Jeebus...they refer to this guy as Scalito, because he's another Scalia.  And apparently, they spent the weekend making sure that was who the right wing wanted.

"Life is always better with clean pants."

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"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

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I'm listening to the news all morning and you know what!  He couldn't revive his popularity by getting into it with Iran because the world told him to buggeroff, they made a faint attempt at "protecting" the nation by taking on Syria but then "Scoot" got indicted making Syria political suicide.........how better to take the focus off of himself and reunite his fractured base though than this nominee and a the war within the borders of our own nation that it brings.  He could have chosen many many other qualified judges that could have united the nation more, but everybody would still be "looking" at him and Rove and Cheney.  He is such a fucking loser!

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From the latest AFP article:

Others likely to be disappointed by Bush's choice include legions of Americans -- including his wife, First Lady Laura Bush -- who have lobbied for O'Connor to be replaced by another woman.

Alito has been nominated to replace O'Connor, who is retiring.

"This appointment ignores the values of diverse background and perspectives on the Supreme Court." Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said, who also observed that Latinos -- the biggest US minority -- long have sought a Supreme Court justice of Hispanic heritage.

"For the third time he has declined to make history by nominating the first Hispanic to the court," said Reid.

The Senate's top Democrat also criticized Bush's decision to choose yet another white, male, graduate of prestigious "Ivy League" schools which he said "would leave the Supreme Court looking less like America and more like an old boys' club."

The quicker we can attach the extremist/out-of-touch label to this nomination, the better chance we have of defeating it.  It's time to fight!  

I have two Republican Senators, but that doesn't mean I can't contact them and urge my friends to do the same.  We have to let our voices be known, even if they fall on deaf ears.

We have to fight.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit - Octavio Paz / Latino Político

Can anyone help search for instances where he has refused to recuse himself from a decision that involved one of his financial investments?

From the AP:

Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito has more than $615,000 in assets, including stock in Exxon Mobil Corp. worth more than $100,000, according to his 2004 financial disclosure statement.
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Alito received the Exxon-Mobil stock, which could be worth as much as $250,000, as a bequest in May 2004. His disclosure form did not provide the source of the bequest, and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for more information.

While the Exxon-Mobil stock was his largest holding in 2004, Alito also owned stock worth $15,000 and $50,000 each in fast-food giant McDonalds and Intel, the computer chip maker; and stock worth less than $15,000 each in drug-maker Bristol Myers Sqibb and Disney.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit - Octavio Paz / Latino Político

He is against workers' benefits.  Chalk marks?!?!?

In his dissent, Third Circuit Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr., provides us with this memorable benefits quote:

Observing that ERISA's minimum standards for vesting and accrual differ, the majority concludes that "the Fund was required to credit DiGiacomo with `all years of service' in computing his accrued pension benefits." Maj. Op. at [[9]]. The majority seems to assume that ERISA also required the Plan to include all of his accrued benefits in the calculation of his pension, but ERISA says nothing of the kind. As the Supreme Court explained in Central Laborers' Pension Fund v. Heinz, accrual is simply "the rate at which an employee earns benefits to put in his pension account." 541 U.S. 739, 749 (2004). Accrued benefits, in other words, are like chalk marks beside the employee's name. They are conditional rights that do not become "irrevocably his property" until they vest. Id. Only then do they become "legally enforceable against the plan." ERISA § 3(19), 29 U.S.C. § 1002(19). Prior to vesting, accrued benefits can be, and in this case were, forfeited under the terms of a participant's plan.

In a footnote, the majority directly responded to Alito's analogy to "chalk marks" and stated:

To borrow Judge Alito's helpful analogy, see dissenting opinion at 2, DiGiacomo's 10.5 years of accrued benefit credit might be equated to chalk marks beside the employee's name, but they are not necessarily erased merely because related marks in a separate category for vested benefit credits have been lost due to a break-in-service.

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit - Octavio Paz / Latino Político

was Women and Children... RUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN run for your lives!!!!!!!! Get out of the USA if you can.

Disabled Women and Disabled Children, Disabled men.... you'd better leave the USA, too.

Gawd, I hate Bush and his Supporters

And don't anyone tell me how Papa Bush passed the Americans With Disabilities Act... that .&^%$$er didn't pass it the FIRST time. He was against ADA and always has been.


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