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Obama won't address reports of retiring Supreme Court justice
May 1, 2009, 18:10 GMT
Washington - US President Barack Obama would not comment Friday on reports that Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire.
The departure of the 69-year-old from New Hampshire would create an opening for Obama, a member of the centre-left Democratic Party, to make his first appointment to the Supreme Court since taking office in January.
'No Supreme Court questions,' Obama told reporters at a meeting of his cabinet.
Former president George W Bush, a conservative Republican, named Souter to the court in 1990. But the justice went on to side with the left-liberal wing of the nine-member bench.
If confirmed by the US Senate, where Democrats hold a wide majority, a successor to Souter would likely not sharply change the ideological balance on the court but would install a younger, left- leaning judge with a lifetime appointment.
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..real Conservatives already are aware of the utter failure Comrade Souter was to the cause of liberty. We do not need another whining libnazi to remind us. Obama will, likely, replace him with another Bolshevik, which is an even trade...so run along and inform yourself. I doubt you can, but I have the weakness of believing in people.
As usual the paranoid SP4 is unable to distinguish between a democrat,or even simply independent and objective judge and a Bolshevik:hence the 'comrade' statement.Democracy is apparently something to be applied only within a total republican framework only,once any other ideological current id adopted by voters it is dismissed without so much as an argument by him.
Some people have problems understanding the most simple facts .We'll just have to cope with those people and simply disregard them when they absolutely want to share their distorted realities with us.
Has the ability to believe in people...only if they are conservative republicans leaded by Rush Limbaugh .
SP4 (idiots stick) is wrong as usual. I can't believe he does not get tired of always being wrong. Kind of makes the name appropriate 'idiots stick'.
I'm a Liberal because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.
I'm a Liberal because I love the fact I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my horse.
I'm a Liberal because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't.
I'm a Liberal because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
I'm a Liberal because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.
I'm a Liberal because when we pull out of Iraq I trust the bad guys will stop what they're doing because they now think we're good people.
I'm a Liberal because I believe people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday, CAN tell us the polar ice caps will melt away in 10 years if I don't start driving a Prius.
I'm a Liberal because I believe business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as THEY see fit.
I'm a Liberal because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who could NEVER get their agendas past the voters.
I'm a Liberal because my head is so firmly planted up my own butt, it's unlikely I'll ever have another point of view.
The purpose of our Progressive movement is to instill enormous guilt among wealth creators, causing them to give their money to us voluntarily. Think of guilt as secondary taxation. While the government extracts the first round of money by taxing a limited number of activities by wealth creators (with the help of a mind-numbing tax code), the imposition of guilt allows us to extract the remaining money in virtually unlimited amounts by associating guilt with the broadest range of activities - from what you eat to how big your toilet tank is. Most of you are guilty merely for breathing air, and the number of victims suffering from your noxious CO2 exhaust is unlimited - from the whole planet Earth to endangered microscopic communities of bacteria that thrive collectively on dead bodies and whose existence you are jeopardizing by selfishly staying alive.
After the revolution, volunteer contributions to the People's DNC will cease to be necessary because the Obama Union party will be the only platform available. All GOP entities will be outlawed as criminal infringement of the civil right of the least capable to succeed equally. This will spare the toiling masses the unnecessary pain of thinking, and eliminate the need for wasteful advertising. The understanding of the Obama Union party organ shall become mandatory, with subsequent discussions of our ideologically correct materials among the working collectives at general weekly meetings.
Never drop your guard! Capitalists are known violators of the Common Good and are expected to conspire against our glorious red unanimity and to encourage competition by sneaking in the multi-colored parties, or parties that, instead of colors, have pictures of Curious George on each side. The latter must be found and destroyed because they advance a known capitalist plot whereby the Curious George books had subliminally influenced a generation of American children into voting for the war-mongering dictator George W. Bush.
Our Objective
The objective of the Progressive movement is to force a change in the society so that we no longer have to wait around for voluntary contributions from the guilty. Instead, we will forcibly extract as much money as we deem necessary to maintain and advance Progress, which is our brand name for systematic wealth extraction. A planned extraction facilitates control over the guilt-ridden masses by well-meaning Party apparatchiks and a more seamless central planning of state-run economy in the name of the Common Good, which is our brand name for state-run economy. And since everything that is being done for the Common Good automatically becomes a historically inevitable necessity, it is absolutely necessary to take the power away from wealth creators and give it to wealth distributors.
Our Strategy
Stimulate the feeling of guilt in wealth creators no matter how much money they've already given us. The more guilt, the bigger the contributions. Studies by Progressive think tanks have shown that there is no limit to the amount of guilt that can be injected, so to speak, under the skin of a single person. If the Obama election campaign is any indication, a properly conditioned guilt-ridden taxpayer can be driven into a distributive frenzy, stripping his children of inheritance and responding to a liberal fundraiser with a donation that would make the IRS look like a bunch of rookie panhandlers. And the best part is that we don't even need to maintain anything as big and costly as the IRS: we simply carry our infiltration of existing media, educational, and entertainment establishments to the next level. Correct, scientifically calculated strategy can make any corporate pencil-pusher feel guilty just for sitting in his chair all day when he could be out there in the streets with a shovel, joining the socially conscious masses in digging trenches for the Common Good.
Our Tactics
Organize and coordinate guilt-instilling thematic campaigns, guilt marathons, and guilt drives that touch on race, war, oil, environment, gay issues, male chauvinism, Islam, globalization, the income gap, homelessness, and so on. Studies show a consistent increase in the amount of money flowing from the pockets of the guilty to Progressive organizations during such established and popular guilt drives as Earth Day, Hiroshima Day, Black History Month, Gay Pride Parade, International Women's Day (celebration of communist Klara Zetkin's birthday), Columbus Day (the genocide of Native Americans), etc.
Best Practices
Soviet collective farmers, stripped of land and the products of their labor, were made to feel extremely guilty for still not giving enough to the people's government. A thought-control campaign of such epic proportions was brilliantly accomplished by means of guilt-instilling techniques perfected by the state-run education and the state-owned media and entertainment subsidiaries.
Diagnostic Test
Establish connection with the Motherboard. Stick a finger of your right hand into any available slot in your computer and put your left hand over your forehead.
Run the diagnostic test. Without changing the position of your hands, stare at the monitor for eight hours while thinking guilty thoughts. If you move or blink, this may increase your guilt and corrupt the scientific data. In that case you must start the test again.
Check your result. Without changing your position, scroll down by pressing the 'down' arrow button on your keyboard with your nose to see test results.
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'I'm a Liberal because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.'
Your an idiot because you believe all us liberals don't have guns. I think you would be surprised even if you are an idiot!
'I'm a Liberal because I love the fact I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my horse.'
Your an idiot because you thump your chest and claim that you want less government, then support bills that puts government into the private lives of citizens---idiot!
'I'm a Liberal because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't.'
Your an idiot if you believe that the 4% figure is correct. Then you are an idiot if you think the government can run and support this country without taxes---idiot!
'I'm a Liberal because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.'
Your an idiot because you think that the infrastructure of this country could be supported without taxes. Plus because you are such an idiot you are probably the part of the 21% that do not make enough money to pay taxes and probably already live off the government.
'I'm a Liberal because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.'
Your an idiot because you claim to support freedom of speech, but then when someone says anything you do not believe in you call it communism and try and step on their right of freedom of speech---idiot!
'I'm a Liberal because when we pull out of Iraq I trust the bad guys will stop what they're doing because they now think we're good people.'
You are an idiot because you supported the war in the first place. Invade a country that had never attacked the US, then think you are going to actually make a difference and in turn you do exactly what Iran (part of the axis of evil) wants, hand Iraq right over to them and de-stabilize that part of the world---idiot!
'I'm a Liberal because I believe people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday, CAN tell us the polar ice caps will melt away in 10 years if I don't start driving a Prius.'
You are an idiot as you think the world is only 7000 years old. Pray your way out of anything? God is on your side, what an idiot!
'I'm a Liberal because I believe business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as THEY see fit.'
Your an idiot as you spout this kind of crap. Warren Buffet is a liberal, seems like he has done rather well and is still doing rather well. What an idiot!
'I'm a Liberal because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who could NEVER get their agendas past the voters.'
You are an idiot to spout this off when your guys have taken the constitution and stepped on it, usurped its main points and basically taken a big old crap right on the top of it---idiot! By the way I think the agendas are doing rather well without a liberal court you peanut brained idiot.
'I'm a Liberal because my head is so firmly planted up my own butt, it's unlikely I'll ever have another point of view.'
Your an idiot because you support the tobacco chewing, NASCAR beer drinking, bible thumping, god fearing, gun toting 21%. Good luck with that idiot!
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steveMay 1st, 2009 - 18:26:26
“I watched a video from a news website (newsy.com) the other day that brought up a point I hadn't thought of. It said 'The five to four balance (of the court) is not likely to change because Souter was usually in the four-member liberal minority, and replacing him with another moderate liberal, or even a far more liberal justice, will not alter the court’s balance.'
I think this means that conservatives are crying about nothing now. When the next S.C. justice retires ... then I think they will be allowed to start whining. Until then ... I don't want to hear it!”
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