A Rubber Door

More on Judge Samuel Alito from an article in Salon Magazine

Liberals, for their part, have a nominee with a documented record opposing some of the country’s most popular legal principles. In his 15-year career as a judge, Alito has argued unsuccessfully for a law that required women to notify their spouses before they had an abortion. He ruled that the federal government does not have the right to regulate the sale of machine guns. He tried to limit the application of a federal law requiring employers to offer maternity, paternity and sick leave for their workers. He showed little sympathy for death row inmates who are denied effective lawyers. “Liberals are quietly delighted by a nominee who has the ability to unite all of the groups in opposition,” said Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University. “Not since Bob Bork have you had a nominee who has the ability to coalesce all these groups.”

Here we go - Samuel Alito is the new Supreme Court nominee and I told you so. He is so much like Antoine Scalia that he is referred to as “Scalito”.

I am praying that this too blows up in Dubya’s face - further damaging his party and his lame duck presidency. The best thing that could happen to the U.S. is George Bush becoming lame duck a year into his final term.

So now Harriet Miers is gone and let me say that the only reason democrats should be happy is that this is another example of the poor decision making of this administration but we can’t get too happy because whomever Bushy picks to replace Miers will be worse.

Our only hope is that he tries to go too far right and even the moderate republicans can’t vote for the nominee.

One can hope.

(George Bush joke - kind of redundant isn’t it?)

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE Who says a pilot isn’t in control

George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are flying on Air Force
One. The President looks at the Vice President, chuckles, and says, “You
know, I could throw a $1,000 bill out the window right now and make
somebody very happy.”

The Vice President shrugs and says, “Well, I could throw 10 $100 bills
out the window and make 10 people very happy.”

Not to be outdone, the Secretary of Defense says, “Well, then, I could
throw 100 $10 bills out the window and make a hundred people very
happy.”

The pilot rolls his eyes and says to his co-pilot, “Such arrogant asses
back there. Hell, I could throw the three of them out the window and
make 56 million people really happy.”

I can’t believe I’m about to say this - but I actually might want the Harry Potter soundtrack. Members of Radiohead appear in the movie on the soundtrack.

Apparently a market research study found that I am the most likely to create and spread computer generated media over the web. (This article may apply to iPod owners in general).

Never realized how common I am.

Saw this video for the band OK Go on Best Week Ever and loved it. Worth the bandwidth to watch.

(or just go to the OK Go Website)

What a worthy way to use my 100th post but to wish a Happy 30th birthday to my girlfriend Kristen.