Unlike the Florida incident, this case involving the New Black Panthers screams out for tough justice. Instead, the Obama administration looks the other way. This all but invites racial violence at future elections.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/protecting-black-panthers/

The silence from the Left is deafening...

Michale.....

I had asked before why the double standard with Democrats and Republicans??

Here is another example:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/career-lawyers-overruled-on-voting-case/?feat=home_cube_position1

Mr. Miyar declined to elaborate about any internal dispute between career and political officials, saying only that the department is "committed to the vigorous prosecution of those who intimidate, threaten or coerce anyone exercising his or her sacred right to vote."

Apparently they only are willing to "vigorously" prosecute when it's Republicans who allegedly engage in voter dis-enfranchisment...

The hypocrisy is astounding and the acceptance of this hypocrisy, even more so...

Michale.....

Seems that Spock and Zarabeth got jiggy with it and had a son... :D

Two of the finest Star Trek novels ever written.

Michale.....

Yeah, to be honest, I didn't know where the "all our yesterdays" quote came from, but when I was pasting it in I spotted it.

The penultimate original series Star Trek episode is one of the better ones, where the Enterprisers meet a "librarian" (hence the "library" clue up there...) named "Atoz" (it's a joke... "A to Z"... get it?) on a planet that's about to be destroyed by a nova. All the residents have fled to the planet's past through a time machine.

It's a great episode, and now we'll all know where they got the title from... learn something new every day!

:-)

-CW

I hadn't recognized the "Tomorrow Soliloquy".

This soliloquy forms the basis for the Star Trek Episode ALL OUR YESTERDAYS. In the episode, Kirk is thrown into a planet's past. A past that resembles 17th Century New England and the Salem Witch Trials.

The title of the episode comes from the soliloquy and the soliloquy forms the basis of the "moral" of that particular episode. Namely that, when one gives into irrational fear, one is usually blinded to the reality.

Once again proving beyond any doubt that there is nothing worthwhile to be learned that cannot be learned from Star Trek..

Full disclosure... I had to "phone a friend" to get a hit to the relevant connection..

Michale....

For example, the has a 66% overturned rate. Many of her judicial decisions fly in the face of logic and law.

There is also the statement she made, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."

Imagine a white GOP male Justice Nominee saying, "I would hope that a wise White man with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Black female who hasn't lived that life."

The Left would go absolutely beserk.

So, what's with the double standard???

Michale.....

OK, getting out the Photon Torpedoes for this one! :D

Michale.....

Here's a big hint: the reference is from The Original Series. No movies, no subsequent series. Think TOS when you go through the library in your mind...

:-)

-CW

Extra credit question for Michale: see if you can spot the Star Trek reference in the article.

Hint: it has nothing to do with the sentence that has the word "planet" in it…

You KNOW how to make me read and absorb every word, don't you! :D

Because the Republican Party (and, to be fair, the Democratic Party when it's their turn at bat) just loves a good confirmation battle.

Talk about stealing my thunder!!! :( hehehehe I love it when there is so much hypocrisy to point out. You should read Lanny Davis's column, whining about how the GOP should go with the Up/Down vote they wanted back when it was Bush's nominees. Did the Dems go along with an Up/Down vote back then? I don't think so...

As to the Trek reference.....

Macbeth, just after hearing his wife is dead (and just before his world's foundations crumble by being told that Birnam wood was indeed coming to Dunsinane)

This COULD be a reference to the episode CONSCIENCE OF THE KING (a thoroughly excellent, yet under-rated episode) but I don't think so. That's too general & obscure...

AHA!!!! My instincts were right..

While legions of Democrats would loudly cheer "Out, out, brief candle!" if this came to pass, there is another possibility, one that always exists in prognosticating political outcomes.

If I recall correctly (and I swear I haven't GOOGLED this) "Out, out, brief candle" was what Lenore shouted after she had accidentally phasered her father, Koridan (AKA Kodus The Executioner) to death in the afore mentioned CONSCIENCE OF THE KING episode...

Or I could just be totally off base on everything. As has been known (on very VERY few occasions) to happen. :D

Michale....

...Stan

Hint: it has nothing to do with the sentence that has the word "planet" in it...

:-)

-CW