Update: May not post anything tonight. As gently as I can put this, metaphorically, my toenails and my molars were two ships passing in the night.
I think I got some bad food. Really bad food.
Gilbert Gottfried bad.
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Just this morning, the Diane Rhem Show on NPR. (driving to work after a dr appt)
This is not verbatim, but the content is there.
Female Guest #1: I think it is a good thing having Supreme Court Justices on the bench like Sotomayor and Kagan – it’s beneficial to have a wide range of experience.
Diane Rhem: I think there ought to be a few seats filled with people with no legal experience – no lawers or legal training.
Male Guest #2: I think you’re absolutely right. It should be someone like Al Franken who represents the populist vote.
I literally swerved on the highway as my jaw dropped.
Go read yesterday’s post for something to help you recover from that kind of mind-job. I’m still shuddering.
I do wish they’d stop blathering on about how many cases Kagan has recused herself from. It’s not uncommon the first year. It’s a non-issue issue.
Lemur King's Folly 
Sure, and while we’re at it, have people who played “Operation!” as children be neurosurgeons.
WTF do these idiots think the SCOTUS is for???
How’s that “hiring clueless, easily confused, completely unqualified assflaps” thing working out for your POTUS pick, lefties?
I’ve got this intuition thing going on – I sense that you’re upset, apo.
Am I even warm?
Same for Aggie – just this visceral gut-thing feeling that you’re unsettled.
I know, I know. Isn’t my ability to condense fact from the vapors of nuance just amazing?
And these are our intellectual betters. /sigh
“Betters” must mean something way different than I thought it did.
And that’s why I was never invited to hang out with lefties.
When they say something so stupid, I have to respond and that’s just impolite.
You’re not supposed to notice what they say is ridiculous.
And that’s why they’re better, they’re total free-thinkers who don’t question conventional wisdom.
WTF do these idiots think the SCOTUS is for???
They don’t. Think, that is. Their emotions and hormones are hard-wired directly to their mouths.
Pardon me for indulging in a bout of dark thinking, but:
We’re gonna lose it, folks.
Unless something drastic is done, were gonna lose the most magnificent & free & fair & progressive & non-interfering governmental structure Mankind has ever instituted in the entire history of the race.
What we ourselves have lived through the last 50 years will be called a Golden Age of Man.
I thank the gods I will not be here to see it. Or not much of it, anyway.
Here’s a link to that part of the show. Note some comments are also incredulous.
I thought I was nauseous because of the show. Turned out it was food poisoning. Close enough in symptoms.
I won’t be making that mistake again.
Take home lesson here is to never listen to Diane Rhem so there’s just no confusion.
Gak it up, dood! It’s good for you!
I can’t believe it when people fight the gak-it-up reflex.
(Not that I think you are, LK.)
That reflex is there for a reason and is NEVER wrong. Sometimes its untimely – even gross – but it is never really a mistake. Disobey it at your peril.
I don’t like yakkin’. Just musses up my hair and I have to redo my face.
Eating chix nuggets now. I hate dry-heaves.
Poor guy. Hope you are feeling better 🙂
I am feeling better, thank you. Not in at work because there’s still all the signs of some large dead furry animal carcass dying inside my insides. I’ll keep the grossness here at home for another day.
I don’t know, I hear crap like this and I have to wonder if there’s any long-term hope for America.
I mean, the government can at least be partially fixed by the next election. But stupidity like this in the public domain, how the hell do you fix that?
You can’t fix stupid.
Oh, and hope you get to feeling better soon, Lemur.
I seem to be edging that way. I’m not venting solids/liquids anymore, just gases (and I found my toenails and molars, too!) – this is a good thing.
I would rather have broken bones than intestinal upsets.
It is my understanding (and yes, with only five active brain cells, that isn’t saying much) that you do not even have to be a lawyer, much less a judge, in order to serve on SCOTUS. That being said, assuming whomever was nominated was of a mindset to interpret any incoming challenge against it’s constitutionality (or lack there of), and did their level best to do so, what would be the problem?
Yes I know the nimrods at NPR were suggesting various tools for the position, but considering the source, no big surprise there either. One only has to realize that law degree and past experience on the bench matters not at all when at the end of the day the liberal appointees are willfully going to interpret any case on the basis of what “feels right to them” vice any real bearing on the Constitution. So on their side of things what difference would it really make anyhow? (Can we impeach the four leftists on the bench now??)
No, it’s not a requirement and there is precedent for non-judicial candidates and judges alike.
Your argument makes perfect sense in a rational world and I agree with what you are saying.
I can only counter it with one statement – do you want someone up there that is not completely familiar with not only the jargon but the professional lawyers and their duplicitous ways from both sides of the bench?
Personally, I want someone who can not only read the Constitution for what it is (and taking the Federalist Papers into account) and completely able to navigate through two-plus centuries of bullshit.