outs populating the a.m. radio band and Fox News for your information and current events you are indeed an idiot.
Do your own research. Read/watch alternative media that don't validate your right to be stupid and maybe, MAYBE, you'll become part of the enlightenment.
I say we simply call the kettle black on call you "27 percenters" exactly what you are: Toe-headed, slack-jawed, idiots.
While your dander is up, why don't you do a little research in to La Raza. They are the nice face that is palatable to your average left wing dunderhead but doesn't scratch the surface of the more radical groups they support with their influence and money.
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA)is one of these groups. Since I assume your dander is really starting to itch now, let's take a look at one of their leaders quotes:
Ethnic cleansing? Haven't heard that one thrown around since Bosnia. Yet you support this.
I have to ask. Why isn't the "alternative media" carrying this story. This alone should disqualify Sotomayor. That it is not even being discussed is telling and that Barry O'Gump supports it is even more telling.
Thomas, definitely not a racist, but possibly a criminal/sexual harrasser.
You'll have to excust T-Bone, I'm pretty sure, like most republicans/conservatives, that he's ignorant as to what the NCLR actually does. REmember, these are the same people who trash ACORN because they don't know what they do, same people who think the NAACP is ridiculous as well (I mean, we have a BLACK President after all! RACISM IS DEAD!), and whose worldview is influenced by talk radio, and talk radio only.
What Alito was saying is that it's his job to adjudicate fairly regardless of his background. Sotomayor, on the other hand, has a proven record of using the bench to create policy based on her own beliefs.
Feel free to trash any and all that don't agree with you in the echo chamber. You'll get a few more "thumbs up" you can post in your basement and stroke your ego.
And;
"I am reminded each day that I render decisions that affect people concretely and that I owe them constant and complete vigilance in checking my assumptions, presumptions and perspectives and ensuring that to the extent that my limited abilities and capabilities permit me, that I reevaluate them and change as circumstances and cases before me requires. I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate."
That's some "other hand" you have going there.
So there it is, now it's your turn to lump them into your charges of racism.
So there you go, say it with me - by mark's definition, Alito (who said the exact same thing as Sotomayor) and Thomas are also racists. Which brings us to the next question - why are republicans being hipocrites by appointing known racists to the bench?
Answer: Until the childlike simpleton gets his/her way...TOO BAD!!! The question has been answered and your post is THE EXAMPLE of being a victim. If you want to make yourself a victim, you will stay a victim.
If you have something legit, we'd all like to hear it. The problem is YOU DON'T. If anything, most of us have more problems with the many CONSERVTAIVE POSITIONS she's held over the years, and lament that Obama would pick such a MODERATE.
If you morons weren't so busy trying to oppose ANY AND ALL Obama apointess for ANY (or NO) reason whatsoever, you might realize that this is as good as it gets for you. She's light years away from a bad pick, even from your POV, and if you had two brain cells to knock together (collectively) you'd be encoraging MORE picks like this one, so that Obama doesn't ever get tempted to appoint a REAL liberal the the bench, seeing as how you're going to smear them and fight tooth and nail, crying like infants anyway.
Question Sotomayor extensively, and at length during the confirmation hearings. If you want to come out against her, fine, but you had better have some backing information as to "why" you're going to do that, because if you don't your opinion just looks ignorant (I'm looking at you MissDee).
Repeating the same far fetched and debunked talking points as "proof" of something is highly and audibly laughable.
You rightwingers are soooooo predictable...
New racism is much more nuanced than the old version. Today the racists pose as TV bobbleheads and radio gasbags who happily point to outward instead of inward.
The only thing that remains the same is that both the old and the new are still peddled by white people afraid of change.
Funny that you mention NCLR...conservatives said the group is like a racist Latino KKK. KKK???? You do realize the killing of Dr. Tiller mirrors the awful killings the KKK used to do in churches. So yes, gunning down a abortion clinic doctor in his church(by a registered REPUPLICAN)mirrors the hate crimes of the KKK- something that NCLR HAS NEVER been involved in
All of you should spend time on http://www.nclr.org, look into their affiliates and whom they support as well. Look into the schools they support and which laws they do and do not agree with and then you will understand more about this organization.
Proove this. (Or try to. You can't.) It's a gross exagerattion at best. You must be one of those people who still think Acorn committed Voter Fraud.
I even think that about Alito. Again, he had that little "bump" in the road during his Princeton years, but alas, I'd like to think that this was an immature mistake on his behalf, and that he's "matured" since then. Again, first rate legal mind.
Sotomayor, is no different than Alito and Roberts. She deserves to be on the bench. She's worked hard her entire life to get there, and she will be seated. She is too well qualified to be denied by the republicans en masse. Will there be votes against her? Of course there will be, but she'll pass with flying colors.