Robert Bork, per CNN
I await Gil's Nixon related tribute
Quote from: thehawk on December 19, 2012, 09:22:25 AM
Robert Bork, per CNN
I await Gil's Nixon related tribute
No, I won't celebrate him. He's the reason why we have Kennedy's mealy-mouthed jurisprudence on the bench now.
Quote from: Gilgamesh on December 19, 2012, 09:50:18 AM
Quote from: thehawk on December 19, 2012, 09:22:25 AM
Robert Bork, per CNN
I await Gil's Nixon related tribute
No, I won't celebrate him. He'sTed Kennedy is the reason why we have (Anthony) Kennedy's mealy-mouthed jurisprudence on the bench now.
Fixed.
Quote from: Brownie on December 19, 2012, 10:37:37 AM
Quote from: Gilgamesh on December 19, 2012, 09:50:18 AM
Quote from: thehawk on December 19, 2012, 09:22:25 AM
Robert Bork, per CNN
I await Gil's Nixon related tribute
No, I won't celebrate him. He'sTed Kennedy is the reason why we have (Anthony) Kennedy's mealy-mouthed jurisprudence on the bench now.
Fixed.
Fair enough. Here's some great Bork on ... stuff
QuoteThe right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.
QuoteThe major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
QuoteThe notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
and my favorite...
QuoteWhen a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.
In all seriousness though, he was a fine jurist and he'll be missed.
Quote from: Gilgamesh on December 19, 2012, 11:33:54 AM
In all seriousness though, he was a fine jurist and he'll be missed.
Also a fine hatchet man (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/102173-2.htm)
Quote from: Fork on December 19, 2012, 11:48:04 AM
Quote from: Gilgamesh on December 19, 2012, 11:33:54 AM
In all seriousness though, he was a fine jurist and he'll be missed.
Also a fine hatchet man (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/102173-2.htm)
Well duh. Cox was getting all up in Dick's business, so he had Bork railroad him out of there.
Penis.
Quote from: Gilgamesh on December 19, 2012, 11:04:42 AM
Fair enough. Here's some great Bork on ... stuff
QuoteThe right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.
Why do conservatives hate our common law heritage?
Quote from: Gilgamesh on December 19, 2012, 11:04:42 AM
Fair enough. Here's some great Bork on ... stuff
QuoteThe right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.
Quote from: James Madison
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Quote from: Fork on December 19, 2012, 02:37:44 PM
Quote from: Gilgamesh on December 19, 2012, 11:04:42 AM
Fair enough. Here's some great Bork on ... stuff
QuoteThe right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.
Quote from: James Madison
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Forked.
Quote from: Gilgamesh on December 19, 2012, 11:04:42 AM
QuoteWhen a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.
Uh, Marbury v Madison?
Quote from: Gilgamesh on December 19, 2012, 11:04:42 AM
quote]The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
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Wait. I thought you just said that judicial review wasn't a good idea.
http://www.waggish.org/2012/robert-bork-in-memoriam/
QuoteThe fact that men, who did not cry ten years ago, now do so indicates that something has gone high and soft in the culture.
Let's try and keep the culture low and hard there, ladyboys.
QuoteAs one might suspect from their hostility to men, marriage, and family, radical feminists are very much in favor of lesbianism. They want not only lawful lesbian marriages but "reproductive rights" for lesbians. That means the right to bear children through artificial insemination and the right to adopt one's lesbian partner's child. Since sperm is sold freely in the United States, much more freely than in other nations, there are lesbian couples raising children. It takes little imagination to know how the children will be indoctrinated.
Imagine...
An entire generation of children-of-gays indoctrinated to believe their "parents" are regular human beings deserving of equitable treatment!
QuoteThe very fact that we have gone from Elvis to Snoop Doggy Dogg is the heart of the case for censorship.
One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was a voluptuous young woman, naked, her body oiled, writhing on the floor while fondling herself intimately.... I watched for some time–riveted by the sociological significance of it all.
alt.sex is on the Internet. That's a category. They have a variety of things under alt.sex, which is alternative sex. Particularly horrifying was this alt.sex.stories. I don't know how to work the Internet yet, but I did that research. I found it written up.
Riveted.
For science.QuoteA lot of people comfort themselves with the thought that this is confined to the black community, but that's not true — some of the worst rappers are white, like Nine Inch Nails.
We're all depraved negroes now.
QuoteRadical individualism is the handmaiden of collective tyranny.
And a lazy pairing of antonyms is the handmaiden of vapid writing.
QuoteThe fossil record is proving a major embarrassment to evolutionary theory. Michael Behe has shown that Darwinism cannot explain life as we know it. Scientists at the time of Darwin had no conception of the enormous complexity of bodies and their organs.
Yes, and Antoine Lavoisier had no conception of the weirdness of quantum mechanics, so maybe phlogiston theory is right after all.
Intrepid Reader: GilROBERT BORK WAS A SAINT! Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got some 'riveting sociological research' of my own to do over lunch.
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on December 22, 2012, 03:33:56 PM
Quotealt.sex is on the Internet. That's a category. They have a variety of things under alt.sex, which is alternative sex. Particularly horrifying was this alt.sex.stories. I don't know how to work the Internet yet, but I did that research. I found it written up.
Better-boldfaced. One would think the man might have readily understood the notion of a hierarchy.